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by kator 14y ago
> Once building things is truly trivial, and it becomes just a matter of manpower and money, will it still be fun? I've been building things literally for 30 years and I can still have amazing experiences and excitement with new project
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by kator 14y ago
Large scale environments where real performance matters. I wrote a system the has to handle 4 Billion transactions a day and a peak of 45,000 per second. And has to respond in 10ms or else the results of the transaction are discarded. I wr
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by kator 14y ago
I always love to piss off my tech friends by reminding them that Microsoft didn't get to where it was by having the best engineering in the world.. Sales, Marketing and making hard deals that put their products in front of the most customer
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by kator 14y ago
From the article: “If Apple, which manufactures tangible products, was valued at a multiple comparable to Facebook, Apple’s market capitalization/value today would be approximately $2.7 trillion,”
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by kator 14y ago
The TVM (Time Value of Money) aspect here is the one most often issues under valued by "business types". That said it goes both ways, I've been a serial entrepreneur and a big corporate type. And it's clear that on the business side people
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by kator 14y ago
Fairly light article but it makes a point I keep trying to mentor my geek friends on all the time. I often say "I'm just dumb enough to be successful". We all know really smart high IQ people who float with their heads in the clouds and n
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CJEU Decided in SAS v. WPL(husovec.blogspot.com)
1 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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by kator 15y ago
I love the optimism I naturally want to jump on the band wagon and I doubt my comment will get a single up vote but here it goes: What about: 1) Biological issues (space viruses etc.) 2) Accidents (opps the orbit changed it's heading for Ch
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by kator 15y ago
My dad has a great poster on his wall in his home office. It says: SUCCESS - I've managed to eat and not be eaten and find a place to sleep every night. Success is a personal measure, we often externalize it and try to measure it against ot
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by kator 15y ago
I do passionately bust my arse more like 14hrs a day and many times 7 days a week. And I'm just looking for places where that is rewarded. My biggest flaw is I'm not a 501 programmer and I will accidentally choose an opportunity that light
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by kator 15y ago
Funny but true I interviewed and was given an offer but the pay was so far off what I was earning "at market" that I ended up not going to work for them. The interview process was amazing, took 6 hours at a white board, multiple teams drill
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by kator 15y ago
If we figured this out certainly someone/thing way out on the other side of our galaxy or another galaxy has figured it out.. Could it be that we would have to figure out how to DHCP across galaxies and manage to finally share information w
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by kator 15y ago
True. I imagine modern compilers optimize this sort of stuff very quickly. Back in the time that code was written it was better to just optimize directly in the code and not wonder if the compiler would do it for you. I'm not advocating th
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by kator 15y ago
I'm actually curios if anyone can decode the secretmail in the VM image! I'm slammed right now no time to play but for those who might want to try the command was xget and the secretmail files are in: /usr/spool/secretmail I quickly tried
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by kator 15y ago
Funny but true I ran into it while thinking I wanted to see the classic gmtime() function. It's so funny to see how the gmtime function set's the struct tm's fields: /* * generate hours:minutes:seconds */
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by kator 15y ago
Ran across this by accident. I remember working on PDP-11 many moons ago, is fun to see it booted in a little window on my machine.. Utilizing all of 32Mb of memory and 1 core and tiny amount of disk. Amazing how far we've come in such a
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Blast from the Past: Run Unix V7 in a VM(nordier.com)
34 points by kator 15y ago|21 comments