ewiethoff

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by ewiethoff 18y ago
What strikes me as weird is that for the past few years, the US has spent more weeks in the calendar in DST than in Standard time, thereby making the "standard" an aberration. Standard time has become a misnomer.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Wow. Been there with misdiagnosed orthopedic problems. Been there with a string of MRIs and X-rays which don't reveal anything useful when the body's not in a certain position. Been there with the !@#$%^& anti-psychotics. Been there wit
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Let me be testy back. This is kinda fun. > because of the things that you changed on your computer, it's a fault with Facebook's design You're assuming my computer came out of a box all set for Facebook and your anally perfect
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Get the goal of pixel perfection out of your mind. It can't be done, because you don't have a clue how each person's browser/system is configured. And it shouldn't be done, because then it's too easy to forget about graceful degradation.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
"Release early, release often" is an Extreme Programming mantra which has been around way longer than 37signals. I'm not sure who coined the expression though. Maybe Eric Raymond or Linus Torvalds ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedr
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
"Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain" makes sense to me. But the page fails, I think, to address the fact that external resources are needed for coping , period. And I don't just mean a listen
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Everyone knows the best way to hear music is live, un-miked, un-amped, with analog instruments. That's one of the reasons I've gone into opera: http://gatewayclassical.org/
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I read all the Accelerando stories as they came out in Asimov's some years back. To be honest, it's the Accelerando stories that made me begin to tire of SF. And Vinge's Rainbows End capped it off (although its library digitization
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Thanks, but #49960a is still too dark for me to read black against. I'm sticking with my #6c6 hack for now.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I agree that black text against dark green is difficult to read. This Firefox Stylish hack changes the top bar to a medium green, which works nicely for me: td[bgcolor="#2b5500"] { background-color: #6c6 !important }
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Visiting the Irish countryside and smaller cities in 1996, I swore I had fallen into a time warp to my small-town American childhood of the 1960s. Spices in grocery shops consisted of salt, pepper, cinnamon, and that's it. Shops closed at 6
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> "Doomsayers were worried about something they called the 'greenhouse effect.'" I picked up a strange anthology from 1971 for classroom use, Science Fiction: The Future [ISBN 0155786504], from a street vendor a couple days ago. Here
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
At a pizza restaurant in my home town in 1974-75, I used to shove my quarters into the Pong machine over and over and over while my little sister shoved her quarters into the jukebox to hear David Essex's "Rock On" over and over and over. P
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Aside from the abnormally long DST the US had one year during the energy crisis of the early '70s, notice, if you are old enough, that DST gets a few weeks longer every few years. The article states that DST boosts consumer spending. So, I
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Mmm, you're the one who brought the word 'intrusive' into the discussion. I happen to be agreeing with you about increasing intrusiveness. I don't think "arms race" is a fallacy. Instead of advertising, think security for a moment. We all k
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Agree with erso. Much of the internet consists of buskers, and buskers cannot rely on revenue. They sing on the street for the love of it, or for self-promotion, or because they don't have headshots and an agent to book a concert hall, or b
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> if we adopt technology that hurts the business models of ad-supported sites, we're inviting those sites to develop more intrusive ways of monetizing us. So it's an arms race! If I take self-defense classes and install security systems
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> That's why ad-blocking has never sat right with me: it's implicitly accepting that the model of ad supported, free content can not work on the internet. I'm sure back in the Dark Ages, DARPA and the universities did not invent the int
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
WiFi or no WiFi, beverage or no beverage, a coffee house lets you hang out until the manager decides to throw you out. Likewise, NYTimes.com can revamp its site such that nonsubscribers are limited to 1 hour at the site with 24 hours in bet
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
If you're a Firefox user and savvy about CSS selectors, I recommend the Stylish add-on ( http://userstyles.org/ ). It lets you create blanket tweaks for all sites and specific tweaks for specific sites. And you can turn your tweaks off and
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> we're not really entitled to escape banner advertising. "Oh, really?" I type into my heavily modded Firefox browser because some computer graphics give me brain seizures. (Too bad I cannot log into HN from my Lynx browser.) Last tim
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Also Northwestern University and Bethel Theological Seminary.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Yes, at least Firefox on OSX does. And if the site/page has <link media="print"> or @media print in place, the printing CSS is used for layout.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Cocoa apps: File -> Print -> Save As PDF. Probably scriptable with AppleScript/osascript, though I haven't tried.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Rare, but I've saved a web page as PDF: the hours of my local library. I keep a printout at my fridge, and the PDF file itself is handy when I'm not online but too lazy/engaged to head to the fridge. I could have saved the page as Web Page
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Liked the show? Maybe it was the old commercials. The "Taxi" and "Happy Days" research appears to fail to distinguish between a program being interrupted by today's commercials versus yesteryear's commercials. Many people delight in old a
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The graph in the article is difficult to read, but it appears that 'technology' was first used in JFK's 1961 address. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the concept we nowadays refer to as 'technology' did not appear in earlier
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I'm disappointed the author didn't realize that he doesn't need Cookie Monster to see Firefox cookies: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Show Cookies
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The day I gave up on TV news: Driving around flipping channels on my radio, I heard that O.J. Simpson was suspected of murder and detectives were trying to find him. "Hmm, great." I thought, "Here comes another Hollywood scandal." I listene

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