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> My point is: maybe C++ actually _is_ the superior language. It can't be a coincidence that all the best software projects tend to be written in C++, and not in Haskell or whatever.

If we're going by best software written, I suspect that means C is the better language than C++ by a wide margin. It would be interesting as to whether Visual Basic would be superior on that axis as well.

C++ is the better language--except that we always have to expose a C FFI because nobody seems to have enough critical mass to stabilize the library ABI. C++ is the better language--except that Apple wrote another language because they don't believe that and that Mozilla wrote Rust because C++ wasn't good enough. C++ is the better language--as long as you have a new codebase that only uses the latest features and Satan help you if you have stuff from pre-2005 because God won't be enough. C++ is the better language--as long as compile time isn't an issue.

I can go on if you wish...

I don't think C++ developers are stupid and those choosing to start new projects in it generally have really good reasons for doing so. I also think that many older projects are in C or C++ via path dependence because C++ was the superior choice when the project started and now they have far too much code to switch.

I also believe this will be why Rust eventually becomes a very important language--Rust allows you to modernize that old codebase in a piecemeal fashion.
Or the scammers are sending themselves money to make it look legit
I used Aztec C for the 68k on some embedded projects for work in the late 80's. The 68k version was a full-featured C implementation complete with IEEE-754 floating-point math and bit fields. I liked the fact that Aztec included the source code for parts of their libraries so one could write their own drivers for stdio devices. I still have that code somewhere...
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My EE education didn’t cover decoupling caps, and from talking to others from different schools they didn’t learn it either. It's something that only comes out in DIY projects, and unfortunately most schools don't care about projects or fostering independent/continuous learning.
Editing that work and then trying to pass it off as a collaboration is IMO even worse.
> if you’re an employer and want to hire someone ambitious and productive whose first priority is the company’s project

Sounds like you're searching for a rube above all else.

Someone dumb enough to sacrifice their personal life to your "vision" to this extent will probably exhibit poor judgement in other aspects of your business.

Just hire someone reasonable, with or without kids. If they start pulling away from your project, maybe take that as information that you're not handling the rudder quite right.
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A while ago I worked on this web app that reads information from Wikipedia about a topic to you. I like to walk around / do house work while I learn about stuff so it turns out to be a good tool for that. let me know what you think.

http://edmondumolu.me:3000/

Also, I hope this gets posted to the right place :o
That's a module, not a chip. If it's one of those 1mm x 2mm sot packages, it almost certainly doesn't have embedded switching capacitors.
Yeah. I just leave the json parsing up to the caller partly as a simplification, but also because I might accidentally discard data they want (Like, ideally that should never happen but our world is not ideal). The only thing it wraps is the authentication (to make life easier), and the web request. The C code is generated from a small python script that's generated directly from the documentation so it's relatively easy to keep up-to-date, the sacrifice is it is a bit more fragile than I like.
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> In other words, if you’re an employer and want to hire someone ambitious and productive whose first priority is the company’s project… recruit from among the childless and, for long-term employer-employee happiness, the infertile.

Why do you think so many startups still headquarter in SF even though there’s much better (and cheaper) places? by virtue of the cost of living alone you’re going to end up with a much younger work force.

Personally, I don’t mind that someone who wants unwavering and unquestionable commitment to the company (slavery) passes up on me.
It's quite the opposite actually, a large company usually expected others to bend to its will and is not that interested in hearing opposed views and change their approach and that's what makes getting coffee into the kernel harder.

I've got code in the kernel and it wasn't easy but that code lives on well beyond my contribution so it has to be in a design and implementation that can and will be maintained by others.
There are a few things that are flagged for no apparent reason and that need to be vouched for, and a lot that needs to be flagged manually. The [dead] flag is useful. Were vouching not a thing, you'd be right, though.
As a part of the merger, Dish Network purchased additional spectrum from Sprint.

Dish will be entering as a 4th wireless provider soon. So that will be 4 major carriers + the multitude of MVNO operators.

What do you mean exactly by no competition?
What kind of compiler you have wetting for GPU?

I am curious on what's the motivation given that nvcc is fairly competent.
This reminds me of the modern take on ancient spiritual practices. “Deities are unfalsifisble lol. Also I’m kind of depressed and find life meaningless.” It feels like missing the forest for the trees. Or throwing the baby out with bath water.
I’m aware of this nice site, but I think you are aware Kemal threw an unfriendly message error when you reach to the last page? 100’s shards on each page is rather slow and limited options to search, I would prefer to stick to Github or self-host with Github API that supported some language.

https://crystalshards.xyz/?&sort=updated&page=11
There's a Youtube channel where they had a competition to see who could make the best outfit from lost British luggage. It was the same sort of auction so maybe this is a pattern in other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ortv_e-G0bk
That article title disgracefully misrepresents what Paul Graham has written in the text quoted. Paul Graham described his own experience of how having children affected his priorities. In the material quoted he never advocated anything regarding hiring.

