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by ohyes 7y ago
None of these seem legitimate to me. Language is not big compared to python or something. Technically it is a lisp-n not a lisp 2, doesn’t matter in a practical sense. Optimization of tail recursion isn’t in the spec but is done in some com
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by ohyes 7y ago
I think you misunderstood. I said very little about the relative performance. I know quite well that the FPGA can be faster. The point is you have to work 10-50x as hard to get there, if you want to do anything interesting. Arbitrary FPGA a
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by ohyes 7y ago
I worked on something like this at a startup, it was very interesting work, but it is hard to convince people that it has value. The biggest issue is that standard processors (i.e. x86_64) continue to get faster and better, and in a straigh
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by ohyes 7y ago
You're talking about a $500 part vs a $200 part. The xeon is the same price as a Ryzen 2700 or an intel 8400. They definitely beat it on power usage. This all makes the argument really depend on how much utilization you think the xeon
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by ohyes 7y ago
The value of the land would go through the roof. Houses would absolutely be getting torn down to build high density apartments. There is more to it than monetary considerations however, communities will be destroyed, the feelings and romant
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by ohyes 7y ago
Abuses are just that. If a corrupt person is using the law corruptly in order to achieve something illegal, and getting away with it, that is something we should root out. Including your hypothetical racket. Creating laws to prevent the pop
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by ohyes 7y ago
Assume that a hypothetical future government that you find yourself living under is not good. Assume furthermore that a future hypothetical company is equally not good and the two collude to do not good things together. Now assume you’re mo
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by ohyes 7y ago
Sounds like an incompetent recruiter. Recruiters make money as a percentage of your hiring salary, why on earth would they try to place you somewhere that you are making less? They should be shopping you to whoever will give the most money.
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by ohyes 8y ago
Classifying empathy as a mental illness captures much of what’s wrong with society. Similarly, being unable or unwilling to toil away at a low paying it desk job may actually show some amount of sanity that the rest of us lack.
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by ohyes 8y ago
I can imagine that too. I can also imagine the cathedral being so iconic that a sense of national pride might take over to try to salvage anything possible.
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by ohyes 8y ago
Right, and also... What causes one to need to exert self control? Am I exerting self control if I want to do the things that I need to do? Or have I just stumbled into a sort of happy accident?
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by ohyes 8y ago
Is it possible that your addiction to work is a result of something else missing in your life? I could possibly rephrase your statement “writing code used to give me a dopamine rush, it does not anymore, how can I reclaim that?” I’m sure a
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by ohyes 8y ago
The quality of the steel is the hard part of this. It is incredibly important to not have any defects in the pressure systems & turbine of a nuclear plant for obvious reasons.
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by ohyes 8y ago
Similar situation for me, if you were getting anything lower than a B you probably couldn’t hack the coursework.
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by ohyes 8y ago
I have a cash back credit card. Companies pay a fee to do credit card transactions. Everything in the store costs the same if I use a credit card or cash. The company raises the price to cover transactions, I get that transaction fee paid b
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by ohyes 8y ago
banks have minimum balances for them to not charge a fee.. not having good credit and not having money for the minimum balance on a checking account tend to go hand in hand.
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by ohyes 8y ago
I had some credits, no degree. I didn’t want to take calculus and at the time (I think it would have been 4 courses in it, amounting to 1/8 of my credits). I wasn’t particularly bad at math, just uninterested in rehashing calculus. Oth
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by ohyes 8y ago
I skipped undergrad CS and went directly to a masters. There are ‘working professionals’ masters degrees that are geared towards this type of thing. They don’t have the cachet of Stanford or whatever, but can be interesting and useful if yo
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by ohyes 8y ago
What’s frustrating to me is that we haven’t found a way to teach programming that doesn’t rely on natural aptitude. It’s really a travesty that we can’t teach it the same way that we teach maths or natural languages. The end result is we’re
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by ohyes 8y ago
I think with pineapple the bun would be all soggy. A piece of bread and some pineapple would be fine for lunch I think. It would be weird because we don’t think of that combination of foods as a typical sandwich. Pineapple has a much differ
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by ohyes 8y ago
Depends on how complex your idea is. You could do something like arduino for the POC and then hire a real hardware engineer for the post prototype. You will need some basic soldering skills and electronics knowledge for the POC. There are a
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by ohyes 8y ago
Etsy? Blue Apron? SV is the giant sucking sound of the tech industry. More often than not a startup will be founded in a place like New York, Chicago or Boston and then move to SV to try to get VC funding. I think it has very little to do w
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by ohyes 8y ago
Pto is part of your compensation. It goes on the books as a liability, which is why a lot of companies are doing ‘unlimited vacation’ now. (And why others don’t want to roll vacation from one year to the next). If they don’t owe you a certa
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by ohyes 8y ago
The spaceship combat is incidental, the more important part is collecting enough people that you can go look for fights that are decisively in your favor.
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by ohyes 8y ago
Yeah, we do. You read the book and you hear the characters and see moving pictures in your mind’s eye.
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by ohyes 8y ago
Not for programmers there isn’t.
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by ohyes 8y ago
Culturally we value the women and children over men and older people. This is likely due to the reproductive drive that makes babies cute and men more expendable than women.
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by ohyes 8y ago
When you deliver an FPGA you’re normally also making your own hardware. That’s a big part of the FPGA porting cost, you have to redesign your boards. I don’t think the same is generally true in the x86 realm. Even if you’re specifically usi
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by ohyes 8y ago
It’s always awful. That means it’s never worth it to discuss how awful it is. You’re probably working with people who helped produce the awfulness, and it pays to be empathetic towards your coworkers. Code isn’t produced in a vacuum and the
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by ohyes 8y ago
If your statement is true (Big if) the obvious thing to do would be to take better care of underserved populations so that you can take advantage of the natural talent in them (make a bigger middle class with all the trappings including edu

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