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by ArchD 14y ago
I found it hard to make scons build outside my source directory (instead of polluting it). This is important for example when you don't want random files showing up in your git clone. With waf, this is easy. Subjectively, waf code looks mor
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by ArchD 14y ago
So, according to the author if you let people already in your life know about your wealth, they may act weird and have unreasonable expectations about sharing in your wealth. I think that can be a good thing. It brings out a side of people
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by ArchD 14y ago
Yes, and very type-unsafe. You could do all this using C++ templates in a type-safe way.
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by ArchD 14y ago
I notice that justice.gov is down.
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by ArchD 14y ago
Since Unix time does NOT count the leap seconds, it allows the computation of the human-readable time from the Unix time without knowing when the leap seconds occurred. If knowledge of when the leap seconds occurred is required, then those
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by ArchD 14y ago
We're not talking about putting them in jail. You can't compare them to Aaron Swartz.
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by ArchD 14y ago
Using a time unit not related to the metric second would be a step back. If you use a new unit equal to half a metric second, that's too fast for normal human heart rate.
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by ArchD 14y ago
"18% of 165 private universities and 15% of 127 public universities project a decline in net tuition revenue" What about the remaining 82% and 85%? What fraction of these project an increase? It's not mentioned, so perhaps there's also been
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by ArchD 14y ago
To make this actually useful, instead of deleting bad functions, it's probably better to make the offending functions throw a special exception when they are called, signaling the calling of a function known to be bad. This way, you can sti
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by ArchD 14y ago
Why can't the existing code be modified by simply replacing old units with metric ones denoting the same quantity? If necessary, use a high level of precision in the expressions, and over time, have an initiative to slowly and gradually nor
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by ArchD 14y ago
So what if the old units are easily divisible? If you have 1024 g of something, you can divide that by 2 ten times.
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by ArchD 14y ago
Within the space of {schema-ful, schemaless} x {binary, text}, protobuf, {BSON, MessagePack}, JSON each occupy a distinct position. The position (schema-ful, text) is not very meaningful combination in practice and not covered by these, whe
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by ArchD 14y ago
Why not give him what he wants by simply giving no results at all for searches involving his name? Making special cases in the software or data to take out the offending links seems to imply non-trivial engineering complexity, and a decent
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by ArchD 14y ago
Typical multicore CPUs don't have nearly as many cores as Parallella. Also, from what I can from www.apteva.com/introduction, the power consumption is much lower and the interconnect is different. In Parallella, cores are laid out in a grid
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by ArchD 14y ago
It allows you to run multiple servers (e.g. NFS + git + MySQL + Apache) without worrying so much about memory footprint.
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by ArchD 14y ago
Typical US equity trading hours roughly coincide with normal working hours. Not many people would want to stay around too late. Even if they did, the liquidity they need may not be there because most people have stopped working for the day.
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by ArchD 14y ago
Unfortunately, Nasdaq and NYSE are not charitable organizations. They are for-profit companies. Why don't you go ahead and make history by creating the type of exchange you described? I don't see how the law would intrinsically stop you, th
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by ArchD 14y ago
Suppose the NYSE has a new rule where trades only happen once a day, in a morning auction. Imagine that you just bought some stock at the auction in a certain company. Later on in the day, the company announces some catastrophic news, but y
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by ArchD 14y ago
If you're concerned about security, just use the exchange for trading but keep no long-term balance with them. Keep your coins under a pillow in your home and exchange security is almost a non-issue. If you're talking about the psychology o
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by ArchD 14y ago
Many exchanges have limits on the number of order cancellations you can make. You get penalized if you send too many cancels compared to the number of trades you get. Besides, most retail orders go through brokers, not directly to the excha
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by ArchD 14y ago
In an unlicensed spectrum range, with a much greater range than WiFi, will this have a much greater potential for signal interference? Already, the WiFi network in my apartment is very limited in range because of interference from a large n
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by ArchD 14y ago
I think you missed the point. I think the point is about not having religious wars over languages for ideological reasons but instead focus on the practical cost and benefit of the languages. He pointed out the people running the COBOL main
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by ArchD 14y ago
It would be more accurate to say seemingly instead of apparently. The nuance is that the description in the download list implies that only the old distros are supported, but actually at least on F17, the F16 package still works. Why on ear
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by ArchD 14y ago
Ubuntu 12 and Fedora 17 are the latest versions of Ubuntu and Fedora but apparently not supported according to the download distribution list. (s/11/12/, basic idea remains -- only old distros are listed)
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by ArchD 14y ago
Theoretically, information is information, encrypted or not, and just because the key is zeroed out doesn't mean part of the original information cannot be obtained from encrypted data. For example, an infinitely fast brute-force algorithm
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by ArchD 14y ago
A lot of tech stocks declined today, not just GOOG, though GOOG declined quite a lot. Even (Adobe) ADBE declined by 2.19%. Possible explanation: If you were a big institutional fund manager with a large portfolio, would you put your money i
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by ArchD 14y ago
If you were an ZNGA owner who's also interested in FB, you won't necessarily sell ZNGA before actually buying FB, because you don't actually know that you can get FB at a price acceptable to you until trading opens. In other words, human be
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by ArchD 14y ago
I think this article got many points right, but it failed to mention that ZNGA trading got halted, which could largely explain the semi-recovery of the price. You don't need to invoke the computer algorithms argument to explain that.
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by ArchD 14y ago
Given the skepticism about the Instagram acquisition, the Karma acquisition could be interpreted either positively or negatively by different investors, couldn't it?
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by ArchD 14y ago
After a while, the number of languages becomes quite large so they resize text and icons so that everything fits on the page, at least horizontally. The problem with that is that the language name then becomes too small to be legible. It's

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