And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter "å" is the last letter of the alphabet.
> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?
Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.
I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.
I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.
Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of compressed HTML for each page. I don't think we would notice much of a difference in the navigation from one page to another if they used content preloading
It's how we used to make websites before SPA, and it's refreshing to see that it still makes a noticeable difference even on today's powerful CPUs and high speed networks.
What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defend ourselves.
In sci-fi we see warp drives, worm hole travel, phasers, photon torpedos and energy shields around ships. But what if none of that is possible? In that case, we might even have the technology to defend ourselves today if we manage to detect the attack in time.
It's a huge risk for a civilization to attack us. Even if they have capabilities that are beyond our technology, there might still be limitations based on the laws of physics. And if they attack us, they risk a response.
Originally, the "o" on top of the letter "Å" was a lower case "a", because the sound could be written as "AA". Over time it transformed into a circle.
Some names today still use the double a, like the Norwegian football player Martin Ødegaard. In that case it is pronounced the same as the "å" sound. (not too far from how an American might pronounce the "o" sound in "for")
> The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
> The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not.
The initial prefix check would probably reduce the amount of lookups necessary, as it would only be necessary to do a deeper search if the prefix matches.
It is my recollection as well. Most applications used VB, Delphi, MFC etc. that all had the "native" OS look and feel. There were some exceptions like WinAmp and others, but from what I can remember most applications were more consistent than today.
My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site
I would prefer to use a neutral <h> tag, that was proposed in the xhtml2 specs. It always made more sense to let the browser infer the place in the hierarchy.
It's related to how older versions of Windows/Office handled Unicode in general.
From what I have heard, it's still an issue with Excel, although I assume that Windows may handle plain text better these days (I haven't used it in a while)
You need to write an UTF-8 BOM at the beginning (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF), if you want to make sure it's recognized as UTF-8.
It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I think the Ionic framework has this feature.
https://ionicframework.com/