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tobr
14,314karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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I have your feed in my RSS reader! This seemed like something HN would be interested in.
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Looks like I should feel decent about my 72 083! Got a perfect 10k on two questions which surprised me. Fun game, but 10 objects felt a little much for a daily challenge I think.
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That XKCD idea is basically the Swedish Blåvitt product line that existed during the 80s and early 90s.
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What is the serif typeface used on the website? It’s been renamed (I assume) to ant_serif and scrubbed of any other identifiers. It’s very pleasant.
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This is not a game for me - I don’t enjoy scrambled letter games in the first place, and I don’t really respond to time pressure in games. That said, I don’t think you should change it. It’s conceptua…
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After writing the comment I thought about it some more, and realized when asking myself the question ”what letter comes after R?”, I didn’t immediately know the answer, but I heard ”MNOPQRS” in my hea…
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Is the alphabet really the same though? I don't feel like I recall it one letter at a time, as individual facts linking A to B, then B to C, etc, but more as a sound or a phrase. Not unlike recal…
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I disagree. If the monitor is mostly black (as close as it can be reproduced), shades of near-black gray are easy to distinguish, while shades of near-white gray blend together.
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> But not perfectly and continuously Isn’t that where the randomness comes in?
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Probably because it’s displayed on a white background. A gray or black background would have shown the difference more clearly.
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If you want to discuss the content of the page, it would be nice if you read the content of the page first.