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If one has great success once, it's possibly luck. When it's 3 times, there's something else going on. Jobs did it 3 times (Apple, Pixar, Apple again). Gates also did it 3 times (microcomputer BASIC, DOS, and 32 bit Windows).

Is Amazon's success due to Bezos or luck? I prefer to bet on Bezos rather than luck.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was 10x as fast at some things. The original P4 should never have seen the light of day.
It has nothing to do with lying. It's a bullshit answer to a bullshit question. Your current salary is nobody's business (unless they're IRS).
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I am a very happy customer of Netflix's DVD service, because I can get movies and shows that aren't easily available any other way.
Unless they've publicly choked a puppy to death or donated to right-wingers exclusively, anyone who advances the current Zeitgeist is not going to be judged too harshly, especially since Yahoo was already in deep trouble and her only sin appears to be she isn't their savior.
A stock exchange isn't responsible for tracking how much outstanding stock there is. The purpose of an exchange is just to match orders, not to determine if they are insane.

Expecting otherwise would be like expecting eBay to determine that your buy it now price is too low or that you don't have enough inventory on hand to fulfill your listings.
Good course, I'm about half way through, though from the comments in this thread I'm wondering if I should just give GKE a try.
Never applied to a job through HN, but about to post a req for my company. I'm definitely going to add a little blurb about the interview process in my post here. What else do people find useful in posts like this?
I designed a PCB once that had a pin on a regulator connected to a ground pour. In the CAD tool the pour extended to the pad between two traces but when I generated gerbers for the board the pour no longer connected to the pad. I didn't realize this until I got the board back. The bug was known and fixed in the next version but I didn't know about it at the time. Because of that board I now review all gerbers before I send them out for fab.
Can someone explain how this works? Is there any economical logic to this?
Marissa is the 7th ever Yahoo CEO, not the fifth CEO in a one year window. There was a lot of turnover in the 2011-2012 period, but it's mostly down to Yahoo, and also eBay, failing to do their due diligence with Scott Thompson.

1. 1995 - 2001: Tim Koogle
2. 2001 - 2007: Terry Semel
3. 2007 - 2008: Jerry Yang
4. 2009 - 2011: Carol Bartz
5. 2012 (5mo): Scott Thompson
6. 2012 (3mo): Ross Levinsohn (interim)
7. 2012 - now: Marissa Mayer
Since you don't have a CS degree, and since your goal might be characterized as practical growth, here's a shortcut guide:

* Learn the Big-O notation characteristics of data structures and algorithms you're going to use in the real world. Understanding data structure selection is probably more important than understanding the algorithms

* If you want to learn algorithms, the best (empirical) place to start is with solving real problems, efficiently. So some of the contests/HackerRank type things here would be very good. Try them on your own--don't worry about efficiency, just worry about a working answer. Then go study the right answer for the problems. Understand the solutions thoroughly.

* Don't be afraid to prematurely optimize some problem you have to solve. Trying to eke out more performance is a great way of understanding the representation of data and its transformation. You'll be well on your way.

I've been in the industry for decades. The number of sorting algorithms I've written in college versus ones I've written in industry is still at least 5:1. But I've had to optimize far more stuff in industry than I did in college, and develop algorithms for solving real problems that wouldn't make sense to teach in school. So expose yourself to solving real problems! It'll pay off.
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Raspberry Pi had sold 5 million devices by Feb 2015. It's a bit different from 7 figures per quarter, but I'd still call it mass market.
Good point. Team unity and shared understanding of the methods, I'm all for that.

Personally I consider everything and don't rule anything out. I wouldn't rule out be-spoke is my main argument.

It's just that, you know, life can be more rewarding if you not only aim for perfection or near-perfection, but achieve it. There's a philosophical angle here that may be more suited to the start-ups thinking and dreaming big and original, vs the company who just wants "something that works/MVP".
> Personally, I think it was obvious what Yahoo! should have done, at least from ~2005 onward

> No young people use Yahoo!

No one here used Geocities when they were younger? Yahoo! Chess? Yahoo Games?

Yahoo was incredibly relevant with the young crowd in 2005. Indeed, Yahoo still owns the young crowd as the steward of Tumblr and Flickr.

Internet comments these days. I can't even...
Also, it wouldn't have been at all obvious at the time that doing nothing had a mentionable chance of ending better than sincere efforts to guide the company.
I wanted to upvote but accidentally downvoted.
PCs were also a race to the bottom. I wonder what would happen if Intel or AMD bought Compaq or another PC manufacturer maybe in the 1990s and dominated the PC market by the mid-2000s.
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But maybe she did a great job responding to the crises and swerved the ship in the right direction, out of harms way, but just not enough to prevent the crash. Maybe she did a better job than many others would have done. What would you expect them to do... give up?

