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by sorbits 17y ago
It is true that if no-one wants the stock then the value of it will drop. This however should (under normal circumstances) only happen if the company is not profitable and is in debt (to the point where its physical assets amount to the sam
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by sorbits 17y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_sum_game zero-sum describes a situation in which a participant's gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the other participant(s)
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by sorbits 17y ago
Why aren’t the prices going to rise higher and higher? There is absolutely nothing that says they shouldn’t (or they should for that matter). And how does someone lose money if the prices stagnate? The prices have to actually drop for someo
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by sorbits 17y ago
All I was saying is that it is not a zero sum game. As for invested very intelligently I don’t think you can define that, nor what it means for everyone [to] be better off and more trading of a stock does not mean more money go into the
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by sorbits 17y ago
As someone who have always used curl and wondered why I often see wget quoted in READMEs (as how to obtain some remote file), I quite enjoyed reading the write-up. My take-away was that a) I am not missing out by staying with curl and b) th
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by sorbits 17y ago
What I think you are implying is that if you invest in companies part of some market index¹ and end up above the average performance of this index then someone else, who also invested only in companies in this index, will end up below the a
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by sorbits 17y ago
It's a zero sum game It most certainly is not. When you buy shares they represent a share in a company. This company may rise in value due to good management, successful products, expanding into new markets, etc. If you sell your share at
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by sorbits 17y ago
how do you beat the efforts of multi-billion dollar corporations Pass laws about proper labeling of foods, what can even be sold as food, and educate the public about healthy eating (which doesn’t necessarily require home cooking or to ta
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by sorbits 17y ago
Modern C++ rarely use subclassing¹. The default in my code should certainly be non-virtual. Someone already mentioned the performance issue. This applies both to run-time but also memory. Imagine we introduce a new type called ‘point’ repre
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by sorbits 17y ago
What if he makes a case for keeping types as POD when possible? :) Anyway, it is clear from your comment that you dislike C++ and you prefer to hire people who agree with you that C++ is archaic, that is fine and all, but it doesn’t show in
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by sorbits 17y ago
But not in the case explained. Git submodules not only are still separate repositories (making merging and splitting the shared resources problematic) they also require maintenance in the repository they are added to, so in practice a symbo
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by sorbits 17y ago
A company with a couple of applications will likely have a dozen or more shared libraries or other resources. You could create a repository for each resource, but resources are merged and split over time, a change in a resource may require
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by sorbits 17y ago
I think you missed more than just a paragraph as at least two of them made it clear that the writer is a ‘she’ :p Edit: My bad, as a reply points out, he speaks of having sex with a woman not making him a heterosexual (and the second refe
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by sorbits 17y ago
In this article it would have been fine to use singular ‘they’ especially since each fictive person is really a group of people, so even read as plural ‘they’ works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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by sorbits 17y ago
Lots of us use and love C++ and lots of new things is still being written in C++ — it is not a legacy language. C++98 introduced us to generic programming and C++0x continues along that path.
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RFC for auto-discovery of IMAP/POP3/SMTP from email address(tools.ietf.org)
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by sorbits 17y ago
Disable make’s implicit rules with -r or explicitly in the Makefile: .SUFFIXES: %:: %,v %:: RCS/% %:: RCS/%,v %:: s.% %:: SCCS/s.% %.c: %.w %.ch This gave me a significant speedup for no-op builds (0.7s → 0.
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by sorbits 17y ago
Does the web site also list class schedules? Because that is also a source of “when she is not at home”, as someone else already said, most people who have a job are out during the day, so finding “empty homes” is not exactly rocket science
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by sorbits 17y ago
“you're explicitly engaging in redistribution” Even a flat tax is redistribution of wealth as it would need to take into account that most people don’t start to earn money before they reach a certain age (and will likely stop earning mone
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by sorbits 17y ago
“We abandoned the idea immediately because the internet was abuzz with omegle’s” I can’t help but read that as giving up at the first sign of trouble. Sure, competition sucks, but if you had just a single advantage you could have used the
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by sorbits 17y ago
I highly recommend The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams for all non-designers out there. It goes through basic stuff which is important to pay attention to when “presenting information” (designing) such as proportions, whitespac
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by sorbits 17y ago
Under the assumption that “it is trivially simple to make mid six figures” then to reach 7/8 figures just: 1. Start new enterprise 2. Increase profit to mid 6 figures 3. Sell enterprise for 7 figures (only a couple of
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by sorbits 17y ago
Presumably we have different views of what was originally meant with “come in to work with you for a day” , seeing as this has now turned into “work for free for a day” ;) Of course the intent was not to just get someone in to work for f
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by sorbits 17y ago
The disconnect probably stems from types of job. You say you can get the same experience from contributing to open source, so it sounds like the job you have in mind is pretty much just a consultant gig, i.e. “here is your assignment, write
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by sorbits 17y ago
If I were seeking a job, the primary motivator would be having peers/assignments from which I can learn, I will gladly invest a day of my time to ensure the place I am going to spend the next many months/years of my life, is actually an int
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by sorbits 17y ago
“actively contributing to a company’s codebase” You think you will provide value which exceed the knowledge you might gain from learning about their systems and working/talking with their other employees, etc.? It is a great chance to get
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by sorbits 17y ago
I don’t understand people declare the spam problem solved. I have had false positives with every single spam filter I have tried. This is unacceptable when running a business, and if we manually have to double-check hundreds of spams each d
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by sorbits 17y ago
That would (to some degree) open them up to DoS attacks. E.g. place a bunch of hidden links on your site that spiders will follow and have them do long JavaScript computation — perhaps these computations could actually do useful stuff :)
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by sorbits 17y ago
According to the article Jobs is quoted saying: “Make no mistake they [Google] want to kill the iPhone” . What motivation would Google have for this? Considering the apps and services they offer on the iPhone, including iPhone optimized ve
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by sorbits 17y ago
Not sure why I was downvoted and get these replies. I wasn’t being sarcastic, I do spend lots of time making my commits (and everything else for that matter) ready for inspection by her royal queen — I know others with this same behavior, a

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