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The extreme values for "Optical Size" really alter the character of the font for me. Changing the angle of the lower arc of the "e" for example really alter how the font feels, and it's unrecognisable to me as Helvetica:
Also see The ParkRoyal on Pickering in Singapore. https://wp.architecture.com.au/international/award-for-comme...
Today the plants along the edge have grown and hang off the balconies, and I think it looks even better: https://www.businessinsider.sg/parkroyal-on-pickering-just-g...
The climate in singapore is probably more conducive to lush foliage than London.
This is pretty cool. A couple of years ago I found an old map of Singapore and built page to compare it with a contemporary one [1] - this a lot better!
The reclamation completely changed the outline of the island, and the reservoirs change the interiors. But it was fun looking for things that haven't changed.
This is cool. I'm pretty excited about AWS lambda. Keep in mind the current limitations of the AWS lambda at present: A process can't take longer than 60s. Only 25 concurrent executions. The zipped package containing your code and all dependant libraries can't be larger than 20MB.
I'm almost disappointed to see a post like this with no comments - because while it's often quite negative - HN comments often provide me with context and a counterpoint that's really quite useful.
My first reaction is that I quite like it. It's more semantic than dozens of nested divs and spans, and perhaps that's not as useful for machine generated code - for those of us coding html by hand.
That sounds secure, but help me understand: Is it the same password everywhere? How do you manage the different passwords for different services? How do you enter your password to login on an ipad, or on your phone?
My biggest problem with the Apple's password policy is that I'm required to enter it periodically on an ipad or iphone - meaning I can't keep it lastpass and that complex alphanumeric passwords are even harder to enter.
I agree somewhat, but I think the article underlines a problem with the Genius UI as it is now, rather than the concept.
The current Genius UI of 'annotation' restricts the concept to highlighting words and phrases. This is limiting. But annotation thats both richer and looser would be more flexible: Allowing people to reference chapters or sections more generally, and potentially multiple sections simultaneously and cross reference annotations themselves. I could see utility in something that allowed the creation of CliffNotes style context alongside the real content. And that also falls under the umbrella of 'annotation' in my mind. There's also potential in the idea of real-time annotation, rather than the snapshot, more curated content they seem to have now.
Doing any of this in a way that isn't overly complex or cumbersome will be tricky, and I've no idea if it's a direction that the creators want (or can) develop it in.
Genius were a lyrics site with an interesting javascript UI and great SEO. They sold that JS UI as part of a bigger picture. But for the reasons the article mentions that JS UI isn't going to take them there. Hopefully they can use that 15 million to build something that will.
Base82? You mean base62 - 26(letters) x 2 (other case) +10 (digits)? Or am I missing something?
Yeah, but shouldn't they try to pay people back before they spend what's likely tens of thousands of dollars on what amounts to superficial marketing? I mean, it's not even much of a re-brand!
www.gox.com is now redirecting to mtgox.com.
For an organisation which is insolvent they must have invested a fairly significant sum on a 3 letter .com domain. This happened yesterday! What's going on here?
Which by itself is great news.
The Indian program involves giving multiple doses of the oral vaccine to babes (Pulse Polio). Unfortunately the number of does of the oral vaccine babies receive is correlated with AFP - Accute Flacid Paralysis - a tragedy similar to the paralysis caused by polio. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/polio-free-does-not-mea... In some states babies are getting over a dozen doses.
A move to the injectible vaccine will reduce this risk, but since the injectible vaccine costs a lot more it's likely the coverage will fall.
I'm afraid I don't remember. I read somewhere that when asked to count in their minds, people count in one of two ways. It's my understanding that the majority do so verbally, sounding out the words in their minds. But some people count visually, by visualising the numbers, picturing them scroll past on a tape, for example.
Those that verbalise couldn't simultaneously do another verbal task, while the visualisers couldn't do another visual task, suggesting that separate parts of the brain were involved, and occupied by counting.
Now that I knew visual counting was an option (I was a verbaliser) I trained myself to do it. Unfortunately I'm yet to find an situation were the ability to choose between visual and verbal counting has been useful.
I tried a number of things over the years, and the technique that finally worked for me was counting in my head as I read. By occupying the verbalising part of my mind I found I was able to train myself to read without it, and with a little practice I started to be able to read tat way without counting.
This looks to be from the same team that produced singapore's http://getgom.com/ - Go Away MDA, a response to non-optional censorship of several adult websites in Singapore. If so - well done guys! I guess increased global prevalence of censorship is creating a global market for tools which bypass it.
Carmack has been talking about working on it for for well over a year now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-DlWwlXHo. When I saw that last year, I thought it was already his company.
I think it's a fairly well implemented hack. One question: does the iPhone mail client load the contents of iframes by default? Don't these clients typically not load remote content like images?
I did not realize you could setup a MX record for a wild-card subdomain. It would seem like there are lots of applications for that setup - how come it's not something I've seen dome more?
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426239067/424327227/banksy-kid...
This piece which you see sold to 'the lady from New Zeland', seems to be part of a run of 25 pieces and priced at 100k-120k.
And I believe the codes on the TWIT network are not limited to a single term like this one.
LibreOffice is commonly used as part of a system to convert and generate previews for MS Office files. I would assume it has something to do with thumbnail generation or preview generation. However I don't seem to see thumbnails or previews of .Doc files (I do for images - for example) on the dropbox webapp - so maybe it's something their testing?
Example of the the baader-meinhof phenomenon? I learnt about this it a few days ago, as its the same phenomena used by Brain Brushwood in this weeks scam school - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0xRBacJF8 where he attributes it to the 'bernoulli effect'.
> How many Americans have been killed by drones? A handful? How many of those were actively fighting for terrorist organizations? All of them.
(American born) Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-year old son was killed in a separate drone strike, 2 weeks after his father was killed. No suggestion was made that the son was guilty of anything, but that 'he should have had a more responsible father'.
I didn't realize spot instances were so much cheaper than on-demand. A small on-demand instance is ~47$/month
Didn't the order require the statement to be:
1. Made on the home page itself
2. In a 14pt font which (according to http://www.getallfix.com/2011/11/convert-empxpt-and-in-css/) should be some 19px high.
I'm a little confused. I thought windows RT didn't have a 'classic mode' - and all apps were metro-style?
Take a look at this. http://www.wallpaper.com/images/98_02032007_prada_f.jpg The LG Prada phone - released before the original iphone anouchement (though it looks quite a lot like the current 4/4s). Rectangular, touch screen phones weren't an apple invention. And shouldn't be protected.
It looks interesting, and the the palm rejection is probably the feature that will make or break it. It looked to me from the video that nobody was actually resting their palm on the surface - they either suspended their hands above the screen, or wrote on the edge and rested their palm on the (ipad's large) bezel.
So perhaps, as of yet, that 'tricky problem' isn't quite as solved as they say it is.
This is beautifully designed. But I didn't quite get the cover. All [something] is a matter of belief. What's the something? Money?
I think it's because you've specified the type attribute of the input box as URL. Certain newer browsers will force validation on that (latest chrome and ff both do).
In Singapore too.