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by lumost 8y ago
Personally I find that the term tech debt gets overused. I've often heard it applied to relatively fresh projects for features/projects that just haven't been done yet, or to pitch the architecture of the day. The times when
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by lumost 9y ago
Having been a manager, PM, and lead engineer this article really resonated with me. Scrum has a brief window of utility if a team isn't delivering at all, and has lost management trust. It also has a large window of dis-utility where
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by lumost 9y ago
General expectation for Senior engineers in the orgs I've been a part of is that they are great problem finders, as well as problem solvers and implementers. If you have a significant backlog of useful improvements that are relatively
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by lumost 9y ago
The economics for some of these labs is also pretty different from what you'd normally expect. There are numerous semi-private organizations in the defense space ( such as Boston Dynamics ) and similarly in the pharmaceutical space.
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by lumost 9y ago
If it was more practical to source hardware skills and develop fpga components there are quite a few companies and academic institutions interested in exploring direct hardware acceleration. In particular seeing examples of matrix operatio
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by lumost 9y ago
While Google monetizes its core web properties such as google, gmail, and youtube via a closed advertising system. That doesn't mean the worth of the company is held in AdWords. If Google decided to shutter AdWords and use a third part
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by lumost 9y ago
Carnegie wasn't involved in Standard Oil that was John D. Rockefeller's company.
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by lumost 9y ago
The general break even point is circa 200k USD per month, assuming the company has spare capital, and the ability to commit to using the same gear for 3 years. It's useful to keep in mind that in this type of scenario the goal is not t
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by lumost 9y ago
This calculation is an all or nothing affair though. The reality is that you can avoid most AWS bandwidth charges by direct connecting to an internet exchange. It's still only worth the effort if you're looking at a 6 figure band
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by lumost 9y ago
One area to consider growing this, existing SQL clients/viewers are pretty awful. It would be awesome if I could directly connect to a DB
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by lumost 9y ago
That assumes that the company proceeds through successive rounds with an upwards trajectory. If the company falters and takes a down round the initial investors may disagree with the direction or even sue. If the company needs to be recapi
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by lumost 10y ago
There used to be a lot more innovation and variety in hardware following similar approaches. However, commodity gear was an easier deployment target for software and economics ensured commodity gear provided better performance per dollar t
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by lumost 10y ago
Go projects typically use godoc to autogenerate documentation from comments, this has the added benefit that a single service can maintain updated docs for every open source go package in existence ex. https://godoc.org/
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by lumost 10y ago
An additional note about the North American market, Copy-wise $19.9 should always be shown as $19.90 with 2 decimals to represent the number of pennies in the price.
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by lumost 10y ago
For deep wells would the need for casing change depending on the material you're drilling into? once your into hard granite bedrock I'd imagine wells of a certain diameter are stable with minimal to no casing.
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by lumost 10y ago
Has the lifetime of deep GeoThermal wells been studied at all? Unlike oil/natural gas drilling, a deep geothermal well should provide energy indefinitely barring collapse or obstruction of the well. I'd venture the cost of shutdow
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by lumost 10y ago
The most direct requirement on Quantum Mechanics in existing lithography systems is the lasers used as light sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser#Foundations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph
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by lumost 10y ago
Integrated Circuits and associated lithography based manufacturing techniques rely heavily on quantum mechanics. The transistors and gates wouldn't work if quantum mechanics did not provide an accurate depiction of the physics involve