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by mojuba 5y ago
I once applied for a job at a well known company that's mentioned at the very bottom of my CV as a hobby. I spoke with 4 different people none of whom ever got to the bottom to see that I'm actually a big fan of their product. Whi
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by mojuba 5y ago
Awesome! Does the YC Startup School specifically target younger entrepreneurs, or is being 50+ Okay here?
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Almost everything except maybe the "fool pool" running out this time? Although even that is hard to speculate about. The crypto business may adjust and make itself even more accessible to a larger "fool pool". There&#x27
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Precisely why I tend to look for inspiration in real life rather than social media. Facebook keeps showing me ads for synths and other electronic music related stuff, while in real life I have already moved on to classical music. I think li
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by mojuba 5y ago
I deleted my LinkedIn account a while ago hoping to never look back but unfortunately it's impossible to completely avoid it if you are in business of any kind, in any capacity. At the very least when you look up a potential hire (or a
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Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018)(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by mojuba 5y ago|0 comments
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by mojuba 5y ago
Bosch is NOT strictly a privately owned company. It's a so called steward company majority owned by a non-profit trust so you could say they are nobody's. Profits never leave the company and that's why they can plan long-term
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by mojuba 5y ago
It's usually how corporate programming languages are designed: they have corporate environments in mind which is the exact opposite of hacking. Strict standards, predictability and low bars to entry. Hence opinionated approach even to
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So if I understand you correctly, digital cash is just a way of escaping the big two, Visa and MasterCard and their fees? Because otherwise, what'd be the essential difference between any govt.-backed digital money and the official one
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> Firstly people are a lot more educated, about how the web works in general, how valuable privacy is and about the strength of cryptography. I don't think you can support this claim. Today, 96% of iPhone users opt out of tracking [
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by mojuba 5y ago
I think the gliding slope pattern has more than one reason to exist. One is the inability to innovate due to backward compatibility requirements. In fact this pattern repeats itself in smaller software not just platforms. Look at Adobe Phot
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No, it's not just NaN's, see my reply above.
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Exactly and it's not obvious at first. You can easily see that the system doesn't limit the FP audio in Logic Pro: you can in principle crank up the volume all you want. So if the system volume multiplier is, say, 0.1, you can hav
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by mojuba 5y ago
Easily. Got ear infection (!) from an unexpected, very loud random noise in my headphones (just one channel) as a result of a bug in my CoreAudio code. What does CoreAudio do if your floating point audio buffer is filled with random numbers
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by mojuba 5y ago
The author mentions "crash" multiple times - is it actually the case when unprotected ARC objects are concurrently accessed? Does it actually crash?
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I'm also wondering whether SwiftNIO will be rewritten to use actors, or it will stay "old-school" for the sake of efficiency. Very much looking forward to Swift maturing for backend development either way. It's an amazin
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by mojuba 5y ago
I don't think it's specifically Russian (as I am not Russian, for example) but rather it was a Soviet thing. Your sibling comment explains it pretty well.
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Very true. So basically things that are good for the economy - labour mobility, flexibility in salaries, etc - are not good for friendship building. It's either or.
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It's even shorter in the software industry. I think it was 2-2.5 years or close. Ordinary engineers switch jobs often as the only way to bump up their salaries.
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It's an interesting cultural problem. Whether it changes more with time or from country to country is not clear to me and would be interesting to do research around. For example, I grew up in the USSR and I saw how my parents' col
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Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother(theverge.com)
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by mojuba 6y ago
But that's just the bank lending your money on your behalf (though without you knowing or approving) - I don't see a problem with that.
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by mojuba 6y ago
I think it is a currency as long as there's single authority that regulates the amount of dollars in circulation.
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> Currency is simply the means of transfer for wealth but not all wealth needs to nor can be represented by currency. My definition was very naive, I realize it now. So cryptocurrency can not call itself currency, correct? People can tra
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by mojuba 6y ago
Am I correct if I say: the amount of money in circulation should match the amount of wealth produced by a given society, and therefore anything that doesn't follow the same principle can't be called currency?
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by mojuba 6y ago
> Simple, direct, and declarative code ... works only in an ideal world where nothing changes, i.e. where software written once is so good that you don't need to touch it. In reality though, what happens to successful software proje
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"User Engagement and Data Collection Networks"
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I have no idea why cars are so vulnerable but it is possible to achieve a pretty high level of protection in electronic components. Have a ROM that verifies the integrity of the Flash memory for example. I just found a patent for that even
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by mojuba 6y ago
So you jam the GPS (and/or the Internet connection), take the scooter to your garage then what? Always ride it with the jammer? I don't know how these ones are made but the electronics can be made hard to remove without damaging t
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by mojuba 6y ago
Thought the same, but I also think we already have software-as-a-city if you take operating systems, cloud platforms or for example message queue systems on top of which you build components (e.g. microservices at larger scale). Message que

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