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So nobody would pay?

People that download games from the AppStore are kids that don't have a credit card, so subscriptions are not even an option.
Is this techcrunch rss?
Are there real posting? looks like there's a bot to post them :-)
I'm curious, why is it that business plans are so much more expensive than residential ones?
I have a font for that, but the character is unreadably small while it's perfectly fine for latin characters.

Many other unicode symbols also suffer from this problem. E.g. ␀ is the printable version of the unprintable NUL (\0) control character, but it's so small at 13.3px / 10pt CSS font size that it's difficult to distinguish from the other control pictures.

␀	␁	␂	␃	␄	␅	␆	␇	␈	␉	␊	␋	␌	␍	␎	␏
␐	␑	␒	␓	␔	␕	␖	␗	␘	␙	␚	␛	␜	␝	␞	␟
␠	␡

How those look on display w/o pixel scaling: https://i.imgur.com/lAAyjXu.png
https://materialdesignicons.com/ makes a font available with a reasonably large selection of brand and functionality icons, using unicode private ranges (also svg or whatever).

I don't think i personally agree with brand logos in Unicode.
…does nano have hardcore users aside from its own developers?
> A lot of weapons were nuclear ... to make up for inaccuracy

In fact, I've read that that's the real reason for even the large strategic nuclear weapons: The accuracy of missiles launched from thousands of miles away is (or was) dreadful, but if you used strategic nukes, you still could take out the targets: The Kremlin, the naval base, etc.

I've even read that modern 'smart' weapons (the article discussed Perry's work on them and their accuracy) could make nuclear weapons obsolete.
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> A private thread ensued between myself, GNU, and Benno, and what came out of that conversation was that Benno was not going to be allowed to become a maintainer of the project in GNU’s eyes.

This is the part I'm most curious about. Why didn't GNU let him become a maintainer?
This is on gentoo, so it looks like I have X, acl, and gpm use flags set for vim, which are a weak correspondence to configure options. So, I'm assuming you can remove SM,ICE,Xt,X11...gpm,acl,xcb,Xau,Xdcmp from my list. Quite a reduction! I admit. To be fair, nano can remove magic, ncurses which cuts it down to libc, libz for nano, and libm, libattr, libc, and ncurses for vim. I'm assuming you might be able to remove ncurses for vim(?) by configure? I've never built vim by hand.

So you might be right, the stripped out version makes a difference.
Well, I had a parallel career as low level unix/linux/embedded development, so I went full on on that, and I couldn't be happier really; that ALSO has picked up a lot, and since it's not 'sexy' and technically challenging it's still a bit self-walled gardened...
> What concerns me the most about nuclear weapons is that the technical barriers to building them are getting lower all the time.

It's 70 year old technology.
Probably I'm just the wrong type of person for nano then. I'm rather happy with Emacs (even with its mediocre performance).
Webpass does not serve houses or smaller and/or older apartment buildings. This substantially lowers their install costs per customer relative to business models, like Fiber, that serve almost everyone n an area.
Your answer illustrates my point perfectly, first the lack of a reasonable fall back mechanism. Of course I can start a hex editor, get the utf-8 encoding and then look up the code point ( and theoretically add that character to a open font). A default font would just ship with every OS out there, and suddenly there would be a working fall back.

Second mathematical symbols, consider the case were I get a text file considering mostly of ASCII 7 and some mathematical symbols which may render as mathematical symbols or as Chinese characters, since there is no way to specify the encoding in a text file and so I have to guess the encoding. (That is not helped by the roughly 17 standardized encodings that mostly agree with utf-8.)
Something about react life cycles, in a daily sharing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEf8c1-WBBs
vi doesn't kill my newlines when on PuTTY.
Maybe the problem is that you are assuming others have no trouble. Videos tend to pack more stuff in a shorter amount of time and new concepts require extra effort. I have heard that some "learn better by video rather than text, etc..." but doubt it is true.
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^ Thanks for that trick, I didn't follow ST development too much recently.
Am I the only person that is wary of 100% https ?

Remember, once you encrypt a web resource in SSL, you add a ton of baggage on top of any methods that might be used to access it.

I like a world in which I can 'nc' a web resource and manipulate it with unix primitives without a truckload of software dependencies.

If sensitive information is involved, then certainly - use SSL. I understand that we must give up conveniences for that functionality.

But there are a lot of web resources that have existed, do exist, and potentially exist that are completely benign ... I think we're shackling ourselves by chasing after this perfection.

Or, put another way, we're chaining ourselves to a world where web resources are only accessed by web browsers, and only by those web browsers that are chaining themselves to a fairly dubious security scheme...
So much conversation and not a single reference to App Annie? Look at the data yourselves.
Wouldn't it make more sense for them to use joe then? joe comes with preconfigured hotkeys which are more "known" than C-o etc.
Also, all you need is one insider kernel developer to get all the source code anyways.

