Nelson69

I thought MS killed that name forever.

There is a lot of truth to this. Find "design partners" early in the process and build the MVP for them. After several iterations of making requests and providing feedback that you action on, they're a lot more willing to buy, especially if you give them a sweetheart discount.

Unless it's some sort of bauble or obviously useful tool to them, I think it'll be difficult to sell MVP without any of their input.

After 30 years, I don't think spam is going to get solved with email.

That is a particularly good memory.

No idea but I suspect the "unified" on chip memory is very very quick.

Some friends and I were BSing about the "pro" level parts, it you can graft 2 or 4 M1s together, use off chip RAM and then treat that onboard 16GB like cache? We're talking about some game changing stuff.

Has anyone calculated the carbon foot print of parsing JSON?

It's more than morale, it's just being a good human.

If a promotion is coming down to how someone got thanked by a peer, if that's the differentiator like some of these poster are suggesting, then it's probably not a great place.

Be a good human, thank people and express gratitude whenever they help you. Our culture has become so jaded in some many ways that it actually sort of disarms some folks. they will help you more in the future. When someone asks for help, help them, stretch to do it, it can be hard to ask for help so make it worth their while to take that risk. Give praise, it costs you nothing. It will pay dividends in the long run, big ones that you probably can't imagine yet. Being someone that people like to work with is huge...

I'll get myself some down voting here... I kind of like asking questions about data structures and algorithms. I don't see them as simple black and white questions though. I see several values: 1) If you're a "computer science" degreed person, I expect basic understanding of basic algorithms and data structures. As for your basic job stuff, things like Java have multiple implementations of maps or hash tables you should have some idea when to pick one vs the other. I don't think that's off limits. 2) I like to ask a couple challenges or questions that sort of make the interviewee a little uncomfortable, not to get the answer but to work with them on it and see how they work through that situation. I intentionally try not to be cruel but I want them to think, I want to communicate with them as they sort through it, I want to see how that stuff goes. I've had 60+ minute conversations about engineering a professional grade hash table and the different things you have to consider, that's good stuff. The 3rd thing, and this is maybe more subtle, there is a gigantic difference between implementing quick sort and qsort in glibc, the same can be said about most algorithms and data structures and I think at least a cursory knowledge of that is an indication of some wisdom. Should you be asked to implement data structure x or classical algorithm y, understanding the mechanics beyond simply copying it out of a text book indicates some wisdom.

I think this program is generally well intentioned. I directly know organizations that benefited from it and it absolutely helped cushion the blow of initial lock-down. I also think that any time the US federal government is offering out free or low cost money it is imperative that we look closely and carefully, especially when the program was thrown together in a week or two.

"Need" is probably not the way to look at this, anytime there is "free money" there will be incredibly wealthy businesses and organizations with "need." There is a school of thought that you should "always need" free money. I think that's just business. I think the actual distribution is where you look.

It would be completely foolish, ATMO, to believe that every organization, bank, and business were treated equally or fairly in this process. We already know that banks like Cross River handled what appears to be a disproportional amount of the approved "loans," presumably because they are a slick fintech business. When the dust fully settles, I would be shocked if the distribution of the funds or the forgiveness was in any way egalitarian, the country just isn't. I fully expect that it will be another mechanism in which certain classes benefit from the US system and others will have been overlooked. And maybe there will be another excuse, minority owned small businesses may not have been as "well banked" as others or something and your choice of bank will be another differentiator. I've heard a couple stories of orgs that didn't even get applications from their banks until the fund was depleted. There will be some great success stories too, I'll reiterate that I think the program is based in good intentions. I just can't see it being executed fairly though, not when they're actually debating on whether the Bubba Wallace noose was a "hoax" or not and the president chimes in...

Can they not buy insurance for this?

A while back I helped a startup that was doing managed video services, specifically internal surveillance. A very logical "service" for them was to have actual humans review and verify various incidents and so they staffed up a small team of hourly video watchers.

It was a culture shock. Things like acceptable workplace attire were issues; and there was no store-front or exposure to customers, it was just what's acceptable in a professional office. Someone quitting with no notice wasn't uncommon. I think the most shocking aspect was most lived in this sort of land of grand illusion, they had no concept that there were non-hourly jobs or workers building the system they used. All of them lived in a fairly delicate balance, a small inconvenience like some car trouble was potentially life altering for them. We did these somewhat terrible Thursday night deployments (think 4 hours most of the time) and more than a few times some of these guys wanted to "help" to get some overtime pay, they were incredulous at the idea that we didn't get paid extra for that. Everyone deserves dignity and respect but it's also easy to see how these untrusting sorts of institutions come to be.

The big difference between ordering on Amazon and walking in to a Walmart is you have to look some of those people in the eye in Walmart. Credit to Tim for shining a little light on this. I've sort of thought that we might be in for a wave of 21st century unionization, I think the floor is a lot lower than that though. It's hard to imagine what could spark a cultural shift that would unite workers in today's world.

They did. AMD had a very strong position against the Pentium IV era offerings from Intel. They took it on the chin for a couple years and then the came out with Core2 and pretty solidly handled AMD for a while.

AMD doesn't look nearly as one dimensional as they did then, power consumption wasn't as interesting and Intel came out with a low power play; this time AMD seems to have offerings in every category that are compelling. It's really hard to bet against Intel with their long history though. I wouldn't be surprised if they come out strong when they get their process stuff sorted.

I was consolidating a lot of backup media over the winter break a few months back and I actually saw some "XF86Config.good" files that I saved from the early 1990s...

It's actually quite amazing how far we've come.

He's cashed in on this theft to the tune of "$50m-$100m" what would it take to constitute mallace?

Sure, he's not building war weapons or anything like that, but he stole the IP and he made an F* ton of money from it, specifically selling it to competitors. That seems like about the only malicious thing you could do with that IP, if you ask me. Being not malicious would be if it did that for free.

What are the odds that he ends up living kind of normal after this? Like living in the suburbs in a 2500sqft house and commuting to some job that pays $130k? I think close to nil.