maker1138

Looks like there needs to be March for Engineers on Beaverton OR.

Wow. Just watched the BioRing campaign video. How could anyone think that was real?

I didn't see anything in the manual about streams. If they do, I'm sure they'll be fine as long as you don't cross them.

I'm surprised at how many people are responding negatively to software that improves user experience.

Suppose we had started out with the command UI that gitless has and someone came along and tried to sell us the current git cli UI. It would be completely ridiculed.

The only thing possibly questionable about the gitless interface is that it does away with staging. However, you can always fall back to git for staging functionality if you like, and use gitless for most other commands. I think it is a win.

They are not paying $250k per employee. You have to factor in payroll taxes, paying accountants to keep books and CPAs to do taxes, benefits, and a multitude of other regulation-imposed payroll costs.

All of this is to support salaries of around $125k - $150k.

The same goes for pretty much any employer. If a fast food restaurant hires someone at $8/hr, it actually costs them around $16/hr to hire the employee.

In a free market Let's Encrypt could probably cut its expenses to close to half what it's at now.

It's amazing how many people didn't actually read all 4 parts of the article.

His argument has nothing to do with caching or prefetching, etc.

First, it's about random access. You can't prefetch a random fetch!

Second, he's measuring time, a perfectly valid thing to do. And the reality is when you lay your memory cells out in 2 dimensions it takes order of sqrt(n) time to fetch a random memory cell value, where n is the number of memory cells you're using.

Third, it turns out order of sqrt(n) time is the best you can do even if you had the best technology in the universe.

How would increased taxes and mandatory benefits reduce the cost of employees?

Increased employee costs make an employer less likely to take risks and produce pressure to hire less workers. Then a few workers gain at the expense of others not having a job at all. Why do you hate workers?

This is why there needs to be less taxes and mandatory benefits. Counter-intuitively, these things work together to reduce the number of jobs and reduce worker flexibility and happiness.

The solution to the problem is not preventing people from communicating securely.

After all human history where jocks ruled the earth, they're now upset that nerds are becoming important?

In Japanese, the word for filler is "Naruto".

The biggest problem is intellectual property. Copyright lasts life + 70 years and patents last 20 years. That's a long time to have a legal monopoly on something, and is partly why companies are so big and can behave so badly.

Innovation comes through competition, not monopoly. Ideally, we'd eliminate patents and copyrights altogether, but as a compromise, I think having terms of 3 years, with no renewals, is fair. That way a business can capitalize on what it creates and get a 3 year head start on competition, but you still get competition fairly soon which benefits consumers.