Kir Kolyshkin how Google rejected for the lack of oral English skills. This serves to illustrate nicely that English is something a self-respecting hacker might want to know, just in case. And it’s not even that difficult. The biggest problem is finding someone to sound off of. So, work for a foreign company, it does wonders.
John Levon why fonts in Firefox look bad. The example he gives looks very much like ligatures ran amok, so I used to blame unfree Microsoft fonts (what else?), spacing of which Firefox presumably tries to emulate. But when I started running an anime blog, I found accidentally that the culprit is style “text-align: justify”. Remove that and everything becomes good, with the same fonts.
… I ran “yum update”, and the following started happening:
The transient always disappers before I am able to aim xwininfo at it. Usually it occurs when I’m watching my anime, but not always. What in the world is this?
Somehow this reminds me the old joke about GUIs: First humans moved out of caves; then they invented writing; now they invented intuitive GUIs; all that remains is to return to caves.