ehamberg
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Comment · 11 years ago
I'm surprised it's still being used (and a mod fixed the link now), but if you're curious, here's the discussion on 9m.no from 15 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783239 :)
Comment · 11 years ago
I simply tried (and failed, it seems) to say that they are generally considered to be equivalent, and that it's okay to use “aa” when translating a name with “å”. Reasons for this could be not knowing how to write an ‘å’ (or Ł, đ, ç, ì, etc.) or simply not wanting to distract one's readers. I do not have an authoritative source.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's acceptable (or at least “not wrong”) to use “aa” for å (and “oe” for ø/ö, “ae” for æ/ä).
While ‘å’ was made an official letter in Norwegian in 1917, it's still common to see “aa” spellings of names, and “aa” and “å” spellings are considered equivalent (fun when sorting, since ‘å’ is the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet).
Comment · 11 years ago
An iOS device will only connect to known networks. By enabling “Ask to Join Networks” it will list networks and ask if you want to join any of them – but only if no known network is in range. This is actually less safe, in that you're just a button press away from “accessing random open networks” instead of having to go into the settings and choose a network – so it makes sense to have it default to off.
tl;rl: iOS will only join known networks – toggling this setting will make it easier to join networks when no known networks are in range.
edit: Link to the relevant section in the manual: https://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iph1b489c85f
Comment · 11 years ago
There's a bug with the city/country detection:
People with only a country as their location, e.g. “Norway” are detected as being in “Norway, United States”. :-)
Comment · 11 years ago
… and advice/advise and prophecy/prophesy. For some reason, only the latter has kept the difference in spelling between the noun and the verb in American English.
Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks! Looks interesting. :-)
Comment · 11 years ago
The README file is really interesting: http://lpaste.net/119343
Comment · 11 years ago
> The advantage of this approach would be allowing function overloading (similarly to C++ or Java) informally without interfaces or type classes.
I might be misunderstanding something, but how does this allow function overloading more than ordinary let-polymorphism? Functions can already have a type like, say, ∀a.a→Int. It's also quite common to do type inference in two steps where the first pass creates type variables and a list of constraints. The set of constraints are then passed to a unification algorithm, see e.g. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis552/lectures/stub/FunTypes.htm....
Comment · 12 years ago
(S (VP avoid
(NP (NP success)
(PP at
(NP all costs)))))
(S (VP avoid
(NP success)
(PP at
(NP all costs))))