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My real point is this: if you're not allowed to bring your experiences with you, then the company exists to extract your creative thinking and skills. You can argue that's a fair trade for money. I don't necessarily disagree. But I think most of us find joy in learning, in building our own skills, in being able to reapply them elsewhere. And before LLMs and agents, I couldn't lose those skills and experiences no matter where I worked. As we progress, though, we've hit a point where we have to ask ourselves: at what price are we willing to trade complete ownership of our thinking and experiences for money?

It is also illegal in CA.

This is my personal conclusion as well. But think about where this leads. In the future, agents will do most of the coding and our job is to guide and train them. Most of our skills would be externalized somehow, living in the agents instead of in our heads. Which means once you leave a company, you may have effectively lost a lot of your hard earned skills and experiences.

I'm not arguing for either side, but here's a fun thought experiment I've been thinking about a lot lately. If I learned things at one company, took my experience and memory to another company, and applied what I had learned there, am I technically stealing that company's secrets? What if I trained a team of agents to think and code like me at work, then exported those agentic skills and took them with me to another company? At what point would they still be considered the old company's property? Let's say I didn't take any code or proprietary information from the old company, just the coding style and best practices my agents learned from the old company's live metrics. Is that considered stealing from the company? Is that any different from me learning those patterns and skills personally and then reapplying them elsewhere?

Has anyone tried immudb in production? What are some of immudb's performance characteristics? It'd be nice to know how it performs under various conditions: query per sec, database / table sizes, SQL join performance etc.

Also, what are the system requirements for immudb? What kind of machine would I need to run a medium to large website (say, 1TB of data, 5-25K qps, e.g. Wikipedia)?

It mentioned in the documentation that it can use S3 as its storage? Are there performance implications if you do this?

I drove through North Lake Tahoe one time on a weekday around midnight, and Google Maps was showing all red as I was driving up the mountain... I was super confused as there were no cars around me and it was not snowing either. What I later realized was that all the trucks were parked alongside the freeway taking breaks... I never realized that you could basically trick Google Maps by using a bunch of cellphones. Very neat!

For low level APIs, I would say anything that could be configured on a per call basis should be parameterized: memory allocations, database & http connections etc.

Do you have a reference to this? As far as I'm can tell, core devs are still aiming to ship parallelism w/ 1.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213619. But, Windows support might be held back: https://dev.to/dougeverly/comment/lob.

What will happen if you have bug in your function? Take the fibonacci function for example, what if you have a bug and created an infinite loop? Will Prepack terminate?

"Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance just by closing their browser or using Safari." This is so true. I've recently stopped using Chrome and switched to Safari. Now my 5-year old MacBook Pro runs like butter.

Original post: http://petapixel.com/2015/10/25/sony-filed-a-copyright-claim...

I'd argue that sometimes you don't really know what good taste is or whether or not you would enjoy something until you've acquired a certain level of competency for it. Sports, programming and math are all like this. The more you work on them the more enjoyable they become, and you'd become a lot more "tasteful".

It seems like Dropbox is using the native Chrome PDF viewer on Chrome and PDF.js on Firefox for PDF files.

Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/.

I made something similar except you can practice using any Gist you want. http://newtonapple.github.com/Gistype/#1 It still needs some work on the current cursor movement for longer Gists, but the basic functionality is there. No login required, just type. :) Note that if you have Vimium installed, you'll have to put the URL on your "excluded URLs" list.

I watched some of the videos they are quite good. The data streams lectures are definitely worth a watch: http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/streams.html.

Does anyone know how this actually works? From their website: "Unlike other conversion tracking solutions available to app developers, Tapstream doesn't rely on mobile ad networks, cookies or UDIDs. Instead, we fingerprint your web visitors with our tasty secret sauce to match them up with conversions that you define inside your app." This sounds a little fishy.

They're redirected to this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/torval....

Tikhon Jr?

I ran into a similar problem with the Google Mobile AdSense animation on iOS Mobile Safari. Basically when you put an absolutely positioned element with higher z-index over the iframed ad, it'll trigger greyscale antialiasing. Here is a demo (see it in Mobile Safari): http://newtonapple.github.com/frontend_tidbits/mobile_safari...

The lectures on data streams are my favorites: http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/streams.html.

Apparently he also rewrote Erlang from scratch to be "more efficient and performant" (private repo): https://github.com/eddiedeck/airlang

I ain't gonna lie. I vomited a little when I first saw the new logo. The pixelated green is seizure inducing. Congrats TechCrunch, you've just topped the Gawker redesign. Keep up the good work.

The sample has more than two pages: http://exceptionalruby.com/exceptional-ruby-sample.pdf

I think the Kodak Playsport is a better comparison: http://store.kodak.com/store/ekconsus/en_US/pd/PLAYSPORT_Vid... It shoots 1080p @30fps or 720p @60fps, supports SD memory, is waterproof, and has similar price point (slightly more expensive w/ SD card).

I just wrote a Ruby script that does pretty much the same thing: https://gist.github.com/865841. I used a simple bloom filter for de-duplication. It's a bit overkill. A simple hash on the twitpic_id will probably work just as well if not better.

Live Japanese feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/foxtokimekitonight

Maybe they're using this: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

I have a question. How does IncPy keep track of data dependency coming from IO layer e.g. sockets. Say I want to write a simple web crawler. The function crawls a website, spits out the HTML in raw string, sleeps for 5 seconds and then crawls the site again. Will IncPy not memoize the function at all, knows that the data coming from the network layer has not changed and return the memoized string immediately, and/or smart enough to detect when input (the website) has changed and expires the cache automatically?

Yes?