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by sytelus 7y ago
"Twenty years ago, in November 1985, Windows 1.0 debuted with approximately 400 documented function calls.5 Ten years later, Windows 95 had well over a thousand.6 Today we are ready for the official release of the .NET Framework 2.0.
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by sytelus 7y ago
There are no two schools of thought. There are no two "approaches". It's simple economics. Companies don't decide pay X, they have to pay X. In US, there are genuine software products company and software products
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by sytelus 7y ago
It's not very long bets but very few bets. The YC model has shown us that success is highly unpredictable and if you want to have big winners, make a lot of small bets. This is exactly the Nasim Taleb's philosophy and other well-k
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by sytelus 7y ago
I want to get on the Pixel phones but every time I dig details of the latest models, I get turned off. They seem to be always one generation behind, For example, Pixel's highest memory model is always 2nd highest for iPhone and now Pix
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by sytelus 7y ago
Quick question: if you summon Model 3 and car gets in an accident, would Tesla pay for the repairs?
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by sytelus 7y ago
I've gotten into remote work experiments (unplanned) and it hadn't been all rosy. The good things are huge cut on unnecessary meetings and great productivity but the bad things include much harder path to collaborate. For example,
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by sytelus 7y ago
This is like an argument that we need epidemics like plagues once in a while to shake out the weaklings. It turns out that epidemics are neither effective and also they take out strong as well as weak just like recession kills many good lon
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by sytelus 7y ago
If US or China stock market was to go down, govt will immediately infuse such massive cash that things would be back up in no time. I'm wondering this is why there had been no recession past the entire decade and very likely none ahead
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by sytelus 7y ago
So really, how bad is this? Per article less than 400 people have died in the country with over a billion people.
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by sytelus 7y ago
This is how it is done: A congressman proposes a bill (written by cable company itself) such as "Neighbourhood Protection Bill". It will impose regulations on digging for new companies in the name of lower pollution and noise. The
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Infinite Mile Warranty(tesla.com)
2 points by sytelus 7y ago|0 comments
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by sytelus 7y ago
B2B logisitcs have fixed routes so one can simplify a lot of things. For example, you can map out all traffic lights, stop signs, turns, lanes precisely and without ambiguity. This can reduce reliance on stochastic predictions by an order o
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Trueskill(trueskill.org)
1 points by sytelus 7y ago|0 comments
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by sytelus 7y ago
When the president of the United States gave him a pass, it wasn't because of his bloodline but the fact he was willing to spend a few billion dollars on purchasing some army equipment.
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by sytelus 7y ago
It's not the fate. Google has more cash in the bank than any other company in the world (in tune of $130 billion). They could choose to use this cash to invest in creating new business, new products and the market would reward them han
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by sytelus 7y ago
Ironically, Jobs installed Tim Cook as Apple CEO and have publicly said that he is "not a product person".
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by sytelus 7y ago
Nope. Cloud is being commoditized as we speak which means there will be a race to the bottom when it comes to the margins. Bezos has already boasted that he is willing to turn down the dial for margins all the way down if it comes to that.
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by sytelus 7y ago
Just looked at my browser history and looks like I roughly performed 110 searches during past 24 hours and that's probably because I'm having bit slow day. Vast majority of searches were in fact work related (research papers, deep
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by sytelus 7y ago
Is it ironic that the websites often involved in freeing up the knowledge ends up getting hosted in Russia?
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by sytelus 7y ago
That's naive way of looking at things. Do you know how many brands and trademarks exist in the world? It's over 40 million! Do you know how many brands easily gets mixed up with normal English? When someone searches for best buy,
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by sytelus 7y ago
This is categorically wrong. URL is the fundamental part of the web and without it, the Internet couldn't be decentralized. Imagine if I must reach tweeter by typing "tweeter" somewhere then that somewhere now becomes the g
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by sytelus 7y ago
Why not just use Bing then? Why drink the same wine from different bottle?
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by sytelus 7y ago
Wait... these numbers doesn't make sense! # of software dev jobs per US gov: 1,365,500 [1] # of people employed by big tech (FAANG+Microsoft): ~500k Assuming 30% people are dev, still this would mean ~10% chance that given person with
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by sytelus 7y ago
Again, I'm not defending Pleskov. If he had come forth with the hack, things would have been different. Instead, he pretended that he had ML solution, pocket the money and put an extraordinary effort into making sure that people can&#x
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by sytelus 7y ago
Yes, and that's the right thing to do in the academic research setting ("advance the state of the art"). But the public competitions with monetary rewards are not the same setting. I can imagine scenarios where the guy stole
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by sytelus 7y ago
You might ask who can touch the man with $100 billion? Turns out its the man with $1 trillion. So that the amount of wealth one needs where you can truly be above justice and law under all and any circumstances turns out to be $1 trillion.
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'm not going to defend Pleskov but organizers shouldn't have put out the competition with money attached that can simply be solved by scraping data. Good ML competition in fact should even invite cheats because the end goal is no
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by sytelus 7y ago
<speculation> It's not an algorithm, it's some overjealous dev/PM with not many important tasks on hand except for a little incident which he made big deal out of it by downloading all dirty words and do string contains
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by sytelus 7y ago
It's amusing to see lot of people will write so much code and then skimp on just few lines of install script. The author here expects that everyone knows Haskel and how to install its "stack". 5 stupid lines of the install sc
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by sytelus 7y ago
So AI didn't make it to Zuck's 5 most important things for the next decade (but small businesses and VR did)! Huh?

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