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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by biosboiii on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:52AM (#41922510)
Thing is businesses don't work like side-projects do.

Qualcomm is more or less a research company, the main cost of their business is paying engineers to build their modems/SoCs/processors/whatever.

They have been working with ARM for the last, I dont know, 20 years? Even if they manage to switch to RISC-V, and each employee has negative performance impact of like 15% for 2-3 years this ends up in billions of dollars, because you have to hire more people or lose speed.

If corporate would force me to work with idk Golang instead of TypeScript I could certainly manage to do so, but I would be slower for a while, and if you extrapolate that on an entire company this is big $$.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by nottorp on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:47AM (#41922777)
> because you have to hire more people or lose speed

Yes and 9 women can make a baby in 1 month :)

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by asgeir on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:30AM (#41923362)
In Norse mythology, Heimdallr was born of nine sisters. I'm not sure that it took any less time than usual, but I enjoy the story all the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Mothers_of_Heimdallr
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by type0 on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:52AM (#41923471)
and Norse mythology has 9 world dimensions, so maybe it worked for them
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by vollbrecht on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:06AM (#41924681)
It's called pipelining, and the concept works well in all modern processors. Can also work with people, you only have a initial setup delay :)
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by tsunamifury on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:00AM (#41925747)
No but 9 women can have 9 babies in 9 months.

Which is a 9x output.

Production and development requires multiple parties. This mythical man month stuff is often poorly applied. Many parts of research and development need to be done in parallel.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by nottorp on Thursday October 24, 2024 @09:31AM (#41935305)
If you make screws, sure :)
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by dzaima on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:13AM (#41925868)
Just take a guess at how the baby will be like and get everyone to pretend it already exists for the 8 months (and throw away the experience if mispredicted afterwards) :)
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by nasretdinov on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:20AM (#41922968)
> If corporate would force me to work with idk Golang instead of TypeScript

I think the most evil thing to do would be to switch places: TS for backend, Go for frontend. It can certainly work though!

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by jkaplowitz on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:10AM (#41923253)
Building a website that way would yield quite a popular Show HN post!
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by worewood on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @06:14AM (#41923567)
TS running under Node.js for the backend, I'd dare say, looks pretty standard.

But I like to imagine the Web frontend made in Go, compiled to WASM. Would be a fun project, for sure.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by ahoka on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:52AM (#41925650)
Try Java 1.8.
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