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by jzwinck 12y ago
FBI Director Comey has been busy this week. Monday he was "grappling with the question" of how to amend the agency’s marijuana policies, but by Wednesday he was "absolutely dead set against using marijuana," and "d
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Up In Smoke: FBI Won’t Change Rules On Pot Smoking Recruits(time.com)
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Amazon explains here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/05/new-amazon-s3-reduced-red... "If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every 10 million years or so."
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It's Fortran. Placing a "C" in the first column means Comment [1][2]. This burned one of my teammates once because he used Emacs to edit a Fortran file and in trying to type C-x C-c he accidentally added a "c" to t
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Absolutely. Coca-Cola (the drink, not necessarily the company) is a scourge and always has been. Giving access to Coke to everyone is the last thing we should want, but it is happening. The One World Futbol the article seems to think is g
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Fifteen years ago I was handed a Wang ( http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/WangVS100.htm ) and told to get it working. Apparently some company my employer had acquired used this thing to store its business records, a
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Your edit is correct. And the Google Voice instructions posted at the above link right now are clear: you do not need to interact with your old carrier to get your number on Google Voice. I have tried it myself. I believe what I outlined
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Quite right. Here's another way to reduce the strength of the "something you have" aspect: You're at a one-on-one meeting with a powerful executive. She gets up to attend to some business outside the room, and leaves y
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by jzwinck 12y ago
In a business where information security is so important, it's discomforting to see mishandled HTML escaping on their own News page: > Bloomberg TV – Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Interview on Bloomberg’s “
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by jzwinck 12y ago
You might tweet it if you did not believe that you'd get any results from reporting it to the police (or already did report it and got no results). For example, when stopped at a red light on my bicycle in Brooklyn, a van intentionally
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I agree with your first sentence for sure. Another way to implement it would be to avoid showing new questions with no upvotes to many users--only show them to a small sample of users and see if in the first ten minutes the question gets v
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The root cause is the same as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650799 "Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?" SO has become the go-to site for everyone who thinks they might want to solve a problem
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by jzwinck 13y ago
The article says Yiddish is "spoken mainly by the Jewish ultra-orthodox community that refrains from using computers." Well that's half true: (ultra-)orthodox Jews are a major part of the Yiddish speaking world, but the idea
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by jzwinck 13y ago
TFA says "By mmap'ing a region and then accessing into it, the overhead of creating multitudes of small interlinked items can be reduced hugely." You do not need to call mmap directly, because malloc() will do it if your allo
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by jzwinck 13y ago
You can't use most STL containers by default, but Boost Interprocess solves most of that: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/interprocess/a...
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by jzwinck 13y ago
The same author previously posted this code as a question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23295642/ (but we didn't speed it up nearly as much as the Code Golf champions). If you enjoyed
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by jzwinck 13y ago
I did something related, but by running a command repeatedly like Unix watch(1): https://github.com/jzwinck/wswatch
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by jzwinck 13y ago
If the supply of the currency were inflated to "print" money to give to MIT students, people would rightly protest. It would be a simple wealth transfer from the overall population of currency holders to a small group of students
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by jzwinck 13y ago
US $13K is laughably small for an "institutional" block. Block trading in US equities is more like 10000 shares (keep in mind 100 shares is "one lot" i.e. the minimum quantity for typical orders). Since BTC is trading
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by jzwinck 13y ago
You need not wait, the future is here today, in Brazil and elsewhere: http://www.wastelandmovie.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_picker
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by jzwinck 13y ago
It's true: Stack Overflow has changed. It's not bad (yet?), but it is different. The discussion on the linked page focuses a lot on bad questions, and there are plenty. But it's also much, much harder to ask good questions
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by jzwinck 13y ago
When you are done writing boilerplate to wrap all the third-party functions, don't forget to write equivalent documentation too. And tests. Or are you just going to use the same function names? If the latter it's a pointless exerc
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by jzwinck 13y ago
I just got a voicemail from my boss. Well, soon to be former boss. Not because I couldn't hack it at the job, but the business I was involved with had eroded over the years to the point where there was simply nothing left for me to d
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Bug can cause deadly failures when anesthesia device is connected to cell phones(arstechnica.com)
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by jzwinck 13y ago
Here you go: http://www.google.com/patents/US3158457
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by jzwinck 13y ago
Why does the author repeatedly refer to the clients climbing Everest as "Westerners?" There are a lot from Japan, China, South Korea, and India. Is the implication that the Westerners are somehow responsible while the Easterners
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by jzwinck 13y ago
Remember Intel's Itanium? It was sold based on the concept and hardware capabilities, and there was an assumption that a "Sufficiently Smart Compiler" [1] would just fall into place. Knuth mentioned it later as "the It
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by jzwinck 13y ago
I have done a bit of this too. The main downside in C++ is that you end up writing a few more ternary operators than you otherwise may have. But it is nice to be able to look at the first assignment of a variable and know it is the only o
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by jzwinck 13y ago
I totally agree--thank you for bringing this up. I'm not sure it would be faster, but it is an interesting case for goto. I saw another proposal referencing the original article which used a trio of functions in a nice way to achieve
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by jzwinck 13y ago
Indeed. This is part of why I included "idiomatic" in the title here. Someone smarter than me already wrote a bit prettier iterator increment function, and using that is easy once you have the interface decided. And in C++, ite

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