Posts made by monkeyArms
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
One time a guy got mad when I corrected his spelling, and threatened to punch me in my noose.
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RE: Something tells me this library isn't going to be useful... [The Openscript/JDE Thread]
Then there's the open-source project I worked on where the UI guy held fast that everything should be done using divs. Even tabular data: Divs put in table-mode somehow.
I've met some of those anti-table people. Life is a lot easier when you use things for what they are designed for.
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RE: Something tells me this library isn't going to be useful... [The Openscript/JDE Thread]
Somewhere around 2000 - I remember using IE5 :gross:
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RE: Something tells me this library isn't going to be useful... [The Openscript/JDE Thread]
That reminds me a lot of the first website I ever built - think I had nested tables up to 6 levels deep.
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RE: Population of China
Yeah, I knew you were being pedantic so I threw some sarcasm in :) But seriously, I thought web accessibility would be ux/ui 101.
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RE: Population of China
It's split into three images. And there a couple of lines of text at the top and bottom.
In that case, I retract my objection.
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RE: Population of China
From: http://www.peiwuyang.com/shoulder-pole-design-research
If you are promoting yourself as a UI/UX design specialist, maybe don't make your page content a single image?
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RE: Just use sublime text (anti-vim rant)
Just
cashing in on a joke opportunitybeing a dick. -
RE: Just use sublime text (anti-vim rant)
Facts about blakeyrat.com :
Served by a Linux server
pages built with PHP
Using an open source blog software (Wordpress)d) Contains ironies such as "valid XHTML 1.1" on non-valid pages, and a php error displaying below a post bashing a buggy website.
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RE: Something tells me this library isn't going to be useful... [The Openscript/JDE Thread]
The birds are chasing the fox in that picture, but the fox was asking for it.
thank you TinEye
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RE: Today a colleague received a car ticket
That's a nice subliminal way to train people to hate IE (if they don't already).
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RE: Internet memes that make me slightly more angry than usual!
I used to work in the GIS industry, and what most outsiders don't know is that the majority of imagery on Google Earth et al is taken from low-altitude airplane, not satellite. Only the topmost few zoom levels are by satellite, precisely because the cameras aren't good enough to see the level of detail required for precision mapping purposes.
Does google have their own planes they use for this? Curious....
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RE: Windows 10 Upgrade to be Free as in Beer (if you don't have an MS account, come in here and @blakeyrat will give you $50)
I think all the money should be transferred using OpenACH.
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RE: Windows 10 Upgrade to be Free as in Beer (if you don't have an MS account, come in here and @blakeyrat will give you $50)
I'm here for my $50 - how do I collect?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
example.com is reserved by IANA as a domain that can be used for testing without prior consent. It will also never be available for registration.
Fun story: a few years ago I was doing an integration with a major payment gateway. Their testing environment was full of wtfs, including the fact that every developer in the world shared the same test account (there were notices everywhere saying don't change this or that because it affects everyone). All of the payment gateway response emails were set to go to {domain-that-has-not-been-registered}.com. So I bought that domain, set up the email account on it, and you wouldn't believe what kind of info I had access to.
It's a good thing I am not evil....
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RE: Grayscale images get belgium-ed
root@forum:/# convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP@sam perhaps a base image upgrade is in order?
I tried upgrading it once before and it made no diff, will look at this issue again next week.
According to this, there were some grayscale issues in the IM version @riking posted. I have 6.8.9-3 installed and cannot reproduce the problem.
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RE: Grayscale images get belgium-ed
Do you have a link to an original image (not a discourse-modified one) that causes the problem?
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
I am apathetic about the broader topic; I just disagree with one of your supporting arguments. Carry on
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
And that says exactly what in relation to my point? Nothing.
I'm not arguing that people don't search for things on YouTube. I'm talking about discoverability and the entry points to the site to begin with. It's in the only part of my relevant post that you bothered to quote, for god's sake.
It says quite a bit, unless you are proposing that every single one of the billions of searches every month is performed after a site visitor follows a video link (well, minus me @Polygeekery and @ben_lubar)
But yeah, it's totally possible that one of the most popular sites in the world gets no direct traffic searches.
Jesus Christ, I feel like I'm trying to argue that gravity does in fact exist.
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
3 billion search queries a month in 2013.
