ianderf

6 ms·

1.
by ianderf 10y ago
> There was a great article back then too about why Apple and Dell weren't going all in on AMD chips Because Intel paid them to not use AMD chips. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-wit...
2.
by ianderf 10y ago
> just over a week into the Trump Administration. It actually started long time before Trump. http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/3363/laptop-search...
3.
by ianderf 10y ago
Nobody has mentioned the "Scroogled" short story yet? I really hope this is not the future that expects us. http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html
4.
by ianderf 10y ago
That's an interesting twist. So my job that requires knowledge and brainwork gets fully automated, but mechanical-turk-type work somehow is not?
5.
by ianderf 10y ago
You life in the Middle Ages definitely would have been way much better. /s
6.
by ianderf 10y ago
> The difference is that your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the total take home pay, because of high, compulsory labor taxes. In exchange, employees get as standard So, France could be great to be an employee
7.
by ianderf 10y ago
> I'm wondering why people focus on financial compensation so much? I think that it's unjust when people are paid crazy money for doing poor job. As well as when people are paid little money for good job.
8.
by ianderf 10y ago
Even several different peer review systems would be much better than Elsevier.
9.
by ianderf 10y ago
> Good journals, in theory, are more selective about what they publish, so the assumption is that if you have publications in a good one you must have done more groundbreaking research. I wonder why nobody created a single peer-reviewed
10.
by ianderf 10y ago
"Apple is not even in the same spyware league as Google." - Why? Seriously asking.
11.
by ianderf 10y ago
Even if you know that, you don't really have an option to stop it. You can buy a smartphone with either Android or iOS - and both are spying on the user heavily.
12.
by ianderf 10y ago
That's not mine. You wrote about Fiji and Pascal, but AFAIK they have nothing to do with FPGA.
13.
by ianderf 10y ago
HBM != FPGA
14.
by ianderf 10y ago
This can be a real breakthrough in computing technology. Just in time, as the improvement of desktop and server CPUs has stalled almost completely.
15.
by ianderf 10y ago
> getting the bug reports into a more relevant and manageable state What means that somebody got them into the unmanageable state, in the first place.
16.
by ianderf 10y ago
No, it's a totally wrong apporach. It's your work that you are paid for, and nobody is ought to make your work for free.
17.
by ianderf 10y ago
> time required to setup, reproduce, investigate, fix and test against that and other versions And that's not the case again. I already provided all information to reproduce that bug easily. PS "bugs", actually. They&#x27
18.
by ianderf 10y ago
> it works completely different in version N+1 that you should have upgraded to years ago, and btw, we're actually on N+3 now, so we are not going to fix old That's not the case. The bugreport that they closed is still actual
19.
Microsoft is closing all old bug reports they couldn't fix
29 points by ianderf 10y ago|22 comments
20.
by ianderf 10y ago
Well, I think that it's not some arcane knowledge that nobody but enlightened can understand. Anyway, it's better to collect some information before talking to them. Singapore looks like a good location wrt taxes and ease of doing
21.
Ask HN: What are possible drawbacks of using a company in Singapore?
6 points by ianderf 10y ago|2 comments