xigency

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by xigency 9y ago
Well, SnapChat is six years old and Slack is four years old. And SnapChat has only been losing steam lately, as I can tell. So give it another two years before making a judgement.
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by xigency 9y ago
Couldn't Slack be more easily replicated by these companies? At least SnapChat has a creative element to it.
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by xigency 9y ago
> Your future salary expectations likely have a basis in your current salary. Not necessarily true. My future salary expectations (or _needs_) may have to do with a previous salary, my cost of living, my recent experience or education, o
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by xigency 9y ago
I disagree with your numbers. I don't think impoverished Americans fall in the top 1% globally in terms of wealth.
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by xigency 9y ago
That memory allocation comment does seem like the wrong way to be doing things in JavaScript.
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by xigency 9y ago
Now to learn to type with a keyboard... or game I suppose.
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by xigency 9y ago
This seems like a successor to the Google Pixel [1] whose name was eclipsed by the Google Pixel smartphone. [1] See here: https://www.amazon.com/Google-Chromebook-Laptop-Screen-Proce...
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by xigency 9y ago
Doubtful. Did you see the graphic in the article which shows Apple's margins on an iPhone?
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by xigency 9y ago
Isn't that an even better reason to freeze your credit reports, given that Equifax was hacked and they are providing knowledge-based authentication for the USPS and who knows what other services.
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by xigency 9y ago
Building the Sears Tower was a bad idea. It ended up being a waste of money. Reading those articles it's clear that they were hemorrhaging money in 1990, compared to being profitable 20 years earlier.
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by xigency 9y ago
I've read this point in a few places as well, but it doesn't really explain why they closed the catalog. Here I found an article from 1993 describing the move: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/busin
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by xigency 9y ago
Not sure that it works like that in the solitary confinement of a French prison.
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by xigency 9y ago
I'm currently taking an OMS CS course in High Performance Computer Architecture and recently completed the branch prediction lesson. It is a free course on Udacity. Here's the source: https://www.udacity.com/course
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by xigency 9y ago
See this also for a case against CMOV predicates: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html
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by xigency 9y ago
Modern processors have at least a dozen pipeline stages. In this case, every other instruction is a branch and they are completely unpredictable so it's possible to see a 12.0 x 0.50 x 0.50 or 3x slowdown. If you can sort or partition
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by xigency 9y ago
Yes, especially people as a collective rather than individuals.
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by xigency 9y ago
So Chicken Scheme uses a transpiler and not a compiler? What about Nim? I don't think that's s sufficient definition when these fully capable languages call their tools that output C code "compilers." Honestly, the artic
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by xigency 9y ago
I thought of this too, but it might be a bit more taxing on an old CPU to do excess multiplication than a simple XOR and test.
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by xigency 9y ago
Why? Are you making a website or creating an app.
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by xigency 9y ago
Yeah, I still think that's transparently BS. His source there is another opinion piece. That said, it does sound as if Google is engaged in illegal hiring practices. As someone who went to a private engineering school, formerly boys on
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by xigency 9y ago
On pages 3 and 4 he claims that these differences exist (emphasis added): - On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. ...the distribution of PREFERENCES and ABILITIES of men and women differ in part due to biological
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by xigency 9y ago
This issue is much hairier because discrimination in the work place can be criminal for companies, and employees are representatives of their employers. Whether or not he crossed the line, he was close enough that he got the axe.
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by xigency 9y ago
This article is the first I've seen on this memo and by the spread of it inside and outside the company that's what it appeared to be. I'm not trying to mischaracterize the issue. In fact, I don't have all of the informa
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by xigency 9y ago
If it were a collective issue for employees, then it should be organized outside of work without using any company resources. There an upset employee could vent and strategize for change in a non-destructive way, and find support from his p
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by xigency 9y ago
I think it's a fatal mistake to underestimate the amount of discretion an employer has over its employees' behavior. In general, employment is at-will and relationships can end over personal differences. One reason it might be s
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by xigency 9y ago
Not to be the "prodigy" kid, but I began game programming at 10 years old because I wanted to know how games worked. I tried to buy a Visual Basic 5 book from Borders before my parents gave me "Beginning Programming for Dummi
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by xigency 9y ago
My son is two years old and he knows he needs to wear shoes to go outside. I think you're a little off the mark.
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by xigency 9y ago
I'm working on porting the language VM to asynchronous JavaScript. The language that I'm using is one that I've shared with HN before, although I've made major changes and added some nice features. Here is the Duck sourc
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by xigency 9y ago
I have a halfway decent solution to this problem. Currently, I'm working on a web-based game development language. Essentially, I would like to create a simple programming language, like BASIC, Lua, or others, and provide built-in libr
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by xigency 9y ago
Sublime charges a fair penny for what is a text editor and many KVMs are steeply priced as well. For the cost of the Adobe products you could buy multiple operating systems or whole workstations. In general, I'd say developers have qui

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