Is CSS honestly that difficult? I mean I see why this could help but this just seems to add another layer of complication. I don't know maybe I'm just being a cynic with all these sorry excuses for technology.
The problem with CSS is that it's not too difficult, but that its too simple. With your typical usage patterns, you'll create lots of repetition which you have to do manually. And that's true even without the need to support separate browsers.
Whether that really justifies that many preprocessors is a good question, though (Instead of m4 or sth. like that). I'm not too fond of the plethora of cutesy DSLs we've got nowadays. Reminds me of Lisp macro overuse. (Never mind the general problem that all this need for HTML/JS/CSS hackery and abstraction layers probably showas that we need a better solution altogether. As Cato the Elder said: I miss PostScript.)
This is like saying "Is a hammer really that difficult? Do we really need to add the complication of compressed air? We don 't need these nail guns. I can already get a nail in some wood."
Less compiles to css. It is faster to build great things than with just css. It is easier to maintain. There is almost no reason NOT to us it instead of straight css. There may be other better tools but if you have to build a lot of css, less is a great tool.
I agree with this. I left school because I realized what I wanted to do and it WASN'T I.T. administration.
I didn't want to end up at a huge corporation wearing a suit and hating my life.
Now I work doing what I love and I'm learning a lot from others using hands on experience.
Eventually I will start my own business which is what I truly want.
If you have a vision and the motivation; and you know you can do it without school, go for it.
In short Paul Rand tells Steve I will make you one design and I will solve your problem. Since then I believe he has given designers (Jon Ive in this case) their space to design whatever they want. Trust in the designer.
Thats what I'm worried about, I was wondering if there was anyway of knowing for sure. The account recovery actually wasn't in Chinese it was Korean. It's looking like a proxy but I'm pissed and ready to take some of my own action.
I can't believe I read even read the first page... It seems like the press is the press, even in the tech world. I doubt this author knows anything about Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerburg. Maybe the author saw the social network and thought he knew everything about the industry.
I could of also summed this up in a sentence or two. "Kid invents youtube instant and everybody wants to hire him." I don't doubt that he's smart but this article seems a bit ridiculous. It seems like tech stars are the next celebrities. So long to the days of nerds with the neck beard. Oh yeah, and actually making money.
Arrington seems like a jackass. Why anyone should really care about techcrunch is beyond me. Sure it gets you exposure but there are plenty of much more respectable blogs out there. Also its AOL, they're shit. Not sure if anyone remembers this http://www.thefastertimes.com/news/2011/06/16/aol-hell-an-ao...
I'm sure we'll be better off without gossip on Arrington or techcrunch.
Even more unprofessional to allow a child to do your customer service, so assuming he's a grown man is really giving them the benefit of the doubt now isn't it?
Also wanted to add: Meetups, go to all the meetups and get involved with the community. Springboard from the meetups to the conferences.
If you're in the decent programmer category who your friends are matters far more than what you can do. (I'm pretty sure this is true at any level in any industry). Plus, who doesn't want more friends?
