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We did both.
Nintendo can't sell consoles at a loss the same way sony and MS can. You're also forgetting their portable lineup, their portables have always been under powered compared to their competitors.
Actually massive British investments provided a lot of the capital, so London got a very large share as well.
Even Mathworld/Weisstein's World of Mathematics isn't always right either.

I found an error once, and sent it in (it was something to do with graph theory, and the equation was missing a +1 or something, which was sort of critical). I checked about a month later and it hadn't been fixed, I can't remember what it was now, I really wish I could. It was something to do with "n/2 + 1" and they had written "n/2".
Got a 404 on the above, looks like it should be:
https://www.sourceclear.com/blog/millions-of-program-builds-...

But I don't see where it discusses sending PRs to affected repos, only detecting them.
You don't know any actual "regular people", do you? (Edit: I don't mean to put your friends down, I just mean that the people you know are probably smart, interesting people, sadly unlike a large portion of humanity.) I don't mean 'person working outside of tech'. I mean the kind of people who think Big Bang Theory is 'a show for smart people'.

Most of the world is like this. It's terrifying.
> shouldn't they be first looking at people who have recently been accused of harassment, such as Susan Fowler's first boss, and can those people first?

It's hard to can someone who (as mentioned in Susan's blog post) already left the company.
Step 1: Congress imposes a border-adjusted cash flow tax.

Step 2: Businesses switch to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransferWise#How_it_works.

Step 3: A lot less money crosses the border, so Congress doesn't collect any tax.
(Hey Leo)

I agree, this is hard to do. Because most investors triangulate on 15-25% per round, and use the amount of money you expect to raise as a way to back into a valuation.

As a founder, the best way to do this in a seed round would be to raise (all or most of) your seed round from Angels, who are more likely to sign off on a note / safe at a specific cap without knowing the total amount raised, and then you can triangulate on 10%.

It's worth noting that this game is even harder outside of the valley, because while operating costs are significantly lower, so are valuations, and most companies will bump into minimum cash needs for 12-18 months.

Sam made a good point: running out of money is way worse than optimizing for your cap table.

Let me make a second point: Optimizing for success is way more important than optimizing your cap table. In other words: If you believe a specific investor meaningfully adds to the probability of a success state for your company, then its probably a good bet even if you are not happy about the dilution.

In order of what you should care about:

1. Not running out of money.

2. Finding people who can be value-add and help you prevent mistakes and find success.

...

3. Dilution (within reason).

Also, you can always recap founders in later stages. It happens.
So many questions... What does this say about Google's hiring, about its employee's values, about values across the tech community? I can remember a time when managements would have shut this down, when employees would have said, "not my problem", when entire industries would have buried their heads in the sand.

Is it the lack of liability and regulation that clears the way for this kind of corporate citizenship? Is it cultural?
Could you link to some resources to help understand this kind of stuff? It's hard to navigate between all the numbers people at startup throw like it's always good things.

For example in your case why was it bullshit? It sounds like you potentially own less but it got more expensive.
Expensive? By all measurements it's impossible.
It doesn't have any access to any web APIs period, not just the DOM.

And it doesn't make sense to use it for physics because GPUs can do that much faster (so that would be WebGL, which like everything else is JS only).
I'm afraid to know how much that costs.
> If/when the tech for driverless comes of age, vehicle manufacturers will be able to quickly produce enough units to satisfy demand, develop an app for very low cost, and crash the value of human powered networks.

