agreed. and learning some obscure syntax (simply used to shortcut work) will actually be counter-productive for those these types of tools are targetted at: new developers.

regardless, i commend the work put into the application.

my tip: understand that HTML is simply a way to "mark-up" the document, and all else becomes simple.

>> ^joop:


Real web developers don't use WYSIWYG/drag and drop IDE's, more hassle than they're worth when you know what you need to build.
This is kinda neat, but tbh, the good IDE's have prediction/completion on elements anyway, it seems like an effort to learn a whole and correctly type a new syntax to describe sets of elements.

Interesting.

I just fell into the IT field a couple of years ago and decided to go back to school for web development because that seemed the most interesting to me.

My school uses Crimson Editor and now we are just starting to use Dreamweaver. I started carrying around Notepad++ on my thumbdrive so I could use it because I wanted something consistent at work and home... and I prefer Notepad++ to Crimson Editor

I started seeing the text replacement and shortcuts of Dreamweaver and I was thinking of switching over to coding by hand in Dreamweaver because of those shortcuts. Then I saw Dreamweaver CS5 has CMS support for Drupal. That seals the deal for me since I'm currently building some Drupal sites for my side businesses. I'm having some problems, but I'm learning a great deal.

Either way, I set on coding by hand because I'm still learning and want to be more than just competent (i.e. want to make sure the code is clean and to be able to actually troubleshoot issues.)

And look at how fast it is sped up...something tells me keyboard shortcuts would make it faster to use.

"Ok, just take a quick shortcut through here... CAMERAS! I think I forgot my... head... cover thing..."

Why I like this video and discussion: It exists in an odd moral middle ground between equally ridiculous extremes.

-Should someone be required to keep their property completely safe in case it is stolen, or are they allowed to disembowel an assailant in the street for the slightest infraction?

-If someone neglects basic safety checks in their hurry to willingly commit an illegal act, is their resulting avoidable injury any less their fault because the original owner hoped it would happen?


In these cases, my general enjoyment of the situation is a balance between the irony involved (like) and the severity of the consequences (dislike).

-When someone spends 30 minutes tearing the plexiglas shielding off a wall to get at the $20 bill someone dropped behind it, only to find that it was a fake advertisement for a local church, I laugh. The irony outweighed their loss and disappointment.

-When someone takes a shortcut across a 20ft "no trespassing" zone and loses a leg to a land mine, I feel sadness. The consequence far outweighed the severity of the infraction.

Somewhere between these extremes lies a guy in the middle of a street who was just outsmarted by a bicycle that wasn't his. He was set up on purpose by someone with more free time than sense, but he did it to himself, and as a consolation prize he got to keep a bike that wasn't worth the time it took to steal in the first place.

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^Psychologic:
^ And I suppose you also want me to stop removing the bolts from the steering wheel when I park my car? You're no fun. =P

If you're seeking out a parking spots in high crime areas, leaving the keys in the ignition, the doors unlocked (and possibly ajar), and then hiding nearby with a video camera and giggling, YES!

America, we take our right to our lives for granted so much that we punish people for doing what they want to their property to protect those that lie cheat and steal.

Actually, it's more like "In America, we take our rights for granted so much that we think that people who commit crimes don't have any."
Read my qualifications again, and think about why there's a big difference between that and "doing what they want to protect their property."
Incidentally, do you think it's okay to put landmines in your backyard because you don't like the neighbor's kids taking shortcuts across your lawn (i.e. trespassing)?


About the landmines, people do that in New Mexico and people, as a consequence, don't trespass. You don't have the right not to be maimed when taking something that isn't yours. That right results in the crazy ass law suits of people stealing your stuff and suing you for hurting themselves. Where as I wouldn't put mines in my backyard to keep people off, people shoot trespassers in my state and are protected by law to do so.

