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You should add a demo.

Do you count happiness, contentment, enlightenment, higher states of consciousness, etc., as superpowers? Either of these two books might change your life forever.

Both by Alan Watts: The Way of Zen [1], and The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are [2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Book-Taboo-Against-Knowing-Who/dp/0679...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Apdf+watts+book

[4] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22alan+watts%2...

It's just the inevitable pushback against the litany of Cloudflare-related posts lately.

Torbit looks great, thanks.

Relax Chris, I'm sure it was meant to be inspirational rather than legislative. It's simply the poem that coined the famous cliche 'form follows function'.

How would you rate their prices?

    It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
    Of all things physical and metaphysical,
    Of all things human and all things super-human,
    Of all true manifestations of the head,
    Of the heart, of the soul,
    That the life is recognizable in its expression,
    *That form ever follows function*. This is the law. [1]

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-205-analysis-of-co...

They're fun, easily quantifiable, and a good way to get yourself back into the coding mindset. StackExchange has a big group, I believe Reddit might as well.

It just doesn't work that way.. I've spent entire days trying to get a feature to work perfectly, often winding up with fewer lines of code than I started with. Were I to judge such progress by lines of code, an achievement would be transformed into a failure.

That's why I suggest going by TODO-list entries. Those are concrete things that you know need to get done. You can even score them in terms of anticipated difficulty, then try to reach a certain number of points per day/week.

Think of yourself more as an editor than an author. An editor might spend a lot of time re-factoring, looking up syntax, trying to make things flow better, asking people for advice, etc. Amassing words and lines isn't your goal.

Isn't that simple, as simple as what? Part of what you pay for in a large ad campaign is for people to attend to all of the complexities.

Spending tens of millions of dollars airing the high-quality commercials that the NYT had commissioned? I doubt what they did was simple, but it was damn sure expensive.

You have to take into account the enormous amount of money the NYT is spending to advertise their paid online service. I've seen countless ads on television and other types of media. Anyone can build a subscriber base with that kind of ad blitz.

The question is, how long will these subscriptions take to pay for themselves, and will paid users stick around that long?

Yes, good point, training is something that you can measure quantitatively. Count the number of pages you've read, code golf [1] puzzles you've solved, etc. Good idea.

[1] http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/

Writers can just sit down and write whatever pops into their heads. Programming doesn't work that way. You have to think things through, look at them from different altitudes, all the way from a bird's eye view of the entire project, down to what's going on in this particular function. You might also have to spend a ton of time debugging. These things are too nebulous to measure quantitatively, so you have to measure them qualitatively.

I'd say you should go based on hours or TODO entries per day.

Haha, I'm pretty similar. If it's impossible to solo the game, I won't play. It's nice to be able to help others, but not if it's mandatory.

> Things like that are unlikely to change.

Breaks my heart...

Yeah, a lot of devs have to do that because they just use the CSS, like from bootstrapcdn [1]. It's nice not to have to, though, especially for those of us who leverage LESS.

[1] http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/

He has issues because you don't get his sense of humor? You're out of order with that one.

Foundation is based on SASS.

Correct, LESS is all I use right now because of Bootstrap. I don't get it though, LESS is open source. If it's so inferior, why aren't there more pull requests to make it better?

99% of the tips at that URL don't apply to the OP's animations.

You might not want to style all your buttons in that particular way. The least they could do is separate it into classes. SASS inheritance would be nice, too.

> I even went as far as breaking down the stylesheets so that you dont need to download CSS that does not apply to the page you are visiting

Doesn't this just result in five downloads of 1KB CSS files over the course of a five-page visit, when a single download (and cache) of a 1.8KB CSS file would have sufficed? Is that better?

Source/License?

Link to demo please?

Any thoughts on how the changes compare with Foundation 3? Is the grid system up to par?

That one thing it does for me is quite redeeming.

Do you use a Mac? I run Linux on a shipped-with-Windows laptop and I can relate to the author. I welcome the larger conversation.

If only Dell's Project Sputnik[1] wasn't so expensive and the resolution wasn't so terrible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847720

Very funny. Vanilla Ubuntu is #1 on the list.