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This reminds me of the 'Library of Mistakes' in Edinburgh, a free public library which promotes the study of financial history.

https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/

This is known in the craft as monologophobia. Theodore Bernstein, a NYT journalist, who coined the phrase, described a monologophobe as someone 'who would rather walk naked in front of Saks Fifth Avenue than be caught using the same word more than once in three lines of type'.

The most common example is journalists' aversion to repeating words like 'said' or 'told'. People don't _say_ things any more, they: continue, explain, add, verbalise, enunciate, vocalise, and so on.

Though I don't think something must be hard to be worthwhile, I think there's something in what you say. 'Trust in what is difficult' is a theme in the works of one of my favourite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke. It is the focus of 'The Man Watching': http://www.michaelppowers.com/wisdom/rilke.html

After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/

The trade magazine, Press Gazette, recently launched a campaign to 'stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism'

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-launches-duopoly...

The code for HN is available at http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.1.tar.

Field Notes get my vote. Expensive but unrivaled quality. You can leave one in your back pocket for a month and it won't fall to pieces.

https://fieldnotesbrand.com

To clarify, I want to shine a light on results wrongly removed: cases where freedom of expression, and the public interest in remembering, outweighs the right to be forgotten.

The opening of the Dhammapada sticks in my mind: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

This is more general writing advice, but you won't go far wrong by following George Orwell's rules:

:: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

:: Never use a long word where a short one will do.

:: If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

:: Never use the passive where you can use the active.

:: Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

:: Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

That's right. The Welsh Government gives millions to big business. A few years back, for example, they handed Ford £10 million to keep one of its factories open. Taxpayers' money is also spent on subsidising low pay in the private sector through Jobs Growth Wales. It's unsustainable and the money could be better invested.

I spent a fair while thinking about this one for my first job in journalism--after all, what good's a reporter without questions. In the end, I asked the interviewers how they got their break in the industry. I think it worked well, I got my foot in the door at least.

I've had mental health problems and, family aside, nothing--not exercise, medicine nor therapy--has helped me more than having work to do. There's a lot to be said for having a job to set your mind to.

In a nutshell: I can't. Some say there's no such word but I can't magic up the infrastructure needed. The firm I work for is hundreds of years old and it's an idea that only such an institution could implement. Thanks for your question though, it gives me something to think about, namely how I could perhaps adapt the idea. Who knows? Maybe there is a start-up in there somewhere.

Thanks for your sage words. It's not massive money in the grand picture, I know, but neither is it insignificant in a rapidly declining industry, such as print journalism. However, I glady take your points aboard and I'm glad I asked HN!

Thanks for your thoughts, you make good points. I'll likely play it safe and ask my manager to send it up the chain to the appropriate person.

It's not so much about having no trust in my superiors. I work at a newspaper company but in editorial and the idea is on the business side of the "church and state" divide.

It's an ailing industry, which could do with any revenue stream it can get its hands on, and I just want to help where I can.

Thanks for your thoughts, sound advice. It's not something I want to jump into. You are likely right about trying to target the "right" person.

I'll add two that have yet to be mentioned: moreutils and youtube-dl.

Looks like I'm in the minority in agreeing with the author's sentiments. It's a counter-intuitive argument but I'll try to make it...

I'm of the motherfuckingwebsite.com school of thought--an evangelist for simple design--but I think simple and unique often go hand-in-hand.

Take my industry: newspapers. Ninety-nine percent take a flat-pack, everyfuckingwebsite.com approach. I think that conformity compromises design. Readability should be at the heart of most sites--let alone news sites--yet I find most hard to read for colours, distractions and so on.

The news websites I enjoy are simple and unique--like the Drudge Report and Hacker News, which are pretty much just a list of links with minimal layers. I think that gets to the core of my purpose as a reader: no bullshit clicking around for ages to find what I want/need to read--just here's the news in our view.

For me, that's a big reason for the Daily Mail's success too. Content aside, I think their presentation of news is second to none. You could argue it's like a lot of sites but I disagree: few run tall pictures, nine-deck headlines and so on. MailOnline's production is similar to the way editors put a page together for print. They've transitioned much of the craft online. I think that's how the website retains something of a newspaper 'feel' which most have lost.

Anyway, I should stop writing, I'm going off on tangents and probably talking gibberish, just wanted to chuck in my 2p.

The Hardened Gentoo project page has a lot of useful information, guides on using Pax, grsecurity and so on...

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened

You won't go far wrong following the rules from George Orwell's Politics and the English language:

1.) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2.) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3.) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4.) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5.) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6.) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Thanks for this. I wouldn't mind the banner so much if it wasn't abused so often. Screaming "breaking news" at readers all day for stories like "Andy Murray gets married" is absurd and it devalues bona fide breaking news.

This reminded me of some graffiti next to the East Side Gallery, Berlin, which I found striking. There's a picture of the artist surrounded by the words: "MC Escher would be like, who the fuck is OBEY?"

My 2p worth: if there's a chance, however slim, that it won't go down well then I'd say leave it out. It's not worth the risk of some grouch binning your CV, which looks great by the way. All the best.

Bookmarked. This is a great website, simple design well executed, but I'll give you my gripes, too.

First thing I'd do? Get rid of the blurred background for readability's sake, it makes me feel like I've got glaucoma.

Also, I whitelist scripts and I'm oddly outraged when I land on a page which hardly functions without. At least tell me I have to enable JS. It's a minor thing but first impressions and all.

I'm intrinsically uncomfortable with websites moving without my say so but it may grow on me in this case (just don't over do it ;).

The only other thing that's grinding my gears is more general and counterintuitive. Namely, news being weighted toward what people want to read, rather than need to read.

However, I'm probably just being an idealist... after all, who doesn't need to see a raccoon riding an alligator?

Edit: Just found the pause button, it's a good compromise.

I've worked in journalism and little worries me more than the growth of PR within police, government and other public bodies.

Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, himself said PR is a just polite term for propaganda.

I've had news stories that were in the public interest spiked because of spin doctors meddling.

In the UK, central government alone employs more than 1,500 communications staff[1]. I think that's bad for democracy and a waste of public money.

I'm with Noam Chomsky who said: "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

[1] http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/central-government-has-nearly-...

No offense taken. I use noscript to whitelist websites and grant temporary permissions to others as needed.

To clarify, I have no problem with you using JS. I know I may have to enable it go gain functionality sometimes. My gripe is that on your sites I get zero functionality without it.

I don't mean to cause offense either. Thought it may be something you hadn't considered is all.

For me, neither website renders without javascript. A blank screen's a poor first impression. Maybe it's a pet peeve but I'm sure I'm not the only one who blocks JS by default.

Also, making the panels on the right of the landing page opaque would aid readability.

No problem. You should also find someone to edit or at least proofread your work. Everybody's writing benefits from a second reading by a fresh critical mind.

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

--Politics and the English language by George Orwell: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm