No, it bloody well does NOT "beg the question". Cripes.
Posts made by Zylon
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RE: Oh, I couldn't build it, so I checked it in.
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RE: She's dead, Jim
@HardwareGeek said:
This is a situation in which I miss Discurse's like button.
There is no like button, there's only a "love" button. (seriously, it's a pink heart. I don't know how else to interpret that)
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RE: Why are topic dates sometimes blue?
Ditto. In a sea of grey text, the blue draws the eye VERY effectively.
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
I am so confused by the juxtaposition of these two statements. I mean, posting troll links seems a very legitimate use case
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
I've grown to like it. For example, how many of us will get rickrolled despite knowing that's exactly what the link does? or... does it?
Okay, so one use case is that people who post troll links like it.Any legitimate use for it?
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
You just responded to Nagesh. About spelling and grammar.
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
That's even weirder on Discourse; it puts the click-count between the e and the i.
Why does Discourse even have a link click counter? How is that such vital information that it's been deemed worth the visual noise it imposes? Seems like yet another "because we can" feature. -
RE: Poll: Infinite Scrolling
It's not really infiniscroll though, because the entire document is loaded in memory all at the same time, so there's a 1:1 correlation between your position in the document and the position of the scroll bar thumb. An infiniscroll document, OTOH, is like a glass that refills itself. Every time you think you've gotten to the bottom-- nope, there's more!
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RE: Discussion thread for Full list of currently supported emoji
Emoji, god help us. Apparently DailyWTF is turning Japanese, I really think so.
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
I'm pretty sure something like a thumbs-up might send the Facebook lawyers in. Hell, the verb "like" might get a cease-and-desist someday.
Bah. Facebook may have a lock on their specific Like graphic, but the concept of indicating approval via a thumbs-up has prior art of a few centuries. -
RE: *(**foo** bar)* ignores bolding
So the answer to riking's "why the hell?" question would be, "Because the less-than sign isn't being escaped."
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Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
The standard button in Discourse to "like" a post is heart? A pink heart? Really?
Symbols mean things. That's why they're useful, obviously. What does a heart mean? In western culture, a heart (especially a pink one) signifies romantic intent. When you see a bumper sticker that reads "I ♥ NY", precisely nobody reads that as "I like New York". It means "love". I LOOOOOOOOVE New York.
You know what I don't love? Other peoples' posts. I "like" them. I am thus dissuaded from clicking a big pink heart under someone's post, no matter how much I may have enjoyed reading it, because this is not a freaking dating site, and I am not a 13-year-old girl doodling in the margins of her Trapper Keeper.
So for the love of god, get rid of the heart and replace it with something sensible. 👍
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RE: Poll: Infinite Scrolling
No Microsoft Word user (or Excel for that matter) out is demanding a UI that displays chunks of 10 pages with [group 1 / group 2 / group 3] links.
I hope you realize that MS Word is pretty much the worst possible example to use in favor of infiniscroll, given that it paginates-- well, every page.Also wondering why you keep spelling infiniscroll as "infinniscroll".
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RE: HTML code is being misinterpreted as markdown.
Markdown's text styling codes are just terrible anyway. Asterisks for italics? Italicizing twice as much yields... bold?? And to do monospace it uses the freaking backtick (sorry, grave accent) character? Yeesh.
In the good old days, single asterisks meant bold and slashes meant italics, gorramit. And... oh, I see now... Markdown was created by John "Daring Fireball" Gruber. Ugh, no wonder it's so effed up. Leave it to a Mac guy to reinvent the wheel and screw it up in the process.
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RE: Poll: Infinite Scrolling
The psychological burden imposed by infinite scrolling really can't be emphasized enough. As anyone who's ever been tasked with "Clean your room!" knows, attempting to take in a large task all at once is vastly, disproportionately more daunting then when subdivided into smaller, more immediately manageable goals. That's what pagination does for people. "Oh my, this thread is a hundred pages long! Well... I'll just read the first couple pages..." and off you go. Cheerleading for infiniscroll is thinking like an engineer, not a human.
And of course, infiniscroll will also always and forever be saddled with the fundamental defect that it fights the way web browsers want to work, breaking find-in-page and turning the scroll bar into a spastic, unreliable tool.
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A Modest Proposal
I propose that this forum be retired, and replaced with The I-Hate-Discourse Club.
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
I have no idea what you mean by this talk of other threads. This is Discourse, there is only one thread, and it is infinite.
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
I'd just like to point out that Discourse somehow manages to break Firefox's "Find in Page" functionality. If this has already been mentioned, sorry, I couldn't find it.
And what the hell is up with the first post in some threads quoting a subsequent post? At least, that's what it looks like. Discourse seems to play fast and loose with time and space.
And and, is Discourse really so starved for horizontal real estate that they couldn't fit "ago" next to the relative post times?
