skohan

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by skohan 4y ago
> I honestly am not sure how to live without them at this point. That's exactly why. I prefer not to have a workflow which depends on proprietary software. What are you going to do if MS breaks your workflow at some point in the f
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by skohan 4y ago
Good reason to stay away from those extensions!
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by skohan 4y ago
What about for deciding which SAAS application to emulate as a first-party service?
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by skohan 4y ago
But I don't mean they would have to access customer data. If, for instance, they just took a look at how much they were billing certain clients for bandwidth over time, they could already use that as a reasonable growth metric. Do yo
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by skohan 4y ago
But what I mean is you wouldn't even need to look at customer data. Just knowing how much traffic is going to which services would tell you a lot about a business. I don't know if they somehow obfuscate that as well.
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by skohan 4y ago
This is something I wonder about Amazon/Google/Microsoft specifically: since they’re hosting basically every startup, how much are they able to leverage that data to their own benefit? AWS alone must have quite a detailed insight
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by skohan 4y ago
I am interested in biology and especially neuroscience, and I have a pretty broad skill set. I have a background in graphics/GPGPU programming and enjoy building simulations.
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by skohan 4y ago
Similar behavior is what turned me off of Swift. I still think it’s a nice language to write, but I tried to adopt it on Linux and the situation with tooling was so horrendous. Lots of things were under-supported or under-documented, and e
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by skohan 4y ago
I would actually love to contribute to scientific research. I work in industry, which is lucrative and impactful but not that satisfying, and I work on pet projects which are satisfying but not that impactful. I would happily contribute
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by skohan 5y ago
I got a job at a call center in college to pay the bills. Had to give up the luxury of being shy very quickly.
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by skohan 5y ago
Would you say that everyone who falls victim to predatory lending is dumb? Or do people maybe get exploited when they are in bad economic situations as well? https://www.kqed.org/news/10499074/one-uber-drivers-sto
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by skohan 5y ago
I don’t think that’s completely correct - I think “written in rust” being bandied about as a feature is a somewhat unique feature of the Rust community
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by skohan 5y ago
There’s a whole community of people doing game engines from scratch. My guess is they’re using Vulkan or OpenGL.
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by skohan 5y ago
So I agree with some of your points: I.e. I think people would generally agree the user experience of Uber is an improvement over taxis even if the labour conditions are a regression. The problem I see is that even the potential for disrupt
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by skohan 5y ago
No it's a clarifying statement. I believe they're arguing that creativity is not depleted as a matter of biological inevitability - like decreasing skin elasticity - but rather that older people tend to develop a mindset which do
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by skohan 5y ago
Is WebGPU ready? It's been a bit, but last time I looked it was pretty unstable and not well supported.
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by skohan 5y ago
While I understand why it's necessary, I feel that the UX of security needs a serious overhaul. It seems like an increasing share of the time I spend using technology involves jumping through hoops.
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by skohan 5y ago
GPUs are largely best suited for providing high throughput for doing similar computations across wide datasets. So if you can break down your algorithm into a series of steps which are largely independent and have limited flow-of-control i
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by skohan 5y ago
Fair point re clay foundations, but I was talking about the tooling choice for server-side rendering, not server-side rendering itself. For instance if they had implemented this in Erlang or Go they likely wouldn't have run into this
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by skohan 5y ago
This is a concept I think about often in an engineering management context, and I think it applies not only to software, but to processes in general. I think there is often an impulse to systematize workflows, because it makes work quantifi
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by skohan 5y ago
> They could have built this in Java, .Net, Go, really any shared memory concurrency runtime and threading, and would not run into any of these issues. It is funny how you can get away with using the wrong tool for the job in Software in
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by skohan 5y ago
Those are things you have to deal with once in a while, and largely cease to be issues once you get over the learning curve. Bad code is something you have to deal with day in and day out.
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by skohan 5y ago
I would imagine there would at least be a sharp decrease in yield rates. Hard to imagine all those Taiwanese TSMC workers working hard to ensure the technological dominance of mainland China.
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by skohan 5y ago
I don't think this is the best way to understand this. C has been around for 50 years at this point, and there has been an enormous amount of investment and advancement in the realm of C compilers in that time, which has naturally res
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by skohan 5y ago
I also said this: > Rust and C++ are on similar levels of abstraction, but C is much, much simpler.
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by skohan 5y ago
It sees like you're trying to catch me with some kind of gotcha instead of dealing with the argument in good faith.
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by skohan 5y ago
I'm sorry I don't understand your argument at all. What does lack of UB and memory safety have to do with simplicity? Those are very complex features of Rust which require a very complex compiler in order to achieve. Also Rust
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by skohan 5y ago
No I haven't. I said Rust and C++ are on similar levels of abstraction.
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by skohan 5y ago
> So they simultaneously understand what the machine is doing but don’t know what assembly will be generated? Both can’t be true. I mean I can understand a reasonable mapping to what the un-optimized assembly would be. Compiler optimiza
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by skohan 5y ago
I thought it should be obvious. Apple was competing with Google/Android for mobile developers. For Android, you programmed in Java, which everyone learned in school. For iOS, this funny language with smalltalk syntax was a barrier t

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