If that's what made him your favorite, you really need to read his earlier post that really blew up in popularity. It's a great read. http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
They should do it only in situations where it doesn't change the program behavior. I use memset frequently in C just to be safe, but if it's written to later on before it's ever read from, the compiler can optimize that…
Going along with what someone said earlier, your last question can be "Were you born after someone who answered the previous 32 questions the same as you", which works to identify twins as well as people in general.…
Ratings are done at a bond (tranche) level, not a collateral level. Rating them at the collateral level would be incredibly stupid as some bonds are specifically designed to take loses in order to bolster the ratings of…
Lowering the interval makes the effect less pronounced, but it's still there. When you have fixed intervals the order book will keep increasing in size until the trades execute on the 1 second interval or whatever it…
Considering any low-latency firm worth talking about will be able to afford viewing the full order book (which apparently you can get for $750 a month http://www.nyxdata.com/arcabook) they don't need to create and…
It's a holdover from Fortran (and probably from before that). Whereas modern day we would define functions as int foo(int i, int j) {...} in Fortran you would do (! is comment) function foo(i, j) integer :: foo !return…
As someone with a degree in applied math, the pure abstract is more interesting than the applied. Applied math is like building really amazing and intricate sand castles on the beach. Pure math is like building the same…
Not necessarily. Only if you assume the people that go to movies are a good representation of people in general, which I doubt is true. Considering how important the teenage demographic is (why fewer movies are release…
All due to piracy? If you look at the 10 top grossing films of 2012, we have: 3 comic book movies (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spiderman) where the characters have already had several movies, 3…
Theses statistics come up several times a year, and they are always misleading. It's Hard to measure how much money a University makes on sports teams. I go to a school that has a BCS football program that makes more…
If that's what made him your favorite, you really need to read his earlier post that really blew up in popularity. It's a great read. http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
They should do it only in situations where it doesn't change the program behavior. I use memset frequently in C just to be safe, but if it's written to later on before it's ever read from, the compiler can optimize that…
Going along with what someone said earlier, your last question can be "Were you born after someone who answered the previous 32 questions the same as you", which works to identify twins as well as people in general.…
Ratings are done at a bond (tranche) level, not a collateral level. Rating them at the collateral level would be incredibly stupid as some bonds are specifically designed to take loses in order to bolster the ratings of…
Lowering the interval makes the effect less pronounced, but it's still there. When you have fixed intervals the order book will keep increasing in size until the trades execute on the 1 second interval or whatever it…
Considering any low-latency firm worth talking about will be able to afford viewing the full order book (which apparently you can get for $750 a month http://www.nyxdata.com/arcabook) they don't need to create and…
It's a holdover from Fortran (and probably from before that). Whereas modern day we would define functions as int foo(int i, int j) {...} in Fortran you would do (! is comment) function foo(i, j) integer :: foo !return…
As someone with a degree in applied math, the pure abstract is more interesting than the applied. Applied math is like building really amazing and intricate sand castles on the beach. Pure math is like building the same…
Not necessarily. Only if you assume the people that go to movies are a good representation of people in general, which I doubt is true. Considering how important the teenage demographic is (why fewer movies are release…
All due to piracy? If you look at the 10 top grossing films of 2012, we have: 3 comic book movies (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spiderman) where the characters have already had several movies, 3…
Theses statistics come up several times a year, and they are always misleading. It's Hard to measure how much money a University makes on sports teams. I go to a school that has a BCS football program that makes more…