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by dlubarov 11y ago
ntpd will step backward if error stays above a configurable threshold for a configurable period of time. We saw it happen after the recent leap second. 1 second exceeds the default step threshold of 128 ms. With Linux limiting the slew rate
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by dlubarov 11y ago
With some effort, I'm sure the folks behind Cassandra, Hadoop etc. could achieve acceptable performance with allocateDirect(). It doesn't support explicit freeing, but you can always reuse buffers and write your code to allocate s
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by dlubarov 11y ago
Turn on unitTests.returnDefaultValues, write some mockable wrappers around core classes like SystemClock, unit test what you can, and write instrumentation tests for everything else. An increasing number of teams are moving away from Robole
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by dlubarov 11y ago
Yes, removing Unsafe would make things like PowerMock and Robolectric impossible to (re)implement. So what? Those libraries never should have been possible, and we can live without them. Languages need to be selective about what features th
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Square's next play: a one-stop shop for small businesses(latimes.com)
2 points by dlubarov 11y ago|0 comments
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by dlubarov 11y ago
I wish they would add an option to start the y axis at zero, to depict the asset's volatility.
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by dlubarov 11y ago
Sounds pretty cheap compared to South Bay homes! Like this 776 sqft "opportunity to do a remodel" which went for 1.75M: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/133-Coleridge-Ave-Palo-Alt...
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by dlubarov 11y ago
True, but to me it wasn't obvious whether "flex-direction: row" meant horizontal (because a row expands horizontally as you add columns) or vertical (because a table expands vertically as you add rows).
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by dlubarov 11y ago
In this case they sold a good chunk of the company, and left nearly $70 million on the table. For a relatively small company, it would be hard to justify that as an investor marketing expense.
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by dlubarov 11y ago
It's just network policies that prohibit charging before shipment, so it wouldn't be problematic if this was an ACH payment. If it was a credit card payment, most likely PayPal had just placed an authorization and was holding off
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by dlubarov 11y ago
Well now that we have supplementary planes, UTF-16 should also be considered variable-length.
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by dlubarov 11y ago
Just to be make sure we're talking about the same thing, by "plain unix time" I mean something like java.time.Instant, and by "UTC time" I mean something like java.time.ZonedDateTime with zone == UTC. With ZonedDate
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by dlubarov 11y ago
Why do you prefer UTC? I feel storing plain unix times is simplest since there's no time zone information at all. And there's no possibility of forgetting a conversion, since (with most languages/libraries) different types ar
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by dlubarov 11y ago
My understanding is that - The liability shift will pressure merchants just to use EMV-capable terminals. As long as they're using one they won't be penalized for swiping. - However, the networks require certified EMV terminals to
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by dlubarov 12y ago
> started afresh with all of Java's learned lessons taken into account I don't think that's really historically accurate. Java and C# were pretty similar back in 2002. The .NET team was more willing to add complexity and o
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by dlubarov 12y ago
Yeah, grub does enter protected mode for us, per the multiboot spec.
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by dlubarov 12y ago
Reminds me of a GW2 player who is playing as a pacifist cat - http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2u6g1w/this_happ...
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by dlubarov 12y ago
Why? If we just want to follow the market, then we only occasionally need to adjust our positions in response to dilution or buyback events, right? Executing large trades efficiently is hard, but with a low turnover it's less of a prob
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by dlubarov 12y ago
How come? Wouldn't you have a very low turnover rate since you'd generally only buy during new offerings, and not trade at all in response to valuation changes?
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by dlubarov 12y ago
I understand how the deal is structured, but selling your interest in some shares seems only superficially different from selling the shares directly. Perhaps the employer could argue that you're effectively selling shares and the ROFR
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by dlubarov 12y ago
I don't know how legally sound it is, but the article quotes Kenneth saying "You’re not selling the shares, so the right of first refusal doesn’t apply".
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PayPal cited for 'reckless disregard' of U.S. sanctions(pcworld.com)
2 points by dlubarov 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlubarov 12y ago
> you only contributed to creating $20,000 of that That's an interesting way to think about it, but as long as the employee is getting a base salary, the employer couldn't justify granting enough options to achieve this goal of
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by dlubarov 12y ago
As long as the board doesn't do anything really shady, dilution generally affects all shareholders equally. (Well, the effect can be slightly different for preferred stock holders, but at least former employees will generally be in the
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by dlubarov 12y ago
But taxes are normally paid based on the latest 409a valuation, which can be way below the preferred stock value from the latest funding round. My impression is that companies rarely sell common stock to investors for that reason (among oth
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by dlubarov 12y ago
Only for ISOs though, not NSQOs.
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by dlubarov 12y ago
It would make their offers more appealing to prospective employees with limited capital.
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by dlubarov 12y ago
It would mean that the invoked method gets a reference to the original object rather than its own copy of the object. It's only obvious if we assume some knowledge of Java's semantics.
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by dlubarov 12y ago
I think the confusion was largely created by the author. When he asserts that nothing in Java is passed by reference, he's using "reference" in the C++ sense. Then he says things like "references are passed by value&quot
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by dlubarov 12y ago
Well, the standard doesn't use "pass by reference" or "pass by value" terminology. It just uses the term "value" to refer to the result of evaluating an expression. The spec also says > there must be a

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