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knowuh

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About knowuh

Poppa, creative-genius, random-crank, software developer, scaredy-pants entrepreneur, crafty daydreamer, & king of typos. http://paessel.com/

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    Comment #30848296

    I can't tell you how much I love that your first example of contrast failure is HN. > Our favorite orange website isn't leading by example, either. Some comments are almost unreada…

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    Comment #29123063

    Orca is amazing, and it's creator Devine Lu Linvega is inspiring too. Listen to this future of coding podcast where he is interviewed about Orca : https://futureofcoding.org/episod…

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    Comment #28078603

    A consequence of using block-justified texts is creating gaping chasms or rivers of white between words, that looks amateurish.

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    Comment #28078562

    I am sure the ROI would be Amazing!

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    Comment #27195568

    I hope this means i will be able to buy a graphics card soon.

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    Comment #26483083

    Picassa was the best thing miss it so.

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    Comment #24847938

    Upvoting because of spicy sailor talk.

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    Comment #24507610

    For a 2x speed up, I am not sure I would be willing to sacrifice legibility as in the example. The OOP method definition reads like english. The article suggests the true benefits …

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    Comment #23498633

    The cynical anti-intellectualism in this thread is bracing. All part of the zeitgeist I guess. News is fake. Science is fake. Schools are barriers. Everything is subjective, object…

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    Comment #23480356

    Thank you!

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    Comment #23479924

    Is there an open directory of radio stream URIs? Like if I wanted to build my own tiny radio streaming client, where would I look for the streams? I tried snooping the network tab …

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    Comment #22548145

    I am old enough to remember when US media was lobbing criticism at China for downplaying the threat to the public. We are what we think China is.

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    Comment #22203694

    'responding to it' is engagement, and there is a financial incentive for that. So the algos are boosting controversy, to boost engagement, to boost financials.

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    Comment #20841738

    I came here to say this ⬆ Glad someone else did it for me, better than I could have.

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    Comment #20442762

    ding ding ding ⬆

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    Comment #20124745

    If they did chase such a lawsuit, it would expose them as having serious double standards as per the recent Pelosi news item: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/facebook…

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    Comment #20051589

    Someone has to put a deepfake Zuckerberg video up on Facebook where he forecasts a terrible financial quarter. Maybe that would have some influence about how seriously they take ta…

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    Comment #19547611

    I have enjoyed the elitist jokes that were on the internet and which you were probably saving for April 1ˢᵗ Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and IRONIC

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    Comment #19420878

    Why is this the top comment? It hasn't been edited. I can't even decipher it.

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    Comment #19399837

    This is my favorite (and the most unexpected) Hacker News comment of all time. Thank you.

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    Comment #18546830

    A 'full-time dad' must mean different things to different people. To me, it's incompatible with working full time. Making them breakfast, seeing them off on the bus, picking them u…

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    Comment #18472223

    Can you provide an example? This might be the first time I have heard a critique from that angle. Many of my capital-skeptic friends were against the bank and insurance bailouts wi…

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    Comment #17627187

    I download ebooks from my library.

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    Comment #17346355

    You could use that argument to defund any infrastructure you wanted, existing or proposed. In the long run, not funding infrastructure has the same effect as killing it. Once a siz…