mrpixel on Hacker News

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A horizontally soft-scrolling shoot-'em-up for the unexpanded VIC-20 (opens in new tab)

(hugbox.org)

1mrpixel12y ago0

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25 microchips that shook the world. (opens in new tab)

(spectrum.ieee.org)

2mrpixel12y ago1

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13 year-old looks at trees and makes solar power breakthrough (opens in new tab)

(theatlanticwire.com)

2mrpixel14y ago1

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Ask HN: Alternative to Ubuntu?

I enjoyed switching from FreeBSD to Ubuntu 8.04 some time ago -- the FreeBSD went into the rack and I could do office work on a nice Gnome desktop environment.

Until now.

Gnome is broken and unsupported. Keyboard shortcuts don't work anymore. It's frustratingly slow to work with a mouse. I feel so babied around. There's no workflow anymore. I hate it. I so would love to ask them what kind of grass they're smoking... there's just no love anymore.

So, what's THE Linux distro developers might want to switch to?

16mrpixel14y ago21

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Google (translate) is stupid - NOT (opens in new tab)

(translate.google.com)

13mrpixel14y ago9

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Tell HN: Gray text on white background sucks the blood out of my eyes

HN posts are so enjoyable. Unless I'm thinking up novel animal names for designers that confront me with such a "color" scheme, because 1) I have a very hard time reading even halfway through interesting posts, 2) I'm jealous, because my vision is obviously suboptimal, 3) I only got a laptop, and its display demands contrast.

It's bad. It's itching. And it's obvious. Try to find something printed with gray text on white background. Ads and porn not included.

Please! Stick to essential typography! Make it BLACK on white. TNX1E6

11mrpixel14y ago7

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