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Is the driver charging the passenger? Or is Uber charging the passenger, and putting forth a contract at a set rate which individual drivers can accept or decline?


Not to mention the arrow keys produce a lot of errors and the touch to click fails to register about 10% of the time. I end up typing in the wrong window multiple times per day.


omg, i just owned a bunch of you guys. l2p noobs


Why didn't this cause an infinite loop?



In case you were wondering, I descrambled the blanked out "png" files and the filenames were "jennymccarthy[01-04].png"


Or maybe she was wearing a t-shirt brandishing the company she works for.


WTF is wrong with Courier New? Haha, just kidding.


Can you explain to a font ignoramus like me what is wrong with it?


I worked at a printing company a long time ago (although in IT not as a graphics artist), and its a slightly rewarmed serif font thats about 200 years old and designed for newspaper levels of contrast (thats what it was used for two centuries ago).

If you're going to stick with serifs try something like Georgia which is also a warmed over serif font, but somewhat More warmed over than Courier New.

If you want a pleasant holy war right up there with debates about wifi emissions and if religion is true, try suggesting the modern printing and computing world should stick in the sans serif families. There's plenty of journal articles on both sides, etc.

Most debate about font shape is meaningless without discussing color scheme. Grayish blurry-oish text on light yellow medium-large size is what the Slab Serif families were originally invented for two centuries ago ... what a surprise they'll look bad compared to a sans family font (or most anything else) on a pure white backlit background with pitch black letters.

Note that most end users don't really care. The TV/monitor is covered with 1/4 inch of dust and cat fur, they're reading printed matter nearly in the dark and they don't really care what the color temp of their light source is other than it being the cheapest. You're talking about optimizing in the decimal places for the snobs not basic legibility for the masses.


We're talking about programming fonts here, though. Serifs have been proven easier to read than sans-serif fonts in usability studies. Also, there are multiple advantages to using monospaced fonts in programming applications.


No, serifs have not "been proven easier to read than sans-serif fonts". Nor has it been proven the other way around.


It's a serif font, which makes it noisier in my opinion. It's also a relatively thin font, making it more difficult to read.


Compare the fonts on this page. Courier gets muddied when it's bolded, and feels a tad thin when not, in my opinion:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

The last 3 fonts listed on the page are really strong for programming.


The l has a serif, but other characters do not.


On Courier New? Mmmm, a lot of the characters have serifs.


l and 1 look very similar. Aside from that, I think it's a great font.


Would just installing propped up reflective (or something painted white) panels above a roof have the same effect? Prop them up so that air can efficiently flow underneath to further reduce the heat your actual roof absorbs. The cost seems like it could be very minimal (as opposed to costly solar panels). The benefit over trees is that you don't get leaves stuck in your gutters or branches falling and damaging your home.


If you're using a service every day, and a lot of people don't understand how it works, I'd suggest that's a flaw with the design of the product or its features.


I actually didn't see it like that. But now that you pointed it out, I can't unsee it.


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