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by Adrock 15y ago
I, and many others, have been anxiously awaiting a fix for this: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142 It keeps getting punted. If you care, I recommend starring the issue.
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by Adrock 16y ago
See the previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960886
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by Adrock 16y ago
The down votes are because it was a joke, punctuated by the "easy solution" preface. The author is almost certainly aware of the halting problem.
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Getting Comfortable With Contracts(weblog.muledesign.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
I believe it is asking what you think is your greatest strength.
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by Adrock 16y ago
So anyway - if you wanna work there, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done, or accomplished, or how you work with people, or how creative you are. If you know binary searches, you’re in. That's not the logical conclusion. The only evidence
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by Adrock 16y ago
Why not use evenly sized bins?
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by Adrock 16y ago
Very cool! I'd like to see something interactive like this for programming fonts. I've done a little exploration in this space, too: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...
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by Adrock 16y ago
This also works well as a baby namer.
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by Adrock 16y ago
I'm going to start saying "World Wide Web"
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More thoughts on switching back to Java from Scala(beust.com)
21 points by Adrock 16y ago|6 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
It's not obvious to me why this is so important to programmers. Can someone explain?
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Tweaking my favorite programming font, Anonymous Pro(1overn.com)
1 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
Thanks for all the suggestions you gave in this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147834 I've tried to incorporate the feedback to make it easier to compare the fonts and to include a few of the more popular ones that I mis
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Iterating on the Programmatic Programming Font Exploration(1overn.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|1 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
I evaluated this notebook with Mathematica 8, so it unfortunately doesn't just work.
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by Adrock 16y ago
Someone was kind enough to comment on the post with this gem: Style["( . ) ( . ) ", 60, FontFamily -> "Comic Sans MS", PrivateFontOptions -> {"OperatorSubstitution" -> False}]
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by Adrock 16y ago
I did a little exploration like this for the new MS fonts: http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/
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by Adrock 16y ago
All of Tufte's books should be included at the end.
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by Adrock 16y ago
Great point. I'll do this in future posts.
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by Adrock 16y ago
I'd really appreciate any suggestions for additional fonts to include in my explorations. Also, any ideas for visualizations you'd like to see are welcomed!
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Programmatic programming font exploration(1overn.com)
47 points by Adrock 16y ago|23 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
I'd really appreciate any suggestions for additional fonts to include in my explorations. Also, any ideas for visualizations you'd like to see are welcomed!
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Programmatically comparing programming fonts(1overn.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|1 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
This is my first post in a series of monospaced font visualizations. I'm particularly interested in knowing if there are any other fonts that you think should be included in future visualizations. Also, ideas for other visualizations are
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Programmatic programming font comparison - 101 vs. lol(1overn.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|1 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
What's really depressing is if you assume the number of communicating civilizations is 1 and make average lifetime of communicating civilizations be the free variable.
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by Adrock 16y ago
Thanks, but it still doesn't work.
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by Adrock 16y ago
Just went to try it out, but I get "Login failed, error 400." If you look at the reviews, you'll see this is a widespread failure. This is not the way to launch.
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Soon, your life will be nothing but Facebook(adweek.blogs.com)
1 points by Adrock 16y ago|1 comments

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