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(project author here) That is pretty close to the approach this project has taken, although my motivation was not so much avoiding IP as exploring the line between hardware acceler…

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This reminds me of the old Yogi Berra quip "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

I read the book "Why Nations Fail." I found it to be poorly organized and repetitive. But the biggest problem I had with it was that it suffered from the fallacy of the single caus…

They abandoned the atom concept for ELF & PE/COFF for the reason you described. https://llvm.cc/t/llvmdev-lld-improvement-plan/274 " The atom model is not the best model for some a…

Yeah, the title (and contents) of the story are total clickbait, but they did helpfully attach the full contents of the FOIA dump. As you point out, there is ambiguity (which is wh…

Vice published emails via FOIA that suggest he had made concerns known before leaking: https://news.vice.com/story/exclusive-snowden-tried-to-tell-... This suggests it is at least …

"Appearing to genuinely care" is different than being empathetic. The former implies the person doesn't really care, the latter is by definition concern for another person. My comm…

This seems negligent on the part of HR (as well as genuinely awful). In California, all managers are required by law to take three hours of sexual harassment training every other y…

One thing that I think is important, and I've struggled with, is making 'fault' be a synonym for 'control'. There's this broken thought pattern where any perceived failure is eithe…

"And you still manage to prove that your system is 100x more reliable than human driver." That's the rub: how do you prove that? If your software stack is 30 million lines of code …

I think for many people nowadays, privacy is a quaint, antiquated notion, like Victorian modesty. Things like social media and YouTube have encouraged people to make their lives pu…

Increasing H1Bs certainly isn't Trump's stated position. While he hasn't mentioned it directly, he had Disney workers who were replaced by H1B workers speak at a rally: http://www.…

The middle managers are given directions by the CEO. The CEO needs to meet profit targets, or she'll be fired by the board. The board is beholden to the shareholders. There's alway…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_agency

There are lots of offices above the retail spaces on University Ave in Palo Alto, and have been plenty of small companies there for decades. I don't think people were upset about t…

Do you think lisp being a bit of a niche specialization makes it easier or harder to find people for your roles?

A while back, as spent 3 months sourcing my own candidates as an engineering manager and it was enlightening. I spent a while on each candidate, finding their github repo, personal…

"The only problem is that electric cars won't do anything directly to mitigate global warming, because they will still be powered largely by fossil fuel." But electrical generation…

hopefully! :)

My electric bill went up by about $80 the first month I got my electric car. Computing the cost is a bit tricky because I have tiered billing and I'm hitting the next higher tier s…

I've had a Leaf for going on a year now and one thing I love about it is that I never need to worry about the inconvenience of stopping at a gas station. :) But I'm with you that I…

"decided he wanted to implement a rasterizer (I'd gotten my fill)" I see what you did there. :)

I'm trying to be charitable in my interpretation, but "always" is a strong word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Rakyat http://gizmodo.com/the-sad-fate-of-the-worlds-six-talles…

"I mean, have you ever heard of a building project going 3x over budget and then not actually delivering a building at all?" Construction projects go over budget and are late all t…