I assume it will be a ceremony in General halls of Discourse, followed by the party in The Lounge...
Is it sad that my first thought was "they could go to a NICE forum software for the honeymoon?"
I assume it will be a ceremony in General halls of Discourse, followed by the party in The Lounge...
Is it sad that my first thought was "they could go to a NICE forum software for the honeymoon?"
Yes, followed by...I'm not sure how to type the sound a wood chipper makes.
I sense closure, and I feel like we all learned something from this topic.
Well, closures ARE used fairly frequently in javascript. They were bound to turn up eventually.
ZFSC still sounds like a step up from having:
Fortunately we have stopped doing that now. Except for where we haven't. I think. The actual programming department definitely has.
@lucas said:You may not of noticed that we are on an island off of mainland europe.
So is Galveston, Texas. We still consider it part of North America.
I certainly know what you really meant, but I did have a good chuckle at the idea of Galveston, Texas being an island off of mainland Europe that we consider part of North America.
I personally would prefer that if I've selected "Excel Add-In" and click save, it show me a prompt saying "Hey, those only work if you put them over here. Would you like me to switch to that directory and let you review and click save again, or are you sure you want this where you told me?"
However, I already know my preferences about UX are sometimes pretty unusual (heck, most people I know seem perfectly happy with their start bars at the bottom of the primary monitor, so clearly I'm not the usual sort there), so...
@coldandtired said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move
This one probably would have had me spelling it "Rhyhm" on a regular basis.
@Onyx said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
@Jaloopa said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Yeah, I just remember the names and positions instead of converting it from a silly phrase!
...I once tried that, and ended up with "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Acts, and the Letter to the Romans" for some reason.
I love that the name of the company is DEMONISE backwards.
Warning: Did not read whole thread, may be repeating stuff
Fun story: I tried to use an iMac recently. I literally sat in front of it for two minutes before I could figure out how to turn it on.I talked to other people and they all had the same experience. The power button is fucking hidden in the back. Why would you hide the power button?!?
I was trying to figure out how to do something once on one of those old translucent colorful integrated-CRT iMacs that was set up as a kiosk at my university.
I managed to reboot the thing because I pushed what appeared to be a "play" button, wondering what media player it would start.
the entire philosophy was (and still is) "I know better than you about what you want and need" which is a huge turn-off to me.The designs I see in Apple products always give me that same impression: they look nice, but they really want to control your experience. Computers are supposed to put me in control, not the other way around.
I think that means you are not in Apple's target market. If you think you know better than they do what kind of experience you want from using a device, then...well, they'd still be perfectly happy to sell to you, but you're paying a premium for access to a user experience that you don't want...
Here's one I saw recently:
I can certainly understand driving 10-15 miles per hour under the speed limit on the interstate when it's dark and raining.
I can even understand, although I disapprove, doing so with one's hazard lights flashing in hopes that people will be more likely to notice they're coming up on a slow-moving vehicle. (I should look that up though, I think in this state driving with your hazard lights on might actually be a moving violation.)
I can even handle people doing this in something other than the farthest outside lane, or maybe the next one over to avoid having to deal with merging traffic.
But if you are driving with your hazard lights going and you try to CHANGE LANES with anyone remotely nearby, you are asking for trouble.
@coldandtired said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move
This one probably would have had me spelling it "Rhyhm" on a regular basis.
@Onyx said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
@Jaloopa said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Yeah, I just remember the names and positions instead of converting it from a silly phrase!
...I once tried that, and ended up with "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Acts, and the Letter to the Romans" for some reason.
@Adynathos said in New from Samsung: Fire and explosions:
@Weng said in New from Samsung: Fire and explosions:
internal structure of the phone literally crushing a percentage of batteries
I heard surveys show people want thicker phones with more battery life, but actual sales show they want thinner phones despite their technical disadvantages.
So now we have reached a technical disadvantage that may outweigh that.
I wonder if that means there's a statistical correlation between participating in surveys about phones, and having reasonably-sized pockets or preferring belt carry.
@pydsigner said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@Gurth And I want to know how to foretell eclipses!
I actually switched to Vivaldi now. Despite me still thinking it's a stupid idea to write a browser using NodeJS and HTML, it's made by some of the old Opera staff and they know what they are doing when it comes to UI.It's still buggy and rough around the edges but I'm willing to put up with that just for tab grouping if nothing else.
I'm in kind of the same boat, except (1) I like the implementation of tab stacking in this Firefox addon better than what Vivaldi currently offers (I like being able to expand and contract stacks instead of having to hover!), and (B) despite that, the two main reasons Opera is still my daily driver at home instead of Vivaldi are memory usage and email/RSS. Vivaldi is my main browser at work where email and RSS are in Outlook.
@Eldelshell said:thanks to it we survived those terrible years before ChromeYou mean those years when all the cool people used Opera?
...Today?
Okay, to be fair, I only use it at home and I have an array of other browsers for when I have to deal with websites that Presto just can't handle. Or at least, can't handle while I have 200 or so other tabs open.
@kilroo said:I wonder, among people who only know one of the three, which known language would correspond to the most overall accurate pronunciations?
English. Unlike Polish or German, it's impossible in English to pronounce words you don't know beforehand, so they wouldn't even try.
I thought that might be balanced out by phonemes that Americans have no practice pronouncing. Or knowledge of what character combinations imply them. But I don't know enough about Polish or German to speculate much.
If you go over to German version of Amazon in Poland, and switch language to English, you'll get a mixture of German-English-Polish. Now that's fun to read.
That...that sounds like it might be fun to try to read out loud, especially if you know at most one of the languages. I wonder, among people who only know one of the three, which known language would correspond to the most overall accurate pronunciations?
...And once again, I have highlighted text in this editor, told it to make it italic, wondered why it made it bold instead, and then remembered "oh yeah, Markdown is more popular than Textile. Bummer."
@Tsaukpaetra said:They can be singular, right?
The only other choice isit
, and people really don't like being called that
I remember mIRC...I remember trying it out and hating it with a passion, specifically. For what purposes I still use IRC these days, I make do with a fork of Pidgin, and occasionally rant about how much I miss Xircon. But then I'm a bit odd.
On a slightly more related note: I found IRC easy to adopt, and would not expect the general populace to find it easy to adopt.
I'm not sure any of the descriptions of Slack so far sound like a significant improvement over a corporate XMPP server and using a client with a decent MUC-selection interface, but if you're okay with the server-not-in-house aspect I can see how avoiding the server setup and client selection aspects might be appealing.
Yes, followed by...I'm not sure how to type the sound a wood chipper makes.