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
I said that people don't start with a blank youtube page and just search for random stuff. The entry point for every youtube session is always a link to something from an external source.
Um....you're wrong?
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
Stop filling your empty hole!
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
When was the last time you thought to yourself, "Hmmm. I'm kind of bored right now. I have no idea what to do. I know! I'll go to YouTube and just randomly search for stuff in a desperate attempt to fill this empty hole that some people call a soul! Yes! That's exactly what I need to do!"?
No one does that either. Ever.
You really don't think millions of people dick around on YouTube every day for entertainment?
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RE: What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
My understanding is that no single piece of information itself is PII; you can have a list of every first/last name in the world, every IP address, every ss#, credit card#, etc. Only when you start tying that information together does it become PII.
So yeah, IPs themselves would not be PII.
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RE: Perl: Review my code
What about the fact that RegEx in the most common uses is PLAIN WRONG!? For example, all of those email address "validators" or URL "validators". Things that (for all practical purposes) can not be validated correctly in RegEx.
Using the wrong tool for a job doesn't mean the tool should be thrown out. If it did we would be out of tools.
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RE: Perl: Review my code
QFT! Why, oh, why, do languages not ship with a proper set of parser combinators instead? Infinitely more versatile, and much more readable than regex soup, too!
I use regex pretty often. IMO the readability problem isn't due to regular expressions themselves, it's that people for some reason forget to document them the way they would any other complex piece of code. Long, hard-to-read expressions should be broken up into smaller parts with comments explaining what each part does, then concatenated together.
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RE: Need some not-coding help
You could also emulate the behavior of possibly the most useful Chrome extension ever.
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RE: New Google Fiber Cities
Agree. I wish I could get that excited about something.
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RE: Filed under: #NotYourHashtag
Is this why none of my code comments show up on the twitters?
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RE: Arduino in Node
Is there any logical reason why I'd do this, given that I know C++ enough to work with the standard Arduino libraries?
Probably not.
It seems like a neat idea to me though. Arduinos are mainly for hobbyists and inventors making prototypes; lowering the barrier for entry means more people can play around and come up with cool stuff.
I have a personal project I'm working on with an Arduino, and the slowest-going part has been the programming since I know very little C++. I have no motivation to devote hours/days/weeks to learning the language better when there is a strong chance I won't use that knowledge outside of this project.
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RE: Mobile-specific CSS
It looks like you already made your css selector more specific to solve the header button link issue. You could also filter it out of quote control links like:
.cooked a[title]:after { content: " [" attr(title) "]"; } .cooked .quote-controls a[title]:after { content: ""; }
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RE: Closed Poll: Show Raw
but why do you have to HTML escape the ampersand inside the HTML
You probably don't have to, but it's done in the interest of writing valid html (as defined per the w3c spec).
Nice little write-up here (specifically the "Ambiguous ampersands in HTML5" part). -
RE: Closed Poll: Show Raw
I was just considering a passive aggressive update, based on the flak that the Discodevs get here
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RE: Closed Poll: Show Raw
Look at the date of the quoted post - the only change I've made is to remove the topic_id:post_number from the UI.
I meant that as a shot at the ever-changing discourse code, not at the 'show raw' script.
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RE: Closed Poll: Show Raw
I think it's a great implementation, but the
pessimistrealist in me expects it to break about every other Discoupdate. -
RE: The thread of movie titles and absence of badges. In previous episodes, it was signs you're getting older, chiropractic vs. medicine, atheism vs. Mormonism and religion vs. science with no existentialism nor philosophy thrown in
I always wanted to start my own religion.
Partly for the control, partly so I could point out dissenters' lack of faith™, and partly for the tax breaks and earning potential (it would be all modernized, like instead of passing around a collection plate we'd pass a card-swiper).
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RE: Suggestions for SSL cert?
Comodo requires me to set up email on my domain
It's been awhile since I've gone through them - I thought they would send the confirmation(s) to whatever email address you put as your domain's administrative contact....
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RE: Generate XML -- client-side or server-side?
Minimal example:
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script> <script> (function() { var url = 'https://example.com', xml = '<foo>bar</foo>'; $.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: url, dataType: 'xml', contentType: "application/xml", data: xml, success: function( result ) { // at least the request worked.... console.log( result ); }, error: function( result ) { // shit damn fuck console.log( result ); } }); })(); </script>