This isn't even a case of people protecting their property however. None of these measures were being used in a way to prevent the bike from being stolen. They were done to get some luls off of anyone who rode the bike. Being that the bike wasn't theirs, they took the risk riding it, and as such inherit all the culpability of that action. It is different than, say, throwing a bunch of marbles at a crosswalk and watching people fall over. When he took the bike, he inherited the risk of not knowing any of the ways in which that bike worked, or in this case, was deficient. The fact that it was purposefully made defective is moot.

This doesn't carry over to other situations because other situations require an initial point of contract. Like if you buy a car, turns out to be a lemon you can sometimes sue because of the initial point of contact where you were buying "A" and got "B" instead. This person is taking "B" assuming it is "A" and getting pie in his face as a result. There was no fraud as there was no initial point of contract. The thief could of easily of just walked the bike away instead of riding it if he knew this bike wasn't for riding.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^Psychologic:
^ And I suppose you also want me to stop removing the bolts from the steering wheel when I park my car? You're no fun. =P

If you're seeking out a parking spots in high crime areas, leaving the keys in the ignition, the doors unlocked (and possibly ajar), and then hiding nearby with a video camera and giggling, YES!

America, we take our right to our lives for granted so much that we punish people for doing what they want to their property to protect those that lie cheat and steal.


Actually, it's more like "In America, we take our rights for granted so much that we think that people who commit crimes don't have any."

Read my qualifications again, and think about why there's a big difference between that and "doing what they want to protect their property."

Incidentally, do you think it's okay to put landmines in your backyard because you don't like the neighbor's kids taking shortcuts across your lawn (i.e. trespassing)?

Since nobody was going to say twenty aught one (through nine), we got used to saying two thousand. I got no problem with either version, but since we are used to saying two thousand, it will probably stick around for a lot of people. It's only a difference of one syllable, so anybody who likes to talk fast and use shortcuts will probably go for twenty ten (plus it has the sharper sound), and others will continue with the slightly longer, more dramatic version.

There are supposedly a couple of ways to get rid of it. However, one of them results in the icon coming back when you reboot; the other, when the content gets pushed back to your device. The best way, thus far, is just to hide the icon, but that doesn't fix the default search engine in your browser.

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I believe it, especially the bit about trying so hard to make it catchy in the office. Bing installed a shortcut for itself on my Blackberry, free of any request or confirmation to do so...I just noticed it one day because all icons downstream of it were moved. Can't figure out how to delete it either.

I believe it, especially the bit about trying so hard to make it catchy in the office. Bing installed a shortcut for itself on my Blackberry, free of any request or confirmation to do so...I just noticed it one day because all icons downstream of it were moved. Can't figure out how to delete it either.

Why do people still consider mentioning that "PC" is "Personal Computer" and that Macs are part of that? It is largely understood that PC = Windows now, this is how it is marketed and used most commonly, the expanded form is no longer relevant, nobody looks at it that way, PC is now more a single term much like Mac.

Other than that, this fight about who is better is seriously getting stale. Use the OS that YOU enjoy and be happy with that, what is with everyone's constant need to convert people to or justify their position? All 3 of the main OS's are perfectly capable of being OS's, all 3 have their positive/negatives. My answer to anyone who asks me what computer they should buy (when they mean what OS should I use) is the same every time. Try them all and see what fits your needs, what I find useful, you might find infinitely annoying.

And this goes for all camps, PLEASE for the love of God, stop confusing INITIAL discomfort with a bad OS. When you train yourself to behave in one way for years and switch to something different, a 10minute session is obviously not going to be pleasant, it will take you a few days to a week or more just to break out of your shortcut habits.

It's an interesting juxtaposition of images the News of the World has put together and I wonder how one of the countries notorious tabloids is framing this.

Of course you can't help but feel for her immensely and it entirely diminishes your own problems (at least it does from my perspective).

