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Will Apple Pull a SpaceX?(hitesh.in)
4 points by antrix 3mo ago|3 comments
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by antrix 3mo ago
The companies building giant AI compute for themselves have started renting it out: SpaceX leased all of Colossus to Anthropic, and Meta says a cloud business is on the table. Apple is about to have the most efficient, most private inferenc
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by antrix 5y ago
From the article, it seems the information was flowing _from_ the reporter: > The feds allege that Peltz used disposable “burner” phones and encrypted apps to communicate with a journalist, and that the reporter provided “material nonpub
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by antrix 9y ago
They have a point though, testing patterns are absolutely a real world concern.
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by antrix 10y ago
I've written a Python for Java programmers book - http://antrix.net/py4java
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by antrix 10y ago
I've worked in finance technology for eight years now, in various domains. As a broad generalization, if you are latency bound (milliseconds or less) then everything is done in code and the DB is never in the main loop. At the other en
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by antrix 11y ago
> And those guys hardly ever ship any code due to how encumbered developers typically are in those places and release maybe once every 6 months to a year perhaps. I've worked in places where some teams ship with this three or six mo
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by antrix 11y ago
"Compulsory time off" is actually required by law in some regulated industries such as finance.
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Show HN: Python for the busy Java Developer(antrix.net)
4 points by antrix 11y ago|0 comments
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by antrix 11y ago
On a lighter note, Conference Driven Development: http://devdriven.by/conference/
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by antrix 12y ago
If I understand correctly, the gitbook toolchain isn't freely available. Nor does gitbook address any of the limitations of Markdown that prompted me to switch to Asciidoc.
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by antrix 12y ago
I wrote a short book recently [1] and went through a similar process. Started writing using Markdown & Pandoc but soon realized that Markdown isn't a very good fit for longer technical documents. As an example, support for asides a
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by antrix 12y ago
Java's pluggable type system can do this. The Checker framework provides a Units checker that can be plugged into the compile stage. See this blog for more info: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01&#x2F
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by antrix 12y ago
This looks like a great idea! Some feedback: for a site named 'solr start', I was hoping the first thing I see would be something named 'start here' which explains what solr is, what to use it for, how to get started, et
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by antrix 12y ago
As a start, I recommend reading "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests". I am still not a 100% convert but I did get many of the same questions answered. http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-So
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by antrix 12y ago
I've been working on a fun side project that takes a light-hearted dig at all the _[] driven development_ processes that our field comes up with. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png Link: http://devdr
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by antrix 13y ago
> and you're capped at $1 per year per user Why would that be the case? There are always other revenue streams to be explored using the same user base.
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by antrix 13y ago
It was deemed too expensive for Singapore as well, until public outcry against deaths changed things. Some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_on_the_Mass_Rapid_Transi...
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by antrix 13y ago
Hi HN Folks. A bit of background on how the site came to be: http://antrix.net/posts/2013/xdd/ I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the site!
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Show HN: [x] driven development(devdriven.by)
3 points by antrix 13y ago|1 comments
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by antrix 13y ago
Why doesn't Pinboard get any love in any of these icon fonts? If they did, I'd switch from images to fonts for my personal site.
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by antrix 13y ago
> Lastly, I haven't tried it, but I suspect replacing the Android Launcher would also let you do it. This is the method Facebook used for putting their talking heads in every app. The talking heads overlay doesn't require repla
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by antrix 13y ago
I use a neat little utility called Puretext for this. http://stevemiller.net/puretext/
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by antrix 13y ago
> err, isn't Front-running knowing what your customers are going to do as a trade and getting in first HFTs don't have customers. They are trading on their own books.
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by antrix 13y ago
The headline made me think Android 4.3's fstrim feature (defragging flash storage) is delivered via Play too!
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by antrix 13y ago
Yep. I was just calling out the inconsistency - no judgement on Yahoo or Betabeat's employees!
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by antrix 13y ago
Curious to know, other than SQL, are there any other examples of successful technologies that achieve this intentional, goal-driven programming?
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by antrix 13y ago
> They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor. By the same logic, Yahoo employees shouldn't be ashamed either; they were just doing what management asked them to do!
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by antrix 13y ago
> When the ESA had a computing system .. That sounds interesting. Any link?
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by antrix 13y ago
So I randomly set the ID in the URL to http://btsnc.at/11 and got a secret: RXSYSTTQYRSRY4PU7DMW32GUVXOBHI4GX Is that a valid secret.. I don't know. But if it is.. then not much of a secret if I can get one by just guessing btsnc.at URLs!

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