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nilved··on How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)
The title isn't "don't overuse black," it's "never use black." Black is an unappealing colour to look at.
nilved··on How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)
https://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

#191919 is "real black."

nilved··on Fuse
Everything about this is stupid.
nilved··on Universal Jinja: a crazy idea for a Python-ready front end
From that description it sounds nightmarish.
nilved··on Claude Shannon at Bell Labs
That's "professional associations" for you
nilved··on Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
> Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but my opinions are my own.

> I don't think you have much to worry about if you're a WF employee. Amazon actually treats their employees very well.

Normally when people say Amazon abuses their employees, they aren't talking about AWS.

nilved··on Germany plans to fingerprint children, spy on personal messaging
Yeah, flag this title. It's not even clickbait, it's just a lie.
nilved··on The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body
Safari uses different cookie jars for each private tab. Chrome uses different jars for each private window. (I believe.)
nilved··on Please Make Google AMP Optional
Very true, but you can start with the egregious violations such as AMP.
nilved··on Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
A browser extension could be made pretty easily. If you have a terminal open, do `echo mymasterpassword facebook.com | shasum -a 256 | pbcopy`.
nilved··on Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
That makes no sense. You use a password manager so you don't need to manage the passwords. If you don't like the concept of having passwords at all then use a stateless, hash-based password generator instead.
nilved··on Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB
That connotation seems obvious but I didn't pick up on it until months after I heard about CockroachDB. For one, a minority of people who know about cockroaches know about their resilience. For two, people who _do_ know that still know that cockroaches are disgusting. The reptile brain is going to react with revulsion even if the higher brain finds the metaphor.
nilved··on Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
No it isn't. Does your web browser do more than browse web pages? Then it's bloated. When you can log in your browser, start asking questions.
nilved··on Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
Firefox is just as bloated but at least it's extensible (for now.) Web "extensions" are Firefox' suicide.
nilved··on Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
I am gonna dispute that. Chrome is bloated and inextensible​.
nilved··on Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
That's a shame. Everything on drop-dropbox.com still applies.
nilved··on Chinese authorities detain Apple employees suspected of selling customer data
Did you report that?
nilved··on Node 8.1.0 Released
Don't you remember io.js?
nilved··on A day without JavaScript
CDNs are a lie. The privacy implications outweigh the performance benefits since there are many, many, many CDNs and many, many versions of jQuery. It's rare for users to benefit from caching.
nilved··on A day without JavaScript
> Yeah. Except you need to do Ajax and fetch doesn't cut it. So new lib.

Ah, so this is how front-end got the way it is.

nilved··on A day without JavaScript
What a dumb comment. "A day without JavaScript" is to websites as "A day without a CPU" is to paper books. Documents are not software.
nilved··on Homehero is shutting down
Kind of funny that I got -4 for that comment when literally every comment in the thread says the same thing about this nameless company.
nilved··on Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
Thanks for bringing that to my attention! That's fantastic and I think they should put more focus on this option on the homepage.
nilved··on Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
edit: was wrong, see replies.
nilved··on Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
Is The Aluminum Hypothesis Dead? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131942/
nilved··on Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
> Prisons need to safely and securely provide accommodation for "high-risk, high-need" human beings to survive and be rehabilitated.

lmao

nilved··on Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
Well, that's one part of it.
nilved··on Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
Like, why should I even click the link?
nilved··on Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3
No, my claim is simply that NIST sponsorship is not a good reason to use it.
nilved··on Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3
> The reality is that you should use SHA-3. I'm making this as a broad recommendation for people who do not know much about cryptography. You can't go wrong with the NIST's standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

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