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> I'll use PostgreSQL 9.3 with JSON support. Yeah, it's technically not as good, but I know what my rights are. What makes Datomic better than pg?
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> Almost everyone will at some point ask me why I don't drink, which is fair considering it's engrained into human society. There should be no need to explain why you don't drink. Period. There's nothing wrong with
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Active discussion on reddit from yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2409uc/til_im...
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The strings are encoded based on the specified codepage, and code page 864 cannot represent the standard percent symbol "%". Excel itself can handle it because they have their own implementation of codepages, but other implementa
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Is there any sort of Excel integration? The usage documents reference dat-excel, but I don't see any code
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Fun facts: - a few code pages (such as CP864 DOS Arabic) use the arabic percent sign ٪ (0x066A) at codepoint 0x25 instead of the standard ANSI %. - Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird approximate the Arabic codepages (including ASMO-708) to ISO
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Apple CEO Tim Cook chides Microsoft for Office delay(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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> The Ada Initiative supports women in open technology and culture through activities like producing codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies , advocating for gender diversity, teaching allies, and hosting conferences for women in
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A priori, Horvath's claim has no more bearing than Theresa's. That part is very clear and it takes a very strained interpretation of my words to conclude I automatically assumed Horvath was correct. My first comment was in respon
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That's Theresa's claim (if we are going to play he-said-she-said we might as well be consistent). The official response does not suggest that the errors of judgment were unrelated to the subject at hand
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> the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment. GitHub isn't denying that there were problems and isn't claiming that her story is a complete fabrication. They merely said they don't believe they
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One big advantage of vanilla Make is the community. There are some very nice tools that work well with make (such as https://github.com/mbostock/smash ).
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> This is why Google and Apple don't allow plugins. This is why mobile is important. It's the last place users can be held down and forced to view advertisements against their wishes. It's clear why Google is incentivized
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When we first evaluated options, zip.js only supported IE9+ (and IE6-8 were still relevant browsers) while JSZip supports IE6+. In fact, the Base64 text box was introduced in http://oss.sheetjs.com/js-xlsx/ specifical
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This article has been submitted quite a few times (with interesting discussions): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698 https://news.ycombinato
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We use jszip for parsing xlsx/xlsm/xlsb files in the browser (Excel 2007+ files are zip files that contain XML or binary files in specific locations): https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx JSZip works well for s
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Gillette uses a different bladeset for each handle type. For example, the Mach3 cartridges don't work on the Fusion and vice versa. To entice people to switch, years ago Gillette mailed out free Fusion handles with a sample cartridge.
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You are doing the wrong calculation. He isn't claiming to spend 40 hours a week on the prototype. This could be done in spare time, taking advantage of time that is probably netting $0/hr, and in many cases probably can be done
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> They need to go head-to-head with the Drive/Docs/Apps provision coming from Google If that's really the play, Hackpad isn't the right acquisition. The real value is in the sheets/excel space, and the knowledge
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Is there a list of the best lists of javascript tools and libraries? If so, what list is at the top of that list?
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It's similarly frustrating on the other end, where google will sometimes show adult ads even when you tell them not to show that content on your sites
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> largely due to a very tolerant reddit admin team. ... and a very tolerant reddit user base. Even though direct links to images are available, many people share the imgur page link instead (with the intention of helping imgur show more
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Don't forget tax advantages: if structured properly, the costs are tax deductible for the employer and do not count as additional revenue for the employee.
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Some people understand subject matters just enough to make a statement but not well enough to analyze others' statements. Economics in particular seems to be full of these people
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Make has more natural built-in dependency management. To write your workflow purely in shell scripts, you will invariably use lots of tests. Also note that they are not necessarily mutually exclusive. You can write Makefiles that call shel
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Always a great read: "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" PDF rendering: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf HTML rendering: http:/&#x2
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Now we need a newsletter
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Awk lets you set both: $ echo -n "1,2,3|4,5|6|7,8,9,0" | awk 'BEGIN{FS=","; RS="|"} {print NF, $0}' 3 1,2,3 2 4,5 1 6 4 7,8,9,0 In fact, you can also specify the output delimi
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> It's also endorsed by mozilla, which makes me trust it more. Somewhat skeptical, given that Mozilla referred to in-browser ads as "user-enhancing": https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156
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Just picked it up (two people in a black Prius :) They seemed swamped (they were 10 minutes late and were visibly frazzled) but upbeat. Bread was decent. I suspect that if you go into pastries, you probably can command a higher margin (I r

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