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Call me old-fashioned but I shy away from unique platforms precisely because they are, well, unique, as you don't have a lot of vendor choice should you decide to migrate for whate…

The classic version of it: http://lug.wsu.edu/node/414

What is wrong with piping `ls`?

> HFTs and other trading firms actually buy up the order flow from brokerages. I'm going to ask for a citation on this one. I remember a similar incident at KRX in 2009, and it res…

RT (of course) gives such a different view from Western media, it may as well be a completely different story. Right now, for example, it tells how "armed extremists sent from Kiev…

You can also use alt-coin exchanges, e.g. BTC->LTC->BTC, or even multiple exchanges (one to buy, one to sell) to obscure the trail even more.

Comparatively few people will read this story. Even fewer will care enough to continue the crusade against the attacker for any prolonged period of time to raise awareness among th…

Worth noting that BitBucket had this as long as I can remember.

On a related note, I've run into a similar problem in C++, but opposite effect. A lambda won't keep my object alive if I try to capture a shared_ptr member , because C++ lambdas, s…

This reminds me of a story of Sir Isaac Newton and South Sea Company bubble. He got out early, then watched all his friends get rich, jumped back in again with both feet, lost a fo…

Conversely, JS programmers I complain about JS gotchas about contend that "once you learn all those horrible gotchas, it's a great language". Even C++ programmers, at least the one…

I think what GP is saying is that in emerging markets, or at least in Thailand, there is no "compromise" market segment (and it's not going to appear regardless how much Apple "wan…

Pardon my ignorance, but is it $700 a month or a week ? I'm used to Sydney prices where a 1-bedroom apartment could easily cost around $500 a week.

> It might be an interesting failure scenario for algorithmic trading. It's not how auto trading works. Traded instrument ranges are preset before the algo is started. I've never h…

I think it's more likely that LinkedIn mobile app grabs your phone contacts, if you happen to give it permissions to do so. I've noticed that the "People you may know" section star…

It highly depends on the team. In a small team that know each other well, it can work. Most of the time it's not the case, however.

Note the article is from 2000. Joel mostly talks about big and mature desktop software (big as in Microsoft Excel). Average startup's code is small, narrowly focused, has a (relati…

> I really enjoyed the pre-Microsoft Nokia, I had account in their dev forums, and loved their SDKs, community, Sybian, whatnot. Really? I thought their SDK circa 2007 (especially …

I think that dependency on argument evaluation order inside zip function smells a bit. It's OK here, but may bite you with a different function.

I have been using it full-time circa 2006-2009. I guess that counts as "past decade". 1. There was no out of the box support of my particular NVidia video card, so I've had to buil…

Obligatory mention of gevent[1]. It handles all the plumbing for you with monkey-patching I/O calls. No annotations necessary, you just write linear code. [1] http://www.gevent.org…

On a related note, for anyone interested in this, I recommend reading "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely[1]. He does actual studies and discusses a lot of these things (bias to…

Along the same lines, there is also CCAN. http://ccodearchive.net/list.html https://github.com/rustyrussell/ccan And GMP for arbitrary precision math (integers and floating point n…

You simply do not use "go get" on 3rd party repos in production. It's not different from pip or gem.