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It's a Twitter project, it's not like bootstrap isn't being used by "giants" already.

Looks good. Minor minor minor nit-pick: Twitter logo needs to be updated :)

https://twitter.com/logo

IRC still has a huge foothold in dev/geek communities. Email is something I use every single day for communication and business. Maybe there's more you'd like to explain but if I'm to just taking this at face value, I have to say you're horribly wrong.

I worked with the guys who built this (we're a DC design studio) and can tell you that it doesn't gracefully degrade simply because it's not supposed to. As some people grasped, this was for a frontend conference where everyone would be expected to be running the latest and greatest browser. There's no guarantee it will work on your setup but when it does, it's a cool experience.

Followup on how it was built here: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/17/beercamp-an-ex...

Full repo here: https://github.com/nclud/2012.beercamp.com

Cool plugin. Would be great if the definition would load in the bubble instead of an entirely new window.

My highschool "hack" involved downloading the contents of our school's website hosted at ourschooldistrict.com domain, buying the same name at ourschooldistrict.us, and then rehosting so we could put up any press releases we wanted. We wrote up a press release saying that two district high school names were changing to honor our very-hated superintendent. Then we started sending it to friend on AIM saying "omg have you seen this."

Within hours, everyone on my buddy list had their own "petition" in their away message and after checking traffic, we found we had thousands of unique hits.

Most of the credit goes to my friend who actually executed the tech part and was temporarily suspended when the inundation of angry emails supposedly hurt the school board's server.

Just checked and the school district still does not own the .us domain so this "hack" would be reproducible.

When a friend of mine moved to New York City, he started reaching out to top-notch designers (there are quite a few there) basically saying "Hey, I'm new to the town, here's what I do, here's what I've done, would you be interested in getting together to talk?" and surprisingly, a few of these people made time in their life to meet him. He has since fostered a relationship with industry leaders and now meets and works closely on side projects with some of the biggest names in design. I'm not saying this will always happen but I think you would be surprised at what people are willing to do if you show motivation. I agree with previous comments that you should be doing interesting things but also be prepared to just share your hopes and goals.

To answer your questions: 1) anywhere 2) yes. yes. 3) I think a good mentor will realize the nature of the relationship. I don't think they're always looking to gain something. 4) no idea.

This is default behavior for the placeholder element in your browser, not an issue with this site's UI.

Really like the use of page visibility API for putting the game on pause. Wasn't sure of a good use case for it but this definitely counts.

Nicely done!

Pretty amazing that the one repeated pain point here seems to be the icon.

The idea of email not going away after I've read it and being a to-do list sounds slightly terrifying.

I'll stick to my Gmail for now.

It's not. I was referring to Understanding Parameters - argument types, part 1.

It seems to have been fixed since I mentioned it this morning.

Glad someone pointed this out. Several of us are doing this at the office and I've watched our design team struggle in similar ways. If you're not used to the the kind of errors you'll see in coding or javascript, it can be incredibly confusing. Luckily for me, a reference error can be meaningful but to someone who has no idea about scripting, it's utterly worthless (sure you could argue this person should go to google and learn it but I'd say that this is the learning tool they've settled on and it should provide that instruction).

I've found myself struggling with their less-than-clear directions. I'm even convinced that there is at least one problem set so far with no solution (Functions in Javascript Optional Course » Lesson 2, part 3).

I have high hopes for Codeyear. After toying with it for a bit during the first week though, I'm hoping the usability and directions are cleaned up otherwise this will be more of an exercise in patience than in learning programming or javascript.

All this said, I've at least gotten some totally sweet badges.

The whole article seems to hinge on the following line: "For every five people who authorize an app, I'd guess five will turn away..."

The author doesn't seem to have any data to back this statement up so I'd put this in the bucket with the rest of the "OMG FACEBOOK" hyperbole that I've been seeing of late.

To add in my personal experiences, I haven't added any of these apps and I'm trying not to. Since this is just a guessing game, I'd wager that the tech community and people who understand the implications of these services would be more hesitant to authorize these apps but Facebook users at large probably don't care and just click through to the article.