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Palantir.net
Company blog · palantir.net/blogwebdesign
Palantir.net is the company blog at palantir.net, writing about web and design. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Palantir.net's blog posts on font size scaling and the origin of the company's name. One commenter says the name post's claim of Latin roots is misleading because it omits Lord of the Rings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Palantir.net is a digital consultancy specializing in Drupal development, content strategy, and UX for government, higher education, and healthcare
What Hacker News says?
The reason why Apple doesn't do fractional scaling is rounding errors: if you have a design that's aligned to the pixel grid at 1x, it's only guaranteed to remain aligned to that grid if you scale by other integers. If you aren't on the pixel grid, then the layout engine has to round sizes up or down to fit, which is dangerous. You're adding error to layout and then multiplying it by the number of elements being siz…
Comment linking /blog/responsive-design-s-dirty-little-secret
on “Let’s fix font size”Submitted Drupal is not a CMS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey disingenuously claim it has roots in Latin without mentioning LotR at all: https://www.palantir.net/blog/palantir-philosophy-or-what-s-... Even if it does, and I'd love to see more details about that (Google translates 'openly' as 'palam'), it's clearly a LotR reference.
Comment linking /blog/palantir-philosophy-or-what-s-name-anyway
on “Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired”Submitted Responsive Design's Dirty Little Secret as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot so sure about that. http://www.palantir.net/experience/public-radio-internationa...
Comment linking /experience/public-radio-international
on “Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hotel experiences”Submitted Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://basedremote.com/ is an excel list of companies offering remote positions, you can filter the list, albeit not by size. At first glance the following match your criteria (don't know exactly what your criteria are for BigCorp) https://www.salesforce.com/ https://www.palantir.net/ http://www.oreilly.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ http://www.linuxfoundation.org/
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on “Ask HN: Which BigCorps Hire Remote Software Engineers?”