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Another approach for this is to explore the format through Apple's tools for building dictionaries – as they provide a "Dictionary Development Kit" in Xcode's downloadable "Additio…

This article is essentially a press release for the author's own paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1047 Which itself is a part of a series of articles in …

"Social science" isn't a singular amorphous blob, and these methods aren't uniformly accepted. Online surveys are certainly becoming more popular as they are significantly cheaper …

And a Kruskal-Wallis test instead of an ANOVA, so no "magic" would be required.

This is a very nice review, but in practice I've found the K-S test to be much less useful than it initially appears: 1. Failing to reject the null hypothesis is not the same as ac…

One kilobyte per tick seems quite generous. All of the EURUSD tick data for 2013 from histdata.com (the source mentioned in the article) is only 515MB (~20GB for 40 years, ~824GB f…

New Objective-C features are introduced with new versions of the compiler (and Xcode tools/SDK), but each feature may be deployed on different versions of iOS/OS X (depending on ho…

It looks like this is a re-invention of agvtool(1)---which ships with Xcode, will synchronise updates across all versioned targets in a project, and has options for differentiating…

The node packing format he describes sounds a bit like a LOUDS tree [1], which stores the structure of a tree as a bit array (each node as a '1' for each child, plus a '0'---for a …

Is that spelt out somewhere? The only mention of it I can find is in the confirmation email they sent: "will be free for the next two years".

Something they don't mention until after you've signed up: the micro plan only lasts for two years. I assume any private repositories will become locked if you don't pay for a subs…

are you sure that deleting the whole grapheme is actually what the Tamil or Korean user wants? I'm not, but I think it's the only sane thing for a text editor to do if you don't wa…

Counting graphemes may be over-used, but needing to know their boundaries is important (and leads naturally to counting). For example, when you hit "delete" in a text editor, you'l…

One of the major difficulties with Unicode handling is not just that there are poor implementations out there with legacy baggage, but a lot of poor advice as well (or well-meaning…

No, your IP has no effect; by default, you're seeing prices as if they were booked from the departure city. Matrix lets you specify the the "sales city" (the last field in the adva…

The name may have passed into the vernacular, but it was invented for the particular drink that Starbucks now sells in 1992: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/12/07/frap…

Storing them where?

The original Kinect did not use time-of-flight technology, but projected a structured infrared light pattern and observed the displacement of the pattern to determine depth informa…

That shouldn't happen unless you've mapped "j" to "gj" (which is fairly common for people who use line wrapping): http://vimdoc.sf.net/htmldoc/motion.html#gj

Where does the "70%..." figure come from? It's not mentioned anywhere in the article. For that matter, the article itself throws around a lot of phrases like "clearly performing be…

this is perfectly adequate to support the characters from all major languages in use worldwide, plus emoji Emoji characters are in the range U+1F300..U+1F5FF, which is outside the …

US states do have programs for transfering inactive/abandoned bank accounts to a treasury (and for claiming those monies back): http://www.helpwithmybank.gov/get-answers/bank-accou…