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by tinktank 6y ago
It's incredibly unfair to expect broad introductory books to provide deep understanding and insight. These books exist to mostly make people aware the field/topic exists and as a starting point. They serve their purpose. Article
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by tinktank 6y ago
Interesting article, I enjoyed it. The HFT/low-latency community has been riding this insight for many years, they call it "mechanical sympathy" and tend to favour algos/data structures etc that are designed assumign a
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by tinktank 6y ago
Neither can (1) enforceable maritime laws and (2) a united and effective approach to dealing with the flagrant abuse of intellectual/legal/environmental policy from/by the country.
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by tinktank 6y ago
They had to get clearance and satisfy the USG the products would still be available to third parties. Had to do this in Korea and China too. Once the governments were satisfied, the acquisition was completed.
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by tinktank 6y ago
Surely a sale would be allowed if regulatory compliance compliance is met? I was part of a private semiconductor company bought by a public American company and the buying company had to convince the US gov they would not turn the product l
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by tinktank 6y ago
This is a great idea.
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by tinktank 7y ago
But they're making money from it. And that's all they (and their shareholders) care about. Same reason FakeBook won't ban false political advertising on their platform even though it's really obvious it's destruct
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Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?
198 points by tinktank 7y ago|131 comments
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by tinktank 7y ago
I'm not sure about ethical but for myself, personally, it's essential as I couldn't afford it otherwise.
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by tinktank 7y ago
A couple of points: 1) Do not compare you, after a month, with people who have been there years. It will take time, you will get there. 2) So what if you're in-between? That's your unique selling point. Embrace, don't disca
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by tinktank 7y ago
I'm a little confused about your request. What do you mean by "real-time performance statistics for the simulated system"? Generally speaking, cycle-accurate simulators usually require a very accurate software model (or, are
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by tinktank 7y ago
$3.50
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by tinktank 7y ago
Can you recommend any?
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Ask HN: Are there any famous non-tech people that use Linux on a regular basis?
27 points by tinktank 7y ago|14 comments
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by tinktank 7y ago
You obviously don't know Ellison's cat...
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by tinktank 7y ago
You make an astute point lost to those trying to time the market.
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by tinktank 7y ago
This is awesome. How long did it take you and how familiar were you with the low-level details before you started?
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by tinktank 7y ago
my guess would be potential allies and short and long term investment opportunities for American businesses.
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Ask HN: Am I harming my career prospects by working in computer architecture
7 points by tinktank 7y ago|4 comments
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by tinktank 7y ago
I just read it again, and this comes off as another indirect push for Mirage/Unikernels. I hope it isn't and I'm just being cynical.
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by tinktank 7y ago
I'm getting really tired of these clickbait headlines. Nowhere in this article does it assert the title
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Ask HN: Getting through the steep learning barrier for hardware?
3 points by tinktank 7y ago|0 comments
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by tinktank 7y ago
1) What companies exist? 2) What are they doing that's novel? 3) What are the issues people living there are facing that could be solved with technology? 4) What are the impediments to solving the issues in (3) ? 5) What's the fut
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by tinktank 7y ago
Are you doing this by manual inspection or in some semi-automated or automated way? In any case, very nice work.
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by tinktank 7y ago
Hypothetical question: Let's say a news source writes a story that tanks a company's stock price and then, over the course of time the company is able to prove the story is false and/or the news source is unable to back up t
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by tinktank 7y ago
How is this different from what Solarflare ( https://twitter.com/Solarflare_Comm/status/11134717313798430... ) is doing with Cloud Onload? From what I understand they don't require any application changes and t
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by tinktank 7y ago
But isn't the issue wider than just not having datacenters? As I understand it the issue is multi-faced and composed of: 1. Reliable power 2. Reliable connectivity. 3. Lack of trust from users (prefer outside providers) 4. Expensi
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Ask HN: Resources on how Google/Facebook etc. approach software design?
148 points by tinktank 7y ago|39 comments
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by tinktank 7y ago
Why so negative and condescending?
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by tinktank 8y ago
So how are you monetizing it? Is it ads or paid job advertisements or something else?

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