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Dark corners of Unicode

I’m assuming, if you are on the Internet and reading kind of a nerdy blog, that you know what Unicode is. At the very least, you have a very general understanding of it — maybe “it’s what gives us emoji”. That’s about as far as most people’s understanding extends, in my experience, even among programmers. And that’s a…

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Dmv.org

The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually, the universality of the term "DMV" seems to be overstated. A more general term is "motor vehicle administrator," used for example by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators to address the inconsistent…

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Knockout v3.0.0 released

Knockout.js takes backward compatibility seriously. If you’re using a recent v2.x build, you will typically be able to drop in Knockout v3.0.0 without having to make any changes to your application code. Version 3.0.0 is intended to be fully backward-compatible except for a few carefully chosen design changes that…