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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
His former boss and predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Bush’s biggest supporter and ditto on the Iraq War.
He has a vested interest in ignorance of the past—so much so that he shut down the investigative committee for the very same war as one of the first things when he won the election last year.
Comment · 10 years ago
Oh yeah, that’s just quoted text from the original article, which deals with the phenomenon: https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/. It’s not directly relevant to the aforementioned article. :)
Comment · 10 years ago
GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is.
A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIFs to HTML5 video, and I crashed and burned pretty hard: https://ndarville.com/asides/webvideo/.
I gained a new appreciation of GIFs that day.
That said, it would be great if we got a compromise where browsers can load only the first frame of the GIF and play the reminder on click or touch to save all the loading and data—on both sides, really.
Comment · 11 years ago
If anyone has a good library or a pro tip for making responsive charts, I’d love to know; I am somehow still having trouble implementing it:
Comment · 11 years ago
I love public transportation, and I love how good Denmark is compared to other countries.
But this is not to say that we haven’t had absolutely execrable forays with our trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4.
What I mean to say is that, sometimes, public transit is less something to “figure out” than something to “get right”. We got public transportation right, but we’ve been doing our darndest to fuck it up on multiple occasions.
Comment · 11 years ago
You get a message in the top bar to “upgrade”, but you can’t click it, and if you’re not a nerd who follows tech news, you wouldn’t know that Microsoft want you to use the new Outlook app instead.
So the effectively broke all Exchange/Google-related updates for people at work and home, since the app stops to fetch updates—I stopped receiving e-mails from what I can tell.
Comment · 12 years ago
Can you describe the service? It’s blocked in my country, apparently.
Comment · 12 years ago
It’s an old list by now, but I keep updating it; you can also contribute to the original list (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647) on which this was based.
I’m sure you have more great suggestions for what can go on the list; new models keep popping up with companies like Patreon.
Feel free to—also—post your suggestions on the Gist. GitHub currently does not support notifications for gists, so don’t get mad if I don’t get back to you. :)
People put it in quotes, because they think it gives them an excuse to use the misnomer, which is bad journalism on their part.
It’s basically in the interest of the administration that people only thought the bill concerned jewelry confiscation, as it distracted from all the other heinous things in the text.
The former bill, which has since become law, is L87 (ie Bill 87).