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i always found Chomsky's take on sports to be quite interesting...

"Take, say, sports -- that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it -- you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about -- [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it's striking to see the intelligence that's used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in -- they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.

You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laughter] I mean, I don't know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn't mean any -- it doesn't make sense. But the point is, it does make sense: it's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements -- in fact, it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that's why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on."

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1992----02.htm

the only thing i care about for the next version of IE is progress on this list...

http://status.modern.ie/?iestatuses=notplanned,underconsider...

agree. i prefer to write anything (code, markdown, etc) in my own text editor - sublime

for live preview, i used Marked.app which also supports GitHub flavored markdown

thanks for the tips! i've also sampled all the coconut waters i can find. 2 things i've come to notice...

- coconut water from thailand has a better (sweeter?) taste than from brazil.

- drinking out of steel/aluminum vs plastic containers somehow makes a difference. that could just be in my head though.

Amy & Brian's is the brand i get around here that satisfies my criteria.

will have to checkout the raw stuff though :)

can you pass the salt? http://xkcd.com/974/

wow, that has a Weissman Score close to the theoretical limit

i'm surprised no one has mentioned Marked 2 from Brett Terpstra - http://marked2app.com

it's a Markdown document viewer that displays changes as you make them in your favorite editor (ST3 in my case).

what puts it over the top for me is its perfect rendering of Github Flavored Markdown.

cool, they made the text contenteditable so you can see how things looks outside of their pre-canned text...

Atwood's Law "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...

no idea if it accomplishes anything, but i wrote a strongly worded complaint through the jetblue website here - http://www.jetblue.com/contact-us/email/concern/

most definitely Source Code Pro

instead of the "nuclear option" of reset proposed by the author, i would go with normalize...

http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

also, an issue that never fails to rear it's ugly head in IE8 and below - trailing commas in javascript. JSLint/Hint will help avoid this

similar to this list... https://github.com/codylindley/frontend-tools

it's not a myth. just look at CSS Zen Garden - http://www.csszengarden.com/

if bootstrap markup becomes the lingua franca for common UI patterns, that's a plus in my opinion. no need to reinvent the wheel for something like a set of tabs.

>>> Personally, I'm moving away from using frameworks.

if i'm not mistaken, that is the entire point of Flatiron. just a collection of independent modules. use as much or as little as you want.

from first paragraph...

"Philosophy No one agrees on frameworks. It's difficult to get consensus on how much or how little a framework should do. Flatiron's approach is to package simple to use yet full featured components and let developers subtract or add what they want."

i got 99 problems but recruiters spamming me with job opportunities ain't one.

given the economy and the unemployment rate, i'm thankful for what i've got.

just a bit of perspective

i generally avoid putting all properties of an object in one the same line in the name of readability and also to avoid the 80 char limit.

instead i do something like this. (incorrect trailing commas removed from the previous example)

  var infos = [
    {
      name: "red",
      value: [255, 0, 0, 255]
    },
    {
      name: "green",
      value: [0, 255, 0, 255]
    },
    {
      name: "blue",
      value: [0, 0, 255, 255]
    }
  ];

great online book with interactive examples: http://eloquentjavascript.net/

exactly. clarence is not a 4G hotspot. he's a human being who has a 4G hotspot. therein lies the rub.

i have no doubt that this was done with the best intentions and that the whole idea is a win/win for everyone involved. but the wording IS literally dehumanizing.

Sure, I can understand that.

My point is that most of the very best front-end developers I've met don't have CS degrees. So it seems unfair to penalize them for something they've never been exposed too. There are other ways to assess someones conceptual ability.

i hear stories like this a lot. serious question... why does Google ask standard comp sci questions when interviewing for front-end developers?

in over 10 years of front-end development for non-trivial business applications, i have yet to encounter a scenario where ignorance of bubble sort prevented me from doing my job well.

i can tell you what i value when interviewing a front-end developer - in depth knowledge of cross browser quirks and coding techniques to address said quirks (sans jQuery). someone who can tell me what OOCSS is and why it's beneficial. someone who values every pixel, http request, and div like it was their last and uses them wisely.

i don't discount the value of standard comp sci knowledge, but i get rage face if someone judges my skill as a front-end developer based on how well i answer those types of questions

lastly, ever view source of any Google app? that tells me all i need to know about their idea of a front-end development

1) By all means write about what you like or what helps you. But please don't tell me what I should do. Worse, don't imply I'm dumb if I don't.

2) In my experience, beginners are best served learning "pure" CSS first. After they get their bearings, I point them to resources like OOCSS or SMACSS. Once they demonstrate a solid appreciation of concepts like specificity, modularity, etc, I feel much better about their prospects using a pre-processor.

3) Power tools like pre-processors amplify bad code. Blanket statements that everyone should use them - particularly "non-experts and geniuses" - is dangerous advice.

disclaimer: I like and use pre-processors myself.

That's a regrettable comment. Are you feeling victimized yourself? Self reflection may help you figure out why.

TodoMVC: A common learning application for popular JavaScript MVC frameworks - http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/