Filed under The comma always looks like a speck of dirt in Discourse
Commas are a barrier to reading.
Filed under: [down, slow, They, you](#tag)
Filed under The comma always looks like a speck of dirt in Discourse
Commas are a barrier to reading.
a single reflow
JS DOM manipulation is lazy, you can write as many times as you'd like to DOM properties and the browser will queue up a reflow to be performed when needed. Reading from a DOM property is what triggers the reflow in most cases (or at the end of whatever JS is being executed).
So a series of calls like this:
write
write
write x 10000
read
will be (fairly) quick, but this
write
read
write
read
write
read
will melt the computer.
That's a problem because Jeff wasn't, as far as I could tell, actively part of the community beforehand
He wasn't.
Only in spirit.
By the time I had time for here, the problem was fixed.
Don't worry, we'll make sure you're around for the next one. The best way to squish XSS vulnerabilities is one at a time, as end users point them out - that's what I always say.
Oh, now you've done it! I was hoping it would last the weekend
Oh and nice work @ben_lubar! You have discovered that it's only self-closed audio
tags that don't work in IE. When you add a separate closing element they apparently play just fine.
Time to update my topic!
Standing on the shoulders of giants, really. I was in the middle of trying to break my usercard again when I saw that @Kuro and @Maciejasjmj had found an alternate way in.
We can all share the prize money.
Now all we need to do is go register on every other discourse forum and spam these links into every topic.
That's how you report a bug, right?
Because I am a just and noble ruler, I have edited the title to remove the 'loop' keyword.
You are all welcome.
Switch to IE - it actually doesn't work there. I'm just assuming you guys are experiencing the glory but I can't hear it myself.
This is like the browser wars equivalent of launching a tactical nuke.
wow, you can't even stop it because pressing the pause-button activates the link!
If this works too, we're all doomed.
Did he not fill out his location field in his profile? We added it just for you guys..
I did!
But then someone broke it.
I just looked at his widget and it sparked the standard pagination stuff. All you want is this scroll bar?
To be fair, I know exactly how we got here (since it's the sum total of about 80% of the posts on the forum to this point). So my question was somewhat rhetorical, and was much less about your specific edits than about the result as a whole.
I just figured the insanity would have tapered off by now. But since it hasn't, and it might even be getting somewhat worse, it seemed like it might be a good time to have (another) reminder: occasionally, the right thing to do is to take a step back, set fire to whatever contraption you're building, and go grab a beer while it slowly burns to the ground.
Holy. fucking. shit.
I don't care about scrolling at all. But how did we get allllll the way to here:
from here?
How?
It'll be a different story in a few months.
Well, yeah. Does vBulletin even support nested categories?
Not yet... haven't even filed a Discourse bug report yet.
I filed one that was bad enough to get the topic locked and hidden...
Aww... sad but necessary.
Unhide the topic for posterity? User Card Guy lives on in my heart.
You ever find a bug and you almost don't want to tell anyone about it, because then it's just a matter of time before the fun is over? But if you never tell anyone, then no one else can enjoy it? It sucks.
I'd rather take credit for awesome though, however fleeting the awesome may be. (And in spite of the fact that it didn't exactly take NSA-level hacking skills to uncover.) Click on my avatar icon to enjoy User Card Guy.
The meddling developers better not fix this one.
I'm sure that part's IE-specific (I've had trouble on both IE9 and IE11). Thanks for the assist.
Continuing the discussion from New user indicators and post counts:
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I pasted in this awesome image by hotlinking to it. In the past, the system user would come along and edit my post to locally store the image. (This shows up as an actual edit, which is probably a bug in itself, but that's another matter.)
Doesn't seem to be doing that any more. And it treats these images as links, so they even have spyware click tracking:
YOU'LL HAVE TO IMAGINE THERE IS A NICE SCREENSHOT OF AN IMAGE WITH A CLICK COUNT HERE. UPLOADING IMAGES IS ALSO APPARENTLY BROKEN. WHY AM I SHOUTING
Three for one on image bugs today I see. Good thing I got a cart on my way in.
(it is weird the Ember.js community was not better at this with their Discourse instance.)
Those guys are open source JavaScript developers. Most of us work for a living.
Arcseconds are, of course, obvious.
Sounds like my old physics textbooks.
"The conversion between arcseconds and pixels at this latitude and standard pressure is left as an exercise to the reader."
I would much like that, actually, because unlike a ginormous vertical graphic, there's no requirement for me to scroll horizontally to get to the next post with my mouse wheel.
Yeah but what sort of secretimproved horizontal scrollbar would we get? A red trapezoid pinned to the left side of the screen with "3 of 76 arcseconds" and animated emoji arrows?
TOS refers to Kirk era star trek. Notabug!
Oh, so @codinghorror is just @blakeyrat with a goatee. It all makes so much more sense now...
Maybe we need a feature request to have overflow:auto on pre blocks?
Only if you want @ben_lubar to post his Dwarf Fortress content in landscape instead of portrait.
