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by xchaotic 9y ago
The weird part is that even with higher salary, I wouldn't recommend people to go on h1b. Job flexibility, healthcare, work/life balance all sacrificed in the name of workin in America!
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by xchaotic 9y ago
" The vast majority of humanity as a whole is just not capable of sitting down and chewing through a deep learning textbook or anything of the sort." they don't currently, and probably we don't need millions of data scie
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by xchaotic 9y ago
This is very much like sports - very few make it to the top, and it's kind of subsidised by the ones coming up or just idly watching. Unlike actual sport, the disciplines here change rapidly, in spite of Blizzard's best efforts, W
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Fortunately I am tax resident in a country where I will pay taxes on my stock (options) no sooner (actually up to a year later) than when I make money off them with a simple CGT tax. Taxing options before they are exercised and before peopl
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by xchaotic 9y ago
spectacular failure
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by xchaotic 9y ago
By design, Bitcoin is scarce - there will only be 20999999.9769 bitcoins ever made. Contrast that with USD where more and more money is being printed or added to the system via: quantative easing increasing federal debt ceiling So that is o
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by xchaotic 9y ago
More generally why is this not $3. Can we get a Kickstarter for this please?
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by xchaotic 9y ago
You mean on six pages? ;)
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by xchaotic 9y ago
The biggest flaw in working for all those mega corps, is that despite their size, they still haven't fully embraced remote work. Yes there are island, but Amazon are still looking for that "2nd city" to locate in. Some peopl
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by xchaotic 9y ago
While this study is looking at lung cancer specifically, it's worth highlighting how much vitamin B6, b12 and other B-family are you getting via energy drinks. I'm currently hooled on Red Bull sugar free and I believe that long te
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by xchaotic 9y ago
If the earnings bump is really driven by the Threadripper CPUs, then earnings mean very little as AMD cost are much higher due to much larger die and lower yields. For every $100 worth of CPU sold, Intel is making orders of magnitude more p
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Yeah, you're missing the US tax code, which means that if there were trying to withdraw or reinvest the profits from overseas, they becompe taxable at corporate tax rate. Much cheaper to borrow more money by issuing bonds etc.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Byzantine Paxos ;) It does make me wonder how much failure do we design to tolerate. Many modern systems are designed for five nines availability - 99.999% of the time. A partition like the one described here is rather unlikely and having
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Marklogic has a much better design when it comes to durability of writes and ACID in general. Disclosure: I work for Marklogic.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Hmm, I work for a competing nosql company and the good news about the IPO is: It should raise the visibility of all database products, not just Mongo. The second part is that IPO for a database company is viable in this climate. Some of th
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by xchaotic 9y ago
It doesn't log passwords using EnableSecureEventInput. There are probably other use cases, but Apple seems to have implemented things rather well here.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Why is it called an urban legend, it seems to accurately depict how NNs work.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
It was great to read that, after reading the excellent Hyperion cantos by Dan Simmons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Not exactly a startup, but I had well oiled Ltd running for 10 years in London. I shut it down and I am running my business via another European country. Clients are a mix of US, UK and EU projects.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
In the end if don't want to hire you, they won't. Now, rather than being brutally honest, they invent ways around it.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Or they could simply embrace work from home. No matter what city they choose, I won't work for them.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
I'm not too convinced by this trend of hiding complexity - in this case we should expose the complexity and KISS instead? What good is an immutable/hermetic build going to do if it's broken and you don't know here or how
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by xchaotic 9y ago
I quite like how it explains basics physics mechanics of heat expansion and contraction - i.e. you expand the piston in hot water and you don't have to use a hammer to take out the pin...
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Even if this story was true, neither solution is good as they still have wasted, empty boxes. The solution would be to figure out how the empty ones are produced and fix that (root cause analysis) The scale would be part of the solution to
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by xchaotic 9y ago
I'm running VMs in a LAB and I need multples of 6 virtual machines so these high core count CPUs are exactly what I'm after and I don't mind the occasional bit flip as it's for testing only, not production. But I agree s
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by xchaotic 9y ago
it's not even that, but in the OEM and server market, there's more than delivering 90% of perforamnce for 50% of the price - there's reliability, driver support and all other costs which means that a higher Intel CPU price mi
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by xchaotic 9y ago
an "IoT device" is still a computer, why does it need a new language? So I did RTFM and got to this part: "There is always a possibility that something were to go wrong with the program as it is sent to the device. For examp
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by xchaotic 9y ago
"conveniently typed and namespaced semi-structured data in the end" - I don't think that thing will be much more simple than XML - it needs to cover Unicode, data types, namespaces, modularity and you end up with XML-level of
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Then there's the 0 model for sharding - don't shard, just replicate everything, everywhere, with eventual consistency and MVCC
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by xchaotic 9y ago
DHH from 37signals / basecamp agrees with that. I just wonder what happens when there is enough flexible companies offering similar terms. I guess it's back to square one then?

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