timrobinson

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by timrobinson 5y ago
Your previous game stats are moved across but you lose your preferences (dark mode and hard mode). And you gain a cookie pop up. Of course the previous site had cookies (or rather localStorage) and tracking, but it didn’t ask for consent li
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by timrobinson 5y ago
Modern operating systems do do memory compression as claimed by the original SoftRAM. In the case of Windows it was added in Windows 10. I wonder if it would ever have been economical, in performance terms, back in the day. https:/&#x
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by timrobinson 5y ago
It’s a long read, but it covers the period from the original IBM through to the 386 in impressive technical detail.
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History of the evolution of the x86 platform, from the IBM PC to the modern era(zirblazer.github.io)
5 points by timrobinson 5y ago|1 comments
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by timrobinson 7y ago
Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ the most talented traders, developers and engineers
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by timrobinson 7y ago
Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ the most talented traders, developers and engineers
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by timrobinson 7y ago
Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ the most talented traders, developers and engineers
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by timrobinson 8y ago
We don't have a role for pure Rust development but I'd be interested to meet somebody with C++ plus Rust, or Python plus Rust. Maven primarily uses C++, C# and Python, but we've recently started using Rust on a couple of proj
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by timrobinson 8y ago
Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ the most talented traders, developers and engineers
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by timrobinson 9y ago
Because PS/2 is interrupt driven whereas USB relies on the CPU polling for events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Legacy_port_status_a...
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by timrobinson 9y ago
Transport for London did this for one week on the Tube last year - https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2016/11/23/wifi-data-trial-understan...
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by timrobinson 11y ago
It's absolutely not. Everything I've seen has been 64-bit double. If you need to, you round either intermediate or final calcs to a set precision. I once worked on replicating a particular index, and the engine used fixed point in
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by timrobinson 11y ago
Rounding happens when the value is displayed. To see the raw value, try: =(0.1+0.2)
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by timrobinson 13y ago
No; NT Embedded existed based on NT 4, in the late 1990s.
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by timrobinson 14y ago
It won't hang as long as you're redirecting only standard output. If you want to read both StandardOutput and StandardError, you need to do it from separate threads: either with explicit BeginInvoke/EndInvoke calls as in Kudu, or more simpl
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by timrobinson 14y ago
No. They use 'favorite' consistently throughout the website.
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by timrobinson 14y ago
No, ObjC is very close to standard C. The [ ] message syntax compiles to calls to the objc_msgSend function.
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by timrobinson 14y ago
I think this is a little too cynical. I've seen elements of what you describe in previous jobs, but never all at the same time, and never to the same extent. Then again, the culture and the work varies in different cities and in different r
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by timrobinson 14y ago
If typing is hard then you're less likely to go back over your code and correct typos and minor errors. At any rate, hunt-and-peck typists tend not to spend time going back over the code and formatting it nicely.
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by timrobinson 14y ago
You need a MAC address to install an iPhone app.
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Don Syme's C#/.NET Generics Research Project History(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by timrobinson 14y ago|0 comments
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by timrobinson 14y ago
If it's true that this is a manual error, then I have two questions: 1) Why did it take until the early hours of Wednesday to find out? Why not run a manual check after the change went in? 2) If they found out on Wednesday morning, why did
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by timrobinson 14y ago
Specifically, it looks like a manual error during a deployment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/25/how-natwest... "It seems whoever made the update to CA-7 managed to delete or corrupt the files which hold the schedule for t
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by timrobinson 14y ago
I'm on an iPad and I can't make any of the links work.
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by timrobinson 14y ago
> [IDEA: Allow octal and hexadecimal numbers.] Who actually uses octal, except by accident?
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by timrobinson 15y ago
"test some part of C#" - Snippet Compiler already works well for this, if you don't want to start Visual Studio. Snippet Compiler isn't broken, though, like STFU is. For instance, I have the .NET framework in C:\WINNT. Besides, for command
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by timrobinson 15y ago
Right - if you cared enough about looking at anonymous salary information across different countries, you could just use Glassdoor.com.
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by timrobinson 15y ago
Glassdoor.com's free trial is limited. Click through a few pages, and you start getting this: > This salary is available to members
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by timrobinson 15y ago
I'm not convinced it's useful to convert the currencies anyway. I can't get paid in US dollars for this job. If I wanted to get paid in USD, I'd be getting a different job. Or are there any cases where a single job market spans two or mor
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by timrobinson 15y ago
> US Dollars, please But I get paid in pounds sterling. Can't this just be a free-form text field?

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