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As a learner/non-native speaker of German, please don't abolish the only way to tell the vowel length of an unfamiliar word.

Did we read the same paragraph? The problem with his first thesis was that, though he presented a brilliant and original result, he didn’t show that he’d studied enough prior resea…

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> Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. “Sorry, you wrote this and we don’t like it, therefore you’re not invited to this conference on an irrelevant topic” or “… theref…

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Perl 6 uses rationals by default. They have the advantages of being base-agnostic, able to accurately represent any recurring digit expansion accurately regardless of eventual base…

The difference is in how the result is converted to a string, not in how the result is produced.

This was published so he can get community help with finishing it: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/encyclopedia/preface.htm...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biograp... ) follows a similar model to the SEP to deliver on the comprehensive/a…

Unicode has things for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner And customization is done declaratively, not imperatively.

It’s not certain yet that this is an antedating. OED editor Jesse Sheidlower calls it ‘putative’: https://twitter.com/jessesheidlower/status/64305138542510899... and slang lexicogr…

The Unicode case-mapping algorithm is customizable by locale (e.g. uppercase i is İ in Turkish). A application which needed long s (for German Fraktur, for instance) could use a cu…

My mistake, I meant O(2 ^ n) indeed. Regardless, having exponential time complexity in terms of the regular expression (which is usually controlled by the programmer) where the pro…

Not true. Finite automata (NFAs, DFAs) can match that pattern (and any pattern that doesn't involve backreferences or lookaround) in O(n) time where n is the size of the input stri…

Why not store the log files in an FM-index? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index )

Bears repeating: this does not affect stable versions of FreeBSD. FreeBSD-CURRENT is the development version.

Indeed, the W3C's work on HTML5 is irrelevant. It exists only for the purpose of giving the W3C-qua-organization the appearance of being involved in the further development of HTML…

Which is exactly what djb says about Germany. It doesn’t affect public domain status.

Provably false. http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html

“Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a…

You seem to be the only person in this thread who has grasped this idea; though instinctively to me it feels another formalism like LC is the wrong way to go.