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I don't know if you can do it in Norwegian, but in colloquial Polish it's possible to specify how much time will pass until the next full hour without specifying what hour it is. S…

> […] In an Asian country the Sallies could set up fried rice or noodle stalls selling cheap meals to the Joes, for the equivalent of a dollar or two. They've set up a mutual trade…

> I consider PDF viewers to be superior to the experience offered by ebook viewers. For example, Having to tap the left and right side of the screen to move between pages is a pain…

If/when that becomes feasible, I assume moving the fetus to the artificial womb would become a more humanitarian (if more expensive) equivalent to getting an abortion.

Wow, finally a good orthography for English!

How many uses can you find for Fortran 77 besides legacy systems?

Not using a feature X yourself means you might still need to deal with code written by somebody who uses the feature.

> Because Python 3.X is not backwards compatible and we have millions of lines of production code in Python 2.X. I believe the common subset of Python 2 and 3 was created to ease t…

> Python 2 is like FORTRAN. It might not be sexy anymore but it's not going anywhere. Except Fortran is, and is going to be, further developed. (So, if a new useful programming con…

I think 1000 is a more realistic estimate of how much words you need in a language, than 100. Toki pona is nice in concept, but too restrictive in practice.

> I've seen very prominent NN-course, suggesting Python 2.7 for all assignments and code samples, and quite useful library (also NN-related), supporting 2.7 only. Oh, that's plain …

And this is making Java look good how exactly?

It was already fixed back when domain names had to be plain ASCII. It was West-centric, yes, but it allowed for a unique and legible ASCII identifiers. And encouraged non-ASCII lan…

> I could go in and set up a dot/non dot email address to people I know and just wait until I receive an email that was supposed to be for them but now goes to my email account. Er…

Depends on the human.

Is it similar to getting heavily drunk and then keeping asking the same question because you can't remember having asked it?

> The idea that all of sudden there is going to be a rush to push compiled/closed sites after so many very successful years of using free-and-open stacks seems rather non-logical t…

> Take, for example, the awesome 404 page over at Disqus. They use a random animated GIF from popular TV and film, An excellent idea! As if we didn't have other ways of wasting ban…

How did they destroy Snapchat? By adding a couple of frames and overlays? My mobile phone had that “feature” ten years ago already.

> It’s a minimalist or geometric black design, like mine, popularized by Buzzfeed listicles like this one. So, a ‘list article’ is a ‘listicle’ nowadays. Wonder how'd they call a ‘…

This link is being blocked by Facebook. Huh?

> Laura had been interrogated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on more than forty occasions when traveling internationally. Sometimes they temporarily confiscated her noteb…

> PHP ~6 Ah, you mean good old PHP 4294967289?

I guess if learning 90% of something takes 90 minutes, the remaining 10% will take 10 years.

Yet another attack vector yay!