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It's actually circa 1914 British usage rather than an error.

Or based on an assumption that YC gets more than just equity out of the people that get into it.

Moleskine notebooks are mediocre in paper quality, though, and not very consistent. You'll see variations based on which of their Chinese suppliers manufactured a particular notebo…

You'll still have the driver doing the mapping from id to handle under the hood. It can get to be north of 25% of cpu cycles spent looking this up in some cases.

Exactly. Forcing every embedded device that wants to do portable 3D to include megabytes of wrappers for over a decade of cruft wasn't worth it, when the alternative is people havi…

C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software is the best thing I've seen on the topic, personally. http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-T…

I think it really speaks to the impoverished startup environment in Chicago that this ends up as an un-monetized throwaway product. In Silicon Valley an idea like this could lead t…

Avoiding dark alleys is certainly normal advice in Japan as well. http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201112/13/73/b0015373_19495370.jp...

He's probably precisely the type of guy you should listen to when it comes to how things don't work as they should.

It's amazingly impressive that they took on ASL as a first target and didn't give up before completing that beast of a rule set.

Wait until you see the google site!

Most sane programming language syntaxes are confined to a subset of CFGs, usually LALR, which is nice and easy to generate fast parsers for. To parse any CFG you have to fall back …

The GPU capabilities are gated by Apple's software, it seems. The windows drivers for the same card are quite happy with OpenGL 3.2 or thereabouts. I'd bet that the lack of interna…

Dali makes a big production out of the way he did it and describes it extensively in his book "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship". It was a key rather than a spoon in that case, th…

It mentions however that the system was used after the campaign has switched to night bombing, which was months after the evacuation from France. The error was at least as large as…

There's also the aspect of plain talk about concrete lessons learned being valuable to competitors in a way that feel-good self promotion isn't. While it'd be nice to be able to le…

I must be parsing this incorrectly because it looks like you're arguing that C was obscure before Linus used it.

Forgive me if I take a debunking of GPU performance advantages written up by Intel with a fist sized grain of salt.

The "our" translation is just convention, not actually there in the latin.

It's 3 standard deviations above the mean, so it'd definitely be an eye-opener compared to the composition of pretty much any high school class.

It's not dimensionless, so mc^2 = mc is a type mismatch

If it's using the majority of the CPU and memory, then the answer apparently is "compared to everything else".

He believed that he had been reincarnated and died in battle a number of times and what have you. Not necessarily as a general, though.

In a lot of cases old hammers are better, especially when working metal. Most are cast now, rather than forged. The situation with anvils is even worse, with only one company that …