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indubitably··on Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox
Christ, I get it.
indubitably··on Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox
I get it, you don’t like my choice of adjective.
indubitably··on Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox
Since you _italicized_ I guess I better answer!

The tutorial is ostensibly about flexbox, not about CSS precompilation. So, if the you happen not to know SCSS, then it’s obfuscated.

Er, then it’s _obfuscated_.

indubitably··on Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox
This is a great tutorial, but why obfuscate the CSS as SCSS? In most cases here there’s essentially nothing gained.
indubitably··on What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway? (2015)
http://i.imgur.com/BIy8fcj.jpg

The rest of the images are in:

Sjöberg, Åke W. 1972. “He Is a Good Seed of a Dog” and “Engardu, the Fool.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24(4). 107–119. doi:10.2307/1359629.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359629

indubitably··on Top Myths About Teaching Computer Science (2015)
I routinely drop into the console and say document.body.style.margin = '20%' on disastrous layouts like this.
indubitably··on The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
I've tried so many times to read that book, but I can never get past the packs of communal-brain dogs.
indubitably··on My Year in San Francisco’s $2M Secret Society Startup
rich people with too much free time
indubitably··on A love letter to jQuery
A lot of what is now called Native comes from Javascript — every time we use `querySelector(All)`, for instance, it’s because of jQuery’s influence. Which makes me a bit less nostalgic than this author: every time I use qsa I think “Thanks, jQuery”, but I don’t need to use jQuery itself anymore…
indubitably··on The Unsuitability of English (2015)
https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/46zwse/lati...
indubitably··on James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video]
Me too. Up there with the first Cosmos.
indubitably··on Show HN: Grammar checker using deep learning
Grammar isn't a set of strict rules.
indubitably··on What Science Fiction Movie or Novel Is Most Prescient Today?
Well, the recent shift in proportion to more obese people than starving people is at least someone relevant.
indubitably··on What Science Fiction Movie or Novel Is Most Prescient Today?
I've been thinking about Gattaca a lot lately too. It's interesting to me how in the film the mechanism for controlling genetics was to create a bunch of zygotes and then to pick the best one. But what seems to be happening now (the creepily named CRISPR and all that) is that people are editing existing DNA and controlling how DNA functions in living people.
indubitably··on Introducing Background Sync Web API
> Open Emojoy.

FTFY:

> Open Emojoy. In Chrome.

indubitably··on Visualizing popular machine learning algorithms
Looks like K-nearest neighbor does pretty well.
indubitably··on The future of UI is text
What's a "pleb"? Someone who doesn't live in San Francisco?
indubitably··on The Debate Around “Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?”
The people complaining about this are programmers who don't understand CSS anyway. Their sites will still look like crap even if they do everything via Javascript.
indubitably··on HTML5 Deck of Cards
That’s nice CSS but the HTML is so borked… why not

<div class=card data-value="A" data-suit="︎">︎</div>

Or something?

indubitably··on Django Girls one year later
Ah yes, the convenient argument that the world is truly a meritocracy, and that those in positions of power, who evaluate merit, have no biases.

I do not know whether you are in a position of power, but I note that this argument is often advanced by people in positions of power.

indubitably··on The state of Web Components
Because srsly

Array.from(document.body.querySelectorAll('em')).forEach(em => em.style.fontStyle = 'normal')

indubitably··on The state of Web Components
Why does this author italicize in weird places?
indubitably··on PluotSorbet – A J2ME-Compatible VM Written in JavaScript
circle: complete.
indubitably··on “Swift will be open source later this year”
javascript is awesome
indubitably··on Replacing jQuery with D3
Javascript can also do DOM nodes…
indubitably··on A simpler and shorter representation of XML data inspired by Tcl (2013) [pdf]
This notation, like XML and unlike JSON, doesn't handle arrays.
indubitably··on The Libertarian Futurism of Peter Thiel (2011)
The New Yorker is not Reuters.
indubitably··on Show HN: Landscape parallax effect using only CSS
the second layer of mountains flickers on and off for me on Firefox38/Mac
indubitably··on Why does Africa have so many languages?
There are millions of people in the Americas that don't speak English or Spanish. (Even ignoring the 200 million speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.)

If you combine just Mayan, Nahuatl, Mixtec, and Zapotec you're already in the millions.

indubitably··on Some of my Best Friends are Linguists (2004) [pdf]
To do what?
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