timinman

I have used Bootstrap, Skeleton, and a few others. After a quick read of the docs, here is what I like about Pure:

1. It's lightweight.

2. It is stylistically plain.

3. The grid system is straightforward.

No. I realise that I over-simplified that part by highlighting only two opposites: belief and unbelief. I do realise there are degrees of distinction between belief in a deity and atheism, and there are polytheism and agnosticism as well.

I could have asked a question: for those who don't believe in god(s), is your Atheism a significant feature of your identity?

I think his 'theory' that discussions have more potential to be divisive when they involve our identity is dead on. His advice to 'keep your identity small', follows on from that premise well. Many people let their identity get polluted by what they do for a living to such an extent that they find it very difficult to cope when that is taken from them.

I have always been opinionated - I'm analytical and I enjoy forming opinions. Since moving to Europe, I have learned not to let political opinions become so ingrained that they become part of my identity. I have seen so many things done differently and still done well.

My question is this: Which things are worth being part of my identity? Values I esteem? Relationships I hold dear? Family roles? I think it is fair to say that belief (or disbelief) in God is a foundational human issue. If you are a believer, I think that belief demands something - it necessarily becomes part of your identity. I am a believer, so I don't know if same is true for non-believers.

Beautiful.

It's the same kind of argument made about ruby being 'developer friendly.' My hunch is that the brain is so much more complex than _any_ programming language - that drawing out likenesses to one over the others is overdoing it. It's like saying 'zucchini is like pizza because it can be cut into round slices like pepperoni.'

One point that was missed is that all those curly brackets look a bit like neurons :)

This is going to EXPLODE all over the Internet!

The title is overly pessimistic. We may have wanted flying cars, but the mobile internet is far more empowering/revolutionary than moving cars to the air.

The problem the article highlights will self-correct. Twitter is a good additional news source because it is unfiltered and because of the multiplicity of sources, although we need to adapt to taking news in this form. I wouldn't buy or sell stock, or do anything drastic based on one source. Logic dictates that if the White House were bombed, lots of people on the ground in Washington DC should also be tweeting about it. As we become more savvy, Twitter's influence (the problem according to the OP) will actually be more of an asset. It probably already is.

The page has changed since this was posted. Originally it was in the style of a kickstarter campaign, offering 'something' to anyone who paid $20. He made a self-effacing joke about capitalising on his recent exposure. He said He could ask 25 or 30 but that would be too much, and 20 is the base. There was an actual PayPal button. At least one person paid, but received a refund. Now it says everyone is getting a silver comb, but I expect the page to change again soon :)

Awesome. See you on the 18th!

I'm trying to sign in, but every time I push the button, an algorithm sends me two seconds back in time and I am forced to start the process over.

BTC seems to like that announcement. It's still climbing.

I guess it's natural for successful people to be treated like sages, but I've commonly had the same feeling the OP expressed - you have to wade through people's 'wisdom'. Sometimes they are just out of touch.

OK, thanks. It wasn't my intent.

The unofficial download has been available for a while. It's pretty neat, you can build programmatically.

Here's the best part. On my (slightly tweaked) 512MB Raspberry pi, this runs flawless at fullscreen, way smoother than on my MacBook Pro.

The downside is that (in at least the early version I downloaded) there are no baddies, and nothing significant to mine.

My evolution as a JavaScript Developer:

1. I found out I could use Rails helpers to make really cool stuff. It generated ugly JavaScript code and errors that no one could see. No one got hurt. Win.

2. I realized I could use Prototype.js directly. The code was still ugly, but I could do even more. I eventually switched to jQuery because of the large ecosystem.

3. I started buying and borrowing JavaScript books. I decided to use vanilla JavaScript. I realized that it was a pointless exercise because of browser incompatabilities: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_core.html. Now I understand JavaScript, but use jQuery to interact with the DOM.

It's probably impractical to suggest people learn vanilla JavaScript first. People who find jQuery are going to use and love it. They are going to write ugly code, but they will actually be able to accomplish something. As time wears on, they will learn the finer points of the language.

I'm nearly done with my thirties - a time when many of us start to feel uncomfortable about how much time we have left to make our mark.

I didn't make a ton of money or change the whole world in my twenties, but I did marry a great woman early (at 20), and begin to raise 3 great kids. I feel good about those decisions, but won't settle, I still feel that I've more growing up to do and greater days are ahead.

Sorry, I didn't mean to disparage open source or people creating open source software - I love it!. The point I was trying to make was that even people with good ideals are fallible.

It's certainly not Twitter's fault. Lately, the open source community's underbelly has been exposed.

"But open source is right and we are the good guys?!", or... "But I know those guys and they are usually really cool!"

We want to categorize people as being bad or good, and it messes with our brain when we think we may have to re-categorize. It's more useful to realize that we all have a capacity to do both good and harm. It's also more useful to judge ourselves than others. Recognizing the need to change is the beginning. I know that I need Outside help to maximize the good and minimize the bad that I am capable of.

This is an example of a proper apology.

None died on my watch:

var saveTheirSouls = function() { $('img').trigger('mouseover'); setTimeout( function() { if ($('img').length > 1) { return saveTheirSouls() } else { return false; } }, 1000); }; saveTheirSouls();

This attitude will go a long way toward healing our schools' deficiencies. My own school experience (in the USA) was pretty painful at times. Since graduation I've realized that I actually love learning - it's probably my greatest drive. School never failed me academically, but I picked up some unhealthy attitudes about trying and learning and succeeding which I've been trying to unlearn since. Lessons like:

  1. It is NOT ok to fail.
  2. Pointless exercises ARE ok - live with it.
  3. Don't ask why; just memorize the facts you'll be tested on. 
  4. Your uniqueness is a liability not an asset.

I need to add that I did have lots of fantastic teachers, many of whom expressed the grace the OAP articulated. I also realize that many young people have a fantastic experience in the current system.

This demonstrates that journalism's money problem is not linked to the rise of the Internet, but to credibility.

I can confirm that this method produced the desired change in a Rails 2.1.2 app.

I think that is a little too deep. I think _why is a nickname. Lots of people on the Internet use nicknames. He's posting stuff to his domain again, and people who are excited about that don't need to be told not to be.

Why was a prolific coder. He also reached out to newbies and made programming fun.

That was fun - possibly the seed of a great video game :) .

Probably the easiest fix for the controls would be to limit which mouse movements move the shape: moving down would spin it up, but moving up would do nothing. Moving left would spin it right, but moving back across it would do nothing. That way you could move it into place and then come back to click on where you want.

Also, it would be lovely if the most centered face, the one that is changeable, became outlined when it comes into focus.

Most of the world didn't start believing in Zero as a number until after the 4th Century AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number). It didn't seem rational. "How can something be nothing?" And there is the divide by problem you mentioned... Eventually people realized that it was their approach to the problem that was flawed. The world accepted Zero and moved forward as a result.

I believe God is rational and therefore it is right for us to rationally evaluate the claims of gods and their proponents, however, we proceed with humility, because it follows that if God is God, then his ways are higher than ours.

Belief in God (and Zero) makes the most sense to me, even with my unanswered questions.

Nice! You have me considering Ruby for games, too. I've played around a bit with python and javascript for games and used Ruby for the web. Now I'm itching to try Ruby + Chingu for a game.

Great articles. Please add: "How Jokes and Parodies are turning HN into Reddit" :)

That's a pretty sensational title, but it doesn't sound any smarter than my phone. Maybe 'model of a brain' would have been more accurate.