Oh, great. Now no one else can use this topic title for something more useful.
meta-discussions about "when and how should we split topic digressions, if at all?"Is really important! If you care at all about other human beings being able to process and discover the conversation, anyway.
I'm sad that you split out this topic instead of just using the topic I already created for this purpose. A week ago. I even made it in meta like I was supposed to
How does Discourse-the-bug-tracker handle "close as duplicate"?
The best part about writing cruft is the feeling you get when you realize your mistake later on and get to tear it all out, though, to "fix" the problem. In a sense, writing bad code is just sending endorphins forward into the future.
Plus if it's not you that eventually finds it, then screw that other guy.
When people say this, they break the eggs, but you never get an omelette.
Then modified by someone from Japan. And them bugfixed by someone from Saudi Arabia.With the documentation written in a boustrophedonic script.
What could possibly go wrong?
I once had the [mis]fortune of reviewing code written by a Chinese developer who had defined all variables and constants in Chinese, but instead of using a pinyin representation so that they were at least pronounceable (if not something I could actually understand), he used whatever sequence of keys were required on his particular keyboard's mapping to produce the actual Chinese characters from an en-US layout. So the variables were all things like "xeoGekgw" and "pQwzjMrr".
Because nothing sums up your commit better than .
Except for maybe "<user> closed the pull request".
No, I'll be honest. I want users to know my post count is bigger than theirs.
Post count is so 2013. Like/post ratio is where it's at now.
Do we really need both and ?
Yes, if someone was imaginative enough to come up with different icons for them in another set of images....
As long as we get a third icon for :fistbump: too.
Oh yeah. Once I got older I realized that you were supposed to slack off and jerk around during retail work - never got that memo when I was a teenager, I guess.
A few years ago some dipshit in Home Depot actually answered his damn phone while I was in the middle of asking him where something or another could be found. Said a few choice words (which I'm sure he ignored), abandoned my cart in the aisle and walked out. Never shopped at a Home Depot since.
Nws Oxnard
Seems reasonable. Aren't the rare times when California isn't flooded, on fire or violently tearing itself apart noteworthy to the point where the public should be warned?
I can't keep this sort of BS up for a whole paragraph.
Clearly, you are not yet ready for the burden of blog authorship.
Filed under: I write blog posts so I don't have to constantly repeat myself.
I thought you wrote blog posts so you could invoke the "argument from authority" fallacy more easily.
I dunno, I kind of liked the original behavior. Initial excitement that someone out there cares about what you have to say, then the crushing realization that it was all a lie.
I hate this new thing
FTFY.
For what it's worth I completely agree.
I always wondered why the hell do we need to start and end loops with ลก and ฤ. But not ล and ฤ, nope@ender said:
Don't you mean ลก and ฤ? ฤ was |.
Holy hell. I think I'm finally beginning to understand why offshore development has a quality problem. It was over before it even started.
When I was 16 I worked at the hardware store in my home town. Building random shit for people is what made me sure that going into engineering was a good idea. Dudes come in holding some obscure broken thing that I didn't even know existed ten minutes ago and the only reason they're there is that they've reached that "I give up" moment of despair to the point that they're willing to ask a high school kid for help.
At that point I could either shrug and sweep the floor, or decide that even though I have no idea what the guy is talking about, I'm in a store full of arbitrary, overly-specific junk and if I glue enough of it together it'll make his problem slightly better. Probably.
Going on a hunch, Frankensteining something vaguely similar to a medieval torture device and emasculating/saving the day for some suburban "handyman" whose wife is going to leave him if he doesn't fix the goddamn toilet right goddamn NOW? Most satisfying feeling ever.
The funny part is that to this day I'd rather nearly kill myself trying to build or fix something I don't fully understand than pay someone else to do it... and now that I'm the suburban handyman with a wife, she hates it and would rather I just let some "professional" handle it. Figures.
Filed under: New feature request: petitions
Petitions are already supported, they're auto-detected just like polls. You just need to make sure your post starts with the phrase "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE" (case sensitive) and then a bulleted list of your demands. Ordered lists are supported too, but only if the numbers are non-sequential and sometimes decrease. Then include 15 or more consecutive <hr> elements at the bottom for signature lines, and you're done!
If you've formatted it correctly, the system user will edit your post to include the appropriate <manifesto> markup and will e-mail three copies of your post to all registered users. Easy!
changing whitespace only is currently rejected
... but why? So I edit a post and add some whitespace. Is that actually a problem in any universe?
This seems like a classic example of trying to save users that don't need to be saved - warning me that my edit may not actually be editing anything. But who cares? So they save it, realize their "mistake", and try again? Let me save a post with zero changes if I want.
Feature request: reject any post that is filed less than 20 seconds after the edit window was opened. I bet those users probably didn't think long enough about what they were going to say, so we should let them know that they might want to do some more quiet reflection on their grammar.
Condescending toaster optional as time permits.