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New comment by dj_axl in "Fast Factorial Algorithms"

dj_axl — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:37:08 +0000

No mention of any of these!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089396591...

New comment by dj_axl in "Oracle stock gains 36% to post best day since 1992, adding $244B in value"

dj_axl — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:44:14 +0000

OpenAI contract, "Sept 10 (Reuters) - OpenAI has signed a contract to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years from Oracle".

New comment by dj_axl in "We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains"

dj_axl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:10:28 +0000

Just wire neurons (human or otherwise) to computers, and see what happens.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs...

New comment by dj_axl in "Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?"

dj_axl — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:00:41 +0000

Any niche? I mean, possibly large-scale data processing, yet I've seen people go more niche than that. In other words if your resume has 5+ years in one particular industry then that might be whom to target.

New comment by dj_axl in "Do AI companies work?"

dj_axl — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:35:15 +0000

You're perhaps forgetting Waymo at $30B

New comment by dj_axl in "Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed"

dj_axl — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 02:14:00 +0000

> diskless laptop with a USB live distro with no RW filesystem

Which distro? One known problem is that browsers still transmit their location. If the network and the laptop are hundreds of yards distant, that's an instant red flag. Once that problem is corrected, there may be unknown problems to deal with.

New comment by dj_axl in "Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?"

dj_axl — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 19:06:30 +0000

Have an upvote. The "Note: It is allowed to cost money." reminds me that the $5 charge on MeFi filters out alot of noise. However, this doesn't necessarily promote an increase in quality. Much of the discussion can be, like Reddit, cute or snarky one-liner comments.

New comment by dj_axl in "Real talk from real computer science teachers"

dj_axl — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:31:51 +0000

You're right about the pay for teachers. However if you look at the way it's worked out for adjunct professors at the college level, the part-time pay is even less, plus they miss out on benefits. If there's any high school teachers' union involved, I'd bet they'd be against allowing part-time teachers.

Once I chanced upon an ad for high school comp sci teacher. They were willing to waive the Master's degree requirement as well as the teaching credential requirement. As you note, the pay was ridiculously low, about 30-35% less than industry salary for a fresh-out-of-school graduate. Would have been nice though, for someone eager to teach but wanting to skip the 2-4 years of extra training.

New comment by dj_axl in "Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program"

dj_axl — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:35:50 +0000

> they're getting paid the same or more than existing software devs.

Ha. Look at some writeups of the SoCal Edison outsourcing, for example. U.S. citizens making $95K were replaced with H1-B workers earning $60-65K, and that's generously estimating the lower salaries. Tata and Infosys might pay their workers closer to $40-50K.

https://www.google.com/search?q=socal+edison+h1b+wages

New comment by dj_axl in "The Economist's US college rankings"

dj_axl — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:35:36 +0000

> There seems to be a major issue with cost-of-living adjustments

Yep yep. Otis College of Art and Design "overperforming" for $42k salary is ridiculous. The title Junior Graphic Designer pays around $40k* in Los Angeles, where Otis is located. Therefore, the average for graduates is as-expected. *Source: Glassdoor.

New comment by dj_axl in "My Dark California Dream"

dj_axl — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 06:33:30 +0000

> I tried the Metro, but it didn't go where I wanted to go somehow.

Metro rail is not complete coverage, however the extension out to Santa Monica (West LA) is opening early 2016. As you say, the buses get mired in traffic all too often.

New comment by dj_axl in "How the 'hoverboards' took off in spite of laws against them"

dj_axl — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:24:40 +0000

I wish this were the law everywhere. It varies by jurisdiction. "Each city in California has its own rules about riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Some cities allow sidewalk riding, some don’t. Check with your city’s municipal code." (http://la-bike.org/resources/california-bicycle-laws)

New comment by dj_axl in "Hitler's Drug Addiction"

dj_axl — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:04:42 +0000

> I'm a little leery of articles like this that are so demonizing

Particularly when the article avoids comparison to either modern military drug usage, or allied military drug disbursement at the time. "British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the second world war and the RAF used so many that "Methedrine won the Battle of Britain" according to one report."

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

New comment by dj_axl in "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief"

dj_axl — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:46:20 +0000

> I saw racist and sexist posts personally

Honestly Reddit in general could be taken as "racist and sexist" by an outsider. By an outsider. The humor tends to be sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top, and in-group. For example any references to /r/pyongyang can be written off, 99% of the time it's part of a dedicated running joke that's not intentionally malicious. Pao as Hitler is jarring? You seem naively unfamiliar with Reddit.

New comment by dj_axl in "We need to rethink employee compensation"

dj_axl — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:30:01 +0000

> you won't see that money for 8-10 years

Amen. Not such a good notion to trade salary for options, when that extra salary could have been invested all that time. $10k in 2005 is equivalent to $17k in 2015, $21k if you consider dividends reinvested.

New comment by dj_axl in "Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Through Ad Blockers"

dj_axl — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:33:12 +0000

On Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials warns when a hosts file change is detected. Fortunately it's a simple click to decline any further action. Related, I've witnessed AdBlock Plus spontaneously removed from Firefox, I assume due to anti-virus software, but possibly also due to MSE.

New comment by dj_axl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)"

dj_axl — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:05:23 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles, CA - Onsite or Remote

14+ years experience as enterprise software engineer/architect including scalable n-tier web applications serving millions of users.

Keywords: C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DBA, ASP.NET, MVC, SOA, web services, Python, R, C, machine learning

los [dot] angeles [dot] engineer [dot] 310 [at] gmail [dot] com

New comment by dj_axl in "Oracle to Amazon: It’s on"

dj_axl — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:12:43 +0000

> Look at Salesforce, Workday, Amazon, etc. They are all negative or razor thin. Oracle and SAP are used to 85% gross margin on software.

Workday has a profit margin of 62% versus Oracle's profit margin of 82%. It's less but it's not that big of a gap.

New comment by dj_axl in "Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job"

dj_axl — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:48:02 +0000

> How do I go about valuing myself in the market without wasting a ton of time?

It takes a ton of time, but interview people. Seriously, you would not believe what the applicant pool is like, even after resume filtering and phone screening. After interviewing 20-30 people you may have a very different perspective on which decile of value that you fall into. If you are in the top 10% of developers, then your value is the top 10% as well.

New comment by dj_axl in "Twitter Prices IPO Above Estimates at $26 Per Share, Valuation Up to $18B"

dj_axl — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 01:01:54 +0000

> Twitter is headed the way of MySpace

Possibly. Once Instagram's number of users (150 million) hits Twitter's number of users (232 million) it won't be looking so good for Twitter, if Instagram continues to grow. Maybe Twitter will take over SnapChat (26 million users) though. Twitter just isn't gaining, they seem pretty stagnant, taking over a younger company could give them some growth.