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Realistic response: a camel requires that someone is always with it, telling it where to go. This thing can just be told to go 5 miles in a direction without supervision and will m…

It's unfair to judge this book before reading it, but the web page promoting it reads like an infomercial. Specifically, "You are a designer." and "Save thousands by not hiring a d…

Makes sense. Do you ever run into specificity collisions when you pull styles out of the main style tree? I could see whatever you pulled out being clobbered by the huge amount of …

While this sounds really awesome and clean, "just styling the markup you have" can produce horrific results in dynamic design/presentation-heavy sites.

I tend to chain selectors as little as possible in plain CSS, so I generally don't run into having to read huge chains of sub-selectors. I will agree that heavily-cascaded styleshe…

I'm not sure how much I agree with this approach. When you do what this article is describing, you are creating a very tight coupling of your css structure to your dom hierarchy. T…

I think the author is trying to adress what he sees as almost a cargo cult mentality. Dressing and looking like Steve Jobs is cool for aesthetic reasons, the man has a distinctive …

Why is the author so angry that people in college experiment with radical ideology? Is that a new thing? Why are PDF e-books bad? Why is the economic collapse in quotes and "so-cal…

Here is a pertinent wikipedia article with some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion It's interesting how this applies to more trivial things, like trying to keep your…

It's mostly a cruft/style issue. Some people prefer to have as much of their style-related code in pure css as possible. People having javascript off is not really a concern anymor…

It is not the responsibility of the critic to fix problems. Often, these kinds of articles are met with the "Well YOU build something and then you can talk" responses. This kind of…

I really wish they would also fix the "Crashing every 5 minutes" problem. The problem I'm having with the app (besides the crashing) isn't the loneliness. It's that it's supposed t…