Philip Greenspun may have been inspired by Paul's article to come to his own epiphany regarding hiring, but that is exactly what it is - Philip Greenspun's opinion.

I don't know Paul Graham's personal and financial situation, but my impression is that he is someone who has the luxury of reprioritising "work" without major personal consequences.

I would suggest that for most "average" people life changes like getting married, buying property, and having children make people more attentive to work responsibilities because they literally can no longer afford to get fired.

Edited - fixed some grammar.
That _position_ pays that much over the 4 years, irrespective of how many different people filled those positions in those years.
"Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify."

- Daniel Ek (Spotify co-founder)
Twitter automatically plays .gif now for new users.
The original IBM AT computers ran at 6MHz. (They later upped this to 8MHz.) Even at 6MHz and a 16-bit bus, they were very close to the same performance of a 4MHz Z-80A.
I think that is a problem with session management across multiple backend systems that are not updated quickly enough when you are first setting up. Each one thinks that it is the first time you have authenticated.
I was super kicked back and mellow until I got a kid. Then I kicked worklife into high gear because I had a little mouth to feed and clothe. Kid got older, moved out, got married and I kicked back into mellow man.

Now we have a grandbaby in our lives and I'm back at work being more motivated to be more efficient and productive than ever so I can have the time to spend with her.

Sort of exactly the opposite of the article.
You're disregarding the extremely large number of people who were more or less forced to travel to the new world. Add up the slaves taken there, people sentenced to be sent there for crimes, people who had to leave their home country or starve and people who had to leave their home country or be murdered and you start to get a pretty large number.
The title (from BuzzFeedNews) leaves out that the slides were plagiarized by Juul, then Juul paid schools to teach them, all while name-dropping The Farm.

I'm trying to tease apart how much of the plagiarism is to be expected when you're an academic, whether Juul was being more manipulative or lazy, and is paying schools to teach this a token gesture, an insult, or inception marketing.
This isn’t a great conclusion from Graham’s post. If you’re really trying to make this connection, then employers are incentivized to hire people with children since you can more accurately gauge their aspirations, work habits, performance during an interview after they’ve already had the child-having transformation. On the other hand, a childless interviewee may change drastically after having children.

In the end, I like Paul Graham’s introspection but assuming employers would see this as some kind of direction to prefer childless candidates over childbearing ones is far fetched
Very interesting! This is the first I've heard of their new launch vehicle. I'm guessing Spacex et al are trying to build something more economical for Mars missions?
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It's because those who are invested in seasteading tend to have libertarian, if not outright objectivist or anarchy-capitalist ideals, and thus their commitment to free enterprise at the expense of other values are seen as suspect, or at least are accused of behaving as such.
A good insight on how daming and sand dredging is destroying the Mekong is in the latest Grand Tour episode. The extent of the damage that humans have caused to other humans surviving on the river is unfathomable.
Most engineers don't want to be co-founders, and this does not scale well in any case. That role comes with responsibilities that can't be executed by committee and drama/stress that many engineers would just as soon avoid. There is nothing stopping anyone from giving engineers a decent chunk of equity but it doesn't address the core issue of scaling reasonable comp.

A "founder" is not just another name for a very early employee. It is a wildly different experience. I've been both, multiple times.
Army service is the same except 4 (consequences for bad behaviour), and up until 40 years ago or so, was also the norm for a non-trivial percentage of the western population; furthermore, the "no consequences for bad behaviour" is also relatively new - the greatest generation, boomers, and the one following boomers (and their equivalents in other countries) still endured physical punishment.

So, up until not-so-many-decades-ago, your statement was incorrect. It is correct now, and indeed the schooling system has not caught up, but it is doing so slowly - e.g. the Finnish led, and others are following, in abolishing the "forced labor" homework requirement.
I had multiple college professors doing the same thing... but the first lecture was always about plagiarism.
You don't even want to to use -XMX -XMS in a container setting anyway. You can set the JVM to use a percentage of the container size.
Hmmm, to me, it’s not about the person at all. It’s about their message & whether it’s helpful for my own mind.
>The risk-adjusted $ compensation is the same at a startup and at bigco. Startups just have more beta in the comp.

