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by tacos 11y ago
I was refuting this silly argument: "Good luck once you're out of university and want to start your own thing, you won't be able to afford it." Yup, startups have costs. Go figure. And sometimes you get what you pay for.
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by tacos 11y ago
Maybe that's why there's the $49 student license and the $99 one that includes ten toolboxes including machine learning.
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by tacos 11y ago
The guy cutting my lawn spent more on his tools than MATLAB costs.
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by tacos 11y ago
Matlab vs Octave is one of those places where it's still worth buying the real one. Personal use license (including machine learning toolkit) is under $200. If you're not willing to spend $200 to learn something you're probab
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by tacos 11y ago
There's always room to be pedantic but sometimes common sense wins. There's no way in hell he has the rights to publish detailed character drawings of every hit DC character. And the odds of him getting ANYTHING cleared through Wa
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by tacos 11y ago
Do you have any reason to believe it was posted with permission? I worked in Hollywood and cashed checks from Warner Bros. If you think an illustrator retained rights to anything done for them in the 80s -- again, I'd love to live in y
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by tacos 11y ago
If you think the artist has rights to a book with a Warner Bros logo on the side -- well, as an artist myself I sure wish I lived in your reality. OF COURSE he doesn't have a problem with it. It benefits him. That's not the issue
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by tacos 11y ago
I realize that HN leans far to the edge on this issue, but this really is over-the-top copyright infringement. The whole thing, in its entirety, with not even an attempt at commentary? I'm reminded of the time a Spike Lee documentary w
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by tacos 11y ago
Seriously, have you ever had any recommendation engine produce useful information? Netflix can't do it for movies, Apple can't do it for Music, Twitter can't do it for information, and LinkedIn can't do for people or com
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by tacos 11y ago
Checking the HN guidelines... hmm. I understand not picking on someone who's just ported Linux to some micro that absolutely doesn't matter. And I understand being gentle with someone who's earnestly re-invented the wheel, ba
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by tacos 11y ago
I have been interviewing candidates for 20+ years now and that precise language has been refined. Any super-strong opinion one way or the other is itself a great bit of information, especially among a candidate who lists both Java/C# a
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by tacos 11y ago
Article is from 2012 which is why it seems a little naive. Then again, my first interview question is "what's wrong with garbage collection?" and if you can't give me three specific use cases where it's a non-starte
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by tacos 11y ago
PayPal is free for friends/family when you use a bank account instead of a credit card. And a variety of US banks already allow you to transfer money via ACH for free, even between banks. EFTPOS actually originated in the USA in the 19
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by tacos 11y ago
They're using code that they cannot license elsewhere. They're making OS calls to process the images.
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by tacos 11y ago
[Talking purely CPU] You can resize 100k images a second on a 2013 laptop. [Source: the Google guy who serves your images.] A couple ARM cellphones could meet this entire company's [CPU] image processing needs. Think of what YouTube is
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by tacos 11y ago
This company repeatedly sets off my B.S. detector with its technology story. Here's a previous article where they didn't have their schtick quite so polished: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05&
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by tacos 11y ago
I just realized that by "DB" you meant "DropBox." I was reading it as "database" and thought you were putting MySQL files on DropBox! Hopefully my strong words make more sense now... apologies!
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by tacos 11y ago
You may be ignoring the risk that people hear you're doing this and decide not to take you seriously as an engineer. There are clever Dropbox productivity hacks. This is not one of them.
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by tacos 11y ago
Right. And if that happens twice a year and it costs someone 10 minutes to fix, you could've just paid $12/yr to AWS CodeCommit and made money on the deal. Why would you half-ass such a critical piece of infrastructure when there
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by tacos 11y ago
This is bad engineering. You are asking for trouble. Don't use DropBox for this use case.
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by tacos 11y ago
For a few pennies more (or less) a month you can use AWS CodeCommit. https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/pricing/
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by tacos 11y ago
400-600k with symbols stripped. I'm using boost/any, boost/iostreams/stream & tee, and boost/property_tree/json_parser. So obviously I'm not going nuts with things. But wanted to provide the data point
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by tacos 11y ago
Neither is the hardware. The point is that I'm doing a clean build of an entire app in under a second. Which means the "boost tax" is also under a second. You can certainly make a mess of things if you're not careful. Mo
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by tacos 11y ago
You have to be careful with what you pull in. But with precompiled headers I'm building a suite of 25 command line apps, all dependent on boost, in 22 seconds on a 2012 MacBook Air. gcc on Windows is similar. Microsoft doesn't eve
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by tacos 11y ago
I've grown weary of these "here's a thing you haven't heard of, and now here's some misinformation!" articles. (Shame on you Gawker, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed!) But this is how it should be done. It's brillia
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by tacos 11y ago
This will get buried here and is worthy of a separate thread. But... what are the "gateway drugs" for a Windows-centric dev? A Linux-centrix dev? For me it was Postgres to show what open source was really capable of (a more curren
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by tacos 11y ago
Visual Studio should not be crashing. Also bash scripts are famous for fucking up server instances, too. And crond, while simple, is equally deadly. Everyone's had a weird ass permissions problem there that took three nights of logs to
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by tacos 11y ago
Microsoft fanboy here (and OP of this sub-thread). PowerShell is a great example of how the two camps never meet in the middle. The syntax is mind-numbingly stupid. Also it's a scripting language not a shell -- but if they called it Po
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by tacos 11y ago
I really wish I could show about 70% of the Windows knuckleheads a few Linux tools. And I really wish about half of Hacker News would spend twenty minutes with Visual Studio and Azure. Both sides have no idea what is possible. And, no. No
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by tacos 11y ago
Tools.

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