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Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#52

Somewhat tangentially related, but it's been bugging me for a while -- is every brogrammer in America really this ridiculously attractive, or are hackers using model "stunt doubles"? One wouldn't expect GitHub to be full of gorgeous male models who happen to sit in perfect coffee shop lighting while laughing in an almost robotic perfection, but here we are ! (The stock photos on the site made me think of it, haha.)

There are sub genres of the beautiful headshot as well. In the open GIS world, the trend is towards beautiful people hanging out on the side of a mountain. Although there are notable exceptions (my not-so-notable self included) most of these people seem to be from Colorado or Sweden.

Has anyone else noticed sub-themes within github headshots or is gis an anomaly?

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#53

I think the market for HTML templates is on the rise. Is anyone else seeing that?

I think it's more symptomatic of developers realizing that UI is hard (guilty), and while we may think it's easy to make something, it's hard to make it something people want to use. I can't tell you how many times I've nearly bought a Bootstrap theme rather than making one myself. Call it lazy, call it throwing money at your problems/weaknesses, but I agree, there's a rising market for themes.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did some poking around, and the license information can be found here: http://www.blacktie.co/about-themes/ It uses the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Creative Commons are not supposed to be used for code, they say that themselves.

Right, but for the purposes of legal actions, CSS and HTML templates are probably more like media then like code.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#55

Somewhat tangentially related, but it's been bugging me for a while -- is every brogrammer in America really this ridiculously attractive, or are hackers using model "stunt doubles"? One wouldn't expect GitHub to be full of gorgeous male models who happen to sit in perfect coffee shop lighting while laughing in an almost robotic perfection, but here we are ! (The stock photos on the site made me think of it, haha.)

I've noticed a rise in cartoonified hacker portraits as well, which is a stylistic alternative.

I get it... you can use it as a tell to find the ugly ones!

Or, maybe just the self conscious ones.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#56

I think it's really weird that the example content is about design companies. Shouldn't those design their own homepages?

Eh, they are probably just using content that they know about themselves so it has a reasonable and realistic feel. Lorel ipsum or John Smiths get boring fast.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Yeah some not-so-diligent person added some "free" code to our commercial, closed-source application. "Free" as in GPL2. Ripped that out pretty quickly.

Did you 'rip it out' in the sense of rolling back the commit, or did you refactor the code (and replace the GPL2 code with code that did the same/similar thing)?

If it were the latter, would your entire codebase be considered a derivative work (just as if I took some GPL2 code and refactored it until all the original code was gone)?

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#58
Very cool, I might use one of these! The email with the download link was marked as spam by gmail, so you might have to do a search in:anywhere.

Some other free themes: http://wrapbootstrap.com (I'm not affiliated, just love their stuff). They have less files and a compiled css file for their themes.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#59

Very cool, I might use one of these! The email with the download link was marked as spam by gmail, so you might have to do a search in:anywhere. Some other free themes: http://wrapbootstrap.com (I'm not affiliated, just love their stuff). They have less files and a compiled css file for their themes.

I realise they're cheaper than coffee but I'm not seeing any free themes here at all. Even sorting lowest to highest price the lowest is $4. Do they have a hidden category somewhere for free?

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

#60

Why have a checkbox[1], if we can't toggle it. [1] http://i.imgur.com/WbCJQsk.png

Many European countries require an opt-in subscription model by law ("EU Opt-In Directive") where the user explicitly states it want to receive the newsletter (e.g. it not being a side effect of a registration).
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