The UNRWA has found rockets in their schools on multiple occasions: http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-...
Do you find this page visually overbearing because all of the non-downvoted comments are #000? I have never seen a page of text on a computer screen look overbearing because its color was #000 and not lighter.
That is poor advice which doesn't account for the difference between computer screens and ink on paper. The deepest black you can get on a monitor will not be as dark as certain inks on a page.
It's a shame that the "readable" mode has #333 body text instead of #000.
Could you please change the body text color to something closer to #000, if not #000 itself? The current contrast ratio fails WAG AA and AAA standards for normal sized text.
You should restart FF with addons disabled (Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled) and then compare the two. If you want a "passive web browsing experience" on FF, you could create a separate profile.
If you read that document carefully, you can see that the EFF edited one of passages that they quoted and did not mention their edit, which is a big no-no. The original letter says: (this exact number has been selected…
It's pretty clear from the smiley in the title that he was just teasing her. I just found it odd that he would write it in the title of a blog post meant to be read by thousands of strangers. It's like shouting some bit…
The command line is the heart of Unix and Friends, which is why it wasn't abandoned decades ago. And it's almost impossible to replace the *nixes because of network effects and extraordinarily high costs. The command…
Yes, typing is usually faster than cursive. However, most keyboards are not ergonomic and years of use at high speeds will most likely lead to RSI or at least sore wrists. And there are still be plenty of times in life…
Cursive handwriting, when done with proper technique, is faster than block and does not cause hand cramps or wrist pain.
>The information about amphetamines made an impression. His friends at times tried to discourage him, but he claimed that without them, he could create no mathematics. Given his colossal output, this means that a…
Transistors and semiconductor advances were far more important than UNIX or C. You can't have modern computing without the underlying hardware, but it's not hard to envisage an alternate reality where UNIX or its…
A Concorde could not outrun an F-15, which has a maximum speed of more than Mach 2.5 at the cruising altitude of a Concorde. And an F-16 would only need to get close to a Concorde in order to shoot it down with missiles.
You should say "smart phones" instead of "mobile phones". The Nokia 3210, which came out in 1999 and was bought 160 million times, has similar dimensions (same height and smaller width) to the iPhone5, and although it…
> GC'd languages haven't proven themselves useful for things like OSs, What about Lisp Machines?
For what it's worth, I also know several lawyers that were unhappy when they were eventually forced to switch from WP to Microsoft Word.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120217011347/http://danweinreb....
> the font is incredibly difficult to read. "Fonts" are computer code. Typefaces are what you see, unless you're editing the font that will set the type on your screen.
Really? Do you know of any research that shows this?
Try changing the values of dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_chrome_script_run_time in about:config to lower values so that unresponsive scripts can be killed faster.
Off topic, but #999 on #FFF (author title and background color, respectively) fails the WAG guidelines for color contrast.
You'll probably like Lambda The Ultimate. It's a Programming Languages weblog with discussions and forums, but their traffic and updates are miniscule in comparison to news.ycombinator. If you're a busy PhD student,…
Efficiency really depends upon the keyboard you're using. If you use a keyboard with thumb clusters, the control and meta keys are under your thumbs and you don't need to twist your pinkies at all.
The fact that nitric acid is a strong, very corrosive acid (pKₐ of about -1.3) is not exactly esoteric; a high school student taking A.P Chemistry understands that. The story about nitric acid reminds me of my favorite…
The UNRWA has found rockets in their schools on multiple occasions: http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-...
Do you find this page visually overbearing because all of the non-downvoted comments are #000? I have never seen a page of text on a computer screen look overbearing because its color was #000 and not lighter.
That is poor advice which doesn't account for the difference between computer screens and ink on paper. The deepest black you can get on a monitor will not be as dark as certain inks on a page.
It's a shame that the "readable" mode has #333 body text instead of #000.
Could you please change the body text color to something closer to #000, if not #000 itself? The current contrast ratio fails WAG AA and AAA standards for normal sized text.
You should restart FF with addons disabled (Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled) and then compare the two. If you want a "passive web browsing experience" on FF, you could create a separate profile.
If you read that document carefully, you can see that the EFF edited one of passages that they quoted and did not mention their edit, which is a big no-no. The original letter says: (this exact number has been selected…
It's pretty clear from the smiley in the title that he was just teasing her. I just found it odd that he would write it in the title of a blog post meant to be read by thousands of strangers. It's like shouting some bit…
The command line is the heart of Unix and Friends, which is why it wasn't abandoned decades ago. And it's almost impossible to replace the *nixes because of network effects and extraordinarily high costs. The command…
Yes, typing is usually faster than cursive. However, most keyboards are not ergonomic and years of use at high speeds will most likely lead to RSI or at least sore wrists. And there are still be plenty of times in life…
Cursive handwriting, when done with proper technique, is faster than block and does not cause hand cramps or wrist pain.
>The information about amphetamines made an impression. His friends at times tried to discourage him, but he claimed that without them, he could create no mathematics. Given his colossal output, this means that a…
Transistors and semiconductor advances were far more important than UNIX or C. You can't have modern computing without the underlying hardware, but it's not hard to envisage an alternate reality where UNIX or its…
A Concorde could not outrun an F-15, which has a maximum speed of more than Mach 2.5 at the cruising altitude of a Concorde. And an F-16 would only need to get close to a Concorde in order to shoot it down with missiles.
You should say "smart phones" instead of "mobile phones". The Nokia 3210, which came out in 1999 and was bought 160 million times, has similar dimensions (same height and smaller width) to the iPhone5, and although it…
> GC'd languages haven't proven themselves useful for things like OSs, What about Lisp Machines?
For what it's worth, I also know several lawyers that were unhappy when they were eventually forced to switch from WP to Microsoft Word.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120217011347/http://danweinreb....
> the font is incredibly difficult to read. "Fonts" are computer code. Typefaces are what you see, unless you're editing the font that will set the type on your screen.
Really? Do you know of any research that shows this?
Try changing the values of dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_chrome_script_run_time in about:config to lower values so that unresponsive scripts can be killed faster.
Off topic, but #999 on #FFF (author title and background color, respectively) fails the WAG guidelines for color contrast.
You'll probably like Lambda The Ultimate. It's a Programming Languages weblog with discussions and forums, but their traffic and updates are miniscule in comparison to news.ycombinator. If you're a busy PhD student,…
Efficiency really depends upon the keyboard you're using. If you use a keyboard with thumb clusters, the control and meta keys are under your thumbs and you don't need to twist your pinkies at all.
The fact that nitric acid is a strong, very corrosive acid (pKₐ of about -1.3) is not exactly esoteric; a high school student taking A.P Chemistry understands that. The story about nitric acid reminds me of my favorite…