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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 co…

#000 is easier to read on devices with that have dim backlights.

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 in…

It's a shame that the "readable" mode has #333 body text instead of #000.

It's a collection of some of the best rants from the Unix Haters mailing list that existed in the late eighties/early nineties. The people that were on the list usually had experie…

Have you read the Unix Haters Handbook? http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Sure, you could write a kernel in Lisp or Forth. But if you are a developer for a kernel that written in C/C++, you don't really have a choice.

The new interface requires more clicks than the last one in order to select the options, and since I don't agree with the default options, it is quite annoying. The contrast for th…

> There's also nothing wrong with cars which don't pop the lock back open if the car is off and the key is in the ignition, except that when such a technology exists, is pretty che…

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.

What? In what context?

I have installed lots of extensions on FF because I find them to be useful. If I were to use Chrome as my primary browser and wanted the same features that my current FF setup give…

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 …

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…

Yes. Keyboards with thumb clusters, e.g. one made by Maltron or Kinesis, make key chords as natural as pressing a single key on a regular keyboard.

As others have pointed out, Eich was not fired. His resignation was of his own volition. It's perfectly legal and acceptable to not use someone's product if you don't agree with th…

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…

I got the old website when I visited it, but based on the image that another user posted: http://i.imgur.com/m2d1Gf4.png the text color of the description for search results is aro…

Perhaps that's what the term means to the author. To others, it's a synonym for a drunkard or alcoholic and has nothing to do with flirting.

> The only way to avoid this IPC-handler-explosion in the design is to define the set of IPC objects a priori and mandate all programs know how to handle them. Then, there are O(1)…

> But Ruby is an acceptable Lisp[0] Yes, (as tptacek said), just like Esperanto is an acceptable English. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416589

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 ext…

Well, yes and no. If you want to look at something very small, you have to learn how to use a microscope. It's not that hard to learn how to use a simple microscope, and you can ma…