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orangegreen

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    Alright, shameless plug. I spend a ton of time trying to style this table of city data I had as nicely as I could. Getting CSS tables to not overflow in containers is a nightmare. …

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    Comment #28277017

    It's not really about you. It's about preventing other, more vulnerable people from getting sick. Living in a society means giving up some of your freedoms in exchange for security…

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    Comment #28267496

    Or, once companies start paying for interviews, they start outsourcing all of their work to interviewees, never hiring anyone. I don't think this would ever actually scale well, bu…

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    Comment #28257429

    I agree, I hate how long it takes for the title attribute to show up when hovering over elements. It takes a few seconds, where any decent tooltip will take maybe 0.5 seconds or so…

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    Comment #28222887

    I wonder if using a color e-ink display would make the art look more appealing on a wall.

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    Comment #28211565

    One of my favorite YouTube niches is turtle unboxing videos.

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    Comment #28168958

    I am very happy many news sites are now behind paywalls. There is now less of an incentive to drive revenue via clickbait or "picking a fight" as many tabloid journalists are wont …

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    Comment #28157359

    I'm not sure why utility frameworks are so popular. It seems like Sass solves most of the problems of vanilla CSS. Writing Sass is not only quicker and more powerful than regular C…

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    Comment #28118139

    What did people do before CSS transforms? I've been making an app with React Native and react-native-svg and even though react-native-svg supports transformations, I've had to do a…

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    Comment #28110768

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y This is the TED Talk you're talking about.

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    Comment #28088579

    I've bought numerous Thinkpads and I still can't find myself using them daily because of the awful trackpads. It's not even the tracking, it's the amount of force you need to put o…

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    Comment #28076224

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions...

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    Comment #28012917

    You can use eBay if you don't want to use Amazon. Plus, you can even sell your stuff on eBay when you're done using it. I've never been an Amazon customer and don't plan on ever be…

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    Does anyone know any good alternate search keywords when trying to find "Best x under x?" Content marketers already know that people search "Best x" when doing shopping research, s…

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    Comment #27946280

    What I really dislike now about YouTube's algorithm is its insistence on showing short videos. I do not come to YouTube to watch 30 second videos. If I want to watch short videos I…

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    Comment #27866446

    A good start up has a good business plan. Making money from your business can be a very interesting endeavor. But you have to at least be interested in the product in some way, or …

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    Comment #27810992

    How does one launder money / evade taxes with high end art?

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    Comment #27767357

    The auto-rotoscoping feature seems very useful if it works well. Auto-rotoscoping in After Effects can be extremely finicky and usually requires frame-by-frame touch ups. This woul…

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    Comment #27711938

    I've never been an Amazon customer. I like to buy things in store. If I want something that isn't in a store, I will buy it from eBay. eBay also tends to have better prices than Am…

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    On the bright side, maybe this will push more people who find this appalling to install Linux on their computers.

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    If you want a more manual solution you can get the Chrome extension Stylebot [1] and add this custom style for nytimes.com: #app > div > div { position: unset; overflow: visible; h…