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by dphnx 1y ago
Ah, so the characters we’re seeing here are twice as wide as they would be when printed? Adding some CSS to compress the page horizontally looks a lot closer to the first image you shared: html { transform: scaleX(50%); }
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by dphnx 1y ago
uv is just a Python package manager. No idea why they thought it was relevant to mention that
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by dphnx 1y ago
This is cute, but please don’t. If you don’t have perfect vision or dexterity, whether due to permanent disability or temporary impediment, this is a nightmare to navigate.
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by dphnx 3y ago
I'm not sure. There could be a setting or maybe something in chrome://flags, but purely on principle I'm voting with my feet and switching to Firefox.
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by dphnx 4y ago
Why oh why do they have to be three letter acronymns? I’m sure it’s fine if you’re immersed in front-end web development and have memorised the nuances of each unit, but as a back-end developer with a good working knowledge of CSS but for w
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by dphnx 4y ago
`document.all` can be used in this way: <div id="foo"></div> <script> const { foo } = document.all // do something with foo </script> Don't use it though, it&#x27
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by dphnx 5y ago
This is sad news, genius.com is still my go-to website for lyrics and interpretations. I’ve been a fan of Genius since they were featured in an episode of Small Empires[1], a series by the Verge presented by Alexis Ohanian (an investor in t
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by dphnx 6y ago
It didn’t occur to me that Deno’s Typescript engine also brings with it JSX (as .tsx). That’s pretty neat.
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Intel made smart glasses that look normal(theverge.com)
440 points by dphnx 9y ago|257 comments
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by dphnx 9y ago
Non-AMP link: https://theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/jun/28...
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by dphnx 12y ago
For months I thought my girlfriend was signing her emails with her initial. It wasn’t until I saw her typing an email to a friend that I realised what was going on.
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by dphnx 12y ago
The article is a PDF, here it is without the awful surrounding website: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=JjJ7TpQcry...
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64 bit versions of Chrome Canary for Windows 7 and 8 announced(plus.google.com)
1 points by dphnx 12y ago|0 comments
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by dphnx 12y ago
The New York Times ran an article[1] on this in 2009. Here are the last words they picked out - --- Go ahead? Nothing I can say can change the past. I done lost my voice. I would like to say goodbye. My heart goes is going ba bump ba bump b
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by dphnx 12y ago
I guess you could say… All of Bach belong to us?
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by dphnx 13y ago
Can’t help being a pedant but the plural of synopsis is synopses. “Synopsis’s” refers to something belonging to a synopsis, e.g. “the synopsis’s true meaning”.
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by dphnx 13y ago
You could start your own. Call it “Hacker Hacker News: Hacker News for Hackers”
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A small bookmarklet for resolution testing(liamnewmarch.co.uk)
2 points by dphnx 13y ago|0 comments
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by dphnx 13y ago
Elements of the Spotify desktop app (though not all of it) are built using web technologies. They use the Chromium Embedded Framework: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#App...
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by dphnx 13y ago
I love this idea and would find it a very useful tool, well done. I think that textarea input box is key - you should invest time making it look good and easy to use. Could you make it an insert-mode text input that replaces hyphens as you
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by dphnx 13y ago
Maybe it’s been a sufficient amount of time since the last JS1K and the code-golfers are getting itchy? Whatever the reason is, I don’t mind so long as the submissions are interesting and I can browse the source. The ray tracing one that’s
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by dphnx 13y ago
This was a slip up by Google and has now been taken down. Droid Life took a copy of the high-res photo for anyone interested: http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nexys-5... And their art
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ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf](ecma-international.org)
255 points by dphnx 13y ago|192 comments
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by dphnx 13y ago
That sir is a very handy tip, especially on mobile where typing’s a premium.
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Start unique and drop the “the” – some thoughts on URLs(liamnewmarch.co.uk)
22 points by dphnx 13y ago|25 comments
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by dphnx 13y ago
Here’s a working version http://jsbin.com/ixUSEBE/3/ I copied the rainday.js into the HTML so it doesn’t rely on external resources.
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How I (really) fixed my Galaxy Nexus after 4.2.2 slowed it down(plus.google.com)
2 points by dphnx 13y ago|0 comments
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History of PHP, including example PHP 2.0 syntax(php.net)
1 points by dphnx 13y ago|0 comments
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by dphnx 14y ago
My girlfriend does this and she's not programming or engineering-minded. It's just a habit that people seem to have adopted lately – we see other people do it and pick it up because it's comforting.
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by dphnx 14y ago
This is excellent – I find this more useful than the parent article.

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