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klint
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Comment #39722271
Yep. CCBill is one the bigger/better known in that space. I’m guessing Gumroad just doesn’t think it’s worth it.
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Comment #39518750
Fraunces is lovely, free and open source, and available on Google Fonts.
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Comment #33972621
Author here. This was a fun one to work on. Kept finding out about new things I wish I could have squeezed in there.
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Comment #32829937
OP here. There are a few projects that I wasn't able to work into the story that I think are worth a mention (though some of them are in that Awesome Terminals round-up linked in t…
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Comment #26909526
This article says local officials were also holding his passport so that he couldn’t legally leave: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/chief-mate-strand...
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Comment #24052092
Here are a couple of round-ups of studies: https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2014/11/... https://www.truthorfiction.com/dyslexie-font/ This study looked at OpenDy…
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Comment #22764737
ReaFir is amazing.
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Comment #22553511
I'll second Metafilter. It's even from the same era.
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Comment #22092403
I was going to reply with something along the same lines. Dropping the keyest keywords is a particularly big pet peeve of mine. For those "needle in a haystack" type queries, inste…
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Comment #21591151
That objection, and others, are addressed in the project FAQ[1]. It's already possible to open and edit a PDF in various applications. [1] https://editablepdf.org/faq/ >But isn’t t…
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Comment #19467775
I wasn't comparing Solarized's blue text to the color of television, I was comparing its gray background to television. In my experience, static is white and black (mostly white), …
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Comment #19467557
Hm, maybe but that's not what I had in mind. I was thinking of the way an old Magnavox looks when it's not displaying anything, like when you've just switched it off but it's still…
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Comment #19466753
Author of the article here. I never interpreted that opening line as referring to static, but to gray of a blank television screen. Otherwise why not write "the color of television…
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Comment #16934669
Is your new job writing Go, or do you just think learning it just make you a more attractive candidate?
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Comment #16643747
And Jackson is really expensive. Not quite Bay Area expensive yet, but Seattle area expensive. There are some parts of the state that are cheaper, beautiful, and less wind blown, l…
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Comment #16431132
It's pretty easy to miss IMHO. The project could probably benefit from having this spelled out on the homepage.
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Comment #16388525
I've never heard the "hot lead' explanation or heard the word pronounced as "led." If I had to guess, I would guess that deliberate misspellings arose for the reason I find them us…
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Comment #15553578
Does anyone else find it bizarre that he writes "Quinn Norton, by her own account, physically accosted me[...] While it is admirable that Quinn wanted to defend the honor of anothe…
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Comment #14937921
I hope someone posts it soon. This sounds like a dream come true, but I'm a bit weary of punching my SFTP credentials into an app by an unknown company without any idea of what it'…
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Comment #11491335
FWIW, Buzzfeed chair Ken Lerer says the company isn't slashing its revenue targets this year and that it did hit its Q1 target[1]. No one seems to be denying that they missed their…
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Comment #11472818
Guardtime?