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by melted 11y ago
Not necessarily. Android is one of Google's primary vehicles to deliver mobile ads. Those have fabulously fat profit margins.
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by melted 11y ago
Polishing of resumes is a lot less effective if you're not in software.
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by melted 11y ago
GPUs aren't custom logic. They come with significant and fundamental programming model limitations. So I don't see much of a functional overlap FPGAs and GPUs. In particular, GPUs suck mightily at anything that involves branching
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by melted 11y ago
We'll see a lot of FPGA use in the coming years. Consider this: newest FPGAs have 1TB/s (that's a terabyte per second, not terabit) memory bandwidth and 1KB-wide memory bus. Short of developing your own silicon (which takes y
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by melted 11y ago
Basically it looks like it's nearly the same API with minor variations.
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by melted 11y ago
Seems like this would duplicate a rather large chunk of Apache Crunch, which implements Google Flume nearly exactly as far as public API is concerned. As far as I can tell, Google Dataflow is also a variation on top of Google Flume. It woul
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by melted 11y ago
It is very brave of Brendan to pursue such an obviously dead-end idea.
188.
by melted 11y ago
This is the default startup idea for people who don't know what to do. :-)
189.
by melted 11y ago
By downloading unlicensed modifications of proprietary software whose distribution is prohibited by DMCA as well. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure a lawyer would find half a dozen ways to make the parents liable.
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by melted 11y ago
Did not know. But the end result is the same: kids have to break the law to learn programming with Minecraft. And they do, in droves.
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by melted 11y ago
Idiotic. What Minecraft needs if you'd like it to be educational is an official server programmability API accessible from multiple languages. Right now kids have to use hacks such as Craftbukkit and Spigot to write and deploy plugins,
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by melted 11y ago
There's a simpler reason to link nearly everything statically. Besides libc, almost everything is built from source, and not just from source, but from source as it exists at the current revision. So compatible re-use of prebuilt *.so&
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by melted 11y ago
Because that's how they getcha. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
Because they power down cold racks. It's called Glacier for a reason.
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by melted 11y ago
I wouldn't quite go as far as to call Borg a PaaS. It's at a somewhat lower level, closer to IaaS. You get a known quantity from it in the form of a stable, tuned, stripped down underlying Linux image, plus a relatively small set
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by melted 11y ago
To understand scenarios under which Docker/Kubernetes/LXC are useful, you need to understand the environment in which Linux containers originated. They were born in Google data centers, where engineers may routinely need to reliab
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by melted 11y ago
There's workout, and then there's workout. Try squatting 405lbs or deadlifting 495lbs for reps (or whatever your limits are when it comes to maximum exertion). That stuff wears you out pretty good. I wouldn't recommend doing
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by melted 11y ago
There goes stack overflow. I'm not going to track and provide attribution of every snippet I ever read, sorry. I'd rather just not go there at all. I'm all for providing attribution for things that are non trivial and substan
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by melted 11y ago
Notice how all those miles are in California where it almost never rains. It's still a hard problem, but it's much easier than driving in Alaska or Seattle. When I see millions of accident-free miles from those places, that's
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by melted 11y ago
No, it's an issue. Heavy rain and fog are even problematic for humans. Current systems use image of the pavement for precise vehicle localization. Pavement not visible? You're fucked. Pavement markings unclear? You're fucked.
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by melted 11y ago
Because cars by themselves are NOT GOING TO WORK anytime soon. Rain, fog, sleet, snow, road work, garbage on the pavement, etc — all those things can't be handled by today's self driving car tech. One way to get around some of tho
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by melted 11y ago
Sure it does, about like the USSR supported freedom of speech. What do you report in your daily standup? What if your prototyping takes four weeks instead of two? How about if your problem is particularly gnarly and it takes six weeks? What
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by melted 11y ago
For me it's more like this: prototype, design, implement. I do some lightweight planning while I prototype. All of this is anathema to Agile. Prototyping alone could mean going dark for a week or two. Design, likewise, has no useful st
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by melted 11y ago
Azure is like 8 years old at this point, so it's by no means a new field for them. It's just that before there was no Google forcing everyone to cut their crazy fat margins.
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by melted 11y ago
It'll be same as with Agile: when it doesn't work, consultants will just tell you you've been doing it wrong.
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by melted 11y ago
The more times you do it, the _lower_ is the chance that you end up in a crappy job. If the job doesn't meet your needs, move. I'm not saying money is everything and it should be the only thing to optimize for. I'm just sayin
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by melted 11y ago
You seem to perceive it as an either/or proposition. It is possible to have a kickass, satisfying job which also pays really well. Money is important, at least in the US where you're responsible for funding your own retirement.
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by melted 11y ago
>> better off than a vast majority of people Fallacy of relative privation. If you can be making more, by all means move, and make more. This is healthy process in the industry where it's not uncommon to see 20-30% net margins. T
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by melted 11y ago
I'm pretty sure nearly all women (and most men) get "unwanted sexual advances" at least a few times in their lives. After all we can't read each other's minds. The crucial question to me is not whether advances happ
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by melted 11y ago
The "problem" is much more prevalent than people think. Switchers come from Windows to Mac and expect it to function exactly like Windows. When it turns out Mac has its own ways of doing things, they're disappointed. It doesn

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