I will now post on a public forum. Dear god, you mean anyone can read this‽
Wow, you've used sarcasm markup! Well done, Sir!
Filed under: not that I wouldn't have noticed if you had not
I will now post on a public forum. Dear god, you mean anyone can read this‽
Filed under: not that I wouldn't have noticed if you had not
"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."
Filed under: these jokes would make a nice topic as well.
@Nagesh said:Name other worse forum. I promise to judge you when you post your list.
I'm really not sure you're ready for that, Nagesh. I wouldn't want to traumatise you.
It's honestly really distracting to see 75% of the topics having a red post count, and some don't, even though they are higher on the topic list.
Ok, I don't like much of the posts over there, either.
not sure what a dsiciple is, yet.
...
to find out what "TCotCDCK"
A "dsiciple" is a disciple of TCotCDCK - As Discourse is often written as Dsicourse (or Dicsource), it seemed fitting.
Filed under: Here, take a free leaflet!
@Lorne_Kates said:
So to summarize:
- Optional pagination, on by default
- Import all forum content
- Duplicate the UI to reduce change shock (but improve/expand on it)
- Duplicate forum functions, especially those highlighted (email format, date/time stamp, post count, nested quotes)
- Fire or Ban Jeff Atwood
- Bug-free-ish experience.
7) make it usable for people who do not have javascript turned on
That is, provide a good-ole CGI interface for registering, logging in, posting and replying.
Because the absence of that is another reason you are loosing community members (in this case Jim the Tool).
Filed under: another ground for implementation would be to make Discourse more accessible.
Some more buttons sure would come in handy - for this topic a "suits you right!" button comes to mind.
But definitely missing is a "dislike" button. There is one forum in Germany where they have "Strong dislike, dislike, like and strong like" and the current overall rating of a post is is displayed as a smaller or broader block of red or green.
For some folks on that forum, getting their posts full red seems to be a sign of achievement, like getting an ASBO was (or perhaps still is) for some antisocial youths in Britain.
Am liking the 'dsiciple' too. It seems appropriate considering Dicsource.
Filed under: currently that is a null-set, though.
channeling @blakeyrat: WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'I'??? I WHAT??? SPEAK IN FULL SENTENCES!
Put me wherever @faoileag is. He seems like a nice dude to have in a group
@sam: the mood seems to be in favour of giving it a try. Could you post here or in "The Official "Likes" Thread" once you've implemented "6666 of 6666"?
There is this. Might be that your password might not be exactly 32 characters long. Or that two 32 character long hex number passwords are "too similar".
Intercourse said:Or perhaps the tale of Icarus, flying too close to the sun and dying, etc.
Because the ember melted?
No, fuck, that's amber that could make sense...
Can we contact the devs so they rename the framework?
"Rising out of the ember ashes like a phoenix, version 2.0, a complete rebuild, finally attained approval by the merry folks of TDWTF"
Speaking of quotes, has anybody noticed this particular annoyance? Any line that begins and ends with " becomes a quote,
"
in Discourse but forget to do it every now and then to my chagrin.
but the behavior is completely inconsistent with everything else:
<img src="/uploads/default/2939/a3c14e3db4240918.png" width="136" height="40>That's post 1205 out of how many?
It's post-with-id-1205 in this thread of X posts.
Can someone explain how we got to Harry Potter slash fiction from git pull requests?
If we shuffle stuff around a bit we have room.
Filed under: it would take some serious effort, though...
darkmatter said:No but they'll make a shitty move about it.
M. Nitrate Shamalaya to direct?
People actually believed the article over those who lived in the area.
This is no new behaviour, though - Karl Kraus, a satirists from Vienna born in the year 1874 once remarked: "How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."
We can solve this by uploading images 10GB at a time?
A Google search indicates [!!] is a common idiom in Ruby as well. Which is where we came in...
!!
idiom is a type cast - from a truthy (or falsey) value to a real boolean true
or false
.
In a language where type inference is the norm (like javascript), using !!
is a way to tell the compiler "this is a f***ing boolean value, no matter what you might think".
Sometimes workarounds like that can be helpful to maintain some sanity.
Especially in a language where
var a = '1' + 1;
var b = '1' - 1;
results in a being "11" and b being 0.
So, just for the fun of it... exploiting the new feature for me! :snigger:
The first chip, produced in 1969, contains 1,200 transistors. By 1972 that had almost doubled to 2,500I know their tech coverage is pretty weak but I thought they could at least use a calculator
IMHO it's a basic literacy problem with almost / more than / roughly and some people thinking that "almost" always is a synonym for "roughly" when it almost always isn't.
I should have made some pogo joke instead of yo-yo.
Filed under: Discourse needs a button that auto-posts a "Yo!" as reply to another post
You forgot something. From SO: "This was an interview question asked by a senior manager."
While I would not start at a company where a team leader or head of software development department would make the statement that while(1) is faster than while(2), senior managers need to be allowed some slack.
They are supposed to manage things, knowing about the things they manage is not a requirement, especially for a senior manager.
And this “fix” seems to scan the whole topic and post tables every time it runs. That’s just scalability problems waiting to happen...
I know Discourse uses Markdown, so I don't see why that ass felt the need to point out that what I was seeing was what Markdown does.
Filed under: just an idea...
Meh, actually I don't really care — nothing weird, just fear of being criticized.)
In the name of importing all our bad habits, can we have a <cornify>
tag?
Help me Paula!
And it's not as if this would be a discussion about one of Eric's articles...
This notification is tricky. I am getting it again and again. What's up with that?
I think the domain name should be "WriteOnlyMemory.com"!
It's not as if write only memory would be a new idea.
Indian developers are paid by number of contributions to TDWTF and not by number of lines coded ??
Search only on the encrypted text and then only return the encrypted filename. You don't keep what they decrypt to because that would “compromise security”.
Since the files are regularly re-encrypted, this is a great feature - it works per spec ("User can search in files", "filenames of files with matching text are displayed to user"), while at the same time being completely useless since searching for "ca2cd0f00123b7d986ec8e0726585fb9" might yield a file or two on 2014-07-14, but not after the next re-encryption.
For added bite make the search results bookmarkable (with a table <search_text> | <file_name> | <modification_date>
displaying the bookmarks) so that you have a "history" that is also completely useless after the next re-encryption.
Seriously? No confirmation box??
Great, now I feel really fucking old.
Filed under: Turning 30 on Monday.
@Michael in his reply said:I'm going to putservice mysql restart
in cron or so :)
Another candidate for the Bad Ideas Thread?
Problem: putting service mysql restart
doesn't even help (at least not really), because it still means the mysql daemon can be down for a considerable amount of time (until the next time cron executes service mysql restart
).
Running mysqld in a while loop like:
while [0 -lt 1]; do
service mysql start
done;
```
would do the trick *if `service` is blocking* which I think it isn't.
So, better to try and find out *why* mysqld keeps crashing. Perhaps a bad hard disk?
I'm afraid but also very, very curious now...
It doesn't hurt.
Yes, that's what others told me before.BUT THEY LIED.
Fix https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/github_code_dialect.js or its parent Discourse.Dialect.replaceBlock if needed.
So it could well be that markdown.js needs to be fixed. Can't check though, since that project's example html page doesn't seem to work and I don't have the time to figure out what all I have to install where to get it to work.
Although that's not a golden eagle, +42!