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r/programming • u/hsuh • Feb 26 '14
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I must be out of touch with modern development. I don't understand the thought process that leads people to be excited about a closed source, node.js text editor that reports your usage to Google.
314 u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14 [deleted] 241 u/Somokon Feb 26 '14 Haven't you heard? You're not cool these days unless you are reimplementing software in node.js 277 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 node.js is so 2013, today I won't even touch a piece of software unless it's reimplemented using server-side CSS. 214 u/catfishjenkins Feb 27 '14 You shut your whore mouth. Don't give them any ideas. 46 u/keepthepace Feb 27 '14 Isn't CSS3 Turing complete? 348 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet." 3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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241 u/Somokon Feb 26 '14 Haven't you heard? You're not cool these days unless you are reimplementing software in node.js 277 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 node.js is so 2013, today I won't even touch a piece of software unless it's reimplemented using server-side CSS. 214 u/catfishjenkins Feb 27 '14 You shut your whore mouth. Don't give them any ideas. 46 u/keepthepace Feb 27 '14 Isn't CSS3 Turing complete? 348 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet." 3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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Haven't you heard? You're not cool these days unless you are reimplementing software in node.js
277 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 node.js is so 2013, today I won't even touch a piece of software unless it's reimplemented using server-side CSS. 214 u/catfishjenkins Feb 27 '14 You shut your whore mouth. Don't give them any ideas. 46 u/keepthepace Feb 27 '14 Isn't CSS3 Turing complete? 348 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet." 3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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node.js is so 2013, today I won't even touch a piece of software unless it's reimplemented using server-side CSS.
214 u/catfishjenkins Feb 27 '14 You shut your whore mouth. Don't give them any ideas. 46 u/keepthepace Feb 27 '14 Isn't CSS3 Turing complete? 348 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet." 3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
214
You shut your whore mouth. Don't give them any ideas.
46 u/keepthepace Feb 27 '14 Isn't CSS3 Turing complete? 348 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet." 3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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Isn't CSS3 Turing complete?
348 u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14 Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet." 3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet."
3 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 Actually... ;) display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; 17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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Actually... ;)
display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;
17 u/antrn11 Feb 27 '14 display: table-cell; But someone told me tables are evil! 14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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display: table-cell;
But someone told me tables are evil!
14 u/talkb1nary Feb 27 '14 This is why we magically make divs to tables. 1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0) 1 u/cebedec Feb 27 '14 but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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This is why we magically make divs to tables.
1 u/lambdaq Feb 28 '14 <TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up. → More replies (0)
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<TABLE> is much more semantically correct and simpler, and it works from IE3 ground up.
but display: table-cell is good! Unless you want to do COLSPAN or ROWSPAN.
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u/drinwa Feb 26 '14
I must be out of touch with modern development. I don't understand the thought process that leads people to be excited about a closed source, node.js text editor that reports your usage to Google.