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Re:Unified Arabic on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:59PM (#49614073)
My village's name is خنشارة - written in latin as Khenchara. There's precedent for this for kh, so it carries easily to gh as well.

My last name starts with a ق and in latin it's written with a K.

The tools were just to provide a way to write letters that do not have a corresponding letter in latin alphabet, it's not a way to provide all the nuances of pronunciation.

Re:Unified Arabic on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:45PM (#49600287)
I still maintain to this day that the original usable numbers were 2, 3, and 7.

All that 5 and 6 and 9 crap is useless and those letter were and could be done with normal latin letters:

5 already has kh, 6 already has t, 9 already has d, don't know what people used for غ but you can write it with gh

Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:59AM (#45772704)
My eyes would hurt more if I had to look all day at the vertical misalignment of that |> operator
Re:The Job Market Is Hell on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:04PM (#45173234)
How exactly do you find clients as a consultant? I'm facing a similar issue now, and the networks I used to rely on for clients have all gone downhill recently.
First part of your story reminded me of when I once trolled a non-tech savvy friend by running Windows in a VM on Linux, and told him "have you ever seen what's behind windows?" then I exited full screen to reveal a desktop full of terminals running the matrix digital rain.
Re:Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:24PM (#40556207)
It was fairly easy to communicate between frames with JavaScript, so before this was widely adopted, I remember the way we used to “fetch” new data was with an iframe that always had a meta refresh tag in it, and the server response would include JavaScript that would call into functions from the main window passing along any data that was needed.

I might be wrong, but I think even early versions of Gmail did something similar.

Re:Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:49PM (#40555482)
We’ve come almost full circle. I remember using this approach back in 2005 or 2006 by intercepting clicks and appending a parameter that just returned rendered html partials that just .innerHTML replace the main contents.
Re:Bluesky migrates from pg to single-tenant SQLite on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:21PM (#38181499)
well received, thanks a lot.
Re:Bluesky migrates from pg to single-tenant SQLite on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @07:04AM (#38175883)
I’d also like an invite if anyone still reading has any.
> Cleaning it all up has been on my to-do list for the past 5 years

13 years and counting. But I’m sure I’ll eventually clean mine up

Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:03AM (#33718125)
The cube in the center doesn’t exist
Re:Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:38PM (#33156682)
Holy sql injection Batman
Re:Ask HN: How do you get side gigs? on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:24AM (#32650104)
I'm not sure where you got that info from, but unless you completely tank everything, there isn't an automatic disqualification. Even if you fail two out of three questions, you'll still get a chance to meet with the screener.
If you’re on a Mac, in safari you can just right click on the QR code and set it up in keychain, then you can just auto fill from safari, no need for a third party app.
My anecdote is that once I was traveling on the 401 and stopped at an ONroute to grab a coffee. The line was extremely long and not moving at all, I had time to download the app, register, place an order, see it print out at the register and someone took it an made my coffee before the line even moved. I just quit the line, moved to the empty section where the mobile orders are and picked up the coffee as I was deleting the app.
Re:Ask HN: Cloud vs. Dedicated Hosting on Monday May 16, 2022 @09:37AM (#31396985)
Probably 5 VMs in total, one for each dev since they are 5 devs.
Re:Ask HN: Is Apple down? on Monday March 21, 2022 @02:25PM (#30757798)
I've been struggling with a DNS downtime at Mediatemple all day. Is there a possible more global DNS issue?
Also Moussa Castle in Lebanon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moussa_Castle
Re:Why I Love Tailwind on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:18PM (#25334250)
except that w-24 is not 24px. It's 24 units of whatever your design grid says, so now you can use a design language to describe your layouts instead of absolute dimensions

Stripe test API keys exposed

Received the following email from Stripe:-------------------Hello,We are reaching out to let you know that your test mode secret API key was made visible on the Stripe.com docs and may have been seen by one of your Express accounts who was logged in and looking at our documentation. This only affected test mode keys, and no live mode keys were visible.Stripe documentation uses your account’s...

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Re:Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:53AM (#23291520)
You are the one who jail-breaks the phone, but now third party apps you install can have much more unprotected access and you cannot be certain what they are doing behind your back.
> ... Tailwind because you practically don't have to write any CSS.

Only until you want to apply a hover style change on a child element (ie: make that svg icon change color when you hover on the a tag that wraps it) and you discover that you need to write that css yourself.

Re:Ask HN: Do you ever truly use your revision history? on Sunday March 08, 2020 @11:23AM (#22518446)
Gmail search used to be the best. Now it fails to find anything useful most of the time
Re:Tailwind UI on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:52PM (#22430278)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019) on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:22PM (#21130841)
I was contacted back in beginning of August. Someone was supposed to get back to me to setup a call, but never heard back after that.
Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:00AM (#19991279)
I've always done it as: `> file`
isn't it currently the case? colors and style are not saved in the code, but are applied by the syntax highlighting when displayed.. the display of elastic tabs could probably fit in there somewhere.

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