jeffbush

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by jeffbush 6y ago
(project author here) That is pretty close to the approach this project has taken, although my motivation was not so much avoiding IP as exploring the line between hardware acceleration and software.
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by jeffbush 9y ago
http://www.jasnh.com/
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by jeffbush 9y ago
This reminds me of the old Yogi Berra quip "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
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by jeffbush 10y ago
I read the book "Why Nations Fail." I found it to be poorly organized and repetitive. But the biggest problem I had with it was that it suffered from the fallacy of the single cause. The authors tried to attack every other theory
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by jeffbush 10y ago
They abandoned the atom concept for ELF & PE/COFF for the reason you described. https://llvm.cc/t/llvmdev-lld-improvement-plan/274 " The atom model is not the best model for some architectures The a
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by jeffbush 10y ago
Yeah, the title (and contents) of the story are total clickbait, but they did helpfully attach the full contents of the FOIA dump. As you point out, there is ambiguity (which is why I used a lot of qualifiers :), but seeing the internal com
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by jeffbush 10y ago
Vice published emails via FOIA that suggest he had made concerns known before leaking: https://news.vice.com/story/exclusive-snowden-tried-to-tell-... This suggests it is at least a little bit true
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by jeffbush 10y ago
"Appearing to genuinely care" is different than being empathetic. The former implies the person doesn't really care, the latter is by definition concern for another person. My comment on HR people caring was a more general st
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by jeffbush 10y ago
This seems negligent on the part of HR (as well as genuinely awful). In California, all managers are required by law to take three hours of sexual harassment training every other year. One thing that stood out to me is that there is no need
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by jeffbush 10y ago
One thing that I think is important, and I've struggled with, is making 'fault' be a synonym for 'control'. There's this broken thought pattern where any perceived failure is either: 1. My fault (I failed) 2. O
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by jeffbush 10y ago
"And you still manage to prove that your system is 100x more reliable than human driver." That's the rub: how do you prove that? If your software stack is 30 million lines of code that was written by god knows who, I would ar
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by jeffbush 10y ago
I think for many people nowadays, privacy is a quaint, antiquated notion, like Victorian modesty. Things like social media and YouTube have encouraged people to make their lives public, so having the government gather data seems fairly mino
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by jeffbush 10y ago
Increasing H1Bs certainly isn't Trump's stated position. While he hasn't mentioned it directly, he had Disney workers who were replaced by H1B workers speak at a rally: http://www.computerworld.com/article&#x2
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by jeffbush 10y ago
The middle managers are given directions by the CEO. The CEO needs to meet profit targets, or she'll be fired by the board. The board is beholden to the shareholders. There's always someone to pass blame to. When you go to work, y
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by jeffbush 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_agency
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by jeffbush 10y ago
There are lots of offices above the retail spaces on University Ave in Palo Alto, and have been plenty of small companies there for decades. I don't think people were upset about that. I suspect impetus for this ban is Palentir. More e
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by jeffbush 10y ago
Do you think lisp being a bit of a niche specialization makes it easier or harder to find people for your roles?
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by jeffbush 10y ago
A while back, as spent 3 months sourcing my own candidates as an engineering manager and it was enlightening. I spent a while on each candidate, finding their github repo, personal webpages, and the roles they had held, then wrote a persona
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by jeffbush 10y ago
"The only problem is that electric cars won't do anything directly to mitigate global warming, because they will still be powered largely by fossil fuel." But electrical generation is more efficient than an internal combustio
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by jeffbush 10y ago
hopefully! :)
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by jeffbush 10y ago
My electric bill went up by about $80 the first month I got my electric car. Computing the cost is a bit tricky because I have tiered billing and I'm hitting the next higher tier since I got the car. My electric company (PG&E) does
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by jeffbush 10y ago
I've had a Leaf for going on a year now and one thing I love about it is that I never need to worry about the inconvenience of stopping at a gas station. :) But I'm with you that I don't really see the point of public chargin
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by jeffbush 10y ago
"decided he wanted to implement a rasterizer (I'd gotten my fill)" I see what you did there. :)
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by jeffbush 10y ago
I'm trying to be charitable in my interpretation, but "always" is a strong word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Rakyat http://gizmodo.com/the-sad-fate-of-the-worlds-six-tallest-un...
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by jeffbush 10y ago
"I mean, have you ever heard of a building project going 3x over budget and then not actually delivering a building at all?" Construction projects go over budget and are late all the time. Remember the big dig? https:/&#x2
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by jeffbush 10y ago
Sure enough :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ojb2x2R28&feature=youtu.be
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by jeffbush 10y ago
Yeah, in the article he said the hospital was near the freeway exit and he drove manually the rest of the way, which kinda makes the story a bit less dramatic.
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by jeffbush 10y ago
How would it know to do that? I assume if he had passed out it would have just continued driving on the highway until it ran out of battery, right?
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by jeffbush 10y ago
The lightning port is fairly shallow and the pins are flush with the perimeter. I've found it pretty easy to clean out in my experience.
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by jeffbush 10y ago
It's mainly a problem with phone calls: user is on a call, decides to unplug headset, call ends (if you didn't have delay). An edge case, to be sure.

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