:fa_eye: The Official Lurkers' Thread™
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We have been fortunate, @blakeyrat has been about lately to be trolled.
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I once saw a post of his asserting that instead of being comprised of a series of reusable modules with standard "connectors" that can be easily coupled together, "real"/"quality" applications should be GUI-based with built-in automation and scripting capabilities.
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I don't even... what...?
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@jamesn said:
I once saw a post of his asserting that instead of being comprised of a series of reusable modules with standard "connectors" that can be easily coupled together, "real"/"quality" applications should be GUI-based with built-in automation and scripting capabilities.
I don't even... what...?
You must be new here.
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I once saw a post of his asserting that instead of being comprised of a series of reusable modules with standard "connectors" that can be easily coupled together, "real"/"quality" applications should be GUI-based with built-in automation and scripting capabilities.
Not the worst thing I've heard. Sure, reusability is a pretty awesome concept, but abuse it too much, and your simple commands start looking like this:
Filed under: cat to grep to sort to tee
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+1 just for the TIM screenie
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How very dare you to give me the finger!
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How very dare you to give me the finger!
No, this would be giving you the finger.
I find it lacking though, I grew to prefer the English two finger version, but alas, it's nowhere to be found.
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I liked the ones where you had to use a sequence of magnifying glasses to light a candle that you had to set moving first, but the ones where you had to use the trampolines were the hardest.
Did anyone else ever build a perpetual motion machine?
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The English two finger version is only insulting to the French, or at least it would be if the English actually remembered what it was about.
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The English two finger version is only insulting to the French, or at least it would be if the English actually remembered what it was about.
I actually mostly prefer it due to it's obscurity 'round these parts. It has a nice mixture of being insulting, but still ambiguous to most people since they are not sure what it is.
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The English two finger version is only insulting to the French, or at least it would be if the English actually remembered what it was about.
If you're talking about the uncaptured English archers showing they still had their fingers intact, or whatever the story was, I believe I heard it as the origin for the single finger insult while the two finger version was supposed to be the female counterpart to the middle finger version.But I'm mostly ignorant about this subject.
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Yeah, that's the origin of the two finger version. Dates back to Agincourt at least.
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Yeah, that's the origin of the two finger version. Dates back to Agincourt at least.
And the meaning is actually closest to “Come and get me, if you think you're hard enough you wussies.” The insult comes principally from the fact that the user believes that the receiver is unable to carry through on any threat worth the name, and so is entirely irrelevant.
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The English two finger version is only insulting to the French, or at least it would be if the English actually remembered what it was about.
You mean the tired "Fuck you I've still got my fingers for firing arrows" trope/urban legend?
If so, it's bollocks.
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Snopes:
I learned something today. :)
the insulting gesture of extending one's middle finger (digitus impudicus in Latin)
Bonus: thank you for the suggestion, Disbugs.
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Well, well, you learn something every day.
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I'm michaelb958, but you probably figured that out already. I lurked for a while before the switch to Discourse, as well as a while afterwards, and am primarily interested in hanging around, randomly throwing likes at things, and complaining about misuse of apostrophes.
- Apologies if bumping this "thread" after 41 days is the wrong thing to do...
- ...but if the software could stop helping me, that would be great.
- Also, the possessive plural of
lurker
islurkers'
, notlurker's
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Bumping is perfectly allowed. The forum software actively encourages necroing anyway.
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If a red box pops up, you're doing something right.
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And if the red box shakes, you're doing it even more right!
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What if I name the thread after a wiggling red box? Do I win everything?
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You win the game. Your pain will be over.
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...but if the software could stop helping me, that would be great.
This is known as Doing It Wrong. Please find an appropriate coding whorror blog post to replace your TvTropes link.
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Hi. I've been lurking both the forums and the site for a while now. Must say it did teach me some things about what not to do when programming.
okay the real reason I've registered is to try Discourse and see how bad it really is before potentially rolling it myself or whether I should suggest it to my company
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Borrowing a line from the link:
Smarter game designers will give players the option of
turning the character "off"shooting this character between the eyes so they can watch it die a slow, painful death while disappearing for the rest of the game when the player doesn't want their help, or the guide only helping when the player specifically asks him or her to.There, fixed!
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Borrowing a line from the link:
Smarter game designers will give players the option of
turning the character "off"shooting this character between the eyes so they can watch it die a slow, painful death whiledisappearingstaying in that location as a rotting corpse that scares other NPCs for the rest of the game when the player doesn't want their help, or the guide only helping when the player specifically asks him or her to.There, fixed!
FTFTFYFDF
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Discosearch tells me I haven't posted in here, so...
I've been reading front page articles for the past couple years (forget when, the site was just something I stumbled across somehow...maybe I was looking for BOFH articles and somehow found myself at TDWTF). Anyway, I never registered on CS, only posted unregistered on the rare front page article, and I think once or twice ventured into the Side Bar.Most of my activity now happens in the Likes thread, but I'll venture the topics list now and then.
I live in Australia, and work for a public safety software company. I primarily write C# and SQL, though occasionally have to do some VB6 for legacy software that only survives because it still works and rewriting it in C# is a massive undertaking.
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Not particularly, no. Why do you ask?
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3. Also, the possessive plural of lurker is lurkers', not lurker's.
It actually got fixed! Do I get a spellar/gramming badge?@Discourse said:
something about being required to be a perfectly behaved new user who posts the thoughts of the Illuminati or something
Go away; you stink of hand-holding. The manual on forum culture is not hard-coded.
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Well, I changed it just a few minutes after you mentioned it.
I guess you should at least deserve a
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Why does that look like it's frowning?
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Why does that look like it's frowning?
It looks like a frowning three-eyed alien cookie.
Did anyone ever figure out why quoting emoji is Doing It Wrong™?
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I think I've made this joke before, so if so ignore it.
It's not a cookie, it's obviously a Hylotl from Starbound.
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Did anyone ever figure out why quoting emoji is Doing It Wrong™?
Because quoting anything with any kind of formatting that helps make the quote understandable is Doing It Wrong™.
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We could take that one step further and say that providing any context for your reply is Doing It Wrong™. That seems to be almost the Dicsores philosophy*, since with the default configuration you sometimes cannot even figure out which post a reply is replying to.
* "Dicsores philosophy" is a bit of an oxymoron. "Philosophy" comes from the Greek words φίλος (love**) and σοφία (wisdom): love of wisdom. Nothing about Dicsores seems to love wisdom.
** One of several words denoting different concepts for which English has but a single word. English is a very expressive language in many ways, but not this one.