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qnaal··on Watching Them Turn Off the Rothkos
>understanding what led to Abstract Expressionism and how it influenced artistic development

You mean the CIA plot during the cold war, with the idea that it would make Russian art/culture seem dated when they didn't take it up?

Or so I've heard...

qnaal··on What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money
Sorry, I forgot that the printer dots were lingering in the HN consciousness- I was thinking of these things [0] (shown here [1] on the us $10, with little ones next to them to give apparent visual purpose) which I've also seen on non-currency things such as event/movie tickets iirc. Wikipedia suggests a scanning-hardware focus of the circles, as opposed to the software focus of the "Counterfeit Deterrence System" discussed in OP.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

[1] http://i.imgur.com/XInY8HI.jpg left side

qnaal··on What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money
I guess this is orthogonal to those little yellow circles?
qnaal··on Tulip – An untyped functional language
unnecessarily sexualized logo

she's doing a high kick away from the viewer?

qnaal··on Researchers Demonstrate Heat and Sound Are Magnetic
We've been in a low-fun aether pocket for a while now- maybe in a few centuries..
qnaal··on Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
still?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%2...

qnaal··on Things Every Kid Should Master
Where does "who invented the cotton gin" fit into all this?
qnaal··on Wolfenstein 1-D (2011)
damn- I thought it would take advantage of the 2d nature of wolfenstein's gameplay, to make an fps that played exactly the same, but without the vertical display dimension...

this basically a more action-y 'linearrpg' http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/ (also flash)

qnaal··on Top carnivores increase their kill rates as a response to human-induced fear
who can I pay to fix it ???
qnaal··on Sans Bullshit Sans
I didn't see anything in the spec[1] about case insensitivity- but as long as the table is being generated programmatically, covering capitalized forms could be in order.

[1]http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/gsub.htm

qnaal··on Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)
An explanation perhaps, but hardly an excuse.

LOOKING AT YOU, ALGOLIA SEARCH

qnaal··on Apple stifling the work of web standard
The idea seems be[1] that 'pressing super hard' should be easily distinguishable from 'pressing a normal amount'- which is understandable, but I don't know how preferable to announcing that pressure simply isn't supported...

[1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20109

qnaal··on Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken
>pdqsort
qnaal··on Firefox 36.0 released
It's (generally) bad 'design' to fill areas with black, sure- but #000 outlines and text is just getting proper use of the limited dynamic range we're provided with.
qnaal··on Japanese Food Models, Yesterday and Today
that hand looks like it's made of carrots
qnaal··on We Might First Find Life on Tidally Locked Planets
at least it manages to link to the wp page for 'glacier'
qnaal··on CMU Accidentally Sends Out 800 Acceptance Letters To CS Program
One doesn't always know whether the structure of the prose they are about to produce will permit discernment of its subjects by context and description alone. That is to say, in informal communications, an intuitive notation such as "[class][index]" can easily map between an abstract thought and its textual representation, without a critical re-reading on the part of the author to ensure the subjects are properly differentiated, potentially followed by subtle sentence refactoring.
qnaal··on HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language
wtf are those

>ef b8 8f e2 83 a3 bs

qnaal··on Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food
> If the food has all the chemicals we need, what does it matter if it's "low quality" by the author's standard? If the food doesn't have all the chemicals we need and this isn't obvious, that's a failure of our nutrient tracking scheme.

Our 'nutrient tracking scheme' does not claim to be 100% complete, any more than any other science. I feel it's legitimate to discuss differences between 'naturally' healthy food, and food that is notably deficient being 'fortified' with our best guess as to what's missing.

qnaal··on 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1
and a helping of picross http://picross.net/

though this implementation is a little gimped- rotating to the correct of the three possible states (on,off,nil) often requires two clicks, but a doubleclick is no good..

qnaal··on The God Who Peter Molyneux Forgot
literally

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

qnaal··on Lost typeface printing blocks found in river Thames
now they're being printed and read without anything like a press being involved at all
qnaal··on Animated Bézier Curves
hackeur news
qnaal··on Animated Bézier Curves
mystifying..

but make sure to pronounce it "beˈzje"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier

qnaal··on Why You Should Tell Your Children How Much You Make
maybe his children are disabled
qnaal··on I don’t know what to do, you guys
I wonder what about that community caused it to evolve like that
qnaal··on NW.js
So what we're saying is, if you find yourself wanting to use NW.js... maybe you should think about what you're doing, turn a little bit to the right, and stop trying to develop systems out of slinkies?
qnaal··on The power of story: stories as agents of personal transformation
"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
qnaal··on Silent Circle's warrant canary is out of date
Based on a critical reading of the 'Thu Dec 25 19:07:56 2014 UTC' update I'd say it has served its purpose and delivered its only message as loudly and clearly (or absently and morbidly, as the analogy may go) as it can.

ps anyone got a link to any previous canary update, or even a copy of the public key?

pps the update I read (including signature) had sha1sum 790b9817923137c68bd0a818456f2b47ff25719f

qnaal··on Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago
undesirables
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