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JavaScript has many challenges, but I think the biggest by far is the lack of "batteries included" standard libraries. Without those, ecosystem fills the vacuum with a large, evolving mix of overlapping libraries that don't i
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The historical impediment to broader FPGA adoption has always been their proprietary nature. Until vendors are willing to release bitstream details enabling open source tools and an vibrant ecosystem, applications will be limited.
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I remember using this chip in college in a "build a CPU from scratch" course. Most teams implemented these elaborate instruction decoding methods, mapping 000 -> addition, 001 -> and, etc. We just jammed 4 bits from our opco
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The challenge I've found with books is the space has been moving so quickly in the past 10 years. By the time the book is out, the methods described in it are no longer state of the art.
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I'll be curious to see if the Uber-Otto acquisition gets strained. It's common for the acquired company to make specific "representations and warranties", particularly around IP. "We own our IP and didn't steal
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It's absolutely stunning to me that this practice ("civil asset forfeiture" without an associated conviction) has survived Constitutional review for this long.
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Like an arms race, this approach (formally dedicating to the public, effectively terminating the patent at the PTO) only works if everyone does it. Otherwise, it's strategic and prudent to have a patent portfolio, so you have trading
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I am generally supportive of founders taking some money off the table, but not so much that they necessarily get post economic. When a founder ends up with such a concentrated position, I think it is reasonable for them to diversify. BUT,
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It's hard to follow this bill format -- it's like one big patch file. Is there a way to get the 'patched' output, with diff highlighting?
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Interesting project, but so many design problems with the approach to involve users. Use OCR first, then use humans to verify. Next, present a task right up front that anyone can help with -- draw people right in. Don't make users &qu
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I've been coding for almost 40 years. Without an Internet connection, my productivity drops by at least 60%. "Cut and paste fragments from {SO,Github,Gist,.etc} and edit to taste"
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Since you work for cucumber, a pro tip: put a summary of what the project is right up front on the Web page, assuming visitors know nothing. What is cucumber? What is Electron? For example: "cucumber-electron is a Javascript module
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This time around, the tech disruption different. Technology is getting faster, faster (e.g. see: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/03/daily-c... ) Unlike the past, technology is now getti
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If he were being forced to divulge the physical coordinates of a hidden thumb drive, it's highly likely he'd get Fifth Amendment protection. But being forced to divulge the virtual coordinates of his hidden data is somehow diffe
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by payne92 10y ago
Part of Github's secret sauce: Web source tree browsing that's front and center, that's relatively decent, with OK search. (versus making the log/history the central part of the Web UI as other tools seem to do) There a
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by payne92 10y ago
Recent languages like Go and Rust have taken over a lot of mind share—at least on sites like Hacker News C++ isn't "good" or "bad", it's just OLD (and is backwards compatible with an even OLDER language). We
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13 generations, John Payne, Jamestown.
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And this is why the Dells, HPs, etc. of the world have a long-term challenge selling generic server hardware. The gorilla cloud providers are (quietly) punching in very different weight class.
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Never. I always leave a deliberate bug or two to see if the reviewer is paying attention. ;)
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I am continually perplexed at how hardware designers end up with these kinds of "features" on external ports. Remember direct DMA attacks on FireWire, etc.? SMH.
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If the employer does any matching at all, a 401(k) is a no brainer in most cases.
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This, unfortunately, is the entrepreneurial version of the "second system syndrome": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect The pattern: an entrepreneur achieves some level of fame/fortune
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Machine learning PhDs >>> everything else.
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There should be flavors of HN flags, including "old news".
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The full tweet has the best putdown ever to fit in 140 chars with room left over: "You misunderstand your own ignorance".
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That's my guess. If you check out the Alexa that's built into the current gen Fire TV stick, you can see how they are already offering visual responses to go with the audio.
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"Obama says he WON'T pardon Snowden"
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A much simpler and cleaner analysis: risk-return divergence. Investors manage portfolios and fund returns are dominated by the home runs. Therefore, investors generally want to maximize risk (and potential return), which is usually at odds
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I am very amused by the non-Manhattan layout.
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Oh how we've come full circle: in the "old days", this would be "Python for C programmers".

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