I work with startups, and while this may have been true 10-20 years ago I can't imagine how you would think it's true now. As the sibling comment says, I'd love to see your work, i.e. a remotely plausible example case with numbers illustrating how startup EV would approach bigco EV.
Just don't expect it to be as good as Tensorflow on CUDA.
I wouldn’t use Payscale or even Glassdoor. Levels.fyi is more accurate I think, although obviously some people definitely inflate their numbers, and there’s a self reporting bias.

FAANG total comp is crazy... obscene. I earn quite a bit more than one of my siblings who’s a doctor, and all I have is a bachelors degree.

All this does have a cost. Not counting potential monopolistic practices, ads being literally cancer, etc etc, the stress and anxiety level is high.

I don’t expect to keep doing this for 20 years. In 5 years I’ve learned a ton and still meet people who are way smarter than I am and have better judgement.
This was posted on Twitter:

“I encourage you to make peace with death, to see it as the culminating adventure of this adventure called life.

It is not an error.

It is not a failure.

It is taking off a tight shoe which you have worn well.”

- @BabaRamDass

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> they neutered them

So they're derivative works of PPT slides? Does that count as theft? How much do you need to change a slide before it's a new work?

>attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research

As in falsifying a conclusion or reinterpreting the data?
> I noticed that if I listened to a track while riding, I would remember exactly where I was the next time I listened to the track.

I experienced the same thing recently by listening to a book on my drive to/from work! I often listened to sections of the book a second time to catch things I missed, or to help ideas sink in, and found that I could often clearly picture the stretch of road on which I heard a passage.
With Apple, I would be worried that it could become an Intranet.
Excerpt:

"Need some ideas for a crappy schematic? Here are some easy ones I can think up off the cuff:

o Current limiting resistors missing (BJTs, diodes, etc.)

o Shorting a potentiometer node to a rail

o Voltage regulators missing capacitors at input/output

o Missing pull-up/pull-down resistors on digital buses

o Missing decoupling capacitors

o Powering ADC reference voltages from a switching supply

o Transistors placed in wrong/backwards configuration

o No signal conditioning/buffer for analog signals into ADC

o AC coupling high-pass filter sets corner frequency too high into ADC

o Reset sequence of digital component is wrong

o Antenna is missing a matching network/filter

o Clock/data lines swapped backwards in digital bus

o No pull-up/pull-down resistors on IC configuration pins

o No frequency compensation on unstable opamp circuits

o Improper gain settings on opamp circuits"

Fascinating!

Would love to see a book about these errors and others -- with the title:

"Learn EE (better!) -- by studying things that don't work"

The book could be divided into chapters... Each chapter delves into another way that a circuit can fail, along with an explanation of why, and the correct way to engineer that type of circuit/circuit component... The chapters would be ordered from the most common errors to the less common ones... it would be a great teaching tool for people who wanted to become better at EE...
where is this? also, how many years of experience?
Found this: https://web.archive.org/web/20150412135856/http://news.spoti...
> Google has an ATM printing money in the basement. Startups do not.

Venture capital is supposed to be (and certainly was a few years ago, though it may have gotten more conservative) the transfer pipeline between the money printing enterprises and the high-risk, high-reward startups that provides the unlimited cash the latter don't otherwise have while unlocking the return potential the former lack.
I want to bust out my Jump to Conclusions Mat after reading this post.
Cloud computing is not yet a huge thing. Only 5% or so of corporate IT spending is for the cloud. Economically cloud computing is significantly more expensive so it only makes sense in a limited number of use cases (for example startups or when you have a massive temporary increase in demand).
You seem to be accessing it through a website. There are a lot of other tools for connecting to IRC - don't be afraid to try out Hexchat or some others.
Pinterest started that around 2014 if memory serves and it became quite popular for startups to follow suit but recently less so and I’ve even seen some roll-backs; ultimately many startup employees don’t understand equity and don’t optimize for it.
I like that username... :D
I didn't expect when I wrote this post that the decoupling caps comment would be the one that starts the HN flame thread. XD
They seem to have a pretty open api so I'm not sure there's actually any reverse engineering going on. They even allow you to build an app that streams audio in sync with the Spotify app. So it doesn't look they are violating anything in terms of functionality. They might be forced to change their name though (just guessing)

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/ios/
Subtext and shadows. PG essays are aimed directly at founders.
>Someone dumb enough to sacrifice their personal life to your "vision" to this extent will probably exhibit poor judgement in other aspects of your business.

Honestly, a lot of us programmers don't really have lives outside of work and enjoy what we do. Maybe that advantage inspires snark in those for whom work is not a 1# priority.
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It is not sarcasm. Stanford does indeed have the most alumni who founded unicorns. But Harvard, UC, and MIT round things out nicely, for American schools at least.

https://www.theatlas.com/charts/HJSgAUdPx
Philip Greenspun is a legend in the blogging space. One of the pioneers.