I don't understand the engineer comparison at all. Every person in her role adopts much more responsibility, takes on a huge risk of failure that can be career ending and they can face a media frenzy that attempts to bash them into the ground. Why would anyone try to compare her salary to an engineers?
I don't think that counts as covering it. Redux is very simple. The entire API surface is like 6 methods and it's not difficult to understand everything that it's doing for you.
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The benchmark is definitely misleading because the Powerpoint workload is playing on a continuous loop. This means that when the test is over, the Pentium III ends up performing more overall work than the Pentium 4.
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I wish there were an update to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
You think CEOs fall on hard times when they fail?
As I mentioned elsewhere I have a baytrail tablet, and that thing is amazing. But this is the usual corp thinking that got Intel into the trouble they are now in. Ceding the market because they can't currently make billions from it pretty much guarantees they won't ever make any money from it (see POWER giving up the desktop too). Meanwhile as ARM struggles building servers they will have all the time in the world to figure it out, as they now have an uncontested market to fund that work.

I don't understand why intel haven't learned the history lessons from all the other processor manufactures. As soon as you stop competing in low end markets the low end guys build better and better products until they build a higher end product that makes them the top dog.

I guess its because Andy Gove isn't around to kick them in the pants.
Am I the only one who clicked on the article expecting a discussion about the Mozilla suite?
Yahoo already indicated that they don't care about that product. It was their pick to get spun off along with the Alibaba stock as Aabaco: https://www.aabacosmallbusiness.com/

Since the actual spinoff seems to have fizzled, Yahoo does still own them, but I can only presume they did serious damage to its user trust by leaving it in this limbo state. They also claimed revenue of $50 million a year when they announced the spinoff, which is not exactly big money for a place Yahoo's size.
Geocities was shuttered before "young people" today started using the Internet (and was dying for years before that). I also doubt most 0-22 year olds today ever played Yahoo! Chess or Yahoo! games -- they were popular with people my age and slightly younger, about a decade ago.

Tumblr was an acquisition, and a very expensive one, which would not have been made by non-Mayer person following my strategy. Young people do not, generally, use Flickr (at least in the US); they use Instagram or Vine/etc.

(In 2005, what Yahoo! should have done was different than what Yahoo! should have done in 2013 -- in 2005, it still had a reasonable array of options. By 2013, the olds strategy was probably the most viable operating strategy, although even then, massive cost cutting and redistribution of Alibaba winnings to shareholders might have been the most preferred outcome.)
But typically people borrow to buy, and the more expensive the property the more they have to repay, so the impact on their purchasing power is the same as if they were all renting.
Plug in an Apple Airport Express from ~2008 and see how supported it is in El Capitan.

I had to use Wine on Linux to use an older Windows application to do the initialization.
" I'd expect these devs to implement a feature quickly "

Isn't that basic sin of software development - weighing speed of implementation (which is just a tiny part of the lifetime cost of software) over anything else.

I'm not arguing against 'good enough', I just don't think this is a particularly strong argument for that.

It's like surgeon not washing his hands and sterilizing his equipment because that way implementing the surgery takes less effort.
Maybe experimenting is a hobby.
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... the root cause of the failure resulted from inaccurate NASTRAN calculations in the design of the structure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A
#3 is impossible (unless someone else has poured in all the money).
Boo fucking hoo, failure is rewarded with 10s of millions.

Meanwhile the engineers who get fired walk away with nothing.
She is "rich" by any reasonable standard -- I assume her net worth is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. She could presumably self-fund a reasonable company for years without affecting her assets substantially. (There may be other reasons why she won't or can't do it, but $5-10mm isn't one of them.)
Or the very effective Gripen, which is explicitly Fighter Attack Recon.
I agree they are paid generously and even overpaid, but they deserve to be paid more than an engineer. How much is debatable, but that's really established by the market. I just don't get the engineer comparison.
They do? I admit I'm not an expert on either x86 or ARM assembly, but I've never seen code that used a saturating arithmetic instruction, and the saturating math in Rust is implemented using checked arithmetic as opposed to any kind of llvm intrinsic for saturating math. Looking at the LLVM docs I don't see any kind of intrinsic for saturating math either (checked math uses llvm.sadd.with.overflow.* and friends).
Love that the logos from Pentium 3 to 4 went, from flat to embossed glossy

https://youtu.be/88ancHxItOc?t=24s
Thanks! 100k is far more than I need, but I couldn't find something that would fit exactly my needs, so I ended up rolling my own.
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GPUs are getting closer to being math- and draw-optimized FPGAs. I don't think they'll be separate products too far in the future.
> Yahoo was incredibly relevant with the young crowd in 2005.

As a college freshman in 04-05, I have no idea what you're talking about.

