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by fr0sty 13y ago
And if both threads are doing a blocking read waiting for their message? Blocking locks, deadlocks, endless fun... But wait, you don't use blocking-IO, you poll the sockets to see if there is data available, right? Do you realize what
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by fr0sty 13y ago
A fair number (unsure of the proportion) of Stradivarius instruments actually are played. John Bell famously played his in a DC Metro station[0]. Many more are played by the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, and principle instrumentalists of various symph
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by fr0sty 13y ago
for the benefit of others could you outline what "set of assumptions" might get people fired? your post is incredibly vague...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> checking at that point whether the content actually changed shouldn't be an expensive operation This is only true if you have very little "content".
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Linked article is just over 11 years old. Is the author's rounding of 11 years down to 10 that offensive?
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Computer-driven hot-metal typesetter(shadycharacters.co.uk)
2 points by fr0sty 13y ago|0 comments
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> Is that not the case? It is the case, and is the reason this set is put together. Here's a BBC article on the subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19050342
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Here is a link to the text of the manual that came with the original sets (warning: Comic Sans): http://science-notebook.com/gilb-chem01.html EDIT: Found a PDF as well: http://keeline.com/chem/1936-Gilb
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Heirloom Chemistry Set(kickstarter.com)
346 points by fr0sty 13y ago|142 comments
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> All shares "pop up" on the first day or so. Unless the ticker is "FB"...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
The goalposts have already been moved to March 31st, 2014 and could be delayed further. What's the rush?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> In theory, this allows people to place orders based on a known price. This is exactly backwards. Without a published order book there is no "known price" since everything is secret. Your hourly blind cross will go off at what
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Please supply values for the following undefined variables: 1. kagillion (shares, %ADV, notional dollars) 2. good old days (single year or a range) 3. too much (in $ or %)
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> You have to do it by hand you know. Periodically iterating through a set of links and comparing the returned content to a cached copy is trivial to implement.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
But it had _something else_ in it... A credit card slip with her name on it perhaps?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
According to the linked story at the time he said "so sue me" he had made ~$32k gross revenue and had no employees. He made his $400k and hired the employee much later.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Care to provide some links for the less savvy?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> What isn't considered is the thousands of players on farm teams that make 80k. The NFL has no farm system: > The National Football League, as of 2010, is the only one of the four major professional sports in the USA that does n
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Do you have any anecdotes (or stronger evidence) to show that the sort of behavior lamented by some in our day existed (or was indeed rampant as your suspicions suggest) N years ago? (where N is anywhere between 20 and 200)?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> This reminds me of the beats by Dre headphones. These are the same price as a standard WASD keyboard. There is no premium for the "Code, by Jeff Atwood" name. Also, they are comparably priced to "Das Keyboard" ($125
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by fr0sty 13y ago
The tube will hew closely to existing highway I-5 eliminating most right-of-way issues (since the state controls the land already. Also B-Y is currently very low density and paying someone $X,XXX/yr for this nearly silent tube to pass
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by fr0sty 13y ago
when you say "innocent" I think you mean "exonerate".
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by fr0sty 13y ago
The last Cessna 150 was made in 1977 so it would be at least 35 years old.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
In fairness it should be mentioned that the first Cessna 150 was made in 1951 and the last was built in the mid-70s so we are not talking about "late model" aircraft by any stretch of the imagination.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Rebasing and fast-forward merging are two very different things. whenever you rebase you create _brand new commits_ based off another part of the project history which bear a strong resemblance to the original commits but are nonetheless di
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Wouldn't work in the least. Property tax delinquency in Detroit is already > 50% ( http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/30221037... ) You can't squeeze blood from a stone.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Out of your list only Opel really qualifies as an "autmotive entrepreneur". It may have been left off the list because it has been owned by General Motors since the 20's. Companies like Peugeot, Renault, and Fiat produce a ve
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> "every other place" Vegas is not the only location of legal casino gambling. It is by far the largest but there is significant gambling activity elswhere in the US. Wikipedia mentions these markets: 1. Las Vegas Strip $
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by fr0sty 13y ago
I'll take a free Pebble-minus-one-button. I'd even pay S&H...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Same argument can be made for the gold and silver ETF's but they are wildly popular.

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