Is this comment real? You made this comment on a site that most people use to waste time, and where one of the top posts is an Assembly implementation of Flappy Bird. Fun fact: HFT has an annual revenue ~1/50th[1][2] of…
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
Photons have no rest mass, but one of the key points in GR is that mass and energy are interchangeable by E=mc^2. Mass-energy equivalence is how Fission bombs work.
Related, Google built their own water treatment plant at one of their data centers. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/helping-hooch-with-wa...
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.…
You misunderstand the point of the FSF. It's free as in freedom, not free as in no money. The whole thing started because rms wanted to modify a printer driver to give functionality their last printer had. He wasn't…
I hope everyone learned their lesson after all the panic over Italy/Greece/whoever defaulting and when senior MBS bonds took losses way back in 2009 and the code can handle defaults. I think the bigger risk would be…
There's also what's called prepayment risk (or in this scenario I guess late-payment risk, but they're 2 sides of the same coin). For prepayment risk, essentially an investor thinks "OK, I put a lot of effort into this…
The kicker is located in the middle, > The median 401(k) balance for households headed by people aged 55 to 64 who had retirement accounts at work was $120,000 in 2011 The 77 year old highlighted is just an easy way to…
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…
Turbulent flow would increase the overall drag in this situation. You're essentially taking energy from the free-flowing middle of the pipe and using it to drag more air along the wall. The reason why turbulence helps a…
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…
Shadowing keywords is perfectly valid, although I believe you can't shadow keywords in standard headers so that compiler writers don't need to worry about it. It gives rise to some "useful" C/C++ features that should…
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…
> The hands free display is the only advantage and it's not worth it. If there were a market for hands free displays, there's nothing stopping us from having one for our smartphones just like Bluetooth earpieces.…
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…
Interesting tidbit: -40 Celsius is the exact same temperature as -40 Fahrenheit. Nitpick: If you have a diesel, your car will not start at all if the engine is cold, but if you have a diesel and live anywhere where…
Not quite, the cost of RSA encryption is O(k^3), where k is the total number of bits, not the number of 1's. But it is cheaper to have less 1 bits, as (abusing big-O notation), the cost is more like O(3k^3-z^3), where z…
If you assume inviscid potential flow, a cylinder rotating forward will create lift. So the counter-clockwise spin on the cheap beach ball is creating lift on its right-hand side, so it curves that way. As to why a…
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…
I was gonna write something about how matlab isn't really that bad. And then I thought about how it's impossible to do anything with strings, y(0)=1; gives an error, variables from inside a function aren't stored in the…
Is this comment real? You made this comment on a site that most people use to waste time, and where one of the top posts is an Assembly implementation of Flappy Bird. Fun fact: HFT has an annual revenue ~1/50th[1][2] of…
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
Photons have no rest mass, but one of the key points in GR is that mass and energy are interchangeable by E=mc^2. Mass-energy equivalence is how Fission bombs work.
Related, Google built their own water treatment plant at one of their data centers. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/helping-hooch-with-wa...
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.…
You misunderstand the point of the FSF. It's free as in freedom, not free as in no money. The whole thing started because rms wanted to modify a printer driver to give functionality their last printer had. He wasn't…
I hope everyone learned their lesson after all the panic over Italy/Greece/whoever defaulting and when senior MBS bonds took losses way back in 2009 and the code can handle defaults. I think the bigger risk would be…
There's also what's called prepayment risk (or in this scenario I guess late-payment risk, but they're 2 sides of the same coin). For prepayment risk, essentially an investor thinks "OK, I put a lot of effort into this…
The kicker is located in the middle, > The median 401(k) balance for households headed by people aged 55 to 64 who had retirement accounts at work was $120,000 in 2011 The 77 year old highlighted is just an easy way to…
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…
Turbulent flow would increase the overall drag in this situation. You're essentially taking energy from the free-flowing middle of the pipe and using it to drag more air along the wall. The reason why turbulence helps a…
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…
Shadowing keywords is perfectly valid, although I believe you can't shadow keywords in standard headers so that compiler writers don't need to worry about it. It gives rise to some "useful" C/C++ features that should…
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…
> The hands free display is the only advantage and it's not worth it. If there were a market for hands free displays, there's nothing stopping us from having one for our smartphones just like Bluetooth earpieces.…
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…
Interesting tidbit: -40 Celsius is the exact same temperature as -40 Fahrenheit. Nitpick: If you have a diesel, your car will not start at all if the engine is cold, but if you have a diesel and live anywhere where…
Not quite, the cost of RSA encryption is O(k^3), where k is the total number of bits, not the number of 1's. But it is cheaper to have less 1 bits, as (abusing big-O notation), the cost is more like O(3k^3-z^3), where z…
If you assume inviscid potential flow, a cylinder rotating forward will create lift. So the counter-clockwise spin on the cheap beach ball is creating lift on its right-hand side, so it curves that way. As to why a…
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…
I was gonna write something about how matlab isn't really that bad. And then I thought about how it's impossible to do anything with strings, y(0)=1; gives an error, variables from inside a function aren't stored in the…