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by knowuh 4y ago
I can't tell you how much I love that your first example of contrast failure is HN. > Our favorite orange website isn't leading by example, either. Some comments are almost unreadable
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by knowuh 5y ago
Orca is amazing, and it's creator Devine Lu Linvega is inspiring too. Listen to this future of coding podcast where he is interviewed about Orca : https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045 and about making your ow
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by knowuh 5y ago
A consequence of using block-justified texts is creating gaping chasms or rivers of white between words, that looks amateurish.
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by knowuh 5y ago
I am sure the ROI would be Amazing!
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by knowuh 5y ago
I hope this means i will be able to buy a graphics card soon.
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by knowuh 6y ago
Picassa was the best thing miss it so.
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by knowuh 6y ago
Upvoting because of spicy sailor talk.
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by knowuh 6y ago
For a 2x speed up, I am not sure I would be willing to sacrifice legibility as in the example. The OOP method definition reads like english. The article suggests the true benefits of DOP aren't all that great unless you understand the
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by knowuh 6y ago
Thanks!
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by knowuh 6y ago
The cynical anti-intellectualism in this thread is bracing. All part of the zeitgeist I guess. News is fake. Science is fake. Schools are barriers. Everything is subjective, objective reality is nonexistent. How do we have productive disagr
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by knowuh 6y ago
Thank you!
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by knowuh 6y ago
Is there an open directory of radio stream URIs? Like if I wanted to build my own tiny radio streaming client, where would I look for the streams? I tried snooping the network tab in dev tools on Radio Garden, but couldn't see many req
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by knowuh 7y ago
I am old enough to remember when US media was lobbing criticism at China for downplaying the threat to the public. We are what we think China is.
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by knowuh 7y ago
'responding to it' is engagement, and there is a financial incentive for that. So the algos are boosting controversy, to boost engagement, to boost financials.
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by knowuh 7y ago
I came here to say this ⬆ Glad someone else did it for me, better than I could have.
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by knowuh 7y ago
ding ding ding ⬆
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by knowuh 7y ago
If they did chase such a lawsuit, it would expose them as having serious double standards as per the recent Pelosi news item: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/facebook-pelos... "Speaker
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by knowuh 7y ago
Someone has to put a deepfake Zuckerberg video up on Facebook where he forecasts a terrible financial quarter. Maybe that would have some influence about how seriously they take takedown requests.
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by knowuh 7y ago
I have enjoyed the elitist jokes that were on the internet and which you were probably saving for April 1ˢᵗ Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and IRONIC
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by knowuh 8y ago
Why is this the top comment? It hasn't been edited. I can't even decipher it.
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by knowuh 8y ago
This is my favorite (and the most unexpected) Hacker News comment of all time. Thank you.
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by knowuh 8y ago
A 'full-time dad' must mean different things to different people. To me, it's incompatible with working full time. Making them breakfast, seeing them off on the bus, picking them up from school, shuttling them off to activiti
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by knowuh 8y ago
Can you provide an example? This might be the first time I have heard a critique from that angle. Many of my capital-skeptic friends were against the bank and insurance bailouts without meaningful consequences. They are still pretty irked T
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by knowuh 8y ago
I download ebooks from my library.
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by knowuh 8y ago
You could use that argument to defund any infrastructure you wanted, existing or proposed. In the long run, not funding infrastructure has the same effect as killing it. Once a sizeable populist group decides that taxes are theft, it will f
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by knowuh 8y ago
You must live in one of the few places in the US where high-speed internet is available through multiple providers. That is definitely not the norm. Most people won't be able to simply switch to the least nasty provider.
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by knowuh 8y ago
Thanks to pedantic rules, Wikipedia and StackOverflow are the two most useful sites online right now.
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by knowuh 9y ago
Spoiler: A possibly delusional Minister misleads a wife and child into moving across Canada repeatedly because "the mafia is trying to poison them". How Very "You won't believe what happens next". WHY is it here on
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by knowuh 9y ago
Cutest thing ever.
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by knowuh 9y ago
The history of fashion and marketing tell us that appearance matters. It drives engineers batty, because it's often irrational. Just because something is irrational doesn't mean it doesn't have a huge impact on something like

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