This forum has no reasonable posters
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But @VinDuv is close, so give a like to the best post on this forum so far:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/shell-shock-the-bash-complement-to-heartbleed-as-if/3436/15
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I regret that I have but one like to give right now.
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Murika gave us Discourse.
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Could you at least elaborate why this is the best post in this forum?
Filed Under: I can't throw out my likes willy nilly like blakeyrat, after all!
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Because it's the only passable post that's not complaining about something.
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Could you at least elaborate why this is the best post in this forum?
Filed Under: I can't throw out my likes willy nilly like blakeyrat, after all!
I agree, it's just some man style explanation about shells
It's not even @vinduv's best post on the forum, much less the best post of the entire forum.
More like, the earliest good post in the newest topic that grabbed the most viewers due to age and acceptance of dicsourse and hotness of topic.
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Wait, are you telling me that likes are in fact NOT a 100% accurate sign for a good post?
Filed Under: Jeff would probably like to have a word with you!
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For the curious:
[postgres@sofa ~]$ sql_tdwtf most_liked_posts_x_1000 # Most liked posts outside of /t/1000 SELECT row_number() OVER (ORDER BY like_count DESC) as n, badge_posts.topic_id, badge_posts.post_number, badge_posts.like_count, users.username FROM badge_posts, users WHERE topic_id != 1000 AND badge_posts.user_id = users.id ORDER BY like_count DESC LIMIT 25 n | topic_id | post_number | like_count | username ----+----------+-------------+------------+------------- 1 | 3436 | 15 | 38 | VinDuv 2 | 2662 | 1 | 30 | blakeyrat 3 | 407 | 1 | 29 | Lorne_Kates 4 | 1964 | 1 | 28 | DoctorJones 5 | 893 | 1 | 27 | Lorne_Kates 6 | 1025 | 8 | 27 | ender 7 | 1025 | 11 | 24 | mott555 8 | 1205 | 55 | 23 | darkmatter 9 | 254 | 1605 | 22 | aliceif 10 | 3042 | 1 | 21 | Matches 11 | 1025 | 315 | 21 | DoctorJones 12 | 3103 | 60 | 20 | Matches 13 | 254 | 1396 | 20 | DoctorJones 14 | 2263 | 34 | 20 | Cursorkeys 15 | 3241 | 1 | 20 | Keith 16 | 2263 | 38 | 19 | jaloopa 17 | 953 | 10 | 19 | dhromed 18 | 3300 | 373 | 19 | Nexzus 19 | 2275 | 1 | 19 | WTF 20 | 1557 | 1 | 19 | Onyx 21 | 2662 | 81 | 19 | blakeyrat 22 | 3363 | 6 | 18 | flabdablet 23 | 3389 | 4 | 18 | Bort 24 | 2914 | 341 | 18 | boomzilla 25 | 2128 | 52 | 18 | LoremIpsum (25 rows) Backup taken: 2014-10-01 14:05:50.514682
Blakey's is the How to Demoralize Employees that made the front page.
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I didn't even make the top 25 list.
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[postgres@sofa ~]$ sql_tdwtf most_liked_posts_x_1000 | grep chubertdev 28 | 2594 | 7 | 17 | chubertdev 39 | 3268 | 125 | 17 | chubertdev 41 | 2628 | 56 | 16 | chubertdev 48 | 1590 | 1 | 16 | chubertdev 93 | 1556 | 238 | 14 | chubertdev 119 | 2118 | 20 | 13 | chubertdev 152 | 2662 | 182 | 12 | chubertdev
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I'm not sure whether to be surprised, or not, that so few of the top 25 aren't topic starters - I sorta expected more...
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We need top comment heatmaps!!
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No.
No we don't.
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8 | 1205 | 55 | 23 | darkmatter
hey my shameless self-promotion of that "what if" spoof I did made a difference!
not that i'd ever do that again in the name of gamification... http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/i-shouldnt-link-this-awesome-thing-again-but-i-will-anyway/1205/55
All in the name of pissing off blakeyrat about like gamifications the key to good like gamification is not linking a post but once a month or so, so that people can't take back their like from the last time you gamified it!
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sweet, a bug appears. Changing the link name made it not show the out-link in the gutter here, but the linked-from gutter item still shows over there.
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Try refreshing? I see the out-link in the gutter here.
Another case where they throw whatever in and let it go instead of showing what it would actually look like once it's submitted.
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yep.
chalk another one up for the "98% real-time ajax / 2% never updates = your site appears to be broken" rule.
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Those percentages seem off.
Also, side complaint, I hate how they changed the gutter links now. I actually thought they were fine with the arrows pointing saying if the post linked to the topic or if the topic linked to the post. Now, it's just a link in the gutter.
I could do some more complaining regarding the stuff in the gutter (especially the "Reply as linked Topic"), but I'll stop since it's the end of the work day for me.
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Except in Discourse's case it's 98% real time, 3% broken.
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yep.
chalk another one up for the "80% real-time ajax / 20% never updates = your site appears to be broken" rule.FTFY
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Error: rounding makes 100%.
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@loopback0 Is Doing It Wrongâ„¢<t3617p25>
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Also, side complaint, I hate how they changed the gutter links now. I actually thought they were fine with the arrows pointing saying if the post linked to the topic or if the topic linked to the post. Now, it's just a link in the gutter.
side response, i agree.
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Alternate suggestion: we gamify this and pick the most pedantically dickweedy @blakeyrat blakeyrant we can find and use that to make him a reasonable poster.
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Murika gave us Discourse.
Discourse is a multi-continental enterprise. Or, fuck with us again and we'll come up with something worse to give you.
