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Could be a friendlier meow.

It sounds like someone stepped on a tail.

Bitmap text can look clear as crystal on a very low pixel density display.

You need a higher PPI to make anti-aliasing work on screen (finally looking nearly as nice as print).

Oh bloody hell, I never figured that out. Used to use some js for that.

Usenet with dial-up was good for this. You'd compose your reply, then look it back up, read over, amend, perhaps delete or send later. It made for more considered responses.

I've noticed with HN it's very swarm-like and transient these days. Comment following is also difficult without some thread control. At a minimum you need collapsible threads. Too much to read, don't bother, say something that's been said already - and add to the noise. Or have a bypassed dangling leaf comment.

Personally as a I cyclist, I don't intend just yet to give up cycling on roads (which are for multi-transport users). After getting munged on a separator, I also don't think they are the be and end all.

You aren't alone. I'm far better at helping others than myself. Freelancing I find tricky. I've had good management in the past alongside a team that knows how to play to my strengths and keep down my weaknesses. So don't discount working in a unit. Stroking my own ego, and trying to reward myself is useless for me.

Gutted to find that perhaps I could have been buoyed by working tax credits. That I have never claimed. Self-employment hasn't worked out for me - just left me with more and more debt.

Years ago I think the LSE ran a study, that concluded, you may as well just close all job centres, and give a no questions asked hand-out instead. There's a stigma attached to bad jobs, benefits, and poor income - and with some of that lifted, it might provide a better seed-bed for some business.

Benefits are generally designed for short-term-ism, you can survive on not a lot, but opportunities are removed. Even basic socialisation becomes hard: you can't afford a drink in the pub.

That being said, I've never been poorer than being self-employed. I know it works for some, and there are benefits, but it doesn't work for all.

This reminds me of jobstart, basically I got turfed of benefits at about the time I needed them. I kindly got a grant towards some transportation fees, if I'd go self-employed (0hrs contract, no guaranteed employment). What I really could have done with is a little hand holding and support in a work or volunteer placement - rather than feeling stigmatised. In the UK Government's eyes: one less unemployed. I could have spent the money on a suit and shoes. Money doesn't go that far, at the time I could barely afford to clothe, feed myself and had tenuous accommodation. Stability of housing and the other bare essentials put you in a better position to job. It's all a bit chicken and egg.

This feels rather personal. I'm not saying I would or would not. I'm just doing a simple comparison. For many, they probably think they are doing the cafe a favour, and getting a change of scenery and a slice of cake.

Agree. We ran a cafe (in the UK South-East) (or rather me being the kitchen hand...), started out enthusiastically with the aim to please and make and serve nice food and drink, then the realisation kicked in that selling beer and quicker table turnaround was more profitable. We still sank. (Small premises mind.)

Local coworking haunt (UK) is about £20 per day or more. That equates to about 10 coffees. Or 6 coffees, 1 soup and 1 cake. Which starts to make the cafe more appealing.

Not so sure, depends if someone is taking the proverbial.

Mohammad Mohammad has over 2200 profiles on Linkedin.

We used to laugh at those that chose personalised number plates, and yet there is probably more utility in one of those than a vanity url.

Publicly guessable addresses can still be a pain like sequential numerical ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe#User_IDs_and_e-mail...

Yep, but the motivation may be simply one of convenience. My DVD player loops the menu all night long if you happen to dose off - and it's a struggle to get up and stop it. Even selecting and starting a movie on a DVD can be a trial.

In the UK, we get three or four per hour on the most popular commercial networks. We record everything we want to watch on a Humax just so we don't have to suffer the ads, and pause for a piss, drink, or surf as and when. Or rewind parts we didn't pay enough attention to. Or skip bad segments. I wouldn't bother otherwise. I'm sure it's provider dependent, but US shows appear to have ads every 5mins, and that looks like torture.

Totally abandoned all chat applications after the demise of Gtalk and cross network communication breakdowns.

I love the way that the the author, skirts totally over Javascript, and yet the threads here are full of mild skirmishing.

The closing paragraph is the nicest part of the article, mentioning the benefits of legibility.

I never disliked the mechanics of html table based layouts, col and row spans, what wasn't so nice was the attribute soup. That made reading the outlines of the html hard.

Back in the day we had tools like Dreamweaver, that had a visual design mode. It was quirky so people resorted to programming html in text editors. What's a real shame is that there wasn't a tool that matured to the point, where you could do a little of both.

The most interesting part about a website for me, is usually the content, and the rest is pretty much guff. The nicest thing about simple authoring is that it allows the on-boarding of everyone. Not just arty or programming types. This is why Facebook in part took off. Because it made publishing easy. Weeks, months and even years of development just to get to the point of publishing is rather wasteful. Many sites could simply use a template product.

Review the end result. Many web sites still just look not much more than, erm, web sites. And many don't work, or even convey or make the information that you simply want to consume easy to find and digest.

Loads of technology is thrown at problem, where a simple site map and text based content will suffice. And if a business isn't reactive to customer requests, or doesn't update relevant content - then a site becomes quite superfluous or even a liability.

Lots of interesting things out there. But sometimes you need a flyer pushed through your letterbox to discover them.

I used to play the game Mined-out on the Dragon 32. You have a start and an exit, and have to tread a path one square at a time travelling between, with clues about how many adjacent mines there are. To spice things up, you get a beast chasing you after a while, down previous paths you've trodden.

Author: http://www.crashonline.org.uk/16/andrew.htm

Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFWdqaoQPw

From the same government that initially talked about removing Internet end to end encryption.

I figure comprimising alien/userland code could well be an issue, something like Javascript in a browser.

How does 'check spelling as you type' work, via a dictionary that is previously downloaded, or is this an online service that leaks all/or some of your key presses?

Happily used to (5 years ago) surf the web with no JS and no CSS, or rather applying my own style-sheet for 90% of my web viewing. I'd fall back to Chrome when absolutely necessary. It was fast and comfortable, it just relies on well structured accessible content.

Interesting, my prescription was out of range for contact lenses when last explored. It might be worth me getting something as best as they can get if the contact effect is beneficial.

Which movement are you referring to?

Yup it's the finishing that is hard. I started a fun project before xmas just for kicks. But I've yet to fire up the editor and get back into the zone, and finish it. So like much of my code, it will sit around in a half finished state and that's not really that much use to anyone else. Not that in this example it really was for anyone else. I'm always impressed and enthusiastic when people ship an MVP, even if it does have a few warts - as it shows staying power!

This is purely anecdotal. I have a bad astigmatism. I tend to not wear glasses until I have to. In the garden I don't bother. And oddly, when I do use my glasses everything becomes too much. In my mind scenery becomes unpleasantly cluttered/dirty. It's quite horrible. I prefer the soft focus - but can't read the laptop, watch TV without.

We were told that you had to frequently move away from a cathode ray tube, to let the radiation dissipate. Of course, this didn't happen often enough.

The annoying thing about CRTs was the amount of space they took up.

My eyes feel increasingly worse, even though resolution and perceived clarity seems to be better. I put that down to age.

I didn't really like the brightness of my first flat panel monitors, and expected improvements with my led back-lit laptop (thinkpad), but I've never really enjoyed looking at that either.

So to me it's all a bit uncomfortable. E-ink on the other hand, I love.