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   IPhone XR: The best iPhone Apple can't sell(wsj.com)

   2 points by systemBuilder 8y ago|2 comments
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   Personally, I think C deserves mention, not because it became THE portable language after 8 x n-bit implementations became standard, but rather, it was the first neutral, agnostic language about control structures (for, while, and do .. unt
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   First of all, Google doesn't use Pagerank any more, it has become a marketing term for the nearest seeds algorithm they are using. Second, Pagerank isn't an invention it would be immediately declared as a pliagarism of academic in
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   It's embarrassing that many of these supposed innovations are based on the messenger, not the message. For example my officemate (Andrew Grimshaw, 1990) published a PhD on a practical dataflow distributed system infrastructure a decad
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   When I was young I thought Dijkstra published a paper called, "go2's considered harmful!'. I think the next version of Go should be Go3.
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   I agree. There is zero shortage of developers. I just left Google search. There, all the Dev's are PhDs and will drop everything to fix a non user facing problem at midnight or 1am. They all answer their pagers about it. There is
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   I worked at Xerox Office Systems Division 1984-86. At Xerox they made hardware 10 years ahead of its time, and got the software finished in 5 years. Then, the computer was 5 years too early, and too expensive. This was the problem with X
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   Wow what a horribly wrong article. I was there (at Xerox OSD) in 1984 when the Mac was released. in 1984 you could hire a secretary for one year for $10,000 and give her a $600 IBM selectric typewriter. The star 8010 computer was 10 years
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   by systemBuilder 8y ago

   What if Tesla made a downpayment on parts at supply-rate XYZ (250,000 cars per year), and it turns out they will only do 200,000 cars this year? Wouldn't you ask for cash back on that downpayment?
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    Canada has good Healthcare up to the level of US medtech about 20 years ago. Anything invented in the last 20 years is not available through Canada Health Care. They will have an occasional crock of s * like one or two radiation machines
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    Google has at least 1000 employees in the Bay area in the $300k+ income bracket. The entry-level job at Google pays like a staff engineer at a mortal company.
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    Are you talking about Nortel, Blackberry, QNX, or some other failed lake Ontario company? I'm afraid the original poster was spot-on, you just need to realize the long history of Canadian tech self-destructing ...
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    You are probably earning a better income than $250k in silicon valley where housing is $700-$1600 a sq ft to buy.
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    I save us$7k per month (401k, after tax IRA, mortgage). My property taxes are us$2k/month.
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    I used to be an ECE professor at UBC, the #2 school in Canada. At that school, ECE is part of applied sciences. And do you know what else is part? Yeah, nursing. The nurses earned the same pay scale as the ECE professors. And the bus dr
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    by systemBuilder 8y ago

    Missing important details concerning why LLVM is taking over the world.
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    by systemBuilder 9y ago

    I'll tell you when I buy a car the first thing I look at is how many millimeters between the door panels. Nothing else makes me happier than to have a car with 2 millimeter gap between door panels. Driving Experience, fuel economy, ran
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    by systemBuilder 9y ago

    Hey I am in SRE. At one point last year there were 7 ex professors sitting within 15 feet of my desk including me (and I did a PhD in theoretical computer science at the same school as this math professor whose article we are reading). I d
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    by systemBuilder 9y ago

    I am surprised you would say that about David Foster Wallace. I went to school with him from kindergarten until 6th grade and 10th through 12th grade, in Urbana, Illinois. Math was never his strong point. However he wrote manic funny stori
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    by systemBuilder 12y ago

    In my opinion, Chrome was funded for two reasons, (a) At the time Chrome was launched, IE was dominating with ~69% market share: https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/norm... And, Firefox/Mo