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by prewett 6y ago
Wow, Apple's revenues put it #16 in revenues of countries, ahead of Mexico [0]. Although if Apple were a country, GDP would probably be a better measure; even so it's still around #45, depending who is evaluating GDP [1]. [0] htt
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by prewett 6y ago
I don't think I understand how pricing works, but at the most expensive level, it seems to be $15/km^2, so 2 km^2 once a week would be $30/week, right?
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by prewett 6y ago
This sounds really cool! I don't understand the pricing, though: it sounds like the $2 plan is the obvious choice: no minimum order, and you can request what seems to be a fairly unlimited number of images. I would assume that to get $
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by prewett 6y ago
You might consider contracting. I've been doing that the past few years and loving it. One of the things is that I get to (have to, in fact) choose my projects, so the clients I say yes to are ones whose projects I am interested in at
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by prewett 6y ago
> Algos/data structures are used as a proxy for problem solving and how fast someone can learn. Problem solving, yes. How fast someone can learn, absolutely not. If you've never heard of dynamic programming there's absolut
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by prewett 6y ago
Revenue != profit. That $6.5 billion in revenue cost them just over $6.5 billion, so net they lost a little bit of money in 2020. The three years prior, net profit was between 0.3 cents/share and 0.5 cents/share. Additionally, rev
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by prewett 6y ago
That sounds like self-imposed slavery: every time someone wants radioactivity, Marie Curie's ghost needs to show up and produce it. What with all the nuclear reactors and RTGs on far-flung spacecraft, she's a busy ghost.
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by prewett 6y ago
AIOS! It analyzes your usage of features in your current operating system, and uses Deep Learning to provide you with source code with just those features as efficiently as possible (uses approximate solutions to NP-complete algorithms), sc
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by prewett 6y ago
1200 dependencies?! Is this normal in web development? That sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen! I'm working with a rather large C++ project now, and it only has 40 dependencies, which I already consider pretty large.
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by prewett 6y ago
Computer graphics uses matrices to transform the points, but there isn't much else about it that uses linear algebra. 2D rasterization cleverly iterates over pixels. 3D rasterization does the same for triangles. The other parts of 3D a
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by prewett 6y ago
> My desire to [...] has barely gotten its shoes laced This is such a hilarious phrasing but it nicely captures the feeling!
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by prewett 6y ago
> Have you really opened your eyes to how some countries have much, much better governing systems? Many Scandinavian countries have a higher population than most US states, yet somehow they seem to function better in so many dimensions.
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by prewett 6y ago
Does Sawmill still work on new systems? Every time I install it gets more and more difficult, to the point where when I tried installing in on Ubuntu 18.04 I just gave up.
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by prewett 6y ago
The article suggests that using binary digits (0, 1) is the most efficient means of communication. I think I've heard something to this effect elsewhere. Why is that? Wouldn't a tertiary digit (0, 1, 2) be more efficient? An a qu
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by prewett 6y ago
Maybe it's related to the reason why you can't use the 5k iMac as an external monitor. I can't remember where I found the sources, but the problem was that they essentially needed to video cards to drive the thing and making
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by prewett 6y ago
Jobs convinced the music tracks studios to let him sell DRM free tracks on iTunes, so it seems to me like he believed it. I don't know if iTunes music is still DRM free, though. But even it weren't, content creators unwillingness
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by prewett 6y ago
Based on my reading of O'Henry stories, my guess is that law exists because people were selling stock in scam mining companies with mines in the West back in the late 1800s / early 1900s. If you had to advertise that you were star
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by prewett 6y ago
A moat is what enables you to avoid being in a race-to-the-bottom commodity business. In a commodity business you get just enough returns to cover cost of capital plus a little bit. With a moat you can get 20% - 30% profit margins: Coca-Col
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by prewett 6y ago
The Chicago School has a bad case of thinking with their assumptions, instead of thinking to check their assumptions.
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by prewett 6y ago
I willingly gave Facebook information about me, although at the time I had no idea what they were going to do with it. However, I did not willingly give FB my phone number (they asked my friends to give that to them via the contact list in
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by prewett 6y ago
"This time it's different!" Sounds like we might be getting to peak bubble....
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by prewett 6y ago
So consumers are expected to accept a guilt trip to make up the difference and enable businesses to meagerly compensate their workers?
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by prewett 6y ago
The problem is they can't settle down on something. I can't even tell you what their current messaging product is right now. Google Wave is dead. Google Facebook^HPlus is dead. I think Hangouts is dead? The thing in my GMail gives
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by prewett 6y ago
At least the comet hypothesis has some actual data to back it up, and the data matches the Wow! data. This current one assumes the signal must be from intelligent life and found a candidate that might possibly have intelligent life that mig
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by prewett 6y ago
It sounds like you were "an employee at a large/very-large consulting firm" as opposed to "1099 independent contractor one-man shop", and I would expect your experience to be the same as an employee.
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by prewett 6y ago
There's a third strategy for the no-BS, independent types: opt out. Contracting/consulting avoids a lot of that. You're not a worker bee that the company "owns/rents", you are a vendor providing a service. It&#
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by prewett 6y ago
When you have to manually wrap wires around iron cores for each individual bit of memory you get a visceral desire to keep things short... :P
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by prewett 6y ago
Having had the fun experience of compiling a fairly heavy UI application on Unix, they all seem pretty "other" to me. Solaris didn't do anything weird, so it was maybe the only non-other. HP-UX had something really weird with
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by prewett 6y ago
Ah, Archie! I remember the joys of trying to find something by searching for filenames. 'Course, I was young enough back then that the idea that there were servers with stuff I could download made it fun enough to do it, and spelunk ar
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by prewett 6y ago
I'm curious if any of these problems have happened to someone to wiped their drive and installed fresh. As a software developer I'm pretty sure the happy-path of "reformat and copy everything onto the drive" will work co

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