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by mojuba 6y ago
The way the US patent system works compared to other countries is that it's closer to copyright (though not quite copyright): any crappy idea can be patented as long as there's no prior art. The burden of proof is on those who own
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by mojuba 6y ago
It's probably also why their articles never seem to start with On a gloomy morning of June 22, 2015... - the much hated opening of so many other magazines who probably think it's a good way of engaging the reader. I hate this st
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by mojuba 6y ago
> there isn't a simple 1:1 correspondence between bytes and characters and glyphs There isn't a simple 1:1 correspondence between anything at all. The only definitive thing about Unicode strings is the beginning where you shoul
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I'd say it's not the capitalist model per se but particular preferences of the investors. The same way as investors preferred young white male founders (maybe until recently) to all the other combinations of the three parameters.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Apparently it's what Swift does when you try to get the length of a string. Though there's no more plain substring() since Swift 5, it was removed to indicate it's no longer O(1). You will get different results across languag
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by mojuba 6y ago
So string is no longer a "string of characters", it is in fact a program (not Turing complete) that you need to execute. Though substring(m, n) still makes sense in at least interactive text manipulation: how do you do copy/p
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by mojuba 6y ago
Can someone explain, what are the rules for substring(m, n) given all the madness that's today's Unicode? Is it standardized or it's up to the implementations?
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by mojuba 6y ago
That's a well made one, pretty cool. And you can get the sound of loneliness in two easy steps: just turn on Bartender working and Night ambience
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by mojuba 6y ago
I think the verification badge should do something else on top of just being shown. Some sort of a PKI trust system like with SSL certs that would point to a specific (possibly masked) email or web site that belongs to the person. In other
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by mojuba 6y ago
It's because you don't know what you don't know and living in the Google bubble isn't helping with discovering those things.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Which applies to all areas. As your organization grows it more and more attracts people who typically just switch jobs between organizations of the same size, and bring their culture, "best practices" that are typically the worst,
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by mojuba 6y ago
The naming problem can not be separated from semantics and programming style. For example, I use the principle "name a function so that ideally there's no need to document it or check its source", i.e. function names should b
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by mojuba 6y ago
The problem is not in which year it started but whether the feature set is stable enough to be standardized - see my questions in the original comment. And that's just a few of them.
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Yes but email also used to be fragmented and walled garden'ed back in the early days of networking. Chat is still in its infancy as a technology. We are still trying to figure things out: what's the minimal necessary feature set?
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by mojuba 6y ago
Every line of code that you write and can be proud of stays with you and adds up to your experience. You will produce more of it as you gain more experience.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Very cool, thanks! One little request: please list Ireland as Ireland like it's done everywhere else. Couldn't find it until I tried another country and saw it in the list as "the Republic of Ireland"
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by mojuba 6y ago
Yes but surely concavities with trapped air are possible in real life? Not necessarily in the form of a spiral.
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by mojuba 6y ago
The algorithm doesn't seem to be complete, it can't handle concave shapes with trapped water or trapped air. But that's probably too much to ask. Edit: to illustrate the point, this iceberg had trapped air before it stabilize
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Archaeologists discover 5k-year-old beer factory in Egypt(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by mojuba 6y ago|0 comments
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Interesting thoughts, thanks. > - Benefit / harm > - Near term / long term > - Clearly evident / non-evident I still think that in addition to these things it's the growth function, the linear segments of it, th
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by mojuba 6y ago
I love going back and reading predictions. Wired: The Desktop is Dead (2006) caught my eye: operating systems and processors will become irrelevant, it's all about network services and network storage now (according to Eric Schmidt a
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by mojuba 6y ago
I can't believe I've been a HN user for 14 years. Things come and go but HN was one of the very very few web sites that I visited pretty much every day for this whole time. Except for rare hiking trip days. It's also amazing
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by mojuba 6y ago
Depends on the product of course, but I think a safe generalization (coming from my experience) would be that free trials have better conversion rates compared to limited indefinite free ones. Should be noted, a limited version should still
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by mojuba 6y ago
As a cat I've been waiting for someone to write a new UNIX shell for us named fish.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Containers cover some use cases but not all. Experimentation for one, also if you need specific compiler toolchains that you occasionally use on your sources. You don't create a Docker image each time you need a specific toolchain. Mac
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by mojuba 6y ago
Been a MacPorts user for years and I know nothing about Homebrew. To those who tried both: should a software engineer switch to Homebrew? MacPorts has its own way of dealing with dev tools and framework versioning. E.g. you can have multipl
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by mojuba 6y ago
> a lot of modern art, at a visceral level, is visually ugly and modern music sonically ugly Uhm, ugly relatively to what exactly? When you say some art is "ugly at a visceral level" you need to show art that's beautiful a
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Thanks for the tldr, I knew it was all fluff! Of course what we appreciate in the human faces (and bodies) vs. what we appreciate in art are very different things. Visual arts in this sense can be closer to say music or literature more than
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by mojuba 6y ago
I saw the other one at an exhibition - Van Gogh sitting in a cafe - and I have to say the digital scans on the Internet are so wrong . I was shocked. Self-correcting digital cameras and the low-grade image formats are killing everything. J
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You can’t stream most of the biggest Wall Street films now(theverge.com)
6 points by mojuba 6y ago|2 comments

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