"Engineers and scientists know engineering and science but not so much leading people to change their behavior."

Yes, I'd rather think that's by design.

The climatologists and scientists who have spent decades warning people of the dangers, constantly, spending their lives wandering the corners of the earth collecting evidence, getting ignored and ostracized by private industry, by backwards-looking governments at local, state, and federal levels, who have to deal with the public mocking of their life's work with drive-by "snow this winter? how about that global warming" op-ed cartoons; their job is to also perform the legislative and urban-planning-related feats to stop it all?

Do you think that's a reasonable spread of responsibility?

That's terrifying. You should do whatever it is that makes Linux have good fonts.

http://i.imgur.com/AawrGCc.png

It's not really fair to compare that with Retina output. But yes, lot can be done to improve Linux font rendering.

Similarly, the site is optimized by Apple for viewing on an Apple, also not fair. I don't see why I couldn't make a page on Linux render like that. And odds are very good it would look better on other OSes by default without extra effort, vs the other way around (bonus for playing the free & open game).

Also what has this to do with Retina? I always assumed Retina is just a resolution thing, right? But the screenshots are the same resolution.

> Also what has this to do with Retina? I always assumed Retina is just a resolution thing, right? But the screenshots are the same resolution.

Retina does effect screenshots. I use Dropshare[0] and it actually has an option[1] to downscale Retina screenshots to a 'normal' resolution

[0]: https://getdropsha.re

[1]: http://s.rnbk.org/kBB0yPIs0M

Alternatively, Apple could not use grey-on-grey color schemes.

Can anyone find any actual citation for Apple wanting "the FBI to reveal" anything? There's quotes from an AVG spokesperson in the article, and the paragraph "Attorneys for Apple are researching legal tactics to compel the government..." but no specific sources.

The author, on Twitter, said that "last week" Apple said they wanted to know what the exploit was, but the announcement about a successful exploit was only two days ago.

Good point. The only official statement from Apple that I can find is this one, which doesn't ask the FBI to reveal or do anything:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/03/28/apples-statement-on-go...

(I couldn't find this statement on apple.com, but it has been relayed by many news sources so I believe it is indeed official.)

Sadly not as much as I'd like to as I've been unemployed for the last six months and am starting with my charity at home.

That said, I go to the LA river clean-ups the several times a year they occur, but have recently thought I could do something with teaching game design, or at least showing the processes that go into making games at a local youth center. Sadly, I don't know how to and/or have the time to fully explore that option at the moment.

Why? Hypothetically, would I not have a better impact if I used the same time to take up extra work and instead donated that money? I would imagine the price per hour to hire labor for, say, a food drive could easily be funded multiple times through the price per hour to hire a software developer. Would I not make even more an impact if I chose to donate to an organization that operates in low-income countries? And why would locally matter? Are people in need not people in need regardless of where they're located?

From the logo I was expecting Japanese brackets:

    「「MyObject alloc」init」

For the vacillating, have the best of both worlds:

    〔〔MyObject alloc〕init〕

I'd like to see a lisp that allows all the kinds of different brackets. ( 〖〗〘〙〚〛〈〉() [] <> and maybe more.) I think i can make the code easier to read. All we would need was a emacs script. When the cursor is on the closing bracket there could be a drop down menu. But aside from Haskell Language creators seem to be god dammed afraid of unicode in the language.

Racket allows for (), [] or {} in code and it seems that in practice [] is used to distinguish some syntactic forms that have nested parens from normal function calls such as the let and cond forms. So instead of

  (cond ((...) (...))
        ((...) (...)) 
        (else ...)) 

you get

  (cond [(...) (...)]
        [(...) (...)]
        [else ...]) 

which seems to me to be more readable. See here for an example http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/if.html?q=cond#%28form...

Under the 'Eye-free Reading' header, the clipart image contains a speaker saying '...new reader by JetBrains...' I imagine this is a teaser for an eventual product.

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." -- Hacker News Guidelines.

[citation needed]

Does the past 100 years count?

That's cynical snark, not a citation.

I would love to see how Feedly is, but it's completely broken in Safari. It asks for approval via Google OAuth on every page load, and once it has approval it displays a login page, again.

There seem to be a number of issues surrounding this. Some people point to OAuth being the problem. Some people point to the Safari extension. One way or another, it's broken, and there's absolutely nothing on their Twitter, blog, Uservoice, or Get Satisfaction even indicates they're aware of the cloud of problems surrounding Safari usage.