Perhaps you can read the whole chapter, and you'll see that the sentence is uttered by a king in a story that Jesus was telling. It still seems like the king is being portrayed positively by Jesus, so the message remains contradictory, but you shouldn't remove the context so blatantly.
HFT is somewhat illegal, since it could be considered insider trading, since you have time to process information before it becomes available to other people thanks to a faster network infrastructure.
You probably would also complain if you were playing soccer against people that run faster than you. It's not fair!
There is no insider trading If everyone in the market has access to the same information. You'll try to process it as quickly as possible and do something as smart as possible with it. If you are not fast enough or smart enough, you don't need to be in this business. Trading is not an amateur activity.
> The observation that Obama 'will have a 50 cal in the head soon' and a call to 'shoot the [racist slur]' weren't violations of the law [...]
That sentence alone implies that in the U.S. death threats are protected free speech, but you can't use the word "nigger". I love it.
An interesting note is that the article doesn't state if any of the 34-person panel of chess-playing programmers contributed code to any of the allegedly plagiarized codes. There may be a conflict of interest here.
Yes, at least Bob Hyatt (author of Crafty) was a member of the panel. I have a lot of respect Dr. Hyatt and I am not suggesting that the panel's conclusions are wrong: I am just providing the data you were requesting.
That would be for a very large Brazil nut... The number is 12,000 picocuries per kg.
Stoned is a classic and a pleasure to disassemble. It fits in a boot sector (512 bytes) and it's not particularly malicious, but it has all the elements that a virus needs. I don't know if it would still work on a modern computer, though: Some old viruses used funky instructions that became obsolete (like "POP CS"), and this one seems to have issues working on large-capacity disks.
Yes, you're absolutely right. I was translating for occidental type people, and trying to avoid the dumb jokes some people on this website come out with.
Rugs are occidental, people like movies, are Western.
Wait, now we are also getting touchy about what oriental-type people call us?
To set up Evolution, I had to judiciously use the Tab key to move the highlight to the "Okay" button, which was not visible because the dialogs were too tall; it worked but it was a huge pain, and not everyone would know you can even do that.
Most window managers will let you move a window around if you press Alt and then click anywhere in the window. That's really handy for these situations.
The way I see Conway's argument, it is an indication that we probably do not have free will. The statement in the title is equivalent to "If electrons don't have free will, neither do we."
At work we use primarily two languages: C++ and Perl. Most programs we write have a Perl wrapper that takes care of parsing options, reading configuration files and that kind of thing. Then it creates a text file with key-value pairs and invokes the C++ program, which reads that file for all its parameter settings.
The use of Perl allows for lots of flexibility for configuration, handling of special cases and plain-old hacks. The C++ does the bulk of the work, and here we care more about good interfaces, efficiency and other quality considerations.
I don't particularly care about which specific pair of languages we use, but having this combination of a main programming language (C++) plus a flexible glue language (Perl) is invaluable. At some point in the past more languages were used (C, Tcl, shell scripts), but in a company were about 100 people may have to read each other's code, it's easier if you keep it down so you "only" have to learn 2 languages to join the team.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
