If you’re not doing minimalist bare metal (which will not support exceptions), you’re burdening your users with greater power requirements, bugs, and required firmware updates (or security holes) for the life of the device. Don’t put Linux on there. Make it do the bare minimum it has to do, expose minimal interfaces, and flash it into your MCU forever. Folks who design IoT should be planning for a mean lifetime of 20 years for their products. And no, I’m not going to buy shit that requires me to update firmware on three dozen different things in my house.
Those folks have been through the communist grinder too. It’s only the doe-eyed idealists here in the US who think they’ll do it right this time, just like their Russian counterparts 100 years ago. 100M deaths later we’re back to square one.
That reminds me of an old (and highly illegal at the time) Soviet joke: it’s 1917, the Russian revolution is getting into its full swing. An old man is lying on a couch reading a newspaper. His grandson runs into a room, and excitedly proclaims: “Grandfather, Bolsheviks have seized the means of production, and there will be no rich people anymore”. To which the old man replies: “Funny, the revolutionaries of my generation fought so there’d be no _poor_ people anymore”.
Google is very “Chinese Revolution” on the inside. You can totally have negative career and social consequences for being public at work about your conservative viewpoints and voting preferences. At the same time you can have positive consequences for signaling virtue to liberals. You could say “that’s not Google” doing this, but the thing is, Google totally supports, condones, and encourages this behavior.
But those are internal affairs, so you might argue this is irrelevant. But recently this attitude slipped outside with YouTube demonetization of conservative commentators, forced de-trending of popular conservative videos and forced trending of liberal ones?
If you want to play this ball, expect defense to get involved.
It’s only fair. Google goes after conservatives, conservatives go after Google. Don’t want your fortunes to depend on politics? Easy solution: stay out of politics. Be neutral and above the fray, declare political discourse (all of it, not just conservative points of view) socially unacceptable at work.
One thing people don’t realize is those phones you’re carrying, strictly speaking contain more than one “computer”. There are 3 classical CPUs alone in an iPhone: main CPU, CPU that runs the Secure Enclave, and CPU that runs the motion coprocessor. Then there’s also an MCU in the WiFi chip, and another one driving the sensors such as gyros and accelerometers. And that’s without considering the GPU as a separate processor. Shit, Apple Watch contains more than one “computer” nowadays. Frickin’ Raspberry Pi runs two operating systems simultaneously: one on the GPU and one on the CPU.
It might be powerful, but if something goes wrong it’s impossible to debug. That alone negates all of its advantages to me. I don’t like magic I can’t debug or see source code for.
I looked at OpenCV and while OpenCV itself has a pretty decent license, its dependencies would give your lawyer PTSD if you were working on a commercial product. I’m not sure, therefore, how ARKit in particular could include it.
People have just drunk so much “cheap commodity hardware” kool aid by now, they don’t realize there are cheaper and easier ways of doing things now, assuming you have devs who can code and tune for performance. Same with “big data”. Most people have sub-1T datasets. You simply don’t need Spark or anything custom for that.
But in the case of ARM, you _do_ know, if you manufacture it yourself. ARM licenses intellectual property, not sells chips. Once you buy a license, you can inspect it and make sure it doesn’t have the bits you don’t like.
Hillary wasn't worthy of her nomination, and yet here we are. Jeb Bush attempted the same thing, but failed very early on.
You're failing to recognize that GOP establishment hates Trump just as much as Democratic establishment does. They would rather fail themselves than let him win, because they feel it in their guts that if he wins, he won't keep them around for long. He's an anti-establishment candidate. That's the platform he ran on, and that's the platform he will run on in 2020 (and likely win again, unless Democrats can suppress their utter disdain for rural, working class voters).
And you try to beat Cruz or Rubio (let alone “arrogant” Clinton and the entirety of mainstream press), and then come here and tell us if it’s a noteworthy accomplishment.
I think it’s everybody else that’s “easily distracted”. He uses his Twitter as a laser pointer with a cat, and he has been doing so for years. You don’t win an election against the Clinton political dynasty if you’re “easily distracted”.
People you’re negotiating with want you to buy their line that their equity is worth something so they could pay you less. What would you get as eg employee #10? Half a percent or less. Most startups exit under $100M, and your 0.5% turns into 0.25% due to dilution. It’s also vested over 4 years. We’re talking $250k max over 4 years, with a 5% chance you’ll get anything at all. You’d have to be seriously arithmetically challenged to take that seriously.
Unless you are employee #1-5, the correct approach to valuing equity is to not consider it to be worth anything. For employees 1-5, divide the numbers the CEO gives you by at least 10 to account for risk, and then demand a competitive base pay.
As someone who actually ended up in ER with a badly broken ankle once, I beg to differ. After surgery, Percocet was the only reason I could sleep for the first few days. I got off it as soon as I could, though.
Edit: I just wanted to point out there are different degrees of “acute extremity pain”. There’s “I bumped my toe against a chair leg” kind, and then there’s “I can’t breathe because I’m in shock” kind. Opioids are appropriate for the latter.
If they are playing this smart, there should be a bench of people, nearly as experienced, and willing to bust their ass twice as hard for half as much.
I don’t think so. Intel has world leading fab capabilities. Once they shrink the process, perf per watt ratio should improve quite a bit. It will be a really hard slog for everybody else to roll out 7nm and beyond.