Hacker News: thrownaway2424

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Android platform engineer on application architecture"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 17:25:50 +0000

Deleted, then. Perhaps I have conflated the memory of being at javaone and being told all about the wonders of javafx, and the contemporaneous wonders of "filthy rich clients".

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "How Intel missed the smartphone market"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 17:08:02 +0000

History is not the strong suit of this site's readers. Yes, Intel was selling ARM CPUs into the mobile market (Compaq IPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, etc) when Apple was still making pink iMacs.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "How Intel missed the smartphone market"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 17:00:09 +0000

What do you mean discontinued? What about the Atom that was just introduced earlier in 2016? e.g. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138... ?

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "How Intel missed the smartphone market"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 16:55:34 +0000

People also seem to forget that Kodak owned the entire digital still photography market for its first decade. They had a 1 megapixel sensor during the Reagan administration, for crying out loud.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Android platform engineer on application architecture"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 16:19:31 +0000

It's not just that. Hackborn spent many years denying that Android was janky as fuck, or making excuses for it (e.g. https://plus.sandbox.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/...).

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "How Intel missed the smartphone market"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 15:42:06 +0000

I agree. Qualcomm and the rest can own the frontend and get half a nickel in profits per handset shipped, while Intel owns the backend and sells server CPUs by the millions with gross margins of hundreds of dollars per unit and next to nothing in the way of competition.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "A Plan to Flood San Francisco with News on Homelessness"

thrownaway2424 — Mon, 16 May 2016 02:02:58 +0000

That's not where the money goes. The money goes to responding to every drug addict with a stubbed toe with a giant firetruck and its crew, and then taking the aforementioned drug addict to SF General for the world's most expensive emergency room bath. A little bit of prevention here would be far cheaper.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Lambda expression comparison between C++11, C++14 and C++17"

thrownaway2424 — Sun, 15 May 2016 21:27:54 +0000

I'm not sure. I don't program in C++ because I want it to have performance comparable to other languages.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Lambda expression comparison between C++11, C++14 and C++17"

thrownaway2424 — Sun, 15 May 2016 15:38:12 +0000

The thing to keep in mind is that copying a shared_ptr isn't cheap at all. It's a class with a pointer and atomic reference count inside and the atomic inc/dec takes many cycles.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "ZFS lands in Debian contrib"

thrownaway2424 — Sat, 14 May 2016 19:18:25 +0000

+1 to this. I wouldn't touch ZFS or DTrace or anything else from Sun/Oracle with a 30-million-foot pole.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "ZFS lands in Debian contrib"

thrownaway2424 — Sat, 14 May 2016 19:17:26 +0000

"One of the goals of such systems is that copy of the file system on disk is always consistent."

Goal yes, implementation no. WAFL does in fact have consistency problems and filers do ship with a consistency checker called "wack" which if you ever need this tool you'll probably have better luck throwing the filer in the trash and restoring from backups rather than waiting a month for it to complete.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Where the Middle Class Is Shrinking"

thrownaway2424 — Sat, 14 May 2016 19:08:21 +0000

On the top right side you can switch it to county-level data.

I wish this site had a reasonable way to make permalinks, then I would just paste it here.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam"

thrownaway2424 — Sat, 14 May 2016 00:29:40 +0000

Exactly my point!

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 23:21:50 +0000

Can't I just put a lens above the surface to concentrate it? I think you picked a poor example.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Where the Middle Class Is Shrinking"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 19:51:54 +0000

"Violent gun crimes are nearly non-existent in rural settings."

This cannot be the basis of a rational policy, because it's false. Gun violence is much higher outside of cities. Please go to this site and set the stats to "Intent of injury: Violence-related" and "Mechanism of Injury: Firearm".

https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/mapModuleInterf...

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Where the Middle Class Is Shrinking"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 18:11:51 +0000

In fact this is the perfect illustration of how the non-rich are manipulated into supporting the policies of the rich. Lots of people oppose the minimum wage increase on the basis of its impact on small businesses, but the reality is that small businesses have their margins squeezed to zero by their landlords, who raise rents as high as the market can bear. When the government sets a minimum wage they are effectively defining a non-negotiable boundary around the rent-wage-profit function for businesses. Business owners might be willing to pay higher rents and lower wages, but the minimum wage prevents them from doing this. This is better for workers (who get paid more), better for the economy at large because it puts money in motion (minimum wage earners spend 100% of their earnings and save nothing), neutral for the small business owners whose margins were already minimized, and worse for landlords. The only people who should be opposed to this are landlords, but they succeed in manipulating many others over to their side.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "SyntaxNet in Context: Understanding Google's New TensorFlow NLP Model"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:02:02 +0000

Wasn't this the kind of understanding that Cyc was supposed to accomplish?

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Where the Middle Class Is Shrinking"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:59:35 +0000

The joke is that the rural people are oppressing themselves. "Urban elites" have long advocated for policies that would benefit the rural poor but the white rural poor are dead set against any policy that would also benefit black people. http://www.nber.org/papers/w17234 and http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-Amer... for more on that.

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 04:17:08 +0000

Say what? The counties of the Bay Area are all well below the national average suicide rate (age adjusted, per capita CDC data). Explore for yourself at [1]. How did you arrive at this odd belief?

1: https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/mapModuleInterf...

New comment by thrownaway2424 in "Pennsylvania license plate reader SUV camouflaged as Google Street View vehicle"

thrownaway2424 — Fri, 13 May 2016 01:04:08 +0000

I'm actually using it as shorthand for "your sentence fragments do not amount to an argument."