xScope provides a great tool for testing common vision impairments. What I'd love is a well written overview for keyboard accessibility within websites.

I feel like a may be missing something, but don't these taxes only apply for people who cashing out to a USD? You can still buy things with Bitcoin (as a currency) directly and not pay any taxes to the US government. 1 BTC is still worth 1 BTC.

According to an interpretation of the ruling, you would have to pay, if the value of the Bitcoin you bought (presumably with USD) went up from when you bought it to when you used it to purchase a good:

"Under the ruling, purchasing a $2 cup of coffee with bitcoins bought for $1 would trigger $1 in capital gains for the coffee drinker and $2 of income for the coffee shop."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/25/294364892/irs...

You can, but it's tax evasion when you acquired the Bitcoin for less than its value when you bought something with it.

Plus, its not really that much fun.

It's a good thing that what is 'fun' is purely objective! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make such claims and still be taken seriously.

Yeah but it's so much easier than making flappy birds clones!

You haven't seen flappy 2048 yet, huh?

Fucking hell, why did you give them the idea‽

Because it already exists! :) http://hczhcz.github.io/Flappy-2048/

Also the end product is much more interesting.

No, its simply more informed.

I got a huge laugh out of this. I love how some of the statements I ended up writing could almost be interpreted as poetry, hilarious poetry.

You honestly find 12pt black text on a dark grey background with a measure of 90+ characters to be easy to read?

Fair point; I have set a minimum point size set which also reduces the characters per line.

Regarding black on dark grey: yes, far preferable to black on white.

It's D9D9D9, that's 85% bright. It has plenty of contrast here.

I know I find it frustratingly obvious that the author has no real grasp of typography just by looking at the text in this article.

This article is very bitter and inflammatory. In my experience, people only use two spaces after a period because thats what they were taught and are too stubborn to change.

The main typographic case against two spaces after a period is that it breaks up the flow of text and creates rivers inside the text block. Counter space is the most important aspect of a typeface, and by adding two spaces after a period you are breaking the rhythm of the text.

> people only use two spaces after a period because thats what they were taught and are too stubborn to change.

Are you sure it's stubbornness that you're describing? I was taught to use 2 spaces when I was 5 or 6, and in the meantime I have been typing things for the majority of my life. When I pound out two spaces at the end of a sentence it's not out of pride or because I'm consciously thinking about it.

Telling me I'm "too stubborn" to write a single space is like saying I'm too stubborn to change my handwriting or use a Dvorak layout; these things would require conscious effort and attention to things that I am not currently thinking about, or to change what I am writing and this would slow me down. Or, considering how young I was taught, you might as well say I'm "too stubborn" to stop other current habits developed at around the same time, like bathing regularly or brushing my teeth.

Frankly if I have to please folks like you I'd rather just pipe everything I write into sed s/\ \ /\ /g. That way I don't have to drop my productivity by consciously thinking about spacing between sentences. OTOH, not one person has ever mentioned this habit to me, so it must not really be a problem.

Just because you say "I don't think I'm being stubborn" does not make it so. You clearly are. No one claimed bathing or brushing are bad habits that should be changed.

I learned how to type when I was 10 with double spaces after periods. I realized it looked bad/was unnecessary and now I single space. Wasn't very hard to make the conscious effort to change it. /just saying

Sounds like that works for you. I don't think it would work for me. Unlike some in this thread though, I am not going to say that my preferences work for everybody.

A: People do it out of stubbornness.

B: I don't think I'm stubborn. I do it totally unconsciously since a very young age and it would be hard for me to change, similar to handwriting. Besides, nobody seems to notice the difference.

A: (Sigh.) Programmers just won't understand...

Sorry, but I see that last reply as neither here nor there. It's actually kind of laughable, like some stereotypical "design-snob" thing to say.

Also, I really just had to give up. There's no point in educating those who are too stubborn to entertain an alternative to what they learned at the age of 5. Why do you think there are still so many racist individuals in the US?

I don't see any support of your position in your comments, just that people who do it differently from you are stubborn and uneducated. (It's very ironic because it doesn't seem like you've considered how it'd be if someone flipped this the other way and directed such comments at you.)

Meanwhile I've typed double spaces for multiple decades and haven't ever had anyone ask me to do it the other way. Seems you've a lot of people to educate.

Without design snobs, programming snobs would never reach the masses.

Design snobs used to have the opposite of the opinion that they have now about after-period spacing, and had valid semantic reasons for having that opinion. People whining about how a wider space after a period is absolutely wrong are more fashion snobs than design snobs.

The article reads like a reasonable response to what is essentially a bullshit rewriting of history.

Now, there are certainly arguments in favor of one space, but "history" is not one of them :)

But as the article points out, the typographers claim otherwise.