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To expand a little, most container ships use bunker crude, which is borderline sludge. It even needs to be heated before being pumped out. But it's cheap and at the size, pressure,…

Vim kinda has this. You can spend your entire time in insert mode, and then use -O to run an individual command.

Well of course you're getting a speed difference, look at how much extra work you're doing in the std::string code! The char[64]s are allocated once but you reallocate the std::str…

Carrier attack groups have a refueling ship along with all the cruisers/attack ships. It probably makes sense, just going by the size differences the carrier would use more convent…

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…

They are teams competing for trophies, though; the trophy is your money/market share. But beyond that, artificial competition could be a good thing. The large companies have a lot …

That's not entirely true. The salary cap is because if teams paid the fair market value, the teams with a larger budget would be able to run away with it like the Yankees did in ba…

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

No, there is no downvote for posts. Flagging is supposed to take the place of that, but only for posts that violate the rules. From the FAQ There are no down arrows on submissions.…

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.

You're right, the period was "hand picked", but that's because I was looking at a 5 year graph with the high and low marked, and just used those numbers. The movement before/after …

The second point is actually a point for hedge funds. The S&P 500 went from a high of 1576 near the end of 2007, to a low of 666 in the beginning of 2009 (October 07 to March 2009,…

While the other answers about Sabre are probably right, I've heard that banks intentionally have stupid password policies to prevent password reuse. If one bank says "no special ch…

When this originally came up people were saying that, they use it as a reminder to keep using the site. But you can get the same benefit using a login link or something, no need fo…

A kill switch wouldn't have saved them. What killed Knight wasn't the $400 million loss, it was the lack of confidence all other firms had in them afterwards. Brokers can't just sh…

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 re…

The NYC equivalent is losing money because everyone got a annual pass and not many tourists are using it. The tourists are the real money makers, as only 10 daily passes or 4 weekl…

You completely missed his point about the difference between non-public information and new analysis on public information. Anyone can go and count the number of cars in a WalMart …

Except you completely missed the point where Ackman isn't making any money off this. > Mr. Ackman has said he will donate any profits he personally earns to charity, calling it “bl…

Quite honestly, I'm surprised it's that low. 37% of households in Manhattan make over 100k/year[1]. Take into account that taxis are mainly concentrated in the high income areas (r…