rhythmvs

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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   I originally planned to release RinohType into wild only after I had finished a full review, refactoring and documenting of the code. I also wanted to write some API documentation and a small tutorial, all in the spirit of making a go
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   Unless the guy gets help from a typographer. Knuth sought assistance from Hermann Zapf. That proved a fantastic duo.
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   A Call for Scholarly Markdown — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6615717
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   Great project! Web designers need absolute control over charset and font size (load), kerning, word and letter spacing, etc. Support for OpenType features [1] would be a dearly needed addition. Editing/tweaking of glyph shapes [2] woul
5. 155.▲
   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   The “dark” part is not so much the issue: why not leave out “mail” altogether? E-mail 3.0 won’t be e-mail as people know it (and will continue to associate with the very concepts 3.0 seeks to avoid). It shall be something different enough t
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   So, ICANN or its subsidiaries take money for registering domain names without due diligence on ® — fair enough. Next, another branch of the State accepts lawsuits against people for having paid for something that couldn’t legally be sold&#x
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   They (designers) do it to keep you from sniffing their handycraft code with the inspector. (That’s a joke.) The browser is no webpage-viewer-app any longer. Especially not when the “page” is actually a full-fledged webapp. As soon as an app
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   The author of the letter has earned at least a doctorate honoris causa. (S)he is a true civis reipublicae litterarum. Universities as we dream them, like Humboldt did, are alas a relic of the 19th century. They’re a lost romantic desire, li
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   by rhythmvs 13y ago

   You probably hit the nail with the popularization of science as the culprit for our captains-of-society’s obsession with measurability. And even more so with the institutionalized greed of law school sycophants. I don’t know about the role
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    Or someone speaking out of experience? I can testify[1] on the nefarious influence of MBA-like groupthink in academia: gigantic counterproductive bureaucratic overhead, obsession with pseudo-measurability of everything, from impact factors
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    Then you should check out the work[1] done by the brothers Erik[2] and Petr[3] van Blokland, e.g. Guess who wrote the draft for the W3C specs of the .woff @font-face format? [4] A type designer. [1] http://www.robofont.com/
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    When hackers start designing typefaces — lovely! But nothing new under the sun: Don Knuth worked together with Hermann Zapf (e.g. on the design/development of AMS Euler). Before that legendary collaboration, Knuth worked alone on his C
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    SPAM
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    (50) virtual currency that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or digital goods or services or otherwise exit the virtual world Too bad, indeed.
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    Cfr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140631
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    What is the Worst Mistake ever made in Computer Programming? [null](forbes.com)

    1 points by rhythmvs 13y ago|1 comments
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/07/12/top-ten-app-pa...
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    by rhythmvs 13y ago

    http://d3js.org/ => http://metamarkets.com/2011/hacking-hacker-news-headlines/ => https://news.ycombinator.com
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    No surveillance on HN before 2013-Q2…(hntrends.jerodsanto.net)

    2 points by rhythmvs 13y ago|0 comments
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    Opensource tradebot to guard Bitcoin against speculation (and hyperdeflation)(bitcointalk.org)

    1 points by rhythmvs 14y ago|0 comments