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The rectangle case is just choose(w+h, h), with w, h being the width and height, respectively. (Or choose(w+h, w), which is the same.) Depending on how well you know binomial coeff…

Lots of formatters also unify things like trailing commas, so it would be slightly more involved than this.

I feel like you are describing that the parser is too lenient rather than too picky. It could just require you to always put `let` and `in` on their own lines, in which case the in…

Isn't the Macintosh desktop (with Cmd as the modifier for standard shortcuts) older than Windows and Linux desktops? So historically, it's not Apple that deviated but the others? (…

I think modern browsers are actually quite good here. They show a template in the form TT.MM.JJJJ for me (so the German equivalent of MM/DD/YYYY, with the usual order and separator…

Mobile keyboards also do have the advantage that they can at least change the label of the button; so writing Submit on the Enter key if it submits.

I am also at the office almost every day because I think it's better for my mental health and food. But I also appreciate that for many, it's different, so actually having the choi…

Wouldn't it also be much better to evaluate the Taylor polynomials using Horner's method, instead? (Maybe C++ can do this automatically, but given that there might be rounding diff…

I wrote "predominant", not "official". And I think that is still true. Also, from what I can tell using the site, it does not serve as a full dictionary. Rather, it lists the gener…

Fun fact: I looked this up in the online version of the Duden (the predominant German dictionary). It does have an entry "Black Hole" (so the English term!) but not for "schwarzes …

I don't quite get what you mean here. While you need to allow infinite expansions without repeating patterns, you also need to expansions with these pattern to get all reals. Maybe…

I think that's basically the same reason, right? XML itself is bloated if you use it as a format for data that is not marked-up text, so it comes with bloated APIs (which where pus…

This article is weird. It wants to shoot against JSON, but then has to make half of its arguments against YAML instead. JSON has no "ambiguity in parsing", JSON has no indentation-…

I assume that "all the different levels" might not exist yet. The author is probably creating them a bit in advance, and will keep going as long as they're motivated. Having a regu…

There is also the problem that they decided to make all references nullable, so `NullPointerException`s could appear everywhere. This "forced" them to introduce the escape hatch of…

And here I was, thinking everybody already knew XKCD 1053 ...

But XML was designed as a markup language. That is was often used for configuration is not its fault. (And it works much better for its original purpose, where the otherwise strang…

(Without knowing the precise nature of these laws) I would expect that they don't forbid you to store backups elsewhere. It's just that they mandate that certain types of data be b…

I generally agree that treating substrings that are numbers as numbers is a good default for most users in most situations. However, for hex numbers this simply won't give good res…

I did have one or two math professors who would use x_0 and x_1 instead of x_1 and x_2 when they had to name two objects. But I have also seen places where 1-based indexing was use…

Dijkstra is right, of course. However, most math texts still use 1-based indexing. If you want to translate them into code, it's easier when the conventions match. (Now, if you had…

But the second interpretation only makes sense if the last item somehow deserves special treatment (over, say, the second-to-last item). Otherwise, you should similarly argue that …

Even with a keyboard shortcut, I never found it to be truly satisfying. I cannot quite recall what was annoying, though. Maybe you cannot space back into the formula after closing …

Last time I checked, Word was also basically untenable for math-heavy writing because there was too much procedure involved in setting a formula. This is fine if you need one here …

RST disqualifies itself immediately by making inline markup un-nestable, though.