jnevelson

How can a simulation be more accurate than what it's simulating?

I'd be curious to see if the crash rate is similar to the crash rate of other cars in the same class (BMW, Mercedes, etc). Is it possible that people tend to drive more cautiously in a more expensive car?

> Without spreading the achievements of science and technology to everyone on the planet, humanity is doomed.

Forget ethics/morals for a second - this is just patently _false_. It depends on your definition of "doomed", but humanity as a whole needs only a few people to survive in order to not be doomed (defined as extinct).

It'd be easier to argue your case without hyperbole.

Those "largely-irrelevant sci-fi stories" are partially what helped inspire the people that accomplished this.

Ignorant question (I'm not very familiar with the music business): what do the labels provide to the artists - why do they need to sign with Time Warner/Sony/etc at all, rather than just releasing their music to all distribution channels (Spotify/Apple Music/etc) themselves? I understand for smaller artists the labels can help provide advertising to them, but the larger, well-known stars you mention seem like they should have leverage to negotiate themselves?

Haha. I can see how someone would think I'm trolling, but I assure you I'm not. It's a pretty deeply-ingrained behavior that I perform quite often, so yes, it does make a difference. FF57 is still not so much better than Chrome (to me, anyways) that it's worth dealing with re-learning this for me.

Not all calories are created equal.

Here's my point of view as someone who's title currently is "Senior DevOps Engineer", and used to be a software engineer for many years:

DevOps has multiple meanings - in some (usually smaller) companies it can be thought of as a philosophy in that all developers are responsible for managing production infrastructure and their deployments. As a company scales, and the codebase grows, people have to start specializing. It's just not feasible for everyone to have perfectly overlapping skillsets and be completely replaceable by each other. It happens with frontend/backend, and it happens with "DevOps". I focus on our production infrastructure, making sure deployments are smooth, our database has backups, etc. That doesn't mean that other developers are completely detached from our production environment - if there's an issue in production multiple parties are involved in working through it and fixing.

I personally interchange the title DevOps Engineer with Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Ops/SysOps Engineer, etc. Different companies have different titles, but I'd wager that the majority of those positions tend to perform work of a similar nature. Depending on the size of the company, some may specialize even more (i.e. a large company may have SRE to focus on production/monitoring, and someone else to focus on deployments). It definitely varies company to company, but by and large I think it can all be grouped under "software operations", which itself is a subset of software engineering.

I'd be very interested in hearing more as well. Email is username @ gmail. Thank you!

I'm not even the target market (too young), and this is my favorite job board already. Very fast to navigate around - speed IS a feature! Also love how granular the locations are.

For me it's not so much the slow start-up time - that I can deal with since it happens so infrequently - it's the intermittent lag when typing or selecting text, and the high memory and CPU usage. A text editor should not be consuming 100% of a CPU core for almost any length of time and making my laptop sound like an aircraft carrier.

I love the concept of Atom (OSS text editor is awesome!), but it's bordering on unusable for me at the moment.

And this threat right here is exactly why encryption is so important.

Need to take dilution into account here. If we assume a (optimistic?) 1% stake, that's $650M.

YC recently (1-2 years ago?) started giving 120k. Before that, it was 10-20k. So let's say half of what you said is the total investment = 65M.

That's a 10X return. I actually was expecting higher. Am I missing something in my numbers?