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What about this is out of touch with technical common sense? If you export all your user data and syndicate it, why would it be so unreasonable to have a system in place to be able to syndicate reques…

I’m not really sure that matters. GDPR includes the right to withdraw consent and the right to erasure, unless there are specific legal reasons why data can not be erased. Requests for erasure shoul…

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what this is, is it not possible to query, download and process at a completely different scale than the API? If not, I suppose you might ask the same thing about the API.

A dataset like this is going to have a bunch of personal information in it. When it’s distributed like this, how does that jive with regulations like GDPR? If a HN user would like to delete all their …

If you are a Facebook employee, or are close to one, please help me understand. How does it feel to see reports like this being released almost weekly? I realize people are very good at dealing with m…

Manual alignment is often used as a poor man’s elastic tabstops. I think there’s a chicken-and-egg situation with monospaced type and programming. Programming was a thing before digital proportional t…

It’s brittle and fiddly, and it’s basically the only way to make it impossible to use proportional fonts, which are much more important for readability. If you feel like it’s useful, you should probab…

I will never understand why people get so religious about tabs vs spaces, but this is a hill I’m willing to die on: please don’t line things up visually in your source code, beyond standard indentat…

> This project is brand new, I posted the repo publicly this morning. Are you implying that you don’t think it’s ready for production use? If so, maybe you should do like a lot of projects, and war…

I have very fond, if somewhat hazy, memories of shockwave.com too. For some reason, I have much warmer feelings for the Shockwave brand than Flash, which I mostly think of as a resource hogging nuisan…

Yes, and it’s a very cool way to show that, but they turned it into a game where you want to get the spelling right.

> I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them. That's something misleading about this visualisation... It makes it look like you got it more wrong because you have a letter wro…

Things are not clear just because they have been spelled out in text. I don’t think this has anything to do with tech, except that tech tends to be full of abstract concepts that are difficult to unde…

I have to admit, you're doing a pretty good job of playing the devil's advocate. I absolutely agree that any word can be used in creative and novel ways and to express new ideas, I just find…

That’s not really what the article is saying, as far as I can tell. It describes the process for writing a CSS algorithm, not an algorithm for writing CSS. So in this use, the algorithm is something t…

Should have seen it coming after “object oriented CSS”, “functional CSS” and “immutable CSS”, none of which has anything to do with OOP or FP. What’s next? CSS data structures?

In practice, I think a lot of people have found that you can rarely do a complete overhaul of a website’s design using only CSS. Even if you could, it would be impossible to feel confident that your c…

Funny how well HN works in this compared to, say, google.com.

If you work 5 days, 2 day weekend, that’s 150% more workdays than days off. Replace just one of those workdays with a day off, and it drops radically - just 33% more workdays than days off.

Trying to follow this, but I’m lost at a few points. If you say you have a file where +L-R = 0, then L = R? That’s just a mono file? L/R stereo and M/S stereo conversion works like this. M =…

Removing the center is possible, but how exactly would you "recombine" it with the original to keep the center? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the math works out li…

This is very much an aside, but here’s an observation about branding. It’s a huge mistake to use your brand typography on a user forum, at least when your typeface is as peculiar as Dropbox’s. Looking…

> NO JUST NO > EW GROSS NO Something like this should be an obligatory addition to any dialog with actions like "Maybe later".

Previous “Show HN” from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16339004

You can’t exactly have it both ways, though? Either you involve the client and the client’s clients in iterations, which means they must occasionally see nasty, inconsistent, less than half-finished s…

The article has a reference and link to [1], where the behavior of constantly looking for new and shiny tech is likened to that of a magpie. As Svelte is still fairly new and not widely used, I think …