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You can get the full stack of the crash point (and a few extra frames that handles the stack generation) in a deferred recover, ie https://play.golang.org/p/XvZteY6Y6fh github.com/…

You wrote a promise library in Swift on a whiteboard? What? How large was this whiteboard?

If we're talking outliers then Titan, the largest moon of Saturn has a surface atmospheric pressure 1.4x more than Earth's, while being 2.3% of Earth's weight And then there's Venu…

A legit criticism, but who would transmit an 8Mb datablock using LZ4 over a network? There are far better compression schemes whose lower performance tradeoffs become negligible wh…

> This classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usenet in 1986. An argument could be made that [1986] would be more accurate.

> I wonder how much it'd shock Eugene if someone pointed it out to him that, in American racial discourse, Irish and Italian folk were once considered "not white." The title of his…

No, that is a backronym. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name

> That means that no number may be more than 100 away from any other number once fully sorted (7 bits) It's possible that 90% of numbers are 91 million. That's a 90 million delta p…

Most people will visit the page, scroll down a screen or two and leave it since they're not game programmers. So, just speculating, he's no stranger to bandwidth spikes so perhaps …

My experience with their B+ Tree database is that when your database size hits a Gb or more, closing the database can take up to 10mins or more (depending on writes queued), and op…

To most Americans, the best known Dane would be Dane Cook Prince Frederik for Australians.

No. It's a free energy scam. It will go away and in a couple years another scam will bubble up against all odds and make it into mainstream media. Call it zero-point quantum energy…

> ... and I posit it has little to do with "presenting the facts" (where is their outrage about the claim that the stig can blink horizontally or is non-human?) Just, wow. How does…

I don't know of a book reference, but if you sit down for half an hour and play though the algebra of stddev you can figure it how to combine multiple standard deviations into a si…

> Bzzzt! Thanks for playing! Please don't do this.

Do you know which developer in UW2 was responsible for the Servant Strike bug? That glitch wasted 6 weeks of my life! I recently started playing UW2 again through Dosbox, using a c…