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The NYT website has gotten worse and worse over the years. Decreased contrast, JS bloat, hamburger menu, etc.

Gros Michel bananas are still around.

The account is 25 minutes old, so I would assume so

It's still there: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R284ZDX360H6HC/ The site you linked to missed the first subheading, which is "Why you are reading this review"

The review pointed out the shortcomings of the first generation iPod. It isn't a review of the entire iPod line that would follow in the future. The first generation was only compa…

Correction: it's 5px high

It's a black line 1px high at the top of the page above the orange bar. Here's a snapshot of it from 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111006184954/http://news.ycomb...

Just because he's leading in the popular vote now doesn't mean he won the popular vote. The New York Times projects that Clinton will win the popular vote once all the ballots have…

Clinton is projected to win the popular vote once all the ballots (especially those in California) are counted.

The difference between this and Brexit is that more people voted for Brexit than against it, while more people voted for Hillary than for Trump.

The review has to be looked at in its context. If the sales figures on Wikipedia are correct, the device he reviewed sold just 236,000 units in Q1-Q3 of 2002. Apple didn't sell mor…

Look at this thread for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068732

You can read the site with JavaScript disabled if you also disable CSS.

That analogy doesn't work because your screen cannot reproduce every color that is perceptible to people. #000 is as dark as your screen is when the screen is turned off, which is …

Unless something has changed in the past 3 years, it's not a good license. See DannyBee's comments about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733050

I think C++ but I'm not certain about that.

The butterfly ballot funneled thousands of votes to Buchanan. Recounting miscast votes would not have helped.

Why is the 2000 election a disingenuous example? Bush lost the overall popular vote and it is almost certain that a majority of people tried to vote for Gore in Florida.

If you want to read more about the two different Stuxnet attacks, I highly recommend Ralph Langner's 2013 write-up "To Kill A Centrifuge" http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploa…

Yes. https://web.archive.org/web/20111006084129/http://news.ycomb...

I use a low brightness setting on my laptop because I am uncomfortable looking at bright screens for extended periods of time. I prefer the body text to be #000 on something close …

There was an interesting comment here about Kodak several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8978909

The contrast of the blue text(62a9e3) in the dropdown menu against the pure white background fails all WCAG guidelines. So it is not perfectly usable.

Or you can go to the beginning of the line, press Control-space (set mark), press Control-e (end of line), then Meta-W (copy), and Control-y (paste).

The WaPo article (the submission) mentions this bill, but finishes: "But New Mexico's law only affects state law enforcement officials. As a result, in New Mexico — and everywhere …