dbrock

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   by dbrock 14y ago

   It’s hard to run a business, but the hard part is not honoring your own stupid promotional gimmicks instead of using them to insult your customers and make them feel like complete idiots.
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   by dbrock 15y ago

   Please fix the bug where trying to connect my account to a Google account just leads me to a completely blank page http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge with the word "Unknown." (Sorry, didn't understand where to report bugs.)
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   by dbrock 15y ago

   How about try await foo = bar(baz) as shorthand for await error, foo = bar(baz) if (error) throw error
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   by dbrock 15y ago

   URL detection is tricky because people omit the “ http://” part of URLs. It used to be that you could look for stuff beginning with “www.”, but nobody uses “www.” anymore, so now you basically have to have a list of TLDs and look for anyth
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   by dbrock 17y ago

   Short answer: the latter is more true. The reason why {mi} is unmarked for number is simply that it’s defined that way. In Lojban, everything is unmarked for number by default. It’s actually quite rare to see things explicitly marked for
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   by dbrock 17y ago

   There are many people who can converse fairly well in real-time written Lojban (although vocabulary is limited, and some parts of the language are generally not used). Due to audio-visual isomorphism, being able to converse in written Lojba
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   by dbrock 17y ago

   Go to #lojban on irc.freenode.net if you want to see Lojban conversation in action.