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Re:Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:54PM (#6630724)
state names on hover would be helpful
Re:Don't solve the solved problems on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:49AM (#5448008)
most of these services wouldn't be around if they had taken that advice ;)
$ pngquant -iebug image.png
Re:Sell your TV: you're better off without it. on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:51PM (#4055362)
productivity is in the eye of the beholder. maybe I should sell my computer and watch more tv...
Re:Most popular browser missing (Chrome)... on Thursday May 24, 2012 @06:41PM (#4020971)
opera? wtf
Re:Yahoo Axis on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @10:24PM (#4016460)
how to make chloroform… creepy. did anyone else notice that in the "ad"?
function now_Im_feelin_so_fly()
Re:Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon on Monday February 13, 2012 @03:10PM (#3587141)
> Do better.

exactly. be an evangelist, not a brogrammer.

Re:The Social Graph is Neither on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @08:41PM (#3213854)
> Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender.

exactly.

Re:CSS Lint on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @06:39PM (#2659352)
I agree. most of these "rules" are frivolous. simply removing the 3 @import lines in the example file would be a much bigger win than worrying about ids and "overqualified elements"
Re:JQuery WormHole on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @10:19PM (#2610339)
I have no idea how I would use this but it is so cool
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I prefer db to gecko, it looks great. +1 on very polished
Re:Firefox 5 Beta is available for download on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @01:53PM (#2580835)
seriously... WHY aren't other browser vendors adopting the chrome release strategy?
Re:Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development on Thursday May 19, 2011 @08:36PM (#2565949)
performance nitpicks:

* 3 separate requests for unminified css files

* 50 equal signs for every html and css comment (and there are a lot)

Re:Untitled Startup has a title: Simply Measured on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:02PM (#2150351)
wow. real networks is still around?
Re:How to Make Trillions of Dollars on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:47PM (#2149642)
reminds me of a Carl Sagan monologue from Cosmos:

"Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to destroy our civilization and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet."

so intelligent, inspirational and full of hope, but listening to it 30 years later I can't help feeling bummed out, as it seems as though our civilization has chosen its path.

also, Idiocracy.

check out http://www.convertro.com/visitor-tracking.html . looks like the analytics guys are already using similar sketchy methods.