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danielnixon commented on Street Fighter II, the World Warrier   fabiensanglard.net/sf2_wa... · Posted by u/ingve
mrob · 4 years ago
I disagree. Full justification is less legible than left justification because it removes the positional cue of varied line lengths, and monospaced font for body text decreases information density for no good reason, which also hurts legibility by forcing unnecessary eye movement. I don't usually complain about typography because Firefox's Reader View can usually fix it, but here Reader View makes the diagrams unreadable. Instead, the font can be changed easily enough with the Web Developer Tools, but the text justification is more annoying because it's specified multiple times for different blocks of text.
danielnixon · 4 years ago
It’s only a AAA (i.e. least critical) requirement, but justified text is an accessibility issue according to WCAG. https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/failures/F88.html
danielnixon commented on Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates   kjzz.org/content/1660988/... · Posted by u/macg333
frompdx · 5 years ago
This is an outrage. It is also a perfect example of how software is used to create increasingly more elaborate and faceless bureaucracies that force individuals to spend more and more time contending with them. Somehow software has become the ultimate vehicle for bureaucratic violence. Software is simultaneously infallible and the perfect scapegoat. The inmate who lost their phone privileges for 30 days is an example. They did nothing wrong but the computer says so and nothing can be done. The computer is right in the sense that its decision cannot be undone, and solely to blame since no human can undo its edict or be held accountable, apparently. It is tragic and absurd.

There was an Ask HN question the other day where the poster asked if the software we are building is making the world a better place. There were hardly any replies at all. Is this because for the most part our efforts in producing software are actually doing the opposite? It certainly seems that way reading articles like this.

danielnixon commented on Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working   eminetra.com.au/people-ca... · Posted by u/benryon
markus_zhang · 5 years ago
Rule of thumb: Keep yourself as smart as possible but your items as dumb as possible.
danielnixon · 5 years ago
Smartness is a zero-sum game

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6452

danielnixon commented on The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis   lwn.net/Articles/829123/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
mcguire · 5 years ago
It's common outside the startup world, too. I think it's more to do with a disinclination to touch anything "legacy". New and shiny good, otherwise bad.
danielnixon commented on Essays on programming I think about a lot   benkuhn.net/progessays/... · Posted by u/jchook
danielnixon · 5 years ago
I think about 'Why it is Important that Software Projects Fail' a lot.

https://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/...

It's been posted a few times over the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=berglas.org

danielnixon commented on 'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle   npr.org/2020/07/19/892728... · Posted by u/mrfusion
xvector · 5 years ago
The feeling of reading through well-written long-form articles is very satisfying. Do any HN’ers have recommendations for websites with well-written long-form articles?

u/danielnixon

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