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Using Unicode shapes and vector-based icons is a great step forward. They're not suitable for every use-case but for most purposes they work well. Lately I've been using Font Awesome[1] to a great extent.

Is there a tool that lets you simulate what a site would look like on a high-DPI/Retina display? Is it simply enough to zoom the page in to get a feel for it?

[1] http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
Upvoted you to counter-act the "college P.C." brigade.
>>>/reddit/
I don't think the point is whether we care or not. The claim was that Reddit powers the news cycles and gets them before Gawker, HuffPo and all the other sites.
I hope the cards won't end up becoming badges of honor for creeps.
God forbid someone get confused at the expense of a better and more efficient implementation. Little children get confused by long English words. We should take them out of the dictionary.
Sure I can give a brief description! It's an iOS game, think the gameplay style of Tiny Wings meets the action/adventure of Indiana Jones.

You play as Heroku the Ruby, screeching through the Git Mines, trying to escape to the outside world before being debugged.

While trying to escape (and rack up a high score) you must rescue baby Gems left on the rails by the evil Webrat.

It will be really fun level based gameplay, with multiplayer to race and compete against friends.
I'm not trying to suggest that designing for different display sizes is simple. You are conflating two problems.

Firstly there is the problem that devices have a wide variety of screen sizes and usage scenarios. Your phone has a different number of pixels per arc-second than your laptop.

Then there is the problem that your computer is actively lying to you about what physical units are and what the screens DPI actually is. This makes working around the first problem harder.

The first problem requires a judgement call by the developer, and even some input from the user in many situations since e.g. some users just prefer bigger text. (Although most games dont seem to care about this so arcseconds/pixel at the "intended" viewing distance is probably a reasonable way to scale the text.)

The second problem is so horribly endemic that I doubt it will be fixed in any meaningful way for a long time.
>Addendum: I use vim and pentadactyl. They are extremely awesome, fantastic, and exhilarating.

Hell yeah! In fact, I came to Vim through pentadactyl because I wanted a way to browse without using the mouse. I second the description of "exhilarating": navigating pages from the keyboard is much, much faster than clicking on links (except in those cases where the poor site design makes the clickable buttons undetectable to pentadactyl... Psst, HN search result navigation, that means you)
You mean ▲, right?
Also nerd cred.
> If you, or any of your friends, are incapable of appearing in public without [flirting, hitting on and/or touching] another person, the problem very much does not lie with the person on the receiving end. [... Wait what?]

Adjusted that for you to illustrate a different perspective.
This is similar in many ways to MarkItUp (http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/), which I've had good experiences with.

One potential pitfall with JavaScript preview of Markdown (or Textile, or any other similar language) is that if you're not using the same script to transform the content at the server side, the final output can contain subtle differences. Not all implementations are precisely equal. If differences do occur, that can be frustrating for the user who just carefully previewed their work.

An alternative (albeit a more resource intensive one) would be to make ajax requests back to the server and have it perform the transformation and return it to the page. Unfortunately, that's probably not going to be satisfactory for realtime previewing.
Even this is not sufficient information to re-flow the design as many users prefer larger screen objects or may simply be unable to use your application due to vision problems or other disabilities.
Alternatively it doesn't care at all. I mean, it may not even try to check the incoming encoding or do anything with it and you'd still get the right result if your browser behaves in a sane way (that is sends utf form contents to this site). It's just some bytes after all.

But I don't know the arc internals - does it do anything interesting with unicode?
Am I the only one here against this proposal? I sometimes browse HN from my phone (outdated Nokia with Opera Mini), and I get a rectangle instead of an arrow.
I'm sorry. I meant "the business" as in "the business you're representing", not the "business" as in suits.
So in this case dressing in wacky t-shirts and mohawks.

Actually, as you put it, wearing a nice business suit might be a good solution for women at defcon. It would buck the trend of dressing whacky forced-casual, making you stand out and garner attention, and, noone is going to grab the ass of a suspected federal agent.
Funny thing is that this is how "classic" IE (<=6?) used to calculate things. I personally always found it to be the more sensible way. Not sure why the standards body decided to do the opposite, and then only implement border-box as an afterthought.
Could you give us some use-cases where it's not suitable? Thanks :)
> it is the way nature made us

What utter bullshit. I've been in plenty of bars, while drunk, and never felt the need to sexually harass anyone.

