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by obiterdictum 14y ago
On the other hand, static_assert will have a more helpful compile error for users of the code. They will clearly see assertion condition that failed, rather than missing candidate error due to substitution failure (or worse, a different ove
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
Property bubble has been predicted in Australia for years now. I was waiting for a market crash for years too, but now I'm not entirely convinced. With high urban sprawl, poor transport options, growing population and generally high incom
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
You are right, it appears to be C++-specific and looks like a typo in the link. C++98, 17.4.3.1.2 Global names - Each name that contains a double underscore (__) [...] is reserved to the implementation for any use.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
That's not ideal either. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/lab/cplus/c++.rules/chap5.html "The use of two underscores (`__') in identifiers is reserved for the compiler's internal use according to the ANSI-C standard."
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
Does it include chained map-reduce?
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Long Bets: The Arena for Accountable Predictions(longbets.org)
1 points by obiterdictum 14y ago|0 comments
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
addresses are strange. humans think of addresses in little-endian No, this is culture-specific. In Russia, postal addresses are written exactly the opposite ("big endian") way.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
The reason we want bindings similar to certain popular editors is because we have years of mechanical memory invested in them and for us it means better mechanical speed of interaction with the interface. Keyboard bindings and general IDE a
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
This was just a workaround for the lack of move constructors. The real problem with auto_ptr is that if anything emits a call to auto_ptr destructor at the point where the object pointed to is incomplete (forward-declared), the destructor
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
Sorry, a bit off-topic, but that reminded me of one fun fact. In Russia, most social networks these days require that you sign up with a mobile number. You cannot start using your account without receiving an SMS verification code.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
It's amazing: a website will make me choose an 8-character (but not more than 14!) password with a number, a symbol, and at least one capital and one lowercase letter, but then it will let anyone who knows my birthday and favorite color ch
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
I do not think the usage of thread locals in Flask is a bad idea. Conceptually request-local variables are no different to stack variables in multiple threads of execution, or member variables of objects in OO languages: both change their v
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
It should be noted that thread locals play well with greenlets, so it works well with gevent-style asynchronous servers.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
old J2ME/Symbian platform No. Just... no. I'm really pleased that Symbian is dead (or on life support). It is, so far, the worst platform I have ever had to deal with. Eclipse-based IDE for €300-1300, partner-only premium APIs, completely
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
This is exactly what I am thinking. If we expect others to respect our software licenses, why don't we respect others' license on creative content they produce, no matter how outlandishly priced or badly delivered we believe it to be? What
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
OK, so, it's that post. Consider the following cases: 1. a company violates a FOSS license by incorporating GPL code and not releasing source code. 2. a company takes an image produced by an artist and sells T-shirts of it without the art
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
Executive summary: - The signature: SHA1 HMAC of data and, optionally, a timestamp to expire signatures. - HMAC key derivation: SHA1 of a secret key and a salt.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
It's a well-known technique used by a lot of products. Github, for example, has a little "slide-in" animation of when you click on a folder in a repo to achieve the same latency masking.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
Or you can interpret it the other way: before the code could complete X units of work (whatever the metric), now it can complete X + X in the same time (2X).
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
A lot of people are probably not aware of it, as it's hard to keep up with every drama on the Internet when you have things to do. I certainly wasn't until today. (Yes, I realize the irony of this comment, I should be doing things right now
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
Judging by the "React in the Industry" section, this was my thought too. In fact, I was sure it is until I saw serious comments here.
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
The reason Facebook went down is the usual immediate post IPO sell-off when a bunch of people that got into the IPO sell their shares immediately to make some quick profit. Is this one correct, though? I recall that insiders have selling
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by obiterdictum 14y ago
ASX shutdown for 4 hours on option expiry day. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/201110/s335003... Also, so did HKEx (for the entire day, on option expiry day!) due to a typhoon (?), as far as I recall. This is non-news. Excha
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
No, gccgo doesn't resolve anything. Care to explain? I was under the impression that the recent 32-bit memory usage issues are specific to the 8g implementation only.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
If you are trading only one market, no. If you do arbitrage across two or more exchanges, then it matters.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I thought it was clever too, but the paranoid side of me thinks if this is to go ahead, Prentice Hall may not like it.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Because it's hard to add it to the mature infrastructure that was not designed to support it from the beginning. Clang was built from ground up to support good diagnostics.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I agree. For what it's worth, my experience has been completely the opposite (disclaimer: I'm a SO addict with rep approaching 20k). 1. I've never got downvoted for asking something that could be found by googling and don't downvote anyone
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How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy(carlos.bueno.org)
177 points by obiterdictum 15y ago|48 comments
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
The trouble with services like this is that in order to "beat the market", i.e. be above average, you have to have information before other market participants. As soon as information becomes public, you can no longer make "more than averag

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