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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   I must point out Alipay (and the like; I’ll just mention Alipay from now on for brevity) is not built to circumvent credit cards, in that there is nothing to circumvent. There is literally no way to pay except cash before Alipay; credit car
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   Charge them, or install some kind of time limiting then. Cafes here either charge at least $5 for a coffee (note that wage in Taiwan is about half than the US), or would ask you to leave if you stay for 2 hours (they will tell you first, of
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   I’m somewhat surprised by the article. There is recently a giant indi cafe boom in Taipei that made it one of the most developed cafe city in Asia, but almost all well-regarded shops do everything they could to keep the place as quiet as p
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   I thought this is the famous Markdown parser by Vicent Martí. [1] It was the most popular Markdown implementation before CommonMark, and is used by GitHub (via RedCarpet, its Ruby binding) before they switch to CommonMark a while ago. The n
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   You are right on point. There is actually a small section in documentation about this, but I wasn’t sure if anyone would be interested and didn’t put in much effort. Now I know there is! [edit: docs updated] Anaconda was my tool of choice f
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   The indexes also turned red/green alternating so it’s very likely just Christmas.
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   > Taisei (lit. Occident) ... Where does this come from? AFAIK no word in Japanese translates to this. I struggle to even come up with a good translation for occident (欧米 might work). --- Edit: ah, the gameplay screenshot shows 泰西, an old
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   Show HN: SNAFU – Python Distribution Manager for Windows(github.com)

   2 points by uranusjr 9y ago|2 comments
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   by uranusjr 9y ago

   I fail to see how this email address does not qualify as common sense valid though. Maybe it’s just me being surrounded by tech-saavy people, but I have a bunch of friends using emails like i@domain.com and me@name.com.
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    by uranusjr 9y ago

    > Static linking makes portability a breeze. I don’t know why this idea was lost in virtually every scripting language from the past 20 years. Because they are invented at a time before storage and RAM is dirt cheap and lightning fast. I
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    AFAIK cleaning fees are upfront. I host on Airbnb and have never seen an option to charge extra for the mess left behind by guests.
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    And let the web view suck away my RAM like a leech? No thank you. This might be a good suggestion if Chromium does not manage memory usage so poorly.
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Author of MacDown ( https://macdown.uranusjr.com ) here. The most privelant reason I'm not doing it is indeed the price tag. I do not do macOS or iOS app dev for a living, and paying $99 a year for next to no return is ridicu
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Or they just parse the URL differently. One possibility is to treat mit.edu as equivalent to www.mit.edu, and web.mit.edu to www.web.mit.edu. This is how I did it when I was a kid (and knew absolutely nothing about programming etc.)
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Unfortunate indeed. I get that making things work well on both desktop on mobile is difficult (if not impossible), but at least the UI should be somehow usable. The nav works so poorly on my phone I can’t even browse all the pages on the si
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Don't want this to sound like bashing, but the website doesn't work very well on mobile (hover and active states act weirdly, menu very clumbersome, etc.), and I assume the same can be said about the toolkit. Hopefully this is an
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Without some shim like bundler exec, but yeah, you can say that.
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    A lot of older parts in Python inherit the naming style common in C, which always seems to me they have OCD to shorten everything, e.g. ls for list, mk for make. Newer Python parts are more “healthy” in this regard. But this also results in
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    I know very little Russian and can’t say for certain, but I think Russian is similar to English in these consonants. I should make it clear I don’t think Pinyin is a bad system, only that it does not map sounds to European languages well. A
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Not a all. As a phonetic enthusiast I can assure you Pinyin is by far the worst representing Chinese sounds with English letters. It is made to represent Chinese phonetic, but its creators are seemingly completely ignorant toward basic phon
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    There have been many attempts to bring Bash to Windows before WSL. Git for Windows ships with a Bash port based on Msys (IIRC).
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    by uranusjr 10y ago

    Or BAT. I can live (reluctantly) with Bash, but Windows batch file is just brutal.
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    by uranusjr 12y ago

    I’m open to new icons. I put the current one together myself and am certainly not proud of it. I suck at visual things.