chriseppstein

Navel gazing is the best way to convince yourself that things are going great and to give you that boost to keep working on the project. At some point you will probably look back at this and think it was nothing to brag about, but it doesn't matter because you're having fun and enjoying the feedback loop between you and your users -- this is a good sign.

Gender identity is actually a quite tricky topic and should be approached carefully. I would discourage anyone from trying to use this library, the real world doesn't fit neatly in your multiple-choice view of gender. For more information, please watch this great talk: http://vimeo.com/61172068.

I think you're starting to understand my points then.

I like that.

Did you actually read the link before commenting? Honest question.

You should tell us what those limitations are :)

The number of bytes in a sprited file can be smaller than the sum of the bytes of each file individually. So the best option might be to inline the sprite :)

There is a statistical margin of error. They will need to make many such predictions. Also, the act of predicting an event might cause it to become more or less likely to occur.

Sass uses $ for variables, less uses @. For more differences: https://gist.github.com/674726

The real reason it's for hackers is that it uses Git and the command line to manage it. It may not be "hack-ery" enough for you, but it's certainly not software non-hackers are going to use.

Those damn marketers. Going after that HUGE hacker market again!!!

Sorry about that. A copy and paste error. Thanks for the correction.

| For all the talk of freedom, this is disappointing.

You're incredibly naive then. Freedom comes from the license. You can fork and modify to your heart's content. This is how open source freedom works. If you think you can do it better, then do it better in your project. Rails is not some sort of public good that belongs to the people. It is a project that people work very hard on and then give away. And for anyone to suggest that they should not get to decide how things work on the thing that they give away free of charge and for modification is both ludicrous and makes you sound very ungrateful.

Successful projects are successful because the leaders do a good job. They're good at listening, good at saying no, good at rallying support, and good at working with their users and their team. Your vote is with your shoes.

Full Disclosure: I am not a haml developer. I'm a haml user -- I only develop on sass.

It should work based on the urls below. Contact the mailing list for support.

https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/blob/stable/framewo...

https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/blob/stable/framewo...

There's no "gradual creeping" or "ad-hoc" language features being added "on the fly". We spend a lot of time thinking about what features are included in Sass and most feature concepts do not get added.

Feel free to write your CSS in ruby, it would take less than a week to whip up a DSL for CSS, but good luck trying to get a designer to use it ;)

Sorry! But that syntax was deprecated in 3.0...

I've heard rumors of just that.

That's awesome to hear!

What if that weight was empirically determined by an algorithm instead of by a human, would it make it OK or should Bing hardcode in a demotion to that google-based data source?

If I could upvote you 100x I would.

I find it interesting that Patxi's rated better than Zachary's, since Patxi's is a spinoff. I've eaten at both and I think they're pretty much the same, tho I've never had them side by side. If you're in the bay area, both are worth the trip.

It's strange that no one has done this yet so I wrote up an explanation of how the languages compare. It's too long to post here so I made a gist. I hope this will help you learn the differences and evaluate the two projects:

https://gist.github.com/674726

I am the author of compass so I definately understand Sass more intimately than Less. Please feel free to correct any misunderstandings I might have. Also note: I am comparing the versions of Sass and Less that they suggest on their main websites -- both have some very cool features and enhancements in the pipeline.

This very much echoes my own personal experience. My father was diagnosed with a terminal disease when I was high school. At the time he was given two years to survive. But my father is a fighter and he found a cocktail of food supplements that has allowed him to survive for 17 years now. After college, I have found that startup life provided both an outlet when I needed to hide from the world and offered the flexibility to be there for my family when that was required -- with all the overtime I normally put in no boss I've ever had gave me crap about taking time away or working remotely when needed.

I'm really happy to see this subject getting attention in the tech community. Caregiving is hard and can be a huge strain on families and caregivers. That's why I became the first employee at caring.com when the opportunity came my way. Being able to apply my technical expertise to such a personal subject and hopefully help make some peoples lives go a little smoother during one of the roughest periods of their lives is immensely satisfying.

Thank you for sharing your story, Alexis.

Bingo! Such logic is supposed to live in the stylesheets with the design.

The problem of applying multiple classes to an element arises when the definition of one class expects another css class to be applied to all the same elements because there is an implicit inheritance relationship between them. Keeping inheritance in the stylesheet allows the implementation details of those classes to be kept together instead of leaking out to the html and causing display bugs (which are very hard to unit test).

companies invest in their business units and let them run at an operating loss for long term viability all the time. I call bullshit. The reddit guys need to do a better job selling their plans to their bosses.

Not so. With sass and compass you can make a mixin to do this for you and the maintenance burden is significantly reduced. See this blog post for more info: http://blog.derekperez.com/post/755676493/smarter-sprites-in...

FYI: the compass stylesheet authoring framework makes it drop-dead easy to work with data-uris in your stylesheets: http://compass-style.org/docs/reference/compass/helpers/inli...

Caring.com is hiring: http://www.caring.com/about/senior-developer.html

We're a ruby-on-rails shop.