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by alanh 9y ago
Please don’t downvote ocdtrekkie just because you disagree with him/her… that’s what replies are for. Downvote comments that don’t add to the conversation. I’m here to say I am uncomfortable with e.g. GoDaddy censoring their users, too
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by alanh 9y ago
Oh, look at me, I’m American, I sound just like Homer Simpson! /s
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by alanh 9y ago
idlewords or not, that’s not true. Verbal sarcasm is usually 'marked' by its delivery. (Can you hear Homer Simpson's sarcastic voice in your head?) In my experience, seeing an explicit (sarcasm) at the end of a post has never
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by alanh 9y ago
U and I are adjacent on QWERTY. Easy typo. Even worse pick-up line. “Hey baby, I prefer QWERTY because it puts U and I together.”
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by alanh 9y ago
A commentator on Arslan's post mentions “Medium’s foolproof wysiwyg editor.” This surprised me. I find their WYSIWYG editor to be incredibly frustrating, counter-intuitive, limiting, and obnoxious. Allow me to belabor only the last poi
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by alanh 9y ago
Not to be a horrible self promoter (it's just the ideas I care about), but my 2012 discussion of the problem with new blogging platforms still applies, from a general perspective, to Medium: https://alanhogan.com/the-pr
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by alanh 9y ago
Contrarily, I would be surprised if the devs sold their code without asking, “why do you want it?”
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by alanh 9y ago
"just" by a dongle for each set of headphones you regularly use. For me, that means one dongle, but if I had 'work headphones' I would instantly buy a second dongle so I would never have to worry about this. Obviously th
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by alanh 9y ago
Haha, true. I use Preview all the time for cropping, converting, and annotating images. You can even fill out, draw on, and annotate PDFs in Preview.
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by alanh 9y ago
Consider the OS X equivalent, TextEdit. In contrast to Notepad, it remains fairly minimal while being upgraded to always use and showcase the latest OS X APIs and design standards.
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by alanh 9y ago
The other killer feature that is still missing is multi-line regex with inline comments. I know, you shouldn't be writing big regexes if possible… but when you need to, it's so nice to be able to actually explain what the heck you
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by alanh 9y ago
It was the future… so many CoffeeScript niceties (spread operators, destructured assignment, class syntax, ARROW FUNCTIONS) were subsequently mainlined into ES6.
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by alanh 9y ago
what a facile interpretation. CoffeeScript offered a large number of meaningful improvements over ES5, not including superficial syntax differences. It _still_ offers truly meaningful niceties that can make code _better_ than the JavaScript
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by alanh 9y ago
Regardless of whether you are being sarcastic or not, you aren't really saying anything informative or provocative; this is probably why you are being downvoted
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by alanh 9y ago
In the US, all these things are strongly correlated: Living in non-rural areas; anti-globalist sentiment; religiosity; support for Christianity in schools and government, including as guiding principles for domestic law and international po
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by alanh 9y ago
So easy to imagine Trump doing this, too. He's already made much ado of needing Twitter to be heard properly instead of going through the "fake" (mainstream) news media. Imagine Twitter no longer feels like enough of a megaph
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by alanh 9y ago
> how many people can call at once to receive the message w/o hearing a busy tone. And yet, by calling the same (typically toll-free) number, a call center's worth of support calls can be handled simultaneously. Implementing th
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by alanh 9y ago
Are you in fact Turkish? (HN: If he is, maybe he shouldn't be downvoted so hard… aren't you at least curious to hear from laypersons there without punishing them for not seeing things the way we do? Hear, converse, leave with grea
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by alanh 9y ago
So wrong. #191919 is very high contrast. Many/most sites use #333 for the text most of us perceive as "black". You can also check contrast ratios on a number of sites and you will see that #191919 & #fff make a pair that
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by alanh 9y ago
I think the semantics are good too, but it is still problematic. And note that selecting doesn’t really enhance contrast on Macs.
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by alanh 9y ago
Anyone have plain text or HTML of this content? Update: https://pastebin.com/L0Qf7Ddp
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by alanh 9y ago
Disagree. A good example of the opposite mistake is the “Turkish i” problem. Basically they have a version of I with and without a dot — for both lowercase and uppercase — so algorithms that uppercase i to I break Turkish by removing the do
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by alanh 9y ago
I don’t have a problem with passphrases per se, but when people make them up via their noggin, they aren’t random and aren’t likely to include many obscure words. Using only common words dramatically reduces entropy. E.g., there are only
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by alanh 9y ago
Thank you for sharing this information!
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by alanh 9y ago
And a canonical example of Poe’s Law in action.
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by alanh 9y ago
It’s not like SPP prevents passwords.txt anyway!
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by alanh 9y ago
Oh, come on. All of them? If you're like me, that’s hundreds. Are you a memorization savant? Are you creating low-quality passwords? Mine are actually long and random (generated NOT by me and NOT four Dr Seuss words)
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by alanh 9y ago
Well, this is enjoyable. Are you in fact "that" Sam Harris? Or perhaps a fan?
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by alanh 9y ago
their UI in general is a nightmare. Ugh.
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by alanh 10y ago
> I just explain things really slowly and simply to a very fast idiot for a living. Given that I have the same job as you do, this took me an embarrassing number of seconds to understand. Well said.

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