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I’ve got a Tuxedo laptop for four months now, which is a really nice piece of hardware. https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# Both software support and hardware quality are very good…

Agreed, developing print stylesheets is a PITA. But the principle proof, that HTML + CSS is capable of being the authoring format for whole books, is brought by PrinceXML, https://…

FWIW, on _German_ T-Mobile access to npmjs.com works just fine.

Sorry in advance for the rather harsh feedback, that follows. It’s basically my unfiltered impression when I visited your site before reading your introduction comment here. This i…

Looking for a specific line in the production server's /etc/password with this command: sed -i -n '/foobar/p' /etc/passwd trimmed the file to a single line's length. D'oh! Shouldn'…

On a rate from 1 to Guantanamo, how illegal is this?

Of course, if the language of a program is stripped down, the interpreter can be made much safer. But then, we gain nothing from trying to shove down the users’ throats other platf…

In 5 years, that’s my rough prediction. So long it will take for the browsers (with significant market share) to catch up with existing native features to combine them with the web…

Well, we have a scenario rather close to the one described in the article on mobile: Browsers for text content and apps for specialized stuff, that can incorporate web views, if ne…

The situation must be differentiated by language/environment. The suggestions for Haskell are certainly not bad. They hold, too, for many systems programming. For scientific coding…

As a non-native speaker, is “sum 7x8” an error? Shouldn’t it be “product 7x8”?

Been there, done that: http://www.svgopen.org/2010/papers/68-Scientific_Publishing_... Not only hasn’t there any advance since 2010, no! It even worsened: With Opera switching to B…

Almost all of the little spare time I have goes into http://Codepoints.net , presenting and explaining Unicode codepoints. Edit: The page is fully open source: https://github.com/B…

The discussion is good and also a great example for Mozilla caring (especially that it is discussed in the open for all to see).

Germany’s fine. Could it be a DNS thing?