@stillwater said in "Best" Web Technology (necro):
What's the consensus after 12 years?
The best web technology is when Spiderman had spinnerets in his wrists. None of those stupid huge 80's bracelets with plastic pumps in the palms.
@stillwater said in "Best" Web Technology (necro):
What's the consensus after 12 years?
The best web technology is when Spiderman had spinnerets in his wrists. None of those stupid huge 80's bracelets with plastic pumps in the palms.
@Cursorkeys When asked what I do I say I'm a programmer, I push buttons and make pretty lights flash. They then ask no really, what do you do, so I start telling them what I really do. About thirty seconds in their eyes glaze over, I stop mid sentence and say I push buttons and make pretty lights flash, hopefully the right lights. They nod, say ok, and move to another topic.
That guard had no idea. He was guarding an very important piece or art called "The Empty Room" If anything was placed in that room it would have destroyed the message and meaning of the original intent, creating a brand new piece of art at the expense of the original. This room had to remain empty and guarded from any also actually entering the room as over time the dust collects naturally adding to the ecstatic of "The Empty Room".
@boomzilla said in Fake responsive UI:
@_P_ said in Fake responsive UI:
DMS as a Service.
Motherfucker.
yeah same question, why is there a Dog Mating Software as a Service?
@anonymous234 Yes, the holier than thou attitude doesn't come pre-installed on those systems and any installed package just doesn't feel the same.
@dkf said in Logical Expressions in C/C++. Mistakes Made by Professionals:
@blakeyrat said in Logical Expressions in C/C++. Mistakes Made by Professionals:
Yeah a big-ass video embed would have been slightly more difficult to ignore.
Only by nanometers. WTDWTF are world experts at ignoring stupid shit.
No we aren't. we are world experts at calling out stupid shit, pointing and laughing at it, then arguing why we all think it is stupid then pointing and laughing at each other until the next stupid shit arrives.
The artistry of "The Empty Room" naturally creates an echo chamber. hence why "The Empty Room" had to be guarded. Apparently that guard was twiddling his thumbs to much and let someone walk in.
@gurth said in $2,666,594.03 severance?:
How much of that two million did she spend before being told she had to pay it back?
(It’s a common occurrence with money accidentally put into the wrong bank account by government organisations: the recipient thinks, “Spend it before they can get it back” and is dumb enough to not realise that it will be claimed back.)
The thing to do in this case is to put cash like that in a short term CD (3 month CD seems best here) so you can make some money off the interest, then when the order to reclaim it comes in, you cash in the CD at the next cycle and hand it back, pocketing the interest. On the surface this seems ok as you aren't actually spending the money, you are using at the time since it was given, and you can return it with notice once a reclamation order is sent. And if you are smart you do it without them needing a court decision to do so. No idea about the real legality of this since of course IANAL.
@cartman82 I somewhat agree. The only TLD I see as having a real usage is the xxx domain for adult sites because, why not.
Thing is for all others businesses are going to buy up the .com domain anyway and redirect, even adult sites are going to buy the .com version and redirect to .xxx if that becomes what they really use. It's all about branding, even Microsoft and IBM will buy Microsoft.xxx and IBM.xxx because well, branding. SO yes nothing more than a money grab.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
@Gąska I use both of them myself, and I wouldn't necessarily put them as direct competitors. For anything that requires (for example) a UI or a persistent database connection/ORM, VS is your go-to. Same with anything that needs heavy profiling. VS Code is much better for light-weight, cross-platform interpreted tasks (faster start-up, faster running, direct shell access, available everywhere).
They're definitely in the same basic field but they serve different parts of the market. Just like Whole
PaycheckFoods and Walmart's Neighborhood Market are in the same market but have basically no overlap in customer draw. Market segmentation is a thing, as is different tools for different purposes.
See Ben Hall just took everything Stillwater doesn't have the intelligence to explain and instead just saying, you're retarded without giving reasons why.
Thank you Ben for actually showing why these are not in competition. Market segments is the reason, VS and VSCode do the same thing, but are targeted to different audiences, just like an SUV and luxury car.
Stillwater has no idea how to argue a point, Gaska is purely asking questions and not just hurling insults, if that's how you feel about Gaska from this example, the problem is you.
XML/JSON arguments... everyone is wrong, oh and everyone will disagree with me on this.
They each have their purpose and those purposes are nearly identical but not the same.
JSON should be used when you are transporting data but do not care to have a verifiable structure. It is lightweight, compact and easy to parse.
XML should be used when you need to verify against a defined structure. Yes it is bloated but that is the payoff but it is also easy to parse.
Neither is better then the other in general but one is better then the other in certain situations. Many developers get caught up in the "OMG XML IS SO BLOATED" argument that they have no clue about what the benefits are, they stop at the hard structure and forget everything else.
Others say they need the verifiable structure when they really don't and use XML when JSON should be the proper choice.
Now everyone go ahead argue against me. I'll just know you are already wrong.
@remi said in Foot shooting:
@levicki said in Foot shooting:
your usual elitist shtick.
Remi.. no, no you didn't. You made a statement that can be so broadly interpreted as to make any statement seem like a fulfilling prophecy.
