Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?
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@onyx said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
Send me an URL.
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@lorne-kates said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
I have "1 poke" from Facebook.
It's from a friend who died.
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@gąska I assume @Lorne-Cakes' friend sent them the poke before they died.
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@zecc I assume they died because they sent a poke.
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@lorne-kates said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@ben_lubar said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
Imagine if GMail sent you a notification any time anyone received an email. "There are _______ unread messages. You know, total. Across all accounts. We just thought you might want to know."
Good thing Microsoft doesn't do that with Hotmail, because they'd probably forget to exclude the email they just sent.
Inbox:
Thu Feb 22, 10:00:00.000am From Hotmail - There are 82,023,655,239,100 unread messages
Thu Feb 22, 10:00:00.001am From Hotmail - There are 82,023,655,239,101 unread messages
Thu Feb 22, 10:00:00.002am From Hotmail - There are 82,023,655,239,102 unread messages
Thu Feb 22, 10:00:00.003am From Hotmail - There are 82,023,655,239,103 unread messages
Thu Feb 22, 10:00:00.004am From Hotmail - There are 82,023,655,239,104 unread messagesThat's (basically) already happened:
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@laoc said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
And blog.codinghorror.com takes the spot at the worst end of the scale with a "lead" of factor 2–7 against the second worst. Oh the irony!
It can't be that bad let me open both tabs and...
1 request, 14.0k, 82ms
vs:
40 requests
6.34 seconds10.5 MB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the holy shit?
WHY THE FUCK DOES HIS HOMEPAGE HAVE NOT ONE, BUT TWO IMAGES OVER 1MB EACH?!?
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WHY THE FUCK IS ONE OF THEM A 3.3MB IMAGE OF A FUCKING LEGO GAME?
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AND WHY THE FUCK IS THAT 3,840px × 2,160px IMAGE BEING "THUMBNAILED" WITH CSS TO 700 x 394 INSTEAD OF BEING RESIZED TO image_thumbnail.jpg
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WHY THE FUCK ISN'T THAT IN A CDN THIS IS THE ONE GODDAMN TIME A CDN WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE YOU FUCKING MORON!
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OH MY FUCKING GOD THE IMAGE IS SO BIG THAT IT CAN'T BE CACHED BY THE BROWSER SO IT RELOADS ON EVERY FUCKING PAGE LOAD
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Whew-- managed to get through that without hitting the 6
<big>
limit, what the fuck is his blog about anyways......
AND JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THIS IS ALL TO DISPLAY A BLOG WHERE THE TOP POST IS NOTHING BUT JEFF SAYING "I'm not a good programmer hahaha just kidding let me suck my own dick. Also this reminds me of (insert pop-culture reference that everyone already knows and has beaten to death years ago) aren't I so clever? Testing software is important, so I do that all the time. BTW: 2017, y'know that Hollywood sex-abuse crackdown-- yeah, hasn't that been JUST AWFUL for men? Anyways, lol, Discourse!"
Fuck you Jeff.
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@gąska said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@lorne-kates said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
I have "1 poke" from Facebook.
It's from a friend who died.
FROM BEFORE THEY DIED!
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@topspin said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
That's (basically) already happened:
yes that's the joke
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@lorne-kates said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@gąska said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@lorne-kates said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
I have "1 poke" from Facebook.
It's from a friend who died.
FROM BEFORE THEY DIED!
I figured that much. Killing the dead doesn't make much sense.
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@julianlam said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
Don't forget features that exist purely for backwards compatibility purposes!
Did you know that if you
<input type="text" id="derp" />
,derp
becomes a global variable? Because raisins?Even better,
derp
becomes an implicit global. If you try to access it as global variable or as a property of the global object, it's there, but it's not actually defined on the global object. And Chrome at least won't autocompletederp
in the console as a variable.
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@bb36e said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
From that:
Pages are often designed so that they’re hard or impossible to read if some dependency fails to load.
So it’s intentional?
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@gąska said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@zecc I assume they died because they sent a poke.
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@gurth said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@bb36e said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
From that:
Pages are often designed so that they’re hard or impossible to read if some dependency fails to load.
So it’s intentional?
I guess it might be useful technique when making anti-adblock.
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@gąska said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@zecc I assume they died because they sent a poke.
Rigor mortis fingers do tend to be pretty pokey.
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@pie_flavor said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@gąska said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@zecc I assume they died because they sent a poke.
Rigor mortis fingers do tend to be pretty pokey.
Not after your mom's done with them.
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@gurth said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
So it’s intentional?
Not exactly; just “Good” “Style” and probably assuming that some resources are always available and always cached (despite that quite possibly not being true) and quick to execute once loaded (ha ha ha).