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by karlb 12y ago
Seeing as “turn” is also a verb, this is a great example of a headline that would have been less confusing in sentence case: “How Verizon and Turn defeat browser privacy protections.”
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by karlb 12y ago
He mentions improved video conferencing. I recently discovered that a $90 Logitech webcam [1] hugely outperforms the one built into my Retina MacBook Pro. It has a wider angle, higher resolution, and—most importantly—makes the room look bri
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by karlb 12y ago
Good point. Though I expect it was a blundered attempt at title case.
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by karlb 12y ago
I see this problem often with headlines on HN. Title case has one benefit – it reveals that a sentence is a title – but in doing so it makes proper nouns (like Apple's “Jobs”) indistinguishable from other words (like Apple's “jobs
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by karlb 12y ago
I used to work just three miles from Gotham in Nottinghamshire, UK. It's comically unimposing. Its Wikipedia page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire …and its location is here: https:&#x
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by karlb 12y ago
I like the days-of-the-week analogy, but in this case he adds a fifth beat to a bar, so it's like he's adding a fifth day to an otherwise four-day week, as follows: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 C - C - C - C - C - C - C
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by karlb 12y ago
In case anyone didn't understand it with the punctuation removed: Can you call future events like this "Question Mark"?
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by karlb 12y ago
What types of tests—or testing software—could be run on a WordPress site? For example, after we update a plugin on a WordPress site we manually check that the site hasn't changed in appearance. What software – or methodology – would yo
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by karlb 12y ago
Do you know if there's a list of books that pg recommends?
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by karlb 12y ago
This doesn't work well in certain situations (as described in Andy Mo's answer on the following page: http://superuser.com/questions/512491/copy-and-paste-plain-t... I use (and love) a workflow called &q
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by karlb 12y ago
>Do some weight training. If you goal is to be healthy, this is key. Ignorant and sincere question: Why?
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by karlb 12y ago
I use Alfred a lot, and I've installed a lot of workflows, but I don't use many of them. The one I use the most, by far, is "Plain Text Paste," which I use almost every time I paste anything (I use the hotkey CMD-SHIFT-V
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by karlb 12y ago
I like Rob Heaton's variation on the phrase, which is also true: "When you have a nail in your eye, everything looks like a nail."
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by karlb 12y ago
I bought Love Letter based on your recommendation, and both kids—and both adults—love it. We have played it twice a day since we got it. My five-year-old daughter doesn't really understand it, but she enjoys being on a team with someon
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by karlb 12y ago
My daughter is five and Labyrinth is her favorite. She can play Blokus too, and she enjoys Carcassonne, even though we have to guide her.
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by karlb 12y ago
The BoardGameGeek Gift Guide opened up a whole new world for me: http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Board_Game_Gift_Guide_201... I now own about half of the games on it. I discovered early on to buy only games tha
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by karlb 13y ago
Karl from Conversion Rate Experts here. We had Jacques, "The Jim Rogers of Tech," ( http://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Capitalist-Ultimate-Road-Tri... ) for a highly enjoyable two days. We found him to be intense (on t
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by karlb 13y ago
While we're on the subject of the brain handling things at a more raw level than you might expect, here's another interesting group of experiments: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_rotation . At universit
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by karlb 13y ago
No, it's not like that, because (a) I'm not complaining about the book. I'm highly recommending it, but with a qualification that's relevant to this audience, and (b) steak and vegetarian are mutually exclusive, whereas
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by karlb 13y ago
Even if you're not a lawyer (I'm not), I'd highly recommend his book. From memory, its main shortcoming is that it doesn't go into depth about those aspects of typography that are specific to the web (e.g., web-safe font
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by karlb 14y ago
Your advice sounds reasonable, but closing my Gmail browser window is not an option for me. Most of my tasks require sending emails or searching for old ones, so I use Gmail frequently. And every time I see an email in my inbox, I find it h
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by karlb 14y ago
Matt, your list of objections and counter-objections is great – too good to be hidden away in a Hacker News comment thread and on your blog. It belongs somewhere within the sign-up flow itself: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/topic.
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Ask HN: Which landline phone do you use?
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