Autobiographer badge
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So you get this badge for filling out your profile,
If you later go back and remove it, the badge gets removed. Is this intentional and/or desirable?
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Discourse saw you trying to farm badges, and decided you were a barrier to barriers.
+1 would barrier this barrier again.
Everything is a barrier. Great Barrier Reef was a Discourse plugin. Barrier.
Have I said Barrier enough yet?
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Saying barrier too much is a barrier to barriers.
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Barriers are a Barrier to Barrys.
Barry is a Barrier to barriers.
Barry got killed. Barriers could have saved him.
I picked the only barry I could think of, due to the constant repetition of barrier, barry was stuck in my head. I should make clear that I am in no way a soap addict. I prefer cowboys in space.
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I thought I had defused the worst pedantry with and/or. Fine.
Is it intentional to have this behaviour?
Irrespective of intention, is it desirable to have this behaviour?
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Yes and yes, geez.
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Is it intentional to have this behaviour?
Yes.
Irrespective of intention, is it desirable to have this behaviour?
I question the need for the badge to begin with.
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So all you need is an empty string.
Unless Postgres started copying Oracle.
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LENGTH(TRIM(bio_raw)) > 10
So you need to type juuuuust a little bit of text there.
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LENGTH(TRIM(bio_raw)) > 10
So you need to type juuuuust a little bit of text there.Oh, whoops, missed the
AND
.Lunch is a barrier to reading, apparently.
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I prefer cowboys in space.
If you look very carefully, there's a cowboy on the image.
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If you look very carefully,
Believe me, I've been looking at the center of the image for several minutes now
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Believe me, I've been looking at the center of the image for several minutes now
It's one (or two) of the high points of your day so far?
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It's one (or two) of the high points of your day so far?
No that was this morning when I opened my mailbox to find absolutely NO, 0, zilch new e-mails. And the mail-server wasn't even dead!
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Extras made constant "Barry from East Enders" jokes that, as an American, I'm afraid I didn't really get.
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Barry is a barrier to Americans.
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Barry is a barrier to Americans.
Let us bury Barry Berry's body.
Pronunciation is a barrier to Barry.
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his surname is evans.
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But Barry is not a barrier to the goddamned bitch setting him up.
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Yes.
I question the need for the badge to begin with.
This is kind of my point. Like most DC defaults, it seems pretty stupid.
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This is kind of my point. Like most DC defaults, it seems pretty stupid.
I don't think it's stupid. It's encouraging people to fill it out. Obviously some (*cough*) will just make stuff up, but it's still a worthy thing to encourage.
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I don't think it's stupid. It's encouraging people to fill it out. Obviously some (*cough*) will just make stuff up, but it's still a worthy thing to encourage.
Why? I made shit up, because that's how I roll, and because it's a badge and I like collecting shineys but that doesn't make it a worthy thing to encourage.
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That's a barryer barrier
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Why? I made shit up, because that's how I roll, and because it's a badge and I like collecting shineys but that doesn't make it a worthy thing to encourage.
I think it's useful information one way or another. In a place like this, it's just more entertainment for everyone. In other places where people use real/ish identities, it can be useful to other participants.
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Obviously some (cough) will just make stuff up, but it's still a worthy thing to encourage.
Finally read that thing in your bio (noticed something long when filtering posts before, but couldn't be arsed): apart from broken grammar sounds a bit like Gibson.
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Finally read that thing in your bio (noticed something long when filtering posts before, but couldn't be arsed): apart from broken grammar sounds a bit like Gibson.
It's actually a full chapter from Idoru focusing on the inspiration for my username. He doesn't get much more ink in the book, but he is pretty awesome in his own way.
The local 7-Eleven type store, Lucky Dragon, has new FedEx "fax" machines that allow you to duplicate stuff over long distances (some sort of nanotechnology IIRC). Anyways, the clerk tells boomzilla (a plucky street urchin) that the store is out of frozen burritos or something, so he asks why they can't just fax one from another store so he can have breakfast.
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Ah, so I did get it right!
Need to go out and buy more Gibson, read only the Sprawl trilogy and Spook Country so far. Been on a PKD binge for a while.
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I think it's useful information one way or another. In a place like this, it's just more entertainment for everyone. In other places where people use real/ish identities, it can be useful to other participants.
I'm not saying that it isn't a useful commodity to have a profile with some extra info spaces that can be used. I just fail to understand why it's worth encouraging just for a badge for teh lulz.
If anything I'd say it encourages filling it with crap rather than being useful.
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I just fail to understand why it's worth encouraging just for a badge for teh lulz.
That's just for around here. Other places that info is probably more useful. Depends on the forum.
If anything I'd say it encourages filling it with crap rather than being useful.
That still tells you something about the user, which is useful.
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Well, my badge didn't get taken away. As with anything Discourse,
seems to be it's biggest enemy.
