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Hard to C
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Hard to C is a personal blog at hardtoc.com about programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Reordering Arguments (2016)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hard to C for its writing on colour science and display colour, such as how older TextMate and Mac RGB values render differently from sRGB. One commenter cites it as background for a theme discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Reordering Arguments (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-08
What Hacker News says?
I also stuck my nose down this rabbits hole about a year ago, while writing a blog post about TextMate color themes [1] (TL;DR: Some older TextMate color themes were made on the Mac when it was using Generic RGB and a gamma value of 1.8, and converting those themes directly to other editors can result in slightly off colors, because they likely assume RGB values to be sRGB with a gamma close to 2.2). It is fascinati…
Comment linking /archives/310
on “Completely Painless Programmer's Guide to XYZ, RGB, ICC, XyY, and TRCs”Submitted The problem with -2147483648 in C. as a story · 62 points
HN discussionInterestingly, Monokai was developed back when Mac OS was not using sRGB by default, so using the RGB values today looks different than it did back then [1]. People have gotten used to the higher contrast, and the theme works great this way too. [1]: http://www.hardtoc.com/archives/310
Comment linking /archives/310
on “Show HN: Monokai Theme for Android Studio”Submitted Reordering Arguments (2016) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reordering Command-line Arguments as a story · 1 points
HN discussion