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I'm surprised it's still being used (and a mod fixed the link now), but if you're curious, here's the discussion on 9m.no from 15 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7…

I simply tried (and failed, it seems) to say that they are generally considered to be equivalent, and that it's okay to use “aa” when translating a name with “å”. Reasons for this …

It's acceptable (or at least “not wrong”) to use “aa” for å (and “oe” for ø/ö, “ae” for æ/ä). While ‘å’ was made an official letter in Norwegian in 1917, it's still common to see “…

An iOS device will only connect to known networks. By enabling “Ask to Join Networks” it will list networks and ask if you want to join any of them – but only if no known network i…

There's a bug with the city/country detection: People with only a country as their location, e.g. “Norway” are detected as being in “Norway, United States”. :-)

… and advice / advise and prophecy / prophesy . For some reason, only the latter has kept the difference in spelling between the noun and the verb in American English.

Thanks! Looks interesting. :-)

The README file is really interesting: http://lpaste.net/119343

> The advantage of this approach would be allowing function overloading (similarly to C++ or Java) informally without interfaces or type classes. I might be misunderstanding someth…

(S (VP avoid (NP (NP success) (PP at (NP all costs))))) vs (S (VP avoid (NP success) (PP at (NP all costs))))

Norway invented everything from the Groupe Spécial Mobile group? Citation needed.

The Mac Pro has two buses, but the Macbook Pro has only one – so the fact that there are two Thunderbolt ports doesn't really help you in this case.

“Nationalism teaches you take pride in shit you haven’t done and hate people you’ve never met.” You can probably substitute any us-and-them term for “nationalism”.

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. This was done really quickly and I didn't expect it to get that much attention. :-)

To give you a clue: This was a really quick for-fun project and I did not expect it to get this much attention. ;-)

I had briefly used Scotty before, but never acid-state. All of this is just the result of a discussion at work where my position was “oh, come on! it's not that stupid!”, so I just…

That was indeed a typo. Thanks!