Closed Poll: Do you use the numerical keyboard?
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I never got the reasoning behind "if an arbitrary amount of time has passed, that automatically means a conversation cannot be continued in an interesting/useful fashion".
Because @codinghorror doesn't do it that way, of course.
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The middle parts of the letters are too tall, imo. And the is are a bit ... weird.
I don't like the sort of curvy way it does for example the bottom of lower-case L.
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I don't like the sort of curvy way it does for example the bottom of lower-case L.
What font are you talking about now? Envy Code R doesn't have any curves that I can see.
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What font are you talking about now? Envy Code R doesn't have any curves that I can see.
I was going from memory, but clearly it was the wrong memory, because I meant Envy Code R, but you're right, it doesn't. Must've been the other one that wasn't Consolas?
Anyway, Envy Code R, I dunno, it looks workable enough, but I just don't like it, and I do like Consolas, so I will probably stick with that.
Nope--wasn't the Deja Vu either, so I dunno what the hell I was thinking.
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Because @codinghorror doesn't do it that way, of course.
It's actually kind of sad that this is one of the most overused explanations for all kind of stupidity on this forum, yet the most accurate at the same time...
On this particular subject though, I think he's not the only one with that opinion. I have encountered a dislike for necroing conversations in places that Jeff doesn't even knows exist.
@boomzilla also referred to "people" in general.
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@boomzilla also referred to "people" in general.
It really makes blakeyrat angry. I'm not saying you should find old topics of his to necro (because he'll get notifications) because it would be funny to watch, but it would be funny to watch. For extra fun, you could do the same thing on old CS threads of his.
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True, but I believe Jeff's actually said he doesn't like it.
Good thing I didn't @summon him or he might implement the idea of locking old threads.
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True, but I believe Jeff's actually said he doesn't like it.
I think he really doesn't. But he's alternately said he wanted people to necro them and not necro them. I think he was just discommunicating, TBH, but it was pretty stupid either way.
This was back in the heat/coldmap wars.
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I think he really doesn't.
Too goddamned bad. He is a bad person for wanting to limit people to using his software only the way he wants it to be used.
And I say this as someone who read his blog for years before Discourse came out because I thought he had interesting things to say.
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And I say this as someone who read his blog for years before Discourse came out because I thought he had interesting things to say.
I read his blog for months because he seemed interesting. And then the true Jeff started coming through and I was just annoyed.
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The problem is every once in a while he'd come up with a new post about monitors or SSDs or whatever, so I kept going back looking for that stuff.
It's been a long while since I've seen anything interesting like that there though.
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Nobody cares, Jeff.
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As long as we all get to feel bad while using Discourse™
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As long as we all get to feel bad while using Discourse™
The only feeling bad I do is for you.
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Did I miss something? Is everyone else still able to vote here?
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The strikethrough[1] probably prevents the plugin from seeing it as closed.
Edit: or perhaps the plugin was confused.
[1] yes, I know it's actually combining characters.
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Even before I edited it I could vote. I assume it's just an update to the poll plugin. @Eldelshell @PJH do you have a Close Poll button?
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Test it in One Post if you want--I thought putting "Closed Poll: xxx" closed it, and taking away the leading word re-opened it, and as far as I know that works indefinitely, or at least as long as the title is editable.
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I've gotta go, but yeah, if it is an update like I'm assuming it is, I think it's better this way.
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It really makes blakeyrat angry. I'm not saying you should find old topics of his to necro (because he'll get notifications) because it would be funny to watch, but it would be funny to watch.
I don't make an active effort at all to find old topics to necro, Dicsourse is suprisingly good at finding for me all by itself.
I find that funny: Dicsourse is actually good at something and that something is one of the things Jeff considers Doing It Wrong™.
For extra fun, you could do the same thing on old CS threads of his.
Aren't the CS forums readonly now? CBA to make a test-post there to find out.
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Good thing I didn't @summon him or he might implement the idea of locking old threads.
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I don't make an active effort at all to find old topics to necro, Dicsourse is suprisingly good at finding for me all by itself.
I find that funny: Dicsourse is actually good at something and that something is one of the things Jeff considers Doing It Wrong™.
It used to be better. Old stuff would get a bright blue color. It was really begging for necros.
Aren't the CS forums readonly now? CBA to make a test-post there to find out.
@serguey123 posted this a couple of days ago in anticipation of your question:
I think the CS stuff was taken down for maintenance or something and Alex forgot to bring it back up until someone asked about it.
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As long as we all get to feel bad while using Discourse™
So that's your long-term goal for the project... well, that explains a lot, doesn't it?
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You didn't have to, @FrostCat already did that.
I'm glad I don't have to do it again!
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I'm glad I don't have to do it again!
You did not have to do it the first time, but yet you did anyway. Are you showing the first symptoms of Dicsource Syndrome?
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Are you showing the first symptoms of Dicsource Syndrome?
It depends. Is one of them taunting Jeff?
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No close poll button so I changed the title that as you can see, didn't close the poll.
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I think the CS stuff was taken down for maintenance or something and Alex forgot to bring it back up until someone asked about it.
Yeah, he forgot to restart the application pool.
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Yeah, he forgot to restart the application pool.
which.... why is that even a thing?
seriously?
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i don't think he'd be able to answer questions about design decisions in IIS with any accuracy, would he?
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i don't think he'd be able to answer questions about design decisions in IIS with any accuracy, would he?
What exactly are you questioning, then?
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why application pools are a thing and why IIS allows the server to be "up" even if all the application pools are stopped. or even if any are set to offline.... that is not a server that is online if you ask me.
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@chubertdev said:
Yeah, he forgot to restart the application pool.
which.... why is that even a thing?Well, you don't want some dickweed to wander off and leave the bubbles running forever. Still, it sucks to draw the short straw and have to get out to reset the timer.
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It lets you kill individual websites. I never thought it was a WTF when I dealt with IIS daily. Though we had a mixed environment on a single server where some sites were dev and some were prod...
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and that's all well and good, but why does IIS report condition green if theres an app pool in the stopped (or worse faulted) state?
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and that's all well and good, but why does IIS report condition green if theres an app pool in the stopped (or worse faulted) state?
An application pool that is stopped is usually a green light.
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An application pool that is stopped is usually a green light.
to go to the pub for a drink
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You sound like @PJH
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i like to go to the pub for a drink.
not as much as @pjh, but that's not the point.
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Drinkin' at home is much better.