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"Complete results, architectural decisions, and runnable code below." This is a weird post, there doesn't seem to be any "below" here. Another comment linked the article: https://h…

What role do you play in creating software? If you don't need to see any code, should your employer consider cutting your position? I'm very much pro-humans-in-the-workforce, but I…

It applies to the technical track too, which has levels you can move up. The names of levels vary from company to company, but most seem to have ~10, so there’s plenty of room to m…

In tech companies, there’s usually both technical and management tracks, and you can be promoted up the ladder (many times over) without changing jobs. At a certain point you’ll do…

From Gemini: The Original Intent of the 14th Amendment The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, primarily to overturn the Supreme Court's infamous 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sand…

A million trillion operations per second is literally an exaflop. That's one hell of a GPU you have.

> if you don't go into management after about five years, usually it is seen as a failure to grow up on their career I don't see how that's possible. Wouldn't such a norm result in…

> Programming as theory-building Sounds similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence .

I don’t know the exact utilization, but most large supercomputers that I’m familiar with have very high utilization, like around 90%. The Slurm/PBS queue times can sometimes be mea…

Stephenson had a rough start in my opinion—Snow Crash isn’t really his best. Try Anathem instead. If you don’t like that, you probably won’t like Stephenson.

Model checking can be used to formally verify state machines. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking .

Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) compilers/runtimes do something similar to that. Unified Parallel C (UPC, https://upc.lbl.gov/ ) and Coarray Fortran/Coarray C++ ( https://d…

> niche domains I’m not sure if I would call movies and video games “niche”.

Irony?

What country are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?

I don’t read the NYTimes technology section frequently, but whenever I have it’s always seemed more like a “Silicon Valley-themed politics” section to me. Not at all like any of th…

As someone who doesn’t design websites for a living, I’m always a little baffled by strong reactions to website designs, especially ones like this one that don’t look all that diff…

I think he's saying that if there are 10 million citizens demanding something, and they're certain that they're correct, then it might require the National Guard to prevent them fr…

If I saw someone pour grape juice from a teaspoon into their drink, I would definitely assume that "grape juice" was slang for some type of drug, since people don't generally pour …

Came here to say this. It drives me nuts when people unconsciously identify all software engineering with web application design.

“Never mind the 1%, let’s talk about the 0.01%” Sincerely, The 1%

What about Intel, AMD, and other chip makers? Under the definition of tech company that you mentioned, they wouldn’t be.

Huang is a professional mathematician at Emory.