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aiaf

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    Comment #42019215

    Apple can bring in new users beyond Pixelmator's wildest dreams. This is definitely a product/talent acquisition. And Pixelmator has almost 2 decades worth of development already b…

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    Comment #39614906

    I'm happy it worked out for you!

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    Comment #39579944

    You're welcome but frankly I shouldn't do this nor should any one besides Apple. Apple has failed the community of PWM and temporal dithering sensitive individuals for almost a dec…

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    Show HN: Stillcolor – Reduce eyestrain on macOS by disabling temporal dithering

    Recently got an M3 Max MBP which gave me severe eyestrain after less than an hour of use. Turns out the major cause for that was temporal dithering at the GPU level. I built Stillc…

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    Comment #25056080

    Adding USB-3.1 back now will only serve to confuse customers and 3rd party device/accessory manufacturers.

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    Comment #24624091

    What is "low usage" by Google's standard? A million users? 10 million users? What may look like a blip on Google's radar possibly eclipses a successful startup's entire profit-gene…

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    Comment #18038558

    Wikipedia's content license allows that and probably saves them a bunch of bandwidth costs to boot.

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    Comment #13643569

    I've only checked the anchor tag, and it is lacking. It should link to the URI RFC to illustrate all possibly valid syntax for the href attribute. Also doesn't mention 'javascript:…

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    Comment #12910410

    Google has its own TLD? Neat.

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    Comment #11684030

    What does "going gold" mean in the videogames industry?

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    Comment #11655688

    Should show a loading progress indicator for the demo because that took ages & I thought it was broken until I inspected Console.

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    Comment #11026568

    Controlled magnetic fields!

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    Comment #10398070

    Have you tried Google's Noto Nastaliq? https://www.google.com/get/noto/#nastaliq-aran

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    Comment #10398011

    Hey mahmud! Thanks! :)

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    Comment #10398003

    The Arabic type design community is already tiny, but there's a good number of really beautiful and well-designed Arabic fonts out there, and equally talented designers. My font he…

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    Comment #10397968

    Not using true red. This is what I'm using #AF476E

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    Comment #10397966

    وإياك

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    Comment #10397954

    Thanks! Yes this fixes it. Updated the page.

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    Comment #10396085

    Will put up the source code on Github very soon. I just need to organize everything a bit.

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    Comment #10396083

    It's very hit and miss in terms of code editors. For example Sublime Text has no complex text shaping at all. It actually renders Arabic as disjointed letters. The JetBrains series…

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    Comment #10396058

    The font's designer here- glad you guys like it! I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it. The f…

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    Comment #9672677

    Computer Modern, the typeface built for TeX using Metafont that gives academic and research papers that signature, serious look, was designed by Donald Knuth with the guidance and …

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    Comment #9123708

    The login link on top takes you to a non-secure page :/

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    Comment #8649610

    Web-based proxies are not anonymous. Specifically, Javascript proxification is lacking in all of them, and your IP address will leak one way or the other.