Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I agree -- becoming too attached to existing tools is a major drag industry-wide. Even if it's well-designed in the beginning, which from what I've seen is extremely rare, it tends to devolve into a mess given enough time. To get maximal va
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If this were another TransMeta, I'd agree, but the situation is quite different, because Intel is very early in their learning curve on graphics, and nVidia is quite far along in their learning curve on graphics and high-performance computi
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I don't think that's accurate. The instruction decoders on x86 processors consume a lot of silicon. x86's instruction retirement also imposes additional overhead due to book-keeping on the scheduler. Eliminating the x87 stack-based FPU is b
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That depends on the market, I think. AFAIK most of the dissatisfaction with Atom is due to its power consumption rather than its performance, so an ARM with comparable computing power and lower power consumption would be quite satisfactory
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
No, he isn't. Tools need to be a high priority, or else they end up being crap. Amazon, Disney, Northrup Grumman, SAIC... all of the big companies I've worked for had the same problem: their tools were terrible. At most of them it just mean
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
My experience at amazon would fail the Joel Spolsky test: Do you use source control? yes Can you make a build in one step? almost Do you make daily builds? I think so Do you have a bug database? yes Do you fix bugs before writing n
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Could it be that once you reach a certain level of size in any organization bureaucracy and complexity turns up?" I would tend to agree with that, although I've seen startups run by bad managers install a pointlessly complex hierarchy for
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
One must take under consideration the definition of "smart" first. I had a co-worker who had memorized a raftload of facts without actually understanding many of them. She frequently mis-diagnosed problems with customer computers because al
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
While I agree your sentiment that degrees and IQ have next to nothing to do with whether or not someone is actually smart, have a look at current culture and at corporate america. At amazon, everyone was obsessed with how "smart" amazon emp
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
No matter how you slice it, they're selling you something that they already sold to someone else.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
IMO this is actually a problem. We're so used to being treated like crap that we take it for granted and accept it. If you have six widget, and you sell seven, you have to give the 7th a refund, otherwise it's fraud. When an airline has s
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Almost every flight during peak travel periods is oversold, which means that the airlines are selling more seats than they have (which sounds like fraud, since if you end up in an oversold flight and no one cancels, they ask the PASSENGERS
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I have to call BS on that. He bought the tickets, so how does not using them make him no longer a customer? If they gave him a refund (ha!), then yes... otherwise, no.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Yep -- I worked for a (crappy and hopefully defunct) company that used it.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It is still true. Google is an exception, it's certainly not the rule.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
He'd have a lot more luck with a portfolio than without. You don't really have any sort of a shot at getting hired for most creative jobs without a portfolio.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Though I agree about the solid part, I think MS bought rather than made Xenix.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Note the "probable cause" part. The TSA doesn't have probably cause for most of its harassment, and there is definitely no probable cause to justify molesting children whose parents don't want them irradiated.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It doesn't even need tapered ends, as long as it's sturdy. Heck, a well-trained person's hands can be quite deadly to someone not wearing armor... and if you know what you're doing, armor won't stop you from ripping someone's arm apart and
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
X-Ray technicians also hide behind lead-lined walls, so when they're irradiating you they're doing so while protected. The TSA screeners are just standing next to the machines and are probably getting pretty much the same dose that their pa
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The right type of wood can also make for quite an effective weapon, especially in the right hands.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
* If everyone going through an airport fully believed that these checks are an efficient way to ensure our safety in the air, far less people would have a problem.* Given that the facts say otherwise, I suspect that this is going to end up
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The doctor has to convince the patient that the test is necessary. The TSA agent can ignore any evidence of the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of patdowns and doesn't need to obtain your consent. And that's the critical difference here.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Hurting someone hurts yourself", bullshit. Revenge is sweet. Revenge has nothing to do with self-defense.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Why is this behavior (bullying) tolerated in school? My theory is denial. Parents of bullies don't want to admit that their kids are doing wrong, and the parents of victims don't want to face the fact that they need to get involved. That
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
We live in a civilized society, where intelligence can triumph over brute strength. Are you sure about that? I'm not at all convinced -- especially in the US.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
My kids when I have them will be in the dojo quite early in life... by the time they're in school they'll be well-trained both with the skills to defend themselves, and the ethics: self-defense is the right thing to do and bullying is never
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Dropping the mac line doesn't necessarily equate to terminating OSX.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I'm actually a little surprised that they took this long to make the decision to kill off the XServe. Back during the G5 crash-and-burn they stopped publishing separate XServe sales data, merging it into a collective "G5" sales bin, presuma
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
More to the point, it's the government engaging in pornography, illegal search, and sexual assault combined with radiation overdoses in the name of FALSE security. We already know that they don't work, and they don't even pretend to address

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