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The Eddie Murphy trading rule - 2021 May 13
Ever wondered why the insider trading rules in the commodities markets are referred to as the "Eddie Murphy rule"?
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std::cout and uint8_t - 2021 March 29
Dealing with fixed width unsigned integer types with input and output can be a bit of a pain, here's a good example of a pitfall that a friend of mine ran into today.
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JIT logistics and tail risks - 2021 March 28
The grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez canal reminds me once again of the risks of JIT logistics.
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The fmt library - 2021 March 26
Recently I found out about the fmt library for C++ and I like what I see (so far at least)
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id est - 2021 March 25
Today I learned that "i.e." is an abbreviation for id est
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Backup of Quora content - 2021 March 23
Here's some things I posted on Quora that I think have some value, I'm backing them up here before I delete my account on there.
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Deleting my Quora account - 2021 March 22
I just realized I have an account on Quora that's still live so I'm going to back up my info and delete it soon, here's why.
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Why isn't version control on the curriculum - 2021 March 13
I can't for the life of me understand why in 2021 there are so called "software engineering" courses that do not teach version control at any point in the curriculum
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How wide are the underlying data types for Python integers - 2021 March 11
Here's how you can find out how many bytes wide the underlying data structures are for Python integers.
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The state of C++ education in 2021 - 2021 March 10
The state of c++ education in 2021 is still disturbingly substandard in many places.
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