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KillaCoder
@KillaCoder
Best posts made by KillaCoder
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RE: Boost::Fuck! (the git command)
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RE: Javascript gotchas thread
Writing Javascript is like trying to make up with a pissed off girl.
You try something, doing your best, and ask "Everything ok?"
Girl/Javascript: "Fine."
And then you just have to hope "Fine" means fine and not "I'mma cut you while you sleep".
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RE: Vending machine wtf
Once when late for a train, no time to get anything smaller, I had to buy a 13 euro (or thereabouts) ticket with a fifty euro note.
Cue 37 clinks as 37 single euro coins poured out of the machine...
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RE: What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
And the site won't give you any worth until you invest time in it... we got's ourselves a standoff!
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RE: Compatibility issues
If that "get help online link" leads anywhere other than an "Oops! We can't seem to find the page you are looking for!" or a generic help homepage, I'd be impressed.
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RE: Today's "British people are dumb" post!
"In 2014, Microsoft changed the name of its cloud storage service from SkyDrive to OneDrive after the High Court in London ruled Sky's trademark had been infringed."
I wondered why that happened.Comment:
"I was under the impression the film "Skyfall" would be about a Sky TV outage, but in actual fact it had nothing to do with Sky or the corporation itself. Can the courts please look into this, as I imagine I wasn't the only one confused and wholly disappointed by such a misleading title."
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RE: How slow is Discourse on your mobile?
This thread is amazing.
@codinghorror said:"so what software have YOU shipped that mattered to the world, ever"
Nothing as (self) important as yours maybe, but my software fucking works so I think I'll take that as a victory ;)"numbered lists are broken because you are following the existing Markdown spec"
I'd be fired for that logic. Here we use a JS framework that "in theory" works across all browsers. We often get IE bugs in it though, that do not show up in other browsers. It's often my job to fix them.If I tried saying "it's the JS framework's fault, we just have to accept it until they fix it" I'd be laughed at, ordered to stfu and get on with the work, and if I didn't I'd be happily fired and replaced with someone who WOULD fix the bug.
The idea that your user's will accept broken functionality because long technical explanation of why it's totes not our fault! is insane. Literally insane. Even the technically literate users here don't accept it, the average web browser is just going to see a broken forum and wish they were using a working forum instead of Discourse.
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RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
This is perfectly valid JS that works fine and performs reasonably on many platforms and browsers.. with the single exception of Android, where we see pathological 5x - 10x slowness.
Your users won't give a damn it's an Android thing though, because other sites will work ok for them. It's YOUR application that they'll see as the slow and horrible experience. Shrugging and pointing at Google isn't going to make them happier. Do you have any strategy to improve the Android experience in the mean time, until (or if) Google fixes this? -
RE: What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
Why should people answer your questions when you refuse to answer theirs? It's not a "Q" site, it's a "Q and A" site.
They are incentivizing you: you answer other people's questions, you build rep, you use that rep to set a bounty on your question. That makes your question more "valuable" and more likely to be answered. You just helped a bunch of people, and in turn made your question more likely to get help too.
It's not difficult ;)
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RE: How slow is Discourse on your mobile?
As disappointing as it may be, y'all are in the minority; most users don't give a shit about quality. See: everything built after 2010.
This is basically the High Fructose Corn Syrupization of everything.
Wow, that's hella depressing.
"The world is shit, so lets just give up and embrace it"
What's wrong with you? Bad year?
Latest posts made by KillaCoder
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
Oh, yeah and Blatter got re elected. 4 more years! (Remember this was a FIFA thread!? :D )
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
I don't believe he changed, no. He couldn't ever use them though, in the same way North Korea can't ever use their WMDs without getting smashed.
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
But they're not, so it's ok for them to murder people and take slaves.
