@Lorne-Kates said in Fixing morale, according to management.:
+ = ?With rebarb.
@Lorne-Kates said in Fixing morale, according to management.:
+ = ?With rebarb.
@blakeyrat said:It's like a Schwarzenegger one-liner from that 1980s movie where he played a computer programmer whose daughter is kidnapped I just made up in my head.I would like to invest in this movie.
Coming soon to a theater near you: Arnold Schwarzenegger is THE DEBUGGER.
(Tag: a shot of Arnold with a gun pointed at the camera. Arnold says "GOTO Hell" and pulls the trigger. Cut to black.)
It practically writes itself.
@RaceProUK said:Retconned a full century before the show aired?There are a lot of words from 1908 I don't say in 2015.
Balderdash!
If you just want to know if someone is a newbie, new users have light grey usernames.
Ah, so it's 50 Shades of Usernames... But seriously, how is having an undiscoverable feature indicated by a slight color change (and a difficult-to-read color at that) better than having an explicit, quantifiable piece of text?
Jeff, I get what you're trying to do. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you've actually built a pretty decent article commenting system. A forum, however, is a different beast, and you're sacrificing usability to fit your Grand Unifying Theory of web discussion. Trying to shoehorn both modes of discussion into a one-size-fits-all interface is distracting at best, user-hostile at worst.
There are some great features here -- for one, the ability to automatically pick up where you left off reading is killer. But that could be just as easily applied to a paginated forum view as an infiniscroll of comments. And all the little things that people are used to from pretty much every other forum ever -- pagination, post count, timestamps -- are just visual styling. It can't be too much to ask for some configuration options (meaning built in to the software, not "go write a plugin").
Maybe installing Discourse in a new site that has no preconceived notions of a web forum would go more smoothly, I don't know. I just think you're uprooting long-held expectations for the sake of being different. Sometimes being radically different is good and/or necessary; I don't think this is one of those cases.
That's all part of the evil. Meta-evil, if you will.
You might even say we're gonna get meta-evil on your ass.
Here's an actual picture of a new user vs. not a new user, for context<img src="/uploads/default/2236/31e86c42c102b6f4.png" width="596" height="294">
You mean an actual picture at 200% zoom? That light grey is really hard to read at regular size, and worse, it's ambiguous. One could easily interpret it as logged in vs. logged out, for example. Sorry, I'm just not a fan of stuff fading in and out all over the place.
Vaguely related but not quite relevant to what I was looking for:
That's (thankfully) a fake news site. http://empirenews.net/about-disclaimer/
@blakeyrat said in Google Permanently and Remorselessly Bricking Hardware Sold in 2014:
@hungrier That hummus metaphor was fucking awful.
Yes, but the hummus itself was fucking delicious.
@HardwareGeek said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
@The_Quiet_One said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
"Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge"
I've never heard that. I learned "Every Good Boy Does Fine," but I like your version. Does it have walnuts?
I learned Every Good Boy Does Fine for treble clef and Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always for bass. Had to pack the fudge in there somewhere, as it were.
@Lorne-Kates said in Fixing morale, according to management.:
+ = ?With rebarb.
@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
they have umlauts!
And there's nothing better on a cold winter's afternoon than a hot chocolate and a plate of chewy fresh-baked umlauts.
More like mmmm-lauts, amirite?
@blakeyrat said in Google Permanently and Remorselessly Bricking Hardware Sold in 2014:
@hungrier That hummus metaphor was fucking awful.
Yes, but the hummus itself was fucking delicious.
@blakeyrat said:It's like a Schwarzenegger one-liner from that 1980s movie where he played a computer programmer whose daughter is kidnapped I just made up in my head.I would like to invest in this movie.
Coming soon to a theater near you: Arnold Schwarzenegger is THE DEBUGGER.
(Tag: a shot of Arnold with a gun pointed at the camera. Arnold says "GOTO Hell" and pulls the trigger. Cut to black.)
It practically writes itself.
@cconroy said:Apparently they take it more seriously around here.Consider the difference between 911 getting a dropped call, calling back, and having a calm-sounding adult male apologize for the equivalent of a butt-dial, and having a 1-year-old who probably can't talk, or if she can, only has one- or two-syllable words, calling. I'm not terribly surprised they checked up on her.
Well, my wife talked to them and told them that our daughter was playing with the phone, etc. (I forget if it was during the original call or if they called back.) I think it's a "better safe than sorry" policy to check anyway, in case there's an intruder with a gun to your head or something.
When my daughter was a year old, she managed to dial 911 one night while playing with the phone. Told them it was an accident, no emergency, sorry. 5 minutes later, the cops showed up anyway to check on us. Apparently they take it more seriously around here.
She did the same thing a few months later from grandma's house. Different town, same response. After that we made sure to keep the phone out of her reach.
Does anybody remember that old sketch comedy show on Nickelodeon, "You Can't Do That On Television?" Then did a sketch once where the family moving out took the toilets, I remember it being pretty funny but I'm probably wrong because I was a dumb kid when I saw it.
Used to watch it all the time. The only sketch I remember in any detail was also toilet humor: mom walks in on son sitting on the toilet, tells him they're now rationing their toilet paper usage, and hands him a wad. Son says, "I usually use twice as much!" Mom replies, "Use both sides."
I needed something similar a couple of years ago, and at the time I couldn't find anything to do it. I ended up writing my own utility that handles both the schema and data changes (as we just store SQL table dumps). It wasn't all that difficult to write. On the other hand, our schema changes are usually small (mostly just adding new columns) so I imagine a general-purpose tool could be a bit more complex.
I got Thai fried rice. With beef, not ham.
Damn it, now I'm hungry. You win this time...