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Congratulations! I'd definitely write up a blog post. If you find the feedback confirms the originality, you might then consider writing a short paper for arXiv. After that, sprinkle appropriate references in StackOverflow, Wikipedia
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Sorry, "hot spot" would be more accurate.
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tl;dr -- the asm author used DIV to divide by a constant 2 More fundamentally: it's theoretically possible to at least match compiled code performance with assembly, because you could just write the code the compiler generates. BUT, i
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Shortening the patent period (he suggests 3-5 years) will go a long, long way to addressing many of the current problems. It would incent companies to focus on core inventions, instead of filing 20-year lottery tickets. Patent value to trol
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> Pro tip: Emailing the generic email is a great way to get an introduction to the right person at the company. and > I include both a generic email (think info@ or sales@) and the founder’s email (if it’s publically available) in the
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Libraries are struggling with an identity crisis as printed books become less relevant. It's an issue not solved by the injection of billions. Carnegie's legacy, the example used in the article, doesn't translate to the prese
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The real underlining principle is a question: Should healthcare be the responsibility of an individual, or a collective responsibility of a group? Without some agreement on this principle, we will continue to spin our wheels.
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> We showed the above to playtesters (kids and parents) who told > us what we didn’t want to hear: the game looks complicated. That's because real programming is complicated . Software systems, with billions or even trillions o
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> This has all but confirmed a belief that I have long suspected: > subscription is the only way to survive as a software company. No, no, no -- not at all. The subscription model may be the best way to thrive for certain kinds o
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Contact USPS immediately. Using the US mail system to commit fraud is a crime, and the post office has postal inspectors that investigate exactly these kinds of cases.
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I didn't write that original comment, but yes, my experience is that businesses are VERY happy to find ways to save money. As they say, a marginal dollar saved "drops straight to the bottom line" (profits).
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I worked with a startup years ago that did these kinds of optimizations (for deliveries). The logistics & transportation market in the US is about a TRILLION dollars -- small optimizations can make a HUGE impact. The challenge for prac
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I'd be interested: how many OFFERS did she get (or plausibly could have gotten)? It seems easy to read this article and conclude that a junior developer in similar circumstances might be picking and choosing between working at 20 diff
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Fair point. But let's keep in mind this is exactly how Linux started.
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Is all of the money going to the company, or is some of it going to cash out existing shareholders?
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I believe the politicization of nuclear energy (the resulting lack of investment & innovation) will go down as one of the major blunders in human history. We'd be in a far, far better situation with greenhouse gasses if we (as a h
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History has not been kind to proprietary networking protocols, and it's winning at scale rarely about just technical advantages. I know they have opened up more in the past year or two, but it may be too late. I refine my comment to
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I think Z-wave has been or is in the process of being superseded by just using Wi-Fi. I do not recommend investing in Z-wave gear.
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If they want to come to the US at some point, Kiva's patent portfolio will be a big hurdle to clear: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
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It's not uncommon for folks working very closely together to form emotional & romantic relationships. (Aside: raising kids is the ultimate startup, that's kind of why marriage exists). First, make sure you have clear founder
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I think the history and architecture lesson here is clear: conflating privacy with trust/identity was a huge mistake. We could've had a mostly encrypted Internet a long time ago if encryption and privacy were not hitched to a co
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We may need to first live with some ISP shenanigans before everybody fully understands what network neutrality is about. A few years ago, I noticed that frontier was hijacking Google searches. A search bar search for "Amazon" went
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It's easy to armchair quarterback this stuff after the fact, but this is where Glass should have started. The price point, social stigma/issues, and use cases all screamed "business applications!". Consumer tech may be
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For my project, I just drove headless chrome w/ the debug API (remote debugging protocol) directly from Python--it was very straightforward. Headless chrome makes much of these existing frameworks redundant, IMHO. Unless you have a su
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Hard deprecation of the long tail of Javascript browser capabilities and incompatibilities. So much code and so many libraries are littered with "if (old version browser) do x, else if IE, do y, else, ..."
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..but a chart that is five years old and a fast-moving space like the Internet: difficult to argue patterns, since the patterns may have changed dramatically since the chart was made!
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This article is a mess. Traction (esp. on mobile) has been hard for a long, long time; it's absolutely not a new problem in 2017. Why? The competition to get and keep user attention is BRUTAL. On one side, we've got large, entre
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NVDA was a GREAT bet on AI/deep learning, but it's gotten very expensive now.
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FireWire: the hardware interface where the designers & implementers thought offering unfettered DMA was a good idea.
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...and this is the central problem with government bureaucracy: there are a LOT of people at the DEA that have invested their careers there. They're going to lobby and fight hard for continued relevance, even as policies shift. This

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