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by lowboy 14y ago
> Why the need to express yourself so poorly? What is poor about this usage of "fucking"? It's an intensifier, appropriately used in this instance. Some people lean on swear words too much, but I don't think this is such a case.
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by lowboy 14y ago
> Just like in print, don’t use the darkest black available in your body text (#000). Instead, go for something softer, like #444. You can use a slightly darker color for titles (#222). I've always found the opposite; because headings a
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by lowboy 14y ago
Do you have any sources for this, or is it just anecdotal? The W3C states a minimum of 4.5:1 contrast ratio[0] for body copy, or 7:1 for users with poor eyesight[1]. If Snook's calculator[2] can be relied upon, this makes #444/#fff a contra
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by lowboy 14y ago
Agreed. Most of the time you end up with a smaller file as it's easier to comment out the various modules as you're going as opposed to downloading customized builds from the website as you work. Also, if Sass/Compass is more your cup of te
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by lowboy 14y ago
It makes the upgrade process easier if you stick to only making changes in their variables.less file[0], or even better creating a copy of it and including that instead in bootstrap.less. Heck, you can even just create your own top-level my
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by lowboy 14y ago
Coffescript is an actual thing - no need to use "quotations". Besides, Messenger will work with plain js too (or any other compile-to-js lang) it's just the examples that are in coffeescript. You can write an example for alert in cs:
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by lowboy 14y ago
Twitter on my desktop has a notification that there are new tweets, and I haven't seen if FB automatically loads more content on the top or follows a similar approach. The point isn't that sites need to be static for the life cycle of a pag
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by lowboy 14y ago
This is not a good idea because it breaks years (decades?) of expected behaviour on desktops. When a user scrolls a page back to the top, the expectation is that they'll see the top of the current page from the most recent pageload. With th
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by lowboy 14y ago
Agreed. User-assignable buttons or touchpad gestures however...
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by lowboy 14y ago
You will receive a response: > The email will disappear into the ‘Expired’ box and the sender will receive a friendly notification that they can move it back to the queue, change it to a different format, or delete it altogether and may
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by lowboy 14y ago
I can read it comfortably if I lean in, but I'd rather not. The text here on HN is smaller than your site, and it's perfectly readable from my normal position.
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by lowboy 14y ago
But I bet that the text you're looking at right now on HN is easier to read than the screenshot. Now consider that people might have dense screens, or sit further away from the screen than you do, or have poor eyesight.
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by lowboy 14y ago
I didn't follow this story, but if she did "help herself" to someone's credit card without their permission, then she is a thief. How does that constitute a "low blow"?
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by lowboy 14y ago
I imagine most businesses would exchange as soon as feasible.
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by lowboy 14y ago
It's easy on my eyes on my monitors. And it's #555 on #fafbfc, hardly "slightly lighter". For that font size/weight I would have gone #333/444 but it's pretty close.
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by lowboy 14y ago
This isn't really what I expected when I saw "music theory". It would be more aptly titled something like "frequency visualizer of chords".
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by lowboy 14y ago
I'd tweak the default colours a bit. The blue is very hard to read on the black bg and the red is burning my eyebs. For example, look at the Solarized theme[0], Wombat-256[1], or the default for Sublime Text[2]. They all have an off-black b
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by lowboy 14y ago
I'm not a Rails guy and I use Sass exclusively. I agree with its design decisions and functionality more so than Less. I've found that most people who install and run Node for command line tools usually also have Ruby in their stack.
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by lowboy 14y ago
It strikes me as an attempt at attention-getting, which in my experience often comes from insecurity. I'm not saying this is the case with this guy, but there's just no need for it. So yes, I think he has some issues due to this particular
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by lowboy 14y ago
It's affectation that serves no purpose for the library other than to make me think the author has some issues.
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by lowboy 14y ago
I'm a front end dev using Bootstrap on some sites and appreciate CSS animations, and I stopped reading after that sentence. Are me and parent not in the target market for a utility like this just because we find the copy distasteful? It's p
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by lowboy 14y ago
Eclipse et al might be more capable (and appropriate) for some tasks in some languages, but I'd say Vim is generally "more powerful".
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by lowboy 14y ago
And what do the interfaces to these programs look like? Are they off the shelf programs or do you have to write (parts of) them yourself? I'm guessing you still write code.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Especially with utilities such as Vagrant[0], for which there are many ready-made boxes[1] that make short work of spinning up new VMs. My main development "box" is a VM on a win host and it works wonderfully. [0]: http://vagrantup.com/ [
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by lowboy 14y ago
I think parent was referring to the inception of the patent system, which was well-intentioned. This is different from the trolls lobbying to keep the status quo, which is definitely not well-intentioned.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Which is what the article said: the images will no longer appear, just the links to said images. There's a difference.
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by lowboy 14y ago
What is Markdown specific about this? Using Chrome stable on Win 7, I don't see any of the Markdown I'm typing being converted or doing anything other than sitting there, being Markdown code.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Good stuff! I was going to point out the undo/redo and multiline tabbing affecting the line with the cursor on it, but bugs are already filed on 'thub.
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by lowboy 14y ago
If you look on the demo page ( http://fabien-d.github.com/alertify.js/ ), all of the alerts get injected into #alertifylogs.alertify-logs which is positioned by css and therefore should be easy to overwrite: .alertify-logs { p
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by lowboy 14y ago
I think "backwards" is the wrong word. I'd say "uninformed" would be closer to the point. CMSs manage your content usually through a database, and most of them provide a way to display that content in a structured format. See Wordpress and

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