oldgeezr

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by oldgeezr 8y ago
Just curious, is there a good site/book/etc to learn how the modern internet actually works? As a lowly programmer, I have a good understanding of network communications, and some knowledge of things like routing protocols, but I
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
A friend of mine is playing with neural networks and training them to play reversi. He's working with a lot of matrices so he tried AVX extensions and CUDA. AVX runs circles around CUDA, probably because of the setup time of moving t
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
If that's your audience, then you should give them a library/framework/language that hides all the complexity. I'm currently spending a lot of time working on Python Tornado stuff on an embedded device, and I can say th
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
There are many answers to your question but for starters: - There is no perfect security. There is a notion of raising the expense of piracy to a level that it effectively does not matter. - IIRC, for instance, rooted Android loses support
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
Oh gee I guess I'm a wizard. Lots of systems/embedded programmers roll their eyes at this kind of talk. Threads aren't really that hard. Event queues do have benefits in certain situations. They pair nicely with state machi
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
Visual disturbances affected my ability to read books for years. I am no longer a speed reader thanks to psychedelics. For years after my first big trip, walls breathed and floor tiles became 3d. It is hard to be indifferent to such thin
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
I have permanent visual disturbances and suffered long-term panic attacks and anxiety as a result of psychedelic use. Things got better over time, but not completely back to normal. I'm not advocating for the continuation of our curr
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
> two years ago Ok, so let us know how it goes in 20 years.
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
I can only speak from my experience with Amazon. I sent a resume in for a job at Lab126 since I'm an embedded guy with an EE background, no CS except 21 years doing embedded software. I never heard from Lab126, but the AWS team got b
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
Working on new projects every couple of weeks would be fun. Learning a new set of APIs, version control strategies, team members, platform peculiarities, build systems, bug reporting and issue tracking software, groupware... fuck that. I c
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
It's an interesting way of looking things. Depression is as complex as the brain which produces it, however. This may be a part of it, but there are many pieces in that puzzle.
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
> They’re particularly ideal for embedded systems. While I agree, I think this promotes the idea that they're only good for embedded systems, especially small ones. State machines are not always the right tool for the job... only m
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
Is there a consensus on the cancer risks of fermented foods like kimchi yet? Last I saw, some types of kimchi were associated with stomach cancer while some were not, but I'm not sure. Lately I do a lot of pickling with vinegar/s
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
What stops Google from forming a shell corp to handle government contracts? They can profit off the shell corp while allowing them unfettered, royalty free access to their internal technology. They can staff the shell corp with smart peop
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by oldgeezr 8y ago
+1 From the author's page: > I work at MIT trying to make program transformation and synthesis tools easier to build So, the author works in an academic environment. He doesn't have to deal with real-world code, budgets, bugs,