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The only mistake of this man is that he didn't account for the reality distortion field.

Thanks for making the Web a more horrible place (step by tiny step)... well as long as I can force my browser to use the system sans-serif font for all web pages, all is good

Honestly I'm amazed by how unanimously friendly Hacker News (and Reddit) are to Wave. It was the anti-suckless - overengineered, XML and web-based, anti-privacy, pampering users in…

The reason why we should use HTTP authentication is similar to why we can have custom stylesheets, or why everyone should just use nntp instead of web forums, or a MUA instead of w…

The written method is old, but good. It makes VIM a usable Lisp environment, and it's good for any interpreter with a REPL. Recommended.

Then you need to try the following things: - vim or emacs - tmux or screen - tiling window managers - zsh Each of these things result in a massive usability increase.

> You're not speaking about desktop applications / games Those apps aren't hard to develop because libraries or the environment or whatever; they're hard to develop because their d…

The major advantage of "Desktop Linux" (that I've been using happily for quite a few years now) is that it's utterly unlike Mac OS X or Windows. We use Linux not because it's free,…

Aha, so this is what an iPad developer does. "In order to answer the questions: Is the font big enough? Does it render well? Is the Schriftbild (text impression) inviting or reject…

ANECDOTE coming up: I recently bought a Nexus One, and it's the BEST friggin phone I've ever owned. I am one very happy camper now Responsiveness, Maps, speed of Maps, the browser …

Sorry, Joel Spolsky has been fantastically, offensively wrong often. Significantly often. Attracting negative attention should be considered normal.

Somehow the whole thing reads like pointless wanking to me. But I'm not a graphics designer or whatever

maybe more people are starting to realize that PDF is total shit, furthermore hard-paginated formats are obsolete and ridiculous today