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I think there's value in giving money away publicly if it makes other people more generous.
i agree. america's financial system has been relatively constant since the 1980s but only recently have received overwhelming criticism due to the financial crisis and economic recession. when times were good, nobody complains. these protestors are just unhappy with their current circumstances. i admire their courage to voice their opinions but they need a clearer vision and focus in order to enact any change.
Just to say: my MBP runs linux (arch) well better than any of my friend's business-class laptops.

(Also, I think you meant to say "function for form".)
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At least with Firefox you can drag the images and get a trasparent onion-skin image to move around and compare any edges you want. It's still not much bigger.
Another way of finding your way around is city route numbers.

In South Africa most major routes in metropolitan areas have "M" numbers (metro route numbers). I once managed to navigate across Johannesburg using these alone.
Unfortunately, in Johannesburg at least, they are not widely noticed by the public, except on freeways, and increasingly not replaced when they are vandalised or stolen, but they are very useful if you know about them, both for finding alternate routes, and for orienting yourself when lost.

They are usually consistently numbered. In Greater Johannesburg, even numbers go east-west, while odd numbers go north-south, and the signs also include a compass direction. In Durban, where there has been a huge number of street renamings, they have become indespensible for me when I visit the city.

EDIT: As an aside, if you ever drive in South Africa, do not rely on Google Maps (which has numerous errors). Rather buy an up-to-date map book or GPS. The map books by Map Studio are quite good.
In Europe (1) streets are numbered starting from the end of the street closest to the center of the city. This is very handy for when you're making your way back to the center!

1: though I'm not sure how widely this applies, it's worked for me in several countries.
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> I can read a full line in 3 focus movements

I doubt it:

The distance the eye moves in each saccade (or short rapid movement) is between 1 and 20 characters with the average being 7–9 characters. Thus, the most impressive fact about fixations (the point at which a saccade jumps to) and saccades is that there is considerable variability not only between readers, but for the same person reading a single passage of text. - [1]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that would put you at the extreme end of the bell curve; it's more likely you're not aware how much your eye is moving.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_in_reading
Io always looks so tempting but it seems like just a "play" or learning language... Is it worth diving into regardless?
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I saw a story recently about the new big rss feed. I planned to subscribe to it today but when I visit http://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss the page says "UNKONWN" - am I missing something or is it broken?
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Do you think that we need to see changes in current social networks using 12-14 pixels for their body copy?
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There are Go packages for Debian and Ubuntu at least ( http://go-lang.cat-v.org/packages ) plus a binary distribution for Windows, and installing in other systems is quite trivial:

$ hg clone -u release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ go
$ cd go/src
$ ./all.bash
>These ideas were always obvious in our culture.

Then why did the iPod/iPhone/iPad come from Apple and not Produce?

>which was distinctly against the grain of hacker culture

Really? All the dev tools I use work better on Mac than windows. I don't really care how well they work on Linux because the Linux desktop makes me spend too much time doing something I don't care about: administration (which is why I dropped Windows too, btw).

>and his own technical ability was sub-par.

Nice, everyone loves judgmental people. Even if you're right, who cares? As you say, he was a great entrepreneur. In some ways, that's the greatest of hacking: hacking the world into wanting something you've made.

>innovating luxury goods is about as far from that as I can imagine

Again, he put the computer in our hands in a way that no one had before (at least not to that level). If we ever get to the star trek or minority report (the good technology parts) world, what Jobs made will be the first steps of the stairs that take us there. That's not a "superficial" impact.
Definitely also just had mentioned the same thing before reading this. But do you think that they should increase their size? I often tend to look closer to read posts and also just followed their font sizes in a similar project =\
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Maybe I'm just different, but I like smaller font sizes. It makes it easier to take in more text quicker and do it with less scrolling. I am 26 though. I'll probably change that opinion when I'm 40. I think having the browser zoomed out one level looks best to me on some sites.
> But part of me just wishes there was a way to dive in and get my hands dirty

There is a way. Just. Effin'. Do. It. Last time I checked they don't ask you for a CE degree to work with jQuery, Rails, Objective-C, etc. Just jump right in and start building stuff.
Yesterday in #go-nuts we were discussing better names for close() which currently causes so much confusion, my suggestion was end(), but done() is a good one too.
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My feelings exactly.

Left-wingers got us into this mess in the first place by demanding that banks give out subprime loans to people who would never pay them back and Clinton promised these banks that the US Government would bail them out in return.

