Hacker News: pessimism

Shoryuken.com forums to close at the end of January 2018

pessimism — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:40:34 +0000

Article URL: https://shoryuken.com/2018/01/08/srk-forums-to-close-at-the-end-of-january-2018/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105717

Points: 1

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New comment by pessimism in "Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden"

pessimism — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:07:33 +0000

The law involves confiscating valuables and money, but it does so much more than that, including, but not limited to, increasing the waiting period for family reunification.

People put it in quotes, because they think it gives them an excuse to use the misnomer, which is bad journalism on their part.

It’s basically in the interest of the administration that people only thought the bill concerned jewelry confiscation, as it distracted from all the other heinous things in the text.

The former bill, which has since become law, is L87 (ie Bill 87).

New comment by pessimism in "Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden"

pessimism — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:02:26 +0000

His former boss and predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Bush’s biggest supporter and ditto on the Iraq War.

He has a vested interest in ignorance of the past—so much so that he shut down the investigative committee for the very same war as one of the first things when he won the election last year.

New comment by pessimism in "The Digital Materiality of GIFs"

pessimism — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:10:13 +0000

Oh yeah, that’s just quoted text from the original article, which deals with the phenomenon: https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/. It’s not directly relevant to the aforementioned article. :)

New comment by pessimism in "The Digital Materiality of GIFs"

pessimism — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:45:17 +0000

GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is.

A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIFs to HTML5 video, and I crashed and burned pretty hard: https://ndarville.com/asides/webvideo/.

I gained a new appreciation of GIFs that day.

That said, it would be great if we got a compromise where browsers can load only the first frame of the GIF and play the reminder on click or touch to save all the loading and data—on both sides, really.

New comment by pessimism in "Awesome D3"

pessimism — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:25:11 +0000

If anyone has a good library or a pro tip for making responsive charts, I’d love to know; I am somehow still having trouble implementing it:

* http://bl.ocks.org/ndarville/11094667

* https://github.com/ndarville/d3-charts/issues/11

New comment by pessimism in "Why can't America have great trains?"

pessimism — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:56:15 +0000

I love public transportation, and I love how good Denmark is compared to other countries.

But this is not to say that we haven’t had absolutely execrable forays with our trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4.

What I mean to say is that, sometimes, public transit is less something to “figure out” than something to “get right”. We got public transportation right, but we’ve been doing our darndest to fuck it up on multiple occasions.

New comment by pessimism in "Microsoft break acquired Acompli app overnight with vague message to “upgrade”"

pessimism — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:43:03 +0000

You get a message in the top bar to “upgrade”, but you can’t click it, and if you’re not a nerd who follows tech news, you wouldn’t know that Microsoft want you to use the new Outlook app instead.

So the effectively broke all Exchange/Google-related updates for people at work and home, since the app stops to fetch updates—I stopped receiving e-mails from what I can tell.

Microsoft break acquired Acompli app overnight with vague message to “upgrade”

pessimism — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:41:35 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/search?q=acompli%20lang%3Aen%20since%3A2015-03-18&src=typd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231433

Points: 3

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New comment by pessimism in "List of Web Business Models"

pessimism — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:36:04 +0000

Can you describe the service? It’s blocked in my country, apparently.

New comment by pessimism in "List of Web Business Models"

pessimism — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:22:49 +0000

It’s an old list by now, but I keep updating it; you can also contribute to the original list (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647) on which this was based.

I’m sure you have more great suggestions for what can go on the list; new models keep popping up with companies like Patreon.

Feel free to—also—post your suggestions on the Gist. GitHub currently does not support notifications for gists, so don’t get mad if I don’t get back to you. :)

List of Web Business Models

pessimism — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:21:31 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073732

Points: 346

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Open Electoral Data Reveal Errors in Danish Electoral Results

pessimism — Thu, 29 May 2014 09:40:47 +0000

Article URL: http://dk.okfn.org/2014/05/28/open-electoral-data-reveal-errors-in-danish-electoral-results/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7815457

Points: 3

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New comment by pessimism in "SaaS Builders: Beware The Free Trial"

pessimism — Wed, 14 May 2014 13:51:28 +0000

I once used a SaaS—or whatever you call the abstraction on top of that—and ended up paying $80 for a “sample” EC2 instance of theirs that was just idling, after I had activated it a month earlier.

Soured me on trying out new platform services pretty damn hard.

The Wikipedia page for TopoJSON (by Mike Bostock of D3.js fame) has been deleted

pessimism — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:47:01 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TopoJSON&action=history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651751

Points: 2

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New comment by pessimism in "Waffle.io"

pessimism — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:28:37 +0000

Communicating the progress of a project or feature is something really important I think open-source people need to realize, when they have a fairly non-technical audience.

I think GitHub milestones are central to productivity and communicating progress to a base of interested parties, so I would recommend focusing on milestones specifically—also to encourage their use—rather than showing one huge list of issues by default. It’s fairly disorienting, even to me as a regular GitHub user and contributor.

Those cards take up an awful lot of vertical space, which I don’t think is going to scale well with a large project. Look at project like Bootstrap: https://waffle.io/twbs/bootstrap. Because you load the issue on scroll, I can’t even get an idea of how many issues there are from the size of my scroll bar. Milestones are the main way for repo owners to manage a large number of issues.

From what I could tell, you can sort by milestones using a filter, but for some reason, the list of milestones wouldn’t load?

A while back, I created a small never-to-be-finished project called milestones.js to involve a general audience in the progress of upcoming features—taking advantage of milestones: https://github.com/ndarville/milestones.js. At the bottom of the README are some related projects that might be of interest to you as well.

In other words:

1. Find out who you want your users to be.

2. Find out what they should be shown.

3. Focus on milestones, GitHub’s killer productivity feature.

4. Fit more issues vertically; the card metaphor isn’t that important.

5. Know that the dynamic loading of issues on scroll is working against you from a UX perspective.

New comment by pessimism in "Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to Print (2013)"

pessimism — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:55:03 +0000

Funny you bring up the aspect of saving the trees, because I followed up the post with a suggestion for how Google can reduce the waste by taking more control of the print experience in Chrome: http://www.modrenman.com/2013/05/01/save-the-rainforest-goog....

More than anything else, I just wanted to bring attention to something I think many people don’t know about, because I think it’s mostly a case of people not minding printed web pages rather than them not caring.

Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to Print (2013)

pessimism — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:34:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.modrenman.com/2013/04/28/print-css/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608683

Points: 74

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New comment by pessimism in "Important Kickstarter Security Notice"

pessimism — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:53:24 +0000

Over the many hacks (breaches, as companies prefer to call them) we’ve come to see, as a user who at times felt nervous about how I was affected, I have tried to write a simple guide for how companies can disclose a hack in a way that will assuage my concerns in the best way possible: https://gist.github.com/ndarville/5072091.

I originally intended to convert it to a disclosure generator, but I haven’t had the time.

I hope it can be of some help to you in dealing with this awful situation, and I’m terribly sorry this happened to you.

How Facebook Is Destroying History – A Survey Of August 21st

pessimism — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:30:24 +0000

Article URL: http://brown-moses.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-facebook-is-destroying-history.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205959

Points: 1

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