You still refuse to tell me how Europe could help stop them. Tell me how we could help. You tell me we should help and how shit we are for not helping, but you repeatedly refuse to say what, SPECIFICALLY, we should do. Invade with 10,000 troops? 100,000? Help you guys bomb them (cos that ain't stopping them)? Go back in time and kill Sykes and/or Picot? What? What do you want us to do? -
RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
Oh 1980s Saddam = scary. It was great that America kicked his ass in 1991. No arguments about that.
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
Isn't that better than the constant fighting that otherwise goes on there?
Yes, definitely. But it's unclear if what worked in very clearly defined nation states Germany and Japan would work in Iraq (3 former ottoman provinces, 1 Sunni, 1 Shia, 1 Kurd, all lumped together and hating each other) with large Sunni powers (Saudis and friends), Shias (Iran and friends), and other Kurds (Turkey and elsewhere agitating for their own state including the Iraqi Kurds) all influencing parts of Iraq and it's people. AND add in the craziness in Syria, which was definitely going to spill over.I don't know. If you guys were willing to stay in Iraq, maybe things could be better there. But maybe they'd look roughly the same, with thousands more dead Americans too. I genuinely don't know.
Moving away from "what ifs", all I can say is that no one has given me any specific reason why bombing now is a good idea. It's not stopping ISIS and it is hurting civilians. So I just don't see the logic.
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
@KillaCoder said:
I disagree about winning in Iraq. But maybe I just have a different definition of winning. Did you want to leave troops there forever like Germany and Japan?
When was the last time anyone invaded (or got invaded by) either of those countries?
I don't really understand the question. Sorry. I guess, you are saying keeping troops in Iraq indefinitely was the answer? -
RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
@KillaCoder said:
Learn to read and stop editing out 90% of what I say, and you won't be so confused.
Learn to quote, and read what other people say. Maybe you'll get similar treatment. If you don't, it's pretty unlikely that you will.
Fuck off, I clicked quote and that's what Discourse spit out. -
RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
@KillaCoder said:
Bombing the Middle East isn't risky. There's no one to stop you. It's just pointless.
Saving lives is pointless.
Tell me how dropping bombs saves lives in this case. You are bombing ISIS (and civilians as collateral damage) and it's not stopping them. If anything, standing up to you guys is giving them street credit and attracting more fighters.
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
They are comparable in that we could be killing more of the enemy than we are, and that would change things, like it did then. I thought this was pretty simple. No doubt you thought the same thing about Iraq 10 years ago, but we won that war and had the country relatively pacified. If we'd stayed, it would be a whole lot better than it is now.
Maybe you think I'm saying we should only be bombing or something? That's the only thing that makes sense to me here.
Industrial war between the national armies of global powers isn't comparable to fighting irregular forces that can hide in the local population. If ISIS was a nation state with an economy, industry, regular troops in uniform, etc, you'd win in a week, and I'd cheer you on.I disagree about winning in Iraq. But maybe I just have a different definition of winning. Did you want
to leave troops there forever like Germany and Japan?Do you really believe this?
Yes.
@boomzilla said:I feel like IHBT here, but I know there are plenty of people who think War Is Never The Answer and that Violence Never Solves Anything, so I can't be sure.
War is often the answer and violence can solve things, I just don't see how it's accomplishing anything in this case. Shia and Sunni will still hate and want to slaughter each other, Kurds will still want their own state and be willing to fight for it, ISIS will still murder people. I don't see how adding American bombs to the mix helps, and I don't think either you or blakey have told me either, beyond a vague "it helps". -
RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
@KillaCoder said:
The modern day shenanigans CAN be stopped.
If we can help, then let's help. We can't, though.
So it can or can't?
Why don't you go figure out what the fuck you're talking about, then come back, ok?
The first post was about what America is doing. That can be stopped. Just stop bombing for no reason.
The second post was about the Muslim civil war (Sunni vs Shia). That can't be stopped by outsiders.
Learn to read and stop editing out 90% of what I say, and you won't be so confused.