spyhi

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by spyhi 2y ago
To be fair, it’s the horsepower of a mouse, but all devoted to a single task, so not 100% comparable to the capabilities of a mouse, and language is too distributed to make a good comparison of what milestone is human-like. But it’s indeed
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by spyhi 3y ago
A senior engineer can work through a hard problem assigned to a junior engineer, resulting in a well-implemented hard feature and a less junior engineer. Just because a junior engineer is working on it doesn’t mean by default it’s an easy p
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Epic Games wants to fix the internet with its Metaverse(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by spyhi 5y ago|1 comments
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by spyhi 5y ago
Fractional opacity mixing with pure black is still not the most physically accurate shadow, because in the real world ambient light is mixed in with shadow, and also the color of the object casting shadow (and the surface the shadow is cast
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by spyhi 5y ago
I am surprised to find this comment so high up when so much of it is so categorically wrong I almost wonder if you're saying opposite things as a joke. Perhaps the most egregious is your position on black shadows being the best and phy
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by spyhi 6y ago
Not only did NASA help create and enable SpaceX, they were one of the primary early customers, with about half of SpaceX’s revenue coming from government contracts. [1] Apparently government is involved with all space entrepreneurship to so
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by spyhi 8y ago
Yeah, but the original point you were responding to was endorsing the idea that “you should invest time in optimizing/performance last, and focus on making something people want to use first.” I’m saying your point that videogames have
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by spyhi 8y ago
Yeah, but even in the old days the developers would still be prototyping. Internal stakeholders are still stakeholders, and it’s developers optimizing for things other than speed. Nintendo devs famously build nothing until Mario’s jump (the
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by spyhi 8y ago
Ehhh, I don't think your example disproves the idea you're responding to. Perhaps video games MUST deliver performance in the end , but often game prototypes are not performant at all for the sake of rapid experimentation, and ar
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by spyhi 8y ago
Sublicensing is what legally enables things like rich media link previews (the kind you see on Facebook and Twitter) or APIs to exist. Yeah, theoretically they could use that to sell content, but in practice it's generally used to make
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by spyhi 8y ago
If you think about it, it kind of makes sense. OP is in a situation where he haas much more money than time, however due to his position in the world, he can see many opportunities--generally this is true for professional investors, too. Fo
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by spyhi 8y ago
I went to school for CS, and decided to add on a BBA since I could do it basically for free. Prior to school, I was extensively read in the category of books you describe. While you're not wrong that you can get most knowledge from rea
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by spyhi 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at...are you trying to say business people are smarter than OP gives them credit for? "I very quickly realized that" <- Implying a prior assumption that was proven false "ve
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by spyhi 8y ago
> Marketing class- 2 lessons, if you are going to put years into a project, do a marketing plan. Also, learned how incredibly important marketing is. This was exactly why I chose to do a BBA alongside my CS degree. If I was gonna make so
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by spyhi 8y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what he's trying to say. He's not saying that knowing finance has anything to do with being smart--if anything, it's the opposite: Of the people he considers smart, he noticed knowledge of
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by spyhi 8y ago
Oh man, all the questions you just asked only highlight exactly why an MBA is so beneficial for mid-career people haha! I'm an adult student doing concurrent CS and business degrees after a long time dabbling in both, and in both cases
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by spyhi 8y ago
Oh hey Dr. Johnson, fancy seeing you here! Here is an example of TechFolios in the wild [1] which I built while I was in his class. https://spyhi.github.io/ (I’ve let it fall a bit out of date since the class, but this thre
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NeXT Employee Story: Steve Jobs encountered the iPhone's key features in 1994(cake.co)
5 points by spyhi 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How should business students think about tech companies
2 points by spyhi 8y ago|1 comments
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by spyhi 8y ago
It isn't anymore, if it ever was. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-i...
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by spyhi 8y ago
> Yelp seems to be the superior product since it has more reviews while having no financial benefit from manipulating reviews. This is a dubious claim. There have been periodic blowups about Yelp offering to manipulate how reviews are pr
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What Comes After the Social Media Empires(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by spyhi 8y ago|0 comments
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by spyhi 8y ago
University of Hawaii at Manoa. I'm finishing up an undergrad degrees in CS and Business (started school at 30 after time in the military, so another success story for this thread), but I have a few friends in the masters program who ca
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by spyhi 8y ago
I don't know how it is in other schools, but at mine you can get a masters in CS even if you didn't do your undergrad in CS. They just have you take the core undergrad CS courses, which is about 1-1.5 years of work. With an ME, it
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by spyhi 9y ago
> the goal with having this tech on the phone that the phone won't need to communicate with servers to do this sort of processing? Yeah, that's basically it. In short, the operations listed are pretty computationally intensive
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Facebook's plan to unite AR, VR, and News Feed with 3D posts(techcrunch.com)
2 points by spyhi 9y ago|0 comments
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by spyhi 9y ago
I think you may be conflating two ideas. You seem to be talking about green thinking, where most of the thread is talking about using automation to even out the grid when energy consumption is below minimum production levels, which may very
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by spyhi 9y ago
Same. I've generally been pretty bearish on IoT appliances since the usual features seem to be a) contrived, b) net inconveniences, and/or c) primarily of benefit to commercial entities rather than consumers (i.e. buy milk reminde
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by spyhi 9y ago
Seems like a great IoT opportunity. Smart-appliances that are able to detect prices on a public energy marketplace, or receive a signal from energy companies, so that they can turn on their high-energy processes when the grid needs some eve
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Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security(technologyreview.com)
4 points by spyhi 9y ago|0 comments

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