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by obiterdictum 12y ago
Call me old-fashioned but I shy away from unique platforms precisely because they are, well, unique, as you don't have a lot of vendor choice should you decide to migrate for whatever reason.
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by obiterdictum 12y ago
The classic version of it: http://lug.wsu.edu/node/414
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by obiterdictum 12y ago
What is wrong with piping `ls`?
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by obiterdictum 12y ago
> HFTs and other trading firms actually buy up the order flow from brokerages. I'm going to ask for a citation on this one. I remember a similar incident at KRX in 2009, and it resulted in a criminal investigation [1], so that ou
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
RT (of course) gives such a different view from Western media, it may as well be a completely different story. Right now, for example, it tells how "armed extremists sent from Kiev tried to seize government buildings in Crimea".
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
You can also use alt-coin exchanges, e.g. BTC->LTC->BTC, or even multiple exchanges (one to buy, one to sell) to obscure the trail even more.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Comparatively few people will read this story. Even fewer will care enough to continue the crusade against the attacker for any prolonged period of time to raise awareness among the potential future audience that this account was stolen. Hi
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Worth noting that BitBucket had this as long as I can remember.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
On a related note, I've run into a similar problem in C++, but opposite effect. A lambda won't keep my object alive if I try to capture a shared_ptr member , because C++ lambdas, similarly to blocks, by default capture implicit
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
This reminds me of a story of Sir Isaac Newton and South Sea Company bubble. He got out early, then watched all his friends get rich, jumped back in again with both feet, lost a fortune. Even smart people are not immune to bubbles. http:&#
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Conversely, JS programmers I complain about JS gotchas about contend that "once you learn all those horrible gotchas, it's a great language". Even C++ programmers, at least the ones that had good fortune to have time away fro
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
I think what GP is saying is that in emerging markets, or at least in Thailand, there is no "compromise" market segment (and it's not going to appear regardless how much Apple "want" it). Normal people get ultra che
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but is it $700 a month or a week ? I'm used to Sydney prices where a 1-bedroom apartment could easily cost around $500 a week.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
> It might be an interesting failure scenario for algorithmic trading. It's not how auto trading works. Traded instrument ranges are preset before the algo is started. I've never heard of an algo that tries to pick stocks to
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
I think it's more likely that LinkedIn mobile app grabs your phone contacts, if you happen to give it permissions to do so. I've noticed that the "People you may know" section started to contain faceless placeholder entr
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
It highly depends on the team. In a small team that know each other well, it can work. Most of the time it's not the case, however.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Note the article is from 2000. Joel mostly talks about big and mature desktop software (big as in Microsoft Excel). Average startup's code is small, narrowly focused, has a (relatively) short lifespan, so it can be rewritten from scrat
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
> I really enjoyed the pre-Microsoft Nokia, I had account in their dev forums, and loved their SDKs, community, Sybian, whatnot. Really? I thought their SDK circa 2007 (especially the emulator) and API docs were terrible, and Symbian C++
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
I think that dependency on argument evaluation order inside zip function smells a bit. It's OK here, but may bite you with a different function.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
I have been using it full-time circa 2006-2009. I guess that counts as "past decade". 1. There was no out of the box support of my particular NVidia video card, so I've had to build the driver from source and fiddle with my s
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Obligatory mention of gevent[1]. It handles all the plumbing for you with monkey-patching I/O calls. No annotations necessary, you just write linear code. [1] http://www.gevent.org
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
On a related note, for anyone interested in this, I recommend reading "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely[1]. He does actual studies and discusses a lot of these things (bias to loss aversion, change in behaviour when 1-layer d
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Genetic algorithm with 2D cars in HTML5(rednuht.org)
1 points by obiterdictum 13y ago|0 comments
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Along the same lines, there is also CCAN. http://ccodearchive.net/list.html https://github.com/rustyrussell/ccan And GMP for arbitrary precision math (integers and floating point numbers). http:/
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
You simply do not use "go get" on 3rd party repos in production. It's not different from pip or gem.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
C++98 "const" code still works exactly the same in single-threaded environment, so this change is not breaking, because no existing code is broken.
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Not a disaster, but a word of caution: https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/gotchas-irritan...
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GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world(geoguessr.com)
2 points by obiterdictum 13y ago|0 comments
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
It should be noted that data.encode('hex') and data.decode('hex') would not work in Python 3.x: http://stackoverflow.com/q/12917278/23643
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by obiterdictum 13y ago
Because the developer is storing passwords in plaintext, and he wants to save database space. This seem far fetched, not sure what thought process would lead anyone to come to this conclusion. Even if you have a million users, you have ~8

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