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ohwpon How I Beat Depression

Maybe this will help someone: A lot of times suicidal thoughts are not about a death wish but about a wish for silence in your head. I think realizing this can make a difference. Whatever the case: don't be ashamed, get help.

ohwpon The Era of Symbol Fonts

Neither does Android. But for both Android and iOS there are libs that can convert SVG into usable objects. For example: https://github.com/SVGKit/SVGKit

ohwpon The Era of Symbol Fonts

Are you sure? Compressing (deflate) image/svg+xml will make the file very small.

ohwpon The Era of Symbol Fonts

iOS does support SVG but I think it depends on the browser and how you embed it.

Maybe this page will help: http://www.schepers.cc/svg/blendups/embedding.html

ohwpon [dead]

Maybe you should think in terms of "interesting" instead of "upvote".

But a fix might be that an item can only be marked interesting on the item page, not on the overview pages.

ohwpon Why are jokes funny?

Interesting. I always found it fascinating that a lot of people start laughing when watching the horror in a movie like "Ichi the Killer". Maybe humor is the emotion of the absurd and unreal.

ohwpon The 1% fallacy

I wouldn't mind getting 0.01% of the CRM market.

ohwpon Why American Airlines Chose Samsung Over Apple When It Bought 17,000 Tablets

"We chose Samsung devices for select workgroups after months of testing different devices and gathering employee feedback."

ohwpon The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation

Maybe the problem is that innovation and invention are mixed up all the time. The CD was a great invention while Apple is an innovative company.

I'm not sure this is correct but I think that innovations remove risks while inventions are always risky or don't bother to think about risks.

Edit: to make myself more clear: I think that innovations are about renewal and inventions are about new. Some examples (in my eyes): Apple is innovative, IBM is inventive.

ohwpon Solving Problems Using Data Structures

My thought exactly. I don't get his example. But maybe it's a speed issue. Adding items to a Dictionary might be faster than updating a timestamp on an object.

ohwpon How people respond to being filmed (with devices like Google glass)

In the other parts he is filming in public and is getting the same reactions.

  Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bT1ZfRtrJc
  Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHG9ouQ17-M

But I'm not sure it's the size of the camera. Most of the people are not bothered by big cameras hanging everywhere.

Maybe it's because they don't trust the intents of the guy who is filming.

ohwpon How to work with Sessions in PHP

I like PHP. But I can understand why people hate it when they read articles like these.

Not escaping user input, storing password in the session. Bad practice all over the place.

ohwpon How an 83-year-old inventor beat the high cost of 3D printing

I was not talking about individuals but companies like Lulzbot who are going to sell them pre-assembled.

ohwpon How an 83-year-old inventor beat the high cost of 3D printing

This one for example: http://www.google.com/patents/US4118163

I know it won't be a problem when people use this at home, but Lulzbot is going to sell assembled versions. I hope they don't get in trouble for that.

ohwpon Finish the Job

My personal experience is that the last 10% are hard when:

  - I didn't stick to the specs
  - Added specs while coding
  - Didn't test while coding
  - Didn't fix shitty while coding

Because I think specs are very important I don't believe in too much of agile. I think the waterfall model is very useful but you have to keep the waterfalls very small. Maybe you can call this the agile waterfall model: waterfall -> release -> waterfall -> release

ohwpon How an 83-year-old inventor beat the high cost of 3D printing

Seems to me this method is patented. How are they going to sell these kits?

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastics_extrusion

ohwpon A brief XML rant

Lets say you could have earned $100 per hour instead of writing your own "parser". Then suddenly 0.5 days is $400.

ohwpon Writing efficient CSS selectors

I know it's fine, but I think you shouldn't because of SEO.

But to keep this on topic: my point is: a lot of time you can reduce your DOM.

ohwpon Writing efficient CSS selectors

I think it's also good practice to check if you can reduce your DOM.

  <ul id="social">
    <li><a href="#" class="social-link twitter">Twitter</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" class="social-link facebook">Facebook</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" class="social-link dribble">Dribbble</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" class="social-link gplus">Google+</a></li>
  </ul>

could be written as:

  <a href="#" class="social-link twitter">Twitter</a>
  <a href="#" class="social-link facebook">Facebook</a>
  <a href="#" class="social-link dribble">Dribbble</a>
  <a href="#" class="social-link gplus">Google+</a>

since you already have the social-link classes attached to it.

Another example. This:

  <div id="header"><h1>header</h1></div>

could be written as:

  <h1>header</h1>

since you should have only one H1 on your page.

ohwpon 3D Printed Car Is Nearing Production

To take some doubt away: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120607141644.ht...

ohwpon Why are pages slow?

Says the page that take 3.43s to (down)load in my browser, loading 8 CSS files and a lot of JS files.

On a serious note: I think Opera Dragonfly is also a great tool for this providing even more information.

ohwpon Survey: Most Developers Now Prefer HTML5 For Cross-Platform Development

Telerik is a .NET company. So the most interesting platform ranking is a little biased.

But I think cache-manifest support is growing just as reading device sensors in Javascript. So HTML5 cross-platform development is indeed becoming important.

ohwpon Google Glass is Ridiculous

Foxconn makes the iPad, iPhone and iPod. So they are not entirely Apple products..?

ohwpon Ask HN: how to ban aggressive web crawlers

Do they use "normal" user agents?

ohwpon The True Cost of Healthcare in the US

I'm not sure if this is true, but I heard that in some parts of China you only pay for health care when you are healthy because when you are not health care failed.

Ofcourse this raises a lot of questions about responsibility. But in our society health care is making money when people are unhealthy. That is an unhealthy situation.

ohwpon The MS Surface Pro

"Childish?" I was abusing you of a childish reaction because I think your tone towards Windows systems is unfair.

"Nowhere did I state that company X, Y or Z will take over the world." No you didn't but you made it clear that you think only Apple can serve the tablet market because you explicitly mention the iPad all the time. You also compared Microsoft's vision vs Apple's vision as if these are the only two companies in the tablet/laptop market.

"Are you responding to my actual comment? Or are you reflexively responding to me as if I was saying things that other people are saying?" I was responding to your actual comment and I think you also are saying things that other people are saying. But that didn't trigger a reflex ;) I responded because I don't agree with you. I think a comparison between 2 companies is wrong because it's not what matters in the real world. There are a lot of different devices serving different needs. I don't think the laptop or desktop will go away any time soon because they are still very relevant.

ohwpon The MS Surface Pro

"Issues like the battery life, heat, weight, RAM free, and so on are reasonable for a Windows machine."

Common, this is so childish... As if other devices don't get hot and don't weight that much.

You are very wrong in thinking that company X will take over the world. There are different people with different needs. Hipsters like hip devices, cartoonists like Surface Pro's.

jacquesm points it out: the iPad market might still be the biggest but it's not the only market.

ohwpon Apple applies for iWatch patent

Well 3M already figured this out: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2011/01/3m-flexible-mul.php

ohwpon The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet

Why not?

  Fly to destination within 15 minuted.
  Sit there for days using sunlight.