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The law involves confiscating valuables and money, but it does so much more than that, including, but not limited to, increasing the waiting period for family reunification. People…

His former boss and predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Bush’s biggest supporter and ditto on the Iraq War. He has a vested interest in ignorance of the past—so much so that he s…

Oh yeah, that’s just quoted text from the original article, which deals with the phenomenon: https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/ . It’s not directly relevant to the af…

GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is. A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIF…

If anyone has a good library or a pro tip for making responsive charts, I’d love to know; I am somehow still having trouble implementing it: * http://bl.ocks.org/ndarville/11094667…

I love public transportation, and I love how good Denmark is compared to other countries. But this is not to say that we haven’t had absolutely execrable forays with our trains: ht…

You get a message in the top bar to “upgrade”, but you can’t click it, and if you’re not a nerd who follows tech news, you wouldn’t know that Microsoft want you to use the new Outl…

Can you describe the service? It’s blocked in my country, apparently.

It’s an old list by now, but I keep updating it; you can also contribute to the original list ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647 ) on which this was based. I’m sure you …

I once used a SaaS—or whatever you call the abstraction on top of that—and ended up paying $80 for a “sample” EC2 instance of theirs that was just idling, after I had activated it …

Communicating the progress of a project or feature is something really important I think open-source people need to realize, when they have a fairly non-technical audience. I think…

Funny you bring up the aspect of saving the trees, because I followed up the post with a suggestion for how Google can reduce the waste by taking more control of the print experien…

Over the many hacks (breaches, as companies prefer to call them) we’ve come to see, as a user who at times felt nervous about how I was affected, I have tried to write a simple gui…

Any people here who go to the dentist? Specifically, the American Dental Association's guidelines for heathy persons suggest that * children receive 1 x-ray every 1-2 years, * teen…

A while ago, someone compiled a list of Web and Mobile Revenue Models : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647 . I put the list on GitHub and updated it with new concepts I f…