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by SloopJon 10y ago
Section 3.1 of Unicode technical report 36 describes a couple of similar things specific to UTF-8: overlong sequences, and ill-formed subsequences. Does your software conform to Unicode 3.0 and earlier, 3.1 through 5.1, or 5.2 and later? A
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Gruber practically begs the question by assuming that 3.5mm is a legacy port in need of replacement, lumping it together with other short-lived artifacts of the PC era like VGA, ADB, and the 30-pin dock connector. As for quotes, cherry pick
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Yeah, this is amazing apologism, even for Gruber. "And in five years we’ll look at analog headphone jacks the way we look at all the other legacy ports we’ve abandoned." In five years, there are going to a lot of crappy Lightnin
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by SloopJon 10y ago
He didn't get the decision he wanted, but he got it in a week and a half, which is a lot better than I've come to expect.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Can't remember whether I've seen this before. A few details after reading through some of the docs: * powered by Allwinner R8 (ARM Cortex-A8) with some proprietary bits * Debian-based CHIP O/S preinstalled on 4 GB flas
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by SloopJon 10y ago
One local recruiter linked to a Forbes article about "Best States for Business" and tweeted, "We beat MS and WV - hooray!" I recently reached out to a small company in Portland with a posting on its web site that seemed
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by SloopJon 10y ago
The SAT used to have a wrong answer penalty to discourage random guessing. This seems to me a simple, effective way to reflect a student's certainty in an answer.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
This post suggests that Stack Overflow has about 30,000 distinct tags, which seems like a good fit for a bitmap index: https://mattwarren.org/2015/08/19/the-stack-overflow-tag-eng... Not that that's the
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I'm a little confused by this. The project page makes it sound like someone's weekend project, complete with a donation link, but in fact it seems to be the client for one of SpiderOak's products. In any case, I'm havin
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by SloopJon 10y ago
In fairness, this is a guest post by Structr describing the ideas underlying their knowledge graph: https://support.structr.com/knowledge-graph
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Somewhat off topic, but docker-compose finally works on the old iMac I use at work: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/271
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I was really annoyed when a meeting I scheduled for 2:00 every Friday changed to 1:00 after falling back from DST to standard time. Google's helpful explanation: "Google Calendar uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to help avoi
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Didn't one of the leakers say something like, "Wait for what is coming next," when it comes to American people of interest? It's not surprising that some articles seem like they're reaching if the leakers are holdi
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Bugs absolutely can originate in the analysis and design phases. In fact, they tend to be the most expensive ones.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
> The late Fred Brooks ... Still alive, as far as I know.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
If you remove htmlview from the end of the URL, you'll get the regular view with the option to download from the File menu.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I have an unadvertised TV package from Comcast called Digital Economy that has most of the non-premium channels (USA, Discovery, CNN, but not ESPN, SyFy, FX). Paired with 25/6 Mbps Internet, it comes to about $95 / month (and ris
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I see QA broken out as an occupation type in several graphs, including 11.6% of women. Overall, however, it's apparently lumped into Other, which would put it at less than the 0.1% who are BI or data warehousing experts, or machine le
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I'm getting this error when trying to install wordsmith-mode using package-install: ` http://melpa.org/packages/wordsmith-mode-20140203.427.el : Not found`
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The author's next post describes RDF and SPARQL in the context of the Cray Graph Engine: http://www.cray.com/blog/how-cray-graph-engine-manages-graph...
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by SloopJon 11y ago
> First thing, is I find out that all manufacturers only were selling non-Windows machines at a significant markup, the only way this made sense to me is if Microsoft is actively bribing them (ie: "selling" windows for a negati
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by SloopJon 11y ago
What we've learned from Steam and Apple's app stores is that users will make a Faustian bargain if they see the terms as favorable enough, especially when it lowers prices. This in turn attracted developers. However, with the his
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Interesting that Lawson "wasn't very impressed" with Wozniak (or Jobs) when he applied for a job. I'm not clear on the timing, but it sounds like this would have been after they built Breakout for Atari.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
One of the things the article mentions is that marijuana is almost exclusively a cash business, due to federal law. As a Colorado lawyer explained it, most of that cash tends to stay in the state. Lawyers, accountants, construction, what
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by SloopJon 11y ago
For those who were wondering what strong mode is, this is a post to the Strengthening JS group, which for discussion of "strong mode and type system extensions that the V8 team is working on." Strong mode is "a new language m
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I don't know about ASP.NET Core, but I couldn't get .NET Core to work on my Mac. I installed the "official PKG." I then ran `dotnet restore` for a project I was trying to run ( https://github.com/atemere
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by SloopJon 11y ago
When I signed up for Comcast in my current house about eight years ago, it was no trouble to get a multi-stream CableCARD for a TiVo HD. When it died a few weeks ago, I replaced it with another TiVo. Same card worked fine for the non-premi
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I read a lot of computer books after college, many of which Ed wrote, edited, or wrote the foreword for. As a fan of Code Complete and its book recommendations, I suggested that Ed add it to his own list of "cool books." He re
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Here's a discussion of the original upload of Hacker News data to Google BigQuery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440502 At 4 GB, I'd just as soon query this locally, but this looks like a fun exercise. I
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I was looking for these types of sources this week to populate a document database. One I ended up using for a demonstration was the "startup company information" hosted at http://jsonstudio.com/resources/ (

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