The Official Status Thread
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Bets on how quickly Blakey's post gets jeffed to
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Status: Stunned that someone, somewhere, thinks that the new poll styling makes any sense in the midst of a forum thread...
picking up jaw from floorMaybe that's ridiculously easy to do, and I sense the niftiness (but its wildly discoursisisnt), but "fixing" polls' styling looks an awful lot like more bikesheding to me.
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Yeah. Right. That's not going to last. :-)
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Fucking hell.
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BUG: CANNOT LIKE
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You can after a refresh ;)
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DONT_CARE, STILLABUG
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Why does the admin menu open delayedly out of nowhere when you touch it accidentally?
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Jeff was a part of a group trying to get a real spec
Wow, progress!
@boomzilla said:But Jeff's project doesn't use that.
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isn't the entire point that when someone points out that the work you're doing is bikeshedding, you stop doing it!?
I know that sometimes I am consciously re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...
But I feel bad about it.
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Wouldn't part of his role be to determine the priority of issues?
Isn't that what he does? Really badly at that.
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Because this is the forum software for the next 10 years. Menus appearing any sooner than 2020 is actually just Discourse's good will.
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It is intolerable how insecurely/sloppily some admin actions are implemented UI-side.
And how slowly the admin menu and the hamburger menu open on my Galaxy S5 sometimes.
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Probably like the notifications menu, it has to do a round-trip to the server for...
Uh.
Ok, I have a pretty vivid imagination, and I still have absolutely no idea why Discourse developers think they need to do a server round-trip to show you a list of notifications.
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Status: My son likes to play a new game in the mornings. I am pretty sure it is called, "How far can I push dad towards a violent episode before he has had his coffee?"
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Not that I'm defending his ability to prioritize or even pick a tool to use for prioritizing. Total adhocracy.
They have a tool for prioritizing. The header on the
Likes
column.Not that I'm implying it makes much sense, or that they adhere to it, but the pretence is there...
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Oh I'm sure it already has been. I'm not going back there to check, fuck Atwood.
As of just now, it's still there. Maybe because you didn't swear at him, I dunno.
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@blakeyrat said:
Oh I'm sure it already has been. I'm not going back there to check, fuck Atwood.
As of just now, it's still there. Maybe because you didn't swear at him, I dunno.
And it's also genuine feedback, with no all-caps, no 'poop' or 'fart'… I'd even go so far as to say it's reasonable
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My son likes to play a new game in the mornings. I am pretty sure it is called, "How far can I push dad towards a violent episode before he has had his coffee?"
Just wait until he hits those teenage years.
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Just wait until he hits those teenage years.
Doesn't it turn into "how fast" at that point?
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No, but it does probably help keep it under the radar longer because it doesn't get flagged.
I still have to wonder though, if they get rid of the zebra striping, will they still have the bug where the rows added on the latest list (when clicking the blue "new or unread posts" bar) have inline styles for the background color.
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I still have to wonder though, if they get rid of the zebra striping, will they still have the bug where the rows added on the latest list (when clicking the blue "new or unread posts" bar) have inline styles for the background color.
I'm not seeing that bug.Spoke too soon, I just saw it.Besides, without the tiger striping, all the rows will have the same style, and it won't matter ;)
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I'm not seeing that bug.
I've seen it for nearly a year.
same style
Custom styles anyone? I don't know if their row adding reads the existing background colors or not.
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Status: Just been asked to give an estimate for rewriting something in Classic ASP using Google Maps instead of Bing Maps because the client didn't like that Bing's satellite images are more out of date.
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I don't know if their row adding reads the existing background colors or not.
Was looking at the DOM changes in Chrome's Dev Tools; the background is actually set using CSS rules that exploit the:nth-child(odd)
and:nth-child(even)
selectors. Thing is, new rows can also have thebackground
CSS rule set on thetr
tag itself; this of course overrides the odd/even rules, and is the cause of the bug.
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So what's he going to do when Bing updates and Google Maps becomes outdated?
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Given that the Bing maps images for where they're interested are quite a few years old (from what I can find), but the Google maps images are much more recent (couple months old according to the client), I'm guessing it won't happen.
Hell, the client didn't even know it was Bing maps when they asked originally, they kept insisting it was Google maps (by first basically asking "why is Google maps showing such an old image on our side") even with the Bing logo in the bottom left and the copyright with Microsoft in the bottom right.
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I'm guessing it won't happen.
It will eventually. I used to work in the GIS industry, for the most part Google/Bing/Apple purchase aerial photography from third parties. They don't necessarily buy the same photography, and they definitely don't all update at the same time.
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It will eventually.
