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by octo_t 10y ago
The FTSE 100 recovered, mostly because GBP lost out against the dollar. There was a bloomberg chart a few weeks back, comparing the FTSE in USD versus the FTSE in GBP and the difference was striking. Take away lesson: markets are complex...
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by octo_t 10y ago
Or C Pre-Processor.
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by octo_t 10y ago
My current rabbit hole has been the world building stack exchange ( http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ ) which is (ostensibly) for writers working out scientific or historical justifications for the worlds they invent. S
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by octo_t 10y ago
not an android user, but plenty of iOS apps want to access the camera for 'ease of use' things. * Banking apps/shopping want access to the camera to scan your debit/credit/gift cards, instead of having to type it ou
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by octo_t 10y ago
This article says what I've been thinking/trying to explain to people about this. Before the iPhone, the only people who had/wanted smart phones were "uncool" business people[1]. And I think its the case with blueto
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by octo_t 10y ago
package management is not version control. it is release control and the two concepts are different in their semantics.
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by octo_t 10y ago
> "Looks like a Mac. Feels like a Mac." It looks like an old clamshell style macbook. At best. Which are what? 8 years old now?
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by octo_t 10y ago
this doesn't address the complaint that non-native english speakers may not know what `e.g.` and `etc.` mean.
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by octo_t 10y ago
I think the issue is it forces people to think about preconditions, postconditions and invariants in a very different way if they've come from imperative programming.
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by octo_t 10y ago
Because if it is decided that (example off the top of my head) "cucumbers grown in the pesticide Toxiciomosis cannot be sold as 'Class 1' cucumbers", there is just one place which needs updating, rather than K contracts.
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by octo_t 10y ago
When your X is double, triple (sometimes even quadruple) the national median, I think you need to justify why you wanted (and felt entitled to) X.
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by octo_t 10y ago
Undefined behaviour is the same across all compilers. The compilers aren't the things which make the behaviour undefined, its the C standard.
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by octo_t 10y ago
literally just today, there's news that Mitsubishi were doing the same thing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36089558
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by octo_t 11y ago
fyi for you and other commenters, there is no need to do this anymore - you can have separate accounts and create an iCloud Family instead, purchases + payment info get shared and nothing else.
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by octo_t 11y ago
its because you didn't search for a specific language.
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by octo_t 11y ago
thats a very slippery slope. - (0 < 1) is a constant. - ((10 + 10)*15 > 0) is a constant. where do you draw the line in the type checker at working these things out?
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by octo_t 11y ago
as far as you've noticed although its obviously impossible to prove a negative. But you won't notice you've not received offers of employment on linkedin (because you don't have a linkedin account) or missed out on socia
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by octo_t 11y ago
Nice to compare the comments here with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11222499 ("Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking"). People don't want to pay for content, but they also don't want to see a
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by octo_t 11y ago
it would have affected both OTA and itunes updates.
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by octo_t 11y ago
the problem is that the compiler assumes undefined behaviour can never happen ALL the time. Signed integer overflow is the most common one, since it means you can hoist 32bit ints into 64bit ints so they fit in one register or similar a
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by octo_t 11y ago
Whats the install error?
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by octo_t 11y ago
I think (right now) there isn't a way to really mass-target people illegally if you have their medical data. Blackmail requires some non-zero amount of effort per user. Compare this to getting a password dump from a social networking s
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by octo_t 11y ago
To be honest, I preferred the martian to 2001. Might have just been the mindset that I watched 2001 in, but it felt the like 3 or 4 films in one and sort of dragged. Although I would rate Blade Runner higher than the martian. Your mileage m
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by octo_t 11y ago
How can you say that when there's an Armani shop right in there on the streetview!
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by octo_t 11y ago
I went to a play in London about 7 years ago which was based on Ramanujan's life, and it managed to be fairly maths light, while still capturing the energy of discovery.
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by octo_t 11y ago
I'm sure there are other forms of communication which seem child-like (and all foreign languages sound like gibberish to begin with)
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by octo_t 11y ago
Or you could just use C++11/14 allocators instead which fix this in a much more transparent way...
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by octo_t 11y ago
"One day, apple will make their own processor." -> one day in the past. Apple already make their own processors.
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by octo_t 11y ago
Possibly not in the home, but in the office or public places? Definitely.
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by octo_t 11y ago
I feel like you wildly missed the point of the jokes about kanye...

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