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871.
by kick 7y ago
One of the founders overdosed, they switched hosts, and overall seem to have done everything in their power to tank themselves.
872.
by kick 7y ago
Moxie said at his C63C talk that they were planning on getting rid of it as soon as a practical solution was found.
873.
by kick 7y ago
Digitally, they're _the exact same thing,_ represented by the exact same code point:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus The figure dash _literally_ serves the same purpose as the hyphen: https:/&#x2
874.
by kick 7y ago
Absolutely this!
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by kick 7y ago
When literally all of your value comes from "being the most aesthetic tech company," and you intentionally target perfection, people are going to nitpick. Apple deserves this. The product they're presenting isn't signi
876.
by kick 7y ago
Oh, probably, but it's still confusing that so many companies worth billions won't get good copy editors.
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A Perfectly Nice, Well-Intentioned Rant About Hyphens (2012)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
878.
by kick 7y ago
"Apple-supplied." That's what they do elsewhere: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202471 https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/script-management-w... https://sup
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Furby toy or Furby spy? (1999)(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
880.
by kick 7y ago
Apple Edge Cache (AEC) is Apple supplied and managed hardware Do they have something against using dashes?
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Dark Crystal: Back up your secrets using the trust in your social fabric(darkcrystal.pw)
2 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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Introduction to Thoughtful Programming (2002)(ultratechnology.com)
2 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
Why “Cloture”? Beside the obvious: cloture is a parliamentary procedure to end debate on a subject, and I would like to end certain debates. Yes, Common Lisp is “modern.” Yes, Clojure is a Lisp. While this doesn't actually explain wh
884.
by kick 7y ago
How is this relevant to his comment? It seems like a non-sequitur.
885.
by kick 7y ago
'jedberg hasn't worked at reddit for years, it's pretty ridiculous to use "you" and "your" there. Further, he was never in marketing, he was basically just a sysadmin. There's really no charitable int
886.
by kick 7y ago
It hasn't rotted, I imagine they're moving hosting providers or something. Adequacy was up a few weeks ago, I have a friend who links it quite frequently, so I see it quite often.
887.
by kick 7y ago
Right? It's so cool!
888.
by kick 7y ago
For anyone not aware, he was one of last year's Turing Award-winners.
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Quirk list for 1st and 2nd Edition UNIX (1983)(tuhs.org)
1 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
890.
by kick 7y ago
Not to mention, 'LessDmesg, your statement on there not being a "decent text editor" written in Forth is absolutely unfounded. Arguably the best text editor of all time was written in Forth: the Canon Cat. Created by Jef Rask
891.
by kick 7y ago
4chan still has a lot of good boards. People have an impression that 4chan is exclusively /pol/ and /b/, but a lot of it's fantastic.
892.
by kick 7y ago
Ridiculously high, but to be expected.
893.
by kick 7y ago
but if the underlying primitives in the problem are vectors/matrices, then it seems like you are reinventing the wheel in a very substandard way that doesn't aid in understanding in any way and results in something that isn'
894.
by kick 7y ago
Have you seen the FinnAPL idiom library? https://www.finnapl.fi/idilib.htm And not that I'd recommend using proprietary software, but something that might be helpful for you regarding naming is that Dyalog APL has a to
895.
by kick 7y ago
Who cares about piracy? It exists over HTTP, too, and in a far greater volume than a modern USENET-equivalent could ever hope to achieve, and it's not like ISPs need to be sucked up to anymore: they've already taken their ball and
896.
by kick 7y ago
I've read the book (and almost everything Dijkstra's written barring a few EWDs I couldn't find), I just wasn't aware that 'RodgerTheGreat had done anything related to it.
897.
by kick 7y ago
The condensed "syntax" (notation) is actually a feature! Read "Notation as a Tool of Thought" to learn more, it's actually one of the best parts of APL as a whole.
898.
by kick 7y ago
Thanks so much for sharing (I knew about [0] and [2], but not [1])! Always a pleasure to hear about the stuff you've done!
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by kick 7y ago
Actually, C compilers back then were still pretty large (also, as far as I'm aware, every machine that UNIX originated on was at least 16-bit, and the very first machine it ran on was 18-bit): https://minnie.tuhs.org/
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by kick 7y ago
You're completely wrong in Sun's case, SMF is nothing like launchd.

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