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Are you improving every day? Or are you a sheep?
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- kasharoo 16y agoBaaaa, why choose?
- safeaim 16y agoLooks interesting, but with all the hyphens it get's kinda nauseating to read the whole text.
- endlessvoid94 16y agoYep, I stopped after that also.
- seancron 16y agoStrangely enough, it's not hyphenated in the source code, just placed within <em> tags. I wonder what's adding the hyphens. From my quick glance at it, nothing that I saw added hyphens.
- Batsu 16y agoThere is a CSS property set on all elements. It doesn't seem to be working quite right... * { text-rendering: optimizelegibility; }
- ZeroMinx 16y agoI'm a bit confused by this, I don't see any hyphens (Chrome on Linux). Anyone know what's going on here?
- seancron 16y agoInteresting. I'm using Chrome 8.0.552.215 beta on Ubuntu 10.04. This is what I see when I visit the website: http://imgur.com/vKrLZ http://imgur.com/vKrLZ It appears to be a bug of some kind with the optimizelegibility property, although I don't know exactly why it's adding hyphens.
- jamesbritt 16y agoI don't see hyphens in Chrome, but odd, disruptive gaps in the middle of words. I did an 'inspect element', then meandered up to the head to look at what CSS there was. My jaw dropped. There's about 10K lines of CSS getting pulled in, all for the ads.
- Glide 16y agoChrome on windows 7. I get hyphens everywhere and it makes it difficult to read.
- T-R 16y agoI see spaces instead of hyphens on Dolphin Browser for Android.
- bostonvaulter2 16y agoChrome on Mac here, looks fine. Virtually no hyphens.
- Tycho 16y agoFine on iPad
- kirubakaran 16y agoPaste this into your address bar: javascript:(function(){jQuery('*').css({'text-rendering':'auto'});})(); [Thanks Batsu http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972150 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972150]
- cincinnatus 16y agoSeems to be a browser-specific bug. I see 9 hyphens total on Chrome on Win 7. 8 total on IE 8.
- nodata 16y agoFalse dichotomy.
- jamesbritt 16y agoExactly. And the idea that "most people are complacent. Sheep, even" is one of those ill-considered ideas foisted on the uncritical.
- cincinnatus 16y agoCalling someone a sheep is a metaphor. When you think of 'complacent' what animal better fits it than sheep. It is a very commonly used turn of phrase because of this.
- mathgladiator 16y agoHe is saying that sometimes you are sheep and sometimes a herder. It isn't an exclusive or. In life, you want to be a craftsman but you sometimes just need to be a tool. Many times, you have to be both to get the job done. For CEOs are tools to their customers, and that's just how it works.
- Dylanlacey 16y agoMaybe so, but I never want to be 'just' a tool.
- borismus 16y agoI think he's trying to say that learning is good. Hard to refute that one :) But... "Would you be comfortable going to a physician if you learned they hadn’t read any new findings in years?" When's the last time you went to a family doctor that stays up-to-date with life science research?
- dkubb 16y agoMaybe it's not the norm, but I've read about new findings in the past, mentioned them to my family doctor and found that he's familiar with the same studies. Like developers, I'm sure there are doctors who just do their 9-5 and go home, while others continue to study, attend conferences and discuss new techniques with other doctors. Also similarly it's hard for the people who hire them ("us") to differentiate between them unless we have domain specific knowledge or someone who does and we trust to recommend a good doctor.
- abi 16y agoThat's an interesting point you bring up. Differentiating doctors is even harder than differentiating developers because at the least, developers can show you their work/portfolio. But for doctors, what are the external indicators of goodness? Perhaps, having intelligent conversations with each one might tell you something but even that is merely a fraction of the whole picture. I'd be interested in reading studies about how people pick their doctors (historically and now). Opinions of friends would probably be an important factor. And perhaps, race too.
- wallflower 16y agoMy uncle is a specialist and when I visited him a few years ago and asked what he did for fun/off-work - he pointed at the piles and stacks of journals on his specialty. Continuing Medical Education (CME) helps ensure all board-certified doctors keep their skills current. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education
- cincinnatus 16y agoNot just that learning is good, but that continuous learning is necessary to remain relevant, and to not be a drag on everyone that interacts with you.
- zzzeek 16y agoAre you working every day to get your blog to display without annoying hyphens ? Or are you complacently settling for not knowing how to fix it ? If an entrepreneur isn't improving on how to publish their ideas, then what profession are they in exactly ?
- sliverstorm 16y agoI think a single day is a poor timeframe in which to look for improvement. You can't better yourself in all subjects that interest you in 16 hours.