But that's not what Paul Graham said or implied. For him, having kids changed him. For others, it's a different effect.

If you'd rather be at the office until 1am, 7 days per week, don't get into a relationship. Nor have kids. Luckily, very few jobs are like that. And the people working there are doing so voluntarily.
Ever ridden a motorcycle? That certainly triggers a flow state when you're on a good curvy road, and the stakes are similarly real.
If the person has children works better than one without, hire the person with children. Also, don’t hire the person with children if there is such an exact person without it.
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I thought Go's GC was more wasteful of memory than Java's b/c of the focus on reduced pause times.
>Honestly, reading this article was the first time I saw a documented case of strobes causing seizures

It's been common knowledge at least since the Porygon episode of Pokemon[0] in the late 90s.

>It's possible (and this is purely speculation) that the attacker sent the strobe to give some comedic punch to the statement "you deserve a seizure" not expecting or hoping that it would actually cause a seizure.

It's possible but knowing people and the internet, it's more likely they were hoping an actual seizure would be the "comedic punch."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon
> We currently have two primary forms of government: dictatorship and democracy.

Hate to break it to you, but democracy and dictatorship are not mutually exclusive. See Kenneth Arrow.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo...
Inception marketing....I hope that doesn’t catch on, but it sounds like 2021’s growth hacking.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.

It's also a red herring. You stated that the science is settled. It is not. Not even close. "Settled" means that that there is a scientific consensus by all but a fringe, that MWI is the correct interpretation of QM. Of course, that is not the case, as should be blatantly obvious to you.

Besides which, nothing in science is ever "settled." It is always open to new interpretations when new data presents itself, or when a more persuasive theory is formulated. So on both counts your "settled" argument fails.

Furthermore, this statement is pretty bold, but let me re-write it, because it applies better to MWI than to the wave collapse function: "The Many Worlds conjecture is a purely unjustified extraneous detail that violates the scientific method to believe it without additional evidence."

The inability of the MWI to distinguish itself from the CI by any experiment, real or imagined, is the very reason why it has not gained traction.
You know, there's a special name for a stateless society where people are allowed to own any amount of any thing and enter into any agreement. It's called "feudalism"
I think a solution is less hiring at early stages (until you can afford it) and having co-founders hyper-focused on what’s important to the business (the ip) and they build and do the work to get it or the gate.
HN could implement an interview style vetting. A new post is shown to a N interviewers who vote yes/no. The stddev is sqrt of number of votes. Once the number of upvotes crosses the 95 tile, the post is admitted. Once the number of downvotes crosses the 95 tile, the post is rejected. Otherwise the post stays in the undecided area until it expires.
Does ambition matter for a non-founder?

If they were more ambitious they might always be looking for better, and bigger things.

I think companies care more if you are a mercenary or a kool-aid drinker. They want kool-aid drinkers that will give everything for the company without asking much, that's why they always go on about their mission as if it's a cult. Whether you are into that BS or not has nothing to do with if you had kids or not.
In 50 years we will look back on Juuls the same way we look back on cigarettes today.
Pension isn't infinite though, as you will die at some time, and the parameters on how long people can live are quite well known. For example, you should always take $2M up front at 70 instead of $50k per year indefinitely because you simply can't live long enough for the latter option to ever come out ahead.

* with the current state of medical science.
KDE's Krunner does a good enough job and is integrated pretty well with the plasma desktop.
> startup can do much better on work-life balance?

really? i never heard anyone said that
Rubys devs said the same thing about Java when Rails first came out.

Now look at Ruby, its stack is gigantic and cumbersome.

I guess Go will try to resist that, but over time Go will become burdened with a huge stack of outmoded software.
Is there a better solution for what to do when space is at a premium? The choices are:

- Don't post the link

- Post the link and let it get lopped off in the middle

- Post the link without adequate context surrounding it

- Create a shortened link that points to the original
Good thing that somebody had children, else you'd have to learn ALL the things your employees learned to do, so you could make big bucks and bragging rights from their labor.

Hey Christmas spirits ... I think we found Ebenezer again.
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Nothing unless it's close to somewhere strategically important to the US. But I'm not sure I see your point.
This is very much specific to NT's implementation. Originally they did the right thing and put it in userspace. Performance made them rethink that in NT 4. The NT story is most relevant since the vulnerable version in this story is a descendent of NT not of the DOS/Win 9X lineage. Windows NT is a from scratch rewrite.

You are correct GDI as an interface predates NT and protected mode in general, but the codebase used in NT is a different implementation.