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by jahewson 3y ago
Don’t sell your company for less than your investors have agreed it’s worth.
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by jahewson 3y ago
That’s not fair though because it takes a few weeks for a broker to close on a mortgage whereas a cash buyer can pay immediately.
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by jahewson 3y ago
“Join our guild so we can punish you”
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by jahewson 3y ago
I used protobufs for a short while and came to the realization that they’re just Go’s opinionated idioms forced on other languages via awkward SDKs. Particularly did not like having to use codegen, rely on Google’s annotations for basic fu
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by jahewson 3y ago
> what may be occurring is simply shoddy academic work An easy way to determine this would be to look at previous, e.g. Harvard presidents, and evaluate whether their work was equally shoddy or of scant quantity.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Of course it should. This is a manufacturing defect that could easily have sucked someone out the plane or dropped debris on someone’s head. Should it happen during cruise over water the consequences could be much worse.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I live in the Bay Area but I grew up in the UK where we have lots of great roundabouts and I can tell you that the roundabouts in California are beyond terrible - why? Because pedestrians have right-of-way at the roundabout entry/exit
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by jahewson 3y ago
I'm a first principles thinker and prefer to learn from books, but it must be said that games are really exciting and YouTube videos very engaging. Books... not so much. Indeed, as a teenager in the 90's I first learnt to code fro
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by jahewson 3y ago
You can use colors, just not ones that look the same to colorblind people. The Sim Daltonism app is great at helping with this.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Gotta buy better electrical tape. Scotch Super 33+ is amazing.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I don’t agree with that, the quote is: > Both file formats were developed at Apple around the same time
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by jahewson 3y ago
It’s true that autohinting is nowadays the norm but I’d be more generous to those old fonts as they were aggressively hinted for black-and-white rendering. It’s not until ClearType was enabled by default in Windows Vista c. 2007 that those
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by jahewson 3y ago
FreeType did auto-hinting because Microsoft held patents on some of the hinting engine instructions. These finally expired in 2010.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Font hinting is still used, as the native resolution of most TTFs is 2048 upem so even at 72pt you’d need a 2048 dpi display to perfectly render a glyph. You’re right that sub-pixel (color) antialiasing has been removed from macOS but regul
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by jahewson 3y ago
Great article, I’ve had the fun of implementing TTF rendering and this piece hits all the memorable points. One nit, the comparison to Mach-O is anachronistic as TrueType was developed in the late 1980s, while Apple didn’t acquire NeXT unti
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by jahewson 3y ago
Sounds awful. And I can guess exactly how that boss responded to any feedback or criticism directed in his direction!
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by jahewson 3y ago
Open for business! No wait…
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Stop investing in cars. Let’s reinvest in the urban core, rollback the terrible car infrastructure that has invaded this country, and put significant federal/state/local dollars into public infrastructure and redesign of citi
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by jahewson 3y ago
> If you’re a millennial with tech savvy parents you may have grown up with streaming entertainment only I agree, though the youngest millennials were already 11 when Netflix launched its streaming service. And that was just movies.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> An app can shoot varied content at you and determine that if you view happy cat content, then enraging political discourse, then sexual stimulating content, and then and ad, you're more likely to click on the ad, or stare at it fo
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by jahewson 3y ago
I guarantee you that Facebook does not have an audience of “people who stay up until 3am” available for advertisers to target.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Or am I a dinosaur and everybody's files are emephereally in the google or apple cloud and it's just not a problem, things are magically right and where they need to be? Yep! Use iCloud and unburden yourself from ever thinkin
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Just design the software upfront We call that waterfall :)
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by jahewson 3y ago
Don’t block Common Crawl! They’re a charity and do great work producing an open dataset that everyone can use.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Many instances of fair use involve verbatim copying. The important questions surround the situation in which that happens - not so much the copying. NYT is in uncharted territory here.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Same for me, until it broke.
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by jahewson 3y ago
No match for my Knuth canon [sic]!
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by jahewson 3y ago
Do you have a source for this claim?
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by jahewson 3y ago
You might be able to donate the copyright. That’s worth basically as much as the labor.
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by jahewson 3y ago
That’s true!

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