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6,673karma·537submissions·February 21, 2011
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> Is the suffix pattern based on the pronunciation of the syllable(s) before the suffix? Careful, this is how you fall down the Are Dependent Types The Answer?? hole.
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> making it safe (within reason) to expose the regex engine to untrusted input Or even trusted input! https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage... …
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> Privately held Which part of donating money to ensure a class of people don't get the same rights as the donor is private? That's as public of a move as one can imagine.
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Live coding during a presentation or on stream is another use case in addition to the sibling comments.
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Or these, which have their own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM_parameters …
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Does one need to be a true Scotsman to attend
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A small note here: even though the public version of jj only supports the Git backend right now (I believe there's also support for whatever Google's using internally?), it's designed t…
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There's https://github.com/keanemind/jjk for VSCode users. There are also tickets to add jj support in Helix and Zed, so that's promising.…
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> Haskell https://github.com/Frege/frege https://github.com/typelead/eta Of the others you mentioned, I bet there's a couple JVM Prologs out there, …
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> probably thinks the rest of us outside of the Google/elite bubble are subhuman If you're wondering why your message got flagged, it's a lot of reasons, but mostly this part.
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Yes, the only difference.
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That's the true meaning of backward compatibility. The [backward] refers to the time scale.
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So proud of all the HN denizens that none of us asked lvass about their stance on mandatory baby seats in cars. Or those bars they use to pin you down in your car on roller coasters.
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You mean the official nightlies? I like that plan! Should boost coverage by a lot in irl projects.
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> I don't think zig best-practices are written in stone yet, but I would expect ReleaseSafe to be the default in production. Which profile is the default for the Zig compiler itself? What abou…
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Even when compiling in Debug mode! Where the analogy is closer to a friend who's applying for a cashier job asking you to role play being a customer so they could practice, and then spitting in y…
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Ea-Nasir Us humans are kinda ok at preserving knowledge (and we're getting even better, but not in a good way).
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A weekend project tops
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Welcome! And also I am so sorry
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The author mentions that approach at the end of the post: > Apart from parsing the SQL query, I also considered an alternative testing approach that I might implement in the future: go through each…
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Also the r->z substitution. Charles -> Chaz. Barry -> Baz. Jeremy -> Jez. Caroline -> Caz. etc etc
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Exactly! Let's go back to the times when things were consistent! Remember when you couldn't tell AIM from ICQ from MSN Messenger from Skype because they looked and behaved consistently? Just…
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As in, any other language at all..?
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> gotos are fine if used judiciously Is there a language feature that is not? :)
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> I tend to think Rust isn't suitable to rewrite JavaScript tooling If only you could have warned all the people that the work they did was untenable before they went and did it.
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> Consider Hackernews: hn.js comes with 21,4 kB. The Y logo on the upper left is a 46,32 kB SVG! hn.js is just north of 5.2kB (2.3kB compressed), and the logo is 315 bytes.