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by lambda 8y ago
Is there a list of which registrars are participating in the early access period? None of the ones I tried seemed to recognize .app.
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by lambda 8y ago
This particular article is about a Firefox developer deciding to spend a little bit of time applying some of his knowledge on profiling and optimizaiton to the Rust compiler, without being a core compiler developer and involved in any of th
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by lambda 8y ago
So that you can easily rebuild and re-run each one with difference in build settings, instrumentation, etc, and get comparisons between the baseline and the modified version, without having to check out a different branch each time. Sometim
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by lambda 8y ago
Ah, I'd forgotten about that usage. Thanks, that does make a little more sense.
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by lambda 8y ago
In what way is GEDmatch "open source"? It looks like it's free as in beer, but I don't see any reference to source code.
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by lambda 8y ago
The thing is, bad questions don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. If a question is bad, and it gets no answers, it will just languish. You don't need to do anything about it. Maybe have an auto-close after a week of i
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by lambda 8y ago
Ooh, got to love any article about intellectual property that starts with a analogy to the game Paranoia.
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by lambda 8y ago
OK, this may be a new feature, since I stopped paying close attention several years back when I got frustrated with the direction the community was going. But I don't think that "audit" questions do much to address my issue.
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by lambda 8y ago
> No one wants the rules to change in a game that they perceive that they are winning (or have won). Moreso if they worked hard to win. I'm one of those people who wants the rules to change in a game that I'm already winning. I
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by lambda 8y ago
Except part of the problem is that it's not even doing a very good job of giving a good authoritative answer either. In the earlier days, it was designed to straddle the line more with a wiki; there were "community wiki" ques
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by lambda 8y ago
> The additional level of moderation doesn't seem to have added much value over my time participating. The closest thing I can think of as nice is combining duplicates, though moderators often seem to miss subtle differences between
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by lambda 8y ago
I'm a high-scoring user who has been put off by this exact behavior. The problem is, the behavior is pervasive among other high scoring users, and whenever I advocate against this kind of behavior, I get a whole bunch of pushback about
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by lambda 8y ago
You would generally want the general purpose string type in your language to always be escaped when serializing, and only allow avoiding that if you opt-in explicitly. So, for instance you'd have an H1::new(contents: TextNode) construc
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by lambda 8y ago
What good work is it doing in HTML? In HTML, as far as I can tell, it appears to be copying features from the WHATWG standard, paraphrasing them, and including them in their standard, with only a small notice on the acknowledgements page th
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by lambda 8y ago
Well, flexbox was much simpler and easier to standardize on and implement sooner. It has been available in all major browsers since 2015. Grid is great, and now works in most places, but it was good to have flexbox while grid was still in p
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by lambda 8y ago
You can give input to the W3C without that, but yeah, it's the input from the paying members that counts the most. Additionally, the W3C has some private mailing lists, does private working group meetings, and so on. So yeah, the WHATW
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by lambda 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Ian Hickson is no longer involved with the WHATWG. I think he's working on Flutter now ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Hixie ). In fact, I would say that it's not quite like a cathedra
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by lambda 8y ago
I agree with you that we do need to do better about writing more robust software, and type safe languages are a good way to do that. But what you're saying is as if you suggest that since the metric system is more consistent and more w
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by lambda 8y ago
Ian Hickson, the editor of the WHATWG spec at the time, acted as editor of the HTML5 standard at the W3C for a while after the two groups agreed to work together. However, the committee had chairs who could override the editor. However, des
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by lambda 8y ago
Sorry, maybe I should have said "inspired by" or something. You're right, I'm not aware of any actual implementation, outside of validators, that treated it as such. I did actually say a little later that no web browsers
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by lambda 8y ago
In part, I think it's because there is still good work that goes on under the W3C umbrella in other areas; the CSS working group has managed to stay reasonable, learn from the mistakes of some over-engineered past standards, and contin
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by lambda 8y ago
Not if that < had slipped in because it was in a piece of static text in a string somewhere in the source code. You can apply mandatory quoting to untrusted input all you want, but there are going to be times when you have trusted string
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by lambda 8y ago
Because there's no point in reconciling the specs if you don't actually reconcile them. If the W3C spec is a snapshot, possibly of a subset, possibly with some editorial but not functional changes, then reconciling the specs is us
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by lambda 8y ago
> I implement XHTML1.1, you implement HTML5. We both get 1 month time. Do you get to use libraries or not? If you get to use libraries, there are plenty of libraries for both of these tasks, so it will be fairly equivalent. In fact, if y
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by lambda 8y ago
> Most of the web quickly moved to XHTML. Most of the web didn't move to XHTML. A lot of people who were interested in being standards compliant moved to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, which was the HTML compatibility subset, but they only
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by lambda 8y ago
The W3C actually does do some good work in other working groups; the CSS working groups seem to be working smoothly. The W3C also oversees a lot of other standardization processes that aren't directly related to web browsers, like RDF.
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by lambda 8y ago
> The WHATWG has always opposed the W3C's spec. They see it as confusing to have two "official" specifications. The WHATWG has not always opposed the W3C's spec. The WHATWG explicitly agreed to work with the W3C to fo
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by lambda 8y ago
Way back in the day, HTML was implemented as an application of SGML. SGML was a quite complex markup format, that had lots of features that were kind of complex to implement, and so web browsers didn't actually implement all of SGML, j
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by lambda 8y ago
You can't just keep taking new lessons. You have to do "strengthen skills" or go back to practice older lessons on a regular basis. In fact, the new scoring system they just released with levels (crowns) for each lesson is su
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by lambda 8y ago
Next to no customization is what I want for something like this. I want to be able to mindlessly drill for a few minutes a day, not spend a lot of time fiddling with my decks to get them perfect.

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