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by alanh 11y ago
You’re being downvoted because this technicality / POV has no real bearing on the main question and doesn’t add to the discussion.
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by alanh 11y ago
The first regex crossword I ever saw — https://gregable.com/p/regexp-puzzle.html — also was sort of a jumble of letters, but it actually encoded a secret message (I don’t want to say more — spoilers)
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by alanh 11y ago
Elsewhere in this discussion, an Opera blog moderator was quoted as saying they "do not prioritize their own ad network in any way." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11258292
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by alanh 11y ago
Who is Qihoo? What decision?
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by alanh 11y ago
Yes. This was what IE6 offered, in fact: text-only zoom. And it only worked on pages that did not define font sizes is px, which is to say: it did nothing on a lot of sites.
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by alanh 11y ago
Yes. In particular, it can be effective to use network conditioning to show and share the "flyover state small-town internet experience" with said designer, who doubtless has insanely fast internet at work (and home). http:/
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by alanh 11y ago
I dunno! But you can set page zoom to less than 100% :)
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by alanh 11y ago
Indeed you can! I have bookmarklets that will let you override this dastardly and unfortunately common bit of CSS: http://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets#subpixel (Note: my idiotic web host broke my SSL and this bookmarklet isn&
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by alanh 11y ago
I'll just point out that your "giant wishlist" is 240 bytes. One web font, even just for one face in one style, can be 20–100 thousand bytes, plus a DNS lookup and at least one additional roundtrip, both of which will block
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by alanh 11y ago
Wrong. The browser is still a user agent. Users can block web fonts (a fantastic idea if you are on shitty internet, by the way), and they have long been able to set a minimum font size Graphic designers who don’t get the web need new j
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by alanh 11y ago
He recently tweeted that "San Francisco" software execs listen to rap but shamefully weren't lining up for to "invest 1 billion dollars in kanye ideas" [sic]
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by alanh 11y ago
In the vein of old hardware playing music, you should absolutely check out this cover of Radiohead’s “Nude,” if this sort of thing interests you. I find it strangely moving. http://alanhogan.com/big-ideas-dont-get-any (dire
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by alanh 11y ago
sigh you are not wrong, my friend
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by alanh 11y ago
I have. Your remark is probably a little flippant for it to survive here (not necessarily a bad thing), but I enjoyed the reference. That scene always sticks in my head and makes me laugh — it’s great drama but so blatantly wrong in its por
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by alanh 11y ago
You don’t see how advertising is a drag on workflow? It shows you down and takes brain cycles.
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by alanh 11y ago
This comment should be unreadably light gray by now. Amazon’s ads are such as explicit part of what a customer is buying that it’s in the title of the product Amazon is selling: “Kindle WITH SPECIAL OFFERS.” Microsoft isn't even callin
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by alanh 11y ago
Thoroughly infuriating. Enough to make a man go John McAfee, I would imagine.
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by alanh 11y ago
How are you doing this in your servers? Adding it to your shell profiles on said servers?
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by alanh 11y ago
Hmm. Is there a transcript?
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by alanh 11y ago
I wrote a small blog post on OS X must-have apps[1] back in 2009, but I realize more or less all but the most obvious (e.g., Chrome) have changed. Now: InsomniaX (like Caffeine.app, but maintained); Bartender; LaunchBar (mostly for clipboar
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by alanh 11y ago
Hey, this is a real thing! <blink> will cause people with epilepsy difficulty, ranging from anguish to a full seizure.
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by alanh 11y ago
How long had Comic Sans been used on httpd status pages? (The mind reels…)
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by alanh 11y ago
You seem to be lacking perspective. The deterioration of both journalism and basic respect for the reader isn’t “just” anything.
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by alanh 11y ago
I recently noticed a very poorly named / linked article on the New York Times. Something to the effect of “What’s Next for Hillary”, only to find an article with 8 paragraphs, each merely summarizing the primary results for 8 candidate
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by alanh 11y ago
If any article needed a tl;dr, it’s this one. A headline like this, and they bury the lede deeper than Jimmy Hoffa’s skeleton. Thanks, ypeterholmes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074842
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by alanh 11y ago
> If this is made the default It will be — the announcement says so. “Then we'll be turning on the feature for you in coming weeks — look out for a notification in your timeline.” (Emphasis mine. Delightful euphemism.)
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by alanh 11y ago
The site’s back up, so your wish has been granted: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/fired-for...
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by alanh 11y ago
Some people approve every request because LinkedIn incentivizes users to have 500+ connections. And your friends are possibly dumb, but almost certainly ignorant of social media data vacuuming/social engineering techniques such as this
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by alanh 11y ago
Hi Josh, Glad to hear about the reductions in email. Regarding your statement "We've been hard at work trying to improve the clarity of our products over the last year" — this just doesn’t ring true, as it seems to imply that
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by alanh 11y ago
Checkout is a product looking for a reason to exist and crippled with Visa-specific branding.

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