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// ----
// Sass (v3.3.0.rc.3)
// Compass (v1.0.0.alpha.18)
// ----

%placeholder {
  color: blue;
}

@mixin dostuff($color: red){

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@echo off
:: the "2>NUL" surpresses error messages. Web workbench executes autorun
:: but does not have access to sublime text or meld, so it throws errors.
2>NUL doskey subl="C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" $*
2>NUL doskey opendiff="C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\meld\meld.exe" $*
2>NUL doskey open="explorer" $*
2>NUL doskey ajaxmin="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Microsoft Ajax Minifier\ajaxmin.exe" $*

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Original question: But how do you make clients consider your advice? If they don't like what you have to say, that's fine. Do you ever have clients who think they are designers? (On Designer News)

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At the beginning of a project, I try to get a sense of what the client wants: general goals, websites or apps they like, etc. Then when problems come up, I try to explain them in terms of the client's goals.

For example: "You mentioned that you want the focal point of the page to be the 'buy' button. The copy that you gave me is a little long and would push the buy button offscreen for most users. What do you think about shortening the copy so that it's easier to see the buy button?"

Or: "The navigation that you proposed totally makes sense in light of your product lineup, but I'm worried that it might be confusing to users who aren't already familiar with your products. That shopping site

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#Ember "Ember.js, therefore, is a synthesis of the powerful tools of our native forebears with the lightweight sensibilities of the modern web." "...we're not willing to give you a little bit of rope if we think you'll just end up hanging yourself with it as your app grows. " - Tom Dale

#Backbone "Backbone.js is intended to be fairly agnostic about many common patterns in client-side code." "'Two way data-binding' is avoided. While it certainly makes for a nifty demo, and works for the most basic CRUD, it doesn't tend to be terribly useful in your real-world app." - Jeremy Ashkenas

#Angular "Other frameworks deal with HTML’s shortcomings by either abstracting away HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript or by providing an imperative way for manipulating the DOM. Neither of these address the root problem that HTML was not designed for dynamic views." "Unlike other frameworks, there is no need to inherit from proprieta

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CHROMER: I cn no woerk. am goeing too baar

u caent stopme

druunk chromering is teh oonley chromering

am build all canaarie

am gonn paly darts wit fiarfox

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@echo off
:: This file is like bash's .profile, but for the Windows command prompt.

:: To run this file when a command prompt starts, a registry entry at 
:: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor".
:: The name of the entry will be "AutoRun", and the value will be the path to this file.
:: http://darkforge.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/permanent-windows-command-line-aliases.html

doskey subl="C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" $*
doskey opendiff="C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\meld\meld.exe" $*

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage:
#
# server logfile/path output/path
# example sshtail.sh user@ssh.server /var/log/apache2/error.log ~/tmp/error.local.log

[ "$1" == "--help" ] && { printf "Usage: server logfile/path output/path\n"; exit; }

# Delete the file so we don't output anything until after we connect

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wget [url] -p -k -E --restrict-file-names=windows

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curl -svo /dev/null -H "Fastly-Debug: true" http://www.statnews.com/feed/

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#!/bin/sh

# For even easier syncing, put the file in ~/bin and alias this script to gs:
# alias gs='gsync.sh'

# If any step fails, abort the script.
set -e
echo "Pulling..."
git pull --no-edit
echo "Pushing..."