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by nollidge 14y ago
> It scary to think that we are coming closer and closer to Orvelian "thought crime" :( Oh for fuck's sake, it's not thought when words are uttered out loud . It's also not crime when free people freely protested the free speech of
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by nollidge 14y ago
Right, because that's totally the only other option.
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by nollidge 14y ago
It's like trying to cut down on the amount of bad writing in the world. Sure, I guess aesthetically it'd be nice if I never had to look at any bad writing. But bad writing is part of the process of becoming a good writer, so there'd ultimat
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by nollidge 14y ago
> The person in the position of power has a moral obligation not to make everyone else feel uncomfortable or stupid. That's a very interesting point, and I had not considered it from that angle. Not sure if it changes my mind or not, bu
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by nollidge 14y ago
Web fonts typically look crappy on Windows in general. I've Googled around to try and solve the problem as a user, but I think it's because browsers tend to use Windows' GDI rendering instead of DirectDraw (or vice-versa, I forget). Now tha
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by nollidge 14y ago
> I think that it started as a joke? Then, there were people that didn't realize it was a joke and started actually using it. Er, did you read the article? They acknowledge it started as a joke, and then go on to say: "But the rise of
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by nollidge 14y ago
Indeed. I realize Scott's article was tongue-in-cheek, but this is all nothing to worry about. It just means that icons will have a history, an etymology, just like words, or Chinese pictograms, or, hell, even the symbols in our Latin alpha
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by nollidge 14y ago
I think calling it "condescending" is awfully uncharitable. It seems obvious to me that any curmudgeonliness was tongue-in-cheek, but maybe that's because I'm more familiar with Scott's writing.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I tend to use "folder" just because it's known by everyone, whereas "directory" is only going to be known by geeks.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Plenty of us care about visual design. Typography posts, in particular, routinely get upvoted. Participants of Hacker News (just like Reddit, or Twitter, or comedians) are not a monolith.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Tagline font looks pretty bad in Chrome/Win7: http://imgur.com/Kigfl
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by nollidge 14y ago
My grandpa used to say: The thanks is in the paycheck. You want my weekends? Fuck you, pay me.
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by nollidge 15y ago
Let's just link to the original article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-dawn-of-haik...
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by nollidge 15y ago
Your own source says it "has been adopted by many other police departments across the English-speaking world" and has "been adopted by so many police departments, in fact, that it's practically a Stock Phrase in the English-speaking world."
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by nollidge 15y ago
"To serve and protect." Is that even true anymore? Was it ever? Was just reading about an apparent increase in cop-on-citizen sexual assault among Occupy Wall Street protesters: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/david-graeber-new-pol.
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by nollidge 15y ago
I hate DRM too, but the one area where I'm conflicted is with libraries. There's a strong disincentive to buy if one can just download a book without restrictions on availability or borrowing period.
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by nollidge 15y ago
I don't think the aidenn0 is talking about falsifiability, but accuracy. As in, Newtonian mechanics is not 100% accurate, but it works well enough for macro-level calculations. Like Asimov said, "when people thought the earth was flat, they
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by nollidge 15y ago
I've heard nothing but good things about Javascript: The Good Parts, so I'm picking up a copy.
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by nollidge 15y ago
People post links to their own blogs all the time. There's nothing untoward about it.
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by nollidge 15y ago
The font is really hard to read in Chrome on Windows 7 [0]. A bit better on Firefox/Win7 [1], but horizontal strokes are still very thin (look at H, L). Please, everyone, test your web fonts on multiple platforms. It's not WYSIWYG. [0] htt
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by nollidge 15y ago
This is even dumber than arguing about semicolons.
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by nollidge 15y ago
How did you try to communicate that? I cannot find any indication one way or the other. Just showing it on a laptop and a phone is not good enough - maybe you have native apps on multiple platforms. Plus the phrase "there's an app for that"
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by nollidge 15y ago
I think the copy above the fold should refer specifically to browser bookmarks. Initially that wasn't clear, and it seems to me that's the main differentiator here. EDIT: I mean on the main page, of course, not the /hot that you linked he
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by nollidge 15y ago
What I'm wondering: are any of Groupon's competitor's (AmazonLocal, LivingSocial, Google Offers, etc.) more likely to succeed? Or is the business model the biggest problem here?
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by nollidge 15y ago
You can turn it off. Under Inbox in Settings.
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by nollidge 15y ago
> I still don't know what half the buttons do... Do you have JS disabled? They all have tooltips.
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by nollidge 15y ago
Please, for the love of Loki, can we all stop equating our subjective opinions with objective truth? Your tastes are different than others. That doesn't make them "arrogant" - at least, not necessarily.
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by nollidge 15y ago
So basically Planetary Resources may be the next NASA, in terms of spurring all sorts of innovation.
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by nollidge 15y ago
This is hardly unique to the States.
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by nollidge 15y ago
Good advice, but don't abuse that friendship. They're getting questions from every friend/family member with a cough.

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