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superk · on June 27, 2012

A. Causality came into existence with the beginning of the universe and so was never violated.

B. An eternal God exists separate from the universe he created

I think the issue that most skeptics have with "B", is not that it is being presented as a possible explanation to the existence of the universe as you have written here, but that there are folks that say they know and talk to this dude, and he tells them we need to pay their organization money (or fill in whatever other ridiculous religious dogma you want here).

superk · on June 13, 2012

Preprocessors evaluate CSS and the cascade so there's nothing stopping them from adding local scope or specificity to variables. On the other hand, if you can really edit variable values with Javascript then that would be client-side only, although I haven't seen anything that says you _can_ do that - for all we know Javascript may only allow getting/setting of the evaluated value, not the variable expression itself.

JoshTriplett · on June 13, 2012

> Preprocessors evaluate CSS and the cascade so there's nothing stopping them from adding local scope or specificity to variables.

That cascade depends on the structure of the document, not just the CSS. For instance, consider the following (contrived) example:

    :root { var-accent: black; }
    .someclass > :first-child { var-accent: blue; }
    .otherclass { background-color: var(accent); }
    .anotherclass :first-letter { color: var(accent); }

The value of var(accent) for any element depends on whether the ancestors of that element include the first child of an element with class="someclass". For a preprocessor to duplicate that effect on the server side, it would need to construct all possible combinations of the selectors for the variables and the selectors depending on those variables:

    .otherclass { background-color: black; }
    .anotherclass :first-letter { color: black; }
    .someclass > :first-child .otherclass { background-color: blue; }
    .someclass > :first-child .anotherclass :first-letter { color: blue; }

Now consider that with a dozen variables and a hundred variable-dependent rules.

> On the other hand, if you can really edit variable values with Javascript then that would be client-side only, although I haven't seen anything that says you _can_ do that - for all we know Javascript may only allow getting/setting of the evaluated value, not the variable expression itself.

The CSS Variables spec talks about dynamic variable updates via scripting.

superk · on May 21, 2012

That slow motion `rm -rf` is a little doubtful. Sounds more like an ftp-style recursive delete.

superk · on April 4, 2012

That's why I just use VI. Ever since Nibs became XML there's no reason to ever use XCode anymore.

Seriously though.. XCode does suck. It's a miracle anyone has been able to write an iOS app, let alone over 500,000.. /sarcasm

superk · on March 17, 2012

I wonder if the much higher DPI let's the new iPad get away with lower brightness overall - ie allows it to compensate on battery life.

superk · on Dec 9, 2011

I guess from MPOV, "eloquent" formatting shouldn't change based on the size of the content... ie the difference between standard indenting and tab-aligning commas vertically. There's nothing eloquent about stepping through a dozen lines of code, tabbing each out, because a value was added that's a little longer than the rest..

superk · on Dec 6, 2011

I thought about it like you describe - but then why even bother with the generation, why not be able to browse your stylesheets and have them transformed into styleguides realtime: https://github.com/aglemann/instant-styleguide

superk · on Dec 6, 2011

I had a similar idea - a living styleguide derived from the css. I envisioned it in 3 parts:

* A way to transform css into html (https://github.com/aglemann/css2html)

* A simple webserver that would detect a stylesheet, run it through the transformer and serve up the html styleguide (https://github.com/aglemann/instant-styleguide)

* A methodology for architecting your css for use with the two technologies (coming soon?)

All the pieces work, I need to do a blog post about it ;)

superk · on Nov 27, 2011

"The turriptosis nutricula's cell development method of transdifferentiation has inspired scientists to find a way to make stem cells use this process for renewing damaged or dead tissue in humans."

One word: Zombies

superk · on Aug 26, 2011

What do you mean.. Workbench 4.0 is coming out any day now! ;) Seriously, reading the quirksmode article thoughts of AmigaDOS kept running through my mind...