solidasparagus

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by solidasparagus 8y ago
Software engineering talent is in extremely high demand and the supply is limited. You can find a job that pays well and provides excellent work-life balance. A good engineer that enforces very strong work-life boundaries is a still better
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
Pay has a ton to do with the cost of living, because salary is the lowest amount you can offer while still enticing people to work for you - I'm not saying penny pinch every dollar, but business is not charity. You don't magically
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
It is exceptionally hard to measure work done by knowledge workers. Which makes is extremely hard to get enough hard documentation to fire them. In the vast majority of cases, you slowly realize they are no good and then you have to sink a
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
There was an article that I can't find right now about European union practices. Create a union for an entire industry and then leverage union scale to push for government regulation that impacts the entire industry. I'm sure it w
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
Because these VC-backed OSS companies don't do open source for ideological reasons* , they do it because it gives them a competitive advantage. A permissive license means broader adoption, which means more $. And now some of them are c
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
I can't imagine the new OSS license approach working. People seriously underestimate the ability and willingness of cloud providers to write entirely software, using existing OSS as nothing more than market research.
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
The name is cool, but not great in the age of Google. I would suggest also having a slightly longer name that is more unique - the way that the Go programming language has 'Golang'.
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
This one? http://grantland.com/features/the-toronto-raptors-sportvu-ca...
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
This is a fun project and there's plenty to learn even if you don't end up with a great model. But if you really want to try to solve this problem, you're going to need more granular data - play-by-play, per-play lineup, inju
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
The biggest problem with Solid IMO has always been that very few people care about privacy enough to deal with the pain of managing their own data.
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
Not 100% certain, but I think the killer feature is the ability to manage your own data while exposing semantic representations that external apps can interact with. The guiding idea behind RDF was (at one point) that users manage their own
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
At MIT you can get a degree relatively easily if you make that your goal, but most people don't. I have respect for MIT grads because more often than not that means you have intelligence and work ethic. I've seen very smart people
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
I would say he's making the case that Lyft doesn't have a single component with ridiculous scale like Netflix CDN or Dropbox storage. That could just mean Lyft's costs are more evenly distributed.
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Amazon uses AWS. There's probably still legacy applications running on pre-AWS infra though.
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
If your services need a shared, implicit understanding of types, you're not respecting the microservice boundaries. Each microservice needs to offer a contract describing what inputs it accepts and immediately reject a request that doe
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
FAIR is one of the most advanced AI research labs in the world. PyTorch has massively growing adoption because it is substantially better than the competitors and FAIR work consistently pushes the state of the art forward. Calling their AI
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
You don't need to explain how the model works, you just need to explain what factors the model cared about when making a certain decision. A strong example is a classifier that distinguishes between wolves and dogs. When you look at wh
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
That's a meaningless hypothetical. No Americans are dying to defend Eastern Europe. History shows us that treaties are easily discarded in the face of actual war with another great power. But the value of NATO for the US right now is n
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
Who is being drafted? It's a volunteer army and we are in basically no wars where our soldiers are at serious risk of wartime death. It's far more common for NATO troops to die helping us in our wars than vice versa. NATO is a low
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
The largest users of cloud VMs are internal customers - cloud services and the business that the cloud providers spun out of. If ARM is cheaper to run, the savings for Amazon/AWS could be astronomical. That will generate more than enou
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by solidasparagus 8y ago
You need to understand how your boss takes feedback and tailor your comments accordingly. I’ve had some managers I’ve felt free to give candid feedback to and others who just don’t take feedback well so you find another way to force change.