abdisalan

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by abdisalan 10mo ago
Looks nearly identical to Helvetica when I switch back and forth with inspector tool. Some letters are different and there’s some kerning changes but large parts look the same. at least to my untrained eye
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by abdisalan 2y ago
You’re absolutely right. My rational brain agrees and chalks it up to poor project management. However… emotions run high when you have zero idea why something isn’t working and the process of elimination is pretty taxing. So the point for
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by abdisalan 2y ago
I’m curious, how do you measure the pulse of a project that old? Do people still talk about it? Or that not even necessary — use it until it breaks and otherwise don’t think about it?
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by abdisalan 2y ago
Hold on, you had to do binary surgery using an OpenSSL version from an old box you had? I salute the dedication.
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by abdisalan 2y ago
Wow, that’s honestly impressive. If there was an option to guarantee versions could exist for X amount of years (maybe even months?) then that would greatly help the stability of projects.
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The tragedy of running an old Node project(abdisalan.com)
272 points by abdisalan 2y ago|403 comments
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by abdisalan 3y ago
Let's see: * uses a mix of sources from different years * a lot of guesses eg. arbitrary calculation with international students and Jewish SAT scores * Uses Mean SAT Scores nationally, not from Ivies * "This guaranteed
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by abdisalan 7y ago
Or you could see it as man + (something) -- i.e. better than man. It really depends on how you take a normal word and assign an agenda to it.