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doodpants··on Kill sticky headers (2013)
So simple, yet so useful! How have I not found this before? It even kills the annoying "Log In/Sign Up" pop-up dialog on facebook pages!
doodpants··on WebGL 2 Interactive GPU Cloth Simulation
Pardon the stupid question, but how do I determine the frame rate that it's running at?
doodpants··on Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot
Neat concept, but it wouldn't work for creating modern GUIs, where half the controls are invisible until moused over (desktop), or hidden behind hamburger menus and swipe gestures (mobile).
doodpants··on Kotlin doesn’t need an LLVM backend (2016)
Eh? From the article:

> It’s not a trivial Hello World app at all, yet it’s a standalone self-contained binary that clocks in at only one megabyte. In contrast, “Hello World” in Go generates a binary that is 1.1mb in size, despite doing much less.

doodpants··on Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released
> Release or not release is just a name. You shouldn't let that be a factor.

I disagree. The name is the developer's way of telling you whether the software should be considered ready for general use. As long as it's called "beta", I'm not going to second guess the developer's judgement; I'll wait until the release version of ST3 before upgrading from ST2.

doodpants··on I made our office play personalized entrance theme music
I keep the wifi on my phone turned off when I'm not using it, but I assume this is NOT typical of most people.
doodpants··on Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data
Turns out it's only for Chrome, and the front page doesn't even mention this. Could we at least change the HN title from "A browser plugin..." to "A Chrome plugin..."?
doodpants··on The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
I'm guessing that there are a lot of articles saying "We tried to embrace Swift, but found that it's not ready for prime time, so we're going back to Objective-C for now." Meanwhile, no one's going to bother to write an article justifying their decision to switch from Objective-C to Swift, because it's an expected migration.

So maybe that's a flaw in the whole exercise: it's only taking into account remarkable/unusual language switches, the ones people think are worth writing articles about.

doodpants··on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review
Yes, and I found it strange that the article's statement could be interpreted as implying that it was new for Zelda games, as opposed to a departure from most mainstream RPGs.
doodpants··on Why Nothing Works Anymore
> The author waxes nostalgic about those cloth towel roll dispensers. His experience does not match mine. I generally see those things in old gas stations where the cleanliness of the towel is deeply suspect.

The author was talking about hand-cranked dispensers for paper towels, not cloth ones.

doodpants··on Kim Dotcom seeks damages as prosecutors acted in ‘illegal’ way after ruling
I simply used reader view in Firefox.
doodpants··on The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
15 years ago, you went to Freshmeat or SourceForge to find open source projects. Now it's Github. In 5-10 years, a different open source repository might be more popular.

The author seems unconcerned about a particular company having so much control. Note that he compares not having a Github account to not having email or a cellphone in general, rather than to not having e.g. Gmail or an iPhone in particular, which would be a more apt analogy. It's a disheartening reminder of the trend of the internet moving away from decentralized protocols to centralized services.

doodpants··on Anagram Scoring
Jeremy Irons -> Jeremy's iron

(courtesy of Lisa Simpson)

doodpants··on I've removed all ad network code from my blog
The sponsorship itself is not an ad, nor is the stadium. But signs posted at the stadiums indicating the sponsorship could be considered ads. Likewise in the case of the website, the text indicating that the site is sponsored, which will take the user to the sponsor's site when clicked, is an ad. Thus, it is not unreasonable that an ad blocker would block it, even if it isn't "intrusive" advertising.
doodpants··on AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store
Can you cite any evidence that the "stated" intent of AdNauseam is to cost the target money? According to their video, the intent is to protect the user's privacy by preventing advertisers from building an accurate personal profile of the user. You may argue that this has the effect of costing the advertisers money, but just because that is a result, doesn't make it the primary goal. It's certainly not AdNauseam's fault if the advertiser's business model depends on violating user privacy.
doodpants··on I've removed all ad network code from my blog
Arguably, his sponsored links are ads, and ad blockers block ads. Sure, there is a case to be made that only problematic ads should be blocked, but I don't think it's so cut and dry.
doodpants··on “Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design
Well, Steve Jobs was a fan of the Beatles...
doodpants··on The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft
"A day later, Apple ended the long wait for laptop users yearning for an upgrade by unveiling a new line of MacBook Pros."

Meanwhile, they did nothing to end the long wait for desktop users yearning for an upgrade. I was expecting at least a cursory spec bump for their Mac Mini and iMac lines. I was hoping to replace my 6-year old Mac Mini sometime soon, but I don't want to do so with a 1-2 year old product.

doodpants··on Isaac Asimov on How to Be Prolific
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I suspect that this guy wants people to subscribe to his newsletter.
doodpants··on Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
Don't forget this classic parody video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

doodpants··on How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
Wouldn't that depend on the font? They appear the same size in my browser (Firefox), in 15px Arial on Windows 7.
doodpants··on What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)
I clicked the link just to see if it would be an article about Soylent, since it comes in 2000-calorie pouches.
doodpants··on Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app
I think danohu's point was that with branding, it's hard to stand out in the crowded Google messaging space.
doodpants··on Adblock Plus now sells ads
Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, before it was possible or commonplace for ads to track whether they were being shown, plenty of web sites included text like: "Support this page by clicking on our ad banners!" Would you have argued back then that it was unethical to view a web page and not click on all of the ads displayed on it?
doodpants··on Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius Bar Job
The Genius Bar is tech support, not sales.
doodpants··on What’s New in C# 7.0
Even before C# 6.0, you could simplify it this way:

  public class Complex {
    public double I { get; private set; } 
    public double J { get; private set; }
    public Complex(double i, double j) {
      I = i;
      J = j;
    }
  }
doodpants··on Unreal: The Backstory
I found that Firefox's Reader View made the article readable.
doodpants··on Show HN: Ball falls on the teapot in WebGL
Better yet, set the X coordinate of the sphere to 94
doodpants··on Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
Having Apple hardware doesn't mean that you need to run OS X.
doodpants··on Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric
My coworker's home machine upgraded itself to Windows 10 without his consent, and afterwards he couldn't reliably connect to the internet, or do a few other things that he previously could. He eventually restored the machine back to Windows 7 to get it working again. Sounds like "damage" to me.
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