βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Huh.
Google Chrome's connection attempt to thedailywtf.com was rejected.
Maybe we don't allow access to non-standard ports, or something, although we use a bunch of them internally. Oh, well; based on your screenshots, all I'm missing is a headache.
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Were you on HTTPS by any chance? That's not working.
I'm loving all the color quirks. I'm sure they'll be fixed soon. I'm just too lazy/sleepy to create issues right now 'cause I don't have my github password on me at the moment. Besides, I'm should be getting some sleep.
Filed under: last comment date more important than article date
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Were you on HTTPS by any chance?
Despite Chrome's fondness for hiding useless trivia like that, it appears not.
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Oh god that design. The "main content" column is barely twice as wide as the navigation bar. And the whole thing barely takes up half of my screen. There's almost no emphasis on the actual content compared to navigation.
Pls make content wider, thanks.
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That's been a fairly common complaint over at http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Survey-Results--Site-Redesign.aspx.
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The reactive design isn't reactive enough. It supports mobile sizes quite well, but they completely ditched those of us using something better than 1280x1024 resolution (which is probably all of us not on mobile devices).
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That said, I think the articles page ends up being just right. Main page is just a bit wonky with the doubled up article title left and article title+intro in right panels being essentially the exact same content.
My suggestion - on the small screen sizes, show article titles panel only. On large screens, show title+intro panel only. The intros are a full screen or more long on iphone 5 and scrolling to the bottom of the page takes a lot of finger work and patience.
The colors could use work for readability, but that's usually one of the last bits I'd touch anyway, so I'm not going to harp on that too much unless they had said they're ready to go live.
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According to Ohloh, my code took 237 years to write and would cost about $829 if I was paid three dollars, one quarter, two dimes, and a nickel each year.
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but they completely ditched those of us using something better than 1280x1024 resolution (which is probably all of us not on mobile devices).
Speak for yourself. I had to zoom to 80% for it to be usable for me on my 1366x768 laptop. Everything's just too big.
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Oh my ... looks like @apapadimoulis read @Lee_Ars's artikel and thought it was a check list of things to have
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I had to zoom to 80% for it to be usable for me on my 1366x768 laptop. Everything's just too big.
Each item is too big for what it contains, yeah. The whole page looks like a senior citizen's screen when viewed at 1920x1200 - a bunch of huge fat buttons with monster text, centered with about 50% whitespace.
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It's on Github? And in ASP.NET? I can actually contribute to this.
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Filed under: That's going to end in tears
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Yeah that slide is not put up stable
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That's not really a good sign.
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Filed under: That's going to end in [s]tears[/s] [b]a viral YouTube video[/b]
FTFY
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@DoctorJones said:
Filed under: That's going to end in
tearsa viral YouTube videoFTFY
Back in my day it would have been Β£250 a smug introduction from Jeremy Beadle
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<img src="/uploads/default/4053/43e5cabf0db3e338.png" width="690" height="88">
I thought that websites these days were 93% CSS and 6% jQuery.
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These days it's Β£250 and a smug introduction from Harry Hill.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
Back in my day it would have been Β£250 and a smug introduction from Jeremy Beadle
These days it's Β£250 and a smug introduction from Harry Hill.
No sure what's worse although I have found Harry Hill funny in the past.
@Harry Hill said:
My father used to say to me "Always fight fire with fire." That's why he was thrown out of the fire brigade.
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There's only so much mileage one can make out of the typical material submitted to You've Been Framed.
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Trying to censor out anyone trying to mention any other domains in your psuedo-chatroom. Never understand why marketroid-types think this is ever anything but a bad idea. All it's going to do is drive people away from your site to somewhere less stupid.
Filed Under: Subtle Sabotage?
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preg_replace sounds like it belongs in the @SCOTUSblog thread
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$userMessage = preg_replace('/ass/', 'butt', $userMessage);
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preg_replace sounds like it belongs in the @SCOTUSblog thread
We got preg_filter and preg_last_error
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And preg_match for the paternity test.
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And it looks like another clear example of things you can't easily do with only a regular expression.
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And it looks like another clear example of things you can't easily do with only a regular expression.
I am pretty sure @codinghorror would disagree with you. Regex's can do anything.
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or a coat hanger
That wouldn't be
preg_filter
, that would bepreg_split
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Filed under: advanced humour for mature people
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GIN_NOT_FOUND (prolly NSFW)
This is pretty dark, even for here.
Also, Discourage may have the worst search functionality in history. I had to sift through topics to even find that to quote it.
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My day is not going well. Telling people about their failures in testing.
"The whole deal with periodic and incremental testing is that SMF's surface is so vast that you need to be testing changes as they occur, even without worrying about regression or extraneous surface testing because if you attempt to build a list of 'everything that needs testing fully' at some point after beta, there's just too many things to do. The number of permutations to test is bordering on incalculable."
"Confession: some days I feel like I'm the only competent one around here. This is not a feeling I like."
"That's the thing about testing. You need to do all of it, not just the interesting bits. If nothing else, why don't the developers test each others' commits? Code review? Peer review?"
"That's because you need people testing things to actually find bugs."
"If there is a clear discord because what it does and what you think it should do, I'd call that a bug. But we both know that my views are discordant, radicalised and generally disharmonious to a community."
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If there is a clear discord because what it does and what you think it should do, I'd call that a bug. But we both know that my views are discordant, radicalised and generally disharmonious to a community.
Damn it man, you're doing it wrong on SMF too!
Filed under: Does SMF have it's own version of Jeff?
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At one time I was SMF's Jeff. These days they have no Jeff-a-like because it's all design-by-committee.
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That's because you need people testing things to actually find bugs.
There's not always a will to actually find bugs. Bugs mean fixes which takes time. Plus more testing which also takes time.
I'm sure PMs1 would like software to be bug free and on time but, if they had to chooses, they'd pick on time.
Fixing bugs comes under support which is typically somebody else's problem...
Filed under: 1Project Managers not Prime Ministers
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Well, there's that too. But anyone doing any kind of testing would be an improvement.
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There's not always a will to actually find bugs. Bugs mean fixes which takes time. Plus more testing which also takes time.
I'm sure PMs<sup>1 </sup>would like software to be bug free and on time but, if they had to chooses, they'd pick on time.
Fixing bugs comes under support which is typically somebody else's problem...
Filed under: <sup>1</sup>Project Managers not Prime Ministers
I've got a solution! Let's just combine QA testing with Acceptance testing! It's win-win!
For the PMs
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I've got a solution! Let's just combine QA testing with production use! It's win-win!
FTFY
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Let's just skip the QA and go straight to production?
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I recorded myself scrolling through the entirety of TDWTF's topic list. Should I upload the video?
Filed under: all answers will be interpreted as "yes"
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Yeah, I wanna see it. It demonstrates the WTF of infiniscroll.
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I'm sure PMs would like software to be bug free and on time but, if they had to chooses, they'd pick on time.
Even though my job is finding bugs (in hardware), I don't entirely disagree. My bonuses depend directly on whether my project is on schedule. To some extent, they do on quality, too, but that's less direct, as most of the time it just affects a future milestone, rather than whether we achieved all of our goals for this quarter.
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Around 20-30 minutes Chrome starts having trouble rendering the millions of DOM elements.
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No shit Sherlock.
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Wait, you've seen the video already? Why am I even bothering to upload it? You upload it! You have a better internet connection with p=0.998