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Your previous game stats are moved across but you lose your preferences (dark mode and hard mode). And you gain a cookie pop up. Of course the previous site had cookies (or rather …

Modern operating systems do do memory compression as claimed by the original SoftRAM. In the case of Windows it was added in Windows 10. I wonder if it would ever have been economi…

It’s a long read, but it covers the period from the original IBM through to the 386 in impressive technical detail.

Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ th…

Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ th…

Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ th…

We don't have a role for pure Rust development but I'd be interested to meet somebody with C++ plus Rust, or Python plus Rust. Maven primarily uses C++, C# and Python, but we've re…

Maven Securities ( https://www.mavensecurities.com ) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ th…

Because PS/2 is interrupt driven whereas USB relies on the CPU polling for events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Legacy_port_status_a...

Transport for London did this for one week on the Tube last year - https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2016/11/23/wifi-data-trial-understan...

It's absolutely not. Everything I've seen has been 64-bit double. If you need to, you round either intermediate or final calcs to a set precision. I once worked on replicating a pa…

Rounding happens when the value is displayed. To see the raw value, try: =(0.1+0.2)

No; NT Embedded existed based on NT 4, in the late 1990s.

It won't hang as long as you're redirecting only standard output. If you want to read both StandardOutput and StandardError, you need to do it from separate threads: either with ex…

No. They use 'favorite' consistently throughout the website.

No, ObjC is very close to standard C. The [ ] message syntax compiles to calls to the objc_msgSend function.

I think this is a little too cynical. I've seen elements of what you describe in previous jobs, but never all at the same time, and never to the same extent. Then again, the cultur…

If typing is hard then you're less likely to go back over your code and correct typos and minor errors. At any rate, hunt-and-peck typists tend not to spend time going back over th…

You need a MAC address to install an iPhone app.

If it's true that this is a manual error, then I have two questions: 1) Why did it take until the early hours of Wednesday to find out? Why not run a manual check after the change …

Specifically, it looks like a manual error during a deployment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/25/how-natwest... "It seems whoever made the update to CA-7 managed to…

I'm on an iPad and I can't make any of the links work.

> [IDEA: Allow octal and hexadecimal numbers.] Who actually uses octal, except by accident?