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You don't keep the privilege of speaking "on behalf of" a company after your departure. This comment pretty much broadcasts "think twice about hiring me," so I hope that was your i…

Completely tangential and irrelevant, but scandalous nonetheless. A scandalous comment is karma bait on HN.

You should heed this advice BECAUSE you are based in the U.S.

Not only that, "we are complicit in the crime" is open and shut liability. That's probably the worst thing anybody could ever write, legally, on behalf of a company. The victim car…

It's not a throttle, it's the "physical" capacity of the "interface". If you're on an instance with gigabit connectivity and you're doing 1 Gb/s of EBS I/O, other network chatter w…

Ephemeral is definitely not EBS, as its I/O does not contribute to saturating an instance's network connection (I've tested that). EBS has a ceiling for throughput (the instance's …

> Well Objective C is a separate language entirely. Not quite; Objective-C is a superset of C. You can write pure C and compile it as Objective-C all day long. This is an important…

Diesel, on-highway in New England, is averaging $4.205/gal[1] (probably more in the city, especially more in a disaster situation). Applying your information to the above question …

Ruling out a product and dismissing it based on projected ROI is not criticism. That would be called "making a business decision," not providing constructive feedback.

I didn't put words in his mouth, he wrote that they were lying to managers and possibly being deceptive. You also misquoted me, which is ironic given your criticism. Your postulati…

People who have never used software should be critical of "here's what our software can do with inexperienced hands, maybe you'll do better"? I'd much rather default to giving bene…

Dismissal is not constructive criticism. There's a sizable difference between "meh, nothing to see here" (which is the original comment in this thread) and "here's how this could b…

I, like pg and hopefully other Hacker News readers, am pretty sick of every story about something cool being immediately derailed by a know-it-all in an industry dismissing the inn…

glibc's malloc() is known to be lackluster under parallel workloads. Alternatives do perform better in certain circumstances, but profile before making the switch -- your situation…

Oh, now they're lying? Care to back that one up? That's a steep accusation that you should probably reconsider attaching to your name. They wrote a tool to find things to paralleli…

All of what you say is wise, but the engineer doesn't work for the studio and isn't on Doom 3's release timeline. He made the game's frame rate 15% faster of his own volition simpl…

> Instead of spending 3 weeks wrapping data structures in mutexes for a 15% framerate increase, you could probably get an equivalent speedup by reducing shader detail, texture size…

Came for the dismissive hand-waving that I fully expected to be the top comment and I wasn't disappointed. What's the improvement factor where you'd be impressed? 50%? 60%? It's re…

> Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. htt…

Markdown is a specific implementation, a concept lost on the majority of the people in this thread.

> What both Jeff and Gruber bring to the party is profile. As the article points out, there are already variants of Markdown that fix many of the problems but it would seem none of…

> Markdown is not some amazing patented invention that John Gruber is entitled to perpetual dictatorial rights to forever. Completely wrong. Markdown is John Gruber's creation, and…

That's precisely what we should assume, because it's the facts as presented. Inferring things that don't exist because they benefit the parties in question is a subtle undercurrent…