ulisesroche

For copy, I'm getting a lot out of "Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft"http://goo.gl/9eH5q, which breaks down the craft quite well.

You can use a color wheel to come up with color schemes, and I'd try using ems instead of pxs to handle whitespace. Whitespace is negative space, used for contrast to draw attention to positive space, which could be your copy, let's say. Use a grid to make sure you keep everything aligned and to help you figure out where to put stuff in.

I really like Futura or Baskerville for headers, and I think you should pick a bright, contrasting color against the body copy.

Gradients and Box shadows do look really cheesy with just CSS. The trick is that you should always add a little noise, somewhere between 1 or 2 percent, to your gradients or shadows so you can make them look more textured instead of just flat colors. There's a filter called "Film Grain" which I think is much better than "noise", but it's usually an external plugin. You're gonna have to hit photoshop for that, because I don't know if there is a noise/grain css effect.

You don't need to tap all the fiber running through the US to track down someone. That would take too long. Much easier to put "Wanted" posters up with "$$$" on the bottom and wait for the head to come back.

If you're a Rubyist, "gem install cheat" (http://cheat.errtheblog.com/)

What's wrong with different ways of explaining the same lessons? What if you don't know what text-objects are in the first place?

You probably just need to aim a lot higher than what you're shooting for right now, is my opinion.

Does this quote not get you pumped up?

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." - Joseph Weizenbaum

How about you, let's say, write a computer game that will make people stay up all night, or an interactive fiction novel that they can't put down? But don't give up because it wasn't hard enough or whatever.

I was actually going to be an animator before I picked up "Transcending CSS" by Andy Clarke at the uni library.

KJ feels pretty awesome, thanks!

I work in sprints, I have a protein shake every morning as soon as I wake up and at night right before I go to sleep, ever since I started journaling I ditched to-do lists.

Also, the most productive times of my life, when it comes to work is whenever I'm in a relationship and the sex question is not so prevalent in my mind anymore.

The best hack I know for working out is to change into whatever your workout clothes are and just wait until you feel like working out.

You'll probably be pleasantly surprised at how quickly he catches up once he's on the job, if he really wants it as bad as you say. I say give it a try for a few months, and then make a more permanent decision based on that.

Try putting this in your .vimrc if you don't want to reach all the way to hit the escape key

imap jj <Esc>

Come back to vim :(

zed's http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ is one of those, I think.

You got good at Vim because you used it for over 6 months, not because it had any plugins turned off.

A distro like https://github.com/carlhuda/janus provides sensible training wheels.

CoffeeScript all day, errday. I actually started making fun of myself for being all giddy when writing some JSON day before yesterday.

You're all almost making me switch. Almost...

Quick! Help me, vimsters.

Thanks, I tried that too, though it was a few years ago. What made you think it was too simple to work though?

I think perhaps comment points should count for more than the ones you get for story submissions, have they tried that in the past before?

Let alone the switch to Emacs, but I've been trying to implement GTD since college, using all sorts of tools, and I've read the book I don't know how many times, and I still feel like it's over my head.

Are there any alternatives?

The best resource on why and how to use grids is: http://www.amazon.com/Systems-Graphic-Systeme-Visuele-Gestal...

It's primarily used as an aid for visual layouts, but it took on the other useful qualities everyone else has listed as the grid frameworks got popular in the web.

You can barely taste Vodka when mixed with Red Bull, and to begin with, just practice smiling at strangers; within two weeks you won't be shy anymore. From then on, just remember to be kind to everyone, and you'll be fine.

But, I don't think it's the same thing. Changing your behavior is very possible, and being short is not a fault.

Ok, but in practical terms, the thing is I really don't want to work with immature jerks, because then I'm going to be uncomfortable all day, or they're going to end up pissing someone off and there's going to be a big hoopla about it, or a whole mess of other things which is stressing me out just to think about.

I think "talented" just means they've spent a lot with an open terminal, and the side-effect of "abrasiveness" is really that sitting down for a long-time makes you tired and grumpy. So instead of crafting really complicated excuses, just go outside for a bit and stretch or something.

What's so hard about kindness that engineers can't figure out? I really don't buy that excuse.

I actually recommend Judo/BJJ as a form of exercise that lets you apply and sharpen your problem-solving skills, aside from getting you very much in shape. I tried keeping track of stats and stuff, but often give up because it's too much work. The mirror check is far more effective. (Am I fat? yes/no)

I agree with the idea that the list is too focused, and probably doesn't help as much as it says it will.

After reading "Where Good Ideas come From" by Steve Johnson, I think a better approach is to be good at code, and decent at everything else. You don't need to run a 5 minute mile, but you should at least be able to run a mile without taking breaks, and be able to hold a conversation about Latin American Literature, and be fluent in your programming language, and kick out a decent design, and bowl a 150, and so on.

They took the exit, so as to not miss it, they sped up to catch it and cut me off.

I remember it took a second or two for me to figure out what was going on, while my mom was telling me to hit the brakes slowly and start leaning to the far-right of the road (where you stop if there is an emergency).

None of it is over the top, and none of it recommends to stay awake (only says to take caffeine if needed), you're just not seeing the picture because you want to believe that truck drivers are better drivers than anyone else because they do this for a living. It's a fallacy, of course. They're not immune to fatigue because they get paid to drive. They're reflexes and judgement are impaired as they would for you or me.

It's as dangerous as it sounds, if it was me who didn't get a whole night's sleep, had to drive a long distance on a deadline (no time for breaks), was sedentary, and had to drive through long and boring rural roads, you'd tell me to get the hell off the road before I kill someone.

I understand someone has to drive trucks to get my food to the supermarket, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the obvious risks, and reasons why the current system is a bad idea. I think driverless trucks would be the best solution.

Actually, you're the one that's being irrational. Driver's ED manuals recommends taking a break of 15 minutes every two hours, precisely because driving skills deteriorate quickly with fatigue. No amount of experience will make up for it.

e: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/dmanual/chapter08-manual.htm#dr..., is it that hard to believe that people make mistakes when they're tired?

I was on the right-hand side of the road, a little in front of them, near an exit. They took that exit.

Perhaps I was on the wrong side of the road, but I don't know, that sounds terrible.

I definitely felt a lot better when entering California, where they're required to stay on the right lane, and not to pass cars, than when I was going through El Paso, and my mom and I were almost killed by two passing trucks who swerved into my lane, in plain daylight, as if we weren't there.

I didn't flip the bird, but I would have if they'd be able to see me. I wonder why more states don't have similar regulation?