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    Comment #47173155

    The problem wouldn’t be your competitors cribbing your ideas, it would be more like letting anyone with a bone to pick audit you for minor compliance violations, customers relying …

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    Comment #46894236

    Author is Vice President of AI, 1X Technologies.

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    Comment #46612250

    Are you saying people worked less than 40 hours a week or more than 40 hours a week in those organizations? I’m assuming over, but it’s unclear to me from the tone of your post.

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    Comment #46417930

    Longer contracts are riskier. The benefit of having cheaper RAM when prices spike is not strong enough to outweigh the downside of paying too much for RAM when prices drop or stay …

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    Comment #45872501

    Thanks for all your hard work!

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    Comment #45647085

    Founding engineer is the worst role in tech

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    Comment #45563799

    Best I can tell is that overflow is undefined behavior for signed ints in C/C++ so -O3 with gcc might remove a check that could only be true if UB occurred. The compound predicate …

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    Comment #45563684

    Care to share a language where the compiler infers the semantic meaning of asserts and optimizes them away? I’ve never heard of this optimization.

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    Comment #45562578

    Add(x,y): Assert( x >= 0 && y>= 0 ) z = x + y Assert( z >= x && z >= y ) return z There’s definitely smarter ways to do this, but in practice there is always some way to encode the…

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    Comment #45164658

    I forget there are people who don’t configure softwrap in their text editor. Some languages (java) really need the extra horizontal space if you can afford it and aren’t too hard t…

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    Comment #45161657

    Apple has a history of adding sensors, security chips, etc. a few revisions before the feature they support launches. It’s a really good idea because it helps them sort out the sup…