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Love the idea, but I miss Indonesian in the list of languages. :-)

Oh, and other have pointed out already: the gender symbols make very little sense.

https://twitter.com/SteveStreza/status/301725620172386304:

New hobby: Inspecting the source of blog posts complaining about Opera adopting WebKit and finding -webkit prefixes without -o equivalents.

Slightly off-topic: How much do you break down concepts when using Anki to learn a programming language? I use Anki for tonnes of stuff, but haven't used it for learning programming languages/APIs.

Err... my brain was just malfunctioning. I meant to say 1 bit and 2 bits, not 2¹ and 2² bits. :-)

I see. That will be confusing to non-americans to whom a 12-hour clock is far from standard. It's also seems a bit weird to have two checkboxes (= 4 bits of information) to choose between a 12-hour and 24-hour clock (2 bits). I guess only one can be checked at a time?

That said, however, what you probably should be doing is to respect the setting in iOS: http://i.imgur.com/kMQgw3m.png

Looks cool!

I'm really curious, though: What is the “Standard Clock” checkbox? (What is a standard clock?)

Hmm, it seems that the URL is taken from the database. If I delete the relevant row, the URL is no longer shown:

http://i.imgur.com/Ks03r.png

It does now:

    $ sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineAgentName from LSQuarantineEvent'|grep 'Google Chrome'|wc -l
          35

This is used to show where a program came from the first time you run it. For example, if I download iTerm 2 and then run it, I get the following warning:

http://i.imgur.com/IbUWj.png

I would actually recommend visiting Shenzhen as well. I have been there a few times over the last five years and it's really interesting to see the rise of luxury items (fancy cars, expensive (real!) handbags and the token iPhone and iPad) in the city centre.

Shenzhen is even in China (though, in a special economic zone).

Heh, actually as a speaker of Norwegian, English and German, (written) Dutch is surprisingly easy to understand. I kept the app, at least for now. :-)

Really cool idea. The descriptions in iTunes are all in Dutch, though…

edit: actually, even the app itself is mostly in Dutch. :)

It's a new iOS game. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterpress-word-game/id5266...

Cool tattoo, but I'm quite sure the claims about the golden ratio being “all over” arts and nature are overblown. It's still a cool geometric concept, but as far as I know many of these “truths” are simply factoids stemming from confirmation bias.

Wikipedia has a brief list of some disputed observations here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Disputed_observati...

An introduction to Cloud Haskell from the Haskell Implementors' Workshop in September:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJ2paFuErM

Slides: http://www.haskell.org/wikiupload/4/46/Hiw2012-duncan-coutts...

Err. Both of them lived and died in the last millennium.

It already has that, to some extent.

When you click somewhere, one of the options you get is “Report a Problem” which lets you say that something is missing or indicate where a point of interest _should_ be by placing a pin.

From an iPad: http://i.imgur.com/0wXjk.jpg

Nope, the four-finger swipe gesture only works on iPad 2 and iPad 3.

What's the difference between European and non-European 1's?

Changes from SVG 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-SVG2-20120828/changes.html

D'oh. Sorry. Send me an email at my username at gmail. :)

If you send me your email address I'll lend you my copy for 14 days (the limit set by the publisher).

Look up text objects such as i" and a". They're great.

E.g:

- ci" (change inner double quote) will change (delete and put you in insert mode) the text between to double quotes.

- ca" (change _a_ double quote) will change the text and the surrounding double quotes.

There are text objects for quotes, brackets, sentences, blocks, etc. There are also plugins that create text objects such as arguments (to functions) in programming languages.

Since you specifically said “vi users”: The problem is most often – in my experience – that the plugins support only vi functionality, while Vim additions such as text objects are not supported. I love using Vim, but find vi really lacking.

Volume II of “The Architecture of Open Source Applications” has a good introduction to GHC's architecture:

http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html

“You need to log in to read this article” :/

Perhaps something à la the KDE Free Qt Foundation? (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...)

The agreement between the Free Qt Foundation and Nokia gives them right to release the latest Qt version under a BSD-style licence if Nokia stop releasing Qt versions (GPL+LGPL).

> I'm not sure it would be such a good idea to implement a hodgepodge of random peoples' mappings.

Ctrl-C is not a (user-defined) mapping. It will leave insert mode, but will not trigger things like abbreviations and autocommands (in Vim), so it's not a good idea to use it over Ctrl-[ (which is supported) or <esc>.

This reminds me of ~10 years ago, when downloading Linux distros, they came in “US” and “non-US” flavours. I vaguely remember this having to do with “exporting” crypto from the US. I guess something has changed since I no longer see this, but I would love if someone could shed some light on that piece of Internet history.