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Interestingly enough, that's how Société Générale lost huge amounts of money following the discovery of Jerôme Kerviel's misbehavior. They recklessly closed their positions, shooti…

The usual solution for player elimination in online games is the ability to leave the game you've been eliminated from and start another game right away, which is embodied by match…

Sure. But the two mandatory questions of banning any pesticide are tough to answer: - Can we have similar output (quality/quantity/cost) without any pesticide at all? - If not, are…

The default presentation structure of PowerPoint makes it very easy to build bad bullet point presentations. One could argue that means PowerPoint has bad default settings and thus…

What's new? Well, if we keep replacing low-skill jobs by high-skills ones, we may have a little problem: are humans going to keep up with the training? Is the workforce going to ad…

My main progamming language at the time is Java, and the amount of assistance my IDE provides is astonishing (to the surprise of no one, it's IntelliJ). The confidence strong autom…

The issue here is handling portability yourself or let the language and its toolchain do it. The odds that you are doing a better job than the community to handle portability are p…