This is why Uber wants/needs to be first and probably involved with the stake that GM took in Lyft.
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The purpose of CDC research on public health problems is largely to identify and support policy responses to those problems.
We do this automatically already with HAProxy. So we don't even have to change our application.
It's not Ruby if it doesn't run Rails.
Certainly interesting, but (just me?) reads like some kind of optimised/feedback-tested meme-vehicle for the authors’ ideas — repetition, restatement, phrasing means I feel like I’ve been “actively” programmed (rather than my normal experience of contemplation, integration, learning, etc.). Not necessarily a bad thing, mind.
Ah, I can't comment about that since we obviously don't use it, but in theory, yes.
He answered my $20 question regarding whether he thought the SoLaTiDo wearable keyboard/controller would be accepted by the mobile enterprise AR community, or was too early to the market. His answer was that it was cool, and that he wanted one on his wrist. This means he barely considered it, since it clearly requires both hands and all fingers, to offer workstation level control. My follow-up question (at $100) told him of the mistaken assumption, and asked him what he thought deskless workers would do to gain workstation level control of AR devices. His 48 hours to reply has just expired, so maybe he's swamped.
Only because it's impossible to trust the CDC to be professional in this regard.
But with fewer workers.
It was using a proprietary BIOS previously.

It still has Intel's ME (Management Engine) proprietary blob, and at least 2 months ago it was using a reverse-engineered, but not complete, driver for the trackpad.

However it has made significant progress since the first revision on many aspects, and I hope it will someday be totally 'pure'.
Few worthwhile efforts are every successful on the first attempt.

Failure is a necessary part of eventual success. It provides improved context and insights. As a young man, I thought that something must be wrong with me because I always failed when I tried something new and so I usually gave up.

Guilt has nothing what-so-ever to do with failure.

Failure is just another useful metric.
Promote pesticide-resistant GMO crops in order to drive pesticide sales, for one.
> No, seriously, if your heart beats for Ruby, you will fall in love with Elixir.

I like Ruby, I like Elixir, but the latter for basically none of the same reasons as the former.
The GovCloud AWS region is located in the Northwestern USA, so it seems more likely that if he was doing GovCloud specific work, they'd have hired him in Seattle.

Though I'm sure AWS does lots of work with US government agencies in us-east-1, so it's not surprising that a government clearance might be required for some of it.
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Out of curiosity, I started watching this talk, but right there in the introduction, the very first example is a dot product where supposedly IEEE 754 double precision gets the wrong answer; I stopped to check the result, and I got the correct answer with double precision (even without binary sum collapse). Then, he says the x87's results are nondeterministic due to being affected by cache, which is incorrect. Then, he trots out a series of half-truths about IEEE 754, which are somewhat true but don't mean what he's presenting them to mean. He even cites a Cray 1 quirk as an example of IEEE 754 weirdness, when in reality, the Cray 1 (1975) predated IEEE 754 by about 10 years.

Designing a good arithmetic system takes a lot of attention to detail, and he doesn't make a good impression by being that loose with details in his introduction.
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I think it is win/win. Presumably the Engineers interviewing have a salary already that the NZ company would have to compete with. The NZ lifestyle as well may be seen as a benefit not dissimilar to free food, foosball, laundry etc...
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Yes they are because they treat tech as an externality.

This has a double negative effect because that also means that politicians arent being presented with the right scenarios as they are guided by the very economist models that doesent factor tech in.

It boggles my mind that the arguments i hear from economist is basically the same tired horse cariages argument. Thats litterally all they have.
If you built this, which actually looks incredible and advanced for a "bot", even the simplest of apps can make you money and afford you a living. I'm very impressed and I see so many possibilities beyond this in your future.

I have learned in the business of being a web developer and a web designer, the same idea can exist, but the approach and perspective you take can make people want to use YOUR product instead of the other guys. You and I and many others WILL NEVER EVER create another Facebook ever again. Google showed us what it was like to fail in an attempt to do that. We also will never dominate as a search engine because that is what Google has made billions of dollars doing, though I must tell you: Privacy is more important to many people and so, DuckDuckGo found this edge and is becoming a dominant search engine. There are soo many other little things that people need that do not exist, they don't know they need them, or WE (you, me, others) have not created the demand for it yet, and there are also things that exist but "could be better".

The object is not to take advantage of people, as honestly: we are all struggling in this world. From our debts of credit, student loans, and mortgages, and family. The dream for many of us is recurring income and anyone can do so but they should charge a reasonable price for their products. Sure, you can advertise yourself as a web designer or web dev and you have your clients.. some people love that lifestyle. I did it for a long time but it gets old.

