theincredulousk

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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Ohhh the tragedy of build systems... Maybe the best example of meta technical debt on the planet, for so many canonical reasons that technical debt emerges in general. Top reasons no software engineering team fixes this: The build system wi
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Unsurprising, given the (now very old) issue of selection/hidden-information bias in voluntary reviews. The people that are happy with the product are exponentially less likely to leave a "review" than the people that are un
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Signaling and politics. Called it in a previous post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20942910 . If a person or entity has no skin in the game WRT a prevailing topic, but there is moral high-ground to stand on, they
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Agree with you, except the qualifier that “I certainly get all the hate against Juul”. I certainly don’t get it. Saw the news on a TV in a bar last night, talking about the Vitamin E oil. The video clip to go along was someone using a Juu
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Boeing has made literally tens of thousands of airplanes "without trouble". One debacle doesn't mean they "can't even make an airplane". "Space Shuttle" was rhetorical, but yeah, they could churn out
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
This must be a jab, but obviously yes. Last year they had $28 billion in net income. With that kind of money you can hire the best in the world to build literally whatever you want. They could go build a space shuttle if they felt like it
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Supports Infiniband out of the box - neat!
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
That is unfortunately the essence of the issue surfacing with South Park, Blizzard, NBA, & now Apple. The Chinese market is the "wallet" and China is "voting" with it. They have the ability to almost instantly evapo
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
While an expensive option, if the advantages of an in-wheel motor were sufficient for a given application, active/magnetorheological suspension could largely compensate for it. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
This is 100%-grass-fed, free-range, organic bullshit. How on earth could anyone, with a straight face, propose an outright ban on e-cigarettes while real cigarettes are still legal... In public opinion, this is shaping up to be another t
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
In the grand scheme of things it just isn't. 14 million rides a day, giving them a generous 1MB of data per ride, is "only" 14TB, 420TB/month. The data relevant to a ride for the clients like GPS location and ETA can f
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
A side-project isn't by definition irrelevant, and of course by sheer probability the engineers at those companies are, on average, going to create things that are within their area of expertise which is usually related to what the com
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
There was the fixed cost of developing it, and then the potential lost revenue of not selling it, similar to an opportunity cost. If the presumption is that the software would be useful ("developed for a reason") economics suggest
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Can't speak for OP, but I'd imagine most of the data in the system is metadata - i.e. very tiny. Sure they're moving a lot of packets, but an entire ride's data could probably fit in 100KB. If they have a million drive
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Good point - didn't think about that at all. Did you mean think before I speak, or Uber? In any case, yeah, in that respect it is a massively shitty and unnecessary thing to do to employees. They could have easily left it as "r
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Good point. I didn't have that perspective in mind so the wording was off. My sentiment was that if a company is losing money consistently and egregiously, they are on borrowed time and a borrowed dime in very real terms as the traject
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Probably some reality shaking out. Uber's engineering team puts out some impressive stuff, often as OSS. Their engineering blogs are regularly on HN. I've been genuinely surprised that they churn out some of these things and rel
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Yeah for example the super-profound and constructive top comment that just quotes the article and adds "WOW :O". That's quality content, unlike a the South Park reference drawing a simile between serious research and the (hum
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
man-bear-pig origin story confirmed
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
This entire paper and no reference to Nassim Taleb? They even use his language. Any fans of Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, etc.? One of his main ideas, that he has followed up with Mathematics, is fragility to model error in the presenc
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
TBH I think IEEE is worse than ISO. After a fairly hefty yearly membership fee, they want you to pay for individual specs that other IEEE members created??? I needed to look at a 15+ year old IEEE spec, and thought "hey I'm a mem
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
I don't think $100 can really be considered a major roadblock to any technology professional capable of doing a standardized implementation...
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
In theory I agree, but the somewhat depressing realization is that your data is not especially valuable in and of itself. The marginal value of your data with respect to 10,000,000 other people's data is almost (but not quite) nothi
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by theincredulousk 7y ago
Yes! Was surprised the paper didn't specifically mention RDMA, or to a lesser degreee SRIOV, with all their focus on NICs. Also, there may be ongoing research, but it isn't theory at all. HPCs, HFTs, and the could providers have
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by theincredulousk 8y ago
Oh I see, so the whole weapon system including the computer systems etc. The way the quote literally reads is that software virtualization and HPC somehow solved a physical geometry problem.
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by theincredulousk 8y ago
"Advances in high-performance computing, software virtualization [...] enable [...] cruise missiles to fit into [...] shipping containers." Wut
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by theincredulousk 8y ago
Defining bit values (and other externally defined magic numbers) explicitly in e.g. a defined-to-be-canonical header file (which might be just those 8 #defines) is much safer and easier to debug/maintain I'm all for modern C++,
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by theincredulousk 8y ago
Thanks. I guess that still doesn't clear up why the whole article considers "Flash" and "NVM" as two distinct technologies/concepts/whatever. Edit: even on that wikipedia page: "The acronym NVM stands
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by theincredulousk 8y ago
Maybe this is obvious to those working with this, but did something change about what "NVM" means aside from "non-volatile memory", i.e. what "Flash" memory is? Is the assumption that "NVM" == "
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
In retrospect this is probably true. Should have left it at the comment about QNX - the rest is honestly irrelevant. Apologies to Garret for assassinating his character based on a single blog post.

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