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chriseppstein

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About chriseppstein

I work at caring.com, created the compass stylesheet authoring framework, am a core team member working on Sass, have a wife and daughter, don't sleep much.

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    Comment #7504315

    Navel gazing is the best way to convince yourself that things are going great and to give you that boost to keep working on the project. At some point you will probably look back a…

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    Comment #5561108

    Gender identity is actually a quite tricky topic and should be approached carefully. I would discourage anyone from trying to use this library, the real world doesn't fit neatly in…

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    Comment #4209302

    I think you're starting to understand my points then.

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    Comment #4208976

    I like that.

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    Comment #4208953

    Did you actually read the link before commenting? Honest question.

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    Comment #3443394

    You should tell us what those limitations are :)

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    Comment #3443391

    The number of bytes in a sprited file can be smaller than the sum of the bytes of each file individually. So the best option might be to inline the sprite :)

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    Comment #2979058

    There is a statistical margin of error. They will need to make many such predictions. Also, the act of predicting an event might cause it to become more or less likely to occur.

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    Comment #2907924

    Sass uses $ for variables, less uses @. For more differences: https://gist.github.com/674726

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    Comment #2800268

    The real reason it's for hackers is that it uses Git and the command line to manage it. It may not be "hack-ery" enough for you, but it's certainly not software non-hackers are goi…

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    Comment #2799587

    Those damn marketers. Going after that HUGE hacker market again!!!

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    Comment #2788698

    Sorry about that. A copy and paste error. Thanks for the correction.

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    Comment #2655599

    | For all the talk of freedom, this is disappointing. You're incredibly naive then. Freedom comes from the license. You can fork and modify to your heart's content. This is how ope…

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    Comment #2655027

    Full Disclosure: I am not a haml developer. I'm a haml user -- I only develop on sass.

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    Comment #2480737

    It should work based on the urls below. Contact the mailing list for support. https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/blob/stable/framewo... https://github.com/chriseppstein/compa…

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    Comment #2480553

    There's no "gradual creeping" or "ad-hoc" language features being added "on the fly". We spend a lot of time thinking about what features are included in Sass and most feature conc…

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    Comment #2480548

    Sorry! But that syntax was deprecated in 3.0...

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    Comment #2440646

    I've heard rumors of just that.

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    Comment #2272373

    That's awesome to hear!

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    Comment #2172613

    What if that weight was empirically determined by an algorithm instead of by a human, would it make it OK or should Bing hardcode in a demotion to that google-based data source?

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    Comment #2137350

    If I could upvote you 100x I would.