I'm not saying Google Maps won't get out of date, I'm saying the client won't notice that Bing Maps is in date if Google Maps falls out of date, they'll just complain that Google Maps is out of date, and I can respond to that.
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My boss once told me the three pillars of child rearing:
- threat - as on 'come now or no more gameboy today'
- violence - e.g. physically picking up the kid and placing him where he does not want to be, and
- bribery - candy, give back the gameboy, etc.
Combinations are common: 'don't make me have to come and get you!'
As the kid gets older, some cultures add
- guilt 'I spent 35 years raising you and this is the thanks I get?'
So, what's your counter-move to get to your coffee?
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Status: Just been asked to give an estimate for rewriting something in Classic ASP using Google Maps instead of Bing Maps because the client didn't like that Bing's satellite images are more out of date.
Really? Every time I've worked at a company that compared them side-by-side we've gone with Bing maps.
Although we don't usually look at satellite data, I guess. Their actual map rendering is much better, IMO.
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No, it gains "how fast".
Ah, I buttumed that the asymptotic part of the function gets dropped completely. My mistake.
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So, what's your counter-move to get to your coffee?
No counter-move possible. You can only wait out the clock until the coffee takes effect. Until then, it is just a lot of this:
(Backstory, my son's favorite word is 'macaroni'. NFC why. It is basically his form of a meme.)
Me: "Son, what do you want for breakfast?" -sips coffee-
Him: "Macaroni!!"
Me: "Seriously, what do you want for breakfast?" -sips coffee-
Him: "Macaroni! Macaroni! Macaroni!"
Me: "OK, you are having fruit." -sips coffee-
Him: "MACARONI!"
Me: "Hey! Indoor voice! Keep it down. OK, here are your clothes. Get dressed and I will get breakfast ready." -guzzles coffee-
Him: "Macaroni!"
Me: "Yeah yeah yeah, macaroni. Come to the kitchen when you are dressed." -finishes the cup of coffee-(moments later)
Me: "Why aren't you wearing the shoes I laid out?" -sips coffee-
Him: "Macaroni!"
Me: "OK, knock that off. I have had enough of macaroni. Why did you put on those shoes?" -sips coffee-
Him: "Daddy?"
Me: "Yes son?" -sips coffee-
Him: "You need to calm down."
Me: *sigh* "I am calm son. You need to put on the other shoes. Those look silly with what you are wearing." -guzzles coffee-
Him: "Daddy?"
Me: "Yes son?" -sips coffee-
Him: "MACARONI!!"
Me, to my wife: "Honey!? I need you to tag in until I get some caffeine in my system. It is too early for this shit."
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Although we don't usually look at satellite data, I guess. Their actual map rendering is much better, IMO.
Google has much better super-local information (e.g. business locations) in my experience. But otherwise I agree. Bing Maps looks less like... I dunno, Baby's First Atlas and is less scared of showing you actual information.My usual punching bag for this is the following. Here is a comparison at roughly the same scale of Chicago:
Where are the toll roads?
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Where are the toll roads?
It's Chicago. It is best to operate under the assumption that they are all toll roads.
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:-) I have carried one of my daughters ro kindergarten in her PJ's after a similar morning. She quickly got dressed at kindergarten and I have never had anywhere near the same troubles since.
^ro^to - I am not chasing the edit box any further just to fix some spelling.
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I have carried one of my daughters ro kindergarten in her PJ's after a similar morning.
I will keep that in mind, in case I ever need it.
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And it hasn't occurred to you yet to have a handful of macaroni handy and flick one at him each time he says the word? Or just give him some.
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Give him fair warning, though, otherwise he'll perceive you as unpredictable.
I always ask myself before I threaten my kids:
- can they live with the consequences
- can I live with the consequences
- am I prepared to follow through on the threat?
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Also:
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Status: What.TheDailyWTF Wars, Episode CVII, the Revenge of the Server Cooties
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Or just give him some.
He doesn't want macaroni. He just likes saying the word. He also likes telling me to calm down, even though I am very rarely anything but calm when around him. That probably comes from me telling him to calm down when he is wound up like a $2 watch.
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He doesn't want macaroni.
Then that's perfect! Particularly individual dry noodles.
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Then that's perfect! Particularly individual dry noodles.
Well, after @FrostCat suggested it I thought it might be funny to find some way to launch an entire box of macaroni at him this afternoon. Every day when I pick him up and ask him what he did at school his first answer is always "macaroni".
Edit: All of the macaroni would be loose of course, not in the box. I would not throw a box of macaroni at my child.
I might do it to someone else's child.
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Does he ask you what you did? Maybe you should make a pasta collage...