Now that same liberal left got bitten by their own ideology and who do they blame? The banks and Republicans, of course! Republicans bailed out the banks (because they were obligated to by Clinton) and the "greedy" banks loaned money to people who couldn't afford to pay them back!

If the liberal left used their brains for once they'd see that they caused these problems themselves. They have no one else to blame but themselves.

Instead, they blame everyone else for their problems.

It should be blatantly clear that the liberal left do not believe in taking personal responsibility nor do they believe in free will.

For if they believed in those things, then it's not the banks they'd be blaming at all. The banks didn't put guns to people's heads to take out loans that they couldn't afford to pay back. The banks didn't just wake up one day and decide to start giving out subprime loans. No, they were pressured into doing it by the liberal left's own greed.

They made their bed, now they can lay in it.

They better not come begging me for handouts. All they ever did for me was force my taxes to go up and try to drag me down with them. No thanks.
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Wow I did not even try to do that - just assumed it was a screenshot. You know what they say about assumptions...
Scheme's name didn't change, only PLT's implementation of scheme changed it's name and called itself a new language.
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not sure what you were hoping to do with this post, unless it was generating ill will towards yourself. if that was the case, mission accomplished.
"While you could have built a "thin" client that runs in the background and powersweb based streaming, why go to all the trouble of building and distributing client software when you could build the real experience? There is tremendous value in controlling the client software real estate and it allows for a much snappier experience"

I wonder where else he thinks this might apply
>Contaldi pointed out what he thought it might be, OPERA is saying "we don't think that's it, here's why", not "you're wrong, our results are correct". //

I don't think that's it! [see last line].

Surely they're saying "you're wrong, that's no why our results are incorrect"?

"We don't think that's it" is just the polite version of "you're wrong" is it not. Of course one can (and should where possible) counter with "no you're wrong, here's why".
In Japan if you ask someone for directions and they don't know it, rather than say that they want to look helpful and will make something up.
"But what you do expect is a government that isn't run by the special interests." -- Barack Obama

LOL. Says the man who gets money from special interest groups.

The liberal left are all about special interest groups.
Go is specially a huge step backwards from C++ in convoluted insanity.
Hmm, they've changed the date. It has "always" 24 of March.

Drama provided: http://blog.findingada.com/blog/2011/03/03/ada-lovelace-day-...
I figured he was very ill when he turned over Apple.
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Steve Jobs was one of the greatest biologists of our time
I think facebook has more going for it than the fontsize.
I really like that quote too, but that doesn't make it true.

Being able to freely develop software on all the CPUs I own isn't an essential freedom.
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Just saw this on Metal Hammer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPHnZV0K-k&feature=player_embedded
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Now that we have Unicode fonts, we can bring it back!

“Dear Mr. Jones: I am pleaſed to reply to your meßage of Tueſsday laſt, requeſting my ſervices as a ſoft-ware engineer...”
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (Does somebody know when this was shot?)
I can reach all the way around the far edge of the device, holding it as I normally do. Perhaps what you are missing is the way I hold my device.

I hold my device resting on my fingers, not gripped in my hand. The first knuckle joint (i.e. the one closest to the fingernail) of my index and pinky fingers are aligned with the center line of the back of the device; the device is balanced on top of my fingers. This gives me the biggest range of movement over the surface of the device, and more importantly gives me better fine control over what my thumb hits - not only is thumb movement a factor, but fine finger movement as well. Adjusting the angle of holding the phone doesn't mean "shifting the device around in my hand" - it merely means changing the angle of my fingers.

I think a bigger factor in how the iPhone is better designed than most other phones is how touchscreen sensitivity drops off around the edges (if this behaviour is indeed deliberate). Before I moved to Android, I used to hold my device gripped between my fingertips and the center of my palm, but I found this didn't work as well with the Nexus One, because the sensitive edge of the touchscreen meant that the little fold of skin from my palm was creating phantom touches on the screen edge. So I stopped gripping my devices; I now hold them all resting on my fingers when I'm using the touchscreen.
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I've trained specifically on this by reading thick books of prose like Ulysses,Dhalgren,Gravitys Rainbow etc. where the context is more important than the specific meaning of a sentence, the goal is to try to read faster than I can think, and then parse the information when I have more context. It's also possible to read too fast for any comprehension at all, and then slow down a little and take advantage of speed-blindedness - you'll read faster than you did before.

