C# is the friendly drunk, C is the nasty stabby drunk.
Best posts made by KillaCoder
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RE: Boost::Fuck! (the git command)
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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"
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RE: I'm a nobody, and I'm out
Bye @skotl. I liked your posts. And your kitty avatar. The forum is poorer without you.
From another nobody
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
Bonus round confusion!
I remember in school being told that you guys island was "Great" Britain to distinguish it from "Little/Lesser" Britain, aka Brittany in France.
When learning country names in Irish, Wales translates to "Bhreatain Bheag" which literally means "Small/Little Britain". No clue what Brittany would be in Irish, probably yet another god forsaken variation on the same thing with slightly different meaning!
This would all be so much easier if Germany won WW2. We could all just be Reichskommissariat West...
Edit: And of COURSE the TV show "Little Britain" was popular at that time, so inevitably some asshole would talk about the TV he liked in Irish, and say"Bhreatain Bheag" and some other asshole (the teacher) would act mock surprised and say he didn't realise there was a TV programme called "Wales"... I hated school
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RE: Stack Overflow
Oh my god, a thousand times yes to "Work from home. If you are a dog." I can never see that ad without my brain cursing my humanity!
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RE: Alex is in the pocket of Big Discourse
(Im stealing this from someone, can't remember who though...)
We are screwed if anything ever happens at Watergate again, because then it'll be Watergategate
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RE: Is StackOverflow becoming less useful to anyone else?
I use SO like I use Wikipedia. An absolutely awesome resource of knowledge, but I neither know nor care why people bother wasting their lives to contribute (no offense to anyone here :P )
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Overly excited "new" icon...
Thanks for letting me know it's a new topic, but couldn't you wait until you'd finished rendering the topic title before yelling NEW...?
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
I'm about to consume some sort of African
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RE: Closed Poll: Testing an intern's mettle part 3
"Oh no, this is my first time doing this. I'd never do that you, AwesomeIntern!"
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RE: Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
He seems limited, but when he's doing Dr. Soong and Lore it's clear the guy knows how to act.
Lore is fantastic. And scary.
@mott555 said:My only complaint about him was he was a Frenchman with a strong British accent.
Who drank Earl Grey tea
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RE: Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
It's only a minor step from that to wearing Blakeyrat's skin as a suit.
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RE: If you follow lots×10¹⁰⁰ of <strike>rules</strike> Trains!
Largely because the airports are where the people are to begin with.
But you can have rail stations every couple of miles, you aren't doing that with airports? (My Sim City knowledge, finally coming in useful :) ) -
RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
You know, with that level of thinking, they could just replace him with
more software.a potted plant?
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
The best thing about Far Cry 3 was the Blood Dragon “expansion”. It was absolutely barking, a glorious homage to '80s tough guy action movies, and one of the absolutely best games of 2013.
Yeah that was amazing. Truly epic dialogue.Wounded ally - "Tell my wife and kids I died for my country..."
You - "You'll tell them that yourself when we get home! Come on!" -
RE: WebAPI returning 415 before it ever reaches a line of code in my controller...
Blakey's human appears to labour under the misapprehension that sustained and consistent venom is funny. Well, maybe it could be, for a month or two. But the novelty corroded off this particular one a long, long time ago, and now it's merely one more shitty thing to make a shitty day shittier.
Even taking the occasional swipe at it is getting old.
I only read this site and rarely post but I find him hilarious. It's like when a toddler gets super angry (often over nothing) and frowns and stamps their feet. The reaction is laughter, not dismay or offense. I don't get why so many folks treat him so seriously and get so offended by him. He's a silly bastard, that adds a lot of colour to the forum. In my opinion.Though of course, I also find it amusing how people give him shit when he actually needs help too. That's equally funny
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RE: Bot Duel!
I love this thread. I love these bots. A bit more work and ye can replace everyone with bots. Can you make a BlakeyRantBot and a MorbsBrutalInsultBot?
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Discourse is really bad for lurkers
There's no way to know/remember where I finished reading a thread.
If I'm reading a regular forum it's easy enough to remember I was on Page 3 of a topic, and when I return and see it's on Page 5, I can click the "3" to get (roughly) back to where I was and continue to the end.
I can't do that on Discourse, and it's fancy "remember where you stopped reading" functionality doesn't work for non logged in people. I tend to have to hit "End" to go to the bottom and then keep paging up til I can find my place. For some of the 400 to 500 post threads here, that's quite difficult and annoying.
From reading the complaints and responding posts from @sam and @codinghorror I would guess that they don't really care too much about lurkers as Discourse is all about improving how people communicate (ie the logged in users) and lurkers aren't really a priority... if so, fair enough. I can log in to lurk I guess.
But for what it's worth, I think most forums have lurkers and it might be an idea to support them somehow...