It could be true, but it certainly isn't obvious.
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> The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.

not speed, not power
This is the reward for ensuring that the ship sinks.
I would avoid blaming any traffic on "non-optimal" driving by other drivers (not leaving enough space so they maintain constant speed, stuff like that), since it's just another recipe for road rage.
uh huh. I'm sure that was the only factor.
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Is it possible for someone to point me in the direction of a nice JS project template that does not use a framework?

I would still like all the core elements of a decent JS project such as package manager, bundler, templating BUT without the overkill of a new framework. A project template that allows you to simply write HTML, CSS and JS modules in an organised fashion.

A reference to a Github repo or online doc would be awesome. With so much JS news and information these days its really hard to find any info without the words react or angular or whatever. Appreciate any help from you knowledgable folks.
Will Intel spin out the fab side of the business?

The large volume segments of the processor market seems headed towards nothing but low margins.
> Can someone explain how this works?

1. The company has cash.
2. You have the authority to sign checks.
Joking or not - it would be a great move by Google to install her as Yahoo's CEO, drive down the worth of the company, and gather up the ashes for a cheap price.
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Geographically seperated teams, is that normal when developing successful smartphone SoCs?

Or does it in general work as good as developing software at multiple sites?

I remember working with ST's IPTV chips that were designed all over Europe, and bugs that involved the interaction between muliple hardware blocks were a disaster to get support on.
By the same token, she could have fired all the rank and file on day one and sat on that pile of stock all by herself.
I wrote about that about 4 years ago, often called vanilla JS.

Back then everyone on StackOverflow was still completely bought into the JQuery mission. I often see it when people don't fully understand something, they choose a framework.
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I think it is something people just like to say because both sound a big magical.

Neural nets are matrix multiplications and addition. They are generally memory constrained on GPUs and Main <> GPU memory is also a bottleneck.

I don't see how an FPGA will really help there.
I don't understand why this had been downvoted. I support this.
Biggest flaw in article: assuming all "weight" is fat.
2005 was ages ago in terms of financial markets. It was before the housing crash and other financial crises (notably in Greece). It was before the flash crash and other notable electronic trading incidents.

Many world equity markets now have daily up/daily down limits a certain percentage above and below the previous day's closing price. Others will pause trading for a short period of time if short-term price moves are abnormally large.

Many equities markets only allow direct connections to the market from brokerages licensed by the country's financial regulators. These days, brokerages often implement their own sanity checks on many order flows. Joe's Live Bait and Stock Trading generally isn't connecting directly to any equity trading venue.

I'm curious what the effect would be of a market switching to second-price blind auctions every 5 minutes if a stock moves up or down 5% on the day. There are academic papers showing theoretical stability advantages of second-price auctions. Trading at the second-highest bid when the market is down more than 5% and at the second-lowest ask when the market is up should help to attract one-sided liquidity in the direction of market stability.
Nokia's biggest mistake was embracing Android. They had a killer OS with MeeGo, running on a flagship phone, the N9. It could've toppled Android at the time, but sadly, management smarts weren't equal to those of their engineers.

So perhaps Intel is in the process of making an analogous mistake...
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I understand and agree, but when nothing ever progresses, not even your understanding, it's not good. A `while true {}` in disguise
I guess it was accompanies with a very loud pop and a very fried squirrel.
Because most of the time we don't have a choice.

At work, I am yet to get a customer that allows us to use anything but Eclipse. At home I rather use Netbeans for Java projects.

For Android, the Android Studio barely supports the NDK. So we are left with the older Eclipse CDT plugins, Visual Studio or NVidia CodeWorks.
Yes. $55m in severance pay is 932 times the real median household income in the United States as of 2014 ($53,657).
That doesnt make it "the issue".
No, more specifically, using React with Rails through the react-rails gem. I am considering ripping out all my JSX and replacing it with our React JS
Because people will still be buying phones/tablets in 10 years. And no, they aren't yet good enough. Just browsing the web can often be quite painful as they struggle with javascript. Plus, there are a ton of devices with embedded mobile phone tech (tv's, etc) that have been dragged into the ARM camp.

The 4.1 billion ARM devices sold last quarter should scare the pants of Intel. The very hungry ARM partners that drool over the fat margins Intel is making will steam roller them in the server space if they don't figure out how to compete.
> Pretty sure that anyone could sit on a pile of Alibaba stock and just do nothing, and come out ahead of where Yahoo is today.

No. You're not privy to the details. Neither am I. It's easy to discount someone for a public failing, but imagine yourself in her shoes. Unless you're a bored corporate exec of a Fortune 500 company, I highly doubt you have the management and financial acumen to keep Yahoo! afloat.
Wow, and ouch. I give them credit for ceding the ground for now but this is another sign of how much ARM has been encroaching on Intel's space.

