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by chch 13y ago
I personally chose 'four' to write about on a whim, because 'cuatro' sounded different enough, but was relatively explainable in a paragraph. But this only goes back to languages in the Indo-European tree. The paper addressed here says that
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by chch 13y ago
If you take this tree [1] as canon, English and Czech are fifth cousins, once-removed. If you compared me to my fifth cousin, I probably would look nothing like him, but I might carry similar traits or certainly similar ancestry. Although t
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by chch 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#T... describes the process behind the Punycode used in internationalized domain names (IDNs).
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by chch 13y ago
I realize it's from a different product, but I find that these 'minority' cases in Google products are often summed up by: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=223070#c... "Why was this closed if we're leaving it for future
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by chch 13y ago
No criticism here; your quick hack let me do a quick hack and learn some bash in the process. :)
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by chch 13y ago
Instead of using a very long set of If statements, I think you could just use something like a=$((`date +%M`/15));b=$((128335 + `date +%l` +((a*(a**2-39*a+110))/6)));printf '%x' $b; and print the resulting hex's character, no? (I'd
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by chch 14y ago
Note: if you put in a time in hours higher than http://alrt.io/80063993375h (such as http://alrt.io/80063993376h ), your timer may go off a second early, as it skips the first :59 on Mac OS X Safari/Chrome, going straight from :00 to :5
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by chch 14y ago
Although I greatly enjoyed Moonwalking with Einstein, the problem in the end is that most of the techniques used in the field assume the ability to visualize as prerequisite (and indeed, seem to imply it's an inherently honed skill in all p