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RE: From my friend who works in IT at a school, here are some screenshots of PDFs:
Basically, not all HD is created equal. From Wiki:
"Several websites, including YouTube, allow videos to be uploaded in the 1080p format. YouTube streams 1080p content at approximately 4 megabits per second[13] compared to Blu-ray's 30 to 40 megabits per second."
So, while they are both 1080P, a Blu Ray is gonna have up to 10 times as much data to play with in order to make the screen as crystal clear as possible. Youtube, with one tenth as much data, has to compress and reduce quality. Most of my friends and family wouldn't care but it bothers me, my first Blu Ray was a Pixar movie and that melted my eyes and ruined lesser sources forever :P
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
So yeah, sometimes you do have to drop to the command line and use copy paste (oh the horror! how will people ever figure this one out!) stuff in a terminal to get one-off setup and tweaks done. Does that mean that Linux is incomplete or defective? No. Just paste the command you've been given for free in and be thankful, for Pete's sake.
Separate post for a separate issue...Dude, this attitude is why so many people hate Linux, it's users, it's whole culture. The sarcastic, superior, user mocking tone. "If you have a problem, it's YOUR PROBLEM! Linux WORKS! If you don't like it then GO AWAY!"
There's a reason why Apple (who I am not a fan of at all btw) are the most successful tech company in the world and the whole Linux movement in all it's flavors never ticks past 1 - 2% adoption rate. Apple serves the users first and bends everything else to make their experience as easy and enjoyable as possible. Linux puts the tech first and dismisses users for not jumping through all it's hoops.
You say "be thankful" because it's free? Apple shows that people would much rather pay huge amounts and "be thankful" for a much better end user experience!
(Yeah I get this is a tangent and not really applicable to devs like us. Whatever :P)
(I also liked your post because even though I disagree with it, I do enjoy a big wall 'o text!)
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
In short: remove the stick from your ass
I think he should insert further sticks to attempt to prise out the first one.
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RE: CodingConfessional VS Jeff Atwood
Wait till badges are working, its going to be silly++.
Are you sure it shouldn't be ++silly? That has tripped me up before
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
Misread "ISS" as "ISIS", and wondering who was making appliances for the Caliphate :)
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
Playing Far Cry 4 on PC. Using a game pad. Sometimes I accidentally brush the mouse which switches all the UI interface reminders and hints to mouse + keyboard icons... until I press something on the game pad to switch it back to Xbox icons.
A minuscule inconvenience, easily and instantly remedied, only comes about because the developers made controller input switching instant and seamless, only occurs when I'm playing an awesome game on my gaming PC and big screen TV... and it still bothers me.
Can't get much more first world problem-y than that :)
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RE: Discourse is really bad for lurkers
Yup sure! I do simply memorise the page number, then use the page down key to quickly visually scan to where I left off the conversation. I used to do it on the previous Daily WTF site. I'm NOT saying I always get it perfectly right or that it's an ideal or even decent solution, but it's possible.
I like your infinite scrolling, place remembering software. I think for logged in users it is indeed superior than traditional forums. But for non logged in users it's worse. They lose the advantages of paging and don't gain the benefits of Discourse.
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
Because the people developing those programs are all already experts on CLI and see no reason why they should move away? Users should "just learn".
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
You do realize that no one is born an expert on CLI, right?
Yes.
@bp_ said:Most CLI users actually do not hail from Bashistan. Most people that do have learned the hard way after fucking around a little with their Linux live CD.
"Fucking around" doesn't work. You need to learn the commands and arguments by rote and get them 100% correct, every time. There is no way to intuitively discover it by clicking around, no way to gradually learn it through feedback from the program. You simply must get the command and it's arguments perfectly correct, or it fails utterly, sometimes catastrophically and with no feedback whatsoever. Fun! It's the "hard way" indeed.Other people just say "I'm a software developer and what is this shit. Go away from my life forever."
I don't say that. I have to use it for my job. I do hate how unintuitive and opaque it is though.
@bp_ said:Why do people use Google?
Because it's fast, easy, intuitive and corrects mistakes for the user. The command line is fast too, but not the others.Wouldn't it be easier to have a single page that links to every web site ever? Surely you've heard about web directories — from history books, mainly.
No, it wouldn't, it's easier for humans to have their information broken up into small, sensible, digestible chunks. That's why that stuff is gone.
@bp_ said:Google is the quintessential command line interface: you tell it what to do, and it does it for you.
Bullshit. Google does not require exact commands. Never mind typos or phonetic mistakes, Google can correct mangled garbage for you. On the CLI if I get a single letter wrong, or damn it, even a single letter in the wrong case, the entire thing falls over, or worse, can do the complete opposite of what I wanted. That's a million miles away from the ease and helpfulness of Google which "Just Works"(tm), so trying to conflate them is either stupidity, lies or trolling.Also, Google does not hide what it ACTUALLY DOES from me. It has a nice big button labeled "Search". So, it searches. If I'm using a command line to call a program, how do I know what it's doing? Oh yeah, I have to learn it by rote from a manual/colleague, rather than the program just bloody telling me what it's doing.
