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https://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm

Most have fallen out of use but e.g. 'laik' is still understood by young people.

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2년 전discuss

I see - I guess it's a financial modelling program or similar where the quantities don't represent precise values of money. I was imagining some kind of accounting-like app that would need to be reconciled with real-world balances.

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2년 전discuss

You are using 32 bit floats to represent money?

Does your project correctly calculate $300,000.00 + $0.01, (or even just correctly represent the value $300,000.01) and if so, how?

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14년 전discuss

people familiar with the matter

This peculiar phrase appears four times in the article. Is it journalist-code for something?

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15년 전discuss

Re the "Don't be the first to state a number" strategy, what happens in the real world when two competent negotiators meet?

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15년 전discuss

There was a Flash advert with a man gesturing and waving at me. It was so distracting I literally could not read the article text. I installed adblock and reloaded the page.

An example of "tragedy of the commons", perhaps?

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15년 전discuss

The social-network spamming has already started. On my last trip to the cinema I saw a teenager get a discount on her ice-cream in exchange for posting something on Facebook.

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15년 전discuss

Macduff was born by Caesarean section, not Macbeth.

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15년 전discuss

Actually, I'm impressed. That's a much better (and braver) decision than forcing through a new name just to save face.

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15년 전discuss

Reminds me of this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html I wonder why this seems to happen in some open-source projects and not in others?

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15년 전discuss

That implicitly assumes these patents are mostly forky-spoony stuff. What if they represent real innovation? In that case the system is working exactly as intended; investors are getting a return on R&D.

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15년 전discuss

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15년 전discuss

This sort of thing will likely cause more problems than it solves. Such a struct can't be moved, copied, or put in an array without potential memory corruption.

I'd suggest doing this:

  typedef struct {
    int a;
    int b;
    /* private */
    int c;
    int d;
  } STYPE;

Sure, other programmers are free to ignore the comment and use the private fields anyway, but that suggests a bigger problem that can't be fixed with a clever pre-processor hack.

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15년 전discuss

My bank in England is keen for me to "Go Green" and accept PDF bank statements in place of paper copies. I wonder if they allow new customers to open accounts without paper documentation...?

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16년 전discuss

For an example of this sort of thing, see Premium Bonds, available since 1956:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond

The stuff about ERNIE is interesting, too.

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16년 전discuss

Microsoft products are full of annoying features like this. Another example is Outlook and the way it removes arbitrary newlines from plain text emails.

Also: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

Choice quote: Rule of thumb--every time Microsoft use the word "smart," be on the lookout for something dumb

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16년 전discuss

A good complement to this would be to work through the exercises in K&R.

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16년 전discuss

This function of the House of Lords has recently been replaced with a newly created Supreme Court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kin...

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17년 전discuss

Investigate the -mno-cygwin option for gcc.

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17년 전discuss

Even worse, they put Southampton in the "Portsmouth" group.

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