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Hopefully the redesign won't give us light gray text on a white background, which seems to the rage these days. :) I had zero problems reading the print version.

To me, it seems to be the same as the Norvig algorithm, except that only deletes are considered. Which allows them to pre-calculate misspellings with modest storage cost. Am I mist…

How long ago did you buy your house? If a person bought the house today, would they still pay only $640/mo?

Been in a few orgs. I now think "no rewrites" is a good policy for all but a few orgs. Few orgs have the (1) business luxury (time and money) or, (2) the caliber of people and, (3)…

I like functions that return a value to be written in the guard-clause style. [In C++, that's probably better for efficiency since the compiler optimizer doesn't have to remove tem…

Don't do this. The whole thing gave off a bad smell on first reading so I would never have done this. Thank you vinkelhake for nailing the the real problem (exceptions) and botheri…

How? How can DRM force me to display the iframe containing an ad.

No story here. No budget provider I've looked at says they will help you withstand a DDoS attack. [Thanks to the commenter who says OVH does, I will look into them closely.] I did …

Multiple file attachments in entries. I think 1.x only supports one attachment per entry.

Crockford's "Javascript: the Good Parts" is a very good book.

This is probably what the parent meant: >>> 'truthy' if None else 'falsy' 'falsy' >>> 'truthy' if False else 'falsy' 'falsy' >>> 'truthy' if 0 else 'falsy' 'falsy'

Yeah, I know this is just an Internet forum so who cares what's said right? But ... But Ask the Korean made an excellent point about culturalism: "The term "culturalism" is my coin…

OK, I see why a downvoter downvoted it. I meant to write: "Yep, I know why the Mac's text looks blurrier" i.e., I meant to agree with 'coldtea' and add to the discussion. The way I…

Yep, I know the Mac's text looks blurrier: Link for anybody else interested: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp... (linked articles are good too)

> what more do you need? (don't say photoshop :@) In my case it's Lightroom. :) Longtime Ubuntu user here. Bought a Mac mini as my desktop replacement on the off-chance that I migh…

Sort of off-topic question. :) Is it still the case that updates from Apple will randomly break a Hackintosh? It used to be the case a few years ago. Has it gotten easier to update…

Thanks for the response. I get the A+ site when I directly visit via IP. I went through the delta between the reports with a fine-toothed comb and discovered that SNI wasn't the pr…

I host two sites on the same IP. The first site declared in my nginx conf file got A+. The second one got A with a note that it doesn't work in browsers without SNI. Identical SSL …

> everything-is-string semantics make programming an exercise in quoting. Is your code filled with literal strings? Otherwise why your code be "an exercise in quoting"? re Python: …