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babby··on Show HN: Do you read on the toilet? This web app is for you.
On the other hand, something can be said for 'rushing', pushing too much, generating the problems you mentioned.
babby··on CSS Absolute Centering
CSS could be redeemable if; the box model defaulted to box-sizing: border-box;. If vertical-align and margin: auto (or variants) worked with variable heights and widths, and on all elements. If percentages of heights worked inside all elements.

It seems like flex-box fixes a lot of this, but at the same time, it could be so much easier.

You're right though. CSS would be so much different and so much more gloriously painless to use. I can even imagine a better styling engine allowing for applications like macaw, dreamweaver to actually generate properly good CSS and thus building sites with a GUI would finally be plausible.

babby··on Mailinator has a new design
Quite believable. The Angular Way™ is unintuitive to the uninitiated.
babby··on Lavabit abruptly shuts down
It's just how encryption works; you don't store the plain passwords or keys the users submit to decrypt their stuff, thus you have no way to access it.
babby··on Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders
Then in future dont make comments, it's part of the HN etiquette is it not, to actually read the subject matter you're talking about?
babby··on Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders
Same link twice, friend.
babby··on Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders
Basically the formula is supposed to be customizable. Ie. more protein for body builders etc.

If it becomes big, which, I guess is possible, it only makes sense for the Soylent community to hack away. Im thinking it may evolve into few solid recipes that can be mass-distributed and then for those who want fine grained control they can get the separate ingredients/supplements themselves and either modify an existing recipe or create one from scratch.

This whole thing would be pretty stupid-er if it was only going to be one recipe.

babby··on Show HN: Minified.js – a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools
I wouldn't link to the Google CDN anyway, personally. If your whole site is hosted on your servers and then you add this because maybe some people won't have to reload JQuery, it just means google knows everybody who visits your site. Free analytics you don't get to benefit from.
babby··on I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
>MLP >on my hacker news

I feel a little sick.

babby··on Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
Not necessarily. People will only, for example, buy luxury items that are affordable - laptops, nice clothes etc. So, if most of the population which are sustained mostly on this form of base income cant afford said items, corporations theoretically wont be able to offload their products, products for which if you consider automation trends, the cost of producing should go down even further. No idea if this is sustainable.
babby··on “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
I think a point you may not be considering is that the reason why they use these paramilitary squads for stupid shit is not just to have fun, but instead to justify the purchase of all of this gear and training in the first place. If you never use the stuff then it stands to reason that it may not make the budget in the future (assuming budgeting competence).
babby··on “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
Perhaps it feeds to a so called hackers lust for anarchy, rebellion etc. I don't know, maybe it is le reddit cancer.
babby··on “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
And lets not pretend that it isn't a stereotype without warrant. Not going to go into the racial factors, more the cultural. It's just simply more likely that blacks will be criminals in certain areas - humans have evolved to generalize things like this for survival's sake.
babby··on How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety
Right. I believe the distinction is conscious thinking. Most of ones caloric consumption by the brain is from subconscious/passive processes, for maintaining the body, motor skills, alertness etc.
babby··on PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever
Google assuredly gets info, just not from the user. There aren't any google requests from Firebug's net tab, either, so perhaps you are mistaken.
babby··on Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense
But if we rely on this too much it would in theory give more power to hackers, and more reliance on the secureness of such a system. Suddenly you're being framed by some entity with sufficient political or hacking power.
babby··on Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact
Part of me thought this was a practical joke. So many sites back in the day just wouldn't load...
babby··on Minute 53, very emotional moment by Elon Musk
Couldnt help but think "Wouldn't mind seeing his Glass video feed" though.
babby··on Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing
Id imagine one would want to analyze the matter to decern that its composition is conducive with the transplantee, though perhaps thats not strictly necessary.
babby··on If everything fades into the background, you may have a high IQ
Sounds like a nice candidate for a web app, should they release how exactly it's done.
babby··on How to work remotely as a software developer
I realize this is awful 4chan of me; but that seems rather beta of you, in that you're essentially swayed by the flow of traffic of the establishment, in a scenario where you're supposed to be getting shit done. You make it sound like you're only privileged to be there when it's convenient for the coffee shop owners, and that seems to me like a tense place to exist.

On the other hand I can relate to the concept of doing good by those whom you rely on, a symbiotic relationship and what not. That's a very pro-society thing and I suppose that's respectable.

babby··on Mercury Colonization
Theoretically if said base could hover above the surface of the sea-bed during an earthquake scenario, perhaps it could resist most of the damage, provided it could remain stable.
babby··on World's first 3D printed gun test fired
This article I dont believe is supposed to strike fear in viewers (though, one would be fine to assume as much, this is news media). It's more to highlight that gun control could be ultimately pointless and also to demonstrate the real world applications for 3D printing. It's a pretty good ad for 3D printing, while also appealing to many - disproportionately, nearly every piece of western mainstream entertainment invokes guns somehow.
babby··on Let's Make GitHub Better, Together
Windows, FF.

Wow. Looking at my sibling comments, this is some full spectrum incompatibility. Abandon ship on these videos!

babby··on Light Table 0.4 released
I really want to improve/make new syntax languages for this and actually use it.

Problem is that CodeMirror's docs for it are a tad confusing and I'm not even sure if it will be as flexable as Sublime/textmate .tmLanguage syntaxing. Anyone got a good resource or advice on this?

For example, I want to highlight function calls in coffeescript, such as:

   obj.func '100', () ->
Where "func" is highlighted differently. I've accomplished this with a .tmLanguage with relative strife, so I am wondering how easy it will be to do things like this with CodeMirror.

Once this thing goes open source I'd be happy to revamp all of the syntax highlighting for js/cs/css/stylus/html etc. should this make any sense, though technically as it uses CodeMirror I'd be revamping for them instead. Of course this would mean editing the .css files provided by LightTable though, so I'm half right.

babby··on On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare
In a similar vein, one does not really need to, persay, study design. Simply visiting sites like ThemeForest and trying your best to copy the designs from scratch or by using some of their assets is a completely legit way of learning how to do it on your own.

It's like building a working memory of design that you can pull from when you wish to be creative. Kind of like when you learn to code, you need to look at code examples and you need to eventually write it yourself.

babby··on Ghost: The Future of Blogging (Node.js)
I'm willing to bet they will finish it anyway. I'm sure a lot of us know that feel when you get something to prototype, holy crap it works stage. Something that you would use in the future with the bonus that many others may too. That feeling when you have to finish the project at least to a point where it works properly.

They have that feel, but they also want some money for their troubles - to justify/legitimize it as worth their time.

It's a blogging platform after all. Their feature set could be done by one man in 2 to 5 weeks time with some experience and perseverance. I hate to belittle it below its merit, as I do think some features of Ghost make for something potentially useable. The project also could be nice because of the so-called committed team behind it maintaining it into the future, as Wordpres does.

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