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Found their definition[0] of what immutable means. Apparently the idea is that you can trust that the rules in an immutable CSS selector will never change in the future. "Immutable" seems li…

What does "immutable" mean in the context of CSS?

I think it's machine translated. I can't think of another reason for writing "The adventure begins in Bar Scumm", when the bar in the game is called the Scumm Bar. The part written…

I agree with everything you're saying, but I'm not sure what this is a response to? The site layout looks acceptable on this 30 years old computer precisely because it does not care about …

> Hacker News as viewed by the Mac. Surprisingly readable given that MacWeb doesn’t support CSS. Say what you will about table based layouts, but they sure are backwards compatible.

This is of course what the "war" is about at its core - do we prefer to to sound OK everywhere, but not great anywhere, or do we prefer to sound great for some people, but be inaudible to ot…

I wonder if this is about ending the "loudness war", or if it's more about helping amateur content with nearly inaudible levels. All the good reasons for compressing music or audio in g…

It would be interesting to do this in three dimensions. With a perceptual color space such as HCL it could be used to pick N distinct colors, e.g. for data visualization.

After a little bit of use, I feel like lodash-fp is limited by being a simple adaptation of lodash. Lodash's API is designed around variadic functions, which doesn't really work with autocur…

This says more about Silicon Valley than about feminism, though.

Really nice to see that there's now an auto-curried, function-first version, lodash-fp! I've been really attracted by Ramda JS recently for this reason. https://www.npmjs.com/…

Beautiful. You might be interested to learn that Erik Wernquist is also the person who created Crazy Frog some ten years ago.

I thought it was a bug in my install. You can't even close the top-most tour window, because of the covered prompt. Apparently, the wide button where all the text is hidden sets Firefox as defa…

Fun! Starting with one of the fiddles I came up with this: http://jsfiddle.net/q8jt8o36/22/ …

A related problem in music is how rhythm is counted, e.g. in recording software. Each new bar in 4/4 starts on beat 1, 5, 9, 13, rather than 0, 4, 8, 12, which makes it surprisingly difficult to …

There are things that are useful to the extent that they're not inaccurate , but most of it is very incomplete with regards to how most of the music most people enjoy today works. Recorded music…

There's not a lot here about the different blues scales you're more likely to have use for though. The document even warns against the tritone.

I appreciate the style of presentation, but why do we still pretend this is "music" theory? Most of this is completely useless for anyone who is interested in understanding music that wasn&#…

Yes, ReadKit on OS X and Reeder on iOS, syncing with Feed Wrangler.

Doesn't work on my Retina MBP either, but it works on a connected regular res monitor. The problem appears to be that it maps 2x pixels to "normal" 1x pixels as output. So all the measu…

Not sure what you mean - order of classes don't have any effect with regular css .class selectors. http://jsfiddle.net/n1a9Lew5/ Edit: Oh never mind, I now realize that you&…

In a .pdf? In seriousness, I think this kind of extreme highlighting could be an important step in making programming more accessible. There are only so many characters like ,;:.()[]{}<> availab…

I supposed the idea is to limit specificity. It's the same reason you should use class instead of id. I find the BEM syntax to look horrible though, with the double hyphens and underscores. Why n…

Great effect. I would love to hear another sentence distorted the same way, though, because I wonder if I just learned to recognize this particular sentence, or if I learned to separate the signal f…

> Here I am working hard end paying my taxes so that (in a very, very small way $ or % wise) I'm empowering someone else to just sit around and get paid to do nothing but pop out babies and ra…

I really expected to see a discussion about this on HN. I find this to be an interesting and very pragmatic approach to programming, and I've never really seen anyone talk about this style before…

Two things have improved my English more than anything: deciding to read out loud whenever I'm alone reading an English text, and discovering that I can immediately look up any English word with …

Yes, you missed the last sentence of the comment.

I don't think any of the models sampled one full octave and then resampled that for the other octaves. When you change the pitch of a recorded piano note through resampling, it's going to so…

Linking to a search might do! https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/0/%22ask%20hn%2... …