milesvp

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by milesvp 9y ago
Twenty years later this seems to still be good advice. Martin Thompson talks about this in his Mechanical Sympathy talk. He says the first thing he does, as a performance consultant, is turn off threading. Claims that's often all he ne
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by milesvp 9y ago
You've never worked with "wordpress programmers" have you?
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by milesvp 9y ago
This is false. The first sale doctrine can be summarized as, once I have physical possession of an item I can resell it. Do not confuse issues around distributorships, which are contracts that say, I will agree to sell you these goods at wh
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by milesvp 9y ago
It doesn't look like there's any payout, nor a requirement to buy in to play. I don't see a way for any laundering to happen. As for insider trading, it's a collective voting game. I don't see a way to increase the
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by milesvp 9y ago
This is why I can't play coop games. I often have the most experience, so I know what's coming, couple that with a good sense of strategy, and I become the asshole that chases away new players. I know this about myself, so I simpl
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by milesvp 9y ago
Hard isn't the right word. Unnecessarily complex is more accurate. What I've seen in js mirrors a lot of what I saw in php 10 years ago. JS is now the easy language to get into, and so it has the most inexperienced devs with the l
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by milesvp 9y ago
Mostly talking about previous experience and especially any projects they were persoanally interested in talking about. I find there is only one thing you need to ensure a new hire can handle to avoid the major fakers. Give them a simple pr
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by milesvp 9y ago
Sadly, nano has (had?) the nasty habit of adding invisible characters on save (some combination of \r \n). I once almost got into a fist fight with a coworker over this, until he let me show him that his modifying the config was why some ap
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by milesvp 9y ago
This is pretty close to a direct translation for the feelings I have for my young children.
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by milesvp 9y ago
I love this. It's both the epitome of anti capitalism, while being so completely fundamental free trade, that it almost makes my head explode (as a university trained economist). I especially love that many who espouse capitalistic ide
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by milesvp 9y ago
There's inflation that the CPI tracks. And then there's inflation in a given sector, or product group. Basically inflation happens any time you shift the money supply around, be it with government regulation, or with economic boom
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by milesvp 9y ago
I'm torn on environmental taxes. As an economist, I see them as a truly vital form of offsetting negative externalities. The problem is that environmental externalities can be very hard to measure, and it often becomes political, rathe
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by milesvp 10y ago
So my suspicion is that the fundamental problem with emulsifiers is that they increase the surface area of the foods we eat. Food surface area seems to be a prime factor in how quickly we digest foods. In terms of carbs this leads to spikes
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by milesvp 10y ago
YMMV. I've been noticing that it's harder to find the actual thing I'm looking for when cheap knock offs are prevalent. My most recent search was for a specific brand of rat trap, but page after page of Amazon search showed p
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by milesvp 10y ago
Some years ago (9+) Professor DeMarse published some papers on training petri dish brains cells how to "fly a plane" (or more appropriately "keep a simulated plane from crashing"). I have a copy of the paper at home, but
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by milesvp 10y ago
To expand on random_comments mention of volatility. Volatility is a big deal. Stock markets can be expected to beat inflation by several percentage points over the "long run", but "long run" is often defined in economics
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by milesvp 10y ago
I'll assume that you're not just being facetious here. As the father of new twins, I can tell you that just keeping track of the state of a single baby is hard, it's more than doubly hard with twins. Has Joe eaten yet? What b
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by milesvp 10y ago
YMMV, I've been regularly impressed with the quality of posts on hackaday. I find there are some very knowledgable posters who will often add great value to a given article. That said I may happen to only be interested in the articles
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by milesvp 10y ago
Motivation is not the same as passion. Scott Adams famously talks about his stint in bank lending, and that you should never lend money to passionate people. https://www.fastcompany.com/3030518/dilbert-creator-scott-ad.
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by milesvp 10y ago
I think one major factor that the article didn't mention, is that Malls are overpriced and lame. There's a mall I grew up with in Seattle, it was getting long in the tooth about 16 years ago, then it had a pretty major overhaul, a
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by milesvp 10y ago
Having read through the comments, I'm surprised that no one is talking about the true benefit of a tech like fpga. It's that it's field programmable, with many that can be reprogrammed in fewer cycles than a cache miss. This
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by milesvp 10y ago
6 months is a good amount of time to become a world expert in a topic. If you're looking to make yourself more marketable, this can be an invaluable way to spend your time. Personally, I've had a few papers that I'd like to
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by milesvp 10y ago
Index funds have short term risks. bartvk was giving the basic advice of putting it into savings since 6-9 months is a very appropriate cash buffer. Always keep in mind, that reasons for needing cash and down markets tend to be highly corre
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by milesvp 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure how to model the fat+sugar problem I keep hearing whispers of. I know from the research I did with my wife's gestational diabetes is that the glycemic index of a food went down if you added just about any other
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by milesvp 10y ago
If you're billing your full rate after 32+ billable hours, you are ripping off your customers. I don't often accept pull requests from coworkers after that. They tend to be full of subtle bugs that are hard to spot.
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by milesvp 10y ago
I'll take a shot. What's actually being described in the article is entropy. Entropy counts always go up, and it takes energy to fight entropy. Or to put it another way, it takes more effort to produce simple writings, than it doe
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by milesvp 10y ago
There's a feature budget only in that there's a cost/benefit restriction for every living thing. Usually the big cost is how many calories does this gene cost vs how much does this gene benefits the organism (or it's clo
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by milesvp 10y ago
That's what it sounds like. You have to realize, that anyone that actually has a performance problem is likely to save many multiples of that monthly. Just getting an engineer to look at a performance problem for an hour is costing a c
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by milesvp 10y ago
Sub penny bidding. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-01-15/ubss-dark... Sorry if this isn't the best article on the topic, it was a quick google search. My friend got bit hard by this. He had
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by milesvp 10y ago
Thank you for reminding me of this. I used to tell coworkers these same types of things to remind them to keep things simple, especially since we generally don't pay well enough and struggle to attract top talent. But we've manage

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