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by mkipper 3y ago
Unfortunately I don't think there's a good way to find these companies unless you happen to live near them or work in the industry they sell to. In my experience, they normally get started and funded by local people in their indus
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by mkipper 3y ago
Another consideration is that a lot of hardware startups focus on industrial applications with customers that don't operate out of tech hubs. There are tons of small companies making hardware for oil & gas applications, but you&#x2
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by mkipper 3y ago
This has been the policy at every boring non-tech company I've ever worked at. You get hired with a certain amount of PTO, and that number starts to grow after some initial waiting period (e.g. 3 years). It's not uncommon for comp
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by mkipper 3y ago
> I think an IPv8(Apparently we skip odd numbers) A lucky few of us have had the pleasure of working with ST-II, AKA IPv5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol
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by mkipper 3y ago
This is what worries me the most when it comes to job losses and downward pressure on wages. If we hit the point where a senior engineer reviewing the output from an AI can effectively replace a team with a senior engineer and 5 junior engi
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by mkipper 4y ago
That's not my read of it at all. You could make the exact same comment without any mention of Europe -- it's pretty unlikely that a hedge fund manager in NY would hear that comment from someone in their social circle.
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by mkipper 4y ago
Sure, but I don’t think that’s necessarily helpful in the context the OP is describing. If you bring up concurrency in a software engineering interview, you’re probably hoping the candidate can speak to different synchronization techniques,
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by mkipper 4y ago
As someone with a CE/EE degree, I don't really agree. Like you said, that background does have a lot of benefits. But the downside is that a CE grad typically spends less time doing "software" work than a CS grad. When a
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by mkipper 4y ago
I don't know much about Circle and hold no resentment towards them, but this sounds very much like a "them" problem. If you're operating a business that requires millions or billions of dollars sitting in a bank account,
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by mkipper 4y ago
It seems like most people have a "never again" Airbnb story at this point. I once rented a condo in a city on the east coast, and the rules mentioned that the kitchen is available but to avoid cooking anything "crazy". N
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by mkipper 4y ago
I've never dug deep into this, but the normal argument is that it's possible to saturate a 100Mbps link with a single 4K Blu-ray stream. Even if most people will never hit that limit, it would be nice for a top of the line 4K TV t
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by mkipper 4y ago
I dunno. Sometimes it’s just Hanlon’s Razor. In some industries (e.g. defense contracting), getting a concrete answer for where you can and can’t store certain information can be a nightmare. And often times there isn’t even a definitive a
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by mkipper 4y ago
Those examples aren’t super convincing to me. At least not yet. Rust was created at Mozilla to help with browser engine development, so it’s not totally shocking that it’s in Firefox. Rust is in the Linux kernel in the sense that its buil
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by mkipper 4y ago
> Hedge Funds seem to want to move Alphabet to that more predictable pattern Or the hedge funds feel like this has already happened due to their massive size and bloated management. Maybe they think that Google is beyond the point of mea
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by mkipper 4y ago
> compared to 5% with fiat money Sorry, what?
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by mkipper 4y ago
I don't think the breaker is really relevant here. Unless you've been impaled by a spike, it's impossible to draw 15A of current through your body from a 120V or 240V circuit. At those voltages, there's really no differe
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by mkipper 4y ago
This might be a bit pedantic, but “Linux” in the general sense doesn’t use the outdated security model you described. You’re basically comparing discretionary access control (e.g. user/group permissions) with mandatory access control (
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by mkipper 4y ago
I don't really know if there's precedence here. Normally, to burn billions of dollars, you need to be an executive in a big, established corporation that has controls in place to avoid that sort of thing from happening. It's
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by mkipper 4y ago
I guess it depends on how you look at the the percentages. Lots of people _use_ Apple’s developer tools, Google Chrome and other Google products. But in each of those cases, I believe the actual group of people directly dealing with C++ and
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by mkipper 4y ago
The illusion of a monoculture disappears if you zoom out a bit. Even if clang was a "first-class citizen" compiler for the kernel and was picked up by some big distros, there's an absolutely gigantic market of companies desig
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by mkipper 4y ago
I used to work for a defense contractor where layoffs were pretty regular. If the company wasn't winning new contracts, they couldn't afford to keep paying all the staff. It's a pretty simple arrangement, and when layoffs hap
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by mkipper 4y ago
> Yes, I could restrict them from accessing the internet, put them behind a VLAN or VPN etc., but it's a hassle Even if you find goldilocks IoT devices with completely open hardware/firmware/software and no backdoors, if t
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by mkipper 4y ago
If Google stock were really worthless, someone could buy all of it for pennies and do whatever they want with the company. Owning and controlling a company with $80B yearly profits isn’t worth anything to you? A single Google share isn’t re
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by mkipper 4y ago
There's a difference between saying "I could bang that out in a weekend and replace the whole department" and recognizing that 3,000 people supporting a relatively small feature is a sign of bloat in an organization. Surely t
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by mkipper 4y ago
Yeah. As an individual, if you stop tipping, a large chunk of (North American) society will think you’re a cheap asshole who’s disrespecting your server and won’t care that you’re taking a stance against a larger issue. There’s nothing wron
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by mkipper 4y ago
Engineering programs do include a required ethics class. But with a cynical lens, it's only required because the bodies that license engineers and permit them to practice require that course in order for a school's degrees to be a
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by mkipper 4y ago
I this overinflates the importance of the HN crowd a bit. Yeah, a lot of software engineering types switched to MBPs because the OS isn't a steaming pile of garbage and it reliably works with the hardware. The former can't be said
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by mkipper 4y ago
Yeah, TFA talks about TM having a monopoly and their dynamic pricing, but it never really explains why those two things are related or why either leads to higher ticket prices. In an ideal world, TM wouldn't have a monopoly on ticketin
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by mkipper 4y ago
Before Unicode, everyone who came up with a character encoding scheme probably thought their system was good enough for any reasonable use-case. But they all had limitations that made them inadequate for things less obscure than representin
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by mkipper 5y ago
The defense industry really is the GOAT when it comes to slide decks. Nothing gets the creative juices flowing like sitting through an 8 hour presentation of a deck with 200 slides, which are really just 10 different slide decks from 10 dif

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