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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Is there any popular language out there that implements DFA or Thompson NFA regexps (beside awk)?
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Still, when you have a well-defined input and you can treat data as a flat string (no hierarchy), PCRE is probably the best choice you have - and certainly the fastest one.
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> So instead he needs a tool to remind him of that "friend" he needs to contact, because pretending to care is beneficial. One might some day need them. Regardless whether Dunbar's number is real or not, one cannot have &q
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The realistic style of old times also forced the authors to use subtle and hidden symbolism to express themselves so that the main story of the image (which was usually pre-ordered) was not affected. Paintings were meant to be a decoration
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Neanderthals and humans co-existed for some 5,000 years. Think of that in terms of our modern history, and how many ethnical groups was there in that time span - and almost all of them perished completely, either destroyed or assimilated by
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They certainly didn't treat other humans anything different. In those days "us" meant the tribe or family group. Everyone else was "them", sometimes an ally, sometimes a foe, depending on the situation, resource sca
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Compared to Zend, Symfony and other FWs popular a decade ago, Laravel 4 felt very light... or perhaps less complex is the right word, as I never really compared the file sizes, but it subjectively felt way easier to find your way around...
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
IMHO Laravel and Symfony are the best things that happened to PHP community since php5. PHP was an ugly mess of bad practices, fragmented into many outdated apps/frameworks and it was just exhausting to use. Symphony was a great improv
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Good programmer can switch niches and will still be a good programmer, there's no doubt about it. Problem is that it still takes some time. You can't just pick up a new language (or even just a new framework) and immediately start
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> They don't want it to look stale. But that can also be extremely counterproductive when the content you publish has a natural expiry date - and in many areas of expertise (pretty much anything other than pure marketing talk) thing
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No one suggested that, and not all bots are evil - there's still a number of useful web spiders that webmasters can benefit from, it's not just googlebot out there...
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There's also a 3rd category of users, the bots, and crawlers/scrapers can greatly benefit from some of those invisible accessibility features...
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It's actually 2.66M + 5.5% VAT = 2.8M euros ($3.2M USD), as stated on the bottom of the auction page: "VAT at the rate of 5.5% will be due on the total of the hammer price and fees charged to the buyer." https://ww
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Well, of course that hiring a consultant to lead the project for you will cost you more than not paying anything to your co-founder who works for stock only. If you can find a co-founder with both the expertise and will to work just for som
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> You might even lose if the other lawyer's able to find any loopholes in your contract. Your experience seems very grim. I've been in freelancing for decades and never had such a situation. Even non-paying customers were rare
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Did I mention crypto once? I'm talking about stuff like mastodon and scuttlebutt...
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Improved privacy and better control over owning your own content. Both of these things, of course, are currently looking completely irrelevant to like 99.9% of people online, but as the surveillance increases exponentially this might change
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But we're not talking about people running big websites, we talk about people running stuff like pi-hole and mastodon instances. It's all very rough around the edges right now, but the idea of distributed platforms is not to elimi
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And how many of those billions of people are using Internet in read-only mode, not creating any content? Don't know the percentages, but clearly it's a big majority, and that majority doesn't really need any servers on their
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> The reason people don't want to run their own servers is because in most cases it's as expensive, or more expensive, than having someone else do it for you, and requires a huge amount of skill and patience, not to mention ris
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In ideal world where the traffic is a horizontal line, yes. In real world you probably get idle times, and peaks of 20x that traffic. Also note that they say "page views" which can translate in many more requests per each page ope
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One variable you miss is the price of your own time. To pay USD $20 and unload a problem to some 3rd party service takes under 30min, while running a scalable, high performance web-server on low budget is hard and time consuming - even impo
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The last I've heard of it, it seems it's not over yet for the Sacklers. https://www.reuters.com/business/judge-tosses-deal-shielding...
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Interesting because today the majority of aquatic plants are actually immersed growers, or plants that live part of the season under the water and part out of it. Fully under the water you can find mostly algae.
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There's a difference, lab tech would impact individuals, but he wouldn't make false claims to the general public as the company's main selling point. Here we have someone basically selling snake oil to people, and still she w
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> There is a fairly big difference, you are decrypting a local file using a master password NOT stored on the internet. That's the same thing that LastPass does AFAIK. According to their site: "Your data is encrypted and decryp
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I see no big diff actually. It offers you no more security if you're directly compromised. It also doesn't help much in reducing the risk of the 3rd party services being hacked, as your data still travels through someone else&#x27
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> The interview requirements & assessments are driven by the hiring companies and not the headhunters And it's exactly what drives the bureaucracy, the transfer of responsibility. All you need to do is blindly follow the request
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> As such, good or great interview skills (i.e. algorithms, data structures, time & space complexity) are a pre-requisite to getting a job. This is so wrong. Headhunters are acting like typical bureaucrats and instead of adapting the
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I do this when binge watching TV series, as the quality often fluctuates between the episodes through the season. So when (usually in the middle of the season) things get too slow I just switch to watching it on 1.5x - 2x speed, rather than

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