codes

The good point of using unsigned integers is that you have twice the available codes, because the extra bit.

By codes they mean -- at the minimum -- pretty much anything that requires frequent communication between any or all nodes as a necessary part of computation.

Redlining, white flight, drug epidemics and shoddy building codes and enforcement all contributed to urban decay in the Bronx in the 1970s.

The short answer is, that approach works just fine, but the DOE supercomputer people won't let you run embarassingly parallel codes because they already spent money on the interconnect to run tightly coupled codes.

This is because 50% of the cost of the machine was the interconnect, and if they let those codes run, it means they wasted budget and will get less next time.

Finally, since the words are coming from a fixed list, there's tab-completion when you input the codes, which turns out to be really handy.

I think the main point of the article is the country codes are not very defined in the process of creation, their use and who reaps the rewards of ownership.

I have very different interests with the people I have most to do with, but we live by similar moral codes.

More importantly they claim you will be able to share your programs using their cloud service; sharing programs wasn't really viable before (using QR codes).

Isn't it funny that the web has country codes at all?

You can easily have error correcting codes that are human readable.

They should look into the container park in downtown Las Vegas (Tony Hsieh's pet project) which has been immensely successful - city codes and all!

Otherwise, there are similar "loopholes" in complex tax codes.

Sure, the overall quality of life has improved in NYC due to building codes and public sanitation, but totally removing rent "controls" (the general term, not the NYC term) seems like a slide towards poorer living conditions for the lower and middle classes.