Curmudgel

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by Curmudgel 11y ago
The UNRWA has found rockets in their schools on multiple occasions: http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-...
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Do you find this page visually overbearing because all of the non-downvoted comments are #000? I have never seen a page of text on a computer screen look overbearing because its color was #000 and not lighter.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
#000 is easier to read on devices with that have dim backlights.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
That is poor advice which doesn't account for the difference between computer screens and ink on paper. The deepest black you can get on a monitor will not be as dark as certain inks on a page.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
It's a shame that the "readable" mode has #333 body text instead of #000.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
It's a collection of some of the best rants from the Unix Haters mailing list that existed in the late eighties/early nineties. The people that were on the list usually had experience with operating systems that were more advanced
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Have you read the Unix Haters Handbook? http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Sure, you could write a kernel in Lisp or Forth. But if you are a developer for a kernel that written in C/C++, you don't really have a choice.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
The new interface requires more clicks than the last one in order to select the options, and since I don't agree with the default options, it is quite annoying. The contrast for the drop down options is really, really bad. The fixed he
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> There's also nothing wrong with cars which don't pop the lock back open if the car is off and the key is in the ignition, except that when such a technology exists, is pretty cheap / easy to implement, and can save users
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Could you please change the body text color to something closer to #000, if not #000 itself? The current contrast ratio fails WAG AA and AAA standards for normal sized text.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
What? In what context?
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I have installed lots of extensions on FF because I find them to be useful. If I were to use Chrome as my primary browser and wanted the same features that my current FF setup gives me, then I would have to install extensions. But the exten
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
You should restart FF with addons disabled (Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled) and then compare the two. If you want a "passive web browsing experience" on FF, you could create a separate profile.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
If you read that document carefully, you can see that the EFF edited one of passages that they quoted and did not mention their edit, which is a big no-no. The original letter says: (this exact number has been selected for a specific re
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Yes. Keyboards with thumb clusters, e.g. one made by Maltron or Kinesis, make key chords as natural as pressing a single key on a regular keyboard.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
As others have pointed out, Eich was not fired. His resignation was of his own volition. It's perfectly legal and acceptable to not use someone's product if you don't agree with their politics. That person does not suffer any
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
It's pretty clear from the smiley in the title that he was just teasing her. I just found it odd that he would write it in the title of a blog post meant to be read by thousands of strangers. It's like shouting some bit of railler
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I got the old website when I visited it, but based on the image that another user posted: http://i.imgur.com/m2d1Gf4.png the text color of the description for search results is around #808080 on a #FFFFFF, which is a contra
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Perhaps that's what the term means to the author. To others, it's a synonym for a drunkard or alcoholic and has nothing to do with flirting.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> The only way to avoid this IPC-handler-explosion in the design is to define the set of IPC objects a priori and mandate all programs know how to handle them. Then, there are O(1) IPC handlers per program, and adding a new program does
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> But Ruby is an acceptable Lisp[0] Yes, (as tptacek said), just like Esperanto is an acceptable English. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416589
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
The command line is the heart of Unix and Friends, which is why it wasn't abandoned decades ago. And it's almost impossible to replace the *nixes because of network effects and extraordinarily high costs. The command line is &quot
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Well, yes and no. If you want to look at something very small, you have to learn how to use a microscope. It's not that hard to learn how to use a simple microscope, and you can make adjustments by thinking about the physical principle
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Don't forget HIV denial: "I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of H
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Yes, typing is usually faster than cursive. However, most keyboards are not ergonomic and years of use at high speeds will most likely lead to RSI or at least sore wrists. And there are still be plenty of times in life where writing somethi
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Cursive handwriting, when done with proper technique, is faster than block and does not cause hand cramps or wrist pain.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I find the user experience on the new site to be much worse than the new site. When I'm reading an article I really don't care about navigating to the rest of the site. I have a small widescreen laptop, which means that the fixed
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
>The information about amphetamines made an impression. His friends at times tried to discourage him, but he claimed that without them, he could create no mathematics. Given his colossal output, this means that a significant part of the
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Transistors and semiconductor advances were far more important than UNIX or C. You can't have modern computing without the underlying hardware, but it's not hard to envisage an alternate reality where UNIX or its descendents never

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