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19points
6comments
#510of 1,097 in 2011
Top 47%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.

Idea: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Impressive and pretty

    From 1 comment
    • Pretty, impressive, and all that. But realistically isn't all this effort for nothing? If you're doing a project that needs to have scripts and css minified, the last thing you'd…
      jasonkester on HN

Objections

  • A manual drag and drop step won't fit into automated build and deploy pipelines

    From 2 comments
    • Pretty, impressive, and all that. But realistically isn't all this effort for nothing? If you're doing a project that needs to have scripts and css minified, the last thing you'd…
      jasonkester on HN
    • Has to be a command-line tool in order to integrate into the asset pipeline of a project; you want to do this automatically at deploy/release time. Take a look at tools like…
      lobster_johnson on HN
  • Command line tools are needed to integrate into asset pipelines

    From 1 comment
    • Has to be a command-line tool in order to integrate into the asset pipeline of a project; you want to do this automatically at deploy/release time. Take a look at tools like…
      lobster_johnson on HN

Requests

  • Integrate with build tools like Jammit and Juicer

    From 1 comment
    • Has to be a command-line tool in order to integrate into the asset pipeline of a project; you want to do this automatically at deploy/release time. Take a look at tools like…
      lobster_johnson on HN

Questions

  • What song is in the video

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Command line minifiers such as clean-css and YUI Compressor

    From 1 comment
    • Completely agree that a commandline tool is optimal — the site is actually built off of the clean-css commandline minifier. The real world use case is currently one of my…
      zachwill on HN
  • jsbeautifier.org

    From 1 comment
    • Pretty, impressive, and all that. But realistically isn't all this effort for nothing? If you're doing a project that needs to have scripts and css minified, the last thing you'd…
      jasonkester on HN

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