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by ward 13y ago
@eps http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
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by ward 13y ago
> Everything of his is open source (except palaver I think, it's paid) As an aside: one doesn't exclude the other. Though I'll admit the combination doesn't happen quite that much.
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by ward 13y ago
I believe they were free, or maybe the box...thing was just broken. I remember being amazed seeing The Onion in a printed version when I was in Philadelphia for a bit (I live in Belgium), always just assumed it was but a site. Saw them outs
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by ward 13y ago
That's actually Hacker News being terrible. Their font declaration is just "font-family: Verdana;" so if you don't have Verdana installed (which just about never is installed by default on Linux), it defaults back to the
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by ward 13y ago
I don't know about any HN groups or what not, but reddit has http://www.reddit.com/r/SteamFriend if you're in need of more people.
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by ward 13y ago
But isn't that exactly the thing about major releases? That compatibility may be broken. See also http://semver.org/
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by ward 14y ago
This argument doesn't fly when you are only taught to write in cursive, as is the case everywhere here in Belgium (and surrounding countries?), as far as I am aware. It still got overused here as well. I remember one teacher in highschool c
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by ward 14y ago
jgraham explains it in this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5307583
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by ward 14y ago
Most likely has to do with not having the font you are expecting (Myriad Pro), as well as different defaults in size in browsers. My sans-serif font that you are falling back to is Droid Sans at 15 font size. The fixed width of the svg you
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by ward 14y ago
Eeh, yes and no. I think their ( = Open Source Initiative) main reason for doing so is to give them the right to pursue sites/companies that would use their logo while not actually being open source in some sort of attempt to gain goodwill
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by ward 14y ago
It is built in in stable (at least it seems to be in the stable version in the Arch repos), you just have to enable it in about:config. If I remember correctly 'browser.preferences.inContent' has to be set to true and 'pdfjs.disabled' has t
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by ward 14y ago
He had a minor role (one of the drinkers) in the 5th episode of season 2 and was the villain (German prince) in the 6th episode of season 2.
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by ward 14y ago
While the way you express yourself is a bit... silly, I do agree with the idea behind your statement.
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by ward 14y ago
Yes, that's mentioned in the first paragraph of the article.
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by ward 14y ago
Well, it _does_. The second part is implied to refer to a different incarnation of it. Eg the original use "Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!" ("The king is dead, long live the king") refers to the previous king dying and a new one ascending th
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by ward 14y ago
In Belgium, that redirects me to http://baiedespirates.be/ , which in turn is a "StopPage" > You have been redirected to this stop page because the website you are trying to visit offers content that is considered illegal according to
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by ward 14y ago
I can't speak in grandparent's name, but as a Belgian doing the same thing my main reasons are: * Consistency 1. Most sites I spend my time on have English content. Same goes for programming, keywords are English, comments end up being Engl
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by ward 14y ago
This would be the article (blog post) in question: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
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by ward 14y ago
> Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. https://www.dropbox.com/about
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by ward 14y ago
It's been a year actually, but ye I imagine that had something to do with it as well.
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by ward 14y ago
Well it is experimental for a reason. As quoted from the bug report > The webkit-font-smoothing css property is, contrary to the summary, still working. It is still respected, as no lcd font smoothing is being applied. However, the bu
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by ward 14y ago
The sequence is enough, you just keep going till your fractions (multiplied by 4) do not change 10^-5 any more. You do not need the actual value of pi. As soon as 4 * 1/(2n+1) < 0.00001, then you can stop looping. The sequence is the al
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by ward 14y ago
This is the case, this particular news has been reported and HN frontpaged when it came in Aurora and when it came in Beta, iirc.
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by ward 14y ago
It was an add-on ("Tilt" iirc) before that too.
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by ward 14y ago
I was assuming this guy was some sort of troll, though the website seems too elaborate (and horrible). I think he's actually being serious... This one made me chuckle > Ideally, ALL browsers SHOULD support ALL extensions, I don't think
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by ward 14y ago
Why the "..." ? Am I missing something?
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by ward 14y ago
Because, as mentioned in the article, there was more interesting information to be found in the mailing list, which Phoronix combined into their blog post.
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by ward 14y ago
> People prefer Bing results to Google's results when they are served in Google's template. Source? Having compared Bing's results to Google's from time to time, Bing's seem much less relevant to the search term I'm using.
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by ward 14y ago
I've had my Acer Aspire 5670 since 2007 now, still serves me nicely.
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by ward 14y ago
For the LTS versions, there are "service packs" of sorts. Indicated by the last number. eg later this year you will see 12.04.1

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