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by quarterto 11y ago
Well, IE8 is the most recent version that's supported on Windows XP, which is still used in a distressingly large amount of corporate environments. There's also still a load of corporate IT on Vista and 7 that won't upgrade p
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by quarterto 11y ago
The answer seems to be "install it from the Ubuntu Precise repository": https://berezovskiy.me/2015/02/update-git-on-debian/
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by quarterto 11y ago
Perhaps they want to align with Node.js version numbering?
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by quarterto 11y ago
The custom elements are handled by the AMP runtime: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-h...
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by quarterto 11y ago
Bear in mind this is Beta 1.7.3, which came out in July 2011. A lot has been added in the last 5 years.
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by quarterto 11y ago
By far the least populous. In the 2011 census it had a population of 7375.
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by quarterto 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893
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by quarterto 11y ago
Presumably Emacs and Vim.
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by quarterto 11y ago
Only if you're going to watch live TV on it. Doesn't matter where it comes from (iPlayer live or a bit of wire on top of your house).
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by quarterto 11y ago
If you don't mind setting the function on instances at construct time, you can use ES2016 class properties: class x { a = wrapFunction(function() {}) } This kind of use case is pretty well covered by ES2016 decorator
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by quarterto 11y ago
Of the deep level lines, only the Northern line has selective door opening IIRC. It's in use at stations like Moorgate and Embankment that are already so riddled with tunnels that extending the platform is just plain impossible.
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by quarterto 11y ago
> making it less likely for individuals to get lost and thus take up valuable commuter real estate Directing people the long way around the station (as signage in more complex stations such as Bank/Monument does) arguably increases
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by quarterto 11y ago
It actually does look like a piece of art in the Mathematics Department at the University of Warwick: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Maths_fo...
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by quarterto 11y ago
You're thinking of Affinity Photo. Affinity Designer is probably closer to Illustrator than Sketch is, since it's geared towards vector illustration rather than UI design.
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by quarterto 11y ago
Node now follows Semver. If you look through the changelog, there's more than a dozen changes that are breaking.
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by quarterto 11y ago
Fun fact: all our perceptions of other people's emotion is "in our mind". Doesn't make the perception invalid.
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by quarterto 11y ago
It's about the perception that the number provides.
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by quarterto 11y ago
Wow. So many armchair geologists, both here and in the comments on TFA. Do you really think people haven't already thought of a dozen reasons why GPS beacons/synthetic DNA/blah blah etc wouldn't work? Should we get some
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by quarterto 11y ago
I went for "arbitrary, stochastic, erratic, haphazard, aleatory".
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by quarterto 11y ago
Like this: http://research.swtch.com/zip . Fascinating read.
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by quarterto 11y ago
> launched a few satellites to orbit *a single satellite. The first two launches were suborbital tests; the third launch carried Orba, but failed to reach orbit. Only the fourth and final launch, with Prospero as the payload, successfull
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by quarterto 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the BBC know what "briton" means.
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by quarterto 11y ago
http://www.bonkersworld.net/images/2011.06.27_organizational...
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by quarterto 11y ago
Gandi has them for $35/year. Nic.io itself is £60 for the first year, but it goes down after a few years (I'm currently paying £30 plus tax).
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by quarterto 11y ago
The very same guidelines also say: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link."
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New Horizons Pluto Instagram(instagram.com)
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by quarterto 11y ago
These aren't immutable variables , they're immutable (i.e. persistent) data structures . You can't directly change the objects themselves; instead, "setters" create a new copy of the object.
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by quarterto 11y ago
Node's event loop is inherently cooperative multitasking. It's not trivial to simulate preemptive multitasking without writing/compiling your code to giant state machines. There are different use cases for the two, especially
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by quarterto 11y ago
Also, one of Neovim's banner features is asynchronous job control, which greyrest complained about.
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by quarterto 11y ago
Great post. A quite similar pattern is common in ES6 React: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/mixins-are-dead-long-live-hi...

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