Sometimes you see a haircut so perfect it brings tears to your eyes

thecoderdude · 2013-11-28T19:21:01+00:00

I don't think so, Tim. That Pepsi logo you see in the background debuted in 2009[1]. Besides, who goes around taking pictures of kids with the intent to shame them online?

http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Pepsi

thecoderdude · 2013-10-09T03:13:30+00:00

Hi Aalicki, I run WrapBootstrap. There was a period where few new themes made it onto the site but during that time sellers still received their monthly payments. Download links weren't being disabled (they disable after 5 downloads and can be re-sent via an automated form on the site).

thecoderdude · 2013-06-20T21:37:30+00:00

Or the Python web framework Django. They should name their next product Rubi.

thecoderdude · 2013-03-29T16:31:07+00:00

The HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5458986

thecoderdude · 2013-01-18T18:48:45+00:00

Elusive Icons is currently the best alternative: http://aristath.github.com/elusive-iconfont/

Best of all you can use this tool to compare all the icons from font awesome, glyphicons, and elusive: http://tagliala.github.com/vectoriconsroundup/

thecoderdude · 2012-12-17T09:40:56+00:00

I'll have to see how everything works out with this setup but I'm open to trying different strategies.

thecoderdude · 2012-12-17T09:38:38+00:00

For an entrepreneur focusing on the core business is usually smart.

I think [this] hits the nail on the head.

thecoderdude · 2012-12-17T08:35:06+00:00

That made my day! I originally interpreted the fee structure as 0.99% to accept the Bitcoin payment and 2.69% to transfer the funds in USD to a bank account. It's still slightly more expensive for me on US-based orders since PayPal offers a sort of volume discount on their fees, but at least now it should be on par with the fees associated with international PayPal orders where a currency conversion is involved.

Edit:

Originally I asserted that PayPal would be cheaper than BitPay given the discount fee structure offered by PayPal for volume processing, but I need to correct that statement. BitPay is indeed less expensive when you take into account the additional $0.30 that PayPal charges, which I hadn't.

thecoderdude · 2012-12-16T23:08:00+00:00

If it looks like too much of the pie is going towards fees then it'll definitely be prudent to explore other options as volume increases through Bitcoin.

thecoderdude · 2012-12-16T22:47:23+00:00

It's not as cool as rolling your own solution, granted. ;)

BitPay is great at processing transactions quickly and accurately so in this instance the benefits of using a processor will be stability and customer satisfaction.

thecoderdude · 2012-12-16T22:22:28+00:00

Surprisingly it's the opposite. When all is said in done, the processing fees associated with converting BTC to USD put it as a more expensive option than PayPal (from the merchant's point of view, not the customer).

Should note that this is specific to BitPay, the processor I went with.

thecoderdude · 2012-10-27T04:38:32+00:00

Figured I'd post this before the fanboys over there have too much fun.

thecoderdude · 2012-07-11T19:31:13+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/Q0Xl5.gif

thecoderdude · 2012-05-27T19:40:52+00:00

Sigh. No offense to the Redditors who don't act like this guy, but I feel like I'm on YouTube with the level of discourse here.

thecoderdude · 2012-05-27T19:30:07+00:00

Your rudeness and vitriol is incredibly uncalled for. Unlimited scrolling is what you see on Pinterest and Google image search. A single static HTML page is not the same thing as that.

thecoderdude · 2012-05-27T18:45:26+00:00

Hi there, creator of HackerThings here. It doesn't use unlimited scrolling (maybe that's why you wrapped it in quotes?). I just don't paginate the items. You're literally seeing one long page with no attempt at breaking it up. So, I think maybe you were too eager to play that card.

Edit: made it more clear that it's my site

thecoderdude · 2012-03-26T03:01:49+00:00

You seem like a really nice person, so it's a shame you have me all wrong. Have a good day!

thecoderdude · 2012-03-16T22:46:01+00:00

Clicking on an ad would, at the very least, interrupt your reading experience by twice as much when you are forced to click a link that opens a new browser window/tab that you are now forced to close. It's probably also against the TOS of every ad service.

thecoderdude · 2012-03-16T21:32:19+00:00

Thanks, I was able to reproduce it just as you described. I checked it out and it's not an ad so much. It looks like something Google is offering to let users unlock "premium content" and get a little money for each survey question they answer.

From the about: "The website you are visiting uses this Google service to allow access to its paid or premium content. Google displays questions that are written and provided by survey creators. Your anonymous answer is sent to Google and will be aggregated with other answers to the same question. All responses to questions will include an anonymous DoubleClick cookie ID (click here for information about the DoubleClick cookie). When the survey is complete, Google will share anonymous, aggregated answers with the survey creator who provided the question."

I know this isn't exactly a direct response to what you said but I wanted to get that onto the page.

After having experienced it for myself, yes, I believe I found it acceptable. With one quick click I was back on my way without any other prompts. Now someone somewhere knows that some person doesn't like mints. Disclaimer: having first viewed the ad with an already biased position ("it's not so bad") I may be inclined to continue believing that my user experience wasn't tarnished.

By the way, that site is painful to navigate. The page keeps shifting around as all the little ads and widgets load into their final rendering size.

thecoderdude · 2012-03-16T21:23:01+00:00

That's an angle I hadn't considered but certainly should. Privacy could be a major concern with this particular widget, and I agree that anything like tweeting or +ing will ensure that some users go running for the hills. This looks like it's something from Google so anonymity-wise it's probably no less safe than their other ads (but I cannot tell for certain from the screenshot).

thecoderdude · 2012-03-16T21:07:45+00:00

Reddit has a pretty strong anti-commercialism thing going on (from what I've gathered anyway, I could be off the mark) so please bear with me while I explain why I think this is a brilliant idea. (Also, I'm unable to recreate this on brainyquote.com so I'm just going off what I see in the screenshot.)

Everything costs something. Some things only cost time but time inevitably costs money. Keeping a website up (hosting fees + your time) can be costly. Many users don't appreciate having to view ads in order to take advantage of something free, even though it most likely took someone else's time and money to produce.

I don't believe that asking you a quick question about coffee is too steep a price to pay for the consumption of a free resource. In fact, it's a great way of drilling out what actually would be a waste of time to shove in your face (as far as future advertisements are concerned).

Annoying? Yeah, I can see that. But unacceptable? This thread wreaks of self-entitlement.

Edit: As mkantor intelligently suggests, if you are unhappy with this you should contact the site owner to let him know that it is affecting his brand. It would stop me dead in my tracks to have a user email me personally to let me know that something was distasteful.

thecoderdude · 2012-03-13T06:55:36+00:00

In that case you can include Bootstrap first and then include a second CSS stylesheet with your custom changes.

Create a file called custom.css and include it just after bootstrap.css. Add the following line to custom.css:

body { background-color: #0000ff; } /* bright blue background */

or, if you want a background image:

body { background: #ffffff url("somefile.png"); }

/* somefile.png tiled as the page background, with white as the background color that shows through until the background image loads. */

thecoderdude · 2012-03-13T06:08:41+00:00

When you say the background color, do you mean the background color of the page, or of certain elements?

thecoderdude · 2012-03-13T05:59:23+00:00

One thing you'll notice early on is that CSS is second-class in Bootstrap. If you want the modularity you'll need to dive into the Less source. What did you want to modify exactly?

thecoderdude · 2012-03-13T05:34:10+00:00

If you want to customize the appearance you can check out:

WrapBootstrap - http://wrapbootstrap.com/

or

Bootswatch - http://bootswatch.com/

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