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huebomont··on ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
The WSJ editorial board is garbage and will fall over themselves to side with corporate America even if it means making untenable arguments.
huebomont··on N.Y. Traffic Deaths Rise
Yep! But I don't think a ban is needed to remove cars. Just make it undesirable to have one. Remove incentives to drive. For example, removing parking (free parking especially) is a great way to remove cars.
huebomont··on N.Y. Traffic Deaths Rise
The data disagrees. Narrowing streets, adding vertical elements to the edges of streets, and removing lanes works. Congestion pricing helps too!
huebomont··on N.Y. Traffic Deaths Rise
Skip the red light camera phase and just start redesigning the streets so they don't invite speeding and dangerous driving. No amount of enforcement is ever going to stop assholes. Making them feel like they might hurt THEMSELVES if they drive recklessly will.
huebomont··on BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
Purely subjective. I personally see no difference in the balance, and either way, "balanced" doesn't mean correct.
huebomont··on N.Y. Traffic Deaths Rise
It's the giant SUVs. The answer is obvious just by walking around, but the data is an obvious correlation as well. Any car that you can't see a child out of should be illegal.
huebomont··on BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
Flat, simple logo design has nothing to do with "going digital" - all the gradients and chrome shit layered on top of the existing logo are far more "digital" than anything that came before or after.
huebomont··on Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
I was commenting on the incredible level of jargon. This post is even more impressive!
huebomont··on BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
Lots of definitive-sounding opinions from people who clearly don't have design experience. It's fun to be equipped to see through comments that sound good but are total bullshit to someone who knows what they're talking about - I don't often get that on here :)
huebomont··on BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
Thats... almost exactly what they did though.
huebomont··on BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
Hate to break it to you, but all these "problems" with the logo were exactly the same in the old logo. You got distracted by the ham-fisted layer styles and fooled into thinking that made it good.

The fact that you said "makes the letters pop" would send shivers down any designer's spine.

huebomont··on BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
This article is just a guy whining about how he personally doesn't like a logo. This logo is just fine, and it's certainly better than the old one that tried to look like it was made of physical material. Obviously the logos that are applied to the cars will look metallic because, well, they will be made of metal. This is a better logo in general, especially for print and online purposes. No excessive fake gradients and material renders, simpler lines and colors that will reduce well, and it goes back to the original state of their logo before they piled a bunch of fake chrome on it in the last couple decades.
huebomont··on Humorous highway signs aim to steer drivers safely
Love to force distracted driving!
huebomont··on Ask HN: How do you search for $string if a webpage “supports” infinite scroll?
The solution is to stop re-writing basic browser functions. Just let me scroll.
huebomont··on Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
"good signal is inbound" - mhm yep definitely english
huebomont··on Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century
It's a great idea that I'm sure some people would want. It doesn't have to be a "startup"
huebomont··on Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century
exactly. not everything needs vc money.
huebomont··on Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century
everything could be a small business, not everything is a startup.
huebomont··on Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century
not everything is a startup
huebomont··on Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
This is some real tinfoil hat shit
huebomont··on Apple may allow Spotify to set as Default Music App
This is absolutely not the reason, they got a whiff of some anti-trust stuff and are trying to head it off.
huebomont··on Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
Fascinating, but this article needs a proofread, damn...

"The virtual world on the LED screen is fantastic for many uses, but obviously an actor cannot walk through the screen, so an open doorway doesn't work when it's virtual. Doors are an aspect of production design that have to be physical. If a character walks through a door, it can’t be virtual, it must be real as the actor can’t walk through the LED screen."

Not to mention the multiple paragraphs that are basically re-stated immediately afterwards. It's like they hit publish in the middle of editing.

huebomont··on Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
Lol he greatly expanded it, what are you talking about.
huebomont··on Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
Bernie's "independent" label means very little. Look at how he votes. He's a Democrat. It's a weird attempted knock against him considering how consistent he's always been.
huebomont··on Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
Weird definition of "choice."
huebomont··on Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
Bloomberg is a Republican, a lot of people have just forgotten what a more centrist Republican looks like. He's also like Trump in his racism, sexism, authoritarianism, etc. Ask New Yorkers about him.
huebomont··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
In my opinion, people have had their expectation dragged way down by shitty web apps so Figma feels good. It doesn't beat what tools like Photoshop used to feel like before their UI got rewritten in HTML and whatever fuckery they're doing now.
huebomont··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
Yes, I remember all these things, because they're almost all still a thing. But now with a shitty React front-end.
huebomont··on Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
BNP's password interface is insane. Instead of having normal password options, they limit it to 0-9 and then implement some hideous and overcomplicated front-end that randomizes the positions of each number on a virtual keypad and you click to enter your password.
huebomont··on Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database
300dpi at whatever physical size you want. Printing at 1 inch x 1 inch? 300px x 300px.
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