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If there's a bug between the specifications and Chrome, what incentive is there for Chrome to change? How do you check/verify the specifications if there is only one implementation…

The tricky part of this is that not all programmers make good managers, or want to be promoted into management. They are different skill sets. That said, having a basic understandi…

Is that from the work by David Crystal reconstructing the sound of Shakespeare? It's very interesting to listen to passages read out in that Original Pronunciation. There are sever…

I now tend to focus on a black box logic coverage approach to tests, rather than a white box "have I covered every line of code" approach. I focus on things like format specificati…

I've allocated a 5GiB partition to /home on my SSD, as it does not need to be bigger. I don't want it filling up with software or other things like ivy/maven caches.

If you are implementing a specification (e.g. CSS/HTML/other language parser), tests are invaluable to assess how conformant your code is. They allow you to test the different part…

If it is in your top sites, you need to add that widget to the home page to get access to the menu to dismiss the result. (See my reply to the grandparent post for details.) I don'…

Ok, I've figured it out. The Shift+Delete combination only works for search results (e.g. the results displayed when you press space or type part of the url that are in your histor…

If you have that in your history, you can highlight that entry in the search results (e.g. using the up/down arrow keys after typing "weather") then press Shift and Delete to delet…

I don't like the behaviour in Chrome or Slack either. I haven't tried the new Edge (Edgeium) -- the Trident/IE derived Edge only expands downward. 1. It is inconsistent with the be…

See https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b... for details on how to customize the new address bar, including userChrome css for keeping its size confined to t…

My understanding is that from General Relativity (GR) mass carrying particles (and other energy-momentum) curves space-time, and that curvature is what we understand as gravity. I'…

Ranges are a (start, end) pair of iterators that support begin/end -- think of them like a subset of containers that just provide access to the iterators over them. They also suppo…

Destructors in C++ aren't just for making sure you leak memory. They are used for many lifetime controlled things such as: 1. general resource cleanup (file handle, database connec…

And the nightmare of determining who owns the APIs in things like SQL, BSD, POSIX, libc, speadsheet functions, the cairo and HTML canvas path APIs, HTML DOM, and more. Not to menti…

What about something like "in_order_traversal", which is an algorithm and you need to keep track of the traversed stack. You could either write it with functions in which case you …

A better comparison would be the yearly death toll due to flu for the US, noting that the current COVID-19 death toll is over a 2-3 month period. Preliminary estimates for the 2019…

The audio generation is split into packets or chunks of audio. There are two general methods of storing/generating these chunks: 1. LPC/formants -- building the audio using the LPC…

Then what about vitamin A? Our body can synthesize it from beta-carotene.

That's interesting. So what you have is some sort of similarity metric that is colour based. You could define it as being 1 for an exact match, and 0 for not matching, so cyan, etc…

It depends on the show and the presenter. John Humpfreys was very pro-Leave -- there was one segment on the Today program where he was interviewing someone advocating for a people'…

You can temporarily implement both interfaces where needed, create adaptors, or other patterns during the intermediate steps.

Note that with Kotlin, JetBrains created it initially for working on their IntelliJ IDE and are porting their Java codebase to use Kotlin. So that is a good indicator of long-term …

Emulation is typically reserved for processor emulation. A NES emulator works by simulating the CPU, PPU (GPU), bus and other parts of the NES system on the computer running the em…

All his works are available on Project Gutenberg for free: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120 .