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by mrich 7y ago
A massive short-squeeze/bitcoin-like retail bubble is certainly not indicative of the strength of the company. Look at the last earnings report, it wasn't impressive for a growth company.
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by mrich 7y ago
How about enacting a law that you either need to keep your hardware running via software updates, or you need to open-source all the software for others to keep doing so the moment you cease support. Would prevent a lot of waste.
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by mrich 7y ago
The frustrating is that these virulent things often define the standard, instead of a well-thought-through solution. E.g. JavaScript.
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by mrich 7y ago
Sorry you are right, I confused this with reordering.
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by mrich 7y ago
The article explicitly mentions two times things that are only true for x86 (grep for it). In addition, the statement at the end is definitely not true for POWER: "As soon as the data is read/written to the L1 cache, the hardware-
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by mrich 7y ago
To quote from https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/cache-coherency/ "Memory models Different architectures provide different memory models. As of this writing, ARM and POWER architecture machine
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by mrich 7y ago
Note that this is quite specific to x86, on other architectures like Power there are much weaker guarantees that will lead to problems when assuming the same model.
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by mrich 7y ago
Bach was the first rock star https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY Don't miss the chance to listen to this in a church.
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by mrich 7y ago
A lot of cars offer that nowadays, although it may be an optional upgrade. My VW van has ACC, lane assist, emergency breaking, warns you if it's not safe to change lanes by flashlight and steering wheel, even if the other car is 40+ me
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by mrich 7y ago
That's why I multiplied by 3.
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by mrich 7y ago
The AWS bill seems high already. $90 dollars for m1.small, which has 1 vcpu and less than 2GB memory? At my current hosting provider that machine costs less than 5euro! What am I missing? Looking at the hourly usage it seems to be the equiv
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by mrich 7y ago
You start charging for access.
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by mrich 7y ago
It is quite a common case. First you do your scratch make with 800 jobs which maxes out your machine just from preprocessing :) Thereafter you only edit a small portion of the code and recompile a small number of files, which only uses a fe
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by mrich 7y ago
With prices lower than all other taxi services they will soon be a monopoly. Also, lower prices can lead to many people not owning a car anymore, which will be an even larger market.
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by mrich 7y ago
They are in a race: Be the first with self-driving taxis and go for the monopoly, or run out of cash. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but my bet is on the latter. It's just such a hard problem, especially in cities. I just hope
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by mrich 7y ago
Would really love to see some before/after cost calculations for some cloud migrations. Techies, and especially the more senior ones at CTO level, can easily be scared into thinking that they need to use cloud, partly because they are
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by mrich 7y ago
No, they should run it, but they should discuss why the Chinese side chose to demo it, and why they appear proud of it. They should also discuss the limitations.
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by mrich 7y ago
The interesting part is not the story itself, but that they chose to demo it to the BBC. Marketing at its best, they want everyone to be fully aware of their capabilities. Wouldn't be surprised if they were overstated, so as to keep c
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by mrich 7y ago
My take, after 12 years of industry C++ experience, working on code that needs to be fast: Too much emphasis is placed on gaining another 0.5% performance improvement, instead of slightly slower code that does what was intended. At least of
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by mrich 7y ago
Location: Germany (Frankfurt/Heidelberg/Karlsruhe) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I focus on solving your business problems. I have worked with many technologies in 12+ years in the software industry and 10+ years before that
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by mrich 7y ago
A/B testing showed that it increased the number of page hits ;)
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by mrich 7y ago
Location: Germany (Frankfurt/Heidelberg/Karlsruhe) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I focus on solving your business problems. I have worked with many technologies in 12+ years in the software industry and 10+ years before that
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by mrich 7y ago
Would that be worth €11.99/month to you? (YouTube Premium)
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by mrich 7y ago
The cynical take: These projects are just run and delayed over and over to hand out money and contracts to the friends of politicians.
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by mrich 7y ago
You can remove government from that sentence.
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by mrich 7y ago
Read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/13240... I wish I had read it already at your age :)
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by mrich 7y ago
I fondly remember when I wrote a Galton board simulation as a computer science school project. It would show the ball falling down and simulate the coin flip at each stage, summing up the number of balls that fell into each slot. The hard t
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by mrich 7y ago
Location: Germany (Frankfurt/Heidelberg/Karlsruhe) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I focus on solving your business problems. I have worked with many technologies in 12+ years in the software industry and 10+ years before that
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by mrich 7y ago
It's actually the same for ACC in my VW Touran. Steering input is needed to calm the warning. After some time it will even stop on its on without any input :)
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by mrich 7y ago
Location: Germany (Frankfurt/Heidelberg/Karlsruhe) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I focus on solving your business problems. I have worked with many technologies in 12+ years in the software industry and 10+ years before that

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