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> “We’re not interested in the millions of devices of everyday citizens,” he [Comey] said in New York at Fordham University’s International Conference on Cyber Security. “We’re int…

I experienced the exact same feelings as you. Until I started interviewing candidates in quantity, I had no clue how many candidates cannot complete FizzBuzz. The reported failure …

> Title's probably aren't going to be given without some other political reasoning. They have to be claimed. Same goes for "Director", "Head of", and "VP" titles. Titles are rarely…

Tax Loss Harvesting. This is the sole reason why Betterment(/Wealthfront) is superior to Vanguard. The benefits of this technique more than offset any fees they charge.

I'm dismayed to see most of the advice given to you by HN is bad. I am in a very similar situation, and it has been ongoing for years. I have also been bullied for some substantial…

I don't know why you are getting downvoted. Clause #2 would require the inclusion of the BSD license with any release of compiled code. This is a very serious issue with the librar…

I agree in principle that Jeremy does not deserve any proceeds of the sale, because he did not contribute to any of the valuable IP that GM wants to acquire. But there is one serio…

Or, we all stop assuming that people are here to "humblebrag", and contribute different points of view. In addition, maybe we all use terminology that is widely understood by other…

Agreed. In computer science, CSP = Tony Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes. It's one of the foundations of Go's channel based architecture.

It really does explain a lot though. This is why, when down the road Facebook needs to make revenue or suffer the wrath of investors, your personal life will become their cash mach…

Not only that, but the Skype UI is totally different on every platform. I run the Windows client at home, the Linux client at work, and my boss runs the iOS client for team meeting…

The big problem I see with this idea is that scrappy, do-whatever-it-takes people almost never write clean code, checkin cleanly, test properly, and practice good product design. I…

Startups should realize that this is a thoroughly idiotic notion, and should abandon it ASAP. The one thing that large software companies do well is SHIP PRODUCTS. A good software …

Hoare's CSP is exactly this. It's not a programming language per se, but I know of several DSL's that were built using CSP syntax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_seque…

It's not a bogus argument. The author here is flat out incorrect. There are many bit-level resources on a modern FPGA which could be configured to both source and sink current on t…

The claim about RISC being a No is bizarre. RISC has definitely won, for 2 big reasons: 1. Intel redesigned their x86 processors to execute using a RISC model internally. AMD is us…

I find your comment about CS programs a bit misplaced. Are you aware that a research team from WVU actually uncovered this emissions problem in the first place? The "VW diesel-gate…

This would be a good time to point out that a similar auto software story found its way to HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204 Once Toyota's ECU code was revi…

Your comment is grossly overstating the issue, and unnecessarily inflammatory. I have reviewed the type hints syntax, and it's not so bad. It's doubtful that anything nicer can be …

Rumor has it that Altera was unhappy with Intel's process and was going to bail. Intel was so dependent on their cooperation that acquisition started to look good.

You should expect this trend to continue. Semiconductors have become a hideously expensive business, aggravated by fewer fabs and more draconian fab/IP acquisition costs. It's a we…

You forgot the most damaging one: - security It is impossible on a practical basis to secure any significant amount of cryptocurrency. Even the most secure known methods of storage…

Yes, they are a legitimate company. They showed up on the Bitcoin radar back in Nov 2013 [1]. They started as a private mining consortium with their own chip design, and now presum…

I am extremely glad that most comments here see the inherent craziness of this idea. I am a hardware designer who participated heavily in mining since Jan 2011, and gave up complet…