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> I would like to know if PHP's object implementation, which was introduced after their associative arrays, suffers from the same hash collision issues. I was curious myself, so I …

Not sure if serious, but consider English "to", "too", and "two". Disclaimer/explanation: I actually studied Japanese, but I'm assuming the same principle applies. If so, the symbo…

The technical quality of the photos is quite poor. They're way too bright if we're looking for subpixels, since all we see are full pixels, smeared together into blooming white. Al…

I was going to attempt this, but the solution was posted inline in the blog entry, and I read it by accident. My window was just big enough that it was the last line displayed. =(

> And then they brought it back in 7. Mea culpa. I haven't used 7 very much =) Speaking of context, though, I've also heard "don't use My" as a recommendation for mobile UIs, becau…

Agreed. Users will be reading "My" every time they see it, so unless it's vital, leave it out. For example, Microsoft abandoned the "My" prefix in Vista for Documents, Pictures, et…

When an article about the problem is published on a gaming site, after it makes the point, it's got a couple of gratuitous chick images stuffed in it, with captions like "Bet you'r…

There's another mistake in that command (also present in the article): with that "t" in there, `yt$` will yank up to, but not including, a '$' character on the current line. Unless…

+= does union-by-key: any keys present in the right array, and not in the left, are appended to the left. `array_merge` will append all numeric keys from the right array to the lef…

> Is the theory that true "hackers" care more about the programming language syntax and semantics than whether it has the right libraries for the subject domain of the startup? Is …

Contrary to what he wrote here, Steve actually has ragged on Amazon in the past, in particular in "Have You Ever Legalized Marijuana?" -- the imagery of Amazon doing things by burn…

Don't forget the long-term contracts, where an enterprise signs onto the software for five years in exchange for a discount. That's probably the most common justification for "Why …

> apt-get (did you mean aptitude? What's the difference?) aptitude is a TUI front-end for apt-get (which is to yum as dpkg is to rpm). synaptic and the Ubuntu Store are GUIs into t…

I burned myself in that time frame, trying to implement SPs, because some people advocated for them. Like Etsy, I discovered you needed a lot of them, and worse, they weren't very …

Your experience isn't universal. I have people using my computer sometimes that I have to change the keyboard back to QWERTY for them, because they can't find the keyboard icon to …

Looks pretty nice. Some pictures are worth quite a few words. Is this problem made worse by the ephemeral ports remaining unavailable after disconnect, because they're stuck in TIM…

The "speed limit" is on the outbound connections from Node to the service. Node calls connect(), and receives a new port exclusively for that one connection. A server facing the In…

> And before anybody brings up the usual objection that your customizations travel to other people's machines poorly... I'd say that's unimportant compared to other people travelin…

> You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. IIRC, if you "closed" the gnome one, it went to the systray, which is a UI problem all its own. Also, you can pause the win8 operations, no…

Likewise with lurking-until-valuable. If karma were converted to an incentive for daily engagement, that would be a strong disincentive for me to even log in. It changes the relati…

> it can be readily and universally exchanged for goods or services I'm pretty sure all of the retailers in my area only accept USD. Nobody even bothers with the Canadian exchange …

So you claim to have "significant data" but the first thing you do is throw out huge swaths of it because it's not actually significant? Also regarding graph 2's commentary, 0.51 i…

> I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being …

I'v been eagerly awaiting this, since my major annoyances all have to do with the floating dialogs: Not hiding the palettes when the last gimp window was minimized. Minimize -> d'o…

> Have you thought about what happens when their IP changes? ++. When I was walking this road, I answered that question with "I'll use the user-agent instead!" Then I checked that …