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by psquid 4mo ago
The evidence that they didn't review it, is that a million line rewrite was merged 8 days after it began being written. It's simply not possible for a team that size to review that much code in that little time. As far as testing
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by psquid 9y ago
Same reasons that IE versions only support certain versions of Windows: - they want to be able to switch to newer APIs when the underlying OS adds them (though in Edge's case it's more likely it was written from the ground up usin
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by psquid 9y ago
The lack of subscription and signup, combined with the pricing, suggest that this is aiming at people who almost never send a fax, and would spend significantly more buying and maintaining a fax machine, compared to a couple dollars on this
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by psquid 9y ago
it works. doesn't feel very native, but then neither do a lot of the big names in chat right now
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by psquid 10y ago
it's US english, they're referring to Lego the product as a whole, rather than individual Lego pieces (the meaning ends up basically the same, but the distinction does change the grammar)
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by psquid 10y ago
Exactly so. It's not strictly correct modern English as far as I know, but it's quite a common slip amongst French speakers (from their names I would strongly suspect at least one of the core Pijul folks fits that category) for wh
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by psquid 10y ago
I've never really gotten into absolute line numbers, but relative ones are a godsend for me since I use <num>j, <num>d, et al a lot but can't really eyeball how many lines away something is once it gets to be more than
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by psquid 10y ago
The crucial distinction as far as the OP is using the term seems to be that such a datastore does not require the user's hosting provider to give them an instance of any of the common DB servers, which typically needs a more expensiv
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by psquid 10y ago
or V for Vendetta
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by psquid 11y ago
That link seems to be about Windows Server (no version stated, but given it's upcoming, presumably 2016), did you mean to post a different one?
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by psquid 11y ago
Assuming I'm reading the parent post correctly, neither of those links actually do what they would've been hoping for when moving browsers, even if they certainly get closer than nothing. Firefox Sync only syncs with versions of F
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by psquid 11y ago
There's various ways: Some rely on the device itself to enforce it, but that's obviously fragile if you can bring your own device. Some check the TTL of your packets when they enter the carrier's network, because tethering is
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by psquid 11y ago
However, that still makes it a conscious choice to engage with the service that way - the default way is still checking back, and that shapes the general usage patterns of the site, even if some people have concluded it benefits them more t
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by psquid 12y ago
Unfortunately, I suspect you overestimate the obfuscating power of dynamic content when the number of users is sufficiently large. A certain MMO I play recently had a limited-time event built around figuring out the meaning of different clu
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by psquid 12y ago
#2, "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form." Unreal's license for obtaining the source does not permit you to redistribute in source form, so you can't
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by psquid 12y ago
There's no one source which any Scotsman claims defines a Scotsman, though, whereas pretty much the core part of the definition of Christianity is following the teachings of Christ (it's in the name!), which the vast majority of b
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by psquid 12y ago
That's present in uBlock too, despite some fairly unintuitive UI - the big green power icon isn't a full disable for the extension, it disables it for the current site only.
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by psquid 12y ago
I think the intent was more along the lines of "Matz is nice and therefore we should be nice", but in making it shorter and snappier it now uses a more ambiguous piece of the English language.
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by psquid 12y ago
He's not so much a great programmer as a productive one (not that those are concepts that can't coexist, he just isn't both). He's very good at taking an idea and making it work, then building new stuff on that, but less
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by psquid 12y ago
Most don't combine the two things that together give Java its big advantage, though: 1) Easily-distributable "mostly-compiled" bytecode form (JAR files). 2) Wide install base for the VM needed to run said bytecode. Without #1
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by psquid 12y ago
Someone who wanted to be sure that bug stuck in people's minds enough that they wouldn't just ignore it? Seems at least feasible.
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by psquid 13y ago
In about 34 years, yes.
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by psquid 13y ago
Another situation where regexes are possibly abused - syntax highlighting. Yes, there are a lot of languages where you can sanely highlight /most/ code with regexes, but there's a non-zero number where you need a little more
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by psquid 13y ago
Unless the footer image in question was awarded by some kind of auditing body (with links back to their page so a visitor could verify the site really was audited), an idea like that has no fangs - for example, what's to stop a site st
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by psquid 13y ago
Oh hey, that's pretty nice! I'm a big fan of how the functional languages I've gone further than dabbling in are very pushy about covering all cases for pattern matches (basically switch on steroids), even if sometimes the co
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by psquid 13y ago
Agreed. Both Haskell and much of the Lisp family support rational numbers, the latter with them automatically being used instead of imprecise results when doing divisions which can't be represented accurately. I miss them a lot when wo
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by psquid 13y ago
It's under Pricing in the FAQ page (the gist: contact them via the contact link to discuss a price, because it's apparently too complicated to estimate), but yeah, the FAQ seems like rather an odd place to relegate such an importa
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by psquid 13y ago
> an example would be displaying the documentation of some method you are autocompleting, something which I have never seen in vim and which I actually believe is impossible For python at least, having 'preview' as part of your
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by psquid 13y ago
The (minor) bad first: your landing page is utterly broken without JavaScript (I use NoScript, and while I whitelist most sites, a broken page before setting that still leaves a bad taste if there's no reason for it to break), and I ca
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by psquid 14y ago
The point is that the stated 0.5% is an upper bound, so even if none of them also bought a ticket, as you speculated (and I find it very unlikely that this is the case), they would still only make up a 0.5% difference in the box office re

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