🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Amazingly, this works:
What's even more amazing is I tried a ton of sites with a double www, and that's the only one that works of the ones I tried.
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My old (like almost 10 years old at this point) blog works with an arbitrary number of
www.
: http://www.www.www.www.www.llamaslayers.net/
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Llama slayers?
Come on, Winamp had enough of bad stuff happening to it already, at least let it have it's llamas!
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Bad Idea:
Retweeting a 'Retweet this or bad things will happen' tweet.Twitter.Seriously. It just makes you look a total fucktard.
This post is not emtpy
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Bad idea: An
overpriced boondogglestate-of the art hospital with lifts that eschew the established human-interface rules for lifts because of reasons. The net result is that so many people get stuck in them that staff have to be stationed to explain how to get them to work: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3075600/Visitors-1billion-super-hospital-getting-stuck-lifts-no-buttons-inside.htmlI won't make a dischorse comparison because it's too easy
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I can't wait for certain software companies to copycat that.
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Does it have a green bar that shows you where you are and breaks often?
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Does it have a green bar that shows you where you are and breaks often?
At least they seem to have fixed the bug where if you scrolled very slowly at the bottom, it would get in a state where the green bar disappears.
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Seriously? Was that the same architects as Heathrow T5?
- Though the solution there was to add buttons that don't do anything as the lifts are actually vertical shuttle trains.
The "select destination first" idea gets tried every few years, and is a good example of a UI that sounds great until you try it with real people.
It can work in a private building where it's only ever used by employees, but will never work for visitors.
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The "select destination first" idea gets tried every few years, and is a good example of a UI that sounds great until you try it with real people.
It can work in a private building where it's only ever used by employees, but will never work for visitors.
I wonder who thinks it actually sounds great? I'm guessing the elevator programmers, who can optimize where the elevators travel or something. I could maybe see having them both inside and out, but having them outside is just begging for hijinks.
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I wonder who thinks it actually sounds great? I'm guessing the elevator programmers, who can optimize where the elevators travel or something.
The elevator programmers in our building could do with some structure. Any structure.
Our best guess is that button presses are stacked. My wife once spent ten minutes going up and down in the elevator because people kept calling for the elevator and pressing new buttons once inside. Since she was first on, she basically had to wait until the rush was over. Good thing she had coffee and a sandwich with her.
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Our best guess is that button presses are stacked. My wife once spent ten minutes going up and down in the elevator because people kept calling for the elevator and pressing new buttons once inside. Since she was first on, she basically had to wait until the rush was over. Good thing she had coffee and a sandwich with her.
I once worked in a place that had a lift like that. It was a magical mystery tour that only seemed to end when it ran out of people calling the lift or it hit your floor. There were only about 4 floors so it was more of a humorous diversion than anything else.
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http://i.imgur.com/UjdlXur.gif
W. T. F. !!?
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Our best guess is that button presses are stacked. My wife once spent ten minutes going up and down in the elevator because people kept calling for the elevator and pressing new buttons once inside. Since she was first on, she basically had to wait until the rush was over. Good thing she had coffee and a sandwich with her.
? FIFO would make more sense here.
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Ours has an additional . There are four floors in the building, but because it is joined with another building there are two half-landings (with doors on the other side) as well. All neatly numbered so that 1,2,4,6 are the main floors, and 3 and 5 are the half floors.
Once we had a guest who needed to renew her password. We're on the second floor, and told her to go to the fourth floor. She enters the elevator, press '4', and exits to ask around. "This is the third floor", she gets told, "you want one floor up". So she re-enters the elevator and press '5'. Which, of course leads to nowhere in a different building. Re-enter, press '6' to get to the fourth floor.
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Really @cartman82. Where do you find these things???
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Ours has an additional . There are four floors in the building, but because it is joined with another building there are two half-landings (with doors on the other side) as well. All neatly numbered so that 1,2,4,6 are the main floors, and 3 and 5 are the half floors.
Freakily, our building was built on a slope and was joined to other buildings. You could walk in the ground floor of one building and, without climbing any stairs, end up on the first floor of the next building and have to get a lift down.
There was also a mezzanine floor you could only access from one end and buildings in a quadrangle that were numbered in a way I can't describe and can't be arsed to draw.
Filed under: Is this where we find out we're talking about the same place
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Really @cartman82. Where do you find these things???
You don't want to see my RSS, dude.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
Really @cartman82. Where do you find these things???
You don't want to see my RSS, dude.
I think I am trough here. It makes me lose hope over the internet.
