smh
Re:A Map of British Dialects
on Saturday April 19, 2025 @12:31PM (#43737460)
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.
Re:Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory le...
on Thursday August 22, 2024 @12:47PM (#41322102)
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.
Re:Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory le...
on Thursday August 22, 2024 @07:34AM (#41319075)
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?
Re:Google Near Launch of Cloud-Storage Service
on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:37AM (#3570414)
people familiar with the matter
This peculiar phrase appears four times in the article. Is it journalist-code for something?
Re:Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @08:49AM (#3504678)
Re the "Don't be the first to state a number" strategy, what happens in the real world when two competent negotiators meet?
Re:Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @07:18AM (#3328771)
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?
Re:Image Ad Blending Works Really, Really Well
on Thursday November 24, 2011 @07:34AM (#3274119)
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.
Re:I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
on Friday November 18, 2011 @07:18AM (#3251487)
Macduff was born by Caesarean section, not Macbeth.
Re:The agonies of picking a product name and how we chose Trello
on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:06AM (#3004475)
Actually, I'm impressed. That's a much better (and braver) decision than forcing through a new name just to save face.
Re:The Drupal Crisis
on Sunday September 11, 2011 @11:51AM (#2983970)
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?
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.
Re:Ask HN: What documentaries are worth watching?
on Monday June 27, 2011 @05:48AM (#2700739)
PG recommended this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation_%28TV_series%29
Re:A small C hack - private members in C structures
on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @05:53AM (#2601997)
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;
Re:Going Paper-Free for $220
on Friday May 27, 2011 @09:06AM (#2591297)
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...?
Re:Could a Lottery Be the Answer to America’s Poor Savings Rate? (Frea...
on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @07:03AM (#1957615)
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.
Re:So, I looked at Plesk's 404 Page
on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:09AM (#1957507)
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
Re:Wherein I help you get a good job
on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @06:46AM (#1889970)
A good complement to this would be to work through the exercises in K&R.
Re:Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:59AM (#1868294)
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...
Re:Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid
on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @07:52AM (#971963)
Investigate the -mno-cygwin option for gcc.
Re:Facebook removes regional networks, revamps privacy settings
on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @07:34AM (#971938)
Even worse, they put Southampton in the "Portsmouth" group.