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links for 2011-07-30
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max black/white contrast is #555 vs #fff
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links for 2011-07-29
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keeps the eye moving in a straight line
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links for 2011-07-25
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short payback period, zero operating costs, no emissions, pretty sweet
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easy static site generator in coffescript and node
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great site
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links for 2011-07-23
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because other people have different incentives than you. look out for your own interests
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Once upon a time.... And every day .... Until one day .... And because of that .... And because of that .... Until Finally .... Ever since that day .... And the moral is....
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Markdown.css: help make the Web prettier
Update, October 2026: I updated Markdown.css for modern browsers. It now switches to a dark theme if your operating system is in dark mode, works on phones, scales with your browser’s font size setting, and styles tables and code. The stylesheet moved off of Bitbucket; the links below point to its new home.
Markdown is a tool that lets you quickly write text for the Web. As an example, if I want to write a list, instead of this:
<ul>
<li>First list item!</li>
<li>Second list item!</li>
<li>Third item!</li>
</ul>
I can write this:
* First list item!
* Second list item!
* Third item!
then run it through the markdown processor to generate HTML. However the
default text it spits out is really ugly; it uses your browser’s default
styling. This means that lines will stretch all the way across the page and the
text will be in Times.
So I wrote a couple hundred lines of CSS to make your generated Markdown files
look much, much prettier. You only have to add the following line to the top of
your .markdown file:
<link href="https://burke.services/markdown.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>
and you’re good to go. Your eyes (and your viewers’ eyes) will thank you. For more check out the Github repo.
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links for 2011-07-22
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…close to 98 percent of the 27.3 million new jobs in the American economy in the last two decades were created in the nontradable sectors, led by government and health care in first and second place.
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friendly select and option menus - awesome
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self control can't be determined from marshmallows
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links for 2011-07-20
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sortable tables
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links for 2011-07-18
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send sprites as data
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links for 2011-07-14
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moneyball takes over soccer
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computers aren't friendly for the non-computer user
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raise expectations
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space travel is really, really, hard: When we look at the rest of the solar system, the picture is even bleaker. Mars is ... well, the phrase "tourist resort" springs to mind, and is promptly filed in the same corner as "Gobi desert". As Bruce Sterling has puts it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."
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got asked this in an interview
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eat, sleep, get in a good mood. also, build your willpower muscle
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So the journal article adds this up to an obvious conclusion: if you want to reduce your food's carbon footprint, eat less meat. In short, "Shifting less than one day per week's worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food."
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Time and time again, I come across situations where I think, “OMG! They are trying to stick beans up their nose!” It explains what’s happening and what I should do next. The only thing I can do in a beans-and-noses situation (notice my clever use of flight-attendant grammar forms?) is wait. Wait until the bean is in its final resting place. Then, with a calmness only seen in yoga instructors, I can turn the nose owner and ask, “So, how is that working for you? Did it do everything you’d hoped?” Of course, if they answer they enjoyed it and it was wonderful, then they are not someone I can relate to or help in any way.
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science of soccer training. replicate in practice the type of runs you do in games (jogs, sprints in short bursts, with rest)
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43% of all letter grades were a's, private colleges leading the way
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predictions more to signal your affiliation than to be accurate. no one cares about accurate predictions. let people bet, so they can at least profit from accuracy
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takeaways: most people put on 1/3 proper amount of sunscreen. should put on 30 mins before entering sun, 30 minutes after being in the sun.
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