onan_barbarian

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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
I don't know the details of the $35M raising, but it's quite unclear on whether the attempt to estimate their cash on hand was remotely accurate. A $35M round might be tranched to hell and back and a company that isn't hitting promised targ
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Pointing out that Sebastian Marshall may not have the achievements to back up his attitude is not that controversial, and in fact I think may have netted me more karma than anything else I have ever posted to HN. There is clearly a large, m
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
It might be indicative of something about 'agile' programming that someone can happily invent a new name for a methodology that uses the acronym BDD. Because there's nothing important from computing already using that acronym, now, is there
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Your remarks are superficially plausible and fit many people's pet theories about architects. The only flaw is that they don't have any relation to the reality of the construction of the actual Sydney Opera House. The internals of the build
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
I suspect you have taken my remarks entirely out of context. I suspect this because of the fact that you are using a sentence containing the phrase "Just because they don't do PR for themselves ..." in a discussion of Sebastian Marshall, of
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
LinkedIn has a stub page saying "I don't really use linkedin". His 'About' page has this: "I worked as an entrepreneur from 2004 to 2008". That's it. From 2009 onwards, there appears to be a lot of stuff about travel, and sleeping less, and
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Can someone provide me some concise explanation as to what Sebastian Marshall has actually done - outside of lots of blog posts, Hacker news posts, and travel?
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Why would the recommendation for someone who is busy with a startup be anything different than the recommendation for any other busy professional? If you absolutely have to feel productive, go spend an hour on a treadmill, bike or elliptica
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
The Australian startup scene seems to have more 'startup hubs', startup accelerators, startup workshops, startup advisors, startup publications, would-be startup gurus, etc. as it has actual startups . At times the mental image I have is o
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
There are some excellent example pages here. We had a lot of fun reading out selections from http://fleshlight.couponzor.com/ Have these companies signed up, or did it just seem like a particularly good idea to use Fleshlight as an exam
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Worse still, Zach is now well on the way to becoming the 'swearing in talks' guy. There's been something like 5 different stories on HN about this. If it wasn't a distraction before, it certainly is now.
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
The poster is right. Next up, I'm expecting another whiny thread about why all these t-shirt wearing "fuck that shit" guys aren't paid or treated like doctors, lawyers or architects. These are _public_ presentations. Act professional. There
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
It is your comment that is (mildly) misleading. The SSE version is 16x faster than the x87 FPU version and almost 4x faster than the marvelous method. Further, the marvelous method is a loop and is much more resource-hungry than an instruct
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Wow, talk about strawmen: > for a large, complex application a good GC will be more > efficient than a zillion pieces of hand-tuned, randomly > micro-optimized storage management vs: > Note that I said a good garbage collect
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
I would be quite upset if the car manufacturer attached locks to the hood of my car without warning me. I might be considerably less upset if there were both "cars with locks on their hoods" and "regular cars without locks on their hoods" a
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Understood, and a service that did this for a _lot_ of different platforms (hardware and software) would be considerably more compelling. The absence of a "heterogenous" cloud (I know, this is a contradiction in terms) is part of why our bu
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
I suspect that #1 sign is that you go trolling for self-assurance in articles like this, or worse, by writing smug, random articles like this. The best possible signs either way will be in your career so far.
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
What would this contract look like, and say? All up it seems a lot more complex - and potentially brittle and problematic - than just saying "look, we have a CEO and CTO now, for what that's worth in a tiny company, deal with it".
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
This seems superficially attractive, and it's hard to imagine too many people making a spirited defense of the 'all chiefs, no indians' job title inflation. But there's a bullshit aspect to it that bothers me - it seems to be ignoring somet
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
This is broscience. A couple position papers from reputable sources (NSCA, NCSM) directly contradict this, the first based on a meta-analysis: http://www.nsca-lift.org/HotTopic/download/Single%20vs%20Mul... http://journals.lww.com/acsm-m
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
At first, this seems to be the bog-standard "I built something that people said they want, but then they didn't buy it" post-mortem. However, dig deeper and you will be delighted by gems like these: "This is a farce. Talking about tech an
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
This depends on what I'm trying to buy; if I'm having to spend a lot of money on buying positional goods, I'm not wealthier. Before anyone assumes that 'positional goods' means "biggest house on the block" or "huge speedboat", I might point
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
I don't understand why you are so keen to draw me into a line by line nitpick. You saw my objection to the essay. Address it or don't. I don't think your points in the essay can stand without both a discussion of empiricism and an examinati
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
It's the omissions that are the problem, not errors. You have selectively ignored major areas of philosophy in order to make your ideas seem original and compelling.
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
I don't think you got much deeper in the long form. From what I recall, these critiques of philosophy are well-known in philosophy, especially reactions to Aristotle. A inexperienced reader would get the impression that Aristotle and the
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
The tendentious answer on philosophy is an invitation for what would be another "Dabblers and Blowhards" drive-by shooting. It's not enormously surprising that this question is 'rarely asked'. One would learn a lot more about philosophy ("w
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Whoa: mov is a rename and doesn't take a uop . In the leadup to Sandy Bridge this seemed hinted at (the SB renamer handles 'zeroing' registers if you use the right cliche) but SB still didn't do movs as renames. The fact that Ivy Bridge do
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
> all you can really do is code C, compile with -O2, and then guess and check on optimizations This is just not true for performance-critical code. I've seen huge swings in performance from hand-arranging code to achieve better instruct
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
Well played, sir. A fine and timely rebuttal! Less courageous souls might choose to pick on older material - say from the 60s or 70s - so as not to be accused of carefully picking out material that can be dealt with through the magic of hin
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
1. There's no need to debate on what's fast and what's slow. Figure out what architecture you're talking about and get the numbers. Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectu... (Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures

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