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Julie Mehretu Artist Talk(sfmoma.org)
1 points by kwindla 9y ago|1 comments
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by kwindla 9y ago
I really, really enjoy reading poetry, which feels incredibly complementary to writing computer code, to me. But somehow I do a terrible job keeping up with new stuff that's published each year. So I find pieces like this, by Dan Chias
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The Poetry I Was Grateful for in 2017(newyorker.com)
1 points by kwindla 9y ago|1 comments
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by kwindla 9y ago
Well, you might if part of your arrangement with the people in your pool is that you'll mine only when it's profitable to do so.
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by kwindla 9y ago
Good point about retail rates being very different from wholesale rates.
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by kwindla 9y ago
And if you don't have to pay any capital costs, because you are running a massive, opt-in, decentralized pool of compute resources that other people own ... ? :-)
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by kwindla 9y ago
Yes, very large government subsidies created the current market situation in Germany. But, note that "very large" is only relative to typical subsidies of wind and solar in other countries. Also, all electricity markets in develop
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by kwindla 9y ago
I'm curious here about what, if anything, these these negative electricity prices might mean for cryptocurrency mining and transaction processing. How feasible would it be to set up compute infrastructure that "soaks up" the
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Power Prices Go Negative in Germany(nytimes.com)
485 points by kwindla 9y ago|250 comments
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by kwindla 9y ago
Alexia Massalin’s 1992 PhD thesis describing the Synthesis Operating System. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.29.4871&rep=rep1&type=pdf Here's Valerie Aurora’s description of S
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by kwindla 9y ago
Related, one of my favorite Wired Magazine stories -- and favorite pieces of long form journalism, period -- Neal Stephenson goes out on a boat to string some cable: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by kwindla 9y ago
Ron Burkle is a billionaire based in LA who made most of his initial money from grocery stores (A&P). Yucaipa is his personal investing vehicle and has a fairly high profile in the relatively rarified world of private-equity-funds-that-
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by kwindla 9y ago
Also Andy Hertzfeld - Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. Many of the stories in that book are here, as well: https://www.folklore.org/
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Dispatcher Pattern Examples(medium.com)
1 points by kwindla 9y ago|0 comments
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The Importance of Communications Heartbeats for Startups(medium.com)
3 points by kwindla 9y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 9y ago
I'm one of the founders of Pluot. We make video calling softwar and hardware and we use our own stuff every day on linux. Our goal is to combine ease of use with high quality. We test on low-powered machines, and care a lot about worki
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by kwindla 10y ago
What Kip is doing is great. I'm a big fan of the company. And the founders are super thoughtful. Improving access to therapy is a positive thing. That's relevant in particular ways to our community. Startups are hard. If you think
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Earth's Mysterious Magnetic Field, Stored in a Jar(newyorker.com)
1 points by kwindla 10y ago|0 comments
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Hiring at Startups: The Tom Brady Problem(medium.com)
2 points by kwindla 10y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 10y ago
Do you have Pluot? Happy to send you firmware source.
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Y Combinator Interview Advice and Live Practice Sessions(medium.com)
17 points by kwindla 10y ago|1 comments
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The Iran Deal: Myth and Reality(nybooks.com)
1 points by kwindla 10y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 10y ago
Wallace Stevens has always been my favorite poet, and also somehow a strange counter-model to the modern "desk job" existence. He was an introvert who worked a whole career as a mid-level executive. And he also created incredible
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Insurance Man: The Life and Art of Wallace Stevens(newyorker.com)
3 points by kwindla 10y ago|1 comments
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by kwindla 10y ago
FYI: this is a dup of the also-recently-posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11551187
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by kwindla 10y ago
I've never asked someone to do 1,000 non-trivial programming tasks before hiring them. :-)
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by kwindla 10y ago
My experience is that the programming exercise never deterred a candidate I really wanted to interview. That might be a little surprising, but I always work very hard to make sure there's a good conversation in the initial phone screen
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by kwindla 10y ago
Ouch. Yeah, that's a really good point about travel being both a big commitment/energy-drain on your end, and a bad travel experience making it really hard to interview well. I have, in the past, flown someone who is coming cross-
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by kwindla 10y ago
By coincidence, I just posted some notes on what I've learned over the last 15 years of hiring software engineers. I prefer giving people real-world, fairly large, programming tasks to do, and then having them talk through the code the
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Hiring Software Engineers(medium.com)
7 points by kwindla 10y ago|12 comments

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