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Nitpicking much? As I wrote above, by making sure that I use a placeholder that does not appear in the data, I make sure that it does not cause the issues you describe. And if I wa…

I'm not sure if interchangeable is the right word. 'phởne' and 'phone' yield different result lists. At least Google seems to have a way to detect visually similar letters.

I wonder how many potential user are lost due to ungoogleability. :O)

The idea is to be able to write code in one language and use this code in many different languages.

I used that strategy for parsing gigabytes of CSVs containing arbitrary natural language from the web - try to get these files fixed, or figure out a grammar for gigabytes of fuzzy…

> What if there is #COMMA, in one of the fields (but no #COMMA#)? What should happen? Since #COMMA is not #COMMA#, it gets not replaced, because it does not match. Please keep in m…

You just choose a placeholder that does not appear in the data. You could even implement it in a way that a placeholder is automatically selected upfront that does not appear in th…

I was referencing to "What if the character separating fields is not a comma?". And there it clearly works. I used this technique a few times with success. If you find a CSV file t…

You can replace all commas with a placeholder (e.g. "#COMMA#"), replace the delimiter with a comma, parse the document and then replace all placeholders in the data with ",".

My perspective on art is a reaction on the elitism of the art scene, so basically my comments are art. Edit/addition: Honestly, I could have much more respect for this project, if …

> He continued: "I don't know how to measure it, but it gives us an idea that what we're doing is being understood by some. And there are some good peers of mine also, who are very…

What is wrong with just offering a reader without forcing its users to also buy the books from the same source? I own a Sony reader and I actually enjoy that it is not tightly bund…

This is what I feel too. It expect it to streamline the comments and kill the discussions.

> Is Microsoft circa 2014 worse than Google, Apple, or Facebook? We're not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to be as evil as you might think we are. Microsoft is not any wors…

Better use Anonymouth: https://github.com/psal/anonymouth The translation method is not really effective: > We also show that automated attempts at circumventing stylometry using m…

Citing the AngularJS FAQs : Does Angular use the jQuery library? Yes, Angular can use jQuery if it's present in your app when the application is being bootstrapped. If jQuery is no…

> Human Corrected Translations for 1 cent per word "Per word" of the source language, or the target language? Sum of both? What about languages which have a different concept of "w…

Reminds me of the position helper in JQueryUI. I was able to extract the helper into a small file for using it, without having to load the rest of the framework. http://jqueryui.co…

I thought the same. I recently saw a jeans couch and think that this fabric is much better for this purpose.

They usually don't even have indicator leds and most smartphone have cameras on both sides. It is almost as if these devices are built to spy on their owners.

> but decades in jail ought to be reserved for violent types and people who you can easily demonstrate have ruined people's lives (through ponzi schemes and fraud). Like Manning?

Just imagine a robot holding your hand while you are dying.