Being of the business mind and seeking to actually get out of always "working for someone", I have to tell you: this is kind of a cool idea. You should monetize the posting of jobs. If you could figure out a way to charge both sides, you might even be able to "weed out" and give companies more peace of mind, as people who are paying a subscription for your service are likely to be more serious about finding a job and getting their resume discovered.

Check out https://www.indiehackers.com/ and you will see what SaaS can do for you and your life.

Come up with your own ideas and be your own boss man! If you can code, you can dream, and you can do anything you want to do. You have the skills and the talent. Why wait for someone to see them? Master your own arts and take control of your life! I get that you might not want your own business, but your skillset says otherwise.

You coming up with things to "automate" or make life easier for people isn't uncommon: https://serverpilot.io/ helps with setting up different services on Cloud Computing for a number of hosts and they charge an affordable (yet profitable fee for themselves) price for it. Now go forth and make a living with your knowledge!
A cursory examination of the documentation for and against the unum stuff seems to indicate a vehement ad hominem argument running between Gustafson and Kahan, which makes it somewhat hard to find objective information.

The unum stuff does seem to be greatly oversold, though. Fundamentally, there is a problem in mathematics: some equations naturally blow up tiny uncertainties into major ones. Indeed, in chaotic systems, such uncertainties can be extremely difficult to describe accurately. Floating point numbers would give you an implausibly precise but meaninglessly inaccurate number, whereas unums would indicate that the answer is basically everything. The difference here basically boils down to Kahan arguing that you should do numerical analysis first to figure out if the result will be meaningful, while Gustafson wants to throw calculus and numerical analysis out the window.

Surprisingly, the dispute is less about the actual format than the style of numerical algorithms. Gustafson seems to be advocating an iterative, increasing-precision approach to solving problems like root finding in lieu of standard numerical techniques. Kahan's retort is that the state-of-the-art techniques are more than sufficient, and that Gustafson's techniques take longer to achieve acceptable results. I didn't see a response from Gustafson to the latter accusation--the slide deck I see has him shifting from an argument about the power usage involved in storing 64 bits of "unnecessary" precision to a commentary about the parallelizability of his approach (no comment about the work-efficiency!).

Personally, I think that the unum approach is not particularly satisfying as a better alternative to floating point. The advantages that are presented focus on storage space and parallelizability--and the fact that the precision is meant to slowly ("automatically", which I scare-quote because it doesn't appear to be done for the programmer) increase implies that the hardware has to deal with variable-sized data formats, which is not conducive to more efficient computing. It's only efficient to use more compressed formats if it's saving you a lot of work compared to a dense format--and it's not at all clear that unums are actually saving work.
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There have been trials of basic income though, so people are thinking about it. Additionally the term 'robot' is very handwavey and could mean anything intelligence wise, so difficult to say what jobs will get replaced and when.
I really wish I hadn't read this.
Many of us are in tech. If you exploited a security hole to gain access to an unpatched system, you are still guilty of circumventing the system. Many believe the tax code should be similar: avoidance==evasion.

Of course, I am not a lawyer.
That is insane and unreasonable. The bubble has lost it.
only support localhost?
It may be, in part, Google's giant cash machine. It makes it possible to be altruistic. In a world of fierce/commoditized competition it is much harder to expend resources on 'side' projects.

Google also thrives in a healthy internet.
No idea why the link is to the utterly shallow BB article rather than the BoE blog.

Here is another good entry from the same blog about how banks create money when they lend rather than being intermediaries:

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...
I was ready to jump in here with a dismissive comment, but then he mentioned Wiener close to the top, and I was disarmed. It's a pretty good collection of links. Unfortunately, the prefix "cyber" has rather jumped the shark, but the whole idea of biological and even social systems as exhibiting the same communication and control mechanisms we're familiar with from engineering is worth contemplating.
> Does anyone else get a Fahrenheit 451 vibe from mixed reality? No doubt it is completely awesome and I'm very excited. I can't help but feel like we'll all end up like Millie Montag.

