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keeranon OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS

From the creator (of Sass) "it's Sass not SASS"

https://twitter.com/hcatlin/status/256142344431214592

keeranon Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)

6 month old flame bait dug up and reaired as more flame bait.

I tried explaining a similar concept to a designer recently - When I use Sublime Text 2 I use the minimap to visually identify sections of code based on their rough shape, and get to learn bits of code or sections of a file purely on its indentation / minimap pattern.

keeranon Dreamforge (YC S12): Make your own superhero

Cool to see custom toys taking off, http://makie.me launched something similar earlier in the year.

keeranon Dan Bull: Censored By Copyright For Protesting Being Censored By Copyright

The video in question:

http://vimeo.com/45733369

keeranon Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

I always think 'side' should be in there, but it isn't :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/

keeranon John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset

The hardware kit hes talking about - Oculus RIFT. Kickstarter coming this month!

http://oculusvr.com/?page_id=2

keeranon Wallpaper That Blocks Wi-Fi

I thought along similar lines, but with some special texture that made monitors emit some kind of wifi-jamming RF :)

keeranon WebGL: 80,000 particles

Reminds me of Gravilux

http://www.snibbe.com/store/gravilux/

keeranon This Is 2016 Not 2012

I found http://khanacademy.com extremely helpful when trying to catch up on the math involved in the ml-class / ai-class material.

keeranon [dead]

If Yehuda cared enough about what I was talking about to pull me up on getting things wrong, I'd be pretty chuffed (after some initial embarrassment sure, but I'd get over it).

keeranon EveryMe (YC S11) hits the App Store

Congrats on the launch!

Landing page image scaling doesn't handle tall windows very well:

https://skitch.com/keeran/8t355/everyme

keeranon Designer of the Porsche 911, Dies at 76

For the hairdressers.

keeranon How many Apple accounts do you have to remember?

I have one account for all this stuff. I thought this was going to be a post about how everyone else is getting it wrong :)

keeranon Linode Manager Security Incident

Likewise.

   Suspicious events prompted an immediate investigation and the compromised credentials used by this intruder were then restricted

Does that mean the credentials were gained outside of Linode and used to change the root passwords of the accounts for the purposes of the theft, or were those credentials used as part of an exploit in Linodes systems?

keeranon WIKILEAKS RELEASE: The Global Intelligence Files. Over 5 million emails

The press release (if servers are still being hammered):

http://pastebin.com/D7sR4zhT

keeranon Humble Bundle Mojam live stream - notch & co. coding for charity

The PeepCode PlayByPlay series do this for development (kinda, it's not live) - very entertaining and informative.

https://peepcode.com/screencasts/play-by-play

keeranon Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing

Some inline context - this appears to be about protecting against malicious software. Was always going to catch flak :)

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#gate...

keeranon Rails is Definitely Not for Beginners

Building web applications is not for beginners.

keeranon Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.

Would like to hear from people who have taken a user-facing Padrino/Sinatra app all the way through production and into maintenance.

I have a few tiny services and extremely specific apps running on Sinatra, but any time I've needed to expose any kind of richness to the user I've ended up reimplementing in Rails as I kept reaching for things in ActiveSupport / ActionView etc.

At some point I notice myself essentially recreating Rails' structure in my 'lightweight' app and think 'why don't I just use Rails?'.

keeranon Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"

"We wanted to get started with partners early, so we're starting with high school textbooks priced at $14.99 or less. "

edit: source http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/19/live-coverage-of-apples-...

keeranon No New Accounts Today

I would have thought that while the effect was due to Reddit (and others) being down, it was more a case of existing users refreshing for fresh content, rather than potential new users coming to register.

Is there really that much crossover? I need to spend some time seeking HN-esque subreddits perhaps.

keeranon TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars GroupTalent

Just scanned the ToS - seems like GroupTalent own the relationship between dev/client for 3 years subject to the client buying them out.

Careful what you agree to if you move over!

https://grouptalent.com/legal/tos

keeranon US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison

First they came for the torrent site admins...

keeranon When GitHub kills Open Source

Was this written (conceived) before the new pull requests mech & UI was introduced?

How can the dead end of an ignored patch submission be better than what we have now?

keeranon Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Brilliant and incredibly sad storytelling.

keeranon Why I Won't Hire You

Based on the comments in this thread I think I'm glad HN has taken his server down ;)

keeranon PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js.

Not|soon to be confused with the Ruby gem, PDFKit.

https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit

keeranon Rails 3.2 RC1: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store

Nice tech talk about the thinking behind the new router from Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) at MagRails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbobUPqhL4

keeranon The key value store we ignored (Postgresql)

Thoughtbot posted a similar Postgres article recently:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/13829210385/the-durable-do...