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by akdetrick 15y ago
This is a good (and fair) question. Sequence doesn't appear to do a ton of stuff the box, without applying a theme from the site or one of your own design. That is, however, why I love this idea. It looks like this provides a good foundatio
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by akdetrick 15y ago
"One principle of development is D.R.Y., also known as don’t repeat yourself. Within CSS this principle can speak volumes as it is easy to continually write the same styles over and over again. Don’t. CSS was designed in a way to allow you
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by akdetrick 15y ago
The "dumbing down" argument almost seems to assume that a web of curated/unoriginal content can not coexist with a web of content creators. Creating new ways to interact with content on the web doesn't seem to me to be a bad thing, especial
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by akdetrick 15y ago
I recall reading about this event in Erik Larsons "Thunderstruck". The book includes a pretty interesting account of the fits and starts of wireless technology, if not overly embellished. The tuning issue is one of many snags that Marconi r
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by akdetrick 15y ago
Duplication is probably the easiest mistake to make with CSS, and using authoring languages like LESS and SASS won't necessarily help. Duplication not only causes bloat, but it can lead to specificity wars and poorly performing selectors. W
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by akdetrick 15y ago
In all of the news and outcry surrounding SOPA, this is the most puzzling thing. I would be surprised to learn that the lobby of those in support of this bill is stronger than of those against. Unless I'm wrong about the relative strength o
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time element dropped from HTML5 spec(brucelawson.co.uk)
25 points by akdetrick 15y ago|9 comments
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by akdetrick 15y ago
I'd venture to guess that the choices you mention did not always carry the sort of consequences they do today. You're right, policy decisions don't cause more people to have kids at a young age. They do however, have an effect on joblessnes
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by akdetrick 15y ago
Negatively judging someone for dressing poorly is as bad as judging someone for dressing well. For that reason, I can't agree completely with either side of the argument expressed in this thread. With that said, it would be nice to wear a j
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by akdetrick 15y ago
I don't subscribe to the notion that you can write code faster with less keystrokes (vi/emacs, anyone?). I do however, understand that a cleaner syntax would lend some readability and simplicity to your code once you learn said syntax. Ult
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by akdetrick 15y ago
Sticks may be fine, as long as you don't use it to play fetch with your dog later: http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&#38...
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by akdetrick 15y ago
You beat me to my reply about Andy. I almost regret taking his blog off my reading list, because he's a fantastic designer that has a special skill for teaching design fundamentals by example. Unfortunately, I couldn't tollerate slogging th
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by akdetrick 15y ago
Every problem in computer science can be solved with blaming the programming language.
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by akdetrick 15y ago
The "end result" approach with a diminished focus on clean markup doesn't make sense. The "end result" is not going to be the same for every user - for starters, people use different clients, and not everyone is sighted. Of course, this is
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by akdetrick 15y ago
The "language is language" argument has shifted my thinking a bit from my initial reaction to this project. In that line of thinking, it's also raised a new question in my mind. CoffeeKup seems to be optimized for baking logic into the temp