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by seiji 11y ago
ZFS supports (and excels at) two necessary things for a good file system: copy on write snapshots and filesystem serialization. ZFS is designed to run one filesystem per user , so ZFS is designed to scale crazy high with little management
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by seiji 11y ago
just growth hacking a competition, right?
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by seiji 11y ago
Are you calling me insane in a roundabout way? It takes one to know one. But it's pretty rare. Pretty rare? That's back to the beginning, because every acquisition means the bought company has explicitly failed to become &quo
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by seiji 11y ago
Apple "owns" LLVM which has changed our computing landscape from the bottom up in more ways than I can count. GCC was happy being stagnant until LLVM came along and GCC could finally see how awful and behind the times they had be
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by seiji 11y ago
It's difficult to buy stock in a product. It's difficult to make an index fund of products. It's difficult to retire on "product dividends." Companies exist as an attempt to get all the money in the world, and mos
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by seiji 11y ago
Imagine if programmers unionized and enforced corporate usage-based givebacks to independent software creators through collective bargaining. When the default position of management is to fight progress (or hoard private profits enabled by
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by seiji 11y ago
It isn't about product success, it's about company success. Even for one-trick-monkey companies like Android (see how their prior sale to Microsoft went... smashing success)—selling a company is the literal death of the compa
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by seiji 11y ago
If you are a cult-of-pg founder with "money money money startups exist to make me rich rich rich!" mindset, sure, it's a personal success. But it's a blatant, raw, undeniable failure when a company lets itself get acquir
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by seiji 11y ago
It's up to you to not accept that excuse. Except, the company endpoint is a low status programmer. Imagine how quickly the average programmer would get laughed out of the room if they went to their manager and asked for $100,000 to p
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by seiji 11y ago
we can't have negotiations with all 100k library authors between themselves Yeah, it's the "nobody is ever going to pay for bash, vim, top, netcat, ..." problem. Apple has found a good middle ground though. Pay develo
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by seiji 11y ago
making any proprietary stuff impossible to sell. That is the end goal, right? Your margin is my opportunity. The problem in the middle is: open source software is considered free-as-in-never-pay-me free. I have multibillion dollar compa
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by seiji 11y ago
Open source companies that are successful are acquired Acquisitions aren't success though. It's just "failing upwards" for the founders. Successful companies are self sustaining.
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by seiji 11y ago
If you cheat the definition, you could say Apple has opened some code, therefore they are an open source company. But, clearly that's not what's in play here. It's difficult to be an open source startup because it's e
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by seiji 11y ago
crm114 isn't actively maintained, but it still works great too.
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by seiji 11y ago
Google also has a whole bio lab developing artificial human skin. just completely normal and innocuous coder edm bro stuff. nbd. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+human+skin
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by seiji 11y ago
Comment of the year right there. But, great writing/analysis like this about two levels higher than the HN hivemind can comprehend. X = Y (lisp = productive), sure. But X = Y until Z then maybe Q = F is too nuanced for mass understan
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by seiji 11y ago
There are only so many young people willing to sacrifice everything for fanatic dreams of afterlife fulfillment as payment for promises of improving the here-now. Most youth, in other words, aren't that stupid. Startups seem to be pr
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by seiji 11y ago
Don't get caught up in working for one of the startup darlings just for the name recognition. I've avoided working for trendy startups, but I know a dozen people in my same age cohort who did go for the trendy startups. Now the
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by seiji 11y ago
Time for a fact update! My, my, how time flies. Deep learning has really only recently become successful hinton coined the term "deep learning" around 2006/2007 (more around deep belief nets/RBMs, but still, same thin
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by seiji 11y ago
The other side of massive isolated productivity is: nobody except them knew it or could maintain it. Yahoo ended up doing the whole "rewrite lisp in C++" thing because you can't hire "experts in paul graham's custo
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by seiji 11y ago
count-up timers like "you missed the last train by 30 seconds! haha?" Seems like a very tauntingly russian thing to do.
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by seiji 11y ago
Replacing your water jugs with Kool-Aid at the office just seems evil to me. Founder/VC/moneyhat friendly isn't always employee friendly. Employees exist to be exploited so the founders and VCs become extremely wealthy. Th
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by seiji 11y ago
It's pretty, but it also warms up my laptop with 20% CPU usage. Everything is tradeoffs.
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by seiji 11y ago
as scott adams says: I agree with your analysis of your hallucination. "Professional Engineers" (i.e. certification required) to write code? Do we let self taught basement dwellers design bridges crossed by millions of people an
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by seiji 11y ago
there would be massive outcry and we'd put a stop to it. Massive security branches? Massive fraud? Ineffective nationalized cybercommands? Just because we can't see the world burning with our eyes doesn't mean lead in the
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by seiji 11y ago
My job is basically fixing the code and processes of corporate programmers who copy/paste examples from websites into production systems. There's little understanding of how the code works and almost no reading of related documen
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by seiji 11y ago
This is also why interviews are a joke when they expect candidates to have full recall without Internet assistance, documentation, syntax checking, or compiler feedback.
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by seiji 11y ago
Biology component: http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v7/n9/images/nrn1971-f2.jp... ANN component: http://i.stack.imgur.com/KUvpQ.png
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by seiji 11y ago
Towards the bottom of the article it says: the last thing I did was changing the constants to decimal - they look way more scary this way ;> because, you know, programming should be innately difficult and confusing so we can laugh at o
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by seiji 11y ago
Here's a fancier, slightly less-magic, version. How to compile is left as an exercise for the reader (hint: Haswell or newer, requires BMI2 instruction set): void toBinary(uint8_t byte) { uint64_t zeroes = *(uint64_t *)&

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