hermitdev

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1411.
by hermitdev 10y ago
> "it's not much different from a math instructor having you clear the memory on your graphing calculator before an exam" This sort of behavior by teachers is exactly what got me to write my first serious z80 assembly prog
1412.
by hermitdev 10y ago
Indeed. When I was interviewing candidates, one of my goals was to get the candidate to respond along the lines of "I don't know.", to which I would follow up with, how would you find out? No engineer knows everything. I also
1413.
by hermitdev 10y ago
I didn't see it mentioned at a cursory glance of the comments, but syscalls != standard library. Standard Libraray for C is that which is defined by the ISO C standard. syscalls are whatever *nix decides them to be. Additionally Standa
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by hermitdev 10y ago
I might consider a Tesla, but for the logistics of using one. I live in a western Chicago suburb and commute to a northern suburb. Despite the many commuting routes I take, I have never seen a charging station. I cannot charge at work, nor
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by hermitdev 10y ago
The assertion is also not necessarily accurate. Python 2 & 3 are included on Ubuntu 14.04 (and maybe earlier). My understanding is that different system tools require different versions. Python 2 is /usr/bin/python Python
1416.
by hermitdev 10y ago
Thanks, I was wondering what this string was doing: static char *code = "\34 \4o\14$\4ox\30 \2o\30$\1ox\25 \2o\36$\1o\11 \1o\1$\3 \2$\1 \1o\1$x\5 \1o\1 \1$\1 \2o\10 \1o\44$\1o\7 \2$\1 \2$\1 \2$\1o\1$x\2 \2o\1 \1$\1 \1$\1 \1\"\
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by hermitdev 10y ago
They do have recent satellite images that appear to show signs of water running down ravines at certain times of the Mara year. Don't have a citation handy, though.
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by hermitdev 10y ago
And economics often operates under the assumption that all actors act rationally and with perfect and complete information, which of course we know is not true. (editted for clarity, grammar and spelling)
1419.
by hermitdev 10y ago
The author lost my interest after stating 6% unemployment is good without even mentioning the Labor Participation Rate. It would be if the Labor Participation Rate [1] hadn't fallen as much as it has. The US economy has lost 3.2M jobs
1420.
by hermitdev 10y ago
I work for a dark pool alternative trading system as a regulatory analyst. We have to shut off subscribers all the time for spoofing. Some of the detection is automated, some is manual. We routinely get order inquiries from regulatory bodie
1421.
by hermitdev 10y ago
I'm sceptical of this analysis because they claim they probably meant milliseconds instead of microseconds. It is certainly quite easily possible to send trades microseconds apart, especially if you're colocated (and probably not
1422.
by hermitdev 10y ago
> The legal system is worse than the shittiest legacy code base you have ever seen You haven't seen the legacy code I have. One of the apps I worked on was modelling financial legal agreements. That was some truly shitty code. One f
1423.
by hermitdev 10y ago
I know I'm going to be reiterating/rephrasing what you've said, but it's true for any closed stack. Especially Java. At least with C# (maybe not .Net as a whole), at least the language is an ECMA spec (ok, not all versio
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by hermitdev 10y ago
For what it's worth, I've had issues with Intel RST under Windows as well in mixed-mode configs. My boot device is an SSD configured for AHCI and I've a 3 drive RAID array. On a soft reset of my PC, the BIOS won't see th
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by hermitdev 10y ago
I graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology. IIT, with UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) had a lot of community outreach programs to get students to commit to community service. It sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. One of
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by hermitdev 10y ago
Areas of Chicago suck. The majority of Chicago is great, and generally very safe. (It also doesn't reek of garbage and urine like Manhattan). You're pretty safe, maybe safer than national metropolitan cities in Chicago if you don&
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by hermitdev 10y ago
Excel 2007. Prior it was impossible due to file format limits. Row limit was 64k, i think. Not sure what the Col limit was. Not sure what or if there limits are since the move to the xlsx format. Despite doing Excel addin development in fin
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by hermitdev 10y ago
Indeed. Differences in encoding or presence/lack of a BOM in UTF8 are a small set of issues. I've dealt with financial data from very large public banks and vendors that are horrible about vending proper CSV data. Either impromper
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by hermitdev 10y ago
Yeah, I worked at a hedge fund for nearly a decade. I got called back to the office from vacation after driving across the country for a development - not production - issue. I started getting 2-4 am calls for outages in dev by our offshore
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by hermitdev 10y ago
Yeah, saw a motherboard like this a couple of years back when I was helping a friend build a new PC. We couldn't get it to boot even to the BIOS and started looking for the POST codes. There weren't even pins to attach a speaker t
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by hermitdev 10y ago
I agree with the annoyances. Try reading any major US news site on your phone. You see a headline you want to read and tap on it. Sometimes the page is unresponsive. When it becomes responsive, it has loaded some new links to other articles
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by hermitdev 10y ago
These are great guidelines, but this is the second time today I've read compile with the highest warning level possible, and treat all warnings as errors. This is certainly laudable, but not always possible (I try to in my own code to