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by lucumo 17y ago
Thanks. I suppose it needs a lot of testing.
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by lucumo 17y ago
Those are scary numbers. Anybody know of rules to force it to on, without breaking clients that really don't support it?
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by lucumo 17y ago
> I think the author's point at the end was: "Unicode" as a concept won't localize your programs for you. Well, duh? That's his point as I understand it. But I disagree with the "duh" part. It's rare to see software that goes beyond s
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by lucumo 17y ago
> That is horrific. Yes, just thinking about having to worry about boustrophedon makes my head hurt. But apparently it's faster to read, so it's not all bad ;-) > PS The vertical writing on book spines is a life saver. I can ima
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by lucumo 17y ago
> Old code that passes the string to a strcat() will fail in mysterious ways. And your old libraries probably expect 1-byte characters anyway, which means you're going to be constantly converting But they will have that same problem w
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Rock Paper Scissors - A Method for Competitive Game Play Design(gamasutra.com)
4 points by lucumo 17y ago|0 comments
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by lucumo 17y ago
Wikipedia doesn't entirely agree with you: "Both horizontal and vertical writing are used in Japan, as well as in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan where the Traditional Chinese orthography is used. Traditional Chinese is also used in mainland Ch
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by lucumo 17y ago
The premise of the article wasn't that you shouldn't use Unicode. It was that you need to care about more than just Unicode. Thinking that the answer to localisation is to "just use Unicode" is a flaw in people's thinking that this articl
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by lucumo 17y ago
We are using IDs on our website instead of hard-coded variables. It causes no end of problems. A non-exhaustive list: 1. Using variables to put numbers in the string. Singular and plural are not always only two options. Rules in this regard
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by lucumo 17y ago
The article doesn't say you shouldn't use Unicode. But it explains that only using Unicode just isn't enough. You need more. You shouldn't stop thinking at Unicode. Don't JUST use Unicode, use Unicode and more .
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by lucumo 17y ago
You might be interested in a program called "molly-guard". It overrides shutdown/reboot/halt/poweroff with a shell script that detects if you're in an ssh session. If that's so, it will prompt for the hostname of the host you want to shutdo
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The flaws of thinking "Just use Unicode"(itworld.com)
19 points by lucumo 17y ago|34 comments
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by lucumo 17y ago
I don't entirely disagree. But it's an oversimplification to state that the law thinks users are too stupid to see the difference in logos if the colour is the same, as GGP did.
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by lucumo 17y ago
> The pirates are simply people who produces and distribute despite the law. I'll give you "distribute", but "produces" is plain nonsense. If I copy a book to give it to a friend, I'm not "producing" it, I'm "distributing" it. The act
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by lucumo 17y ago
Apparently the dominant legal view in Germany (and I guess in more parts of Europe) is that once a sentence is served, the crime is dealt with. If society believes that the sentences are too light, it can change the law, but once a judge ha
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by lucumo 17y ago
> The law holds that a reasonable person is too stupid to see the difference between a T-Mobile logo done up in magenta and an Engadget one I think you must take into account that logo colours are often used in other aspects of corpor
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by lucumo 17y ago
> However, I found it oddly ironic that the punishment they got for killing an actor was fame, That's not the punishment they got. They were given a prison sentence which lasted approx. 15 years. That's the punishment they got. The
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by lucumo 17y ago
> The problem is that courts just don't scale. In the 21st century, courts around thw world work like if it was still the 19th century. Suing people is expensive (both in terms of effort and money). On the other hand, retweeting is che
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by lucumo 17y ago
In university. We worked together on paired work and group work, and I rented a room in his house.
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by lucumo 17y ago
I'm afraid that won't work for long. People will read it once and then comply. Maybe the second and third time they'll stop to think about it for a few seconds, but after that it'll get enshrined in muscle memory, without people actually re
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by lucumo 17y ago
Ah. Thank you. We have a different day for that, so I didn't know.
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by lucumo 17y ago
What is this referring too?
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by lucumo 17y ago
Only if the reporter wants to go through hoops like that. The more work it is, the less likely they are to want to do that. That's especially so since there's no advantage for them in doing so...
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by lucumo 17y ago
Yes, but that has problems too, as I pointed out in my previous post: > Finding the reporters may be hard, and even if they are inclined to comment on when they found it, you can't really trust them, since their incentives aren't clear
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by lucumo 17y ago
While I agree that that's probably a good measure, I don't think it's feasible. Many exploits are reported privately to the company first, so they have time to fix them. After the fact reporting by the company would create an incentive to u
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by lucumo 17y ago
> Am I the only one not offended by the idea of package managers for each programming language? Learning multiple tools to do a similar job is a bit of a nuisance. If you know one tool, you can learn its details over time. That's much
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by lucumo 17y ago
> For example, I believe there is an antiquated and probably flawed notion out there that readers dislike really long pages To be honest, I do dislike really long pages. I tend to read longer articles piecewise. Read a bit, do somethi
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by lucumo 17y ago
Even if a backup is done in a trivial way, you really don't want to start messing in backups as part of normal operations. A simple bug can destroy the wrong data. Without a backup, that data is lost forever. And making a backup of a backup
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by lucumo 17y ago
> It's all in the same part of the brain that says that 256 is a nice round number. I recognize the feeling you're talking about, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it round . I'd call it familiar. It's the same sense that makes me
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by lucumo 17y ago
I did for a year. I went back. Running.

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