grodriguez100

Right. I misunderstood the comment. Thanks for clarifying!

If a system cannot handle ñ in a password then it is completely broken. We are not talking about the latest emoji here but about a character which is part of one of the most common languages in the world, included in 8859-1 / Latin-1, etc.

It is no longer realistic to pretend that only ASCII exists and try to get away with that.

So if you write a book about Python, you should include the full source code to Python as well, right? If you write a book about Java, the full source code to the JDK, and so on. Because if the readers have to download and install that by themselves, the book would not be self contained anymore, URLs may break, etc etc.

Ah, no, programming language runtimes are Ok, no need to include them. But then if you write a book about React, or MySQL, or... well, you get the point.

I love this :-)

I would say that was on purpose.

I have to say I personally like it :-)

Related to item 2:

4. Explain what problem is being solved. Why does this exist at all? What is the value proposition?

A comparison table helps of course but I wouldn’t even look at that unless I can “buy” the value proposition first.

Ehm, iPhones do support this just fine: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/14/how-to-make-a-qr-...

I have used this many times without a problem.

You are right in that it was way ahead of its competitors (mainly Netscape) when it launched. It had more features, much better performance, and it looked great in comparison.

But it also had an insanely huge amount of bugs, half-broken features and “I’ll just do it my way” stuff. This was also true already at launch.

Sure, if Microsoft had replaced it in 2003 or 2004, nobody would have such “fond” memories of it even today. But the bad reputation does not come only from the fact that it was not updated for a long time; it also comes from its many problems and issues.

> But over the years they’ve spent money on an email client basically no one uses, trying to make a social network, trying to make a phone operating system, and who knows what else. Just huge amounts of money going to what often looks like a complete fools errand. I understand Thunderbird but a phone OS?

Keep in mind that both Firefox and Thunderbird started life as an evolution of the original “Mozilla Suite” which itself was an evolution of Netscape Communicator, which included a browser and an email client. So originally both were part of the core mission of Mozilla.

Thunderbird failed to gain much traction though and it was later spun off — it is now developed by a separate company (a Mozilla subsidiary).

> but a phone OS?

Yes, this does not make much sense to me either.

> IE6 was great too

Ouch. That hurts.

“Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)”

Looks like this also switches to a monospaced font, which makes it easier to draw ASCII art.

  This should be rendered using a monospaced font. 
  _____
  \   /
   \ /
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I fully agree with your unpopular opinion.

There is no point in discussing this with you indeed. Have fun.

Yes, Apple calls this “Live text”. It is also available on iOS (I think since iOS 15?). You can copy text from photos or videos right from the Photos app.

I don’t have any problem.

My comment was not disrespectful, you may have not liked it but that’s a very different thing. I didn’t call anyone an ass; you did. You are the one who cannot maintain a conversation without calling names.

> This isn’t the place for you

Unfortunately you don’t get to decide that.

Looks like you really are unable to reply without being disrespectful. And it is me who is choosing to be an ass? Yeah, right.

And this is relevant to everybody else because... ?

> Why would I be the one to do that?

Because you are the one who is complaining.

I am not “defensive”. I am merely pointing out that you don’t have any right to know any particular details about me, including my salary, no matter how “useful” you consider it to be.

Why would you be entitled to know my salary, or anything else about me and my life? “I want to know” is obviously not a good enough reason.

Yes. I spent a week in Rome last month (first time visit) and ended up downloading four different apps for public transport and city guides, all of which were useful. This is on top of Google Maps, Trip Advisor and everything else.

I am curious, is that propaganda effective within Russian people?

“Free” is related to the concept of property, which is a legal concept.

If something is “free” that means that you can get it legally without paying.

If something is only “free” by circumventing law, then that’s theft.

Two possible ways:

1. (If they have the know how and resources to clone your app) estimate how much would it cost for them to just implement a similar app themselves, instead of purchasing from you. Price at a similar level (that should still be worth it for them as they avoid the risk). “Similar level” could even be let’s say 2x, but probably not 10x. In other words make sure “buy” sounds better than “make”.

2. Estimate the profit they will generate, price somewhere below that level. In other words, make sure they see they will get economic value out of the deal.

Custom Java runtimes can be generated using jlink [1] which take a fraction of the space needed for a “full” JRE. I have some applications packaged like this and the Windows installer exe, generated using NSIS, is under 15 MB.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/jlink.html

This might very well be the case.

Price “excludes duties and taxes”

“From 762,30€“ here.

So everyone is seeing a different price apparently.

Not sure if this is a social experiment or a joke. Or both.

STM32MP15x.

Like… kotlin?