The 2nd article had a lot of good stuff in it

Sure as hell made me want to apply wherever the hell he manages

If you had impostor syndrome for 5 mins then you never really had impostor syndrome.

fyi for someone with minimal linux skills and no sysadmin skills it took me like 10 minutes to set up https with lets encrypt through digitalocean so pretty amazing service there.

This. Plus I feel like we've now had years on this forum where Dave talks about how he's not comfortable selling himself or can't explain why he's worth more than 14 bucks an hour.

That's what Dave does. He wouldn't be Dave anymore if he stopped doing that.

Idk, I was one of the few I worked with that didn't have at least 1 dual PhD, wasn't a college professor, didn't make his own programming language, wasn't a minor celebrity, or some other intimidating thing. I certainly was the only one with no college degree or useful work history. It would've taken about 3 seconds to get obliterated by anyone, but I was more excited about the possibilities of doing good work and learning new stuff. Just didn't bother me.

After working at companies where my responsibilities were beyond anyone else's capabilities, I'd take being the company dunce any day of the week, and it's not even close. Maybe I consider imposter syndrome, or some positive spin on it, a good thing.

This is excellent news. Loving DO so far

Hey guys, I hear Austin is in need of an über clone. No lyft or uber to compete with. They've kindly fleshed out the business model and decided not to pursue it there. Who's in?

This could literally be like Betamax saying they don't want to get into the business of SciFi movies right as Star Wars comes out. (No that never happened, just an analogy of better tech being given a wide open field to replace a worse product)

Regarding DHH's support of #WorkCanWait, what would the levels of unemployment be for tech workers if the employed were only expected to work forty hours a week, and any additional work employers needed done had to come from hiring more people?

Heh, you are literally the first person to realize this! (Not really, there are already 3 or 4 alternatives in austin)

Does any one have any tips on how to do a bottom-up style of chat application? In other words the first chats are at the bottom of the pane not the top in the way it would normally work. My original thought is to have a "pusher" invisible element that takes up most of the pane and slowly gets smaller based on the number of chats until its gone and it scrolls normally. However this doesn't take into account chats that can take up multiple lines. It seems really crude to parse the length of the chat (and the length of the user's name) to do the math on this pusher element. What am I missing/what's a better way to do it?

nevermind I just flipped the container vertically with css and flipped the chats again. le sigh

use flexbox:

http://jsbin.com/konalu/edit?html,css,output

super cool but thats top down not bottom up. I'll play with it. Never got into flex cause IE etc.

i think that's just a matter of re-ordering the divs within the html, unless i'm still misunderstanding...

flex support is pretty decent now. unless you have to support ie9 and below, you should be ok with most of the features. and if you are unlucky enough to have to support those older browsers, you should be able to achieve the same thing i did with "display:table" and friends.

EDIT: also, try this instead, i think that other link got screwed up and was missing something: http://jsbin.com/hekozow/1/edit?html,css,output

wait nevermind, that's totally what I wanted. I'll throw that in. I'm using semantic ui (bootstrap knockoff) which already uses flex/is evergreen browser support only anyways so this will be perfect.

In my nightmares, I'm chased by css monsters.

Float left! Float left!

I still haven't used flex at all because everywhere I have worked has required IE8+

Oh man, dumping IE8 was the greatest day of our lives.

I still remember having to write a very complex JS-heavy web app that ran on IE 4, IE 5 IE 5.5, and Netscape Navigator 4.3. document.write() ftmfw.

I never had to support anything lower than IE6, thankfully.

The annoying thing about supporting IE6 was that the border-box box model is the one that actually makes sense and is easy to use. Not only did we have to support Microsoft's non standard browsers, but they were actually in the right.

Everyone's been using * box-sizing:border-box for years now anyways though.

fyp

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You never have enough important!s.