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by kickingvegas 15y ago
I've mentioned this before and I'm not the first to say it, but it's time to stop using px and start using in its place absolute measurements like inches or millimeters. It's the only sane approach to supporting different resolution display
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Count me in the school of thought that the control key is meant to be to the left of the A key, just like the horn button is meant to be in the center of a car steering wheel. Every computer keyboard I worked with before the advent of IBM P
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Actually, I'm more concerned with the Markdown syntax and not about how pandoc (nice tool btw) converts it. The issue I see is unchecked feature creep, especially with the variants of markdown we're starting to see. Reluctantly, I agree tha
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
I really dig Markdown. But this nasty voice inside my head is saying "5 years from now, you're gonna wish you just did this in troff." Or for better and worse, it will evolve into troff.
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
My distaste for Tcl/Tk helped me leave the EDA business. Some backstory: Thanks to Randy Pausch, in the early 90's I was fortunate enough to be exposed to Python and the Tkinter interface to the Tk widget set. With that experience I ended u
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Related to this topic, be on the lookout for the episode "The Entire History of You" from "Black Mirror".
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Link above, repeated to make it hot. https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B79HizzVRilLZWEzZDcwMGQtMjd...
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Ask HN: How would you redesign the iTunes UI for purchased season pass TV shows?
1 points by kickingvegas 15y ago|1 comments
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Putting this in the category of "not going to think hard about this, because it's only going to make me upset and angry."
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a CSS guy. That said, I doubt that many CSS practitioners use real world units due to legacy. But the argument still stands that the _only_ sane answer to handling resolution-independent layout is to start using real wor
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
With due respect to the writer, posts like this only reinforce the notion that if you're using resolution-dependent pixels to specify layout for multi-resolution screens, you are already conceptually broken because you are resorting to unna
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
As mentioned in the link's comment thread, ^Y is broken for Webkit. I just tried this in Mail.app and it worked fine.
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
While perhaps off-topic, I'll chime in with an anecdote in remote computing I had this past Thanksgiving. Short version: If you're an emacs veteran, tramp is the ssh version of ange-ftp. Long version: was down in the San Diego area for Than
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
2 cent take: While it may have been an epic build story to get LaTeX running on an iPad, I guess I gotta ask why not just install an iPad ssh client (iSSH, Prompt, etc.) and run LaTeX remotely? Or if you really insist on building a native c
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Tempted to start calling HN "Hater News"...
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
Wonder what Freeman and Gelernter think about it. http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
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Show HN: Saving trips to the printer with enscript and Dropbox(kickingvegas.github.com)
2 points by kickingvegas 15y ago|0 comments
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by kickingvegas 15y ago
IMHO, your third point about "apps with the Internet as transport and APIs as the endpoint" is now where all the interesting client behavior is. Web apps in this regard are just clients implemented in JavaScript.