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721.
by spitfire 14y ago
Sigh. I'm sorry. Canada is a horribly, horribly conservative place. Best of luck offering innovative services that challenge incumbents.
722.
by spitfire 14y ago
Nope. Not outside the US at least.
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by spitfire 14y ago
So where can people not in the US find the show? (can't get it in itunes, doesn't air on TV here). It's a little far fetched to be surprised that the tech industry would be poorly portrayed. If you've ever seen a police, medical, spy, or la
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by spitfire 14y ago
Dorsey's PR has been mentioned in a number of articles. IIRC Vanity Fair was one, can't remember the other but the PR guy butt in during a coffeeshop interview. They are never more than a few feet away, and make sure articles mention that h
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by spitfire 14y ago
I have a better solution. sell to and deal with people who care about getting things done, rather than "who" you are. Problem solved.
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by spitfire 14y ago
I see your point. I was thinking more in a softer sense, where that might not work. Around here people are /very/ conservative 17% retirement population, 20%+ work for govt, a large chunk of the rest for large govt owned businesses (crown c
727.
by spitfire 14y ago
I was confused by the "a lot" bit. Around here "consultant" means you don't work for the government, which means you are a leper.
728.
by spitfire 14y ago
I don't quite follow you here. Can you explain this more explicitly for me Patrick?
729.
by spitfire 14y ago
Just a comment, because I know you get some stick when you bring this material up. I do appreciate it, and think it really does need to be drummed into people. Particularly the material on job performance indicators(IQ and work samples ever
730.
by spitfire 14y ago
Alright, I was under the impression it was a partial hardware implementation. I knew that it was artificially restricted to the Z68 chipset only, but still thought it was sort of a winmodem type solution. IE: there's still some special hard
731.
by spitfire 14y ago
Which chipset does the new imac use? Intel has SSD caching support built into the Z68 chipset now, it sounds eerily similar, they could simply be using that. Both reads and writes are cached. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/intel-z68-ch
732.
by spitfire 14y ago
Possibly not. Those benchmarks (mandelbrot and n-body, pi-digits) are very low memory footprint benchmarks. So it might be a difference of going from 20K to 30meg constant memory usage. Whereas the other benchmarks seem to have single digit
733.
by spitfire 14y ago
Radix sort. Done. Depending on his dataset characteristics a radix sort can have a space requirement as low as a few hundred bytes to sort several million values. EG: 8-bit values, Simply make a 256byte array. Increase the appropriate count
734.
by spitfire 14y ago
Everything looks "obvious" or "not really that important" when you're looking UP the power curve. I am not a programmer, I solve problems using symbolic representations. Anything that lets me reason about solving this problems at a higher l
735.
by spitfire 14y ago
I certainly prefer it. Tokenadult, keep posting. Also, take a page from patio11's book and start selling access to this advice. (and perhaps consulting).
736.
by spitfire 14y ago
You should read everything Patrick McKenzie (patio11) has written. Then double your price.
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by spitfire 14y ago
You're certainly correct. I was getting L/D and glide ratio mixed up. Further I was thinking about the state of the art in small aircraft - the Cessna 172 or Cirrus SR22. Neither particularly good in this respect. Rutan easily beat them all
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by spitfire 14y ago
The flight planning aspect can be done. In ways it has been done by gliders. The real difficulty is convincing a very conservative industry to change. The mechanical/aerodynamic aspect is much more difficult, but some people are making real
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by spitfire 14y ago
Some of the most interesting developers can't talk about what they've done. You'll never see the flight computer system of an F-16, but it's probably a much cooler project to work on than an iPhone app. Or nuclear reactor engineering. Is a
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by spitfire 14y ago
I just looked. Slackware still ships with UUCP. Quaint. I wonder who's still using that in some deep dark corner of their infrastructure.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Patrick, that video is far too long and does a lot to damage your perceived value. At a number of points you wander off into "includes material on...", rather than "solve X problem using some means" language. You repeatedly drum into people
742.
by spitfire 14y ago
I seem to be A/B tested out of the sample video. Anyone have a link?
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by spitfire 14y ago
I'm a bit disappointed I can't use Stripe for my online, bespoke shotgun smithing company. More seriously, from the way that's written (quite non-legally) it's clear they don't want undesirable business. If you're on the edge, I'm betting a
744.
by spitfire 14y ago
"Context -- I'm a young programmer and don't trust my own code as a matter of course, and I'm working in a bootstrapped-to-the-hilt startup where any ounce of effort saved is gold." Seeing this on a young developers resume will get you an i
745.
by spitfire 14y ago
Now someone please make usable tools for it on OSX. Postgres badly needs front-end tools of the quality of sequel pro. I am a huge fan of Postgres, it's never let me down. But data exploration, ad hoc querying and such is a pain in psql. Th
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by spitfire 14y ago
I just looked it up. The taxes are way higher than I'm paying now, or I'd pay in dubai(zero). The prices can be high in dubai (Currently less than a major US city), but they're one time costs. There's almost a need to start a wiki on this s
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by spitfire 14y ago
Both, but much more the second. disks and filesystems as a weird, separate appendage hanging off the side of a computer are conceptually a weak idea. Once you've unified your address space - stable storage is in the same space as unstable s
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by spitfire 14y ago
That's because C and C++ are not static languages. Only people who leaned C and C++ first think they are.
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by spitfire 14y ago
You get some extra benefits too: You get rid of the split between memory and filesystem address space. In fact, you can kill off the traditional filesystem altogether. I'm excited by that, filesystems are a dirty kludge. But this would requ
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by spitfire 14y ago
> I'm advocating a mindset This is a good point. Living on $500/mo in a lush tropical paradise sounds fantastic. Until you realize there are no like minded people around - you'll have no one to bounce ideas off of. This is one thing tha

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