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by developer2 9y ago
The point I was making is that nobody uses XHTML thanks to the browser vendors' refusal to accommodate it early on when the demand was rampant. By the time the comparison was html5 vs. XHTML2 instead of HTML 4 vs XHTML1, it was too lat
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XHTML was not "dead on arrival"; that is some seriously fabricated FUD. XHTML came at a time when it was entirely positioned to take over as the proper way of doing things. It had its own mime type to differentiate itself from HTM
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by developer2 9y ago
The idea sounds nice in theory, but the only reason any administration would implement this would be to remove anonymity from the internet. Your ability to recover accounts would just be a side effect of the system designed to allow the gov
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by developer2 9y ago
The entire point of security questions is that their answers are supposed to be things that are permanently stored in your memory, that you are physically incapable of forgetting because they are so ingrained. If you store these in a pass
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by developer2 9y ago
I hope that guy is showing that off as satire to show just how ridiculous the iPhone X's design really is, rather than providing a real-world solution. The concept of a truly full-screen device is what everyone is waiting for. That&#x2
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by developer2 9y ago
> ICU Collation Support This tiny little mention is a massive win! We now have access to the "und-x-icu" collation. As the postgres docs[1] put it: "ICU root collation. Use this to get a reasonable language-agnostic sort
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by developer2 9y ago
I keep getting this inaccurate answer of "they're just grapheme code points - you can't do it". That is why my example specifically used the .utf8 view. It's already possible to do exactly what I'm talking abou
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by developer2 9y ago
>> support for creating, using and managing substrings Can I finally extract a substring from the middle of a string using integer offsets, in one line? Something like string.utf8.substr(3, 5)? Or does it still take an absolutely insa
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by developer2 9y ago
Turning off Wifi is not something anyone - whether average or intermediate user - should be needing to do on a frequent basis. Airplane mode already takes care of the primary use case, namely disabling all radios. Someone intending to dis
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by developer2 9y ago
>> disable the feature before going through customs I keep seeing people mention locking the phone before going through customs. This accomplishes nothing. If they ask for your device, you are required to unlock it. If you refuse to u
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by developer2 9y ago
Never expect Apple to ship anything recent. Anything outside of their own "core system" that depends on 3rd party packages is likely to be 2, 3, 8 years out of date. Software like brew and macports aren't only popular for &qu
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by developer2 9y ago
You always have the password as backup to unlock. If your appearance were to suddenly change remarkably, such as via plastic surgery or a horrific accident, you would set your new face after unlocking with the password. Based on their phras
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by developer2 9y ago
Do you know how the signing requirements work on GitHub when accepting a pull request on a repo requiring signed commits, when the pull request is from a fork where someone is not signing their commits? Must the commit to the fork be sign
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by developer2 9y ago
What's so innovative about the screen? All the components at the top of the phone are still present in a blocked out section. It's not like they figured out how to conceal those components beneath the screen, which is what we&#x27
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by developer2 9y ago
For a company (and its customers) that rave about the design and look of the phone itself, covering it all with a case seems like the exact opposite of what one would expect to be the norm.
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by developer2 9y ago
If you know of a solution, please share. As far as I know, it is not possible to do multi-language unicode sorting in postgres. The idea being you have a utf8 column with some rows having English, while others have German, Chinese, Japanese
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by developer2 9y ago
For me this is the last major "missing piece" for postgres. MySQL's utf8mb4_unicode_ci makes it possible to order results containing a mix of any languages. With postgres you are forced to pick a single language. It's im
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by developer2 9y ago
This is one of the many reasons I prefer postgres, but it's worth noting that even in postgres, there are some DDL statements that cannot be executed within a transaction. I can't remember the list, but they do exist - it's j
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by developer2 9y ago
The primary reason to print a pdf would be to do so to any random 3rd party page. Sadly, you have no control over how 3rd party sites render/load their content. And --print-to-pdf likely captures the render of the page at some predeter
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by developer2 9y ago
"Could you possibly..." or "Is there any way..." is precisely the right phrasing. And again, the tone used makes or breaks the deal. Furthermore, explicitly quoting the online price is the wrong approach. Ask if there&
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by developer2 9y ago
To this day I'm absolutely flabbergasted that XHTML didn't win out. Well-formed XML documents, rather than a best-guess soup of broken HTML, was perfect. Absolutely perfect . I sat on the edge of my seat for 2-3 years waiting f
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by developer2 9y ago
Bang on. Across the globe, citizens of every other nation cannot fathom why the US prioritizes military spending above all else. It just doesn't make sense.
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by developer2 9y ago
If you're only booking a hotel, rather than picking a travel vacation package, you're better off calling the hotel directly to make a reservation. The reservation staff almost always have sole discretion to negotiate prices within
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by developer2 9y ago
The industry for developers in Montreal is large; it's nigh impossible to find oneself unemployed. However, the number of "big name" companies is quite small. MindGeek (owner of PornHub) is one, Google has an office, and the
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by developer2 9y ago
Any idea when exactly the PDF capture is performed? So many pages now render a minimal initial load, while the actual content is greatly delayed (usually < 100ms, but sometimes 3+ seconds) due to being loaded from one or more AJAX sour
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by developer2 9y ago
You analysis is on point. The comments on Reddit in particular were so far off base. On one hand you had people raving about how this needed to be patented and produced for sale - those people are (perhaps optimistically) out of touch with
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by developer2 9y ago
To put it bluntly: fuck the living. It's impossible to please every living relative and close friend. The solution with Facebook is simple: if you don't want to have a deceased person showing up on your feed, unfriend them and add
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by developer2 9y ago
Saying that Walmart has "notoriously bad margins" makes it sound like they're working at a disadvantage. Walmart's margins aren't low out of necessity. Their entire business is purposely built around low margins, an
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by developer2 9y ago
Regarding iOS and macOS kits, all of the documentation is in Objective-C. The libraries' Obj-C is imported and usable with Swift-only code, but the Swift documentation lazily links you to examples in the Obj-C docs. You have to perfo
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Their _entire_ comment is sarcastic. Even "Try to limit all discussions at the desk area to 5 people or less" - all it takes is 2 people talking to ruin the environment for everyone else. Scratch that, it takes 1 person - someone

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