I have no doubt her case wouldn't have attracted media coverage if she'd been older, less attractive or anything other than a young attractive blond. It seems to be the way of the world. We require mental shortcuts to understand complex issues and here we have the embodiment of violence towards women. If good comes out of that then so be it. Silvercord makes that point far better than me.

Not to be an Apple bigot... But i get the feeling this was designed somewhere where Mac's were more common than PC's.

In my experience watching designers using Mac's all day long they tend to visually interact with everything on the screen, keep it all open. move it around etc. Replacing the mouse and taking the wacom tablet to the next level makes a lot of sense.

But PC users tend to be much more keyboard shortcut focused with the majority of all tasks typing words into email, word, excel, powerpoint, twitter and flicking between them.

Replace CAPSLOCK with a dedicated Alt-Tab button I say!

Historically, meat was a shortcut to a fuller diet for proto-humans. Not every human population had access to a full array of vegetables that could procure all amino acids, fat (e.g. better bioavailabilty of omega-3-6-9) and proteins necessary for the development of a higher metabolism. In fact, some think that cooked meat was the greatest accelerator, both because of the changes made to the meat by heating it and for the conservation properties of the heat treatment (basically proto-pasteurization).

Of course, using meat nowadays can be considered wasteful, but what we should do is think how to better exploit the available resources (i.e. the domesticated animals) rather than how to stop using them. For example, we could harvest the methane produced by cows, etc. Instead, vegans want to "liberate" the domesticated animals thus letting them take up valuable real estate with no benefit to us. I mean, where do the vegans think all these animals will live when liberated? At the bottom of the sea? Plus, domesticated animals can only live in the ecosystem that they have been engineered for, meaning they can only live in a human-centered environment. If we would let them go, we would have to re-engineer them for wild life... talk about waste!

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:Pointless masturbation was your expression. I'm not against CGI in general, I'm just saying in this particular video, using CGI would make a completely unremarkable video, while using Lego blocks made a unique and awesome video.

Why? The effects of the video are cool enough regardless of being constructed of lego. If someone made this video with CG, with say like 200 hrs of hard work, you'd say it was worthless? WTF is wrong with you? Let see you make a video this cool with CG.

I can and have. I say that to me it doesn't matter if any records were broken in the production of the video, since that's not how I measure if the video is good or not. You keep hanging on to the tiny technicalities and thus miss the entire point of what I'm trying to say.

No, the whole point of what you're trying to say is that you "feel" it is important to make this with Lego. Well, guess what buddy, what you "feel" doesn't mean very much. You need to support it with reasoning. You'd make a terrible critic if all you can say is that you "feel" something is right.

For the last time. The car analogy was simply to illustrate how using a shortcut would invalidate the entire endeavor.

And for the last time, it was a shitty analogy. It doesn't work. I've repeatedly stated why your analogy doesn't work, and you've repeatedly failed to address my critism. If you're just going to conveniently ignore questions that you can't answer, what is the point of me talking to you? I might as well be talking to a stubborn 12 year old.

The sift may not care about regulation blocks, or other made up rules that you use to define athletics for yourself, but there are rules to this here siftage. While I don't consider myself a part of the Digg community, and thus don't care one bit what they vote up or down, I do consider myself myself to be a part of this community, and thus care about what gets sifted up or not.

Made up rules that I use to define athletics for myself? You mean the sport of sprinting as defined by the International Olympic Committee that the whole world recognizes? Hey, basketball must be some silly made up rules that I personal use to define athletics right?

And You must be deluded if you're comparing the sift to the IOC. This is worse than your Usain Bolt analogy. The sift is a tiny slice of the internet, and the members get to choose what videos get shown on the sift. It's a community forum where people gather to show and tell the cool things they found on the net. And just like any other public forum or gathering, there are rules, but that hardly makes it the same as the regulatory body of a sport. The authors of the videos themselves don't even have to know or care about the sift, and the sift in turn, have no power over them. You must be far deep in denial or really desperate if you're grasping at such tenous strings to mend your broken analogy.