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jeffreyrogers
11,350karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
recent activity (2,915 total)
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Really impressive. He has several other similar projects on his site as well.
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I made something like this and briefly had it online but I didn't think there would be enough demand to make the time and costs of running it worth it.
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There weren't good CAD tools to send the designs to the machine until recently. Early CAD tools mostly produced drawings and it was a separate step to manufacture from there. The way inkjet and l…
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Median Voter Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
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No, they aren't giving up booking. They are extending booking to a third party. To solve the problem with race conditions (You book the last seat on the airline, I book the last hotel room, and n…
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In theory that patent is not valid since it is based on something that was already published, but I agree that in practice some companies will pay to avoid going to court.
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Relevant: https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-driving-xiaomi-su7-... "The CEO of Ford says he's been driving a Xiaomi EV for the past 6 months and doesn't want to …
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If you want long-term thinking then people have to be able to buy into stories about what's going to happen long-term. When Musk does that, you call it a lie. The benefit of financialization is t…
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IIRC the patent court and tax court are the only two that non-lawyers can practice at in the US.
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The US is actually permissive relative to other countries. In most countries if you disclose your invention before filing you lose the right to patent it.
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In theory you can't patent something that has already been described prior to the filing date. In practice I'm sure there's been things that've been patented that someone else inde…
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You can't really do it perfectly unless a single site handles all the booking, otherwise you have race conditions, and obviously there's no incentive for airlines, hotels, etc. to give up bo…
139 pts
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In the render it shows the airship directly loading while hovering above a warehouse. This is currently not allowed under FAA regulations and would require a regulatory change. Not being able to do th…
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It only happens with waffle pattern shirts and changing shirts causes a consistent decrease in blood pressure measurements. My doctor pointed it out when I got a physical because he'd seen the s…
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Wearing a waffle pattern shirt can also make the reading high. My blood pressure is 20 points higher if I wear a waffle pattern shirt than if I take it off.
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I learned to program around the peak of object oriented fetishization. Shortly after that came functional programming's moment, and now it seems we are slightly past Rust and other safety focused…
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The article is about how static sites are too complicated for normal people to set up, so people aren't getting those benefits for free because it's too hard for them to do. Edit: The other …
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If you cache the rendered content then almost all of the advantages of a static site go away, particularly if you are a platform and can amortize the infrastructure cost over all your users.
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It wasn't. If you told someone you dropped out of Harvard back then they would think you were making an odd choice. That said, it was never very risky since Harvard will take you back if you drop…
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YC gets such great terms (because they invest so early and have great deal flow) that it's hard to see them declining unless the current venture model stops working. It does seem that recent YC b…
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It's opinionated in a way I dislike. I don't actually have anything against opinionated software--tailwind is very opinionated about how you should write CSS but I like it because it matches…
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I like Go for this reason as well. In Python I found the Flask framework to be suitably unobtrusive enough to be nice to use (never liked Django), but deploying python is a hassle. Go is much better i…
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The comment was edited after I commented, it was originally much less substantive, and is improved now.
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Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, reveals your prejudice against social science, and could be copied and pasted anytime a non-rigorous subject comes up. I'm actually interested in crit…
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That was my point. If it were that much cheaper to in-house everything or if there were cheap SaaS alternatives that worked as well, companies would switch to them. Companies are paying for SaaS becau…