Making a sandwich.
Posts made by dhromed
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RE: Unholy Alliances
For example, if you need to store a nested object which structure can vary (let's say it can map to several different subclasses in your code). This would be hell to implement in relations, but super easy as some kind of complex document (xml or json) you store and retrieve as a single value.
@blakeyrat said:Maybe you want to store what Twitter's API returns verbatim, so if something about it changes you can go back and re-parse previous records.
I accept.
*waves royal hand*
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RE: Are there 'CPU Only' computers?
People have been doing it for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
People have probably been doing it since they gained the language complexity required to discuss non-immediate things.
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RE: Unholy Alliances
The advantage of JSON type is you can access the data inside
......................why aren't you storing that data in, uh, you know,
#the database
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RE: Firefox start page: non-grumpy cat
required opt-in isn't very opt at all, is it?
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RE: Feudalism
Yep. If my earnings tick over a threshold value for the week, I go up a tax bracket and am taxed more per dollar, ending up earning less money after tax than I would've had if I was getting paid just under that threshold value.
You work a regular development job with a regular salary? You only get the higher tax rate on the portion over the bracket threshold. The rest is still at the lower rate.There may be circumstances where this is not the case, but I haven't delved terribly deep.
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RE: Science!
That makes the data coming out of it much prettier than other space-based telescopes.
Yeah, if nothing else, it's really marketable.
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RE: Feudalism
AND ANOTHER THING
Envy is one of those pesky human things that mucks up beautiful economic hypotheses with their rational agents and optimal decisions.
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RE: Feudalism
...No, by definition absolutely not. I'm not talking about scarcity and opportunity cost. Envy is when you covet your neighbour's ass, regardless of whether you deserve it, or they deserve it, or anything, and you start doing irrational things. Envy is sometimes aligned with justice, by coincidence only.
Me, I don't envy those who have millions. Too much management overhead.
CUE BOOMZILLA
Yeah, irrational things like progressive income tax
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RE: Is it 2014 yet?
Aw, I thought this was going to be about an old thread of the old forum where someone made a long-term prediction. :\
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RE: The Like icon, wut?
"portato". It probably fits well with some presto.
Tonight we're having prasta presto.
Tomorrow probrably just broccorli with braked portatoes. -
RE: Feudalism
You are just an asshole trying to tell people what they do and don't deserve.
Well, you did the exact same thing.You're riding the envy train a little hard here. Do all economic equality arguments (whether it's money or free time) come from envy?
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
I too have an asus and it doesn't fit.
I could stuff it if I shoved it hard, but that's defeating the point. It should have a smooth, oddly natural fit, like the ports on a laptop.
O MYSTERY
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Well fuck me! I pretty much gave up on it and checked only the stable.
Don't be fooled. It says Opera on the thing, but it's really just Chrome. There's pretty much nothing distinguishing the two.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
I'm using custom CSS, my links are underlined!
You can turn that off now, I've implemented it!
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RE: Modern Webdesign and my gripes with it (RANT)
Maybe the behavior is different between browsers?
Clearly.
I don't understand why Chrome would route middleclick to leftclick.
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
Okay.
What brand is that mobo?
After discovering this way back, I've done various tests at the office, and USB consistently fit into laptops but not desktops.
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RE: Feudalism
Working one day a week, I could get used to that.
At 40 hours, you're working one week a day.
Why should we force people to work to support other people?
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RE: Modern Webdesign and my gripes with it (RANT)
but the other three handle the middle-click and open the menu the same as left-clicking.
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Middle-click on the topright avatar takes me to the curent page.
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RE: Modern Webdesign and my gripes with it (RANT)
[links] should always point to an address that actually takes you there when opened in a new tab [even if left-click does something special].
YES
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RE: Science!
Am I just that terribly malinformed or is the near-geriatric Hubble telescope still our bestest space-looker that provides fresh insights every time it's pointed at something?
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
The other thing that gets me is that the USB connector is just the right width to fit snugly into an RJ-45 Ethernet port without realizing it's the wrong port.
Only on laptops.On motherboards, the ethernet port is a tiny tiny fraction too small to admit USB.
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RE: Modern Webdesign and my gripes with it (RANT)
To be fair, couldn't browsers easily detect when the href is "#" or "javascript: ..." and refuse to open in a new tab as well?
In-page #anchor should not refuse to open in a new tab, obviously.
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RE: Autobiographer badge
Phil Reality, 463 Maple St., Clinton, VA,
I know that guy.
He's a dick.
"No, I don't think compound interest is going to work."
"Fusion power in the next ten years? Heh."
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
...I can't tell if people didn't get my Generic Expression Symbols joke* or whether they do, and are piling on as jokers do.
*) if so, I blame myself for improper communication.
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RE: Statsporn - 2014-07-31
I pity people like @blakeyrat who are clearly in that category. It's such a negative way of looking at the universe. The universe is full of failure, yes. Inflicting more failure on people doesn't fix it, it just treats symptoms.
This makes no sense. Lowering the high bar reduces failure, obviously.
Option three, undoubtedly the hardest approach, is to make the higher bar more attainable, but apparently people can't distinguish that from actually lowering the bar i.e. "dumbing down".
Your vision opens the door for more inscrutable crappy, badly designed games/UI, which are then defended by their unempathic creators with a stifling "just fucking learn; I'm not going to dumb it down" which is code for "I'm too lazy or arrogant to help you have fun and become better at this" under the pretense of being "smart".
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RE: Representative lines from a view file
<a class="button">
"Why isn't this actually a button?"
I don't see the problem with this.
This is evidenced by the fact that I do this, and have it in my default styles for every project.
Sometimes you need a link that doesn't look like a link but is clickable nonetheless. No biggie. My panties are straightened and unwedged.
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RE: What's a really cool game that no one has made yet?
Boomy voice example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8FpigqfcvlM#t=368
(onebox intentionally hijacked to keep the time link)
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RE: What's a really cool game that no one has made yet?
I can't use these new-fangled console controllers for shit
Too many buttons that occupy the fingers I need to hold the goddamn thing.
I was okay with the gameboy. Now you got two triggers and two shoulders and there are no safe points to grab it.
That's what she said.
The great irony of game controllers is that the D-pad, i.e. the direction-pad has been demoted to quick inventory slots in most games now.
I thought he was saying that the gameplay and the whole point of it was changed, not just the controls.
It was about VISION!. (boomy voice)But if your VISION! is crap then it's okay to override it with sane game design.
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RE: The compose panel is a barrier to the sandwich menu ()
I like to think I have a rather large compose window, tyvm.
I like to think you need a bigger monitor. Something more than 600px high.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
And you're missing the "groan"/"eye-roll" button that has already been suggested at least twice.
Why stop there? I suggest a special generic system of sequences of symbols that allows us to express most if not all forms of emotion and its subtleties.
We can put all these clickable symbols on a rectangle on the screen that can be shown or hidden at will.
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RE: Haskell Isn't for Everyone
You can check out Learn You a Haskell.
Is the book title a reference to common word order in Haskell?
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RE: Haskell Isn't for Everyone
[the real world is] an implementation detail of IO, pay it no mind
data Realworld = IOimplementation | PayNoMind
uh, right?
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RE: What's a really cool game that no one has made yet?
I may actually make this game some day.
You have to start small when making games, to get an appreciation for the unique craft that is game making.