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Instruction Relationship Framework in LLVM(blog.llvm.org)
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I agree with you 100%. We don't see many 65-year-olds around. My intuition is that software engineers are intellectual athletes. Like traditional athletes, our abilities start to dwindle after a certain age. We can't learn new technologies
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The takeaway is that YC companies need to offer more equity, if they hope to attract people like the OP. At the end of the day, most YC companies don't have money to fund the salary and benefits packages the OP wants. This is expected for s
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Write up lecture notes, and design your own assignments. This is how a lot of my upper division math classes were setup, and the arrangement worked quite well. Textbooks are usually full of fluff not relevant to the class. Lecture notes, be
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MIT-Stanford Alternative Energy Workshop(wilsoncenter.org)
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The best way to reinvent the airline industry is to fly private. Think about how terrible a bus is, and how most of us use cars because it's an immensely better experience. Going from commercial -> private is a similarly massive leap (I
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Part of this is likely due to building restrictions. For example, Palo Alto has a 50 foot building limit [1]. If developers were allowed to build 20-story apartment buildings, it's very likely that housing prices would plummet. [1] http://
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Design of a 100mph electric plane(sv-jme.eu)
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by michael_miller 14y ago
True enough, but it's always possible to fork the project, given it's GPL status -- heck, this is what Apple did to the KHTML project.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The reason that WebKit is different from Trident (IE's rendering engine) is that WebKit is open source. If a company comes along and says "hey, it would be really cool if we had an NFC API for the web", they're not stuck in a rut. They can
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by michael_miller 14y ago
How do you feel that the term has been diluted? As far as I can tell, the statement is true to the Collins dictionary definition of "intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Given NYC's sky-high rent, I wonder what would happen to the real estate market if these apartments were occupied by full-time residents. It seems grossly inefficient to have an apartment sitting empty for that long, no matter how much mone
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I'm skeptical of Musk's claim that the review was fabricated. What motive would the author have to fake the review? He would lose all of his credibility as a reporter, essentially killing his carer if anyone found out. Seems like a really h
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I'll provide a different option: it takes too much time to get it right! iOS for example provides so many default widget toolkits complete with gradient, sheen, and dropshadow which make it really easy to create a polished experience quickl
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What has Silicon Valley become?(michael-g-miller.tumblr.com)
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Knowing nothing about heaters, I'm curious: why does electric heat make no sense? My intuition would be that an electric heater would require far fewer components (especially considering the battery is already in place), be less dangerous,
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The HN title is misleading. What the article is stating is that Google is essentially building its own FBO [1] at the airport. There won't be any additional runways, nor control towers. Just a small (relative to commercial terminals) termin
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by michael_miller 14y ago
How is this accomplished? Does the car talk to your home router via Wi-Fi? Is there a cell connection?
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Given your experience in the area, what battery technology are you most optimistic about? Yi Cui's nanowire batteries [1]? Li-Air [2]? Anything else promising? [1] http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n1/abs/nnano.2007.411... [2] http:
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by michael_miller 14y ago
This is definitely a really useful component to the interview, but I don't think it should be the only component. A lot of our jobs are doing straightforward things: "implement spec X, where X is pretty close to what's been done before." Bu
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Minor nit: it's a little annoying that the the site takes over horizontal panning. It effectively makes the swipe forward/backward gestures useless in Chrome. The information could have been presented in an equally effective manner with a s
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I find it a little disingenuous that students who are subject to "forced withdrawal" are allowed to re-enter after 2-4 semesters. This sends a horrible message to students - that you can cheat, and the worst case scenario is taking a couple
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by michael_miller 14y ago
It's always good to keep things in perspective. Many of my friends in the liberal arts are doing PhDs with the same (or less) 7% tenure track position rate. The difference is that they don't have the choice to go into industry afterward. Ou
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I disagree with the premise of the post. In a year or two, most apps will only support iOS 6. How bad would it be to search for an app you expect, like Facebook or Yelp, only to not find it, not having any indication of error? At least this
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by michael_miller 14y ago
"Big Name Publications" do not get a free pass for speculation, in print or in blog. They gain credibility, so they can say things like "From talking to senior Boeing engineers, we uncovered..." but making up hypotheses out of thin air is s
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I really wish people would stop speculating about the 787s problems. Yes, it has had serious issues. But why is the author qualified to talk about them? From his bio, it's not clear that he has any aviation experience, and he doesn't appear
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I was not being sarcastic. If you buy ranking metrics, UT Austin has a top 10 CS program [1]. We have some of the best Systems researchers in the country [2], a professor from our dept won the Turing Award in 2007 [3], and Bill Gates + Mich
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I don't believe there's any intuition I got from my algorithms class that couldn't be gained on the job. However, the class does provide intuition in an accelerated manner, and it proves to employers that I have the intuition. Some examples
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by michael_miller 14y ago
> "[Top schools] don’t make you a great UX designer or programmer." I've found this statement to be false, at least at my alma mater(UT Austin). My Honors OS class unquestionably made me a better programmer, teaching me about how progra
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Building a static analyzer for Unix streams in 24h(llvm.org)
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