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Decentralized Xcode Theme Repository(omgthemes.net)
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Ruby’s `FileUtils.rmdir` Doesn’t `raise` on Failure(coderwall.com)
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by maxhowell 13y ago
What does Hacker News recommend as a standalone AJAX solution nowadays?
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by maxhowell 13y ago
It's like a Window. You can “turn off” a window by putting a curtain over it.
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Everyone who says using tables is wrong, is wrong. The only issue as far as I'm concerned is it is tedious to style tables, and you have to have <table><tr><td> all the time which is tedious to work with. All the othe
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Agreed. But good things become popular, and popularity changes good things. Not always for the worse. But this time, yes for the worse.
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by maxhowell 13y ago
The US is way more into dance music now than they were 10 or 20 years ago when Europe etc. were quite into it. Daft Punk are predominantly known for dance music, so this album got more interest from US music publications etc. Of course, thi
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by maxhowell 13y ago
I'd consider Windows more readily, but you are a bit screwed if you do decide you want to dip in the Open Source pool. You can dip there, but it's harder and less well supported, and some things simply don't work. So you are
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Sorry to be blunt, but it's clear you have never had to design or support a user-facing product. Anyone who has done either of these things will disagree with your base assumptions, ie. that users care about understanding their softwar
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by maxhowell 13y ago
And it's fabulous, I switched from Sublime Text 2 last week and have no interest in Sublime Text 3 anymore. I was disturbed that Sublime Text 2 had several irritating bugs that I encountered most days and yet all dev was going into the
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Indeed, never offer features that you don't intend to fully support. People hate change, but they hate you more if you take away something they use, especially if they feel they paid for it.
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Yes with hindsight I wish I had written it in JS, but writing the BS compiler was something I wanted to get done fast, and I'm more proficient with Ruby. BS has the #x{foo} syntax for htmlEncoding, or did you mean that should just be t
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Recently I wrote a less overwhelming pre-compiler that allows you type HTML inline with your Javascript, may be worth a look: http://mxcl.github.io/bs BullScript’s goal is just to make writing JS a little nicer, but not to
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by maxhowell 13y ago
Whining child damages his Hacker News Karma with unprofessional comment after just 3.5 years of membership.
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by maxhowell 13y ago
I have for about a year now done all my work out of Dropbox (via a symlink from ~/src) it works great for multiple machines and has added advantages, eg. I never worry about deleting files that aren't staged anymore, as I can undo the delet