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tossaway1
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The company is valued at $2 trillion, the value of the IPO is expected to be 5% of that. Title seems misleading...
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> RI could promote business growth They tried that and it was a bit of a disaster... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios
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10y ago
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/
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Well, 32 bit ints dramatically simplified the porting of some 32-bit software to 64-bit since it didn't cause large arrays of integers to suddenly double in size.
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10y ago
Technically you could draw such a straight line in any country.
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Was thinking the same thing. That seems like a big omission from the article unless the chain was just some sort of incoherent meandering rant...
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10y ago
Elon is the founder and chairman...
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10y ago
The JFK US half dollar is 30.61 mm. There's apparently also an Eisenhower silver dollar in circulation at >38mm but I don't think I've ever seen one.
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10y ago
> 10 square degrees in area Wow, that's much bigger than I expected. So basically we can only determine the general direction?
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> As of August 2014, nine states prohibit retailers from passing credit card surcharges onto consumers. In Massachusetts at least there's a loophole for gas stations. In fact that's always been the case... http://www
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10y ago
In this case it was apparently neither of those
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> did not make this trade Is trade the right word here? It seems like there must have been lots of trades in order to establish such a position...
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Maybe thaumasiotes was pointing out that there was no year zero. Before the year 1 was the year 1 BC...
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> I'm a teacher and timetabling systems seem to have a Saltationist bias Are you a biology teacher? I had to look that one up...
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10y ago
> the total number of atoms in all those universes combined would be close Close?? Wouldn't it still be roughly 10 billion times smaller...?
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10y ago
Qt is also free to use in commercial projects. I believe fftw had the sort of dual license you have in mind.
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10y ago
Seems like a false choice. Plenty of people make a living doing things that help the world.
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11y ago
> Someone should find those Europeans and punish them. In the case of "Lord Jeff" he instead has a prestigious small college as well as a largish university named after him.
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11y ago
> Last few cars I've owned seem to be designed to prevent the owner from even looking under the hood. I found I can't even rotate the tires on my current car (Sonata) because it's got no central jack point. Seems to be des
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11y ago
As an interviewer you shouldn't compare a candidate's answers/solutions to what you think you would have done, you should conpare them to other candidates. This is the main reason I have a standard set of questions I make sur
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11y ago
As a manager, I would say it IS my job to get my directs involved in interesting projects. If I dont, theyre apt to look for something interesting elsewhere and finding talented developers to replace them is expensive for the company.
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11y ago
How would inhouse software affect GPL compliance?
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11y ago
Well that and "the failure of Focused to adhere to a requirement that over 50 per cent of the labour hours of the contract be performed by individuals with disabilities"
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11y ago
Even hunter gatherer societies had social structure and norms. And in those societies people far outside the norm were probably treated much worse than they are in today's society.
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11y ago
There's a big difference between a git contributor explicitly saying their code is a subject to a certain license and SO magically declaring it to be so for all code on their website just because it happens to be in their ToS. I think
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11y ago
I don't think shifting school schedules is as easy as you'd think. The start times in my town (and I assume most) are structured to enable working parents to get to work around 9 (depending on their commute) after getting their ki
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11y ago
I don't think that answers anything. Just because some anonymous poster put code online doesn't make it usable under the MIT license no matter what the ToS of the website says. The poster may have copied that code from a GPL code
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11y ago
There's a vocal minority of Americans who oppose any softening of policy towards a Castro Cuba. Many (most?) of these have ties to men and women who fled Castro decades ago and who lost a lot to the Castro regime.
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I'm all for supporting law enforcement efforts, but the wording seemed to imply that Apple hands over any requested info to the FBI, which seems excessive. But I was mainly pointing out that quote because it wasn't clear what less
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11y ago
Well, saying you'd prefer one government over another isn't the same as the preferred government doesn't have flaws.
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