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by smh 1y ago
https://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm Most have fallen out of use but e.g. 'laik' is still understood by young people.
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by smh 2y ago
I see - I guess it's a financial modelling program or similar where the quantities don't represent precise values of money. I was imagining some kind of accounting-like app that would need to be reconciled with real-world balances
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by smh 2y ago
You are using 32 bit floats to represent money? Does your project correctly calculate $300,000.00 + $0.01, (or even just correctly represent the value $300,000.01) and if so, how?
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by smh 15y ago
people familiar with the matter This peculiar phrase appears four times in the article. Is it journalist-code for something?
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by smh 15y ago
Re the "Don't be the first to state a number" strategy, what happens in the real world when two competent negotiators meet?
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by smh 15y ago
There was a Flash advert with a man gesturing and waving at me. It was so distracting I literally could not read the article text. I installed adblock and reloaded the page. An example of "tragedy of the commons", perhaps?
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by smh 15y ago
The social-network spamming has already started. On my last trip to the cinema I saw a teenager get a discount on her ice-cream in exchange for posting something on Facebook.
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by smh 15y ago
Macduff was born by Caesarean section, not Macbeth.
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by smh 15y ago
Actually, I'm impressed. That's a much better (and braver) decision than forcing through a new name just to save face.
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by smh 15y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html I wonder why this seems to happen in some open-source projects and not in others?
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by smh 15y ago
That implicitly assumes these patents are mostly forky-spoony stuff. What if they represent real innovation? In that case the system is working exactly as intended; investors are getting a return on R&D.
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by smh 15y ago
PG recommended this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation_%28TV_series%29
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by smh 15y ago
This sort of thing will likely cause more problems than it solves. Such a struct can't be moved, copied, or put in an array without potential memory corruption. I'd suggest doing this: typedef struct { int a; int b; /* priva
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by smh 15y ago
My bank in England is keen for me to "Go Green" and accept PDF bank statements in place of paper copies. I wonder if they allow new customers to open accounts without paper documentation...?
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by smh 16y ago
For an example of this sort of thing, see Premium Bonds, available since 1956: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond The stuff about ERNIE is interesting, too.
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by smh 16y ago
Microsoft products are full of annoying features like this. Another example is Outlook and the way it removes arbitrary newlines from plain text emails. Also: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ Choice quote: Rule of thumb--ever
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by smh 16y ago
A good complement to this would be to work through the exercises in K&R.
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by smh 16y ago
This function of the House of Lords has recently been replaced with a newly created Supreme Court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kin...
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Hope Bourne(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by smh 16y ago|0 comments
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by smh 17y ago
Investigate the -mno-cygwin option for gcc.
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by smh 17y ago
Even worse, they put Southampton in the "Portsmouth" group.