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The difference is 1.09%, not 9%. Also, what was the time delta between those quotes?

I have no way of predicting Snap’s future, but I am certain that tomorrow, the founders and VCs will take hundreds of millions off the table through share sales, the investment ban…

Of course you have the right not to tip, it's optional after all, but many people do choose to give tips, and then the question is whether part of the tip is being skimmed off by I…

That was the motto on the Washington family coat of arms before he was born. It's a quote from Ovid.

Taiwanese companies such as Foxconn with extensive operations on the mainland may be particularly vulnerable if the Trump government insists on making the one China policy a bargai…

I'm looking at the excepts in his post, which are broken.

The “optimized” functions have a bug when the number of remaining bytes is less than the block size.

'Laid off' is ambiguous: it can mean either a temporary suspension (i.e., a factory lays off some workers until conditions improve) or a permanent job loss. I haven't seen any sugg…

Perhaps as a proof of concept they can do a native implementation of GNU grep in Haskell and publish some timing stats.

Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows. NeXT gave them a modern OS. Performance was falling further and further behind Intel-based systems.…

The article specifically mentions commercial bank lenders, which are regulated. While I'm sure there are non-bank lenders in this space, a commercial bank can't delay repayment wit…

I'm confused. The CEO of Persado is quoted as saying "interest rates are low," while the article says that Metamarkets is paying 14% on a loan cut in Oct--for comparison, the Merri…

I agree that reading code is extremely important for improving as a programmer, but the code has to be read analytically. That’s hard work, because it means understanding the probl…

There's plenty of 20th century organ music, a lot of it is religious (my father was an organist). It's hard to record pipe organs, particularly the low bass, and without excellent …

dmr wrote the V7 malloc and calloc (which calls malloc) [0,1]. Mike Lesk used calloc in lex ;-) [2] [0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc... [1] https://…

It appears that only calloc was in Lesk's Portable C Library [0] while malloc was the name Thompson gave the kernel's memory allocator in V6 [1]. When Ritchie rewrote Lesk's librar…

It obviously depends on background and goals. People who come to programming with only HS math would probably benefit most from studying (not just reading) an introductory discrete…

The obvious symmetrical question is whether there has been a pro-American dictator who actually improved the lives of the citizens. But 'improving the lives' is extremely vague. Me…

Sedgewick did animations of quicksort and other algorithms back in the 80's. He coincidentally did his PhD on quicksort under Knuth. Jon Bentley gave a Google Talk about quicksort …

Not to minimize that person's loss, but 60% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, and I don't assume that the people I observed only went once to the casino. Minimum wage …

The one time I was in a casino I accompanied a coworker who gambled to one of the low dollar casinos in Colorado. What I noticed were poor people who came with $100 and wanted--or …

Interesting reaction to the quote from Robert Gordon of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. PCI is an umbrella lobby for insurers; their website says they repres…

USGS page on the quake: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#...

Well, if you read the article, it mentions the tax breaks that Tesla buyers get, and that the "future of these tax credits may come into question based on Trump's opposition to the…