You're just excusing sexist, asshole behaviour.
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And the ring that binds them together is Pentadactyl's Ctrl+i, which opens the the textarea with focus in GVim, and then loads it back when you close the editor. I'm typing this in it ;)
Man, it's crazy how huge r/keto has gotten! It's surrrreeeaal. It feels like I started it only a short while ago! </pride>

I also just now realized the hilariousness of the username I chose for HN!
When you want an icon that isn't one color (font-base icons like Font Awesome or using Unicode), or when you require a graphic with a high amount of detail. There isn't really a good, cross-browser solution for that that I'm aware of. SVG works to some extent but I don't think it's very easy to work with. Another instance where image-based icons win over font-based icons is when the icon has a lot of small detail. Like a shopping cart (that isn't just a solid, but has the little lines) or an icon representing a list. The lines look imbalanced or one will be thicker than the other. I'm sure this is different across operating systems and browsers but the problem exists. Though you can fix that by never using those icons at a small size.

Edit:

One thing I hadn't thought of that was brought up by another commenter is that some people override the fonts used in a site's stylesheets and force only their font preference to be used (mostly for readability). This would mess with font-based icons. I can't think of a way to detect this but it's something to consider when choosing font-based icons. Maybe JavaScript betrays the actual font being used and you can detect and patch it at run-time for those users.
The foremost cause of sexism is the fact that many males (consciously or subconsciously) perceive women as mentally and physically weaker (and indeed the average woman is physically weaker than the average male, that's just the way nature played the cards for the human species).

Sex-drive is not really as much of a problem with regards to sexism. Sex-drive causes sexual harassment, which is not sexism. If a male were to sexually harass a female, it would not be sexism because he is not giving males special preference over females). If a male were to make a female employee engage is sexual activity for a raise, it would be sexual exploitation, not sexism.

My main gripe here is basically that "sexism" has become an umbrella term to describe many things it does not apply to, and thus, a misnomer.
>>>/b/
right, because a page made on tables feels like needing micro-optimization for the arrow

/a></u></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table border=0><tr><td><img
On the other other hand, it takes 83 bytes of HTML to represent the image tag which requests that 100 bytes of image. It only takes a couple of bytes to represent the Unicode character.
W.r.t your Todo list, have you tried VimOutliner? It's excellent for that, even having macros for checkboxes and such.
You can configure minimum allowed font size in almost any browser.
> The problem is probably not that women are not being respected or valued.

What the hell else do you call it when someone grabs your ass?

No-one grabs my ass at hacker conferences. You know why? Because I'm a man.
But why not recruit them idividualy or as a team the Ex Digg employes are not indentured.

This is the way the City (london) works its common for whole teams to be head hunted en block but the ex employers dosn't get anything.
I’m more concerned with the lack of DOCTYPE and old-school HTML.
Not excusing it, explaining it. Do you see the difference?

If I tell you that serial killers kill people because it is the nature of sociopaths, I am NOT EXCUSING it, I am EXPLAINING it.
> Expecting women to be okay with "Like the man who drunkenly tried to lick my shoulder tattoo. Like the man who grabbed my hips while I was waiting for a drink at the EFF party" is not discrimination?

Simpler explanation: those guys were horny, drunk and/or being really really forward. But was the woman harmed? Heck no. Also I'm always amused by these stories of people who go to bars at night and then are shocked, SHOCKED that there are horny, forward, inebriated people there. Clearly, that should be a highly professional, sober, uptight and asexual environment. If someone wanted that kind of attention they would have gone to the library or a local church where that stuff belongs.
Two of the newest programming languages that I think have potential are Io and Rust. Io is a mash up of languages with speed similar to lua and has a list like syntax of lisp.

I wonder if anyone can explain why they have not tried to incorporate some of lisp's syntax as it is more efficient for linked lists I think. And I thought part of the reason for Rust's development was for very fast/efficient concurrency that is properly garbage collected.
To many high profile names falling in the last few weeks. Must remember to always use different passwords.
(IE 5.5 and older.)
Github's button-bar is nice, but let me throw up another offbeat idea: a hybrid toolbar/cheatsheet. It'd have:

• a toolbar-like row of pulldowns: one for 'range/inline' markup (like bolding), one for 'block/paragraph' markup (like headers, blockquote, code-indent), and one for complicated inserts (like link+linktext, image+alt)

• each pulldown would be filled with side-by-side entries showing both markup and effect, like the best cheatsheet/reference pages are laid out

• selecting a bit of markup would do 'the right thing' with the existing insertion point or selection-range

Thus a user might momentarily click then dismiss the dropdown just to refresh their memory of the syntax, or actually pick from the dropdown for assisted inserts. (If they're regularly picking items, it could reorder by 'frecency' for convenience. If they're usually just looking, it might instead order by some form of 'infrecency' [1] – don't bother showing familiar constructs that have been recently typed.)

[1] At the moment while there are thousands of Google hits for ["frecency"] there are none for ["infrecency"]. It's an infrecently needed concept.
>What are going to be your first "written-using-Rust" apps ?

