urthor

64 ms·

721.
by urthor 5y ago
Given how much cruft x86 has, there's a comments about world class experts above saying the gap between ARM and x86 is maybe 5%, at best, and probably less. There's realistically probably no reason RISC-V cannot work, expect that
722.
by urthor 5y ago
Most of the chip-heads' deep hatred for x86 comes from the number of pain-points for dealing with its ISA. In terms of actual raw performance the instruction set is extremely secondary to about 10 other architectural choices. The reaso
723.
by urthor 5y ago
It's all about revenue per transaction. Facebook (and Google's) advertising platform and ability to onboard new customers is their core business model. I urge any front end developer, UX specialist, or product designer, to close
724.
by urthor 5y ago
Bloomberg terminal bundles a lot of mid tier analysts, but all the market leading analyst firms sell their copy for FAR more than what Bloomberg will pay. The analysis industry is fascinating, you're essentially paying gobsmacking amou
725.
by urthor 5y ago
The oft discussed outsource to Infosys wave.
726.
by urthor 5y ago
> If HR is infact the reason why this doesn't happen then HR is hamstringing the rest of the company. Yes, exactly. The thing is you then have to hire a competent HR member to do all this. Believe it or not, the HR industry is act
727.
by urthor 5y ago
Very informative. And presumably on OSX none of this applies because it's all BSD underneath? Or is OSX different again to just running BSD out of the box?
728.
by urthor 5y ago
Appropriate retention based raises actually require a huge quantity of finesse and genuine ability from line managers and HR. Even if a company is willing to do so in in good faith , a rarity, a "market price" raise consumes an e
729.
by urthor 5y ago
I still think we are at the dawn of widespread adoption of remote work. I fully expect the pendulum to swing the other way from favoring intra-US remote work like it is now. Highly competent developers phoning it in from Peru, totally unl
730.
by urthor 5y ago
How do you encourage that work ethic though? Just compliment it, or is there another trick to it.
731.
by urthor 5y ago
The same can be said for all sorts of minorities. The lack of participation in science is totally driven by psychological insecurities around high achievement.
732.
by urthor 5y ago
We do now though? A large chunk of the industry is obsessed with doing binary tree traversals for paycheques.
733.
by urthor 5y ago
People forget that this was 2006. CUDA was not invented yet . And arguably didn't take off until Alexnet. NVIDIA had not even released the API for writing vectorised C code yet. Hence all those 2007 supercomputer stories. They actu
734.
by urthor 5y ago
Monorepos don't make it harder. Everything in software is about dependencies, and monorepos are playing double or nothing with dependencies. The issue with Monorepos is that they can amplify bad decisions and tech debt. Any bad decisi
735.
by urthor 5y ago
It's very difficult to justify the purchase because ultimately I've switched to thin client for serious development long ago. I guess I'll use the unrivaled performance per watt to drive Jetbrains.
736.
by urthor 5y ago
I think there's a lot I agree with there. But I will say, the aluminium body is genius in terms of form and function. That's not an aesthetic compromise, it's the right thing.
737.
by urthor 5y ago
The problem is that the UMC status signalling game is heavily correlated with success in the real world. Especially in law, where the status signalling game is a prerequisite in a very serious sense for doing the job, attracting wealthy cli
738.
by urthor 5y ago
The problem is that if nobody talks up, the world doesn't become a better place. The "like we did in the old days" way of doing stuff, you watch on Mad Men, was pretty unkind to a lot of different folks.
739.
by urthor 5y ago
Yeah absolutely. How can this be a bust time when the oil prices are so high?
740.
by urthor 5y ago
The best definition of simple I've found is "one that takes the least cognitive load to use/comprehend." With programming it's actually hugely complicated, because are you trying to lower the mental effort to read,
741.
by urthor 5y ago
I am a big fan of showing two languages at the start. Statically typed Java/something so that the idea of data types is ingrained. Then rapidly switching to Python after the first lesson. A real problem I've seen (and had) wit
742.
by urthor 5y ago
Just run the whole codebase through OpenAI Codex, then regenerate the source code. Can't copyright an inferred artifact ;)
743.
by urthor 5y ago
Idk, I'm just thinking about it as a theater kid. Ignoring random fire alarms and watching the actors on stage is kind of natural to me, it wouldn't bother me watching Buffy.
744.
by urthor 5y ago
I think it's also that we've solved many of the tech problems that can be solved by a single, genius savant. These days it's more "cross functional teams." When problems are solved by three or more people working t
745.
by urthor 5y ago
That's brilliant. That's the way it should be done.
746.
by urthor 5y ago
Vivaldi it is?
747.
by urthor 5y ago
Keep in mind that the system is also slightly different overseas. In many non-European, non American countries, a PhD is three years after your undergraduate (with honors year, 4 year undergraduate instead of the normal three). Very differe
748.
by urthor 5y ago
We cannot solve every problem right away. But constantly improving, in many small ways, and chipping away at issues is how we make the world a better place. Certainly I think phasing out ICEs, especially on public roads, is essential. The F
749.
by urthor 5y ago
The greatest thing a partner can give you is encouragement and motivation in your daily tasks and challenges. We form partnerships and relationships not to have our counter-parties do the work for us, but so that we can discuss, share,conso
750.
by urthor 5y ago
On paper it's a fantastic product strategy. The question becomes, how is the UX, and how is Paypal's effort to drive daily active users to its brand new platform as a service.

More ›