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by chrisaycock 3y ago
Then you might enjoy Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting: https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes It's hosted by John August ( Big Fish , Corpse Bride ) and Craig Mazin ( Chernobyl , The Last of Us ).
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Emoji are legally actionable(theatlantic.com)
43 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|33 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
> Media executives are worried, however, that President Joe Biden’s administration could be hostile to a big media merger. There are four companies in the US that control most of the media: Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros Discovery, and P
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Tesla Skips Merit-Based Stock Awards, Squeezing Compensation(bloomberg.com)
3 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
I understand the writer's complaints after working at a hedge fund like this. The firm made so much money that no individual could move the needle on revenue. So everyone was judged by how many people report to them. Thus, everyone was
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List of Quantitative Trading Firms(gist.github.com)
5 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
According to this FAQ, snmalloc was designed for the Verona language: https://microsoft.github.io/verona/faq.html Unfortunately, I cannot find any significant code samples for Verona on the website or in the GitHub rep
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Amazon sellers say they made a good living – until Amazon figured it out(npr.org)
28 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|15 comments
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Charles Feeney, Who Made a Fortune and Then Gave It Away, Dies at 92(nytimes.com)
17 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|3 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
The MIR here isn't the same as the Rust compiler's intermediate representation. This blog post is about a different mid-level IR with the same name: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20&#x2F
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
> “In 2009, 2010, New York was like 70%, 80% of our business. Now no city comprises more than one-half percent of our business.”
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They studied dishonesty – Was their work a lie?(newyorker.com)
210 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|153 comments
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Blue Apron Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Wonder Group(investors.blueapron.com)
3 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
Put a product into users’ hands. Before you worry about recurring customers, fundraising, co-founders, or anything else, just get a minimum-viable product out for people to play around with. The other stuff will come later; for now, you nee
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U.S. Colleges with the Greatest Economic Diversity(nytimes.com)
2 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
The beauty of separate IRs is that each can represent a separate stage of compilation. For example, Rust goes from abstract syntax tree (AST) to high-level IR (HIR) to typed high-level IR (THIR): https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang
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Colleges spend like there’s no tomorrow(wsj.com)
13 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|8 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
A similar article from The Atlantic : > How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-e... The subtitle says it all: &g
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
The gist of the article is to find bottlenecks in your service pipeline. I.e., when a request gets queued up because an earlier request is still processing. By determining when and where the bottlenecks will occur, teams can plan for reso
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Zuckerberg Channeled ‘OG Mark’ to Fast-Track Secret Effort That Became Threads(wsj.com)
4 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|3 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
As an example optimization, consider this C code: do { if (*--p == '.') *p = '_'; } while (p != name); LLVM originally produced this bitcode for AVX-2 instructions: %1 = shufflevector %0, <31, 30, 29,
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Delivery app holdout Domino's will list its pizzas on Uber Eats in the US(theverge.com)
1 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 3y ago
This paper is the first time I seen mention of the Virgil programming language, from the same author: https://github.com/titzer/virgil
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Jack Dorsey Has a Lot to Say, Including About Elon Musk and Twitter(nytimes.com)
50 points by chrisaycock 3y ago|2 comments
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by chrisaycock 4y ago
The two terms refer to very different phenomena. Consider this incrementing function: int f(int x) {return x + 1;} int main() { int y = f(3); // this will change return 0; } inline means to substitute the bo
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Browse and search hundreds of roles in the systematic trading industry(quadratic.io)
1 points by chrisaycock 4y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 4y ago
To clarify, this site is currently a proposal. More users need to express interest for this to move forward.
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Programming Language Design Stack Exchange(area51.stackexchange.com)
3 points by chrisaycock 4y ago|1 comments
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A Brief History of Free, Open Source Software and Its Communities(computer.org)
1 points by chrisaycock 4y ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 4y ago
Anytime I read an article about crypto, I feel as if I'm reading the review to a fantasy novel. Like, is any of this real? The words all sound made up.

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