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Surely if it were the other way around, the timestamp being LE would mean that the resulting strings no longer sort lexicographically in timestamp order?

Another neat encoding is the base-20 character set that Open Location Codes ("plus codes") use: > The characters that are used in Open Location Codes were chosen by computing all p…

Oracle aren't "charging for Java", they're charging for extended support for an old version of Java. This is blatant clickbait.

> Avoiding it is fairly easy, by isolating all of the extension’s user interface in an element. Right, but if the social network website can modify the HTML that the Keybase extens…

Open source doesn't just mean that the source is publicly available, either, though. This definitely isn't an open source license: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/mast…

> ... it may not be possible for you to lock Europeans out reliably enough... Here's a fun little example of this: If one of your parents was a British citizen, then you're a Briti…

> I do not have the resources to hire a Data Protection Officer (DPO) or EU Representative as required by GDPR. Lots of people are responding to the DPO side of this sentence, sayi…

'a' and 'm' are assigned to in the body of the function. Having them as arguments that aren't provided (and thus initially set to undefined) just ensures that they can be assigned …

Here's something that's buried right at the bottom, but sounds really exciting: > More concretely, our goal is to ship a high-performance standalone editor component suitable for u…

now.sh handles this quite nicely: when you log in there, they send you an email and display three random words. When you get the email, you verify the words match, click the link, …

> (Of course, with DV certs being treated the same as OV certs, someone with a DV cert could just forge all of the metadata, as long as they control the domain; DV CA's don't verif…

> Dramatiq is licensed under the AGPL and it officially supports Python 3.6 and later. Commercial Licensing is also available. Oh. > I’ve done a ton of open source work over the co…

I agree. Even if you think /user/ or /res/ is too long or unsightly, you could have shorter prefixes like (in an example.com/username system) example.com/.settings or example.com/_…

You could probably get away with re-rendering at the actual paragraph level, provided you do a bit of minimal bookkeeping to track which input paragraph corresponds to which output…

Wagtail has a similar sort of thing, inspired by Sir Trevor I think, called StreamField; it still has to have a RichTextBlock type to support inline-level formatting (bold, italic,…

You could say the same about the use of a capacitative display on glass rather than a resistive screen you operate with a stylus, or the high (for 2007) pixel density, or the smoot…

Wait, so they're replacing a license that has a dodgy patent grant that everyone distrusted, with a license that doesn't have a patent grant at all? Why not Apache?

Anything over 10,000 AUD (about 8,000 USD) purchased with cash. AirPods are expensive but not _that_ expensive. My guess is that they paid online for in-store pickup, and Apple ask…

If you're copying code into a Keynote presentation, you can use Pygments' RTF output mode, copy it to the clipboard, and just paste it into a text box in Keynote. That way, because…

I'm in Adelaide, Australia and I've never had this problem; I get maps within a second on both iOS and macOS, ADSL and LTE (Telstra in both cases). (As an aside, from what I've hea…

IIRC, because the payment terminals have their own power source, previous iPhone generations lacked the induction coils necessary to support passive NFC tags. Presumably they were …

Don't forget, it's not just about consumer applications. Anywhere you might use a QR code or traditional barcode, but you don't want to have to worry about the barcode becoming obs…

Pricing is €1,499, according to http://bgr.com/2017/02/28/sony-xperia-touch-release-date-pri... This would be awesome if it weren't for that price.

...is this a parody?

This is how they want you to use it: > Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe. > Correct: The image was manipulated using Adobe®…