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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.


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?


Obviously you can't accumulate cent by cent. You can't even safely accumulate by quarter. Epsilon is too large to do that. I calculate cumulative pnl using std::fma, then multiply AUM with that and round to cents. It's good enough for backtesting, and it shaves a bunch of seconds off the clock.


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.


Yes, we work with futures and the largest transaction is around 1000 qty. It is so rare that most banks have a fat finger alert for such quantities.


people familiar with the matter

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


Yes, it's code for a source who is "on background" or of similar attribution status. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_sourcing under "Speaking terms."


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


After about a week we broke down the office door. People on the floor below were starting to complain about the smell.


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?


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.


Macduff was born by Caesarean section, not Macbeth.


Correct, and Macbeth is king by the end of the play, and Macduff kills him.


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


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.


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