You mean this source code? http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/
It's a brilliant business model: expand slowly based on demand only to dwelling units dense enough to be economically viable.
If the Wall Street disagrees, the probability of it being a good long term move is high.
As some smart man stated quite wisely, "Wall streeters can't see past their own shadows, at noon"
What a dreadful choice of color combination! I cannot even read the comments here after reading that post.
I think MS should open source Windows Phone OS and support more devices to get more developers interested in the OS.
> Isn't it far more likely that somebody on a holy mission buys or steals something they shouldn't have in the near future than a full conflict among the big three later?

Perhaps we are too wrapped up in our recent experiences when we say that. IMHO humanity's perspectives tend to be reactive: If the last experience was a terrorist attack, that's what we look for next. If it was a major power confrontation, then that's what we anticipate.
Google Voice seemed to manage it alright. Simply pressing 4 during a call would stop and start recording. Google Voice would state in the call that it was being recorded, so everyone would know.
Yah, I've had this discussion numerous times. Especially with regard to hiring people from a competitor. Often you wonder how much information is traveling via unintentional side channels (not just employees that are also on the payroll of a 3 letter agency).

OTOH, there does seem to be a fair amount of competence where it matters though. In the couple companies I worked for the private keys used for signing things were very quietly kept hidden from the vast majority of the engineering teams/etc. AKA, it was possible to create an development/test builds all day long, but creating valid license keys/firmware updates/etc for the builds given to customers was limited to a formal process which contained the keys. The private keys were only available to a couple people tasked with maintaining the automation from which the builds/keys/etc came from. Those people rarely had a need to move/etc them either, and such activities were done in the open.
> but my intuition says this is believable.

We replaced that with science and fact-checking hundreds of years ago. Seriously, what a useless, stupid response.
Have you ever built toolchains on top of parsing web resources with unix primitives ?

Adding SSL makes it a lot more complex and limits your toolset dramatically.

If your source is sensitive, by all means - use SSL. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

But if you provide a useful resource that isn't sensitive or controversial (say, for instance, the weather) why would you want to chop off so much interoperability ?

I guess if the only way you've every used the web is with a web browser, this doesn't make any sense to you.
Sure, in the world there are probably more wifi devices, and I'll agree that wifi adapters are as mainstream as it gets. But just because the hardware to mess with Zigbee stuff isn't consumer mainstream doesn't mean the devices don't exist and aren't "used that much," as the comment OP incorrectly claimed.

In just one highrise project I did in Las Vegas last year we installed something like 65,000 Zigbee devices, and that's not atypical for highrise hotel construction. Zigbee is everywhere in building automation.
"So which is it? Does each code point represent a visual image? A semantic meaning? Both? It depends? Something else?"

Well the answer is clear: each code point represents one visual image, to which is associated one or more meanings.
Thank you! I've spent a great deal of time on it. As for that module, I admit that it's pretty bare-bones (so is postgres). Both were made as a proof-of-concept, to be fleshed out at some later point in time.

Header support was, at the time, something I didn't know quite how I wanted done, and was thus left out. I will, at some future time, add in header support.

I would also like header support. Perhaps during the next release (which should start some time in July), I can get around to putting that in. One of my original goals was to get Lily usable on Apache, and I've gotten far distracted from that.
I use Vim all the time, and I don't know how to do squat in it. Press `a` start typing, `:wq!` when done.

... Ok, that's a lie. I also know /, n, N, :noh for searching , dd to delete lines, and [{, ]} for jumping to delimiters.
I'm a professional software developer, working in a mix of Windows, OSX, and Linux, and nano's still my go-to text-mode editor. Nano's got simple, easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts, it's modeless, and it's more than powerful enough for the tasks I'm typically doing at the command line (editing git commit messages, light editing of config files, etc.).

When I need more features, I'd rather be in a GUI editor: Sublime or Atom for plain text editing, and the JetBrains IDEs or Visual Studio for projects where we're using a full IDE. I've yet to find anything in my workflow that would make it worth the time and effort to learn emacs or vim, beyond the basics needed to get around just in case one of them is the only thing available (coughGit for Windowscough).
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It hasn't disappeared (Google Ngram viewer shows a consistent occurrence of "led" since 1800). It's just a common error due to (1) inconsistency with "read" (same spelling for present and past tense) and (2) the noun "lead" being pronounced "led".
Never heard of it.

That same audience is also likely not choosing their editor much of the time. I've found that nano is the default editor often and if it's good enough, why would you mess with it?

