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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
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What are the advantages of this over TeX/LaTeX? I already know LaTeX quite well as will most people who are looking for a typesetting system.
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Shouldn't this link directly to GitHub instead? ( https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch ) Also, just in case the author of Snabb Switch is reading this, it would be really he…
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This is really interesting. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar sites/challenges? I'm aware of this: https://microcorruption.com/ , which is somewhat related.…
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Someone else posted this: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7791612 which is a useful comparison. Looks like AWS still has the top spot, but what's impressive is how…
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I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, because you're correct. The reason C has so many undefined and unspecified cases was so that the implementation was relatively easy for compiler …
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Since this was written in 1997 and C, C++, and Java have all evolved considerably since then (And Ada?) I'd be interested to see an updated version of this. Also, I remember hearing/reading …
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Fabien Sanglard (whose entire site is worth looking through), has an excellent list of books to consider as well: http://fabiensanglard.net/Computer_Graphics_Principles_and_P... …
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Here is the project page: http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/ If you scroll to the bottom you can see the "facts" this program has most recently learned along with its confidenc…
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This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it has much use outside of proof of concept. Most people don't need to use the command line, and those who do don't find it that difficult.…
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I'm not really sure you're getting downvoted, since your point of view is pretty reasonable (even if many will disagree with it), and you've expressed it fairly respectfully.
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I can't tell if you're joking or not. The popularity of GitHub and its position as the defacto modern source control management tool demonstrate that very few people hold your point of vie…
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Ah okay, thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't aware that was possible.
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If my understanding of model checking is correct (which I believe is the primary method of formal verification) I don't think this would help much in the case of Heartbleed. The Heartbleed error …
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The content here is interesting, but I don't like the way the information is displayed. Most of the time when I read HN I skim the articles I'm interested since it's not worth my time t…
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Ah, that makes sense. I wasn't aware that's how it worked.
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Is it really a problem that completion rates are low though? I'd argue that most people's time is better spent on things other than taking online courses. I'm a proponent of making educ…
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I recall reading some proposal for dumping nuclear waste in the Marianas Trench. The rational had something to do with tectonic shifting eventually pushing the waste into the Earth's mantle.
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Maybe I just have a hard time reasoning about large numbers, but thinking about it terms of 1/5 of the capacity of a supertanker makes it seem much more serious to me than just reading the number…
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Plus, what happens when the power goes out and now I can't receive email?
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I don't think you'll be able to access these. My university uses Piazza as well and you need a university .edu email address to get access to the Piazza boards. Fortunately, if the way MIT u…
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I can't speak for the GP, but I've found (as a student), that writing down the things I have due or have to accomplish by a certain date on my calendar frees up a lot of mental energy. I…
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I've read a number of papers recently discussing various software design techniques for improving the ease with which bug-free code can be reduced. Most of these papers are infeasible in practice…