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Shoryuken.com forums to close at the end of January 2018(shoryuken.com)
1 points by pessimism 9y ago|0 comments
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by pessimism 11y ago
The law involves confiscating valuables and money, but it does so much more than that, including, but not limited to, increasing the waiting period for family reunification. People put it in quotes, because they think it gives them an excus
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by pessimism 11y ago
His former boss and predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Bush’s biggest supporter and ditto on the Iraq War. He has a vested interest in ignorance of the past—so much so that he shut down the investigative committee for the very same war a
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by pessimism 11y ago
Oh yeah, that’s just quoted text from the original article, which deals with the phenomenon: https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/ . It’s not directly relevant to the aforementioned articl
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by pessimism 11y ago
GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is. A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIFs to HTML5 video, and I crashed and burned pretty hard: htt
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by pessimism 11y ago
If anyone has a good library or a pro tip for making responsive charts, I’d love to know; I am somehow still having trouble implementing it: * http://bl.ocks.org/ndarville/11094667 * https://github.com/
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by pessimism 11y ago
I love public transportation, and I love how good Denmark is compared to other countries. But this is not to say that we haven’t had absolutely execrable forays with our trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4 . What
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by pessimism 12y ago
You get a message in the top bar to “upgrade”, but you can’t click it, and if you’re not a nerd who follows tech news, you wouldn’t know that Microsoft want you to use the new Outlook app instead. So the effectively broke all Exchange/
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Microsoft break acquired Acompli app overnight with vague message to “upgrade”(twitter.com)
3 points by pessimism 12y ago|1 comments
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by pessimism 12y ago
Can you describe the service? It’s blocked in my country, apparently.
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by pessimism 12y ago
It’s an old list by now, but I keep updating it; you can also contribute to the original list ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647 ) on which this was based. I’m sure you have more great suggestions for what can go o
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List of Web Business Models(gist.github.com)
346 points by pessimism 12y ago|70 comments
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Open Electoral Data Reveal Errors in Danish Electoral Results(dk.okfn.org)
3 points by pessimism 12y ago|0 comments
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by pessimism 12y ago
I once used a SaaS—or whatever you call the abstraction on top of that—and ended up paying $80 for a “sample” EC2 instance of theirs that was just idling, after I had activated it a month earlier. Soured me on trying out new platform servic
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The Wikipedia page for TopoJSON (by Mike Bostock of D3.js fame) has been deleted(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pessimism 12y ago|1 comments
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by pessimism 12y ago
Communicating the progress of a project or feature is something really important I think open-source people need to realize, when they have a fairly non-technical audience. I think GitHub milestones are central to productivity and communica
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by pessimism 12y ago
Funny you bring up the aspect of saving the trees, because I followed up the post with a suggestion for how Google can reduce the waste by taking more control of the print experience in Chrome: http://www.modrenman.com/2013&
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Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to Print (2013)(modrenman.com)
74 points by pessimism 12y ago|65 comments
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by pessimism 13y ago
Over the many hacks (breaches, as companies prefer to call them) we’ve come to see, as a user who at times felt nervous about how I was affected, I have tried to write a simple guide for how companies can disclose a hack in a way that will
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How Facebook Is Destroying History – A Survey Of August 21st(brown-moses.blogspot.com)
1 points by pessimism 13y ago|0 comments
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by pessimism 13y ago
Any people here who go to the dentist? Specifically, the American Dental Association's guidelines for heathy persons suggest that * children receive 1 x-ray every 1-2 years, * teens every 1.5-3 years, * and adults
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by pessimism 13y ago
A while ago, someone compiled a list of Web and Mobile Revenue Models : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647 . I put the list on GitHub and updated it with new concepts I found interesting every now and then: https
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by pessimism 13y ago
Please ban comments empty-linking to Wikipedia articles. At the very least demand they contain, say, ten characters of contextual wording to discourage this lazy kind of argument.
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How to Remember the Thirteen Dwarves from “The Hobbit”(ndarville.github.io)
2 points by pessimism 13y ago|0 comments
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by pessimism 13y ago
As someone with severe dust-mite allergy (that went undiagnosed until I was 18), please consider cleaning your space—regardless of who you are. Clean houses are more than status symbols.
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by pessimism 13y ago
As someone with open projects on GitHub that may or may not be a future source of income (lol), specific and succinct language on the licensing is probably your best way to ensure adoption of your product. I just cannot be bothered to risk
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by pessimism 13y ago
@Brown_Moses ( https://twitter.com/brown_moses ) is one of the best people to follow on these subjects. Eliot is an interesting example of one a single well-connected individual can accomplish in the digital age: http://www.indiegogo.com/p
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by pessimism 13y ago
I get a 500, when I try to sign up using GitHub. Happens at https://crate.io/social-auth/complete/github/?code=123
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by pessimism 13y ago
Any idea why the prerendering fails? http://i.imgur.com/pxijNnq.png http://i.imgur.com/QxcNIeO.png Thanks for the help, by the way. :)
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by pessimism 13y ago
You should check out Microcosm ( http://microco.sm/ ), which is my favourite of the upcoming paid forum CMSes out there. The API documentation for Microcosm is seriously impressive, especially at this stage: http://microcosm-cc.github.io/

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