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Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
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You're nuts. OBVIOUSLY http://orange.bikeshed.com is the correct URL for reading this on HN.
http://ff6600.bikeshed.com/ to be precise. I'm impressed with how much effort he put into his dynamic subdomain parser. More obscure colors work as well: http://fuschia.bikeshed.com/ http://limegreen.bikeshed.com/
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http://ff6600.bikeshed.com/ to be precise. I'm impressed with how much effort he put into his dynamic subdomain parser. More obscure colors work as well: http://fuschia.bikeshed.com/ http://limegreen.bikeshed.com/
He does NO parsing; the subdomain is literally applied to the . http://libria.bikeshed.com/ http://thezilch.bikeshed.com/
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http://ff6600.bikeshed.com/ to be precise. I'm impressed with how much effort he put into his dynamic subdomain parser. More obscure colors work as well: http://fuschia.bikeshed.com/ http://limegreen.bikeshed.com/
He does NO parsing; the subdomain is literally applied to the . http://libria.bikeshed.com/ http://thezilch.bikeshed.com/
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
I personally love getting phone calls. Luckily the crackdown on spam calling seems to have worked in the U.S., so it's always family or friends. It's a great pick-me-up ("someone was thinking of me!"). Several of my friends don't find it charming, however...
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
It's actually becoming quite common for people in their 20-30's to dislike the phone. I personally love getting phone calls. Luckily the crackdown on spam calling seems to have worked in the U.S., so it's always family or friends. It's a great pick-me-up ("someone was thinking of me!"). Several of my friends don't find it charming, however...
However, I have what some people call an "old generation" feel for it. It's not that I would rather text than talk on the phone, it's that I would rather not interact unless it's in person.
I text only one person frequently - my significant other, throughout the day. Sometimes family and friends text me, but otherwise, I don't reach out that way much.
I do use the phone for any communication that is more sensitive, lengthier, more important or more personal than texting, however, and I prefer it to texting. It's just that, where possible, it doesn't match up to seeing a person's face too.
EDIT: I probably seem really introverted...ironically, I'm not! I'm a life-of-the-party jokester kind of personality in social contexts. But isn't it annoying when you're texting and someone misreads the tone? Or when you're making faces or elaborate hand gestures on the phone and the other person can't see it?
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He does NO parsing; the subdomain is literally applied to the . http://libria.bikeshed.com/ http://thezilch.bikeshed.com/
If you look at the page source he actually does parse the color to determine if the text should be white or black.
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It's actually becoming quite common for people in their 20-30's to dislike the phone. I personally love getting phone calls. Luckily the crackdown on spam calling seems to have worked in the U.S., so it's always family or friends. It's a great pick-me-up ("someone was thinking of me!"). Several of my friends don't find it charming, however...
I'm in my 20s and I hate talking on the phone. However, I have what some people call an "old generation" feel for it. It's not that I would rather text than talk on the phone, it's that I would rather not interact unless it's in person. I text only one person frequently - my significant other, throughout the day. Sometimes family and friends text me, but otherwise, I don't reach out that way much. I do use the phone…
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If you look at the page source he actually does parse the color to determine if the text should be white or black.
To be pedantic, he does NO parsing _of the subdomain_; he "parses" the computed-style color designated by the browser's parser.
To be correct, he parses the subdomain. The input is what is "parsed".