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by mikl 5y ago
Correct, he (jgm on GitHub) is still by far the biggest contributor to the spec: https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/graphs/contrib...
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by mikl 5y ago
The only reason there isn’t an official Markdown spec is that John Gruber blocked the effort at creating one. A bunch of people made a great spec that eliminates all the ambiguities and tried to make it “Standard Markdown”. Gruber then thre
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by mikl 5y ago
Yeah, as someone whose name contains non-ASCII characters, the association with ASCII is not exactly a positive one. I’ve wasted so much time dealing with data in non-Unicode encodings over my career that the mere word ASCII makes me want t
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by mikl 5y ago
This is from 2019, should be flagged as such.
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by mikl 5y ago
Stop telling me what to do. (Using imperative tense when presenting your ideas to strangers is a really douchey thing to do)
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by mikl 5y ago
This assumes that owners of functioning Win10 machines will decide to throw them away just to get Win11. I don’t think that’s a reasonable assumption for the large majority of users. If someone cares enough about having the latest (if not g
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by mikl 5y ago
Great explanation. LiveView is such a life changer for building fast and interactive interfaces without having to build a separate client-side application.
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by mikl 5y ago
There’s a couple of approaches to this problem under development: 1. Bakeware “bakes” your application together with the entire Erlang/OTP/Beam/Elixir stack into a single binary. Given the “batteries included” philosophy of O
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by mikl 5y ago
You can see the point of requiring people to actually have installed (and played) the game before reviewing it. The Metro Enhanced Edition is just an edge case that slipped through the cracks. I’d think Hacker News would be the first to sym
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by mikl 5y ago
It’s not too unusual in Europe. Another big company run by a charitable foundation is Carlsberg: https://www.carlsberggroup.com/investor-relations/shareholde... The Carlsberg Foundation spends its proceeds from Carlsbe
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by mikl 5y ago
Are they, though? I’ve never come across Oracle Linux used for any other purpose than running Oracle software on it. MySQL and Java were very popular before Oracle bought them, and people’s distaste for Oracle has pushed many users towards
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by mikl 5y ago
High time indeed. There are plenty of good alternatives: Vivaldi, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Firefox The first three are all Chromium-based, so their rendering is identical to Chrome’s, just without all the Google creepiness.
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by mikl 5y ago
Not quite, browsers have slightly different implementations here, we recently had to stop using this because we had customers using IDN e-mails like hansi@lübeck.de and this would fail validation in some browsers (but not others).
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by mikl 5y ago
People love to quote the RFCs, digging up examples of weird things that are technically allowed in e-mail addresses, but not widely used or supported. Frankly, I don’t give a damn about supporting some l33t h4x0r wanting to be clever about
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by mikl 5y ago
Yes, since that’s basically been dictated by the U.S. Government. That does not mean the banks over here are using ASCII. Very systems generally use whatever national encoding was used before Unicode (ISO-8859-1 aka Latin 1 in my case) and
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by mikl 5y ago
I think you will find that non-U.S. banks don’t use ASCII for this exact reason. A transliteration is arguably not someone’s legal name, and furthermore it’s kinda rude to demand that we mangle our names to fit someone’s 1970s technology sy
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by mikl 5y ago
I’m sure all the crypto fans are lining up around the block to tell us that their pet technology doesn’t waste valuable resources, it just uses storage that would otherwise have gone unused, as they do with Bitcoin and electricity.
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by mikl 5y ago
AWS generally charges based on actual usage, where Hetzner is largely a flat-fee model with acceptable use policies. Hetzner is also much cheaper than AWS. Very different companies with very different business models. You can’t really compa
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by mikl 5y ago
I’m about 18 months in, and I’m still loving Elixir.
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by mikl 5y ago
He was working far into 2011, and he spent a lot of time trying to secure his legacy. Don’t tell me that he somehow missed the run-away success of the App Store and how it made the iPhone his greatest achievement as CEO and one of the bigge
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by mikl 5y ago
How’s three years not “years to see”?
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by mikl 5y ago
What a load of extremely distasteful manure. The Cal Newport has a negative opinion about smartphones, but instead of just presenting his own opinion, he tries to put words in the mouth of a famous dead person by stretching a few carefully
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by mikl 5y ago
Yep, without otherwise equating the two, this is basically “But who will pick the cotton then?” argument against the abolition of slavery.
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by mikl 5y ago
In case anyone should be wondering, the 25M NOK fine is just about $3M USD. Not something that will seriously hurt the creepy jerks running Disqus, but at least enough for them to notice.
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by mikl 5y ago
Imagine my shock. Blizzard hasn’t released any new game since Overwatch, and that was in 2016. They have been able to keep their old games going to some extent with updates and expansions, but it’s mostly just been more of the same stuff, n
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by mikl 5y ago
I hate this kind of marketing BS. Mighty does not make Chrome faster, it just runs it on more powerful hardware in the cloud. Crowing about how much less resources they consume is disingenuous. Of course it uses less resources locally when
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by mikl 6y ago
Try reading the OP again. The headline is “No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account .” They’re not saying you can’t chat with your colleagues about politics, they’re just saying it shouldn’t happen in the
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by mikl 6y ago
A BS non-apology is not enough. These assholes should at the very least be reprimanded by the University of Minnesota for unethical research practises (psychological experiments on humans without their consent) and bringing the whole instit
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by mikl 6y ago
> I need an iPad for drawing. Don’t confuse need with want . You have chosen to get an iPad to draw on, knowing the limitations of its touch-based OS. You could have gotten a Mac with a Wacom tablet or a Microsoft Surface instead, if
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by mikl 6y ago
> I personally like to my browser windows to be reasonably narrow […] > What can the user do? Just use a 1000+ pixel window width like everyone else. The vast majority of desktop browsers are used with a 1000+ pixel with, often much

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