Poll: Polls
-
[poll]
- More polls
- Less polls
- No more polls
- Actually, poll is a countable noun so it should be "fewer" polls, not "less"
[/poll]
Filed under: Pedants have to waste their vote
-
FILE_NOT_FOUND not found.
-
I don't consider voting for brillant-ness as a wasted vote. But where's the FILE_NOT_FOUND?
-
Unanimous so far, I love it.
-
-
What about being brillant?
-
countable
An extreme application of the prescriptivist rule can be seen in the examples "there is less flour in this canister" and "there are fewer cups (grains, pounds, bags, etc.) of flour in this canister", which are based on the reasoning that flour is uncountable whereas the unit used to measure the flour (cup etc.) is countable. Nevertheless, even most prescriptivists accept the most common usage "there are less cups of flour in this canister" and blah blah blah
-
But it looks like a killjoy showed up.
-
-
@Wikipedia said:
even most prescriptivists accept the most common usage
NEVER! Pedants, unite! Expel these infidels from among us!
-
I'm missing "No, more polls" right after "No more polls".
Filed under The comma always looks like a speck of dirt in Discourse
-
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)
-
-
I support this poll, but we need to find the three people who voted wrong here, and kill them.
Filed under: it's for their own good
-
I support this poll, but we need to find the three people who voted wrong here, and kill them.
Filed under: it's for their own good
Shirley an admin like yourself could cheat and peek at the underlying data store to out these traitors.
-
I’m not sure if polls are still countable on this forum.
-
I have been thinking about that - since the radio button I clicked to vote is selected if I return to a vote, that information must be stored somewhere.
A plain old lookup table
userId, pollId, voteId
would be rather, erm, prone for exploitation.So I thought:
hashOfUserId, pollId, voteId
. Only, with the limited amount of registered users a forum typically has, breaking the hash would be easy enough - just calculate all the hashes.Has anybody an idea how one could make the vote changeable but at the same time anonymous?
-
Has anybody an idea how one could make the vote changeable but at the same time anonymous?
I don't think you can; the HTTP logs will reveal too much even with (excessively elaborate) schemes like doing replacement by maintaining nonces on the client and so on.
-
How about just not having the database open to access by third parties?
-
You'd be surprised how many people running sites ask for that feature so as to reassure their users that the PMs can't be read. You'd also be surprised how many people running sites ask to browse PMs, too.
-
-
Project Manager, which is very distracting
Yes, they keep distracting me from The Likes Thread.
-
I just got called Mr. Doom by the project manager of the project I left them to get the hell on with. I have no love of project managers.
Just to demonstrate my level of fail, I replied:
That's Mr. "Interrobang" Doom, Zend Certified Engineer to you. I didn't spend a decade learning this stuff and acquiring certification to be merely Mr. Doom.
(because yes, I actually am a ZCE for my sins, which are legion)
-
I'm just glad you didn't shorten that to:
I've been Certified for a decade!
That could be open to misinterpretation.
Filed under: would we do that?
-
Would this community do that? Like fuck it would. I'd never hear the end of it. Even admitting that I do PHP and that I hold ZCE is practically grounds for tar-and-feathers.
-
Even admitting that I do PHP and that I hold ZCE is practically grounds for tar-and-feathers.
Bug: Discourse is missing a button to tar-and-feather an avatar!
-
Hell yeah!
-
That's Mr. "Interrobang" Doom,
Zend Certified EngineerCertified Internet engineer to you. I didn't spend a decade learning this stuff and acquiring certification to be merely Mr. Doom.FTFY
-
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-08-31/
Damn I'm getting old since I remember this the first time around too.
-
For the uninitiated.
-
I read that as BM, but I'm an old !
-
I read that as BM, but I'm an old !
Our PM system is a huge pile of BM, but that's a WTF for another day — maybe after I don't work here any more.
-
How about just not having the database open to access by third parties?
Which is why backups should be encrypted at the time of backup...
#!/bin/bash set +x ID=`hostname`.`date +%Y-%m-%d_%Hh%Mm.%A` TMP=/tmp/$$ RSA_PUB=~/.ssh/backup_encrypt_rsa.pem.pub # Backup the stuff we want echo "* Backing up directories" /root/bin/automysitebackup echo "* Backing up MySQL database" /root/bin/automysqlbackup find ~/backups echo "* Creating key" # Create one-off key for this backup mkdir -p $TMP echo -n `dd if=/dev/urandom bs=64 count=1` >$TMP/$ID.key 2>/dev/null # Locate the files to encrypt UNENC_FILES=`ls ~/backups/daily/*` echo "Unencoded files: $UNENC_FILES" # Encrypt the files using the temporary key, delete the originals for FILE in $UNENC_FILES; do echo "* Encrypting $FILE" openssl enc -e -aes128 -pass file:$TMP/$ID.key < $FILE > $TMP/`basename $FILE`.enc done echo "* Deleting $UNENC_FILES" rm -vf $UNENC_FILES # Encrypt then delete the temporary key echo "* Encrypting key" openssl rsautl -encrypt -inkey $RSA_PUB -pubin -in $TMP/$ID.key -out $TMP/$ID.key.pubenc rm -vf $TMP/$ID.key # Tar up all the (remaining) files and delete those ENC_FILES=`ls $TMP` echo "* Encoded files: $ENC_FILES" tar -C $TMP -cf $TMP/$ID.tar $ENC_FILES cd $TMP && rm -vf $ENC_FILES # Move the tarball offsite and remove local copy of it echo "* Transferring file" rsync -aP $TMP/$ID.tar example.com:Dropbox rm -vf $TMP/$ID.tar -f rm -vfr $TMP
-
That would be an option for Discourse, but not all other forum systems are so privileged as to demand a VPS ;)