When people say this, they break the eggs, but you never get an omelette.
subscript_error
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Best posts made by subscript_error
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RE: More Proof that Discourse Sucks
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RE: Ah, the joys of legacy dialogs
what the hell is it with those toasters?
Don't worry. The yellow one only appears for your first 39 posts, or if the heuristic NoobAnalyzer determines that you spent too long looking at markdown tutorials in other tabs. The blue one is merely identifying that your topic consists of several English words and punctuation marks, which is similar to several other topics. Repost in Spanish to ensure your topic stands out from the crowd.
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RE: Running
I would much like that, actually, because unlike a ginormous vertical graphic, there's no requirement for me to scroll horizontally to get to the next post with my mouse wheel.
Yeah but what sort of
secretimproved horizontal scrollbar would we get? A red trapezoid pinned to the left side of the screen with "3 of 76 arcseconds" and animated emoji arrows? -
RE: What have you done?!
When I was 16 I worked at the hardware store in my home town. Building random shit for people is what made me sure that going into engineering was a good idea. Dudes come in holding some obscure broken thing that I didn't even know existed ten minutes ago and the only reason they're there is that they've reached that "I give up" moment of despair to the point that they're willing to ask a high school kid for help.
At that point I could either shrug and sweep the floor, or decide that even though I have no idea what the guy is talking about, I'm in a store full of arbitrary, overly-specific junk and if I glue enough of it together it'll make his problem slightly better. Probably.
Going on a hunch, Frankensteining something vaguely similar to a medieval torture device and emasculating/saving the day for some suburban "handyman" whose wife is going to leave him if he doesn't fix the goddamn toilet right goddamn NOW? Most satisfying feeling ever.
The funny part is that to this day I'd rather nearly kill myself trying to build or fix something I don't fully understand than pay someone else to do it... and now that I'm the suburban handyman with a wife, she hates it and would rather I just let some "professional" handle it. Figures.
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RE: System "downloaded local copies of images" job mangles img tags
Filed under: New feature request: petitions
Petitions are already supported, they're auto-detected just like polls. You just need to make sure your post starts with the phrase "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE" (case sensitive) and then a bulleted list of your demands. Ordered lists are supported too, but only if the numbers are non-sequential and sometimes decrease. Then include 15 or more consecutive <hr> elements at the bottom for signature lines, and you're done!
If you've formatted it correctly, the system user will edit your post to include the appropriate <manifesto> markup and will e-mail three copies of your post to all registered users. Easy!
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RE: I moved 21 posts to a new topic
That's a great idea!
Hey guys, I've moved to Twitter to start tracking bugs with all my software. If you can't explain your problem in 140 characters or less, it's not really a problem, right?
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RE: Some proposed Discourse improvements for TDWTF
Bug: Help menu should be available in both edit and non-edit scenarios
Expected: Pressing the universal help key while editing a post should provide context-sensitive help on keyboard shortcuts
Actual: An odd glyph is entered into the edit window, some form of curved line with a dot under it. I think it might be one of those high-byte Unicode things.
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RE: Likes
TOS refers to Kirk era star trek. Notabug!
Oh, so @codinghorror is just @blakeyrat with a goatee. It all makes so much more sense now...
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That's just metadata
Infiniscrollgate and the accompanying performance discussion reminded me of a WTF from a few years back:
A tool was responsible for displaying varying amounts of HTML in an embedded browser control. The source data was stored in a different format elsewhere but converted to HTML for editing purposes. The workflow being, essentially
- load
- convert to HTML
- user edits
- convert to other format
- save
99% of the time, performance was great (as great as can be expected with the data conversion going on in both directions, at least). But that one percent of the time, it could take 10-30 seconds to load even a paragraph of text. It didn't seem to depend on the length of the content at all. So I looked into the database and there was the paragraph of text, all three sentences... and 10.8 MB.
Turns out that part of the non-HTML format involved storing metadata along with the text. In non-HTML, this used escape sequences (think \n but on steroids). In HTML mode, the metadata was maintained inside . The parser had an obscure off-by-one when handling the escape sequences, so instead of going from \stuff to , it left in the \ like so: .
Which was then dutifully converted back to \\stuff for storage. Which re-expanded to during the next user session. And saved as \\\\stuff...
The bad 1% of workflows involved three sentences of text, with a trailing HTML comment containing several million escape characters. And an execution time that doubled whenever anyone looked at it.
Filed under: [No wonder Discourse is so speedy][1], [I had to double up the \ characters to get them to display correctly, coincidence?][2] -
RE: I think we can make everyone happy
5 minute video buffering for a minute
stopping every 5 seconds to try to catch up
Why not both?
Latest posts made by subscript_error
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RE: Poll: Polls
Filed under The comma always looks like a speck of dirt in Discourse
Commas are a barrier to reading.
Filed under: [down, slow, They, you](#tag) -
RE: Finding XSS is fun and all...
a single reflow
If this is what you mean by "using their positions in between adding them to the document" I'm pretty sure you're correct:JS DOM manipulation is lazy, you can write as many times as you'd like to DOM properties and the browser will queue up a reflow to be performed when needed. Reading from a DOM property is what triggers the reflow in most cases (or at the end of whatever JS is being executed).
So a series of calls like this:
write write write x 10000 read
will be (fairly) quick, but this
write read write read write read
will melt the computer.
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RE: I'm still a grumpy cat: a final plea to Alex
That's a problem because Jeff wasn't, as far as I could tell, actively part of the community beforehand
He wasn't.
Only in spirit.
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RE: I'm A Grumpy Cat: An open letter to Alex
By the time I had time for here, the problem was fixed.
Don't worry, we'll make sure you're around for the next one. The best way to squish XSS vulnerabilities is one at a time, as end users point them out - that's what I always say.
Filed under: [Heaven forbid we spam <script>alert('test');</script> into every field during QA, Heaven forbid we hire QAers]() -
RE: Poll: Developers don't make good entrepreneurs.
Oh, now you've done it! I was hoping it would last the weekend
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RE: <audio autoplay loop volume="0.25" src="http://media.steampowered.com/apps/ portal2/soundtrack/03/ringtones /mp3/Portal2-10-Your_Precious_Moon_RT.mp3"></audio>
Oh and nice work @ben_lubar! You have discovered that it's only self-closed
audio
tags that don't work in IE. When you add a separate closing element they apparently play just fine.Time to update my topic!
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RE: How about this? Sidebar audio src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/ 64951%5Ecddyhorn.mp3" controls autoplay></audio>
Standing on the shoulders of giants, really. I was in the middle of trying to break my usercard again when I saw that @Kuro and @Maciejasjmj had found an alternate way in.
We can all share the prize money.
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RE: <audio autoplay loop volume="0.25" src="http://media.steampowered.com/apps/ portal2/soundtrack/03/ringtones /mp3/Portal2-10-Your_Precious_Moon_RT.mp3"></audio>
Now all we need to do is go register on every other discourse forum and spam these links into every topic.
That's how you report a bug, right?
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RE: How about this? Sidebar audio src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/ 64951%5Ecddyhorn.mp3" controls autoplay></audio>
Because I am a just and noble ruler, I have edited the title to remove the 'loop' keyword.
You are all welcome.