The truth of the matter is this:
In an environment where included files need to be listed, if the developer complains that their unlisted file is not included then YES they are complete idiots and should be removed from the process completely until such time as their idiocy can be fixed.
In an environment where those files do not need to be included, anyone trying to say they need to be is an idiot.
When an Environment changes in an unexpected manner to break the norms of the prior methodology, without considering the ramifications of how code has been written for the past few decades, the the one in charge of that environment are the idiots.
"Amputation" I love the way GURPS handles this.
Limbs have 1/2 the health of the body in general.. Hit points are a bit of a guide here. Let's say you have 10, you won't fully die until you are at -60. at zero you roll to see if you are conscious, roll under your normal health. at -10 you roll to see if you are conscious with a -1 to normal health. So with limbs if they take 5 points of damage in a single blow, they are amputated, literally. hands and feet are 1/3 health.
Now you can take many paper cuts an not get amputated but a single blow doing that much damage does take it off. Armour is very important in GURPS and weapon based modifications to damage are also important. Armor doesn't make you harder to hit, just makes you harder to damage, just like real life. Matter of fact, heavy armor can make you easier to hit, but so little damage will get through.
@CarrieVS
oh they never get off just free. The guy that fought for the protection of the group and died. Well he had to make a vow to fulfill something for the god, and their needs are not small.
Talking about killing characters. Death is always a possibility in my games. Without the risk then characters just run roughshod over everything. But there are times where death is good.
One lizard guy wanting to sacrifice himself to a one on one battle with one of the big baddies.. let him do it and if he dies it's honorable and something that will be talked about.
Save the dancer who claims to have escape on the road after being abducted, only to find out later that she is actually an assassin, well I had to make sure there were little hints for them to figure out before she actually attempted (successfully) to kill off a character.
In both cases, good thing magic and gods exist, because that means resurrections can happen if the body is still intact.
Man this thread took off. Good thing.
I have to say even my GURPS adventure, the one with the little girl you have to save, lasted 4.5 years off a basic situation. No it wasn't a tightly scripted full fledged series of encounters, but even situations can be subverted by the players deciding to just walk away and do something else.
For 4.5 years we did this, Girl is captured then saved, she was part of a breeding program specifically designed by the chaos and nature gods to be able to help bring the chaos gods back to our realm. Nature further modified her so she can contain all three gods. Good and evil have no idea of this subplot and are simply trying to shut the gates again, but the players are enlisted to help, bring the girl along who absorbs the gods just when everyone thinks they are shutting the gate. End game you either lock the girl away with all three gods in her, or kill her and let them out into our realm. That's it, and the story went for 4.5 years without any plot holes, because... it's simple.
@Carnage said in D&D thread:
Whereupon the illusion that the pit beast held falters, and the end boss for an epic questline ends up being de-masqued at the very fucking start of it all. So, he didn't even manage to get himself killed by the royal guards by attacking the royal advisor. The GM is dumbfounded and entirely lost for words at this point.
This, how often have we as GM's created something that with a simple decision at the beginning fo the game could nullify the entire story line? My latest one had this, Hey go save the little, innocent mute girl. Ignore that quest and well, the chaos gods come back without any trouble epic battle and fate of the world decided right up front, game over. Instead of course, they go save her, not realizing who she really is.
@boomzilla said in Fake responsive UI:
@_P_ said in Fake responsive UI:
DMS as a Service.
Motherfucker.
yeah same question, why is there a Dog Mating Software as a Service?
I tend to play GURPS, but system aside the most epic fail was when the dwarf decided to rush through a shield wall to face off the attacking horde, jumped in the middle of the crowd and went for a whirlwind strike with his battle ax. Hit the first opponent but critically failed on the second glancing off the armor and losing grip on the ax which flies off into the sea of enemies as he is standing there, on the wrong side of the shield wall with no weapon in a circle of enemies he just tried to kill. Needless to say it didn't go well and he survived only because the mage could teleport his body out of the melee before someone took his head after he went down.
One of the best successes was running on the road and being attacked by a band of orcs daily, one character decides to challenge the chief to a one on one battle to protect the civilians and the chief agrees. He almost got the better of him until the chief takes off a foot and kills him. The chief then turns his back to the players cheering victory to his group when the archer takes aim, steadies and makes a critical shot to the back of his head, killing the orc instantly. Well that put the band off as they scatter into the woods to deal with the line of succession, allowing the group to get the civilians to the next major town in one piece.
@DogsB said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
@acrow said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
Maybe I should contact the profs of my alma mater, and suggest a separate course in writing parsers for the most common data trasfer file formats. And for a few insane ones maybe, to soften the landing to actual work.
That's actually a great idea. I imagine converting data from one format to another is about 30-50 percent of our jobs. I cannot upvote it enough.
To true, but far to easy to simplify. Always go with an internal custom format, make sure you can convert to and from any other format you need. This way you don't have to worry about conversions from and to format x to All others, Just format X to custom, then custom to Y. Yes it is two conversions, yes the performance does suffer, but the ease to make any other format compatible far outweighs the performance. Want to add another format, get it to convert to and from your custom and it is now compatible with every other format to and from your system.