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johnsanders··on AnimeJs v4 Is Here
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.
johnsanders··on Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
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?
johnsanders··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
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.
johnsanders··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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?

johnsanders··on Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
Anybody who says newspapers and other "legacy media" are obsolete isn't aware of journalists like Dominic Gates.
johnsanders··on Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)
> 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."

johnsanders··on Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
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.
johnsanders··on Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
Content created by PBS and its member stations carries a copyright notice and cannot be legally redistributed without permission.
johnsanders··on Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
This may be pedantic, but I'm baffled that PBS page doesn't mention every PBS station is available for free over the air.
johnsanders··on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
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.
johnsanders··on $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them
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.
johnsanders··on Never Ending September Date
Does this mean I can stop worrying about remembering to wake up Green Day?
johnsanders··on Ask HN: Why do web servers still reveal their type and version in headers?
Showing off in crawler stats who is dominate on the internet.

Had not thought of that.

johnsanders··on ‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out
Ken Livingstone was many things, but "right-wing mayor" is not among them.
johnsanders··on The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism
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.
johnsanders··on Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]
"...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.
johnsanders··on How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
More research is needed.
johnsanders··on I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
Yep. No way on earth I would have gotten the job I have if I'd been in the recruiting cattle call.
johnsanders··on The economics of stadium names
This is what I was thinking, but couldn't quite articulate in my head.
johnsanders··on CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
I sometimes wonder about CNN's relevance as the media world changes. 380+ comments and top of HN suggests it still holds mind share, at least with this cohort.
johnsanders··on The great junk transfer is coming
I got it when i saw that dirty green Coleman flashlight. Who'd keep that? But ours was red, we used it at night on our farm and I vividly remember how that button felt and sounded when you clicked it on or off.
johnsanders··on Vangelis has died
Aha... Here's one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpFWxKPOyQ I forgot the ending of those ads... always a variation on... 'Roads that run through America... to a place.. we call home."
johnsanders··on Vangelis has died
I'm sure it was a different experience up close, but as far as I'm concerned from a distance, he could only elevate a voiceover track. He did Subway sandwiches for God's sake. "We aspire to know all our customers by name... or at least by sandwich." Or airport car rentals. "There are over a million miles of roads in Alamo territory. And only Alamo gives you all those miles for free."
johnsanders··on Vangelis has died
And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. Another legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lnwNIlJUo

johnsanders··on Vangelis has died
Chariots of Fire is iconic of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo

I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio Gallo wine commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE

Seems he should have been considerably older than 79.

johnsanders··on Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted its VC fund
Yes! And defence/defense. Honestly I've forgotten which of those is which.
johnsanders··on Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted its VC fund
Not sure I agree. As an American living in the UK I constantly battle autocorrect to spell it "rumor" or "favor," lest someone think I've gone native.
johnsanders··on NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
One of America's best ideas. Laboratories of democracy. Maybe it works.. maybe not. But the rest of us learn from whatever happens.
johnsanders··on The Rise and Fall of World’s Fairs
I'd thought that too, but the law in question only bars the State department from spending its budget on a pavilion. Nothing blocks congress from appropriating whatever it wants for that purpose.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2452b

As the documentary I linked in another comment points out, this has been misunderstood for so long, even people in the State department think it's an outright ban on use of any public funds.

johnsanders··on The Rise and Fall of World’s Fairs
On a flight to Dubai Expo I watched a surprisingly moving documentary about how America fell out of love with World's Fairs not long after the iconic ones in New York and Seattle. https://www.faceofanationmovie.com/

I still can sing the jingle for the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. "You've got to be there!"

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