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by asadkn 6y ago
ASMR works well for me, most of the time (quality of ASMR matters - what's popular is just clickbait and not great content). Other times I need to meditate for a while to calm down and clear my head. Personally, the most important thin
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by asadkn 6y ago
No paywall link: http://archive.is/YGqjl Someone had to speak out. But I am not sure if the list is entirely accurate. There was this news about EU travel info that's relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/a
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by asadkn 6y ago
Typical 100% coverage metric vanity with usually no real world benefits. > If you said that in an interview for code you'd written then I'd point to the door. And they would be better off not having to work at a place with an i
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by asadkn 6y ago
The real problem isn't necessarily flat vs skeuomorphism - it's the representations that are not really representative to everyone. Try "Click that icon with the floppy disk to save." with a new user.
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by asadkn 6y ago
Depends on whether or not your opinion enrages someone with a massive herd behind them. If you offend someone with a sizable mindless drones as followers, good luck.
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by asadkn 6y ago
It's naive to think any company exists for any other purpose than maximizing profit. That's business 101.
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by asadkn 6y ago
I have the same opinion as the author here. When I buy a 4k monitor, it's generally for the higher PPI. There's just less eye strain for me reading less pixelated fonts. Personal sweet spot me in terms of pleasant readability is:
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by asadkn 6y ago
And WordPress, which is hated even by PHP devs, continues to grow now powering 37.3% of all websites [1]. Until last year, it maintained compatibility with PHP 5.2 essentially relying on PHP of the 2007 (now bumped to 5.6 which was released
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Microsoft's PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10(theverge.com)
1 points by asadkn 6y ago|0 comments
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Vitamin D appears to play role in Covid-19 mortality rates(news.northwestern.edu)
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by asadkn 7y ago
You mean they go viral?
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by asadkn 7y ago
Says low-cost but anyone knows what exactly is "low cost" here?
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by asadkn 7y ago
It is only natural progression here. Heck, I am surprised it took this long. Considering the fact that in many Github projects, "Issues" were being used for discussions, questions, often tangents.
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by asadkn 7y ago
This looks great. For browsers, would have been even better if the result was an SVG or pure CSS gradient. Canvas can still have performance hit on mobiles. The JS implementation of Gradify [1] did something similar but by using CSS linear-
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by asadkn 7y ago
Did this for 15 years. Todos, notes, any list goes in a plain text file. It was all good but not aesthetically pleasing in terms of readability (wonder if Text Editors will ever focus on improving leading and tracking, or better fonts). And
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by asadkn 7y ago
All good suggestions. Adding to this, there's a thread full of similar gems: https://twitter.com/flybayer/status/1220406529901223936 I do get that not all of these can be done and many are specific to niches.
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Ask HN: SaaS Frameworks for Startups
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by asadkn 7y ago
The last hackintosh I made was in 2017 and it's still a beast. Maintenance was relatively easy However, the future of pain-free Hackintosh doesn't seem very likely. It's rumored (or confirmed?) Apple will do its proprietary A
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by asadkn 7y ago
It's not that the contrast is low (which is another problem on its own, I agree). It's the other extreme - too high of a contrast [1] by using a fully saturated yellow and black. The same reason you don't use #fff on #000. [1
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by asadkn 7y ago
I believe OP is referring to the terrible readability and color contrast, with that background color.
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by asadkn 7y ago
> I’m saying these improvements are accidental. It’s sheer luck they happened. No. They're not accidental. They're entirely intentional, done by sheer hard work. On a related note, I am surprised a person who claims to write
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by asadkn 7y ago
It's odd to talk about EU as one. I can hire from EU countries that are on-par or even cheaper than India (at some skill level). Yes I am talking about some of Balkans (Serbia, Greece), Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania), Eastern EU (Ukraine
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by asadkn 7y ago
Microsoft has done the right thing here. The non-issue could be created an issue of. Who'd want the negative PR. That being said, it's prudent not to add the most common religious or cultural symbols for a global product. If you c
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by asadkn 7y ago
I believe they played with the semantics here to perhaps get a pass on it not counting as an exact violation of wp.org repository guidelines. There's a proposal to have strict policies and disallow any sort of global ads now but it see
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by asadkn 7y ago
Let's get a few things right since the link is misleading. - It was an upsell to the Pro version of free plugin. Not some random ad spam. - The ad was an admin notice - which appear in WordPress on top of every page in the backend Admi
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by asadkn 7y ago
Ignoring the red herring, and the assumption I read these stories after a bad experience, let me address, yet, as a consumer, all that matters is the vocal user experience. If there are 100 bad stories out there, that's enough of a fai
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by asadkn 7y ago
I have read similar stories all over the community in general. The support simply doesn't exist or takes 2 weeks for a simple, useless response, generally. Given your vested interest in Ads and Google in specific, I am sure you know th
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by asadkn 7y ago
Never rely on Google Ads to be honest. They are unlikely to respond at all. After spending ~100k, our ads randomly stopped working last month without changing anything. Support took 10 days to reply saying the account was up for a review (n
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by asadkn 7y ago
Hit hard with what? The 1% marketshare it will eventually get like the previous Edge versions?
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by asadkn 7y ago
Apple store techs can't really fix stuff. All they can do is replace and it takes 3-10 days depending on country. Yeah, when their batteries swell up twice in 3 years, and they take 11 days each time and you're out of your main wo

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