A company with a high percentage of H-1B workers (there's a formula) can be deemed "H-1B dependent" and this then brings in an onerous set of requirements.
I recently tried to go the AMD/Ryzen route. I like an underdog comeback story as much as the next guy.
But be warned: Motherboards that "support" Ryzen do not in fact support Ryzen out of the box. You have to update the BIOS to support Ryzen. How do you POST without a CPU you ask? Who knows? Magic, possibly.
I still don't understand how AMD expects their customers to have more than one CPU (and possibly DDR4-2133 sticks) to be able to POST and update the BIOS.
I returned everything AMD and went back to safe, good ole Intel. Worked on first try. I'm never getting sucked into AMD hype again.
Also, when I went back to return the AMD components to Fry's, the manager said they were aware/used to getting Ryzen returns because of this.
That sounds totally bogus. You don't have to update the BIOS to support Ryzen. Ryzen is the first CPU on AM4.
You don't need "DDR4-2133 sticks". Ever. Any DDR4 sticks can run at 2133, that's literally the DDR4 standard, everything above is overclocking. 2133 rated sticks are the cheapest (and worst).
I got my R7 1700 and mainboard yesterday. Everything worked on first try. Speaking of DDR4, my 2400 rated (Hynix) sticks overclocked to 3200, with decent timings, even :) (Well, decent for Hynix.) My previous system (overclocked non-K Skylake) couldn't run these sticks above 2450.
Why... why would I lie? What could I possibly have to gain from lying about this? I only have HN karma to lose, which I don't have much to begin with.
You can, before simply defending AMD, research and see for yourself that required BIOS updates are indeed an issue.
I tried it with an MSI Tomahawk, and an Asus B350 Prime.
Had a Ryzen-5-1600 and a Ryzen-7-1700, as well as a pair of DDR4-2133, and DDR4-3000 modules each, and tried every combination, and was never able to post.
Switched to Intel CPU and Asus Intel-supporting MB with the same DDR4-3000 RAM and POST'd on the first try. I'm saying that to 'prove' that the other components were fine.
I'm glad that it worked out for you, and I wish it had gone smooth for me too.
You messed up something.
My 1700 and Asus B350 Prime were able to POST without issues and without any BIOS updates, and I got both a couple of weeks after release.
Most BIOS updates have only been required for overclocking improvements.
I thought it was funny, kudos to him. I thought it might even motivate someone else to start their own private list. Public things are rarely easy to regulate for quality.
Yes, exactly. Public lists can suffer tragedy of the commons very easily. People SHOULD set up private lists. This one has been going since 1999 as a formal list, and was an informal cc chain for a couple of years before that.
There's usually an inverse relationship between quality of discussion and welcoming environment for newbies. If you want to have deep discussion about, well, anything, and you have newbies (or worse, people who think they aren't newbies) asking basic questions and failing to RTFM beforehand, you'll lose.
A few years ago, I was on a panel about intellectual property with Cory Doctorow at a science fiction convention. It COULD have been a really fun conversation - Cory and I agree on enough for common ground, and disagree enough to be interesting, and we both understood the topic really well. But the standing-room-only crowd just wanted to ask obvious question after obvious question, or go on rants that were demonstrably naive at best. It was really frustrating.
Wow... in a few comments, you have gone down a spiral of embarrassment.
First you post an arrogant self-serving "members only jacket" style post that literally does nothing for anyone. You didn't mention how to get into such groups, no tips for finding such groups or anything else remotely useful to anyone.
After that you intentionally go down the nonsense pedantic path of 'The OP didn't say "open".' ... which means you either (1) thought the OP wanted absolutely useless feedback to his question or (2) you are an asshole. Not sure which is worse to be honest.
Then, in a transparent trick to try to dig yourself out of the hole you had dug... you try to act like a victim of the commons. Just cause everyone hates you don't mean you are a victim in any sense, you might just be an jerk.
In a final, desperate pathetic attempt, you drop "Cory Doctorow" into the conversation and try to peer link to borrow his reputation because you have NONE of your own. Another pathetic, transparent, embarrassing tactic.
I'll fully own up to my initial comment being not very useful - not because it was "arrogant", but because I didn't provide the backing reasoning. I'm not whining about the downrating there.
The flaming, however, was unnecessary and inappropriate. Downrating reasonable responses was inappropriate, too. Community behavior IS problematic here (and that includes my own community behavior, and yours as well), and that's the "tragedy of the commons" for public forums. A lot go so far down the newbie/flamewar rabbit holes that they become effectively useless. I know people who already consider HN useless for those reasons.
I'm not the victim here. The community is the victim. This shouldn't be so hard to understand.
Considering DNS propagation, is "real quick" even possible? You might do better to take a bit of a cost hit and work within AWS. Assuming you're set up with an Elastic IP, maybe spin up another instance and an Elastic Load Balancer?
Edit: Either way, whatever you did it seems to be back up (at least for me).
Boxfish, twitter, YouTube, Siri, and now with Ray Kurzweil @ Google... thinkers are converging on doing to every other form of content what Google did for structured documents.
The NLP trend is going to be amusing to watch at least (Siri, Summly), and whether its time has come in the next 5 years or not I'm not certain. But I know Ray Kurzweil knows this technology is inevitable.
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As for BoxFish, I think this is a good example of a neatly executed, well funded startup with experienced founders and a solid space. No drama, no demo day, no immediate fires to put out, cool $3m in the bank, Deutsche Telekom AG subsidiary negotiating their deals for them, and "Yahoo just bought a kids startup for 17m" - the topic is hotter than others.
This is the type of startup I for one daydream of having stock of or working at. Has high potential to be worth $mmms or $bn in the future - you know, that all depends and what not. But the makings are clearly there. Excellent work guys! Congratulations.
Short term: wants a meeting, and this should probably do the trick. Long term: doesn't want get killed, prefers to partner with Twitter and sustain a lesser profit margin for a longer period of time.
I say a slow clap is in order here, no matter what his true intentions are, only if for being so focused on what he wants from Twitter Inc.
Almost certainly will be nuked before the end of week, perhaps by end of day.
There goes $50/month/customer, for someone with supposedly hundreds of customers. He probably could have gotten at least a couple months more without being shut down and some free publicity on Hacker News afterwards complaining about being shut down, but he traded that for a maybe 1% chance at some kind of introduction.
And, I guess, a HN post in a couple hours complaining about being ingloriously shuttered.
The chances of him partnering with Twitter are close to nil. This is a very dumb move by his part that will probably lead to a loss of income for the next few years.
Didn't read your rant since it was impossible for my human eyes. I may bill (!) you for the temporary loss of productivity. Your BG and color scheme are horrible, I would rather blend and drink my left foot than read your blog again.
You're right, I actually have it installed too, I should've just done that and moved on. This particular blog with the patterned/hypnotic background really hurt my eyes in the morning, and I guess I was cranky enough to take it as an insult :)
The arguments above are more about HN as a community (and how it self-regulates/self-analyzes, its values) than your achievement. The fact that you've completed this game is still amazing to us all, that remains unchanged whether you were 14, 24 or 34. My only hope is that you get to focus from your age and keep building on your talent. Great job.
