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Did Windows Phone solve the problem that Windows Mobile had where libraries like the .net runtime were incomplete? I remember trying to build an app for Windows Mobile 6.0 and not …

I recommend Japan as a country with many niche museums, here are two I enjoyed: https://www.tdk.com/museum/en/ https://www.khi.co.jp/kawasakiworld/english/ They are museums run by …

In case someone doesn't know, the standard function for that is called fnmatch: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fnmatch.3.html

For talks which will obviously be popular, go to the talk before it even if it's not as interesting. It's not common to have two super-popular talks in a row in the same room.

In Europe if an airline does that they have to pay you a penalty of a few hundred euro. But KLM (Dutch flag carrier) found a way around that: if a flight is overloaded by weight th…

Sound cards too. The Hercules website still proudly shows all their boxes from back when sound cards were popular for gaming and more: https://support.hercules.com/en/cat-soundcard…

If that were true it would also apply to C and C++. I have used Valgrind with Python + Boost C++ hybrid programs and it worked fine after spending an hour making a suppressions fil…

https://m.dpreview.com/reviews/buying-guide-best-cameras-und... Any of those is great. There is also a sub-$1000 category but the cameras in it are more compromised. If you want to…

If you care about network bandwidth you can compress before sending, as virtually all web applications do. Then you don't need to worry much about the space efficiency of the appli…

I find it somewhat unlikely, as this particular W hotel was not in a country known for personal injury lawsuits. More likely it was sold to them by some interior design firm as a l…

Not about smoking but I recently stayed at a W hotel and was woken in the middle of the night by the room lights turning on. They used electronic push buttons and I turned them off…

I haven't seen the makers of Aeron (or anyone else) claim it's "orders of magnitude faster than plain UDP." Do you have a link to something about this? It doesn't pass the smell te…

I came here to write something very similar. Visa and their competitors all have the ability to transport data about the payment. Most receipts are a fairly small raster image whic…

Maybe this is close? https://www.anker.com/products/a2683-anker-prime-charger-200...

Are you forgetting the $8.50 charge for Airtrain? That more than doubles the price you quoted, and it's not optional.

You say deque uses large-ish blocks but you provide documentation that it uses 512 byte blocks on GCC and MSVC is even worse. So if you're on Windows the blocks are so small the co…

That's what isatty() is for. If stdin is not a TTY, prompting should not be the default. Many programs change their defaults or their entire behavior based on isatty().

Ability to play smaller discs was normal in most CD-ROM and DVD players for many years before the Wii. A few people (probably half of whom have HN accounts) used to give out mini-C…

This is one reason why code generation should run as part of the build process, every time. Even if you decide to check-in the generated code for visibility.

There is another standard library related scenario: hash tables. The std unordered containers will store the hash of each key unless your hash function is noexcept. Analogous to ho…

You don't need a full scan or a giant CSV file. You can do it with a single small file in a single directory. The file contains the state of a pseudo random number generator. On ea…

You quoted the part about sequenced messages. Look at the part about unsequenced messages right after that. It has both.

Here is a good message framing protocol built on TCP: https://www.nasdaq.com/docs/SoupBinTCP%204.0.pdf If you want large messages just redefine the length from 16 to 32 bits. It's …

I'm not who you replied to, but I have such a story. I was in southern China for a couple weeks, using Google Translate to try to talk to locals sometimes. The voice-to-voice featu…