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creativityhurts

3,928 karma · joined January 4, 2011

Frontend developer, httpster.

@creativityhurts on Twitter and everywhere else.

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creativityhurts··on 37signals selling Sortfolio on Flippa for 480k
On Flippa they say "The premium membership is sold for $99/month. This is how we generate revenue."
creativityhurts··on Introducing Facebook Camera
Why is it available just for the US App Store?
creativityhurts··on Coda 2 available for download
I was talking about Diet Coda, the iPad version.
creativityhurts··on Coda 2 available for download
I just bought Diet Coda just for that one rare situation when I'll need to edit some html or change file permissions from bed. It's really nicely done, just like every Panic product but I don't see myself using it very often especially since my workflow involves LESS & CoffeScript and versioning vs. editing straight on the production server.
creativityhurts··on FB down 8% at opening
It's not only about the bouncing price itself but it's interesting for some of us to observe the evolution of the biggest "startup" out there after its IPO.
creativityhurts··on FB down 8% at opening
It's somewhere at -13.35% right now. I don't think that's unexpected at all given the valuation.
creativityhurts··on Stopwatch with only CSS3 - No javascript
Kudos for the effort. I'm always impressed by how much time some developers invest in these CSS3-only experiments.
creativityhurts··on SASS vs. LESS
LESS became popular thanks to Twitter Bootrstrap and to the fact that you don't need Ruby to use it, which is a big plus for Windows users.

I use them both on daily basis, SCSS & Compass for a Sencha Touch project and LESS & Bootstrap for web dev work, along side with CodeKit to compile them and the major difference that I see is the speed of compiling. The projects I work on are both pretty large and with many .scss/.less files but LESS compiles way faster for me and this is a big plus.

Also, LESS is pretty useful for rapid prototyping since you can use the less.js and skip the compiling part altogether.

creativityhurts··on Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
I understand that and it's pretty awesome. Have the frontend on Github and I can help you tweak it out. Open source stuff should look awesome as well.
creativityhurts··on Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
OP: I understand I will collect down votes with this comment but, seriously, you gave credit to everybody in the footer except to Twitter Bootstrap, which you didn't even bother to personalize. Is that part of the brogrammer code, guzzle down some redbulls, fire up bootstrap and don't even bother about it?

Invest a bit of time in the looks of your service/startup, if it looks like the next service/startup, it's just another Boostrap themed website that people (I assume) are tired of.

creativityhurts··on I can style a whole app with only four hex values and SASS.
In my opinion, this is one of the most important features of CSS preprocessors. Wether you're doing rapid prototyping and working on the real deal, having a set of variables for colors, fonts and whatnot helps you a lot controlling the look and feel of your site and avoid mistakes that even Facebook did [1]

This is one of the main reasons why foundations like Twitter Bootstrap or Compass are awesome but unfortunately people are so lazy they don't even change the color variables in Bootrstrap, hence the "yet another Twitter Bootstrap" site.

[1] Facebook had 706 CSS files, they declared the Facebook blue color 261 times, used 548 unique hex values for colors, had 6498 declarations of color. http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1379

creativityhurts··on Paper Boy for News.me — Download Your News in the Background When You Leave Home
It would be nice if it let you set your office as well so it downloads the latest news when you're coming back home.
creativityhurts··on Learning to code? Tired of feeling stupid? Try Bloc (use code 'LNCH')
So learning how to code _something_ is the opposite of not feeling stupid?

Since when learning to code is something everybody HAS to do nowadays? Let's all also learn how to use a crane or how to perform surgery and get badges while we're at it.

creativityhurts··on Facebook is down in Northern Europe
It's working in Romania now.
creativityhurts··on Poll: Sublime Text 2 License?
I've been using Sublime Text (1) since it was beta and after falling in love with it I bought a licence mostly to support the developer.
creativityhurts··on The minimal code required in a HTML5 page
Here's a list of smallest possible syntactically valid files of different types https://github.com/mathiasbynens/small
creativityhurts··on Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?
While using Sencha Touch you will write a lot of vanilla JavaScript (you'll understand why as you learn it) so my advice is to make sure you handle pure JS pretty well before tackling Sencha. You might learn some JS form working with jQuery but you'll never learn JS from working with Sencha AND you will not have an easy time with Sencha Touch if you don't handle well the MVC pattern.
creativityhurts··on Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?
Phonegap and Titanium are different things from jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, which are slightly different form jQTouch.

Want to build a complex app that could run on iOS, Android and Windows Mobile with no(t much) fuss? Don't like writing HTML or CSS by hand but enjoy writing JavaScript MVC stuff and fancy learning new stuff? Go with Sencha.

Want to build a nice mobile interface for a website but you need your very own markup and CSS and you'd also like to apply your jQuery king-funess to the project? jQuery Mobile is the thing you need.

Want that "site" to be a native app that talks with your web services and uses accelerometer, gps and camera? Add Phonegap.

creativityhurts··on Yahoo Lays Off Flickr Support Staff
You can export them with this Python script http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr/ or with Bulkr (paid version)
creativityhurts··on Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
Yes! They're on it, it's awesome. I'm looking forward for Path to have a public API, that will be the stuff. Have you guys notice the ~12h delay in which Path posts to Facebook or Twitter?
creativityhurts··on Show HN: My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry
Super simple and neat idea, awesome job!
creativityhurts··on Our Commitment to the Facebook Community
Lengthy post on privacy and all people want is a dislike button. Well, they are the product...
creativityhurts··on I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make
But that's not a rule, it's because women don't negotiate well. This title can create a bit of unnecessary controversy, imho.
creativityhurts··on How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks
I'm sorry but you can't become a _programmer_ in 12 weeks. You can become a pretty good code wrangler, you can put togeter a decent website or an application but you still have around 10 more years to go (as shown above/below http://norvig.com/21-days.html).
creativityhurts··on How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks
The article shows us that nowadays anyone can easily start learning a programming language or even a framework, that the internet is an incredibly useful library for those who seek knowledge and that tabloid headlines like "How I became a programmer in 12 weeks" still get our attention.
creativityhurts··on GitHire
For Palo Alto it gives me only non-hireable people. And Facebook.
creativityhurts··on Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
'at Google I feel like I'm stupid most of the time'

Is that let's-pay-them-enough-not-to-leave-for-Facebook-even-if-they-don't-do-much strategy still on?

creativityhurts··on About Userlook
The original is actually this one http://www.technologywithpassion.com/about-us/team/

When others copy you it must be a good thing.

creativityhurts··on Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)
http://db.tt/5Z7hter Thanks.
creativityhurts··on Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
It's a bit too little too late but I'm curious what they'll bring to the game now with so many people converting to Sublime Text 2.
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