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For about a year back in 2003-2004, I only had dial-up internet, no TV, and no social media (because it didn't exist yet). It was the most productive and creative time of my life. …

I once was the victim of an empty box scam when I purchased an expensive item off Amazon a few years ago (luckily I got a refund), and since then I've used Amazon much less, and on…

> The speaker ultimately chooses one, leaving the other behind with the > thought that they might return—though deep down, they acknowledge that > choices lead to new choices, maki…

Luckily, Pepsi products are much cheaper in my area; 2L bottles regularly go on sale for 3/$5, or even 4/$5. Coke seems to be the super premium brand around here for some reason.

I've noticed it mostly at the supermarket. E.g., Coca Cola products are much more expensive than they were at the beginning of the year, and they're never on sale anymore. Certain …

I’m in a senior role working for an SF company, and my permanent address is in the Bay Area. Although I haven’t relocated per se, I work from the EU for months at a time because my…

You might be thinking of the Kuleshov effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect

I think the analogy is that software engineering used to be like carpentry and woodworking, but now it's more like assembling Ikea furniture. Sure, the final result is the same fro…

I think you might be overlooking the fact that bias comes in different forms against different groups. E.g., a hypothetical racist might be comfortable around Asians because he thi…

I use chopsticks to eat potato chips. I find that it works pretty well for keeping my keyboard grease-free. (And spoons are good for popcorn, btw.)

Heh, when I was a kid I used to draw a lot, and I remember being bothered that I didn't know how to draw a bike, so back then I explicitly memorized the shapes (parallelogram in th…

LibSass maintainer here -- it's really great to see another project pick it up, and although we're aware that we still have a fair bit of catching up to do, things like this give u…

Ah, that's because Travis is running all of the "to-do" tests as well. Reorganizing the tests and making Travis happy is ... well, it's on the to-do list.

We do want to support the indented syntax eventually (and I believe it should be possible with a relatively simple pre-processing step), but it's still a low priority compared to r…

We did a lot of development during the summer (including a rewrite that was long overdue), so there were a few segfaults back then. The library should be pretty stable now though -…

Thanks, I'll give it a try and benchmark it. Also, pull requests are welcome for this sort of thing!

Yes, playing catch-up with Ruby Sass has been difficult (the sophistication and subtlety of some of Sass's features are impressive), but we're hoping to make some big leaps by the …

On huge projects, Ruby Sass can be quite slow, taking several seconds or even minutes to compile. If you have an interactive, iterative workflow where you're constantly refreshing …

I once wrote a toy video-player program, and I was able to implement robust, interactive playback controls fairly cleanly by structuring it as a state machine.

There's a proof-of-concept Ruby gem, which will mature as libsass matures. https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc-ruby

Actually, I'm the primary developer of the library (I work with hcatlin). Large Sass projects can take a long time to compile (more than several seconds), so the performance increa…