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by latitude 15y ago
Yep, sure thing. This is more in a context of end-user products that tends to have linear release stream and shorter release cycles.
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by latitude 15y ago
So what do you guys think? I am really curious to try just the date as a version number, but it seems just too alien and unconventional. The only real-life example I am aware of is Kuznetsov's iproute2 tool for Linux (or just ip ). It us
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Version Numbers Don't Matter (to users)(bvckup.tumblr.com)
16 points by latitude 15y ago|24 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
For those on Windows, here is a bit of code that can be used to validate Authenticode signature of the update package. https://github.com/apankrat/assorted/blob/master/validate_pa... Basically the idea is to get an Authenticode certificat
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by latitude 15y ago
I know exactly how to handle this as I did it before and it worked really well. 1. Make sure the feature can be completely hidden from the UI. 2. Add an option somewhere in Advanced section of Preferences that toggles the visibility of th
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by latitude 15y ago
Have you at all checked if graphic designers need this sort of functionality? I tinker with pixel perfect designs quite extensively and zooming in is the way to get more precision out of mouse. Few designers on Dribbble posted videos show
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by latitude 15y ago
Since we seem to be sharing the numbers now, let me add my 2c. I ran the Hamachi service [1] with 3 mil registered accounts off 4 co-located servers at a cost of about $700/mo in total. The servers were mid-range 1U Dell boxes, each costin
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by latitude 15y ago
It does not tell apart between these, no. It simply checks if there is any color fringing going on after a glyph is rasterized.
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by latitude 15y ago
> There are different styles of subpixel rendering, some of which look better than others with large @font-face fonts. An example would be nice. Also, do keep in mind the context, which is an issue of a poor rendering of non-CT hinted
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by latitude 15y ago
That's my stuff. The page has been up for about 3 months now and the stats will go up in a week or two. Also, about a month ago I amended the test script to check which fonts are installed on visitor's machine. I think it could make a fairl
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by latitude 15y ago
Oookay... and how is me sending out spam with my competitor's website in it handled?
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Font Smoothing Detection in Browsers(swapped.cc)
9 points by latitude 15y ago|6 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
Ha. That's a nice idea. Let me see if it works :)
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by latitude 15y ago
Woah... why am I at -1? A knee-jerk reaction of some sort?
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by latitude 15y ago
Go, click on that link already. You are skewing my beautiful stats :) Good point regarding the sender name. I will play with it once HN wave subsides.
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by latitude 15y ago
Yeah, I guess the biggest issue is someone plugging in john@acmecorp.com just to test the subscription form, and then actual John getting a maillist message and tagging it as a spam. The question here is if the same John would or would no
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by latitude 15y ago
Yep, there are dupes and there are mistyped addresses. But plenty of unconfirmed @gmail.com (about 50%) as well as addresses personal servers (on judging by the domain names).
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by latitude 15y ago
I am actually considering not sending a confirmation email. Every maillist message already includes an immediate unsubscribe list, and I thought perhaps to add a small note at the bottom of subscriber's first email, something like ---
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by latitude 15y ago
That's my post there. It'd be very interesting to compare email confirmation rates. I am running on a private mail server that is configured according to all possible spam filtering guidelines and yet I am still at only 82%. I wonder if the
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by latitude 15y ago
This is a big deal. Seeing this project to its completion would ultimately lead to a far greater adoption of advanced web typography and a better looking web in general. See [0] for the original announcement on Typophile and the discussion
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Tell HN: Help funding (web)font autohinting project(freetype.org)
10 points by latitude 15y ago|2 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
With all due respect - your service as it exists is completely useless. You either need to be prepared to go to the court to testify for other people or you need to provide reliable, court-tested technical solution for trusted time-stampi
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by latitude 15y ago
Oh, hai. I tried this idea in application to the graphic design area specifically targeting logo and brand designers [0]. It was called CertTime and it failed spectacularly . It was pretty much like selling insurance to the ignorant. The a
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by latitude 15y ago
Now compare your numbers to what I got by running a sponsored post just few days ago - 8K+ impressions 120+ clicks ( 1.50% ) 40+ comments ( 15 are mine ) 20+ subscriptions ( for project updates ) post score of 8
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by latitude 15y ago
Learning by example worked for me. Took several years but I think I am now getting pretty good at it [0]. PatternTap [1] and website design galleries like SiteInspire [2] are invaluable resources for realizing what it is that you like and t
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by latitude 15y ago
Clickable - http://swapped.cc/font-smoothing
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Ask HN: I need data, lots of data
12 points by latitude 15y ago|1 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
Here are few off the beaten path: http://minimalissimo.com http://trendir.com http://archdaily.com http://typophile.com/forum Very inspirational, really helps with getting stuff into a shippable state :)
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by latitude 16y ago
You appear to be mixing two things here. What you described is a form of a "slab allocator" whereby all blocks in a certain size range are allocated from one big piece of memory that is sliced into equally sized chunks. This is really fas
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by latitude 16y ago
FooBarWidget got a good point though. When two blocks are explictly tied into a parent-child relationship, it gives the allocator valuable locality information. It is another matter that halloc separates allocation and block binding steps,

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