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The problem is that plastic recycling in general just doesn't work that well. If you want to make any sort of difference then reducing the amount of plastic you use & throw away is essential.
Re:Time to rebuild the web? on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:30AM (#16875286)
You can find some here: https://hashbase.io/
That's a modern addition.
Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:53PM (#10853208)
http://netflixable.com/ has an overview for a set of countries. Maybe yours is among them.
Re:The Itch Nobody Can Scratch on Friday December 19, 2014 @05:36AM (#8771720)
I think you are thinking of "hominid".
Re:The Scientific 7-Minute Workout on Saturday October 25, 2014 @06:00AM (#8507734)
I can't find it in the NYT article so maybe it was in the original paper, but I'm pretty sure the 7-minute workout was always meant to be repeated three times (although maybe not directly after another).
Re:N2O: Erlang Web Framework on Friday May 16, 2014 @06:43AM (#7754802)
But even then you're left with compressed text. If you're concerned about the amount of data you're sending on the bit level, then you're throwin all that out the second you start pumping out JSON.
Re:Cue, the home lab for quantified self on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:53PM (#7745068)
For me on Chrome, there seems to be some broken loop somewhere. It continually requests and then cancels those requests to certain sprite images. It still downloads at least part of them though, so you're getting maybe ~100kb/sec continually downloading for as long as you're on that site.
Re:Graph TV – The Simpsons on Saturday March 29, 2014 @06:41AM (#7491912)
The distribution is a result of the low number of ratings. Look at the number of ratings for each episode. For all those early 7.3-7.4 episodes it's about 600 ratings, the higher rated episodes have more ratings. Then from about season 12 there's a drop in number of ratings to about 300-400 for most episodes.

Compare this to the Game of Thrones ratings[1], where each episode has about 3000 ratings.

[1] http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0944947

Re:WTF, HTML and CSS? on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:17PM (#7460662)
I haven't run into that limitation yet, but I've had a client site which suddenly had started looking broken in IE. It turned out that it had exceeded the 31 stylesheets/style tag limit. This was a site where the CMS theme/template set a few styles, but then was packed with extra widgets loading up to 10 styles each.

The solution was of course to simply join the CSS files where possible. But it definitely was a bit of a WTF moment.

Re:Noob stories on HN on Saturday March 22, 2014 @08:08AM (#7448732)
There's also the "over" one which allows you to set a points threshold.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=50

Re:Pop-Up House: The affordable passive house on Sunday March 16, 2014 @09:38AM (#7409364)
1 meter = 3.28084 feet

1 square meter = 10.7639 square ft

Re:Brick. Webfonts that look good on Sunday March 16, 2014 @07:10AM (#7409006)
Speaking of the cache and download sizes, when I reload the Google specimen the font files return a 304 (not modified) status while the Brick ones return a 200 code and have me download the files all over each time.

So for me it's 300k each time the page loads (Brick) vs 92k for the first page load and ~0 each time after that (Google).

Is this just me?

Re:Free Fonts for 2014 on Sunday March 16, 2014 @06:52AM (#7408970)
Why is it so hard to provide a nice sample sheet for fonts? Just a paragraph (or just a sentence for display fonts) in the various weights would be a huge step forward in most cases.

Just compare the samples of Hallo Sans (the first font in this list): https://www.behance.net/gallery/Hallo-Sans-Free-typeface/132...

To that of The Enschede Font Foundry's Trinité: http://www.teff.nl/fonts/trinite/pdf/trinite_a3_print-600.pd...

Re:Developer quits GitHub due to harassment on Saturday March 15, 2014 @05:32AM (#7404136)
Well, "fuck" is okay too (for some people apparently). As in "Fuck you, pay me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U (not by anyone from github, but still industry related).
Re:iOS 7.1 on Monday March 10, 2014 @06:11PM (#7376031)
Does taking advantage of the technology in the newer devices automatically mean you must have degradation in the older ones?
Re:Unicode support in MySQL is... on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:57PM (#7320325)
In that case, why not use latin1? Or hey, why not just ASCII?
Re:Redesign: From PHP/MySQL to Node/MongoDB Stack on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:12PM (#6555633)
The article's title is "Redesign: From PHP/MySQL to Node/MongoDB Stack". And isn't about going from PHP/MySQL to Node/MongoDB at all. Instead it's mostly about putting together a one page app sort of thing, rather than putting everything together server side.
I tried a Bing image search for Michelle Obama. The suggestions I get are: wedding dress, craig robinson, 2007, dess, swimsuit, fashion, eyeroll, pregnant. And I turned off safe search.
Re:Are you a psychopath? on Saturday May 04, 2013 @04:55AM (#5654503)
I suspect you enjoy it when other people are enjoying themselves, and that you don't get your enjoyment out of the manipulation itself.

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