radicaledward

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by radicaledward 12y ago
I use an Apple trackpad with two-finger scrolling for 70% of my web browsing. I have yet to encounter one of these scrolling sites that didn't feel extremely awkward on it. Maybe the target audience is iPad users? I feel like the behav
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by radicaledward 12y ago
The short answer is that I bought the cheapest new car I could find. The long answer is that I want my big expensive stuff to be simple and easy to maintain. It has a manual transmission, no air conditioning (I could have added it for $2k U
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by radicaledward 12y ago
As far as I know my car (a 2011 Chevy Aveo) does not have anti-lock brakes. Wikipedia indicates that they are mandated in the EU but not the US. My car does have a tire pressure monitoring system though. I believe it was also one of the las
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by radicaledward 12y ago
This sounds really cool. Unfortunately I don't know if I will get any direct benefits unless they add a way to upgrade old cars. I don't plan on buying another car. Ever. I'll still get indirect benefits (safety while walking
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by radicaledward 12y ago
You seem to have some missing content on your homepage: https://imgix.exposure.co/ Two white boxes on the right. I'm on Chrome 36 on OS X if it helps? It looks like the content is just plain missing. I disabled adblock
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by radicaledward 12y ago
I especially like that you ended your comment with a misplaced question mark? Unfortunately it looks like you are being down voted quite a bit? This seems like a genuine example of Poe's Law[1] in action? 1 https://en.wikipe
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by radicaledward 12y ago
I'm not sure why the parent doesn't like it, but I can explain why I don't like it. I think there's a certain group of users who have developed the habit of highlighting while reading to keep their place in scrolling med
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by radicaledward 12y ago
In general, I believe comments such as this are downvoted on HN because they are interpreted as adding little or no value to the conversation while attempting to shift focus away from the topic at hand. I'm not saying that was your int
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by radicaledward 13y ago
I was surprised to see you list tsv as more common than csv. I encounter csv's on a pretty regular basis, but I don't think I've had to parse a tsv in the past 3 or 4 years. As a junior web developer, I don't have much e
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by radicaledward 13y ago
> Fun fact: Years ago, we had to set display: inline; for most floats to work properly in IE6 to avoid the double margin bug. However, those days have long passed. I wish those days were long passed. There are definitely still a lot of
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by radicaledward 13y ago
My number one concern with this approach is that it creates an extreme dependence on an external locus of motivation. This seems like it would be great if you want to turn children into excellent cogs for your machine, as in the industrial
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by radicaledward 13y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of people who want a service like this have already picked up LibraryThing - http://www.librarything.com/ People like me who already have a significant amount of time invested in LibraryThing won't
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by radicaledward 13y ago
Unsolicited Advice: For exercise, I found that yoga has worked extremely well for me. I started in January and it has been going great! A few factors have really kept me motivated to go: 1) For the first 10 weeks, it was run like a college
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by radicaledward 14y ago
This project has really shown me what Vine is all about! Good stuff! A "pause" button would really improve this project. Not for the video but for the transition between videos. A 5 Tweet buffer and a back button would be even better. That