fenomas

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by fenomas 12y ago
Two separate issues. Pan-CJK fonts like Noto solve a problem that arises from the fact that many CJK characters are only ever used in certain locales. Since most CJK fonts are made for a given locale, they tend not to include any of the (ma
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by fenomas 12y ago
"Look, the only reason people are suspicious of conmen is that they're not good at telling which of three cards is the Queen."
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by fenomas 12y ago
Unicode didn't decide anything like that, the characters were duplicates per SJIS itself. SJIS intentionally has duplicate mappings in order to be compatible with vendor encodings that put the same character in different places. Basica
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by fenomas 12y ago
I wouldn't say Japanese refuse to support unicode. I'd say that legacy encodings like EUC-JP/JIS/SJIS are still used because it's hard/unfeasible to convert systems and data that were built for earlier encoding
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by fenomas 12y ago
What do you mean by saying that Unicode breaks people's names? The problem isn't that there's anything wrong with Unicode, the problem is that it's not possible to unambiguously convert text from SJIS to unicode and back
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by fenomas 12y ago
Actually I think that's roughly how things work today. It's not my area, but here's how this was explained to me recently by a colleague (the lead font guy at Adobe Japan): There are two ways of dealing with glyphs that share
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by fenomas 12y ago
I did Stanford's online ML course (taught by Andrew Ng, quoted in the article), and heartily recommend it. I found it to be a nice balance of theory and practice - it's also not a bad way to learn Octave (the GNU equivalent of mat
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by fenomas 12y ago
robots.txt is nothing more than a way of politely asking the world not to recursively crawl through links on a site. It has no connection to whether someone is allowed to access the data or what they're allowed to do with it.
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by fenomas 12y ago
Hmm - this is basically transmitting screenshots via the Android SDK, right? If so, then yeah, I've been using a similar library called droidAtScreen. I just wish there was a simple way to broadcast Android to a PC at full framerate, a
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by fenomas 12y ago
Will this let me broadcast my device screen to my laptop, asked everyone who's ever given a presentation on Android app development ever? (serious question)
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by fenomas 12y ago
I am compelled to point out the potential for Spoonerism in the first two words of this headline.
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by fenomas 12y ago
This is the least-branded thing I've ever seen. After I got through the tutorial I asked in chat, and nobody seemed quite sure what the game's name was.
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by fenomas 12y ago
You may already know this, but just in case, in Japan "chinchin" means penis.
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by fenomas 12y ago
In case it's not clear, this comment is referring to the post's earlier title, which suggested that PlayPanel gets automatically installed when updating Flash. (Which it doesn't.)
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by fenomas 12y ago
If anyone's grasping about for a mobile app idea, this article seems to be crying out for some kind of accompanying configurator. I loosely grasp what it's trying to say about the causes of phase shifts, but to apply it to my next
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by fenomas 12y ago
Anyone who doubts this should watch Jim Weirich's talk "Adventures in Functional Programming" - the last (and most mind-blowing) quarter of the talk is almost entirely made up of automatic refactoring. [1] http://v
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by fenomas 12y ago
The only technical details I could find on the site were: > The method is called biochronometrics and it maps behavior based on a series of complex algorithms. 5 million live tests show that bots can’t mimic human behavior when biochrono