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by gerikson 6y ago
Obligatory: https://blog.plover.com/prog/Moonpig.html
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by gerikson 6y ago
I really need to re-read Gleick's "Genius".
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by gerikson 6y ago
That's where I got the impression from.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I think OneDrive had its origins in Groove back in the day.
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by gerikson 6y ago
This version of Easter kinda sucks.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Ah! I misread your comment entirely. (As an aside 'dst' not being capitalized was the cause)
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by gerikson 6y ago
Nepal is on UTC+05:45.
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by gerikson 6y ago
The lack of inline links is a dealbreaker for me.
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by gerikson 6y ago
> There is no social solution to surveillance. I disagree. Legislation can be enacted that makes it a crime to use a person's online (or offline) activity as a basis for targeted advertising.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I agree (as a Perl fan). There's never any debate over what's "idiomatic" Perl. It's as idiomatic as you want it to be!
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by gerikson 6y ago
The official Perl documentation is quite good, in my humble opinion.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Apr 1 truly is the worst day of the year.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Considering anyone can create a GH account, not very.
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by gerikson 6y ago
You can resell the rights to watch that no-longer-available movie to someone else...
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by gerikson 6y ago
The canal was closed between 1967 and 1975, and some ships had bad timing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
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“The Tor Project is joining calls for Richard M. Stallman to be removed [...]"(twitter.com)
12 points by gerikson 6y ago|35 comments
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by gerikson 6y ago
"Brokeback Mountain" is based on a short story/novella by Annie Proulx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain_(short_stor... McMurtry adapted it for the screen, however.
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by gerikson 6y ago
No, you're not. That site and Greenspun's book about database-backed websites were a big inspiration to me.
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by gerikson 6y ago
It's probably been edited for clarity by the mods. This site tracks such edits, but only for the front page: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ This submission was on the front page but only for 11 minutes: https
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by gerikson 6y ago
The author seems to be French-speaking, and "sinogramme" seems to be an accepted term in French: > Les caractères chinois, ou sinogrammes, sont les unités logographiques qui composent l'écriture des langues chinoises. htt
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by gerikson 6y ago
Perl is nothing if not pragmatic.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Scandinavism is much newer than the Kalmar Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavism
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by gerikson 6y ago
> Why was it pivotal? Countries were transformed from feudal holdings under a monarch into nation states. I sincerely urge you to learn more. It's much more complex than a few fanatics overthrowing a king and then falling apart. Spe
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by gerikson 6y ago
I do prefer precision in my humor, yes. Seriously though, I find the entire period fascinating (mostly via the Revolutions postcast, and reading Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety ). The French Revolution is such a pivotal poin
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by gerikson 6y ago
Eh, it was one king. Only Legitimists consider Louis XVI's son to have been king, and his death was from illness (perhaps hastened by neglect), not a formal execution.
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by gerikson 6y ago
No it's not really relevant, but then neither is the Friggebod, which was the subject of the parent of my comment. These rules are mostly for built-up areas with neighbors. The rules used to be very draconian, but during the late 70s t
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by gerikson 6y ago
The requirements for Swedish citizenship are clearly spelled out here: https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...
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by gerikson 6y ago
Since expanded to even larger dimensions: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attefallshus (link in Swedish)
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by gerikson 6y ago
Of course, I've re-read it at least 5 times ;) 20+ books does seem like a big commitment but once you're hooked you just want more...
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by gerikson 6y ago
Sailors pressed off US ships were not US citizens, but British citizens "who had known the sea" (fishermen, merchant seamen, whalers etc.) who understandably preferred working for better pay for US skippers than risking life and l

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