verytrivial

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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   Everything in this comment rings true from my experience (ex-science-software engineer, current equity derivative financial engineer at an investment bank, pining for the start-up fjords).
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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   Hardly. If the article was title "Captivating 4k images of cites at night" it wouldn't have garnered any HN traction. The implication here was that either 4k or the image stabilisation was note-worthy from a technological point of view. 4
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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   4K camera + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wescam ? Very pretty, but I am not seeing innovation here.
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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   What about programs that write programs that divide by zero?
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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   > RAM is now fantastically cheap. Sure, but IMO it is the height of hubris to assume that your application's space-time-trade off to gain a few ms here or there is vastly more important that every OTHER application I am trying to run. P
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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   I wonder if the Todd family have transcripts of the Skype calls where Shane aired his concerns regarding the demands being made of him, and what he was planning to do about it went back State-side -- I venture that the Chinese government do
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   by verytrivial 14y ago

   I recall an older release of Skype used the penultimate scene from Orwell's 1984 (where the protagonist finally gives in) as sample text used to preview font preferences. At the time I saw this as a rather clear signal.