teemwerk

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by teemwerk 8y ago
There's also buybacks, which has mostly been tech companies' weapon of choice when it comes to capital return.
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by teemwerk 8y ago
I don't want to split hairs because you are correct, and this isn't really directed at you. I'd just like to point out that if you believe in roughly efficient markets, if your enterprise maintains its value, if you amass a p
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by teemwerk 8y ago
I don't follow, Sigma hasn't stopped using Foveon sensors, they still use the Foveon Quattro stuff afaik. Now they use a 1:1:4 ratio for R/G/B layer resolution, where the blue layer also records luminance. They decided t
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by teemwerk 9y ago
Maybe a bit tangential, but from an economic it's interesting to see Intel's market cap vs TSMC, given that TSMC is purely a foundry. Nowadays what 10nm or 14nm actually means is a lot fuzzier than previous nodes, but the general
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by teemwerk 9y ago
TI and Cypress through Ramtron has done quite a bit of work incorporating ferroelectric materials into CMOS processes and such for FeRAMs mostly. Obviously RAMs are not transistors but the work is certainly relevant. Like the article says,
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by teemwerk 9y ago
>he actually seemed like a nice person. I also enjoyed his trollish sense of humor. I see where you're coming from and don't want to get pedantic, but isn't as trollish sense of humor by definition at least a little mean-s
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by teemwerk 9y ago
The "Late Shore Limited" I've taken has on-time performance of ~50% and train interference as 50% of delays. That sounds about right.
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by teemwerk 9y ago
That's not really an honest interpretation. The part you're ignoring is future earnings. Assuming a company maintains its earnings, you have a bigger slice of the pie next quarter. If the company trades at the same EPS multiple, y
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by teemwerk 9y ago
i don't know how truly random a crc function is, but they're really cheap to implement in an fpga. especially if you're just pulling the bit off the end for a bitstream, and you can just feed the output or some polynomial int
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by teemwerk 9y ago
spotify premium is $10. it used to be if you subscribed to spotify premium through the app store it cost $13 because Apple literally wants 30% of any money that changes hands through the app store. otherwise you give spotify $10 directly an
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by teemwerk 9y ago
that really doesn't sound so bad. at least curiosity piquing enough to work out more of the economics and impact of using reverse osmosis water in agriculture. I would think it might not hold up so feasible for non-cash crops, but at f
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by teemwerk 9y ago
The Dell takeover valuation decision got overturned, which is quite reasonable to say the least. However the valuation do-over was thought to be a solution is beyond me. The question of the case was "was Dell transparent in his directi
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by teemwerk 9y ago
You're underestimating your particular circumstances, and forgetting a gamechanger: roommates. I can't even begin to count how many fights, squabbles, arguments disappeared when we got a dishwasher. The value of an empty sink shou
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by teemwerk 9y ago
they issued another $100 million in the last day.
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by teemwerk 9y ago
I don't want to spam this article all over, but Matt Levine, also at Bloomberg, I felt had a much better overview of that question almost verbatim, plus imo he's an excellent writer. https://www.bloomberg.com/view&
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by teemwerk 9y ago
I think you'll find varied opinions in an organization as sprawling as Bloomberg. My favorite writer Matt Levine had a short blurb about this, he's consistently pretty sharp with a dash of humor. https://www.bloomberg.c
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by teemwerk 9y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is that debt stops making sense. In addition to your interest rate, your principle becomes more expensive over time. A mortgage, a car payment, becomes more expensive over time since the deal was struck wh
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by teemwerk 9y ago
From the wikipedia entry and the court documents it references, Google was required to make ITA's software available for licensees for five years after the judgement in October 2011.
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by teemwerk 9y ago
Skimming those papers and reading about the silicon tunable lasers was a bit mind blowing. I studied optics a bunch in college but never managed to work it into my electrical engineering job. Might be lame, but I didn't have any clue t
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by teemwerk 9y ago
That's an interesting thought, does the government have cpi-like numbers for different localities, or just the one number? Rents are included in cpi, but home prices aren't. Now, of course they are correlated, but that's cert
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by teemwerk 9y ago
I am by no means stating it as a conclusion, but rather just as a discussion point, how does this differ from the mutual funds and etfs under a single umbrella, i.e. something like vanguard? Where the stated mission is sort of long term ste
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by teemwerk 9y ago
I definitely agree, the part that struck a chord with me was "...everyone's just trying to get instagrams. You know, like is that what art's becoming, is like what you're experiencing and sending out into the world? I do
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by teemwerk 9y ago
They make a dirt cheap (~$20) vertical mouse that helped me correct wrist problems from bad posture overnight. I don't use anything else for long periods of time, they singlehandedly (pun not intended) helped me fix my wrist problems
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by teemwerk 9y ago
These are always so wonderful. The size limitation is the icing, they are always so gorgeous on their own. The advantage is always in seeing what cool tricks they do to make awesome stuff that is defined by such little information.
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by teemwerk 9y ago
Yeah, but he's talking about the conversion kits to digitize input on a typewriter. That's next level annoying.
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by teemwerk 9y ago
Yep, this right here. You really need a good reason to choose an FPGA. The inherent throughput and a lot of stuff is incredibly powerful, but the development is much more involved. To me anything sufficiently nontrivial always feels buildin
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by teemwerk 9y ago
Wow, that looks like a lot of really cool stuff. Might have to get back in a python kind of mood, this really looks impressive, especially the c++ extensions.
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by teemwerk 9y ago
I think the Maya thing is hyperbole, I just couldn't justify the price tag after I got out of school, but it's still def a standard. But really, as much as I like blender and open source, you hit the nail on the head, Houdini is o
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by teemwerk 10y ago
no carried interest talk, which is alright by me, that actually makes sense in giving an incentive for risk. would be interested to see if the 10% hit on monetary repatriation works, that could have some serious effects if that much multina
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by teemwerk 10y ago
There are FPGAs (mostly Microsemi) that use internal flash memory to hold their configuration, but you are correct, most use eeproms/

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