ggreer

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by ggreer 8y ago
Other people want to modify my project, usually in ways that break it, and somehow I am obligated to provide my time and skills to them for free? I don't understand where you're coming from at all.
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by ggreer 8y ago
Years ago I disabled github notifications and ignored pull requests because honestly, 95% of them are crap. So many of them degrade performance, break unrelated features, or are incompatible with certain platforms. I don't have the tim
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by ggreer 8y ago
I would recommend against antivirus. If you force developers to use an annoying configuration of a specific OS, you make it much harder to hire top talent. Why would someone work at your company when they could go to Google and use their fa
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by ggreer 8y ago
Apple has 3D touch, where if you press firmly on the screen, the phone makes a tactile "click" and triggers a different action than normal tap. Annoyingly, Apple mapped 3D touch to a totally new set of actions instead of replacing
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by ggreer 8y ago
Apparently there's not enough interest among those who write C. Back in 2012, Brandon Philips (CoreOS CTO & kernel contributor) tried valiantly to organize a C conference, but there weren't enough speakers and presentations.[1
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by ggreer 8y ago
That was exactly the problem. The web font (a variant of Open Sans) had bad TrueType hinting, which macOS ignored. I viewed the site using Edge and it almost looked as if all antialiasing and subpixel rending was disabled.
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by ggreer 8y ago
I thought we were talking about my personal site. Floobits looks the way it does because of a designer. It doesn't reflect my personal tastes very well. That said, I'll probably fix those fonts soon. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by ggreer 8y ago
What part of my own advice don't I follow? I don't use web fonts. I use a popular serif font (Baskerville[1], falling back to other serif fonts if the user lacks that). I use the default font weight so text isn't too thin. I
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by ggreer 8y ago
Similar to icon images, you'd use aria-label, aria-hidden, and title attributes.
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by ggreer 8y ago
I agree that icon fonts are a hack, but the web is made of countless hacks. This specific one seems benign. Users won't notice or care whether you use icon fonts or images. Icon fonts are approximately the size of the equivalent images
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by ggreer 8y ago
It took me a while to figure out that links in the text were ALL CAPS instead of underlined and/or blue. The hover effect was so subtle that I didn't notice it at first. I ended up hovering over acronyms pretty often, as I was nev
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by ggreer 8y ago
Face ID would not be a good idea because helmets obscure faces.
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The Martian Chronicles: Flight Simulation on Mars (2000)(x-plane.com)
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by ggreer 8y ago
Dan Abramov's talk starts 39 minutes into the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3nVya45uQ&t=39m If you like live coding demos, he also gave a talk at JSConf Iceland where he showed off some future React
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by ggreer 8y ago
I don't mind the worn look, though I often clean the fingerprint oils off the keyboard. A blog post titled Aged to Perfection describes my view[1]: > The truth is that consumer products are ‘new’ for a very brief moment when they
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by ggreer 8y ago
> I am sure there would be some interest in a no-holds barred race. Hell, there needs be no rule that the craft even needs to touch the ground (or not be sucked down to it). Lets open our collective transportation imagination... I'd
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by ggreer 8y ago
A crazy naked person is definitely worth calling the cops over. I actually did this a couple years ago. I was in West Oakland and my next door neighbor was outside one morning, babbling (and occasionally yelling) about Jesus. I went out a
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by ggreer 8y ago
> Reminds me of how Google Photos couldn't differentiate between a black person & a monkey, so they've excluded that term from search altogether. Technically that is what happened, but it paints an incorrect picture in peop
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by ggreer 8y ago
My coworkers had similar issues with similar results. I estimate that around 2/3rds of the CoreOS team has left Red Hat.
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by ggreer 8y ago
I totally agree with this. I actually quit my job at Red Hat because of the culture of non-criticism. I kept getting in trouble for pushing back against stupid decisions, even though I never insulted a single person. For example: When the d
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by ggreer 8y ago
I'm in the same boat. I replaced the BeatsX tips with some 3rd party foamies and they do a pretty good job of damping external noise. I don't recommend the PowerBeats though. No matter what sort of tips you use, they mute almost n
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by ggreer 8y ago
The same people can behave totally differently depending on circumstances. For example: many people experience road rage, but they'd never behave that way outside of their car. Something about being in a car separated by a couple panes
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by ggreer 8y ago
This reads like a submarine[1] for the design firm. Also, calling it "airplane mode" makes it impossible to google for. 1. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by ggreer 8y ago
How can they change the license without getting the approval of everyone who contributed code? It doesn't look like they required contributors to sign CLAs.
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by ggreer 8y ago
In the paper you link to, the information rate of English is about 10% higher than Spanish. That may not seem like much, but it's probably enough to matter.
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by ggreer 8y ago
The data comes from the Housing and Urban Development's FY 2018 Income Limits Documentation System, and is for a family of four.[1] The HUD explains their reasoning here[2]. Basically, it's all about housing costs. As a side note
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by ggreer 8y ago
I don't understand why this is a standard. First: It requires that every command line tool add support for this environment variable. It may not be much effort for each project, but it adds up to a ton of developer time. Even if this s
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by ggreer 8y ago
I never understood outright bans on stuff like this. Why not tax these products enough to price-in their externalities?
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by ggreer 8y ago
> Why would you shit all over your colleagues’ work like that? An announcement post is not a place to air your grievances. I know it's unkind to air dirty laundry, but there are no good options. Either I'm disloyal to some of m
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by ggreer 8y ago
I work at Red Hat (part of the CoreOS acquisition) and I have to say that PatternFly has not been useful to the project I work on.[1] First, PatternFly is big. We were mandated to adopt it, and it tripled our CSS (from 45kB to 145kB). Patte

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