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Basically he's saying that if the API is great you rarely need to read the implementation. To which: sure, in some blessed cases where the API was great to start with and nothing c…

This is only (theoretically) true in the sense that if you build the perfect abstraction, you should not have to think too often about it. Building good abstractions requires: 1. s…

Pop Shell has solved the problem, please don't rethink too much.

"History is not true. You can change history. The actual factual events are such a small part of the story. Everything else is interpretation." OK, you've discovered post-modernism…

Captain Okai should be in the Airplane cockpit with Roger Murdock, Victor Basta and Clarence Oveur [0]. Missed opportunity. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBZf0QdKdE

“The famed Brazilian coffee owes its existence to Francisco de Mello Palheta, who was sent by the emperor to French Guiana to get coffee seedlings.” Small nitpick: at this time Bra…

Most of the comments here are assigning this as Plato's opinion. I'd just like to point out that Plato very rarely wrote in his own voice so it's very hard to say if it's his views…

> frankly you don't have enough information to say that there is no relation I'm not a scholar of this subject. If there is good scholarship out there presenting good arguments in …

You're assuming wrong, I'm afraid. No relation to the city of Ur.

The etymology is unrelated to the Sumerian city you link to.

Original, primordial, the source. Comes from German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_blue,_red,_...

I was going to chime in with "also Primephonic" and learned that Apple bought them a couple of years ago and this basically is Primephonic.

I spent two years in a rough-ish public school. It was the hardest period in my life but it taught me very much about valuing people from all walks of life and especially on adapti…

Best reference I could find is here: https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/articles/espace-insecable Actually before the ":" specifically there should be a regular non-breaking space, …

CORRECTION: narrow non-breaking space goes before ";", "!" and "?". Before ":" you should use regular non-breaking space. That is, in France. In French-speaking Switzerland it's a …

I think the point of the GP is that it inserts NO-BREAK SPACE instead of a NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE. If that's the case, it's a bug.

This is mostly correct, but I don't see how it contradicts my statement. Did the 646 standard account for variable-width characters at all?

A narrow non-breaking space, please.

This space before the colon and other marks in French should actually be a narrow non-breaking space (U+202F) [0]. There's no key for it in the AZERTY layout. This has been a probl…

I've built a (proprietary) telecom billing system with the same name back in 2005. I can't claim that as a particularly brilliant pun since the system we were replacing was called …

Madeira was initially settled by the Portuguese in the 15th century, 200 years after the end of the Portuguese Reconquista, so it's quite a stretch to claim that the "levadas" were…

"Aigu" does not take a trema. The feminine form "aigüe" does, and the trema is there because otherwise you'd pronounce it "/ɛɡ/" instead of "/ɛ.ɡy/". It does not change the sound o…

The two dots here are not an umlaut. They're a trema [0], which happens to look the same. It's used to break digraphs or diphtongs into separate vowels. Without the trema, this wor…

Or you can see it the other way around: soft-deletes are a pragmatic alternative to event sourcing that provides a lot of the value without requiring a team of super-humans and a r…