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Wow. This brings up some (bad) memories of working with an .epub export about 10 years ago. We had some embedded fonts to work around some poor rendering in some of the readers we …

There's the States Rights GOP, and then there's the Things Trump Doesn't Like. That executive order about paper straws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14208 ) falls…

A few years ago we did a road trip through that part of Texas, looking at the "painted churches" ( https://thedaytripper.com/the-painted-churches-road-trip/ - there are other itine…

When I first started in the industry, I worked in the documentation department of a small company. My boss had me write Windows Help files by hand before using tools like WinHelp /…

Yeah, I wish they would just keep the boilerplate OFL intact. I spent way too much time trying to figure out what the "real" license was, and if I could use it in my open source pr…

If this were Max Headroom snarkily reporting news, I might be more inclined to watch.

Yup. Which is why this question can give some good insight into how the company runs. Is it chaotic? Suffocatingly rigid? Or is there a pipeline to triage and introduce new feature…

They had these out at the local Costco last night. Just a card scanner. Honestly, it wasn't that different from the "wave your card at the person in the front" system they had befo…

Hybrid app developer here (Apache Cordova). The work that I do is pretty close to web development + some hooks into native code (which is done by plugins) -- so your skills should …

Looks like they _might_ have been in the study set, but weren't separated out and focused on? At any rate, the author is hoping for the same: "In the first edition of my book Why G…

As a middle-class Gen X-er, the FAFSA gives me PTSD already. ALL the hurdles, knowing that my kid won't get any financial aid anyway. I mean, what's the point? There should be an o…

"Best" is probably whatever you're familiar with. If your pre-pdf content is in Word, I'd just run with it -- most 'classic' word processors can handle the export to ebook stuff ju…

Care to elaborate? I look at the numbers in the article and my eyes glaze over; the only thing I got out of it was that they're urging India to bump its poverty level numbers. (I a…

In this case, the push towards simplicity and sanity is just acknowledging the reality that front end dev is... not simple. From the blog post: "Sometimes, people get angry at Reac…

Poops and car break-ins. Either data science people are really bored, or SF provides some interesting data points.

Ages ago (2010-2011 I think?), I worked on a tool that exported and packaged text into .epub format. At the time one of the biggest headaches was the lack of good font rendering in…

I'm curious as to _how_ the data was collected for this report. Did they use camera feed data? Walk-button push counts? HR rideshare incentive data? Sending out surveys? The articl…

There's a _slightly_ better one on the DOT site ( https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/president-biden... ), and that site links to a PDF with some more in depth info on th…

I resonated with Ezra Klein's "exodus shocks" concepts. With Musk at the helm of X, it just seems like there's the periodic random outrage that pushes people to at least try other …

Also - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blueskyweb.org Is there a way to get Mastodon linked news?

I wish more companies would do that. Just grind down the backlog and stabilize the code base. "Move fast and ... then go back and fix things."

Exactly this. I've got anecdata from people who have left because they can't afford housing, to retirement age people who are cashing in on their real estate and moving somewhere c…

Thanks for this (paywall and archive were acting up). The people I know who use Life360 definitely skew towards the Sky Is Falling mindset, so that puts the survey in context. Life…

This reads like a Zen Koan. :-) Lawns provide oxygen, filter rainwater, prevent soil erosion, and are better at absorbing / releasing heat energy than hard surfaces. But they take …

Yup, and Kickstarter as well. I realize I'm a bit of a fossil, but I do feel better about giving revenue to the artist as much as possible (Bandcamp, Kickstarter, Amazon downloads)…