Rust compiler is written in rust, so that would be the first "written-using-Rust" app. Additionally afaik the work on rust-based web-browser (engine) has began, so that would be second (major) project for rust.
I completely agree with this - and if you look at open source software that shines through. The projects with the better documentation, the thought through engagement process for new developers, the appropriate oversight, good delegation, etc, etc win over the 'better coding' ones.
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> Men have to approach women, or they don't laid.

Hopefully, a reduction of sexism in our society will also change things like this.

A longish article on the general subject of how sexism hurts men, too:

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/156194/what_abou...
How do you prove its not encrypted? How do you destroy the basics of logic by proving a negative?
> I do not believe this has got anything to do with sexism

> That is our culture

Has it ever occurred to you that "our culture" might be a bit sexist?

> Men have to approach women, or they don't get laid

1. Approach doesn't have to mean sexual harassment

2. Women can like sex too. And women can approach men too. mind blowing, no?

> He probably needed to do something like that and get away with it to be happy?

What? What if the "something like that" were rape? What if it were murder? This whole paragraph reeks of you not thinking women's consent/feelings on who touches them matter.

> I grab my girlfriend's ass sometimes

Can you really not see how this is different from grabbing the ass of a random stranger at a professional-ish conference?

> Teach men how to express their sexuality in a way that works.

Damn, I was really hoping you were going to end that sentence with something like "that doesn't make women very uncomfortable" or "that doesn't make women feel undervalued or disrespected". I guess this far into your post I should have realized that your "solution" would also be entirely from the man's perspective of "getting" sex from women. And herein lies the problem that both you and the men at the conference share: you view women primarily as a means to sexual gratification. If you view men primarily as intellectual peers and women first as sex objects and only secondarily as intellectual beings, that is sexism.
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> so as not to educate themselves about what it is to interact respectfully with other human beings.

Indeed. Especially in a bar or hotel at night in Las Vegas at a convention full of adults. What the heck were they thinking? Save that rowdy animalistic raw sexual behavior back for your corporate IT office cubicle in Podunk, Iowa. :)
Some Vimmers (like me) remap a key combination (pref one you rarely would want to add to the text) to Esc so you don't have to leave the home row. I use ;j or lkj. (and If you actually want to type those in insert mode, just do it a bit more slowly or with ;ji escape-inserts between the characters. Generally, it takes a long string of keystrokes before moving off the home row is faster.
"PC" just means "Being polite to everyone"
And please make the up-vote button larger than the down-vote one. (They're not really logical opposites and their use frequency is quite different.)
Really? Those are completely irrelevant to me and I have no idea why anyone would care as long as the site functions. It's not ideal and I wouldn't encourage it but does it really matter?
Heh... sure. That's an apt analogy. The "frat party environment I was stepping into" is totally comparable to elite colleges.

/s

I feel like what was really going on is that there were n young girls at defcon that went to defcon knowing what defcon is like. They were completely fine with it, enjoyed being hit on and maybe got some one on one time the cute hacker across the bar.

Then this one entitled lady that thinks is all wrong, and makes cards about how the people that made the conference she wants to go to are creeps.. and guys here read it and think they've gone wrong somewhere.
I also zoom in to 125%, not sure if it's just me, but for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up.

Out of curiosity, I was wondering why the triangle wasn't a CSS triangle.. wouldn't that be more efficient than a gif?
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Downvoted you to enact the "consider an idea for what it's worth and not react to your perception of who wrote it while desperately attempting to preserve your prejudices" agenda.
And please put more whitespace between links so us iPhone users can press on links without accidentally hitting the comments link. Thanks :)
Wow, and you learn new features every day. Thanks! (It probably teaches such a trick in the tutorial but early on I was busy de-Vimming the actual text input in browsers when I first installed it...)
Unsure why the downvote since the original is wrong. To be clear,

cut -d: -f3- | sort | uniq -c | sort -k2 -n

would be sorting the output of uniq(1) by the password, treating them all as numeric. Depending on one's locale that gives results like

1 00auditt
100 babygirl
1 00beetle

or

1 100671105192
1 100997162005jm
2 102030405060
1 102990091404
> Males are sexual

So are females. Go to a club where males are stripping for women and you'll see women doing things that would get a man kicked out of a titty bar.

Thinking otherwise is 19th Century nonsense. Go back to Ancient Greece and you find the play Lysistrata, where the entire point was that women were so ruled by their sexuality that the very idea of them withholding sex was absurd.
Not necessarily. The gif is requested once and cached, and then rendered once and cached.

The CSS triangle would get rendered over and over again.
I use the CommandT plugin: ,/ and then start typing fragments of the filename / path to open.
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Incidentally, using arc-seconds-per-pixel does not necessarily make a good default - I want a smaller text size on my iPhone not just because I hold it closer to my face, but also because there just isn't as much screen real estate and I prefer to deal with somewhat smaller text to avoid scrolling.
> I would love to see men handing out these cards too.

