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by tinktank 5y ago
It's incredible helpful. It's moved me from "know nothing" to "can contribute". Others do it on occasion but not as much as me. I've asked others for advice and the general consensus is to give it time a
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Ask HN: Am I thick? What advice would you give me?
8 points by tinktank 5y ago|16 comments
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by tinktank 5y ago
You're right. I'm on statins too, slip of the head. I mean angiotensins. I've been on Valsartan and they keep upping the dosage. My wake-up blood pressure still hovers around 150-160/100 but it goes down during the da
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by tinktank 5y ago
Could a battery solve this problem? Is it a possible solution?
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by tinktank 5y ago
> Memcache uses an outdated and slow hash and hashtable. No it doesn't. A cursory scan through the code will tell you as much.
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by tinktank 5y ago
How to bring my blood pressure down. Statins don't seem to be working and the docs can't tell me why.
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Ask HN: Looking for book(s) on advanced computer networking
1 points by tinktank 5y ago|1 comments
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by tinktank 5y ago
No feedback but a heartfelt congratulations. This is amazing and the revenue targets you've achieved are incredibly impressive. Well done, you're an inspiration to me.
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by tinktank 5y ago
Meh. Many better companies have tried and failed. Good luck to them but all I have for them is a shrug
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by tinktank 5y ago
I'm a researcher at a commercially funded research laboratory. A bit like Draper, but different organization.
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by tinktank 5y ago
Don't be disingenuous.
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by tinktank 5y ago
In no particular order: - Broke up with girlfriend - fucked off from london - Spent 6 months at home (until the whinging from the parents got too much) - Found a Research Associate position - Bounced from there into DARPA-funded research
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by tinktank 5y ago
I feel you; I too went through the same sort of thing -- PhD in CS from Cambridge, girlfriend in London who thought the center of the universe was London and parents back home screaming at me to 'get a house and settle down in London&#
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by tinktank 5y ago
Are you seriously implying OP earned a PhD in ML/CS without working for it and that it was "given" to them? There is no way in hell OP was "given" a PhD in CS -- it takes hard graft, tenacity and rigour to get a PhD
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by tinktank 5y ago
> Cue the usual string of anti-money, anti-profits, anti-capitalism, anti-business comments. It's perfectly reasonable to support something and to be critical of it. It could be argued this is how most progress happens -- by critic
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by tinktank 5y ago
Agreed, but OP is not saying nerds lack EI/SS outright, just that they're lacking.
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by tinktank 5y ago
How do people find these instructions?
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by tinktank 5y ago
And yet she has it, and is doing good with it while we're reduced to snarky, unevidenced comments on a niche website. The horror.
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by tinktank 5y ago
I'm not. For my use-case the disadvantages (worse performance, hell debugging, no modularity) outweighed the advantages (theoretical increase in performance)
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by tinktank 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't realise you replied. You can get me on jan.sharp.1990 at gmail
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Ask HN: Which technology futurists to you follow?
9 points by tinktank 5y ago|2 comments
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by tinktank 5y ago
I would love to know a litte about how you got to where you are, what you're doing is hard, requires a lot of capital and a lot of track-record and I'm looking to do the same in another area of silicon; would you be willing to cha
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by tinktank 6y ago
Depends. How much money? For a $1 a day per company? Sure. Otherwise, no. How about $1 per mail? No.
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by tinktank 6y ago
Change your job. I've been there, I'm currently there. The issue is not you -- it means there's a systemic issue with the company or your management (or both). I wish I'd learned this lesson earlier.
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by tinktank 6y ago
> Since the entire premise of cryptocurrency is as a speculative investment to redeem for Dollars or Euros, True of: - Stocks - Housing - Commodities (precious or otherwise)
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by tinktank 6y ago
> I still don't see how any government granting committee can outperform hundreds of private venture funds competing for exposure to new opportunities. Even if you have a government dept. of 10x geniuses, they don't scale to co
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by tinktank 6y ago
I do it for a living, IMO, no. We spend a lot of our time just putting plumbing in place, not much time left for creativity.
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Ask HN: Whats the Y Combinator for HW/EE folks?
4 points by tinktank 6y ago|2 comments
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by tinktank 6y ago
It goes too much the other way IMO. One can peddle lies, half-truths,threats, bigotry and falsehoods and hide behind the banner of free speech.
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by tinktank 6y ago
As a peon individual, I find it incredibly hard (and it gets harder every day) to live an honest, kind and compassionate life when I see this sort of thing happening. I am influenced not by greed or power, but by the view that if I'm

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