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You can't fool your feelings. If you're stuck in a ditch, medication or "changing the way you think" (advice from other depressed people) won't help.

You need to surround yourself with people you want to emulate as well as beautiful women 24/7. And don't forget to travel the world. This should activate those dormant parts of your brain and make you real happy.

Some of us, however, need to get rich before this can happen. So if that's the case with you, go make those apps!

OpenBSD is amazing.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7247054

Forgive me for saying this, but Fireworks is nothing more than a modified version of Flash with a bunch of useless functions and a huge library of ugly stock graphics.

Adobe Flash is way more suited for this sorta stuff.

- Its UI is simpler and more intuitive

- You have frames in addition to layers so you can organize your designs even better

- You can animate stuff (real nice for mobile app mockups)

- It's got ActionScript incase you want to do something mindblowing

As they say, Flash for web and graphic design, Photoshop for photography, and Illustrator for fine art.

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I'd much rather use Forem.

Who cares about FusionCharts anyway when we have D3.js.

Another example of this is the popularity of Linux (marketing) over OpenBSD (quality).

They also need to radically simplify both their UI and their code base if they expect to remain among the top dogs this coming decade.

A thousand thanks to you good sir!

Truly wonderful post. Curious though, could something like this be replicated with HTML5 and JS?

Interesting link. Cheers mate. Unfortunately I do not have any more info on this subject.

I think you misread. I was not being sarcastic, just trying to understand why Bootstrap is so popular.

But in theory could something similar have been developed for OpenBSD?

Thanks for the valuable insight. See you at Low End.

I'll take that with a grain of salt. For stronger arguments, see my other posts.

My point is that you don't need Bootstrap to use media queries. Nor to manage quirks when there are way simpler solutions available on GitHub.

These quirks are becoming less and less over time as well, as new browsers and devices start to follow the same standards, and major players are dropping support for old browsers (ie. Google is no longer supporting old versions of IE).

Indeed, as with my earlier link (http://subtraction.com/pics/0703/grids_are_good.pdf), I'm not arguing against grids as a design tool. I'm arguing against transferring them programatically to HTML and CSS when tools like http://hashgrid.com/ allows you to transfer them visually just fine.

People argue they need grids for their websites to be responsive, but that is not what grids are for. At least not according to Massimo Vignelli.

Could you explain the downvote?

Good point. Thanks.

That makes sense, thank you. But for those of you who find Bootstrap a little bit overkill, do check out:

https://github.com/h5bp/mobile-boilerplate

https://github.com/paranoida/css3-media-queries-boilerplate

> So you can get your product to market faster.

So basically it's for people not too familiar with HTML and CSS? Ie. like a WordPress theme?

I take it they're preconfigured divs that clutter up your code and that are trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist given the basic nature of CSS.

If you absolutely need a grid, what about http://hashgrid.com/?

Grids have been used in architecture for thousands of years.

Sure, they might come in handy when drafting your webdesigns in Adobe or whatever, but not in the CSS. Just use your eyes and basic CSS. For true responsive websites, use media queries.

As they say, "perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away".

Can't you just put those elements in a <div> and manipulate that instead?

Will this work on OpenBSD?

I don't see why people need to use Bootstrap at all. What's wrong with starting from scratch? Sure, Bootstrap has a lot of best practices you can copy / paste, but so do tons of other boilerplate projects on GitHub.

I also don't see why people need to use grids. Grids are meant for graphic design (ie. http://subtraction.com/pics/0703/grids_are_good.pdf) and architecture, not CSS. What's wrong with margins, paddings and media queries?

Exactly what is he suggesting?

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