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901.
by pjscott 13y ago
Look at the next word in the sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance People receiving remittances from relatives working overseas tend to be on the poorer end of the spectrum.
902.
by pjscott 13y ago
You can't. You don't get the coffee. You also don't get the $40 fee for overdraft.
903.
by pjscott 13y ago
If you just want a shorter string, I'd prefer truncated SHA-256.
904.
by pjscott 13y ago
If it's a sqlite database with a reasonable schema, you can probably get a surprising amount of mileage out of a few simple SQL queries and this command-line tool: https://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.html In particular, the
905.
by pjscott 13y ago
> I'd like to think that I'd be able to re-train for a new profession before getting steamrolled, but perhaps I'm too optimistic? No, you'd probably be able to pull it off. If you have decent math and writing skills,
906.
by pjscott 13y ago
They're very useful if you want a test case that requires multiple bytes in UTF-8 and multiple words in UTF-16.
907.
by pjscott 13y ago
This summary is excellent, and concise: http://research.swtch.com/utf8
908.
by pjscott 13y ago
That's iteration by code point, not by grapheme. For example, the grapheme 'ä' may be represented as two code points: an 'a' and a combining diaeresis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point
909.
by pjscott 13y ago
Example schedule here, with brief descriptions of what the curriculum was in May 2013: http://rationality.org/schedule/ It's changed some since then; they do regular follow-ups on each participant for six weeks af
910.
by pjscott 13y ago
Elapsed time until someone used this article as an excuse to complain about the author, derailing the thread into non-struct-related flaming: about two hours. That's longer than I was expecting! I think 2014 is going to be a good year!
911.
by pjscott 13y ago
The Nehalem microarchitecture made aligned and unaligned memory accesses have the same latency and throughput, except in weird edge cases like loads which span an L1 cache line boundary.
912.
by pjscott 13y ago
GCC also supports that pragma, for compatibility with MSVC: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Structure-Packing-Pragmas.... Clang has this, too.
913.
by pjscott 13y ago
Even regular, non-hatchet-job journalism is usually pretty bad. Being reported on is a profoundly weird experience: open the paper, and see your day-to-day life distorted beyond recognition! It's pretty eye-opening. I think the best so
914.
by pjscott 13y ago
For want of a better word.
915.
by pjscott 13y ago
I think the word for that is "trolling." And you're right: the article does make more sense when looked at that way.
916.
by pjscott 13y ago
Restructured: "Maybe they're not commonly used in interviews because too few people insist on being able to use them in interviews?"
917.
by pjscott 13y ago
Spoiler: the answer is no. To see the actual rationale, check out the blog post this guy is loudly reacting to: https://plus.google.com/+WilliamChanPanda/posts/FKot8mghkok
918.
by pjscott 13y ago
There's a lesson here. I genuinely don't mean to sound smug, but -- remember how confident the Telegram guys were? Remember how sure they were that their protocol would be able to resist the eavesdropping efforts of the NSA and wh
919.
by pjscott 13y ago
The license on the TextSecure app is GPLv3. What would you like to do with TextSecure that this license prohibits?
920.
by pjscott 13y ago
In case anyone else was wondering, MCT is short for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter
921.
by pjscott 13y ago
Many biologists can confirm: even rudimentary programming skills can be very useful.
922.
by pjscott 13y ago
There are pots of gold, but the people who get the gold usually came for the rainbow.
923.
by pjscott 13y ago
This is an equally strong argument for teaching plumbing or woodworking.
924.
by pjscott 13y ago
It's actually worse than that: the article measures wealth by the maximum salary that someone is paid in any year of their life. So, if you made over $250,000 for one year back in 1999, and are now jobless, you're considered part
925.
by pjscott 13y ago
When you deal with enough of something, difficult and non-dramatic improvements can become both practical and worthwhile.
926.
by pjscott 13y ago
A few entries from Elon Musk's Twitter feed, from the first launch attempt a couple days ago: > Launch aborted by autosequence due to slower than expected thrust ramp. Seems ok on closer inspection. Cycling countdown. > Increasin
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by pjscott 13y ago
The ACM is the type of organization that feels obligated to write a code of ethics, and dutifully pay lip-service to it. This isn't about having an actual effect on the world; it's pure social signaling.
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by pjscott 13y ago
No paper trail? But that's what the Bitcoin mechanism is -- a way of publicly recording all transactions!
929.
by pjscott 13y ago
I'd call that a pretty radical reading of the text.
930.
by pjscott 13y ago
We already live in a world where people have nuked each other.

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