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by saretired 10y ago
The difference is 1.09%, not 9%. Also, what was the time delta between those quotes?
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by saretired 10y ago
I have no way of predicting Snap’s future, but I am certain that tomorrow, the founders and VCs will take hundreds of millions off the table through share sales, the investment bankers will earn fat fees, ditto the deal lawyers, some people
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by saretired 10y ago
Of course you have the right not to tip, it's optional after all, but many people do choose to give tips, and then the question is whether part of the tip is being skimmed off by Instacart. Restaurants have paid large fines under the F
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by saretired 10y ago
That was the motto on the Washington family coat of arms before he was born. It's a quote from Ovid.
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by saretired 10y ago
Taiwanese companies such as Foxconn with extensive operations on the mainland may be particularly vulnerable if the Trump government insists on making the one China policy a bargaining chip in trade negotiations. We’ll see how it all plays
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by saretired 10y ago
I'm looking at the excepts in his post, which are broken.
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by saretired 10y ago
The “optimized” functions have a bug when the number of remaining bytes is less than the block size.
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by saretired 10y ago
'Laid off' is ambiguous: it can mean either a temporary suspension (i.e., a factory lays off some workers until conditions improve) or a permanent job loss. I haven't seen any suggestion that these job loses at Theranos are t
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by saretired 10y ago
Perhaps as a proof of concept they can do a native implementation of GNU grep in Haskell and publish some timing stats.
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by saretired 10y ago
Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows. NeXT gave them a modern OS. Performance was falling further and further behind Intel-based systems. NeXTSTEP ran on Intel, Sparc and PowerPC. And most of
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by saretired 10y ago
The article specifically mentions commercial bank lenders, which are regulated. While I'm sure there are non-bank lenders in this space, a commercial bank can't delay repayment without a charge to the loan-loss reserve, and taking
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by saretired 10y ago
I'm confused. The CEO of Persado is quoted as saying "interest rates are low," while the article says that Metamarkets is paying 14% on a loan cut in Oct--for comparison, the Merrill Triple-C-Rated index ("extremely spec
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by saretired 10y ago
I agree that reading code is extremely important for improving as a programmer, but the code has to be read analytically. That’s hard work, because it means understanding the problems and subproblems that the code is solving. For example, y
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Code Inflation (2015) [pdf](spinroot.com)
82 points by saretired 10y ago|37 comments
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by saretired 10y ago
There's plenty of 20th century organ music, a lot of it is religious (my father was an organist). It's hard to record pipe organs, particularly the low bass, and without excellent playback equipment the presence is lost. You might
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by saretired 10y ago
dmr wrote the V7 malloc and calloc (which calls malloc) [0,1]. Mike Lesk used calloc in lex ;-) [2] [0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc... [1] https://github.com/d
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by saretired 10y ago
It appears that only calloc was in Lesk's Portable C Library [0] while malloc was the name Thompson gave the kernel's memory allocator in V6 [1]. When Ritchie rewrote Lesk's library for V7, he may have simply retained calloc
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by saretired 10y ago
It obviously depends on background and goals. People who come to programming with only HS math would probably benefit most from studying (not just reading) an introductory discrete math text such as Biggs or Rosen. For calculus, linear alge
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by saretired 10y ago
The obvious symmetrical question is whether there has been a pro-American dictator who actually improved the lives of the citizens. But 'improving the lives' is extremely vague. Measured by what? Literacy, GNP, health care, growth
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by saretired 10y ago
Sedgewick did animations of quicksort and other algorithms back in the 80's. He coincidentally did his PhD on quicksort under Knuth. Jon Bentley gave a Google Talk about quicksort and inputs that drive it to O(n^2) https://w
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by saretired 10y ago
Not to minimize that person's loss, but 60% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, and I don't assume that the people I observed only went once to the casino. Minimum wage earners tend to have nothing left over by the end
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by saretired 10y ago
The one time I was in a casino I accompanied a coworker who gambled to one of the low dollar casinos in Colorado. What I noticed were poor people who came with $100 and wanted--or needed--to leave with $200, and of course the business model
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by saretired 10y ago
Interesting reaction to the quote from Robert Gordon of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. PCI is an umbrella lobby for insurers; their website says they represent writers of 42% of automobile policies in the U.S. Since
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by saretired 10y ago
USGS page on the quake: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#...
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by saretired 10y ago
Well, if you read the article, it mentions the tax breaks that Tesla buyers get, and that the "future of these tax credits may come into question based on Trump's opposition to the government picking winners and losers." How
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by saretired 10y ago
Trump received a 40-year, $120 million full tax abatement from NYC for the Grand Hyatt (Newsweek 6/17/90) . He sought a residential tax abatement for Trump Tower, an abatement designed for low- and middle-income housing (NYT, 8&#x
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by saretired 10y ago
All the Chinese have to do is let their UST holdings run off as they mature over time, use the proceeds to buy whatever they want outside the US, and insist that new US contracts be priced in RMB. If China stops rolling its short term UST,
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by saretired 10y ago
There have only been 2 drops greater than 700 points. The third largest fall was 684 points.
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by saretired 10y ago
As of September, China held $1.22 trillion of US Treasury bonds. Something to keep in mind before launching a trade war.
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by saretired 10y ago
I've been around since Lotus 1.0, and worked in financial and engineering firms. I've seen cases where spreadsheets have been the right answer for knowledgeable and relativity sophisticated users, either to build a quick model or

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