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by jfk13 6y ago
I'd expect that most places where emoji are accepted and reliably preserved, you could also use things like Han ideographs, which would give you a much larger symbol set to work with.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Not really. Do you really notice whether someone uses "Grinning face with smiling eyes" or just plain "Grinning face"? Or was it "Grinning face with big eyes", or maybe "Beaming face with smiling eyes&quot
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by jfk13 6y ago
There are others in a similar vein, too, such as FF Chartwell and Amazing Infographic. See for example https://www.planetquark.com/2018/01/15/charting-graphing-and... .
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by jfk13 6y ago
Firefox on iOS is based on the system's Webkit engine; Firefox elsewhere is built on Gecko, so there's a vast difference in the codebase involved.
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by jfk13 6y ago
If the argument here is essentially that we should trust the president to know better than the legislature and courts, why don't we just go with absolute dictatorship for all purposes?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Personally, I've had some great experiences pair-programming on a specific project; but it's only ever been for a few days of intensive sprint, at intervals of 6-12 months. I wouldn't want it to be my regular mode of work, ce
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by jfk13 6y ago
That's not necessarily abuse; it may be quite appropriate to explicitly limit something's lifetime.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> I know people are going to worry about rare (expensive) conditions not being covered, and this is indeed a problem. I don't have an answer to this. One good thing about competition though, is that it drives innovation. Provider pr
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Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space(bbc.co.uk)
35 points by jfk13 6y ago|17 comments
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by jfk13 6y ago
Very cool! Might be worth adding a note of the date of the page. (Original copyright is 2003; updated 2006.)
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by jfk13 6y ago
Not sure I'd care to recommend Dropbox after just seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789603 .
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by jfk13 6y ago
The safest answer is to consult your preferred publisher's style guide; there may be differences of opinion on issues like this. https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html , for example, says (item #15)
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by jfk13 6y ago
Skimming the comments here makes me nostalgic for the days when every Mac came with HyperCard.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I see you don't drive an automatic.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I don't think it's helpful to group Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft together like this, as though they were all "of a kind". There are some very different business models and priorities among them.
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by jfk13 6y ago
So is the use of "he" to refer to an individual of unspecified gender. (The OED quotations for sense 2(b) "In anaphoric reference to a singular noun or pronoun of undetermined gender" go back to at least 1200AD.)
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by jfk13 6y ago
And who is the arbiter of "within reason"?
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by jfk13 6y ago
They left a pretty clear trail, and they didn't actually succeed in killing the target. Sounds amateurish to me.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Try Unclack? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644828
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by jfk13 6y ago
I also live in the UK, but I have never used WhatsApp. People's requirements and experiences differ greatly. WhatsApp may be essential to you , but it's not essential to everyone.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I'd be more interested if it didn't have what looks like a huge touchscreen in the middle of the dash.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> There's no such thing as a "trade-off" when it comes to cyber security There are always trade-offs. No security is absolute, but that doesn't mean all security is worthless. And as a rule all security measures come
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by jfk13 6y ago
> This is all on top of the fact that engineers are woefully underpaid. I have finance friends that make literal millions in yearly bonuses. This is virtually unheard of in software, even though we provide orders of magnitude more value.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Also recall the high-profile, politically-charged cases which the Government has lost (to its considerable embarrassment) in recent memory.
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by jfk13 6y ago
It looked like there's an example/template of one from "Judith Black, CEO, Acme Corp" at the bottom of the page. Together with the "fun fact" that "All copy on this website was generated using Headlime&quo
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by jfk13 6y ago
So, err... it apparently generates (among other things) fake testimonials? No thanks. "Marketing fluff" may be (just about) acceptable for a landing page, but this is pure BS. Is it progress? Perhaps. But in a positive direction?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Running power -- even just 13A power -- to every parking bay, not to mention ensuring those "simple domestic sockets" are safe to use in all weather conditions, will probably make this quite a bit more expensive than you think.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Who bend the tenants....? I don't think you mean that. Tenets, perhaps.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Oh, I recognise that sign! Driven past it a few times, though it's not a regular route for me. But I'm not quite as close as Partridge Green.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Look back a little, and before the M1 we had the Great North Road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_North_Road_(Great_Britai... , which I think comes much closer to "iconic" status. And yes, it appears in so

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