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Re:The Complete Guide to HTTP/2 with HAProxy and Nginx on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:06AM (#11295740)
For simple setups Caddy [1] is great. It supports HTTP/2 out of the box, and even provisions the certs for you from LE automagically. The defaults are much saner than nginx.

[1] https://caddyserver.com/

Re:Chile is introducing free higher education on Friday May 08, 2015 @07:07PM (#9514637)
acceptance rates of around 1% are common for german art schools as well
Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative on Sunday January 25, 2015 @09:45AM (#8943024)
It does autosave (although as you mention the UI is not very clear on this)
Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative on Sunday January 25, 2015 @09:44AM (#8943018)
I'm not the author, but I believe he's welcoming any help on taking this further. There's a neatly organized list of things to do in the Github issues.[1]

See also his request for help on HN.[2]

[1] https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8942823

Re:How your phone is more powerful than ORION on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:45PM (#8726011)
Interesting that the dailymail looks and reads like the onion only it pretends to be for real:

The chips do not error check each other but instead perform exactly the same tasks, so that they can check the other for errors.

Re:5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6 on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:21AM (#8722315)
In Germany anyone on the telekom network who has a new contract or changed an exisiting contract in the last 16 months or so has IPv6.
Re:Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @06:18AM (#8722161)
Your third sentence seems to be missing a not
Re:Alibaba's Singles' Day sales exceed predictions at $9.3B on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:38PM (#8592009)
Please remove this url or wrap it in a pre tag, it breaks the page
Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers on Monday September 01, 2014 @09:01PM (#8255285)
Buy a used copy of 10.6 on ebay or just simply download it somewhere.
When have you been in Istanbul last? They've been expanding the public transport system a lot in the last few years (new subways, metros, a train running the marmara sea). I was there just a few weeks ago and had no problem getting around.
Did you even read it? It's about him.
Re:Btapp.js: BitTorrent in the browser on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:42AM (#7479961)
This requires the installation of some plugin to actually work. They made it sound like it was JS only.
You seem to get a locked down VPS. Looks like a Debian distribution, but no root access, no installing packages.
Re: on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @02:53AM (#5742241)
iOS 6 is doing binary diffs when you update an app. I have rather large app in the store and when I pushed a minor update, download took only a few seconds. This would have been impossible if it downloaded the whole thing, my internet connection is not that fast.
This is a lot of noise about nothing. They passed a well meant report on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU (not a law) containing this sentence: Calls on the EU and its Member States to take concrete action on its resolution of 16 September 1997[1] on discrimination against women in advertising, which called for a ban on all forms of pornography in the media and on the advertising of sex tourism.

The mentioned report is itself contains this sentence: 5. Calls for statutory measures to prevent any form of pornography in the media and in advertising and for a ban on advertising for pornographic products and sex tourism;

This was passed already in 1997.

[1]: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT...

Re:The Sorry State of Native App Typography Licensing on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @07:50PM (#4945720)
You have to consider that it's trivially easy to extract the full fonts from the app the enduser receives. For iOS just unzip the .ipa file, go to the Resources folder et voilà.
Re:Python open-source tool that generates images with a URL on Sunday November 25, 2012 @11:09AM (#4828408)
Older similiar service: http://placehold.it/
With an insight into font technologies, this is actually very easy to solve. Opentype fonts can contain TrueType or Postscript curves. These two have a very different approach to hinting: In TrueType the font is clever and the renderer is stupid (lots of very complicated hints in the font). In Postscript the font only has a few simple hints, and the renderer does the rest.

On Windows an unhinted TrueType text font looks horrid, an unhinted Postscript font is ok.

So, if you want an unhinted font, because you're using icons, just use TrueType shapes and don't hint them (like Font Awesome seems to do) (This doesn't cover the native mac renderer, it ignores any hints and does all the work itself)

Re:An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement on Friday May 25, 2012 @08:33PM (#4025973)
The font is really gruesome. Looks like a modern version of comic sans.

Use stuff like this for headers, never for whole paragraphs of text.

Re:"Lighten up" on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @08:53PM (#3737741)
I think there was another guy, first name Bill I think.
Re:The New Web Typography on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @03:53AM (#3446234)
That's actually an issue with that specific font. Try editing the first Verdana Example (3/4 Ale..), that works for me for 1234/5678.
Re:The New Web Typography on Monday January 09, 2012 @08:53PM (#3445281)
No, it's not. It works like it's suppossed to do for any (not actual regex) /d+ \/ /d+ . See screenshot here: http://imgur.com/gwlHJ

Fonts supporting the frac feature have a separate set of smaller numbers, and these get dynamically composed into fractions once you type them.

Re:Poll: Your preferred music for working? on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:10AM (#3162636)
Nothing electronic to choose from?

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