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by orib 2y ago
Clipp | Sr Back-end Tech Lead | NYC | https://getclipp.com Clipp’s vision is to digitize the food supply chain, starting with the $325 billion U.S. food ingredient distribution industry. We’re seeking a Tech Lead with a strong f
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by orib 8y ago
Great insights about improving the rust compiler performance! What else would you do to speed it up?
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by orib 11y ago
There's one quote that I see people refer to quite often: > William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! > Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? &gt
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by orib 18y ago
Short patent lifetimes. Long enough for you to get out and establish yourself in the market, but short enough that it wouldn't kill a competitor to wait a bit. It would also dramatically reduce the cost of licensing a patent since the waiti
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by orib 18y ago
I still think asm is essential to know. And I'm not even an old fart. Knowing assembly makes it far easier to rationalize about what my C programs are doing, how things will perform, what the machine actually does, and so on, even up into m
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by orib 18y ago
Allow any email address. I'm at mcmaster, which has a mcmaster.ca address. I don't think it's possible to match on email address to allow all schools, so just ask for the school that someone attends. If you let some non-students through, wh
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by orib 18y ago
Answer: It's far easier to talk to someone over a beer when you're in the same building as them. Or to pop up at their office unplanned with a question. Or to work on a project with team members. School isn't all about lectures, and even fo
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by orib 18y ago
Yes, I'm familiar. I was playing with double meanings ;-)
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by orib 18y ago
Minitrue? You mean Minimal Truth?
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by orib 18y ago
Then don't do web-apps. There's nothing wrong with starting doing GUI apps with PyGame or something
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by orib 18y ago
It might be a good read if it actually talked about what happened in the book. However, it didn't.
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by orib 18y ago
Does everything have to turn a profit? No. Does everything that you're trying to earn a living off of, pay bills with, and hire employees with have to turn a profit? Hell yes. If you're not going to aim at providing a return on investment,
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by orib 18y ago
As four bars wrapped in a poster, with pins (or glue) to put it together, perhaps?
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by orib 18y ago
At least on this site, it sounds like any startup would be preferred to any established company including google. Although that really does seem to be mostly the tone of this site.
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by orib 18y ago
I remember this design from my childhood. (Well, a variation of it). Dropping the tail and tearing elevators/ailerons into the back of it turns it into an awesome stunt plane, one that can do loops and so on beautifully, or can (if thrown r
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by orib 18y ago
It seems that when you're asked for a plane, you're expected to create a plane, not a wad of paper. Presumably, this was during a unit on areodynamics, and the idea was to demonstrate an understanding of areodynamics, and not to show that y
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by orib 18y ago
On Linux, left+right click emulate a middle click, at least if you only have two buttons.
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by orib 18y ago
With RSA private keys, users don't see or manipulate them directly (usually). With a private-key based security system, most users would go "Huh? what's a private key?" if you asked them to send it. With biometrics, you can't send them over
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Software Transactional Memory: Debunked(brandonwerner.com)
5 points by orib 18y ago|2 comments
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by orib 18y ago
They can and do, for the most part. iPhone knockoffs are a dime a dozen, for the most part, although Apple has design patents to keep them from looking too close to they original.
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by orib 18y ago
Or maybe they were aware of it in the good old times too, and they think it was crap then too? I have no patience for working on lame assignments, and my marks suffer, but I still have no patience for people who are in school hoping to coas
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by orib 18y ago
If you can determine an upper bound on n, then your algorithm is technically O(1), and you don't have to worry about scaling. If you want to be able to handle any value of n, and expect it to be large, you should care about O(n^2) algorithm
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by orib 18y ago
Sure, but some things (eg, surround.vim) can't be emulated with that.
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by orib 18y ago
I'm reminded of Carl Worth's effort to port the HG guide to Git. It was mostly a search-replace effort, where the concepts were more or less the same, and the commands were similar.
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by orib 18y ago
One interesting point to note it is certainly not an issue to sell the source to your program in a bundle with the binaries, allowing enterprising hackers to modify and update the software. You could even allow distribution of these changes
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by orib 18y ago
Argh! I wish there was an un-downmod button. I hate it when I accidentally miss and downmmod instead of upmod.
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by orib 18y ago
It's a less archaic way of saying "one". 'when one does X' vs 'when you do x'
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by orib 18y ago
what was your point then, if not that programmers won't need to know concurrency because it will be in black boxes that they haven't written? (Bear with me, I'm a bit dense at the moment. I haven't had much sleep the last while) I still thi
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by orib 18y ago
No, but I consider a chip maker telling me what kind of chips they're going to be making legit. Especially when all the other chip makers are saying the same thing (All the other chip makers: AMD, Freescale, Intel, Sun, Marvell, and oth
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by orib 18y ago
"Sorry, but I don't buy that. We're also moving to a thin client world where we don't actually need that much power on our thin clients." Yeah, we've heard it before, several times, from the moment that networking was invented and onwards

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