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Great Curly's ghost!
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Well, my badge didn't get taken away. As with anything Discourse,
seems to be it's biggest enemy.The way Discourse “parses” user input is about the only part that tempts me to pull a Linus and accuse @codinghorror of being an incompetent shitkicker. Alas, I haven't the time to see about replacing it with something sane — that's not a trivial task — so I mostly don't bitch about it, as griping without offering a useful alternative is just plain mean-spirited.
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Some of us DID accuse @codinghorror of being much that. I don't see that it is my place to fix the egregious WTFery of software, though.
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Some of us still do.
Indeed, I would say that @codinghorror is, technically speaking, an incompetent shitkicker, and his software design skills don't even reach that far. A technically illiterate fuckhead with all the people skills of a festering pool of sick.
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If he wants me to help him make money, he can give me some of that money.
Open source is bullshit. And only produces shit like... OH LOOK, this is the exact kind of horrible bullshit open source produces.
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It's a shame that so much of this internet that you're using to complain on is built on so much open source stuff.
I wouldn't deny that open source has a lot of terrible dreck. So too does the paid software community. While there is undoubtedly incentive to do better, the reality doesn't seem to agree in general.
Some of the paid add-ons I've seen for the free forum software community... fuck. Even @mikeTheLiar would be in shock at this 'worst of the worst'. It's not entirely terrible, just mostly terrible.
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It's a shame that so much of this internet that you're using to complain on is built on so much open source stuff.
Yes it is.
I wouldn't deny that open source has a lot of terrible dreck. So too does the paid software community.
Of course. All software's shit. This is the problem with all the new people, I have to repeat everything.
While there is undoubtedly incentive to do better, the reality doesn't seem to agree in general.
I have no idea how to parse that sentence, or what it's trying to say. Just as a protip: "reality" isn't a sentient being, it has no ability to agree or disagree with anything.
Some of the paid add-ons I've seen for the free forum software community... fuck.
You can fuck whatever you want, I'm not one of those Baptist Nazis who's gonna pass laws outlawing man->forum software add-on love.
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The point is you seem to be suggesting that paid software is somehow better than the free software. Theory says it should be, experience says it isn't. YMMV. Also, it's not my fault you're not smart enough to parse my sentences.
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Do we think an M Night Shyamalan joke would lighten the mood in this thread?
If not, too late.
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The point is you seem to be suggesting that paid software is somehow better than the free software.
With open source software, you know it's going to be really shitty.
With closed source software (free or otherwise), there's a small chance of being pleasantly surprised and finding something that's only kind of shitty.
All software is shit, though.
Also, it's not my fault you're not smart enough to parse my sentences.
Right. Only the smartest people know you actually meant Phil Reality, 463 Maple St., Clinton, VA, who does indeed have the ability to agree with opinions.
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Do we think an M Night Shyamalan joke would lighten the mood in this thread?
If not, too late.
The joke is on me, of course, for trying to even think I could go toe to toe with the Blakeymaster.
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Phil Reality, 463 Maple St., Clinton, VA,
I know that guy.
He's a dick.
"No, I don't think compound interest is going to work."
"Fusion power in the next ten years? Heh."
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With open source software, you know it's going to be really shitty.
With closed source software (free or otherwise), there's a small chance of being pleasantly surprised and finding something that's only kind of shitty.
Open source: enthusiastic people doing cool stuff, but no one's around to clean their shit.
Closed source: well organized and supported people doing boring stuff they don't care aboutThey both produce shit, just of different kinds.
You generally get the best software if you can somehow mix these two models together. Like a small elite team developing a cool product inside a rich corporation. Or an open-source shop funded through a consulting side-business. But there are no guarantees, of course.
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Open source: enthusiastic people doing cool stuff,
Except they're not doing the cool stuff. IDEs and graphical debuggers are really, really cool. But Python and Ruby don't have none. Why not?
It's not coolness you're thinking of, but ease. Open source developers only do the easy stuff. And guess what's hard? Well... testing is hard. You have to sit there and run through the same motions over and over. And regression testing is really hard. Oh, and usability? That's hard, I mean, you have to actually schedule live human beings to sit with you in a room and somehow watch them fuck up your software without yelling at them. They don't even like talking to live human beings. New research, doing something like the Office 2007 toolbar, is SUPER hard because not only do you have to do all that testing shit, but there's a high chance you'll have to just throw out and start from scratch anyway.
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Ah, so I did get it right!
Need to go out and buy more Gibson, read only the Sprawl trilogy and Spook Country so far. Been on a PKD binge for a while.
I picked up on the style too. I've read Neuromancer et al and Pattern Recognition. Pattern Recognition felt a little too thematically similar to Neuromancer, in my opinion. Mysterious benefactor with seemingly unlimited resources empowers protagonist for motives unknown... Hey, I already read this book!
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