In short: Google does as much work as possible for me, CLI dumps as much work as possible on me.
No one has trouble using it. Almost everybody who doesn't have much of a clue about the internet knows enough to type "facebook" in Google to get to the Facebook page.
Yeah buddy, if that was a command line argument, it fails. You didn't have a capital "f" for "Facebook". So you get zero results. And no info as to why. See how far away Google is from the CLI and it's strictness and lack of helpfulness?Oh, and that command line does actual commands, too — using voice and an Android device you can use that very same interface to search you can set reminders, create appointments, text people, whatever. There's no button or UI for it. You just issue the command.
That's cool. I didn't know that. I'd be surprised if there's anything you can do that way, that you can't do with a GUI somewhere though.I like the Linux CLI enough to have it installed on Windows. Here's the fish shell in all of its glory. For bonus points, I have the git command line interface installed. Can it get even more heretic than this?
You do whatever you want buddy. Freedom is good. Options are good. I just want the option to use what are, for me, the vastly superior option of GUIs. I don't want to take your CLI option away, why do you want to take my GUI option away?A CLI comes with features that are simply impossible to do on GUI:
- Command autocompletion, so you don't have to use the
-f
/-F
short options that people here like to whine so much about - Recalling and searching past commands, so that once you get the short option right, you don't have to do that again twice
- Aliases: still feel really scared by that short option? Alias it away! Creating
git-reset-and-lose-my-unstaged-changes
to callgit reset --hard
is trivial, and you don't even have to type in all of that every time you want to use it.
"Impossible"? All of that is simply techniques to make the CLI less horrible. None of that applies to GUIs. It'd be like me saying "you can't use CSS to style buttons on a CLI!" Well, uh, CLI doesn't even have buttons, so that makes no sense.
@bp_ said:* Robust homogeneous automation. This is huge. If you find yourself issuing the same commands over and over, you can just stick them in a file and call that instead.
That's great for sure. No reason it couldn't be done in a GUI though. Click a "Create Repeated Task" button, click through your GUI screens and buttons, click your "Finished Repeated Task" button. Then call that from a menu whenever you need it. Boom[...etc...]
Of course there's tons of amazing stuff that can be done on the CLI. It's usefulness and functionality is not in question. Just it's usability, friendliness and ease of use. - Command autocompletion, so you don't have to use the
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RE: What was your absolute worst day in IT
I don't want to go into too many details but...
Let's just say there was a young, inexperienced, naive me; a brusque, busy manager who fired out half assed, somewhat incorrect instructions and then asked not to be disturbed; and a pile of production code that suddenly got a whole lot more broken when I started trying to follow said instructions!
The blame was put on me and I was too new and shy to argue or even really understand it wasn't my fault. If that happened today I wouldn't feel at all bad, if someone else's instructions caused the trouble, but back then I was close to tears...
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RE: Feature request
So Discourse is a forum, bug tracker AND rpg now? It's like the swiss army knife of programs!
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RE: Kickstarter refuses to email backers of a zombie to tell them it's a zombie, but will email to lie about it going right on ahead
(From the forums it seems that he sent KS the DMCA takedown without getting a lawyer, and you have to provide a contact address when you do that, and since he didn't have a lawyer, he couldn't give them the lawyer's address.)
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RE: Which language is the least bad?
Yes, the verbosity is somewhat painful to deal with as a writing task, but for me makes reading code easier. I read code a lot more than I write code.
I love verbose code. I will gladly read yourFiveWordVariableNames //and
//Multi
//Line
//CommentsIf it explains your code!
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RE: Game Deals Thread
Maybe it's me but sometimes I have a hard time picking the right mob when trying to click target if my pet's in the middle of a 4-mob melee.
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RE: The Home Stretch
Yay, and Friday is the perfect day for that!
Friday, 3 o' clock. The witching hour for software. Where even the most heavily tested code happily breaks upon deployment! -
RE: Vote of No Confidence
About what? I maintain that he's wrong. He can absolutely ignore the feature. I seriously wish he would. Instead he whines about how ignoring the feature has other consequences. He has some sort of grudge against the feature.
That sealing off part of the site because he doesn't want to use a totally unrelated feature is wrong, and a creepy example of software trying to manipulate it's users.
He doesn't want to use likes, he shouldn't have to use likes, and he shouldn't be punished for not using likes.
Software should serve it's users, not force them to jump through hoops. I think that's genuinely hostile design.
In the ideal case, he could ignore the likes feature (as he wishes), you could use the likes feature (as you wish), and neither of you would be punished or sealed off from anything. No one would have to argue who was right, since you both would have the freedom to use likes or not, as you wished.
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RE: It all makes sense now!
Hanzo was so bad I actually looked forward to new stories to see the comments