justin_vanw

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by justin_vanw 8y ago
I said concurrent execution . When being pedantic it is important to read carefully. Being super careful about 'parallel' and 'concurrent' is super, super pedantic and pointless. They are synonyms. If two things are
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
I think most CPython folks are quite annoyed by the lack of concurrent execution! The GIL sucks. If you ever ask Racket-lang folks about threads they will lecture you about concurrency vs parallelism endlessly, it's like a mantra they
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
A distinction isn't necessarily useful.
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
You have been in the industry for around 40 years and you have no personal network you can call on for referrals? You are obviously leaving out critical parts of your story.
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
What is the negative consequence of breaking the site for an hour? Is it "some people are a little annoyed", "nobody notices", or "customers start calling and are very upset" or even "customers file lawsui
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
I guess it depends on your base, but if their revenue is about $100MM/yr (which I highly doubt, companies love to outright lie, but lets be optimistic) then it's still only about $200k/employee, and their employee costs are l
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
So Evernote spent that much and they didn't even make any furniture, so their wood costs were very very low. Zero even. They still spent that much money?
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
> This is something that can't realistically happen for a furniture plant. You can't pile up furniture up to the sky without paying your wood suppliers. Have you ever seen $300MM worth of wood? I specifically said the owner ha
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
> I MEAN IF NO ONE IS MANAGING THE DEVELOPERS, NOTHING WILL GET DONE. What they don't realize is that if you put nontechnical people in charge of programmers, nothing will get done.
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
I don't think it is a problem with the VC model at all. Evernote has taken more than $300MM in funding. Nobody put a gun to their head and made them take that money. The people who run Evernote decided to go in and tell investors th
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
> The rest of your post fails to substantiate this claim. Re-reading what you posted I have to agree with this. >Unsurprisingly, this is not a big problem for economic systems that do not reward profit-making. There are few examples o
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
So this is basically OSX but take away 30 years of human-computer interaction learnings and UI improvements.
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
"Capitalism" is totally orthogonal to this, any alternative to capitalism requires the use of force to confiscate carrots from one person to give carrots to someone else, by definition (replace carrots with whatever you grow on yo
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
"there is no value in media" So much this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message What is reported is decided based entirely on what will hold the most attention for the advertisements. If m
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by justin_vanw 8y ago
"Entry Level" is a euphemism. It doesn't mean "No experience" it means "Not very good so has to work cheap, but can do basic tasks with lots of supervision."
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
With this contraption you'll be nearly as efficient as out of the box Emacs!
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
>>GG Flip is a Golang library which generates the Javascript sign flip library. I preferred Go because lack of generics seemed like a good design choice. God help us if this isn't satire.
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
I certainly never said either of those things, but this is a great example of why I removed the comments. If some wondering about a hypothetical future dystopia offend you this much it tells me that the thought police might come after me,
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
I'm removing my comments since apparently engaging in a thought experiment makes me an inhuman monster. I don't have a CS degree and I'm fairly well versed in philosophy. I suggest you take a closer look at your assumptions,
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
I didn't advocate neutering the poor, and I strongly disagree with your suggestion that we murder rich people and take their stuff.
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
> Intelligence isn't as strong a determinant as you claim, in either direction. Your claim is incorrect. http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intellige... EDIT: over the course of one ge
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
This is just 'ancient astronaut' nonsense. If you gave modern people some incentive to move big stones around without heavy machinery they would figure out how to do it in a couple of months. It's just not hard to do, and p
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
Standards don't matter, interoperability and openness are what matter. Standards are a means to that, but it's perfectly ok for one vendor to add features and do experiments, that is how progress is made, deviation/extension
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
Was this title generated by a markov model of other HN titles?
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
Well I guess I'll wait another 14 years before I comment again. I'm sure you'll all still be here pretending this is a real thing.
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
Filing a patent takes about 2 months, they've been on this nonsense for 4 years or so. Edit: 14 years...
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by justin_vanw 9y ago
Why are we talking about this forever? Can't someone just make one of these, demonstrate that they don't work well in practice, and then we can stop wasting time on it?

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