benwr

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by benwr 10y ago
I worked on this floor for six months as a co-op! It was really awful, and a big reason I don't think I'll ever consider working at IBM again.
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by benwr 10y ago
There's no force involved - the gains of a slightly higher-res monitor aren't worth the $500, even just to me personally. It was worth the time and the (negative cost of) learning, though!
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by benwr 10y ago
I understand this position, but I don't agree that that screenshot is easier to read than a bitmap font - the fuzziness really bothers my eyes.
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by benwr 10y ago
Wow, that's an awesome one I hadn't seen! The best way to get recommendations on HN seems to be "make an approximation of the thing you want - others will point you to the version that you should have made"
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by benwr 10y ago
I confess that I did not know about the 5x7 variant - I'll check it out.
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by benwr 10y ago
Oh, Ubuntu has weird rules that prevent you from using bitmapped fonts. There's some configuration file in /etc/fontsomethingorother that you need to delete. I forget the specifics. After that you should be able to drop the b
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by benwr 10y ago
Oh no! I just exported it using FontForge's default setting - if anyone has more experience with fonts on OS X, I'll gladly accept PRs or suggestions!
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by benwr 10y ago
I'm not sure I can - Neep was released under the GPLv2 or later. IANAL though...
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by benwr 10y ago
Yeah! I was actually using progsole before making this - I'm primarily interested in squeezing legible characters into pixels, and progsole is sliiiightly wider. Even the difference between 5 and 6 pixels can be substantial if you&#x27
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by benwr 10y ago
Primarily just that it's too tall - 13 vs 10 pixels means the difference between 100 lines and 130. And yep! It's really hard to get an even look at a size this small.
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by benwr 10y ago
Yup! It's definitely a niche typeface; I hope at least some people find it useful, but I suspect that most won't.
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Show HN: Glean, a tiny bitmap font for programming(github.com)
66 points by benwr 10y ago|46 comments
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by benwr 10y ago
I agree with your first paragraph, but the second one doesn't make sense: Only professors with jobs can be PhD advisors, therefore the jobless PhD's don't increase the rate of PhD granting.
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by benwr 10y ago
Beans and vegetables too! But yes, this is mostly right.
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by benwr 10y ago
This is somewhat amusing, considering that that is my actual current diet and exercise regimen (for the last several months, with the added restrictions of being almost entirely vegetarian and doing some light weight training and cycling),
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by benwr 10y ago
How so?
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by benwr 10y ago
sway is awesome! It's got almost all the features I'm used to from i3 (major exception being mouse support for the bar), and it's only a _little_ buggy :-)
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by benwr 10y ago
- Slate Star Codex ( http://slatestarcodex.com/ ) + Really good analysis of complicated and interesting issues in science, medicine, politics, rationality, ethics, and community dynamics.
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by benwr 10y ago
The article is based on this video segment, from GJS: https://vimeo.com/151465912#t=59m36s
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by benwr 10y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A%2F%2...
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by benwr 11y ago
I think they chose well-known corporations; Enron was one.
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Crash-Only Software (2003) [pdf](usenix.org)
1 points by benwr 11y ago|1 comments
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by benwr 12y ago
Even that isn't strictly guaranteed to work; have you read ken's Reflections on Trusting Trust ? Strictly speaking, you'd need to hand-compile (or at least hand-verify) the app, and trust the underlying platform as well (d
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by benwr 12y ago
Ramadan fasting is only during daylight hours, and is not remotely like foregoing food entirely for even 36 hours.
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Try Logic Programming! A Gentle Introduction to Prolog(bernardopires.com)
28 points by benwr 12y ago|0 comments
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by benwr 12y ago
They're from Python; they're a third kind of string delimiter, alongside '...' and "...". They allow multi-line strings (or, as in this case, quotations) that contain both unescaped " and ' characters
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Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check(newscientist.com)
2 points by benwr 13y ago|0 comments
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The "Intellectual Property" Oxymoron(harmful.cat-v.org)
3 points by benwr 13y ago|0 comments
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Why is the web like a telephone directory?(benwr.net)
1 points by benwr 13y ago|0 comments
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TED Talks(benwr.net)
1 points by benwr 13y ago|0 comments

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