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New comment by johnsanders in "AnimeJs v4 Is Here"

johnsanders — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:25:15 +0000

It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.

New comment by johnsanders in "Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time"

johnsanders — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:07:16 +0000

I remember as a kid asking how many possible speeds there are between 60 mph and 0 mph. Infinite right? So how does the car get from 60 to stopped when mom hits the brakes?

New comment by johnsanders in "Hardest problem in computer science: centering things"

johnsanders — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:55:18 +0000

Just makes me happy I'm not the only one. I always feel like I'm an idiot when I resort to setting position: relative and nudge icons a pixel or three here or there.

New comment by johnsanders in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

johnsanders — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:45:06 +0000

Hey Peter.. many thanks! My husband is from Gibraltar and his spousal green card application has cleared USCIS and is with NVS.

Gibraltar has changed the name of the criminal record document it issues but NVS has not updated its system. So they keep rejecting his documents even though we included a letter from the police commissioner explaining the situation.

Any suggestions?

New comment by johnsanders in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

johnsanders — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:20:57 +0000

Anybody who says newspapers and other "legacy media" are obsolete isn't aware of journalists like Dominic Gates.

New comment by johnsanders in "Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)"

johnsanders — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:07:16 +0000

> Perhaps unusually, the authors of this paper are not convinced of the correctness of their proposed hypothesis.

A refreshing conclusion to an academic paper, and beats the hell out of "further study is needed."

New comment by johnsanders in "Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking"

johnsanders — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:22:50 +0000

I'm not sure if it's made my life better or worse, but this book above all others has had the most profound impact on how I have lived it.

New comment by johnsanders in "Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo"

johnsanders — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:55:25 +0000

Content created by PBS and its member stations carries a copyright notice and cannot be legally redistributed without permission.

New comment by johnsanders in "Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo"

johnsanders — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:08:13 +0000

This may be pedantic, but I'm baffled that PBS page doesn't mention every PBS station is available for free over the air.

New comment by johnsanders in "USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)"

johnsanders — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:09:43 +0000

Has no one told the one about the USB guy's funeral? They put him in the ground, but realized he was the wrong way 'round so they pulled him out and put him in the other way.

New comment by johnsanders in "$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them"

johnsanders — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 02:02:55 +0000

Pretty sure this was a thing in Victorian England. It's in Jack the Ripper stories and possibly where the word "hangover" came from I think.

New comment by johnsanders in "Never Ending September Date"

johnsanders — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 02:00:50 +0000

Does this mean I can stop worrying about remembering to wake up Green Day?

New comment by johnsanders in "Ask HN: Why do web servers still reveal their type and version in headers?"

johnsanders — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 01:31:34 +0000

Showing off in crawler stats who is dominate on the internet.

Had not thought of that.

Ask HN: Why do web servers still reveal their type and version in headers?

johnsanders — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:25:29 +0000

Isn't that inviting bad actors to scour the web for servers with just the right vulnerability? What's to gain by revealing that?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33286495

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by johnsanders in "‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out"

johnsanders — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:52:08 +0000

Ken Livingstone was many things, but "right-wing mayor" is not among them.

New comment by johnsanders in "The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism"

johnsanders — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:47:47 +0000

Did I miss something or was Neumorphism just that designers rediscovered inset shadows? We're just putting new names on a design cycle that's been going on for decades, maybe centuries. Things get more ornate until it's so over the top we wipe it all clean and start over.

New comment by johnsanders in "Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]"

johnsanders — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:47:55 +0000

"...we should hang one over [programmers' desks], or around their necks so they know what they're throwing away when they throw away a microsecond." Relevant forty years later.

New comment by johnsanders in "How Street Dogs Spend Their Days"

johnsanders — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:43:27 +0000

More research is needed.

New comment by johnsanders in "I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)"

johnsanders — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 12:05:01 +0000

Yep. No way on earth I would have gotten the job I have if I'd been in the recruiting cattle call.

New comment by johnsanders in "The economics of stadium names"

johnsanders — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:49:09 +0000

This is what I was thinking, but couldn't quite articulate in my head.