One thing that slows down a reader is focusing on individual words. Try instead to focus between two words, and use secondary focus to pick out the words next to it without re-focusing.

http://www.speedreadingtechniques101.com/meta-guiding
I usually find spreadsheets harder to compare when it gets bigger (similar to the comparison table on wikipedia). I have added the first few sub-lists on Romku:

http://www.romku.com/list/343885/communication-phone-mail-st...

http://www.romku.com/list/343886/bug-tracking-issue-manageme...

http://www.romku.com/list/343887/collaboration-filesharing-s...

http://www.romku.com/list/343889/customer-relations-software...

Please let me know if you find it easier to navigate and I'll create the other ones (you can see the lists of lists here: http://www.romku.com/lists)
Same here; since Chrome remembers your zoom settings per-domain, I sometimes forget which sites I'm viewing zoomed versus in the default sizes, so when I use a fresh browser or a different computer it comes as a surprise how unreadable some of my frequently visited sites are (HN being one).
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That's assuming you care about concurrency in a low-level systems programming language. If my problem space requires concurrency I'd use clojure or erlang.

I guess if you're interested in one language for everything then maybe Go is better.
Stallman is consistent and vastly intelligent and whilst his comments can be seen as insensitive he is quite correct that Steve Jobs did suppress software freedom.

We don't go to Stallman for sensitivity (you're a dolt if you do), we go to him for the truth, no matter how painful. We can all do with that sometimes - http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to...
Not that I am saying you're wrong, but he could be denying this to avoid giving a tip to Google, couldn't he?
Maybe you'd also like to include a PR tools / press release platforms section?

A few press release platform suggestions: PRWeb, PR NewsWire, PitchEngine, PressDoc (disclaimer; I'm one of the founders)

Media relations: Blogdash, Meltwater Press, MyMediaInfo
PLT Scheme was always a different language -- the name change merely makes that clear to everyone else.
He means "for the most common monitor DPIs", duh.

The problem is: due to the need to mix and align with bitmap graphics, web design is most convenient when specifying font sizes in pixels (except for simple pages, like HN and such, fluid designs cannot cover most cases in a mainstream enough fashion).

So, given that, he had to mention a specific pixel setting. But he took into account most common DPIs. For the majority of users they do not vary that much, around 100-120 dpi.

(Btw, have you read the article? He is aware of that, and he even gives examples of 16px in different DPI screens).
I can't believe you got downvoted. No, wait, yes I can... this is HN, domain of the liberal "it's society's fault" left.
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Why "16 pixels"? Wouldn't scaling fonts based in cm/inch make more sense to be resolution independent, especially important on mobile devices?
Yeah I wasn't clear, I mean one of the big things putting me off using D more was having to download DMD, so I'd be more inclined to write Go, if this gets merged I won't be.
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Yes, unless (if I'm not mistaken) the user has changed their default font size.
Or, better yet, don't set the font sizes or font faces on your web site. I picked defaults that work for me. Don't override them.
wow. I wonder though is there some kind of meta motive to this, can people really be this stupid?
Thanks, I was wondering why so many sites are broken on WebOS.
Serious question: Why do we need the old almanac entries anyway?

I can see current and future, but the almanac's data seems worthless to me.
The biggest failing I see this is argument is hierarchy. Sure, 16 point Georgia looks sexy as hell. If you have a text heavy website with little navigation, I'd definately recommend it. But in real world design situations, it's a mess. Even the Information Architects site looks flat. There's no easy way to guide the eyes because everything is ultra readable. There's no structure. It's an idealistic shortcut to readability.

For me, the most pleasurable reading experience I can think of is Instapaper on an iPad. What's the default size on that? I could be wrong, but I doubt it's anything larger than 14-16.

Besides, is it really a "costly mistake"? Is Facebook is failure because the text is small? Is Apple's website is design disaster? Both sites (and many more) feature a mix of large and small text with modest sized body. They're navigation is thought out and structured.

The 16 pixels argument encourages the opposite of that.
I agree, what an asshole. Saying that the world will be a better place after someone dies should be reserved for mass murderers and lobbyists - it's a harsh and inappropriate statement about a leading industry figure, whether you agree with that figure or not.

