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by marcusf 2mo ago
Random, horrendous and indiscriminate killing! [/joke]
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by marcusf 7mo ago
Egan is always dense. It's some mind bending physics/comp sci, but all cooked up in his brain so doesn't really apply to anything productive. I struggled with his books and his writing but toughened it out because I liked the
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by marcusf 1y ago
man, a comment that brings back memories. you and me both.
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by marcusf 3y ago
An extremely layman answer is that most interesting innovation in parsing in relatively modern times has happened seems to be in the context of IDE's. I.e. incremental, high-performance parsing to support syntax highlighting, refactori
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by marcusf 4y ago
Parameters and training corpus size matter. Last year a new paper (Google "Chinchilla optimality") focused on compute-optimal LLMs found that we'd been under-training models -- i.e. you could wring more performance out of sma
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by marcusf 4y ago
Eric, want to echo what folks are saying here. I stumbled on your blog in high school (ca 2003?) and you (and Raymond Chen) fueled so much of my passion for compilers and API design respectively, which dictated both my school choice and at
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by marcusf 6y ago
Exciting
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by marcusf 8y ago
Huge difference between a brand likey Disney able to pull off a streaming service and smaller producers. Smaller producers need demand, and for video demand = youtube.
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by marcusf 11y ago
Happily we announced Chromecast support today: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/spotify-might-best-new-thing-ne... . Hope you like it!
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by marcusf 12y ago
Caveat that I might be completely off, but if, say, 10 bn people tried once a nanosecond since the inception of the universe, you'd still have only 10^10 * 2^86 ≈ 2^33 * 2^86 = 2^119 attempts, that still only cover's 2^-9 (i.e. 1&
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by marcusf 12y ago
I think it's a mistake to compare Le Corbusier-style "areas for living" with modern urbanised zones. The big issue there is that – sure – there's highrises, but no urbanisation. Usually because they are either lacking co
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by marcusf 12y ago
Not to discard your comment, but wrt Stockholm: Build higher! Urbanize areas outside of the core inner city. Lots to do in planning and building to not create artificial social policy.
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by marcusf 12y ago
Great to hear. And yeah, Henrik is teaching wizard. I'm sure he'll be happy to hear though :-)
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by marcusf 12y ago
Hey! Thanks for the long question. I'll pass on your regards to Henrik :-) > From what I understand, Spotify squads each focus on one area and each squad has very different members so it can stay autonomous. Is that right? What happ
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by marcusf 12y ago
Sometimes. But as a general principle, we ship on quality, not time.
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by marcusf 12y ago
That's a good question. I think about it as a way to distinguish from e.g. departments, projects etc and set the connotation that these are different things. If you use them to mean a 1:1 mapping to e.g. projects, then it falls apart.
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by marcusf 12y ago
Cool to hear our model is getting adopted. A big difference here is that chapters at Spotify aren't departments, they are usually fairly small (5-10 people), and that squads are long lived, rather than project focused.
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by marcusf 12y ago
Sorry for late answers here but thanks for asking questions! > How does accountability work at Spotify? It looks like your squads have a specific goal (and maybe a leader?) but when you get up to the tribe level it wasn't clear if o
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by marcusf 12y ago
I'm subjective, but I think Spotify uses slightly innovative ways of organising. See: * https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-cult... * https://labs.spotify.com/2014&#x2
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by marcusf 12y ago
Can't disagree with GDrive being awesome. However, I was responding to the parent's suggestion that the parent's parent's quote was negated by e.g. GDrive. With less double negatives: File syncing has actually turned out
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by marcusf 12y ago
Dropbox?
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by marcusf 12y ago
I like the Henrik Kniberg definition of culture, 'culture is the stuff people do without thinking about it'. E.g. you could codify most things as processes (which is basically the entire point of things like value stream maps), bu
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by marcusf 12y ago
What I took offence to was comparing Europe as a whole to America. It doesn't necessarily make sense given the different make-up of the continents. I have to volt-face that a bit though in that I was a bit surprised at both unemploymen
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by marcusf 12y ago
> There's not much point comparing working conditions between Europe and the US when one of these places has widespread unemployment and there is literally rioting on the streets, as was the case not very long ago. Which continent a
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by marcusf 13y ago
Stockholm, Sweden, has a fairly unregulated taxi market in that pricing is set independently. This causes massive issues, specifically for tourists who have no idea what to pick. They end up paying $500 USD to go from the airport to town, a
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by marcusf 13y ago
Hey ho! That ending was unnecessarily rude. I don't think he planned his post as a personal attack on you or your values, so I don't think the hostility is necessary. For some people it's easier than for others. I work with a
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by marcusf 13y ago
> In the Balkans, you have rich gypsies throwing money on women at their weddings and carrying more bling on them than you will ever have in your lifetime. From my understanding, the throwing of money during a wedding is a tradition in s
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by marcusf 13y ago
So the pragmatists question is then naturally, how do you teach it? How do you shard the curriculum if not by subject? It seems a bit overbearing to ask each teacher to have the proper renaissance man's education of knowing a bit of ev
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by marcusf 13y ago
Contrasted with a favourite from Stephen Fry: "An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
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by marcusf 13y ago
From the story, the author doesn't sound like a developer.

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