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   by err4nt 11y ago

   I have experienced a similar thing while freelancing or design and web development. I used to work 16 hours some days and less hours others, but then sometimes I would need to work and found it hard to kick it into gear. I think creativity
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   How does it look on retina/hiDPI displays?
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   > Everything you've said throughout this thread is a series of highly opinionated, subjective rationalizations. They are, but they are opinions based on a decade and a half of working with these technologies, and being currently emp
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   > Wouldn't it be far simpler and cheaper to support to loosen up your layout so you don't need 18 font faces specified? I mean, c'mon. Simpler, yes. Cheaper, no, not if you're a business that makes money from their we
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   Yeah, feel free - consider it under MIT. Those themes (and more) are included under the 'Template Factory' project over on Github: https://github.com/tomhodgins/template-factory That package contains more tha
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   Where is the option to disable CSS in Mobile Safari in iOS? Where is the option to disable CSS in Chrome on Android?
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   So should we try not to cut down on edge cases then? Looking at the last month's Google Analytics we were visited by over a thousand unique mobile device hardware layouts - how could you even possibly keep track of what system fonts th
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   …do you disable CSS? My websites would fare a lot better unstyled than most websites built on top of frameworks like Bootstrap and their 'classy' HTML, but it's still not going to look good without CSS and no online business
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   by err4nt 11y ago

   Why should it look the same everywhere? * website navigation often contains text * User-Interface controls often contain text I'm less concerned about trying to have my lines break in the same place or having the perfect kerning, but i
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Faster to load, but expensive to support. Using the same font everywhere cuts down on a lot of cross-browser layout bugs which stem from different fonts on different systems. I use web fonts everywhere and can't imagine trying to build
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    what kind of suit do the mushrooms that have absorbed your toxins (lest they be released into the environment) have to wear so when they die, they wont simply decompose and release your toxins? Or what if the mushrooms holding your toxins a
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    I'll just offer another perspective. for me jQuery was a major stumbling block to me learning JavaScript. And without JavaScript, you can't write very much jQuery either. I'm young enough that there's a generation of jQu
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Thanks, I just came up with a syntax that solved the problems I had with CSS and hired a brilliant JavaScript programmer, Maxime Euziere, to build me a plugin so I could use these features in my work :) If this plugin can help others too, t
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    How about what he did during the spree, which was work as an Uber driver between slayings.
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    I don't think it's as much about authoring CSS faster - if your goal is to output a large amount of CSS you can just use a precompiler like SASS to amplify a shorthand into thousands and thousands of lines in a few seconds. We&#x2
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    It would seem that Descartes allows you to change the values of the CSS _after_ page load, which no amount of precompiling can do! This is what plugins like Descartes are trying to solve - how do we inform CSS of values on the page which ma
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Can you give an example where somebody used JS inside CSS for a solution CSS alone could have provided? EDIT: I can't seem to reply down below, but in my plugin for example we've implemented a few responsive conditions: - min-scro
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Theres actually three types of developers. You forgot about ones who have been building stuff for a decade and a half, run up against the limitations of their tools, and personally set out to extend them. Thats more the type I am :)
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    The plugin, demos, examples, and more can be found at http://elementqueries.com I've been using this for the past year and its been a life saver! Dont picture it being gross, picture it like this: http://codepen.
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    This is REALLY cool stuff. There's currently a gap between CSS and JS that currently forces us to abuse HTML as an intermediary to get JS and CSS to communicate with each other. I've been doing some experiments with closing the ga
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    I read this almost as a form of 'suicide by cop' in the workplace. To me it reads as though the author is unhappy with the job they signed up for, but instead of exerting the mental fortitude to resign, is instead throwing a publi
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Please fix your police! The role you describe being needed IS the reason police exist at all.
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    > And unfortunately that’s often how it is with the American police. They are trained in ending crisis situations forcefully, but there isn’t enough training in how to deescalate them so that no one gets hurt or killed. It's a sad c
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    I wouldn't worry too much about non-American apple users. Those of us outside the US know how tangled law and tech can be - and so people guarding information tend to use non-American cloud services for example. If this goes through I
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    I don't know about that. I'm a front-end developer, so I know none of the above. I'd rather decipher some complex bit-counting scheme one person made (and documented) in a language I don't write, than to try to piece tog
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    any time you see 'encoded' JS it's just the canvas-based icons (like this: http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/VvjNKq ) being minified and encoded just to keep it out the way. If I made the icons as PN
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Yeah! A couple of years ago I thought JavaScript was hard, and I couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted. Somebody posted a teeny tiny code editor here on Hacker News and seeing the source code sparked something, and now I'm w
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    Amen! I wrote a handful of offline-cacheable HTML5 apps made simply with CSS, vanilla JS, and HTML. Nothing more! Don't write a single line or character you don't need in the final result. I have 'app update fatigue' and
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    You can start by relabelling the open sourced Parse right now!
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    by err4nt 11y ago

    I have checked Gitlab out in the past, and fully intend to mirror my stuff from Github over to there soon. How do we know that Gitlab, as an open-source project, can't be infected with the same ideological virus? Should I just start by