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I am responsible for hiring developers, and I do find online programming tests very useful. They serve as a relatively simple early-stage screen for applications from people we've never met. Ours costs each candidate 1-2 hours. But w
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US companies ghost candidates all the time. They actually do it on purpose, partly out of a fear that explicit rejections (especially with reasons given) may elicit lawsuits. Our applicant tracking systems won't be upset if you ghost
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Moving between North and South Korea is restricted but not completely eliminated. There are people who legiimately work in one and live in the other (not just officials).
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Three problems: 1. It would not make sense to run on mobile. 2. Mining this way is inefficient, so if the site gets one penny worth of work done, it costs me five pennies. 3. Unless readers have decent GPUs, it's probably not enough mo
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Once a widget has run say 100 million instructions, suspend it if it comes from a different domain than the main page, mark it visually and provide a button on it to enable high CPU usage. We used to do something like that with Flash: make
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Finding tick by tick data is easy. Every major lit exchange sells it for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per year, either directly or indirectly (through a data vendor). Just search for "market data price list" and the nam
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Probably not. First this is a highly unusual event, not something other debtors could reasonably expect for themselves. Second, the money was used to fight polio, a terrible disease. Moral hazard would be Nigerians driving Ferraris purchase
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The Intel DQ67OW motherboard has a floppy connector and an LGA1155 socket for Sandy Bridge (maybe Ivy Bridge too). 3.5 GHz Core i7 with a floppy drive is not too shabby. It also has both PS/2 and serial ports if you would like to plug
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There is often an interface between the lens and camera. It's different for each camera maker usually. It may be mechanical, electronic, or both. It may provide significant power to the lens, a data path for firmware updates (Olympus)
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Line numbers in less(1) or GitHub. Row numbers in Excel, Pandas, R, etc. The most common way to label rows is with sequential numbers.
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Roughly similar: http://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=PriceListTrading2 But GDAX is a vertically integrated exchange and retail trading platform, so the 0.1% taker fee is all you pay. A stock exchange won't talk to y
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When I upgraded a laptop from Windows 7 to 10, and then it wouldn't resume from sleep anymore, I told Windows 10 to revert and it took a long time but worked perfectly.
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It requires the attacker to be able to type a few characters into a logged in session. If the session is not an administrative one, it's not fair to say all bets were off. If I give you a Mac logged in with an unprivileged account and
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> data [needn't] be continuous to stay in cache. Cache is more like paged virtual memory, it consists of cache lines. It sounds like you're saying everything will be OK so long as each chunk of 64 bytes (cache line) is used tog
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> When the futures clear, you basically end up with dollars, which is odd to an extend as a future in oil will literally give you oil once it clears. Futures come in two types: physically settled and financially settled. Physical means t
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If you want to check whether either of two values is NaN, rejoice, it is now optimized to a single instruction on x86 by GCC 6 and Clang 3.7: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63387 You write isnan(x)||isnan
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> if you have a group of half a dozen people who each pay a few hundred $ a month you could almost employ one person who takes care of such stuff You could move to Singapore, where a full-time (24x6) "domestic helper" costs abo
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Bitcoin Classic Shuts Down as Staff Claim Bitcoin Cash Will Rule ‘In 6 Months’(cointelegraph.com)
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I sail regularly in the waters where this occurred. They are extremely crowded with large ships, small fishing boats, and more. The Navy ship was moving at 12 knots which is relatively fast in the local context. Not only does this open them
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Yes I'm aware of that document. From your link: > Because the English and Māori versions of the Treaty differed significantly, there is no consensus as to exactly what was agreed upon. So it does little to clarify. The Maori are a m
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Do you mean it belongs to the Maori? Or the Britishish? It is not at all clear who this land belongs to.
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Tip #1 appears on the surface to be about C++17's std::string_view, but many shops had something similar to string_view for a decade or more before C++ made it official. The tips are not presented in their original form; edits have be
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You've asked how you can get 100k EUR per year. But you have not mentioned anything about the value you can offer for this money (unless DS means something there, I have no idea what DS is). In many companies, low-level managers don&#x
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Yes. Here's one place that came up when I sorted by "Top Ranked" and filtered by "Dinner": https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Restaurant_Review-g298285-d11... It even beat out the Night Market, which i
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I've noticed when looking at "democratic" restaurant rankings, they tend to be dominated by places that cater to some common denominator. Cafes with latte art, dessert shops, drinking spots. Those are what win, even in ranki
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Yes you need to install an MPI implementation such as OpenMPI or MPICH. You probably also want to install a scheduler such as TGSFKA Sun Grid Engine ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Grid_Engine ), Torque, or Slur
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Numba can be much faster than NumPy for some calculations. For example if you want to compute both the min and the max of an array, NumPy requires two passes but in Numba it is easily done in one. This can give close to 2x speedup for arra
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There is no single Wall Street vendor who has nearly every hedge fund as a client, unless perhaps you are talking about a major exchange like NYSE. Even that is probably not a valid because of the huge number of firms doing smaller volumes
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Intel has MKL/TBB/IPP/etc which are now under one umbrella: https://software.intel.com/en-us/performance-libraries
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File write could work the same as socket send. If the data cannot definitely be written now, write nothing and allow the application to try again, probably after waiting for readiness via poll or select.

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