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jeffreyrogers
11,351karma·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
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Yes, that's what I meant.
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Interesting fact about Git is that it was self hosting in two weeks, IIRC.
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It was mostly an example. And it's relatively to avoid the IP issues. Just don't let employees personal computers be part of the corporate Plan 9 system.
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My understanding of Plan 9 is that the primary benefits it brought are in its ability to make a large collection of computers look like one unified system. So rather than asking what would it look lik…
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Ah okay, thanks for pointing that out. I just skimmed the article. Also, I don't think that I suggested that explains all of it, and it certainly doesn't in the case where 42.5% of the stude…
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I noticed the article compared Harvard's admission percentage to Caltech (19% to 25%). If you're going to make that comparison it's worth noting that a significant fraction of Harvard s…
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I think the OP was expressing concern over Let's Encrypt being installed on servers and potentially doing malicious things. Of course, if you apply this logic to Let's Encrypt you could just…
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I take it you've read the source code of Apache and Nginx then and confirmed that they aren't doing anything malicious as well? :) In any practical security system you are always going to ha…
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I'm not sure why you've been downvoted. This is a very reasonable concern and one that should be addressed.
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Good points. I think I'm in agreement with you.
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Survivorship bias. What about all the other companies that were the size of Berkshire Hathaway in the 60s, Microsoft in the 80s, Apple in the 90s, etc. that didn't develop into massive successes?…
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It's only a small market in today's (arguably inflated) valuations. Plenty of publicly traded companies have valuations in the millions, rather than billions.
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There are three primary methods of running code: interpretation, compilation to object code, and running on a VM/JIT. Obviously python is interpreted by any meaningful definition of interpretatio…
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Managing that much money must be an enormous challenge since there are so few places where you can put a substantial amount of it.
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It may be because of implementation complexity? C was designed with the compiler writer in mind (which is why so many things are undefined... to make it easier for compiler writers), so if co-routines…
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The author is aware of that. In one of the references he notes that PuTTY uses this trick and calls it "the worst piece of C hackery ever seen in serious production code."
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I think there are compiler flags available that will do this (at least the bounds checking). When talking about C it's important to understand why the standard is the way it is. C was designed to…
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While I don't mind the cold too much, for me the darkness in the winter is really frustrating. It seems like such a small thing, but when it gets dark at 4:15 it really takes away my motivation t…
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I upvoted you because I don't like that criticism of YC seems to get an instant downvote on HN, however, I disagree with you and think that the reasons put forward for stopping the ideas threads …
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I came across the site this is on through this article on Grothendieck, however, the whole site is excellent. This page ( http://inference-review.com/introduction ) gives an overview of…
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Sometimes with this sort of thing you can exploit symmetry in the game board to reduce the amount of work you need to do. I don't know enough about Go (or anything at all really) to say if that&…
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Just wanted to comment to say that the book you mentioned is great, as are most of the other things that economist, Tyler Cowen, has written. He and a colleague have a blog, http://marginal…
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We can't predict what startup is going to succeed, why do we think we can predict what the future of AI will look like?