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by strlen 12y ago
> Background: this is my first job out of college, and I joined the startup ~9 months ago, right when they launched (I'm engineer #2, before me, the founders outsourced the prototype to an offshore team). Generally, but never as a
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by strlen 12y ago
Does this mean that N quantum computers can agree on the spin of an electron instantaneously, i.e., meaning that there's nothing like FLP impossibility result for distributed quantum computing? Or would that still imply violation of No
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by strlen 12y ago
Conjecture: the point of Thiel Fellowships isn't to bribe everyone to stop attending universities, it is to combat elitism and education-based stratification of society. Thiel specifically picked "safe bets" from elite univer
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by strlen 12y ago
Vernor Vinge (who wrote one of the first essays on singularity) recently stated that we can tell the singularity has happened when a robot can clean an un-prepped bachelor's pad (robots can currently clean a prepared room, but they can
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by strlen 12y ago
I like to call this outcome a "non-answer answer". Very common in the corporate world.
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by strlen 12y ago
I suspect there are two parts: some of these (drones, fiber) are intended to provide a more seamless Internet experience to more people. By extension, it means more advertising. Others are investigations of revenue streams beyond advertisin
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by strlen 13y ago
> It is definitely a free speech issue, however, I’d argue that the compelling state interests in preventing corruption and ensuring fairness and access in elections, is a great enough one to merit modest limitations. Indeed so did the
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by strlen 13y ago
I would love to think that way as well, but it looks like most justices (not just the majority) do agree that there is a free speech issue at play here (without saying "money is speech", however). Reading the majority opinion and
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by strlen 13y ago
The default mode in Hack is partial: in partial mode, the code itself must be typed and must past the typechecker, but it can call untyped code (that's in a separate compilation unit). Another mode (you specify the mode per file/c
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by strlen 13y ago
Such a tool would be no less difficult to build than hack itself, though. Hack's "gradual typing" solves the problem of re-using existing code that you've mentioned. FB already had a PyLint-like tool earlier that could d
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by strlen 13y ago
Is there a statically typed variant of Python that would work with existing web servers, etc..? I am aware that there's Cython and I know that py3k technically permits type annotations (which Jetbrain's Python IDE uses quite effec
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by strlen 13y ago
It's very easy to underestimate how difficult building a database from scratch (or even making large incremental changes to an existing one) is. Another way to think of it is to think of an core database engine as analogous to a part o
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by strlen 13y ago
Indeed, that's why I said rational self-interest and not just profit. His self-interest involves advancing science and technology. "[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia." - Democritus
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by strlen 13y ago
There is no slippery slope here if the law is states something like: "contracts between existing de-facto oligarchy of car manufacturers and dealers remain as is, new entrants are free to set their own terms". Everyone is talking
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by strlen 13y ago
Ah, got it. It also seems the more useful the drug, the higher the pressure for low cost generic licensing (though, then again, the larger the circulation). I wonder if an X-Prize like model might work better here, with, e.g., individuals w
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by strlen 13y ago
I loved Deepness In The Sky, one of the darkest ("Age of Failed Dreams", twentieth-century style authoritarianism coupled with technologies of the future, etc...) and yet most fascinating pieces of fiction. It's also one of t
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by strlen 13y ago
I think part of it also diminishing returns: life of cancer patients has been greatly improved, with early detection it's no longer a death sentence and at times not even a major handicap. See, e.g., quality of life after treatment o
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by strlen 13y ago
Kafka is focused more on throughput rather than latency: if latency is critical, you should use a database rather than a message queue (may be with some caveats, e.g., for finance, telcos, or air traffic control; TIBCO et al cover that mark
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by strlen 13y ago
Hmm, I think I've mis-read your comment then. My apologies. That said, if you don't mind I'll let it stand as is -- perhaps as a comment on the OP. My point is "cancer research OR Facebook" is not a choice anyone go
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by strlen 13y ago
What people miss is the incredible amount of infrastructure development done at Facebook. While it would be an honest statement that it's behind Google (which takes a different approach to infrastructure) in that respect, it also diffe
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by strlen 13y ago
obvious short is obvious
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by strlen 13y ago
"$400m" is not moderately wealthy, it's extremely wealthy. Most moderately or even extremely wealthy people are obscure. One of the wealthiest people I've worked for had a saying: "it's good to be wealthy but n
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by strlen 13y ago
So first of all some background: I grew up during the fall of USSR. Our family had little liquid money, but my dad had a 386 computer (this was early 90s) provided by an American firm. My parents told me to never disclose that fact to other
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by strlen 13y ago
We can only speculate, but I'd imagine the real Satoshi is a human being and doesn't want an uninvolved senior citizen (and his relatives, including a 90 year old mother) to be made targets for violent crime. It's highly iron
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Win a Nobel prize (2000)(nature.com)
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by strlen 13y ago
> The principal under which Escalante's program flourished (Henry Gradillas) was a big contributor to the success, but even so, he wasn't invited back after a sabbatical, and it's reasonable to speculate that he'd run
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by strlen 13y ago
>> Escalante's open admission policy, a major reason for his success, also paved the way for his departure. Calculus grew so popular at Garfield that classes grew beyond the 35-student limit set by the union contract. Some had mo
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by strlen 13y ago
> I suspect the jump from "Nazis might kill me" to "poor in America was roughly the same jump as "poor in America to working in technology" From personal experience, the first was _far greater_. To quote my brot
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by strlen 13y ago
There might be some talent at Yahoo, but its exodus can't be denied. However, I did actually see Yahoo re-attract some talent after Mayer's ascent. So as with most anything else, you have to deal with it on a case-by-case basis an
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by strlen 13y ago
The entire survival of Yahoo under a specific business model was staked to this. At the time -- this was my first job out of college -- I didn't care at all about those aspects, but the technical learnings for me (primordial NoSQL data

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