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It will be nice if Firefox restores support for high-quality scaling. transform(scale) used to work well, then for a long time it produced horribly pixelated text. They improved it a few months back, but it's still noticeably pixelated. Chrome is perfectly smooth.

Sadly, our green wave is synchronized with a 50 mph speed, but the posted (and reasonable) limit is 35 mph.

Interesting, Steam has granted every refund I've requested (I'm in the US).

Sorry to hear - it's really taken them a long time to do this, but I'm pleased with the results. I've been using Stylish + Slack Dark - have you tried that? https://userstyles.org/styles/160324/slack-dark-mode

Indeed, and I'm glad I saw the discussion and switched to Imagus and then Hover Zoom+, but if I had missed discussion of Hover Zoom's spyware activity I would have kept using it. We need better mechanisms of keeping people constantly informed about bad extensions, and ideally, ways of shutting them down.

I used VLC for many years without issue, but eventually it became unstable on my system and then wouldn't even launch, even after a fresh re-install. So to share something with others who may be looking for an alternative, MPC-BE with madVR and LAV audio decoder is amazing. I had some issues with MPC-BE out of the box: video tearing and muffled dialog during movies. madVR improves video rendering performance and LAV audio improves audio decoding.

Yes, nationalgeographic.com has been crashing in Chrome for me for a while too.

I used Pidgin for years, but while it may be actively developed it has been stagnant. It's ugly and very difficult to customize to make it less so, and Unicode has always been broken (at least on Windows). Compared to mobile or even web versions of Messenger and Hangouts Pidgin is terrible, which is why I eventually gave up on it.

Thanks for sharing! I did not know about this. I use Stylus and dark themes for many sites, but this will be great for random sites. https://add0n.com/stylus.html

For VS Code there's sockscode, it's a little bare, but works well! https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shyykose...

VSCode supports TextMate themes, which there are very very many of.

http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai

It's readable for some subset of people, but on a 32" monitor it's worthless - I tried to read it, but just abandoned it in frustration.

We're very grateful to have him in the JS world!

It's infuriatingly difficult to buy anything of quality on Amazon. I really hope they improve the situation.

I'm seeing a lot of criticism of Atom's speed and responsiveness, and not much support. I wonder how many of these people are actually using it, and what computers they are using it on?

I tried Atom early, and repeatedly every month or three for a while, and the issue that prevented me from giving it a good trial was poor font rendering (on Windows at least). This issue has been fixed for about a month or more.

I've been using Atom full-time for just about a month now (having previously used Sublime Text 3 and Notepad++) and have no problems. As a programmer the quality of my workstation is fairly important to me, but I think my computer is not a powerhouse: Core i5-4570S 2.9GHz and 16GB RAM. I am fairly sensitive to editor responsiveness - I've tried dozens of editors over the years, and discount most of them for issues that some might consider to be minor, but are important to me - autocomplete responsiveness is a big one.

Atom may not load as quickly as Sublime, but once it's running I haven't had any issues with its performance. I use it for JavaScript and TypeScript programming, and for those purposes it is excellent.

I really hope Google fixes Android's broken security model. As the owner & user of an Android device, I should be able to configure feature access on a per-app basis. It's ridiculous that you have to either grant an app all requested access, or just don't install it. You should be able to install it, but choose which features to grant access to and which to deny.

SNR is way too low in this discussion thanks to non-parents posting. Peace out.

Android is in serious need of better user control over app permissions.

Apps should have their permissions in two groups:

* Must-have: the app will not work without these (e.g. camera access for a picture-taking app)

* Optional: some features of the app will not work (e.g. camera access for Facebook)

Despite how bad the Facebook app is, I find it to be much better than opening the website on a mobile browser, but I wish I, as the user, could specify what permissions to grant the app.

Chrome 24 / Win 7 - clicking in cells in the Date or Population columns changes the column width.

It's extremely disappointing that the majority of (or is it all?) Android tablets do not have screens with a 4:3 aspect ratio. 16:10 is awkward and silly; 16:9 is something I won't even bother trying.

I have to wonder if perhaps they perceive that with the wide income disparity in India, there's not a sufficiently large market for $200-$500 devices.

Let's say they can sell 15,000 at $500 each. Maybe they think that many of those buyers hardly care about the price, so why not sell 10,000 at $1000 each? Then they get $10M instead of $7.5M.

I can certainly identify with the frustration of people who do care about price, and could bear the price tag offered in other countries.

Stylus: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

http://nylira.com/stylus-the-revolutionary-successor-to-css/

http://designshack.net/articles/css/sass-vs-stylus-who-wins-...

While praising IE, let us not forget that MS only innovated enough to displace other web browsers, leveraging its Windows near-monopoly to saturate the market with IE. Dominance achieved, competitors obliterated, MS was content to let the world live with IE6 for eternity, and only with the rise of Firefox and Webkit-based browsers did MS finally deign to do something (althought not much) for the web with IE9.

I have the Crossover 27Q and the Ergotron MX works perfectly with it.

I haven't seen the Yamakasi's or the Achieva Shimian's in person, but I have a Crossover 27Q and the monitor housing is sturdy metal and the stand is sturdy as well. Still overall very lightweight.

The dearth of 16:10 monitors available bothers me, but if you're going from 1920x1200 (or less) to 2560x1440, you're still gaining vertical space - you're just gaining more horizontal space. I replaced my 24" 1920x1200 with a Crossover 27Q 27" 2560x1400 and absolutely love it.

I've got a 27Q and it is excellent. The housing is metal, the stand is solid (if lacking in adjustment, but other models offer more adjustment - I replaced it with an Ergotron MX arm). It's very basic - just a DVI port. Crossover has multiple models offering different stands and different connectivity options. The major unknown at this point is longevity, but other than that I would recommend this without reservation.

I have long felt similarly to you (minus the "no glare" part), but I bought a Crossover 27Q and have been thrilled by it.

I spent $800 on a high-quality 24" 1920x1200 BenQ about 5 years ago, and now it's playing 2nd fiddle to my 27".

As a programmer, it really bothers me that 16:10 is all but dead. However, when you go from a 1920x1200 to a 2560x1440 monitor, you're not losing vertical space - you're just gaining more horizontal space than vertical.

My other huge gripe is anti-glare coating. If you are in control of your lighting, AG coating does not benefit you - it just blurs the picture. A screen with no AG coating gives a crystal clear image.

The BenQ FP241W was one of the best rated & reviewed monitors when it was released. I'm thrilled to replace it with a "cheap" Korean monitor, and look forward to replacing it completely by adding a 2nd Crossover next to my current one. The big issue with the new monitor is longevity - my BenQ is still running perfectly, I hope I can say the same for the Crossover in 5+ years.

He said "related to", not "due to", but the tone of the article did lean towards the "due to" line of thought.

You know what was the great divorce creator before Facebook? Telephones! And before that? Pen & Paper! We should go back to cave living.

I'm surprised this off-topic rubbish heap of words made it to the front page on HN.