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by dictum 12y ago
A terrible comment to make in a serious submission about a serious issue, but: It's interesting that so many people who are internet-famous feminists seem to love Cards Against Humanity. Surely I'm seeing a pattern where there&#x2
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by dictum 12y ago
And you can spend the time you'd spend building new infrastructure making the existing infrastructure even more powerful. Additionally, while the people capable of building this infrastructure might refuse to do it under a fascist regi
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by dictum 12y ago
I don't think Apple does this, but if the iBeacon transmitter device sends an ID to identify itself, the iOS device could log and send the event to a web server by itself.
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by dictum 12y ago
More words == more synergy .
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by dictum 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7996271
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by dictum 12y ago
Here's wild speculation: what if the copies sold on the back of vans and some of the ones available to download on the web already are already backdoored by the Chinese government, hence the lax attitude to this?
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by dictum 12y ago
Subtle: "climate deniers" instead of "climate change deniers".
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by dictum 12y ago
And you know what the best part about leaving the game industry is? Writing a long open-letter blog post explaining why you're leaving the game industry. Plus follow-up posts responding to other game developers.
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by dictum 12y ago
Fonts render better at larger sizes (i.e. with less subpixel antialiasing issues). Also, until recently most browsers didn't support subpixel typographic adjustments (for instance, "letter-spacing: 0.4px"), and you could only
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by dictum 12y ago
I can think of an use case for semantic <center> [0]: snippets of text that are somewhat connected to the current text (so they're not an <aside>) but serve a presentational role in the context of the text. An example:
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by dictum 12y ago
If only they could retrofit <center> as a semantic tag, like they did with <small>.
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by dictum 12y ago
I believe he's referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7963678
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by dictum 12y ago
> When I tell pretty much anyone outside the tech industry I work at a start-up, there’s usually a pause. I can watch her compose her face, waiting to hear the worst. If I’m lucky, I’ll field questions about foie gras burgers, daily mass
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What happened to SDCH? (2013)(aprescott.com)
2 points by dictum 12y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 12y ago
Verdana is a bit dated (it still looks good, but it's very reminiscent of early 2000s web design, as it was one of the few fonts that looked good without antialiasing on a 640x480 or 800x600 display), but I'd like to ask this of w
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by dictum 12y ago
>I'm 24, and 'cloud' to me is 'a vps somewhere' It is a VPS somewhere, ultimately. It's a VPS somewhere but it may be two of them or more. It may not be exactly where you think "somewhere" is, bu
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by dictum 12y ago
> Where will I be in 10 years? I don’t know. I hope I still will have some in-demand skills to pay the bills. But it feels like all I see are DevOps and JavaScript, and I know less and less every day about those things. In 10 years you&#
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by dictum 12y ago
This has already been said by others, but let me take this opportunity to talk to you as if I were talking to 17-year-old me. Focus on what you're making. Let the process sort itself as you go. Step back from the computer and think abo
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by dictum 12y ago
This is often caused or intensified by the need for validation and social proof. Many of the people who get mad at things on the Internet imply that those who don't get mad are complacent with the issue. You'll see this often
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Type Cards – Master the finer details of typography(typecardsapp.com)
1 points by dictum 12y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 13y ago
>Or the whole "Well, you shouldn't be doing this in the first place so I'm not going to help you with your actual problem". I call it the MacRumors Forums/Apple Discussions syndrome: "Why would you WANT to h
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by dictum 13y ago
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by dictum 13y ago
You could get an effect similar to blur adding many small circles/ellipses around the glyphs[1], but the glyph size would increase significantly and that could be an issue for some rendering engines. [1]: https://en.wikipedi
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by dictum 13y ago
>we’ve built our organization with the features and tools that empowers our employees to customize their interaction with appendTo to their needs Welcome to Zombo.com. You can do anything at Zombo.com.
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by dictum 13y ago
Consider the possibility that someone was playing with old browsers.
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by dictum 13y ago
Last time I used OkCupid, I can't remember anything that would actually require JS to work. Real time updates (for instance, in IM) wouldn't be possible, but exchanging messages, looking at profiles and answering quiz questions is
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by dictum 13y ago
> I find that more and more often I think of something, then search on the internet, and if I see that someone somewhere has done anything similar, I abandon the project immediately. After all, it's been done, so what's the poi
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by dictum 13y ago
It does. "Women in interracial couples will give birth to multiracial kids" or some variant thereof is that parallel. EDIT: I don't support either position (on gay marriage and interracial marriage). I'm just pointing ou
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by dictum 13y ago
"Vigorous, varied cardio is Diniz’s cornerstone. Running backward in the dark hones coordination and proprioception -- the sense of where his core and limbs are in space."
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by dictum 13y ago
I don't know for sure, but I remember seeing a list of supposed NSA (CIA too?) projects with names that matched programs that were confirmed later, way before the Snowden leaks.

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