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Web browser is a different language than English (French). When I try to enter a country whose name isn't the same in English and French, I get a pop-up saying "Pays inconnu" (unknown country).

bruon Bazel 2.0

Yes, 2 months ago.

bruon For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison

* He forgot it

bruon From Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka

After "ReiserFS kills your wife", here comes "administering Solaris kills Tamils".

bruon 339 Bytes of Responsive CSS

A similar rhetoric is actually present on the linked example page: https://blog.koley.in/baserock/

bruon FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

Person who built the website & is responsible for its uptime.

bruon CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations

Actual source: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/genome-damage-crisprcas9-...

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/Nbt.4192

bruon Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

ISTR that only works from the USA.

bruon Shell Style Guide

This is either outdated or only for the public version of the guide: the internal guide, and all our python code, has 2-spaces indents.

bruon Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)

Title is missing a (2016).

bruon Tail recursion in Python

> def tail_factorial(n, accumulator=1):

> if n == 0: return 1

> else: return tail_factorial(n-1, accumulator * n)

The second line should be "if n == 0: return accumulator"

bruon Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)

Because popping the key is by far the simplest solution, especially if you won't miss it in any of your usual workflows.

AFAIK remapping it will need Autohotkey or similar, and banks & funds aren't the environment the more welcoming to arbitrary binaries, even if free software.

bruon DuckDuckGo vs Google

Also suggesting you to accept their notifications upon landing on their page.

bruon JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript

> source = "date"

> source = "produktname"

Honestly that doesn't look "completely typesafe": what are those "source"s? Don't they refer to another element? What happens if you make a typo there?

bruon WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

The « Reflections on Trusting Trust » paper by Ken Thompson addresses this exact issue: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/p761-th...

bruon Alt-right attacks Macron in last ditch effort to sway French Election

Like national socialism, you cannot label it "left", for it's mostly appearances and ways to get votes than real convictions and engagement.

bruon A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

More information can be found there: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691

> Docker is transitioning all of its open source collaborations to the Moby project going forward.

Should I understand that the core team wants to keep the brand "Docker" but use it in a commercial way, while Moby will be the underlying open source code?

Is it Docker/Moby = RHEL/Fedora ? or Docker/Moby = Mongodb.com/Mongodb.org?

bruon Google Earth Redesigned

Very impressive, but too bad zooming in a zone isn't smooth: it keeps accelerating and slowing down on my computer, which feels dizziness-inducing.