Scott McNealy said early on that retreating to the Data Center was where companies went to die. And at the time was selling workstations on desks and crushing DEC, then when that business got eaten away by Windows the data center was where Sun was going to make its stand. And then it died.

I think a lot about what the fundamental principle is here. How do seemingly invincible forces in the market get killed by smaller foes? Christensen's Dilemma doesn't really explain it, it describes it, but it doesn't tease out the first principles behind it.

At this point I think it is a sort of Enterprise "blindness" which was something Steve Kleiman at NetApp shared with me. A company can be so good at something that they focus all their energy on it, even when it is vanishing beneath them. Consider a fictional buggy whip company when automobiles came on the scene, right up until the last day they made buggy whips they could be the best whip you could buy, all the secrets to making a great buggy whip where mastered by this company, all the "special sauce" that made them last longer, work in a wide range of conditions, and yet the reality was that the entire reason for buggy whips existing was evaporating with the loss of carriages. By focusing on what the company was the undisputed leader in doing, they ride the wave right into the rocks.

When the company is so stuck on what used to work for them, even after the technology has moved on, they become blind to the dangers. Challenging to watch, even harder if you feel like you can see the train wreck coming. And of course soul crushing if nobody driving the bus will listen to the warnings.

The next sign I'm waiting for is Apple to ship a Macbook laptop with their own 64 bit ARM processor in it. Then it gets really really interesting if AMD can pull off an ARM server chip, going where Intel won't.
> So they started in online retail with < 10% gross margin.

They succeeded there because they didn't pay sales tax so they had a 5-10% advantage over brick and mortar.

Now that that advantage is gone, they are finding that retail isn't so nice anymore.
Perhaps it is better, but it is very expensive if you want more than 5 zaps or 100 tasks/month.

Right now, I have 25 recipes on IFTTT, if I would have the same number on Zapier I would have to pay $49/month.
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> stories of rabbits being actually hurt by electrocution

You won't find any, because electrocution is deadly by definition ;-)

Joke aside, I think when they reach the wire the contact surface is not very large, so they probably get a sensation similar to touching an electric fence rather than an electric shock.

Source: we had a rabbit when I was very young. I learned quickly not to touch some of the electric cords laying on the ground.
At the desktop/server level, I agree, which is why I don't get the whole Intel/Altera synergy thing.

But in more specific embedded cases -- meaning the vast majority of FPGA applications -- they are nothing alike. If I need to run a multichannel digital downconverter on a power budget of 1 watt, no GPU available in the foreseeable future is going to handle that role as well as an FPGA will.

Perhaps someday a hypothetical I/O-optimized GPU will be able to do the jobs that are currently done on FPGAs and ASICs, but definitely not now.
I would really be interested to know why we need a special syntax for tail calls. (genuinely curious)

I'm from Lua originally and we've had tail calls forever... why would you point them out? It should be obvious:

return wat()
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I have a weird fetish of making everything fit on a floppy. Acute Kaytosis I guess. If I had functionning floppies I'd prep a DOS3 one like yours :)
There was an article about the number 1 Clash of Clans player. He took two iPads in clear plastic bags into the shower with him to maintain this position.

He actually sounds like someone you'd meet on HN, he was lonely after moving to SF for a job, that's how be got into the game:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/technology/master-of-hi...
You mean like Microsoft did with Elop and Nokia?
I don't have any problem with the Capistrano team promoting Harrow, but I'm really not pleased with unnecessary dependencies. The Ruby world already has a massive problem with transitive dependency bloat. Every additional dependency causes linear load time increases (even if it's not loaded) for every file required. Bundle directories become massive over time. Adding unnecessary hard dependencies only exacerbates that issue.

Optional dependencies are a well-solved problem in Ruby land. The careless use of dependency declarations causes enough pain already - please, no more.
10% of laptops where?

Beside the HN quotes that everyone in US is using them, I never saw a single person using a Chromebook in Europe.

Surely I see them on display in German stores, usually just one, being down priced every week until it finally sells. Take a couple of months and another one eventually shows up again on the same display spot.

On the street, trains, coffeshops, airports, never spotted one.
Oops. s/flaunt/flout/. And if not yet clear, my position is devil's advocate. I do think it's worth pointing out, though, that in a world where it is legal to assign copyright in return for compensation, it's difficult to simultaneously assert than a creator permanently retains the right to give away copies of the work for free.
LOL. Those who think "AOL" is a "dying brand" on here are the same ones who think Node.js is scalable and reliable.
Amazon has been successful far more than 3 times, all under Bezos, so it's pretty clearly not luck.
You are not qualified to judge what others deserve. Steph Curry's net worth is $44M and I don't think anybody deserves $44networth for being good at throwing balls through hoops.

But it is market that often determines these numbers and we simply do not possess the information to look at all those variables.