I know when I search for something that is not a core interest of mine, I go with the first thing that Google shows me that meets my requirements.... I don't overthink that which is mostly unimportant to me.
When I was young ornaments for Christmas trees were usually glass. The move to plastic was only so that they could be made cheaper.
That's as much as I know of vim, and I can do those same things in nano :)
It reminds me of investing advice from Peter Lynch:

Invest in a company that any fool can run because, some day, one will.

If we don't design our systems, Android apps or nuclear weapons, for those kind of people, we've failed.
It gets worse. I ran http://selfracingcars.com/ a few weeks ago, too.
> between 8 mm and 10 mm thick

That's not particularly thin, both Vivo and Oppo have models under 5mm. The former even managed to keep the 3.5 jack in the 4.75mm X5.
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"One example would be the the Geolocation API, with more to come[1]."

Ugh. Why would they do that ?

I can understand that geolocation could be tremendously sensitive and you absolutely would want to offer the option of SSL ... but why limit it to SSL ?

geolocation is also something that you'd want to hack into and build into things ... and maybe even things with limited processing power and memory.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the option to interact with a geolocation API (over http) with stdio and not include a giant truckload of dependencies and libraries and megabytes of packages ?
But why? The trend towards putting icons into Unicode may be a mistake. Unless it's a symbol one uses in a sentence, there's no real reason to have it in Unicode. Unicode should not be viewed as a standard clip art library.
I am not sure what kind of service this site provides, but it is region locked!
When I try to access the site, (any part of the URL, even the homepage, I get to see the following error:

"Sorry, this request is coming from a country which we currently do not support. If you feel this is in error, please contact our support team by emailing support@thumbtack.com."

I guess even blogs and articles are now coming under region protection.
I'm not done reading this yet, but I have a "does this have a name/does this exist"-type question after reading the jcstress example (section 1.1):

It seems like it would be possible to enumerate all interesting orderings of several threads running at once at the threading-engine level, and therefore do this kind of probabilistic test deterministically.

Of course, the number of possible orderings of two n-length programs is very high (2n choose n, since 2n instructions are run in total and you can place the n instructions in one thread first). But the language definition also provides some concept of 'commuting' operations. For example, unrelated writes to two different variables can't have their orderings matter. That should cut down the number of orderings a great deal. And it's possible useful even if it it's only practical for small programs with few total orderings.

Is there a language or framework that does something like this?
Yes, because it wouldn't be possible to keep the environment "identical" for very long, so they would diverge.

Thinking about it more... I don't even think it is remotely possible to control the "initial conditions" perfectly enough (upon waking up), so they would diverge instantly. Sure, they might act very similarly, but it would quite clear that they are separate entities.
How is the claim that "Lenin was a bottle nose dolphin" more plausible, comrade? If a mammal cannot be something simple like a plant, then surely it is even less likely that a mammal can be a fish!
I agree that coming from a Windows world I found there are many reasons to love Nano. It's easy to pickup and use plus it is rock solid even when working in large files.

That said, I noticed you labeled folks who use it "lower sophistication professionals". I don't think it's fair to label anyone who works with different technologies than you as such. They may work in a different part of the industry than you but that hardly makes them "less sophisticated". Maybe you find their tasks less challenging/exciting than the ones you work on but in all fairness they may find your tasks less challenging/exciting than the ones they work on.

After all Zuckerberg was at Harvard as a psychology major, Andrew Mason has a degree in Music, Tim Westergren from Pandora has a degree in political science and they are all examples of people who don't fit the uber nerd Steve Wozniak like programmer mold. There is hardly a reason to call people that build companies of that size "lower sophisticated professionals" yet they likely can't navigate emacs like you can.
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>> ...in no-name journals.

> Foundations of Physics isn't a high-prestige, cutting-edge journal, but it's also not a crackpot journal.

>> A non-respectable journal doesn't mean its contents are crack-pottery, where did you even get that?

> What? I never said that.

You're contradicting yourself.

If you put every English sentence (which is screaming crazy ---mind you, and single one of those bullshit will cost an actual physicist his credibility) from his homepage http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/ together with his disastrous publication record, you get a very simple conclusion.

Pick anything. Say, his homemade "paper" which is the topic of this thread:

> Ball Lightning (BL) is a natural phenomenon that is very complex and mysterious. We solved this enigma by starting with an analysis of observed facts, in order to find clues for its understanding. Then we applied the hypothetico-deductive method, by construting a theory that uses also known physical laws. Finally, we apply this theory to show that it is verifiable and accounts for very diverse observed facts. BL is a remarkable system, since it organizes and feeds itself somewhat like a living being.

What-the-fuck? Enigma? Hypothetico-deductive method? Organizes and feeds itself somewhat like a living being?!? No real physicist would dare to use such crazy crackpottery language for god's sake!

We're talking about a guy who says apparitions of sun are related to altered states of conscience!

