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   by pvorb 8y ago

   I agree that syntax highlighting is the only thing they should do and I think that hiding technical details will inevitably lead to its own security risks. The same has happened with Microsoft hiding file extensions from users in Windows by
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   > this seems unlikely unless your definition of "many" is fairly liberal In a world with more than 7 billion human beings and a large percentage of them being users of the internet, it doesn’t matter if we are talking about 1%
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   Sure, but it's still a valid advice that might be helpful to others.
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   Pseudo Localization at Netflix(medium.com)

   4 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   I didn’t really mean like in a new website. What I meant was that I’d salute you if you managed to keep an old document around unchanged for so long. I wouldn’t want to build a new website for IE6. I guess you’ll have a very hard time setti
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   Why? If your website was IE6-compatible I'd salute you. Drpping support for legacy systems is something that's done too carelessly these days. PS: I admit that it's hard to support IE6 when it's no longer supperted by MS
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   So I was wrong again. ;-) Just checked the package.json, but it's a static JS dependency that's not transpiled using Webpack.
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   Yeah, right. I thought I still had jQuery in there and thought about replacing it. But now as I looked at the code I realized that it's already mostly using Vanilla JS.
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   by pvorb 8y ago

   Nice that you're using npm-stat.com for checking adoption. I should use your library on the site.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    Okay, these are valid points. I personally tend to choose against switching to LaTeX. But I assume we agree that you shouldn't start with LaTeX right away if not absolutely necessary.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    Don't write your text in some TeX dialect. It's not worth it. You can write your text in Markdown and convert it to TeX, DocBook or directly to PDF using Pandoc ( https://pandoc.org ). In my opinion Markdown is much easi
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    Ich close it every few hours.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    Haven’t almost all browsers always had this feature in the form of “keep until browser is closed” or “delete local data after closing the browser”? At least Firefox and Chrome have it hidden somewhere in the settings.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    That has been my strategy lately, but it keeps getting more annoying because of all those cookie banners that now can’t remember to not show up – quite absurd and probably not intended by regulators.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    A system that doesn’t collect certain kinds of data also doesn’t need to protect (i.e. secure) it. (Of course it’s impossible to tell that a system hasn’t been manipulated if it’s insecure and that makes the argument bollocks.)
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    All browsers have been pretty-printing XML for a while. Adding JSON was long overdue. It might not be a core functionality of a browser, but all major browser vendors now accept that browsers are also development tools.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    I so much hope they're not going to remove it from Thunderbird, which I'm using for consuming feeds.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    And here’s a link to it: https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/infinity.pdf
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    > Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter. What about simple session cookies? You need to give end-users the information on how yo
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    Ask HN: Maintainers of OSS projects, how to you deal with GDPR?

    1 points by pvorb 8y ago|3 comments
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    https://asciinema.org is a great alternative to providing animated gifs.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    A problem with SemVer I often see is that it's unclear whether a project adheres to it. You just can't assume every project having x.y.z version numbers uses semantic versioning.
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    by pvorb 8y ago

    But isn't it impractical to test every feature of every library you are using? In an ideal world you would have everything tested in isolation as well as integration. But in practice there will always be a corner case that remains unte
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    Human Interference Task Force(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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    Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it (2015)(dominik-schwarz.net)

    3 points by pvorb 9y ago|0 comments
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    by pvorb 9y ago

    Sharing stories like these with the world is what the world wide web was made for.
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    by pvorb 9y ago

    I don't think one of them can be a working person. Both are texting all the time while they're awake.
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    by pvorb 9y ago

    Using Helvetica doesn't magically increase readability.
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    by pvorb 9y ago

    Thanks. I didn't expect them in this context.
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    by pvorb 9y ago

    Here's a 5 second guide for typography on the web: Set max-with and increase line-height. Everything else is just fine as it is.