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mcartyem··on Ask HN: Why is a website being "responsive" good?
Why does your web site need to have all those versions?

Why can't you have only one version, and someone on mobile will zoom in and out?

A web site version with 10 things on the header is going to piss people off on the mobile app regardless of how responsively those 10 things show up in their face. A better thing to do is to not show any of those crappy 10 things to begin with.

mcartyem··on What's your favorite CSS framework, and why not not?
Both of them fail to center elements. They are also unable to keep the proportions set for them when resizing a window.

Here's code that demonstrates that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652191

mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
Their centering doesn't work either.

The code from the following link demonstrates that (change "span6" to "six columns") http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652191

mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
Basically:

  <div class="row">
    <div class="span6">
       Hello
    </div>
    <div class="span6">
       Uncentered World
    </div>
  </div>
and compare it with:

  <center>
    Centered
  </center>
Note there are extra 20px at the end.

Resizing the window makes everything drag to the left. So much for having a grid.

mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
Am I the only person on earth that noticed Bootstrap's problem of not centering anything?

How do people handle this?

mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
What makes it different?

Does it suffer from the same centering problems too?

mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
How do people like http://960.gs ?
mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
I just looked at it and it seems worse. It doesn't show examples of how it does the things it does. You can't even tell what to undo.
mcartyem··on I don't like Bootstrap.
If that's true, it's close to saying one built an MVP with the goal of it not going anywhere.
mcartyem··on Ask HN: If I launch in the App Store will my Linode 2048 crash
I can move the pictures to Amazon S3. What's the rationale behind that?
mcartyem··on Would an app that gives you advice be a bad idea?
What type of advice would you like?
mcartyem··on If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it?
Would you use an app that verifies your reasoning (for the occasions you are too busy to research the truth or not actively looking for it)?
mcartyem··on If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it?
The truth based on criteria for truth. Irrefutable truths exist, like 1 + 1 = 2.
mcartyem··on Startup = Growth
"the same thing that makes" -> "the same thing makes"
mcartyem··on Ask HN: Name a mistake you continually make.
I'm personally a terrible judge of character. More often than not people turn out to be the opposite of what I originally judge them to be.
mcartyem··on Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?
Also, what is an idea you have been pitched on that seemed bad to you that you can't tell yet if it's a good idea.
mcartyem··on Replace the App Store
Have you noticed developers don't use HTML for iOS apps? This only adds to the argument that a better iOS language is needed.
mcartyem··on Replace the App Store
It's not trailing that signals it's dying http://mashable.com/2012/07/13/android-51-8-market-share/

It's the fact that hackers don't want to develop for it. At least none of the ones I know.

mcartyem··on Public education — re-thought like a startup — by a 15-year-old.
If schools were forced to pick just one thing to develop in students which would that be and how would you develop it?

This one thing could be anything - imagination, knowledge, ambition, discipline, empathy, entrepreneurship, friendship, creativity, determination, talent, endurance, intelligence, wisdom, etc.

mcartyem··on Public education — re-thought like a startup — by a 15-year-old.
Could one do more than "getting the work done"? If so, how?

How would you make sure students are learning?

mcartyem··on If you wanted to make someone do something for you, how would you do it?
How would you ask? What if you cannot meet them physically?

Say you email them; what do you do if you don't get a response?

mcartyem··on If you wanted to make someone do something for you, how would you do it?
What if they are not interested in money?

Also, how do you approach them?

mcartyem··on What is the biggest problem a programmer has?
Really, is this all you have?

How about not having time to write they programs they want? Or being afraid of using the most powerful language?

mcartyem··on Loading half a billion rows into MySQL
Why would anyone partition tables -- ever?
mcartyem··on Ask HN: How do you do this with a Mac?
1. Ctrl-W

2. Type in a terminal:

  defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
and kill and restart the Dock

3. They say there's an app called Secrets that lets you play with such config stuff.

mcartyem··on Ask HN: How do you compile an iOS app?
Note that you need not just to generate those certificates and download them. You need to also manually open the keychain access and import those files in there. Only then will the Provisioning Profile in the Organizer show up.

A bit of an omission in the docs.

These big words remind me of Windows.

mcartyem··on Ask HN: How do you compile an iOS app?
Can you define "release" and "it" please?

Is "it" some file on disk? I don't see it.

Can I get a file and stick it on an iPhone? How can I test an app on an iPhone before "releasing" it.

mcartyem··on Ask HN: How do you compile an iOS app?
Why is "Archive" grayed out in my XCode?

Update: When one picks "iOS Device" under schemes, Archive becomes available, but building fails with the message "There are no valid certificate/private key pairs in the default keychain".

Well, if I need those, why didn't you build those for me XCode? And how do I build those now? They don't seem to be the same as an ssh key...

Is this the best you can do XCode, really?

mcartyem··on [dead]
Here are some beta codes:

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  q2xbbFxot3
  8JaXADCYvh
  TPGIB43IoR
  WNJvdI2Lia
mcartyem··on Ask HN: What is the best Keyboard nowadays?
Here's my question: why are there arrow keys on a keyboard?

And if there must be, why aren't they on top rather than the bottom?

It is precisely the movement of tilting your wrist to the right and moving it back that causes strain. If the keys were on top, there's enough flesh around your elbow to allow extending the hand straight forward without strain.

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