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by Smudge 14y ago
Heads up -- your blog is very difficult to read in Chrome for Windows, due to the custom @font-face. Nothing says "Built on a Mac" like jagged fonts in Windows... More info: "Using Web fonts in your design requires thorough testing on as ma
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's pretty easy to confuse bootstrap with the ideas & technologies on which it is built.
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by Smudge 14y ago
> It is harder to get a whole country to agree on one leader The point isn't for the whole country to agree. The point is to raise the lowest common denominator, so to speak.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Or, for practical purposes, Flash.
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's the reason your site's fonts look so terrible in Chrome for Windows. Nothing says built on a mac like jagged webfonts on Windows. Edit: Here's some more info on the issue, to (hopefully) be more useful: "Using Web fonts in your desig
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by Smudge 14y ago
Is it just me, or are these flashy new Blogger themes not really that impressive? This is what the official Gmail blog looks like on my (android) phone: https://plus.google.com/112865255606805639625/posts/8E8Mtx9f...
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by Smudge 14y ago
> Second mistake: don’t launch when somebody famous is in ill health. If you did that, you'd never launch.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I'm sure LinkedIn could have cut servers without switching to node. Take your first, crappy implementation and rewrite it in the same language and you'll probably still see at least 10x improvement, if not 20.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Perhaps he was simply acknowledging that imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I was fooled too until I saw the horribly-positioned Disqus section. (Seriously, all it needs is a "padding" rule.) I may not be much of a Svbtle fan, but I'm also not a fan of ripping-off a brand's design just because you can.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Took me until I saw the Disqus comments at the bottom to realize this blog was not on svbtle.com. The theme is here: http://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle From the github readme: > Isn't this unoriginal? > Yes, in the same w
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by Smudge 14y ago
You could use a terminal multiplexer (tmux, screen, etc) to just split-screen your terminal.
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by Smudge 14y ago
At least they have a business model. How many "start-ups" on HN are just a fancy landing page with an email sign-up box?
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by Smudge 14y ago
I wasn't claiming anything, in terms of whether it does or does not exist. I was just pointing out that the two anecdotes you presented are merely that. Anecdotes. I see a lot of people on HN making statements like "that claim makes sense t
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by Smudge 14y ago
> Anecdotally it really does exist You can take just about any conceivable trend and anecdotally "confirm" its existence based on a small enough sample size or the right anecdote. That doesn't mean it is statistically relevant.
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by Smudge 14y ago
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
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by Smudge 14y ago
No social media presence? Clearly you are a psychopathic recluse unfit for normal work. We only want employees who do normal things, like obsessively refreshing a particular website all day long.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I don't personally agree with the argument, but I've seen it come up numerous times, first on Google Plus and now on Facebook.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Enforcing real names has pros and cons. For Facebook as a business, the pros certainly outweigh the value lost when accounts can't be mapped directly to real people. Names are a key part of that mapping. In general, I prefer an option for p
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by Smudge 14y ago
I see your point. Would I be violating Twitter's policies if automated a process whereby, when I compose a Tweet, the words I write (which are my own) appear simultaneously on something other than Twitter? Is it the round-tripping through t
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by Smudge 14y ago
This feels very counter to Twitter's claimed intent in rolling out the new policies. IFTTT is in no way trying compete as a Twitter client, and, especially in the case where I'm trying to archive my own Tweets, the service only enhances m
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by Smudge 14y ago
Hmm. Well, I can always tell which side MillionShort is because it takes longer to load. Should wait until both sets of results have loaded before revealing them.
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by Smudge 14y ago
> "...and the directors and officers of any person that controls the applicant are of good character and sound financial standing." Here, the "good character" requirement would clearly preclude Mark, whose character has now been called
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by Smudge 14y ago
> That doesn't look like the work of a very talented hacker. Why not? Do all talented hackers use 'readfile()'?
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by Smudge 14y ago
Really? Which level was that? I don't recall using such a technique, but maybe there were multiple solutions.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I see. I still don't quite get how that addresses zupreme's idea, which had nothing to do with displaying galleries. He was suggesting that instafilter implement a potential performance optimization by caching images as they come in, so the
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by Smudge 14y ago
Why would you need gallery pages for an API? Wouldn't it make more sense to just use something like S3 to store raw files?
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by Smudge 14y ago
I can't say anything about Next Level, but as a relatively short gentlemen who prefers Adult Small tees, my size in American Apparel seems built for extremely tall, extremely skinny people. And the one time I was accidentally sent an Adu
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by Smudge 14y ago
I'm impressed at the features and simplicity, but I'm wondering what the real use cases are. If filters were a core part of my business, I'd certainly be doing them in-house instead of relying on a 3rd party service... Especially when it co
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by Smudge 14y ago
I sometimes use these functions when rapidly prototyping. I can store one or more base colors, and then calculate other shades of colors relative to the base. This makes changing the site's color scheme a matter of changing just the base co

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