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by tacos 10y ago
This is both a fascinating read of an obviously bright and clever fellow and also a TERRIBLE way to approach building intuition around the emergent behaviors of neural networks. If you want to learn about them without repeating the terrible
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by tacos 10y ago
If you're going to be pedantic over an obvious joke, then at least be more specific than "a ton." Total service breadth (11) is presently countable on fingers while naked.
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by tacos 10y ago
If this Microsoft thing then that Microsoft thing.
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by tacos 10y ago
> "All products" list four items, one of which is a product The Products menu has a fifth menu item, All Products. It will show you additional products. Apparently you are not familiar with the (bumpy!) history of Xamarin&#x2
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by tacos 10y ago
The least secure format on the web (PDF) + sketchy (ex-)Soviet servers + high-end researchers in aerospace and materials science. What could possibly go wrong?
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by tacos 10y ago
> on Xamarin.com it is literally the only non-service product > Microsoft made it completely free. Yawn.. Microsoft open sources the entire SDK. Yawn. After your nap, click the "All Products" link. You'll see other prod
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by tacos 10y ago
Xamarin is a company, not a product. Mono is a Microsoft-sponsored project. If you can't be bothered to get that right it makes it even harder to accept you speaking on behalf of the entire industry. > "this open sourcing h
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by tacos 10y ago
This post links to a different page. It shows three big boxes: One for iOS, watchOS, tvOS and MacOS X. One for Android. And a third one which provides a forms package providing native UI on iOS, Android and Windows. Which just received huge
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by tacos 10y ago
The Google article specifically says they were able to solve the problem on the (tiny) CPU in the phone by using vector operations on the CPU. Again, this is a tiny doodad for power-starved devices that lack any micro. Have you played with
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by tacos 10y ago
Worldwide appetite for Hollywood-branded animation increases. What's your point? Tweening some crap Panda movie in Canada doesn't mean they laid off the entire city of Glendale. "Nothing but executive level positions remain a
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by tacos 10y ago
This is a dev board, not a consumer product. And (contrary to the title) the press release explicitly says that it is not intended for "deep learning." Acceleration is needed for training -- not running the models themselves. A qu
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by tacos 10y ago
Tech workers wish they had the union protections and job security of animators in Burbank/Glendale. Most of these people have already worked for Disney at one time or another. This isn't Yahoo. And talent remains in huge demand. Y
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by tacos 10y ago
"Compromised" how? "Leaky abstraction"? What is the abstraction and can you please provide specific examples of the leak? It worked between Mac and Windows on very complicated apps. It bridged Linux and Windows for tweak
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by tacos 10y ago
Ah, HN. Where BuzzFeed is considered an innovative company due to loose ties to the MIT Media Lab, but a nearly four billion dollar purchase of a company that averaged $400+ million dollars per release -- while being consistently ranked the
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by tacos 10y ago
You win some you lose some. With Fragments Xamarin actually extends support to earlier Android devices. Less of an issue now, but there was a time when this actually extended platform reach, reduced code, and simplified training/upgrad
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by tacos 10y ago
I too hate cross-platform schlockware but it sounds like you are not familiar with the technology. "controls are mapped to platform-specific native user interface elements; for example, a Xamarin.Forms Entry becomes a UITextView on iOS
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by tacos 10y ago
People are mixing "Xamarin the company" with "Xamarin technologies" here and I'm not sure how to sort it out. Obviously the tech stack works. Obviously the stack ain't going away, especially now. As for "h
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by tacos 10y ago
Couple billion dollars in revenue generated with it via Unity alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine) -- and that was a HORRIBLE version of it. Way better now.
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by tacos 10y ago
I do not think junior people realize what senior people see when they look at your GitHub work. Without exception, the crappier the oeurve the more the candidate wants me to look at his or her GitHub. Read a single user's Tweets goin
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by tacos 10y ago
I appreciate this but in that case you should collect configuration data as part of requesting the bits. If I'm on a machine that's known borked, I'll wait. If not, gimme and I'll help you fix. Otherwise it feels like yo
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by tacos 10y ago
Beta means "feature complete" not "wait a month/win a lottery to get a chance at using the bits."
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by tacos 10y ago
I know who I'm inviting to Vegas next trip. Assuming you haven't used up all your luck. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
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by tacos 10y ago
VirtualBox and VMWare are hardly "tiny." I've never had a good experience with VirtualBox on any platform. Thing is constantly broken and endlessly updated to break in newer, less Google-able ways and just causes never-ending
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by tacos 10y ago
This "review" is the technical equivalent of a YouTube unboxing video. Screenshot, screenshot, something I already knew from reading the press release, screenshot, platitude, one big technical error in the conclusion, and done. If
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by tacos 10y ago
Many people don't seem aware of AWS CodeCommit -- AWS hosted git. $1/user per month, 10GB storage, no bandwidth charges. Free for the first year.
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by tacos 10y ago
I'm not loving GPL for "dumb" blocks of hardware designs. SRAM glue and SD card boilerplate would benefit from a more liberal license. Commercial fees charged by the big boys for some of this crap is truly absurd. And it bare
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by tacos 10y ago
Delete the directory. And don't touch it from the Windows side ... don't copy anything into it. It's definitely early alpha quality.
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by tacos 10y ago
I'm familiar with policy. With my comment I started the interesting discussion you are now reading. The original comment (not mine) was buried and greyed out at the time I pointed out the improper downvoting. I felt it deserved to be r
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by tacos 10y ago
Why is this being downvoted without any attempt at refutation? When I dug in I came to similar conclusions.
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by tacos 10y ago
My personal bias is way in favor of the EFF but the tone still irks me. And don't be fooled by footnotes! Unlike EFF, Wikipedia consciously strives for balance and they often come up way short, too. Any decent advocacy organization kno

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