For example, I violently disagree with RMS on a lot of things, but I still believe he is a visionary, and Open Source is a valuable concept that will always be an important part of my life. And I won't be "glad he's gone" when his time comes. Too bad he can't do exactly that for Steve Jobs and give the man some respect. What he displays here is nothing but irrational hate, a mean and low move on RMSs part.
Can we get over specifying text size by pixels already? You don't know what DPI monitor I will have when I look at your pages.
Steve Jobs :A Rebel, Visionary and a Marketing Genius -tribute to the iCon
The rest of the site is 12px — only this article had a body copy size of 16px.
You know who comes out looking awesome in this story? Wil Wheaton.
This was hard to understand:

This doesn’t mean that Android isn’t, but it has become something of a Linux fork. That doesn’t, however, as some recent reports had it that Android and Linux are somehow in a fight with each other.

I just gave up and glossed over that part.
How do you know it wouldn't have the reverse effect, and make others think, "Oh, now I don't need to bother, Gate's has this..."?

I don't have the source handy, but I remember reading about when Gates and Buffet went to Germany with their giving pledge. One of the German billionaires they approach replied something to the effect of: "Why should I give money to support life-saving research or to feed the poor? Isn't that the job of the government? If I give the money on my own, then that removes the incentive for government to figure out how to take care of societies ills."
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Yeah, I set my paragraph font size to 100%, which Chrome tells me is 14px at normal zoom level. Maybe I should bump it up to 115%.
This cracks me up. The PR company consists of 6 people ( http://brandlinkcommunications.com/who-we-are/ ) all of whom are Vice President or Senior Vice President or Partner. They call themselves PR people but their contempt for the people they work with (or try to work with via their spam emails) is palpable.

Then, when one of them fucks up in a major, major way, they don't even check whether they need to go into "damage control" mode (answer: yes, because bloggers who are funny and write well can make or break you) but instead continued on their self-destructive course. The PR company is clueless on so many levels it's hilarious.
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You can also define a "minimum font size" in your browser options. This trick really changed my life. Sadly, the rendering can turn ugly on websites with a poor and/or overly complex design (e.g.: facebook.com).
This is an important issue to consider, but talking about "pixels" alone doesn't get us far in this context.

For one thing, different fonts have different design characteristics. In particular, the x-height of one sensible body font at a nominal 16px could easily be 50% more than the x-height of another. Sadly, while CSS lets us specify a stack of fonts to try, it doesn't yet let us specify a different size to go with each one so we can achieve a similar optical result. (CSS3's font-size-adjust might be intended to help here, but seems overcomplicated and underpowered to me.)

For another thing, these days pixel densities can vary by at least a factor of 3 between devices. The latest iThings sometimes do better than the 300dpi that used to the be benchmark for a laser printer. For a classic CRT or cheap and cheerful TFT, something more like 96dpi is common. At least you can detect this to some extent in CSS, because the new devices with very high densities also tend to support media queries so you can present larger text (in pixel terms) and higher resolution graphics accordingly.

If we're going to improve the way we present text (and graphics) on the web for people whose vision isn't perfect, it's going to take a much more flexible styling system for the web and probably a lot more real world experience of what works and what doesn't as well. As much as I respect people taking a stand on behalf of those who can't see as well as some, I'm not sure advocating a fairly arbitrary 16px guideline is helping.
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Does the median Facebook user have younger eyes than the rest of the web?

A counterpoint: NYTimes.com sets their article paragraph font size at 1.5em (with a roughly equal line height).
I zoom most of the sites I read mostly due to the number of characters per line. When it is greater than 120-140, I can't focus on the line I'm reading.

And that is by the way another reason I love fixed size layouts: you can zoom them however you like.
I'm 37 and I zoom almost every website I use - I also like to be distant enough from the screen. I also very often use ctrl+A to have white text on blue background (I know, most designers will hate me at this point - but keep in mind that I usually sit in front of a screen 12 hours a day, 10 hours a day on weekends...).

Last thing, I just hate sites that use facebook comments - eg techcrunch - because fonts don't scale there. As a matter of fact, I never read comments on those websites.
Yep, when the eyesight starts to go down it goes pretty quick. I expect to be hit any day. Still at monaco 9pt.
He is, indeed, the only one in this story I didn't want to tell to get over his or herself.

(Question: is it "his or herself" or "him or herself"?)
This shows the incredible influence that Steve had on the tech community. Unlike others who have disrupted the world like him, we can at least be glad that he got to witness the incredible impact that he had.
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And the most disturbing part is that the PR guy thinks that "PR firms and PR people ... are actually the livelihood of any journalist's business." Disturbing that he thinks it, and disturbing that it's actually true for some journalists.