Still doesn't raise any red flags? Try to find one paper with such charlatanish language in APS or Nature group journals!

> It is possible to talk about UFOs and miracles in a scientific context in a reasonable way

Apparently, you're not an academician. Let me tell you this as a physicist: No, you can't. And that's a big NO.

Unless you're ready to commit career-suicide, you can't talk about such bullshit in a peer-reviewed paper, physics conference, proceedings, books, even in a press release or social media.

Mind you, he's not trying to explain how "UFOlogy" (seriously, what do I know, it's a science now!) is crazy to layman. It's the opposite!

> I have no real opinion about the guy or his work.

Yeah? And yet for whatever reason, you're overly attached to defending him, desperately try to clear his name.

You know what, I'm done with you. Crackpots exist because they apparently attract certain kinds of people, and I don't wanna waste any more of time time with either group. Enjoy your crackpottery!
Astute observation. According to the last paragraph the writer does a complete slam on male drivers listing 4 or 5 incidents of mayhem and sexual abuse.

Makes me suspicious that the article was an Astroturf press release to convert female customers to the service.
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I clarified my point as you were commenting. While the my label is accurate: you'd never hire these people to run large, complex, high volume infrastructure, it's not a value judgment on them.
That is not the compromise struck, though; there are even many Cyrillic glyphs that are visually identical to those in Latin, but assigned differing codepoints.
Plus, even if we did decide to fully replace TLS, nothing would necessarily need to happen with certificates. We call them "SSL certificates", but the certificate standard - X.509 - actually predates SSLv1 by several years. A TLS alternative/replacement could adopt the X.509 standard as its certificate format and automatically work with the existing CA system.
If I understand correctly, Unicode only provides the semantic meaning, not the actual rendering. The font provides information for how to render it. Am I right?
I mostly agree. In my opinion, separating code points from encodings (without providing a replacement for txt files) was the original sin of unicode. That just adds a lot of complexity with very little gain. (Suppose we would have standardized from ASCII to a 64 bit per character standard encoding, then text files would grow by a factor of 8 and nothing important would have happened.^1)

^1 I am pretty sure that some use cases actually profit a lot, but neither text file formats (since most text does not contain 2^64 different characters zip would work nicely) nor networking (since most data on the internet is either video or torrents) seem to be among them. So probably they would not be huge fields.
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Upcoming mid-engined Corvette? This is the "Duke Nukem Forever" of the car world.
All the locks get some salt water. As each lock opens to the neighboring lock, water from the two locks mixes. Enough salt water flows uphill that Gatun Lake is becoming slightly salty.[1]

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There were 5 of them that competed in this year's 24 Hours of Daytona, and Lambo is looking at an LMP1 car for Le Mans next year.
>altruism

Then why does Apple avoid paying taxes?

Let's not kid ourselves: Apple is a company, and companies are only "altruistic" if they expect that it will help their bottom line.
The eyes in your emoticon are actually the letter 'ta' in Telugu, a regional Indian language.
Emoji were not developed haphazardly. They evolved naturally in Japan, then were adopted by the rest of the world. That is why there are so many Asia / Japan themes in the standard emoji set. The problem is Westerners don't understand the Japanese emotion behind the symbol. The symbol for bookbag looks exactly like a Japanese school kid's backpack. It's why there is a kimono. Bamboo wind chimes. Tsunami. Shinkansen... I could go on and on.

In some respect, they are getting jumbled up because of international pressures for the base emoji set to be stretched into a be-all for the global market. An example is Taco. There are tacos in Japan. They are hard to find and when you do find one, you definitely don't want to eat one there. Mexican food is one of the rare cuisines the Japanese don't do better.
"The problem is that being really smart is obscenely expensive" - or depends on luck in the genetic and family environment lotteries.
The gyrations needed for error handling in functional programming are painful. As Rust libraries become more functional, Rust is getting more of those problems.

The problems created by not having exceptions are tougher than the problems created by having exceptions.
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Wow. That made my head hurt. And, I'm more convinced than ever before that threads remain a TERRIBLE idea. Maybe Java 13 will have something like Erlang tasks with isolated memory and message queues (only) or something...

Somehow I expected more on memory allocation, arrangement or whatnot, rather than concurrency access. Glad I clicked on it for the nightmarish skim, though.
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I believe they are much more legitimate symbols to put to Unicode than Emoji. They are standardized (IEEE 1621), they frequently appear in the running text (of particular kind, but widespread enough), and they have distinct semantics from existing characters and symbols. In terms of worthiness they are on par with math symbols, enough for justifying the inclusion.
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Some female drivers might prefer to only have female passengers.

I met an older woman one night who'd just started driving for the taxi company. Her passenger was a little drunk. She probably should've stuck to the days, at least until she'd gotten the hang of things.