I would love to see men being able to hand these cards to women without being ridiculed.
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Best 404 - Terminal page with dynamic questions.
1. The * selector is slow

2. No IE < 8 support
So rename pt to something else in the API, if it really bothers you. But don't try and make all the existing software that uses a "12pt" font be 4.216867mm, because rightly or wrongly that isn't and has never been what it means in a computing context.
If you are implying that the grandparent post is misogynistic, it is not. The commenter shows no apathy towards women (as a general sex) - he does however pick on an individual (who happens to be female), but not because of her sex; rather, because she comes off as "whiny"; I suspect the commenter might write the same about a male.
No way, sir. Saying 'you entered the wrong password' in that case is not any more confusing than the ambiguous error that says 'you got one of them wrong but I'm not gonna tell you which.' most reset password systems are keyed to your email address anyway.
It means that a 300px wide image won't fit inside a 300px wide box any more.

You need to decide whether your sizing for each element depends on your layout or your content, and choose accordingly. If one way is more useful to you nearly all of the time, then use it that way.

However, also be aware that the star rule is the least performant rule in CSS (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1714096/why-is-the-css-st...).
> for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up.

++, although my eyes are giving up, and getting a high resolution / small screen size MBA didn't help.
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>So, which size should the font be if i'm designing for both those screens? pt sure isn't the answer.

I think the "small", "medium", "large" etc would be the best choice. Those by definition should be always the correct size.
> The image is only downloaded once, but each page you load re-requests it.

No, it most definitely does not does not.

> There's no Expires header being set, so your browser is not caching these images.

You're out of your mind, of course the browser caches it, the browser caches everything it can by default: http://i.imgur.com/hrmIs.png

> A full roundtrip to the HN server to get back the "content hasn't changed" status code (304) is required for each.

That is not even remotely close to what happens in the actual reality we're part of.
Right, I forgot we were on HN where everyone's salary is $10k/month and investors throw piles of cash at you.
> Boys get to play with LEGOs without the stigma.

But a boy who plays with a Barbie gets the shit beaten out of him. Possibly even by his own parents.

> while boys who behave the same way are praised for being "assertive".

... and develop stress-related problems at a higher rate, and die years younger than women.

Everything cuts both ways. Everything.
The way to reduce this type of sexism and increase understanding is through more interaction, and not less.

Yellow and red cards may achieve segregation, but they'll also introduce fear into the mix. A man who receives one of these cards, for whatever reason, will think twice before he talks to a girl at a conference again, just as a girl who has been grabbed once at Defcon thinks twice before ever going to Defcon again.

People deal with fear and stress in funny ways. Adding one more layer of fear in a society that is already a little too afraid of the opposite sex will only backfire more in some other way.

Men who grab women do so because they're afraid to talk to them. Similarly, every time a guy says "hello" to an overly paranoid girl, she'll think that he wants to get in her pants.
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I don't use spaces, I find actually enforcing a multi-space policy to be pretty hard work.
Actually what I read here seems rather relevant to my opinion on what maybe should be discussed about implementation to Rust: http://www.antigreen.org/vadim/ProgLanguageComparison/lisp-c...
Please forgive my technical ignorance, but can an encrypted cookie be dropped in to my browser cache by a web site? Could an encrypted image with hidden information on a web site end up in my cache? If so, millions of people could have terrorist data in their caches and never know, nor have the key to decrypt it. Also, who has that file Wikileaks published as "insurance". Any one got the key? Any one know whats in it?
Sigh. You are deliberately obtuse, aren’t you?
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I'm not a fan of "what did you expect?" as an argument either, but such an argument isn't misogynistic. Perhaps ignorant.

If you're sick of HN, have some fun and waste some time here: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-le...
Downvoted you for being a rude asshole.
Interesting post, but I don't think risk is the fudndamental driver of markets, scarcity is. And that's what drives the value of risk up. Risk isn't rewarded per se by the market, otherwise people who were willing to jump off cliffs in the hope they might live might find themselves rewarded. But people who jump off cliffs to find the last gold ingot may be rewared for their risk if they find it.

Hence same with startups, don't just take completely stupid unjustified risk, but if it's in the hunt for something valuable and scarce the risk can be justified and if successful the reward disproportionally large.

And to quote you "that's how you can make a lot of money!"
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No, those articles leave me depressed because of all the idiotic sexists that rear their ugly head in the comments.

I mean: What. The. Fuck.
who says it shouldn't be zoomable?
A little fear on the part of a man given one of these cards isn't equivalent to the fear of a woman who has been grabbed.