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by grzm 3y ago
Tim Berners-Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
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> The first was started in high school in 2001 by myself and a bunch of friends, and outdates the term “blog”. That’s definitely early, but the term blog predates it by a couple of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by grzm 3y ago
It's been object relational (and described as such) going way back. I think the most visible (if infrequently used) object-oriented feature that it has is inheritance: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current&#x2F
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by grzm 3y ago
From 'dang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 > Things pg said about downvotes: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 > https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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Editorialized title: Actual title: “Why tires — not tailpipes — are spewing more pollution from your cars”
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Yes. https://www.vibram.com/us
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From a newbie on the subject, I really enjoyed Chaos . It’s prompted a further book-buying and research spree :) Pairs well with The Information , I think.
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Although it's the same article, it's a related in the sense that the discussion happened in the past. A submission is not considered a dupe if it's been over a year since last submitted.
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'dang didn't flag it: he posted related past articles, which he often does (such as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36278663 ). If he had intended to call it out as a [dupe] he would have explicitly done
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> 1 : of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internecine
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In Clojure (and I’m pretty sure Scheme), ! and ? are not sigils in the sense that they’re special syntax like, say, @ (which is a reader macro), or @ and @@ in Ruby: they just tend to be used by convention. ! and ? are no diff
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The “literal/constant first” form can be used defensively to avoid mistakenly using the wrong operator for languages that have assignment operators that are similar to equality-test operators. For example, this will cause a syntax erro
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Yup. > Rx (sometimes written ℞) is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin word for recipe, recipere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rx
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He redirects links from HN.
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grr: looks like I didn't proofread this enough, including misattributions. Attempted corrections: ---- rektide> "But I cannot broke this hit campaign you are launching, when you are so persitently cantankerous & negative,
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by grzm 3y ago
Cheers. I'm glad it was at least somewhat helpful. And you've got me responding when I said I wouldn't, and that's something :) > "I still feel like is an injustice that hurts the truth so badly," In my op
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rektide> "Edit: anyone care to speculate on why I'm so quickly at -2? I think there's perhaps some ideogical disagreement here but it's not clear what is so principally intolerable about a perspective against such pe
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I agree that accessibility is a good thing! > [T]here are a LOT more tall people than overweight people. Just to put some numbers to the facts: https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/obesi
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by grzm 3y ago
> ... if you’re preparing your code for others to read—whether on screen or on paper—skip the ligatures. Here he's referring to code in books, slide decks, and during presentations, not for editing. Just below the section the
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by grzm 3y ago
And your example about CSS and browsers is exactly this. There can be information added to indicate how things should be displayed, but it’s ultimately up to the renderer. All the tricks used to adapt to various ways browsers render the sam
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> Who decided the point of using databases is normalization? Where is that coming from? Relational databases have existed before the concept of normalization existed. Ted Codd, the guy who wrote A Relational Model for Large Shared Dat
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I'm not familiar with Julia, but I think a useful distinction can be made between input methods and ligatures. An input method is what you have to type to get a particular "code point" or character. Japanese, for example, is
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> how many seem to read the text it feels to them touching their privates and need to make themselves vent off. Not dissimilar to those choosing to highlight the worst aspects of comments rather than addressing them in good faith. Plea
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> Yes. On my computer. In my editor. That I am using…because I like ligatures, because they make my code easier to read. For me. Later in the submission, Butterick addresses this directly, and doesn't disagree: > “What do you
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This submission itself is hosted at practicaltypography.com ( https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fon... )
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If that's the shape the font designer wants for the ligature glyph, yes. IIRC, Tonsky's Fira code is designed with this in mind ( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ) (Butterick uses Fira Code as his example.)
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Yup. It's the browser that's choosing to display this. As 'gdwatson pointed out, the font can indicate which ligatures are available, but whether or not the substation occurs also depends on the typesetting engine.
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> If the editor implements OpenType ligatures, it will read the instructions from the font and implement them. Exactly.
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Can you provide an example of the font doing this? Substitution of individual characters with ligatures is in my experience a feature of the typesetting/display engine (which decides how to represent the "bytes" as glyphs),
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nit: psql is the command line client. postgres or pg are the more common shortenings of PostgreSQL. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/app-psql.html

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