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I agree completely. Except for the last sentence: he ran on Hope and Change. And we believed him. - Alex Chaffee

via ★ This is absolutely correct, and describes the way I (and a succession of other coder/designers) designed our latest app over the course of a few months. Make sure to read through to the fake client criticisms, and the "what about IE" section. - Alex Chaffee

When will UD get an API? - Alex Chaffee

In, let's say my sophomore year, my high school held a vote to rename the mascot (formerly named Zero). The winner, promoted by the Latin club: Ubi the Seahorse. And if you want to know why the mascot of the largest high school in a landlocked state is a seahorse... well, that's a comment for another day. - Alex Chaffee

pussy - Alex Chaffee

The best unreported thing about this story is that .am is the TLD for Armenia. - Alex Chaffee

"Compromise is for people who are wrong." - Alex Chaffee

"“I don’t believe in homosexuality,” said Lavern Tisby, a Third Ward resident. “I think that’s a sin.” Well, I don’t believe in your toenails, and yet you still have to clip them. Seriously, what’s it going to take to get people to stop misusing the word “believe”? If you think homosexuality is a sin, then you think that it exists, and therefore your absolutely believe in it. I’m usually sanguine on the way that words shift meanings, but in this case, I have to protest. People are using the word “believe” instead of the more accurate words “approve” or even “accept”, because they want cover for their bigotry. They hope the word “believe” puts their bigotry into the Religion Zone, therefore above criticism. Well, I say fuck that. If you’re going to be a bigot, fucking own it." - Alex Chaffee

"When chiropractors use spinal manipulation therapy for symptomatic relief of mechanical low back pain, they are employing an evidence-based method also used by physical therapists, doctors of osteopathy, and others. When they do “chiropractic adjustments” to correct a “subluxation” for other conditions, especially for non-musculoskeletal conditions or “health maintenance,” they are employing a non-scientific belief system that is no longer viable." - Alex Chaffee

wonder if it works with Heroku? - Alex Chaffee

"Horribly, my social group is creating a construct whereby I can’t easily give my daughter her freedom without sending her the message that I don’t care about her." - Alex Chaffee

Steve Conover: "This is absolutely perfect. Can we all just do this and quit it with the "should" business now?" - Alex Chaffee

In college I did tachistoscopic perception experiments for my senior thesis. ("Tachistoscopic" means "rapid or brief display".) It is no surprise to me at all that delays of anything over, say, 80msec are not only perceptible but have large mental effects. A second is a loooooong time. - Alex Chaffee

Bernie!!! - Alex Chaffee

I want to see/make an x-y plot of this data - Alex Chaffee

"Most of these features are part of WebKit’s Web Inspector. The new features added by the Chrome team are the timeline and heap panels. All of these improvements have arrived in the last month" - Alex Chaffee

In my app, using Erector, I'm using Steve's technique of putting all text into a single HTTP response with inlined CSS and JS. Works great! Next up: spriting images. - Alex Chaffee

About half the first day is up there now - Alex Chaffee

I know what to get Steve for Xmas... - Alex Chaffee

Wait, I had this client too! - Alex Chaffee

"Grant me a patent." "What? That's ridiculous." "Sudo grant me a patent." "Okay." - Alex Chaffee

Saw it. It was fun! Enjoy it when it comes on the radio in a few months... And for the record, yes, John Hodgman actually did spinning-high-kick a persimmon off of Merlin Mann's head. - Alex Chaffee

why not just go full QWERTY? - Alex Chaffee

Shoulda called it Jarector. - Alex Chaffee

More like Erector than Haml, as John F says. Nice job, in any case! I've been thinking of doing an "Erector for JS" project and he may have beaten me to it! - Alex Chaffee

"I highly recommend DelayedJob to anyone whose site is not 50% background work." -- heroku gives you DJ for $15/mo. I think we'll start with that and see how it goes. - Alex Chaffee

Is it pronounced "RESK" or "RES-Q"? (If the latter, it really should be spelled "Resqueue".) - Alex Chaffee

I've been saying this for years!!! And Kottke is wrong: include src=foo.gif would have driven adoption just as fast but not shackled the imagination. - Alex Chaffee

If Reid does this it will represent a betrayal of all his previously demonstrated principles (cowardice, weakness, poor tactical sense...) - Alex Chaffee

Droll! - Alex Chaffee