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Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide on Friday July 03, 2015 @07:08AM (#9824766)
"Don’t say “Hello”"

Proper typography solves all.

My toy programming language uses “ and ” for string literals. It counts nesting, so you can write “Don’t say “Hello””. There is no escaping. In fact, you can quote any piece of code by simply enclosing it in “ and ”. Code is commented out by turning it into an unused string literal.

Re:Ask HN: Open source OCR library? on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:10AM (#9777056)
[OT] What about FreeCAD? It looks like good open source solid modelling software: http://freecadweb.org/
Re:Approximating images with Voronoi diagrams on Monday May 18, 2015 @06:00AM (#9563538)
JPEG is quite old. Some of the best still image compressors are found as I-frame compressors in video codecs. Daala for example uses adaptive block sizes and inter-block prediction.

See: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo2.shtml