My problem with your question is the evergrowing lack of critical thinking on HN. I think even PG has eluded to it.
What's the difference from Bootstrap? Why don't you view its source? Read through the framework's documentation? For one the default styling is significantly different than Bootstrap.
The one thing I fondly miss about Slashdot is people would liberally tell you to RTFM when you asked something obvious that could have been answered by reading the article posted.
The origins of this survey need to be audited and investigated. Some school districts are notoriously greedy and only care about their bottom-line: test scores. The higher scores, the more money (for the district and for their salaries). I'm sure they correlated drug habits with low test scores, and sought to extradite delinquents from their schools. Perhaps even a precursor to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
Their API doesn't provide this right now, but what I'd really like to see is anonymous data regarding bike movement. (assuming the bikes have GPS, they are tracked no?)
I'm curious about statistics like the most frequent bike routes people take, the longest rides, the density of bikes per location, etc.
To me, an avid cyclist for more than 15 years, helmets are less about protection from a car and more about protection from bike failure or small obstacles on the road. It doesn't take a very large rock to cause your bike to crash, especially road bikes with skinny wheels. A low impact crash like that is where a helmet could truly save you from concussions or worse.
If you lived in NYC you would wear a helmet. Or should. And I would say NYC has more experienced cyclists than the Netherlands, considering what New Yorkers have to put up with. The dangers of NYC cycling is the density of things that can hurt you moving around you.
NYC has a population 10.40 times larger than the largest city in Netherlands (Amsterdam), with a density that is 7.85 times greater.
> The solution is to keep light gradients, light drop shadows, and some gloss. Just enough to keep a good level of usability, while not adding excessive ornamentation.
I agree intensely with this. I have always preferred designs without excessive ornamentation, but at the same time I like a little gradients and border radius. Border radius gets me especially.. you can have flat design with border radius -- but you don't need a border; just use border radius by itself. The kind of flat design that is all about sharp edges and boxes is so ugly.
Please expand, how would you see fit a framework that isn't like the rest? I'd love to know. Personally I don't see a lot of room for innovation in design. The early 2000s had its table-based designs, and micro designs with small bitmap fonts.. that only appealed to a niche audience. Websites then were much less accessible and had horrible UX. In today's modern design, you're either flat (Foundation, etc.) or you're Bootstrap. If Yahoo didn't mimic the aesthetics of the most popular frameworks, people would complain about it being too different, and it would not gain wide-spread adoption.
Newton's First Law of Motion. Keep moving, stay moving. Keep eating healthy and exercising, stay healthy and fit. Keep learning, stay sharp and knowledgeable.
There are more life frictions as we age that dissuade us from continually learning. If you realize this and work against it, there is no way someone significantly younger than you can realistically be a better fit for a job. They may have knowledge, but you'll have that and decades more experience and wisdom.
Standing all the time isn't healthy either, but one thing standing desks promote better is taking breaks more often. I'm more willing to walk around and stretch if I'm already standing, than if I'm sitting.
I've been using a GeekDesk for 2 years now. I recently purchased a LifeSpan Treadmill (just the base) for my standing desk as the next step, and really like it. Careful though, you can't go from sitting to treadmill, it's too much body shock, you'll need to ease into standing for a few months first.
Although the author didn't go to college and had a low GPA in High School, it's evident he had a penchant for math, and therefore grasped advanced Computer Science concepts.
Now take a high school graduate who sucks at math, but may be a great web developer. My advice to them, should they want to work at Google, is graduate from college.
I think discovering OSS projects for one's aptitude and interest is a field ripe for disruption. A few sites have been mentioned, but I think even more can be done. At the same time I wish GitHub was more newcomer friendly.
If you have a full-time job and family life, and side-projects of your own that are not OSS, how do you find time for OSS?
You need to find OSS that you're motivated to develop for. You shouldn't pick some random project that you have no interest in for the sake of boosting your GitHub activity. You need to set up your project environment. You need to debug/test your patches. You need to learn and conform to the coding standards of the project you're dealing with. You need to communicate with the project team and be available.
All these things together require a lot of time. Great if you're single and in college or without a job.
OSS projects, and GitHub in particular, have an elitist stigma surrounding them these days. I don't think it was like that ten years ago. All the Silicon Valley hot-shots are contributing to the OSS projects all over the place. One may think reading HN that everyone and their dog contributes to GitHub and is active, but I don't think that's the case (at least outside of Silicon Valley).
Posts like yours always show up too. It's cyclic insanity on HN. Any Facebook thread devolves into: "I don't use Facebook." and "Why do people on HN hate Facebook?"
Any PHP post devolves into: "I hate PHP." and "Why do HNers hate PHP?"
Any Google post devolves into "I hate Google." and "Why do HNers hate Google?"
I agree with the author. We should not be content with just silly iPads! Silicon Valley please start thinking "actual future" and give us some replicators and holodecks. Especially holodecks.
I'm not fond of PHP, but I don't know it as well as Ruby and Python. Still, I like to read about new technologies concerning PHP. I use HN to discover new stuff, but HN is a poor resource concerning PHP. HN has tremendous vocal disdain for PHP. Every PHP thread transforms into "Why I like or dislike PHP" instead of actual discussion regarding new technologies or libraries. What's worse is the debates feel like I've warped 10 years past because there is nothing ever new to them. People complain about the old things of PHP and never talk about the new things.
Put simply, even though I don't know PHP that well I feel like maybe it has potential and can actually do good in the right hands, but HN brainwashes you into thinking PHP is the worst.
Except in my day it was detention and a call to your parents. Today it's expulsion and felony charges? Sorry, that's not part of growing up. That's ruining the rest of your life for a stupid mistake (that caused no one harm).
I think I'm outside the ages Tumblr is marketed toward, but when you say "freedom" are you referring to lack of censorship, e.g. pornography and other obscenities?
Any recommended guides to getting a Django/RoR development environment set up with Docker? How does networking work with Docker? Currently I'm using Vagrant, the guest VM is sharing /Vagrant to the host (how does this work with Docker?), and the host has made Vagrant projects available over my LAN for my Macbook/Windows machines with IDEs. I also get the feeling Docker is meant to be complementary with VMs and not exclusive.
Also does it make sense using Chef/Puppet with Docker?