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The extreme values for "Optical Size" really alter the character of the font for me. Changing the angle of the lower arc of the "e" for example really alter how the font feels, and…

Also see The ParkRoyal on Pickering in Singapore. https://wp.architecture.com.au/international/award-for-comme... Today the plants along the edge have grown and hang off the balcon…

This is pretty cool. A couple of years ago I found an old map of Singapore and built page to compare it with a contemporary one [1] - this a lot better! The reclamation completely …

This is cool. I'm pretty excited about AWS lambda. Keep in mind the current limitations of the AWS lambda at present: A process can't take longer than 60s. Only 25 concurrent execu…

I'm almost disappointed to see a post like this with no comments - because while it's often quite negative - HN comments often provide me with context and a counterpoint that's rea…

That sounds secure, but help me understand: Is it the same password everywhere? How do you manage the different passwords for different services? How do you enter your password to …

I agree somewhat, but I think the article underlines a problem with the Genius UI as it is now, rather than the concept. The current Genius UI of 'annotation' restricts the concept…

Base82? You mean base62 - 26(letters) x 2 (other case) +10 (digits)? Or am I missing something?

Yeah, but shouldn't they try to pay people back before they spend what's likely tens of thousands of dollars on what amounts to superficial marketing? I mean, it's not even much of…

www.gox.com is now redirecting to mtgox.com. For an organisation which is insolvent they must have invested a fairly significant sum on a 3 letter .com domain. This happened yester…

Which by itself is great news. The Indian program involves giving multiple doses of the oral vaccine to babes (Pulse Polio). Unfortunately the number of does of the oral vaccine ba…

I'm afraid I don't remember. I read somewhere that when asked to count in their minds, people count in one of two ways. It's my understanding that the majority do so verbally, soun…

I tried a number of things over the years, and the technique that finally worked for me was counting in my head as I read. By occupying the verbalising part of my mind I found I wa…

This looks to be from the same team that produced singapore's http://getgom.com/ - Go Away MDA, a response to non-optional censorship of several adult websites in Singapore. If so …

Carmack has been talking about working on it for for well over a year now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-DlWwlXHo . When I saw that last year, I thought it was already his co…

I think it's a fairly well implemented hack. One question: does the iPhone mail client load the contents of iframes by default? Don't these clients typically not load remote conten…

I did not realize you could setup a MX record for a wild-card subdomain. It would seem like there are lots of applications for that setup - how come it's not something I've seen do…

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426239067/424327227/banksy-kid... This piece which you see sold to 'the lady from New Zeland', seems to be part of a run of 25 pieces and priced at 10…

And I believe the codes on the TWIT network are not limited to a single term like this one.

LibreOffice is commonly used as part of a system to convert and generate previews for MS Office files. I would assume it has something to do with thumbnail generation or preview ge…

Example of the the baader-meinhof phenomenon? I learnt about this it a few days ago, as its the same phenomena used by Brain Brushwood in this weeks scam school - http://www.youtub…

> How many Americans have been killed by drones? A handful? How many of those were actively fighting for terrorist organizations? All of them. (American born) Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-…

I didn't realize spot instances were so much cheaper than on-demand. A small on-demand instance is ~47$/month

Didn't the order require the statement to be: 1. Made on the home page itself 2. In a 14pt font which (according to http://www.getallfix.com/2011/11/convert-empxpt-and-in-css/) sho…