Most people here won't get the reference.
> "... since FinFET mask costs are 10x what they used to be in bulk CMOS"

Not true, it is closer to 2 to 3x, and it is (slowly) getting cheaper. While it will take a long time (~3 years) for 14/16nm FinFET processes to reach price parity with what 28nm is now, it is dropping in price faster than when the 28nm generation came out due to the massive volumes of Apple, NVIDIA, etc.

It is looking like the 28nm generation will be a mainstay node, with continued investments by the major pure play fabs to keep bringing costs lower.
You can bootstrap a company without VC investment. Good luck trying to build anything without hiring some people.
The whole thing reads like a rationalization for behavior which they know is bad.

Like making paddles for corporal punishment of children. There are many manufacturers, we can't stop it, at least our standardized paddles don't have spikes. We wanted to add a clause that forbids lasting damage to be inflicted with our paddles, but the parents-for-paddling organization objected, we're sad it didn't make it in, but it's still in everyone's best interest!
Me too, but I wonder how valid the science is. (Clutching at straws)
Perhaps a better analysis, from a more politically-neutral source:

https://taxfoundation.org/understanding-house-gop-border-adj...

Also this: "Talking Tax Reform: A Discussion of Border Adjustability & Cash-Flow Taxes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO1rlheCigk
I believe that some of the core people who proposed this are actually NOT getting what they really intended. Because ALL APIs are only accessible through JavaScript still.

I think this could be much more useful if at least some APIs didn't have to go through JS. Not saying that's easy.

Part of the problem is the whole idea that every program is supposed to test for the existence of every feature it might need. I think that's ridiculous. I suggested on github that actually what needs to happen eventually is to decompose the web platform into a a bunch of semantically versioned modules. One big problem with that is that modern modularization is not really first class in C++ because of its legacy worldview.
Although not entirely obvious at first glance, this is a tax on consumption. Here's a simple explanation, taken from the clunkily titled Australia's Future Tax System Review: http://i.imgur.com/ocRMR0n.png. Consumption taxes that don't create high administrative burdens for businesses (CFTs are arguably less burdensome than VATs), are a very efficient way to raise tax revenue. However, I do take issue with this part of the article, where they're talking in the context of wages being deductible under a CFT (so that only labour value-add is taxed):

"Taxing wages is the thing that makes VATs regressive, hitting poor consumers the hardest."

This is not entirely correct. Although taxes on gross labour might shift production towards higher capital intensity, I don't think VAT's actually tax the gross labour component of production (though I'm not 100% certain here). Value-added taxes, and consumption taxes in general (including CFTs), are regressive because they are levied at a flat rate and people on lower incomes usually cannot defer consumption: many have no choice but to immediately spend ~100% of their income as soon as they receive it. The inability to defer consumption also reduces scope to consume in an 'inter-temporally efficient' manner (e.g. volume discounts), further compounding the regressive effect. And although I have no real data to back this up (not that I've looked), I'd imagine the poor spend a larger proportion of their lifetime income domestically compared to the rich.

I'll stop here. I'm not trying to say CFTs or consumption taxes are bad (in fact, I think they're good if done properly). But people should be aware that any consumption tax introduction must also be accompanied by upwards adjustments of low-income transfer payments and reduced low-income earner tax burden elsewhere in the system (and this should be part of the public discussion). Otherwise it will shift a larger amount of the overall tax burden on to the poor.

EDIT: Giving it a bit more thought, this might be a good 'thin end of the wedge' to build towards 'basic-income/negative income tax'. And handing out some unconditional lump sum to every citizen also helps with some of the equity concerns.
Take a look at a P-51 Mustang cockpit:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/25/99/be/2599...

The picture is a bit fuzzy, but the switches and knobs are clearly labeled with english words. Including words like "on" and "off". It's deadly to confuse pilots with what the latest trendy icon for "aileron trim" is.
This is one of the very
the problems of this discussion. What is important is not robots but ai.