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ground floor
first floor
have to get a lift down
Cue confused Americans in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
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Freakily, our building was built on a slope and was joined to other buildings. You could walk in the ground floor of one building and, without climbing any stairs, end up on the first floor of the next building and have to get a lift down.
Our building goes one up on that. It's officially got three (public) floors, but I once counted them up and the middle (first) floor is on about 9 different levels with stairs between them. And there's a level bridge from that floor to the building next door (all on a flat site) which connects to that building's fourth floor.
The building would probably work better if used as a FPS multiplayer map.
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It can work in a private building where it's only ever used by employees, but will never work for visitors.
I've only ever seen it in a hotel (in Barcelona).
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Cue confused Americans in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Yeah, I had to think a minute about how you guys zero index your goddamn floors.
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Yeah, I had to think a minute about how you guys zero index your goddamn floors.
It's the One True Way™
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Better than having -1 and +1 next to each other.
Although, I know of a building in Germany where the Basement is Floor #1, the ground floor is Floor #2 and the floor above that one is #3 ...
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Yeah, I had to think a minute about how you guys zero index your goddamn floors.
Rugby League has started (under certain circumstances) zero-indexing the tackle count
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Better than having -1 and +1 next to each other.
Who labels floors with negative numbers?
Ours often have something like B1, B2,... (B for Basement).
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@boomzilla said:
@RaceProUK said:
It's the One True Way To Suck™
FTFY
MeanieI will give you this: you're in the right topic for that sort of stuff.
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Elevator should not stack buttons, they should have a global direction (to the cave or to the roof): buttons added while going to the destination are served, others are reserved until the direction is flipped. At the floor, you get a call button for up and another for down, only call button matching the global direction are added for delivery, the other one remains on hold.
If you pushed both call buttons, be damned if the direction is not the one you wanted. As a bonus, an arrow above the door would provide the global direction when the door opens.
One problem with that behaviour: over-used elevator at middle floor, it's always full when the door opens, you cannot get it.
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And I want to add, it should automatically return to the ground floor after being idle for a while, since that's where a trip is most likely to start from. Although that should be configurable.
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Who labels floors with negative numbers?
The people that start counting their floors at 0? Since you have 0 it's a perfectly logical scale ...
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The people that start counting their floors at 0?
Do they? I was partially actually asking. I've never seen that, but we tend to call the first floor the first floor.
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@boomzilla said:
Do they?
It's rather common ... 0 = ground level and basements start at -1
The convention of 0 must be a weird Euro thing; in our funny little island nation, we use 'G' instead of '0'
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We call it "E" in Germany.
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weird Euro
You have a scale with 1 and -1 on it but find it weird to put the 0 in between and prefer to put a G ?
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Have you ever met the British?
Anyway, where there is a basement level, it's often only one, and we call it 'Lower Ground'
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SE has this gem:
Of little relevance, but intriguing: When I was at university, the ground floor in my block was 17.
The ground floor in some others was labelled 19. It was a sloping site,
so they based the number used on the height in feet above sea-level
(170, 190, etc) to provide consistency throughout the site.wat.
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Have you ever met the British?
Yes but you guys always turn out weirder then expected. And I'm expected some weird stuff already.
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The convention of 0 must be a weird Euro thing; in our funny little island nation, we use 'G' instead of '0'
I do see 0 as a label sometimes. But I think if you were programming a lift, the ground floor, whatever it's button was labelled as, would have a value of 0.
The nice thing about zero-indexing your floors, is that the modulus of the number is the number of flights of stairs you have to go up or down to get to your floor from the entrance, or to get out from your floor.
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Oh. There's a building in Seattle with that arrangement. It's quicker in general.
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Is Daily Mail one of the good or bad British papers?
There's a building in Seattle with that arrangement, but it's like 60 stories. It makes no sense on a 14-floor building.
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Is Daily Mail one of the good or bad British papers?
Bad. Unless you ask a reader, in which case they'll tell you it's good. But those people are wrong, it's bad
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I worked in the Exchange Building in Seattle which has two ground floors, numbered 1 and 4.
There's a dorm building at Western Washington University with something like 7.
This is why the British numbering system makes no sense, BTW. Ground floor and 4th floor aren't mutually-exclusive.
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I worked in the Exchange Building in Seattle which has two ground floors, numbered 1 and 4.
There's a dorm building at Western Washington University with something like 7.
This is why the British numbering system makes no sense, BTW. Ground floor and 4th floor aren't mutually-exclusive.
The one with the main entrance is the ground floor. The other is a floor that happens to be at ground level on some side of the building.