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Perhaps there is a way to use tagging for "aliasing" a given issue?
Re:Flutter 3 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:09AM (#31352241)
The referenced "Rows" application seems to be the showcase app "Rows" listed at

https://flutter.dev/showcase

Re:The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field on Sunday July 04, 2021 @12:41PM (#27730913)
I think nonces are generally thought of as numbers, and as a client it might be simplest in some cases to be able to reuse or derive from an existing non-number key.
Re:Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like? on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @09:13AM (#21514207)
Daily ETL in form of sql scripts from prod dbs to internal data warehouse for use via Saiku, case-by-base Shiny apps and some bash email-reporting.
"The information included names, email addresses, credit card information such as credit card numbers, expiration dates and the three-digit CVV code found on the back of credit cards, although BA has said it did not store CVV numbers."

Is it standard for airlines to handle storing payment card details themselves and hence having to be PCI certified instead of delegating to a PSP?

Re:WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:00AM (#17179715)
Maybe, as a first shot, they decided to favour near-instant implementation over usability by simply setting the price for an existing product to $0 and use the existing checkout flow.
Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2017 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:59PM (#15854600)
A quick few:

The backend, https://github.com/kirel/detexify-hs-backend, for Detexify, http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html.

Parts of BazQux Reader, a commercial feedreader, https://bazqux.com

Nikki and the Robots, a platformer, https://github.com/nikki-and-the-robots/nikki

Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2017 on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:58PM (#15846437)
One of the declared goals during the initial design phase of the Haskell language was to "... be usable as a basis for further language research." From "A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class" available at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/.... Language pragmas feels like a nice tool to support this goal.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:16PM (#15825866)
Typo in your html title on your linked page
Re:The Sorcerer of Jazz on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:24AM (#12570831)
Anyone know of a reference for "The keyboardist Joe Zawinul was aghast at Davis’s ruthless arrangement of “In a Silent Way,”... " part?

It is difficult to prove a statement like "..he pioneered hard bop.." wrong, but it is definitely a new view on the history of jazz in the post bop era.

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your personal software projects? on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:30PM (#12549708)
I use issue tracking, having a list of 3-5 next features I would like to implement. With a detailed description of the feature and potential upcoming challenges, this works well to get back in the groove when having been away from the project for some time.
A classic, and clear, example of "elementary" meaning something different than "trivial" in math, is Atle Selberg's Annals proof of the Prime Number Theorem. A link to notes on this proof, and some (!?) controversy relating to it, here: https://people.math.osu.edu/nevai.1/AT/ERDOS/ErdosSelbergDis...
Re:Apache PDFBox – A Java PDF Library on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:55PM (#11330120)
PDFBox is quite good at extracting text from pdfs. When I use PDFBox, it is for extraction.

Maybe this has changed with newer versions of PDFBox, but 5+ years ago, the internet wisdom was to use PDFBox for extraction and something else, like a version of iText that suited your license needs, for generation.

As much as I like LaTeX, if you have made no prior time investment in typesetting with it, it is not trivial to produce custom good-looking output with it.

Have you tried using (La)TeX in a real world project? Would be cool to hear from someone on whether compilation time is an issue. Some TeX packages have a quite severe impact on performance.

Re:Tableau stock down almost 50% on Saturday February 06, 2016 @07:47AM (#11047555)
What were the technical problems causing the disaster if you can share?
Re:Tableau stock down almost 50% on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:39PM (#11044434)
Asking out of curiosity:

What does Tableau offer that I can not quickly set up in either Mondrian coupled with a frontend like Saiku or Pentaho or eg. R and a Shiny server?

Re:Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:37AM (#10163490)
In R:

> a <- array(c(1,2))

> b <- array(c(3,4))

> a + b

[1] 4 6

> class(a + b)

[1] "array"

Re:How I’d redesign piano sheet music on Saturday July 04, 2015 @03:37PM (#9831343)
Notes in different octaves are different and hence should look different. Even if you restrict to keyboard instruments, I am not sure you describe an existing problem with classical notation.

For the non-keyboard instruments I know how to play, tones in different octaves having different identifications is a must unless you want to add extra parts to the notation.

Re:Ornette Coleman Has Died on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:01AM (#9706288)
Listening to that reminds me of a joke you will likely hear multiple times if you play bigband gigs: How do you get 2 _your_own_instrument players to play unison? You shoot one of them. How do you get 2 _other_guy's_instrument players to play unison? You shoot both of them.