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Also, side complaint, I hate how they changed the gutter links now. I actually thought they were fine with the arrows pointing saying if the post linked to the topic or if the topic linked to the post. Now, it's just a link in the gutter.
Oh, god, the bikeshedding that goes on about removing glyphs on meta.d.
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I don't even know if I'd want a link to look at what's being said about it.
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Just google "bikeshedding" and you'll get an idea.
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When you're done with that, explain to me what a "bellwether" is.
EDIT: I mean "bellend". Whatever people were calling me in the Windows 9 thread, which I guess is some kind of insult?
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If you weren't too lazy to google it, you'd have learned in about a second and a half it means ie.
Bikeshedding is turbo-pedantic dickweedery in argument form.
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I know what it means, I just don't know if I want to see the specifics being said on meta.d.
My only opinion against changing the links in the gutter is, it's really minor and they have a lot of bigger things they should be tackling first, and the changes make what's in the gutter no longer consistent (though we all know where Atwood stands on that).
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I mean "bellend". Whatever people were calling me in the Windows 9 thread, which I guess is some kind of insult?
It's a British slang thing, IIRC. And of course, some internet hipsters like to adopt Brit patterns, like writing, "whilst." Fucking bellends.
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My only opinion against changing the links in the gutter is, it's really minor and they have a lot of bigger things they should be tackling first,
Look...that's a tiny change that hardly takes any developer time. It's not like it threatens the timeline of the roadmap or anything.
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"I know what it means, I just don't know if I want to see the specifics being said on meta.d."
I don't think anyone ever does except the participants. I believe, by definition, it's going to involve meticulously tedious lacunae. (I really hope all three of those words where right because they were chosen carefully. Edit: dammit, lacuna doesn't mean what I thought it did. I was looking for a noun with the connotation "small".)
" it's really minor"
That's the sine qua non, the raison d'etre, if you will, of bikeshedding, isn't it?
I really wanted to make that link a video but couldn't find it so you'll have to settle for a forum post.
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that's a tiny change that hardly takes any developer time.
I've heard that plenty in my current and my last job with things that ended up ballooning way up and wasting a ton of time that would've been better suited elsewhere while the actual "minor" change was better figured out or canned.
Anecdotal, of course, and not representative of all seemingly minor things. Guess I just have shit luck, maybe.
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Anecdotal, of course, and not representative of all seemingly minor things.
You'd need a way to track what people were doing and stuff to move beyond the anecdotal.
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It's a British slang thing, IIRC. And of course, some internet hipsters like to adopt Brit patterns, like writing, "whilst." Fucking bellends.
'whilst' was a thing long before Internet hipsterisms. Like fucking decades before. Don't you abuse our language because you don't understand it and can only speak the watered down, hipster-laden slang bastardised "American" version of it because you can't remember all the extra letters and extra words we kept in the language because they actually have different meanings and uses.
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'whilst' was a thing long before Internet hipsterisms.
You misunderstand. I'm talking about non-Brit internet hipsters talking like Brits. It doesn't bother me when you guys say shit like "whilst." But obvious Americans doing that come across like Vanilla Ice.
Don't you abuse our language because you don't understand it and can only speak the watered down, hipster-laden slang bastardised "American" version of it because you can't remember all the extra letters and extra words we kept in the language because they actually have different meanings and uses.
You guys are like the senile aunt that we tolerate because we love her. Just don't think we're going to actually go along with your anachronistic bullshit.
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Oh, yes, those trying to be British that actually aren't, they're vying for 'worst of the worst'. I, on the other hand, am actually British and I can say whilst and feel completely justified in doing so without feeling hipsterish, because gosh darn it, I am not a hipster!
As for being anachronistic, that's an interesting point you raise, top hole, old bean, top hole indeed! The days of Her Majesty's empire may be behind us, but we have never forgotten. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the shores and if the British empire lasts for a thousand years, we shall say that this was our finest hour - and all that.
The thing is, our 'anachronistic bullshit' works in reverse with you guys too. This silly little notion of everyone running around having guns is actually very cute and quaint but unnecessary in a civilised modern society. I suspect if we taught you all how to brew decent tea, it might civilise you yet.
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I, on the other hand, am actually British and I can say whilst and feel completely justified in doing so without feeling hipsterish, because gosh darn it, I am not a hipster!
Yes, you can, bless your heart.
This silly little notion of everyone running around having guns is actually very cute and quaint but unnecessary in a civilised modern society.
Let me know when you find one, then. Or do you really fancy having your women-folk at the mercy of stupid brutes? Modern, civilized societies don't rely on the superior upper body strength of young men.
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Have you even heard this accent? It's almost Bond villain. But almost.
I would argue that my nation, such as it is, is more civilised for some value of civilised. I merely maintain that we do not see fit to equip the general populace - or even the bulk of the police force - with actual firearms.
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I merely maintain that we do not see fit to equip the general populace - or even the bulk of the police force - with actual firearms.
Yes, and I'm saying you have blinders on to the world. In the voice of Dennis Hopper in Speed.
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B-b-b-b-ut... Empire! Quarter of the WORLD! This means nothing to you?!
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B-b-b-b-ut... Empire! Quarter of the WORLD! This means nothing to you?!
Sure it does. And I think the Anglosphere is still the best thing going. But that stuff's history.
OK, here's a question, who fucked up the Special Relationship so that the POTUS won't even call them the Falklands any more<you'll be shocked to hear me say it's Obama's fault, I'm sure>?
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Just google "bikeshedding" and you'll get an idea.
DAFUCK!
Googling Bikeshedding gets me to a definition then to wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_trivialityOnly to find in that artikel:
Quoted from Jeff Atwood's blog, Coding Horror:[8]