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by t05ter 9y ago
> Juggling which banks are open and closed has been traditionally a CPU's memory controller job. But communicating this information over a many-cm long PCB trace incurs latency. So it makes more sense to put this logic as close to t
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by t05ter 10y ago
I specifically kept it vague for reasons of anonymity, as these types of statements have cost people their jobs in the past, and also due to the fact that what I described was work habits of people I talk to across different engineering rol
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by t05ter 10y ago
It's definitely not an ideal life, but seems to be increasingly the norm among individual contributor positions at the big guys (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc). What's more is that on paper, these same companies espouse 'work-li
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by t05ter 10y ago
I understand where you're coming from as I've worked both in and outside of SV (Amazon isn't in SV but shares the culture). Though it may look like they're asking for a lot, it has to do with the demanding nature of the
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by t05ter 10y ago
Can you elaborate on what impact they had? The vikings reaching North America early is pretty neat, but doesn't seem to have changed the course of history much. Their colonies West of Greenland were pretty much failures, as they were s
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by t05ter 11y ago
> --Should be browser based solution. Please no. That's exactly the type of suggestion I would expect to see a startup looking to do things "differently" to get attention, without bringing any really value to the overall s
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by t05ter 12y ago
How long until someone goes and puts something stupid in the blockchain such as child porn, plans to make bombs, etc. Would this information then be used against a bitcoin user in the event that his computer was confiscated by authorities?
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by t05ter 13y ago
The article is pretty shallow in the sense that it just casually glosses over a few key characteristics that make the server/datacenter space an interesting battlefield for the current round of architecture wars. It will be an interest