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RE: Did I miss the thread about the new Firefox redesign?
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
Also, I like Morb's new sig that makes me agree with them.
It's the only way he could get anyone to agree with him. A bit sad, really.
I also like how Firefox now has a fucking POWER BUTTON on the "hamburger" menu. Because really, the title bar close button is just so 2010s.
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RE: Really folks?
The problem with Excel is that apparently, at the very core of its being, it was created with the notion that nobody would ever, EVER want to look at two unrelated spreadsheets at the same time. Hence why it can't manage the seemingly trivial task of having multiple windows active at the same time. Open two Excel documents? Sure, it'll happily show two buttons on the taskbar, but then you realize they're both being shared by a single fucking window. Argh.
Granted, with some hackery it's possible to make Excel run a new instance of itself for every document so you can accomplish black magic like comparing two spreadsheets on multiple monitors, but it breaks some common tasks in the process.
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RE: So there's this art installation near my workplace.
@OzPeter said:
@DrPepper said:
If I can do it, then its not art (Red Green)
The trouble is that there is a world of difference between thinking (or even knowing) you can do something, and actually getting off your ass and doing it.That's only trouble if you take the statement stupidly literally. The point in there is that good art should also have some craft to it. Just throwing some junk on the ground takes zero craft.
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RE: Funny... and sad interview :)
@dhromed said:
@Jedalyzer said:
Believe it!It's because i and u are "weak" vowels, and can be almost completely dropped from the middle of a word, unless that vowel is the entire syllable. (A, e, and o are the strong vowels.)
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RE: Today's dose of WTF brought to you by our QA department
@FrostCat said:
I tried a tab with a Youtube video and I got a little play symbol.
You mean, the little play symbol that YouTube specifically inserts into its own page title when playing a video, that has absolutely nothing to do with Chrome?
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RE: Adobe Captivate SCORM questionnaire. Now with answers!
@Zemm said:
I already said that.
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RE: That's what happens when you become mainstream
Has anyone yet figured out whether McRonald is just an unusually bored troll, or if he really is this socially dysfunctional?
Yes, I know, poTAYto, poTAHto.
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RE: Making QR-Codes usefull
@Ronald said:
I think you are the one who doesn't know what "pedantic" means.
Pedant-- "a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules". Which has absolutely nothing to do with using or discussing QR codes and oh what the fuck I'm actually responding to a McRonald post. -
RE: Adobe Captivate SCORM questionnaire. Now with answers!
@scudsucker said:
I'm not sure who TRWTF is here, the developers who made the quiz, or Adobe. I'm thinking Adobe.
If you knew anything about SCORM, you'd know that TRWTF is... (drum roll)... SCORM. As one of the lead developers/trainers in the SCORM community plainly states:@Mike Rustici said:The crux of the issue is that since SCORM communication uses JavaScript in a web browser it is inherently insecure and can be spoofed by any semi-competent web developer who knows a little bit about SCORM.
[url=http://scorm.com/blog/2009/04/scorm-security-some-perspective/]http://scorm.com/blog/2009/04/scorm-security-some-perspective/[/url]
Congratulations on your semi-competence.
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RE: Today's XKCD
"Today's" XKCD is about juice. And tomorrow it will be about something else.
You fail thread titles forever, Nexzus.
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RE: Making QR-Codes usefull
@bridget99 said:
QR codes aren't completely useless. After all, if you overhear someone talking about them or see someone scanning one (a 45-second-long "nerd's chorea"), you then know that this person is a pedantic tardnozzle who is in love with technology for its own sake.
Or, you know that that person works with package tracking, the application that originally popularized QR codes.Also, "pedantic" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Idiot.
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RE: Location.href = joe;
@drurowin said:
Uh, have you looked at your own avatar lately?@Ben L. said:
@Ibix said:
And of course Ben. L is the one who goes to yiff. Fuckin' furfag.@blakeyrat said:
Disgustinged that for youYou're not yiffing anyone.
F'd that for you.
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RE: Line numbers... in 2002
What I've learned from this thread is that, all things considered, line numbers are more useful than morbiuswilters.
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RE: Line numbers... in 2002
@morbiuswilters said:
Tell us about how you used to wear an onion on your belt.
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RE: Line numbers... in 2002
@morbiuswilters said:
So basically this is a stupid way to force a pointless low-level optimization in Basic. Gotcha.
No, basically you're an idiot. When you're coding in BASIC on a ~1MHz CPU with maybe 16K of RAM, every little speed/space optimization helps. Something like GOTO 500 + THINGTODO * 10 for an event handler or whatever was a hell of a lot more efficient than a stack of IF/THEN statements simulating a then-nonexistent SWITCH structure. If you were really lucky, you were working in a BASIC that supported ON...GOTO, which was a simple predecessor to SWITCH statements.But of course in modern BASICs that do have structured programming concepts built in, there is little if any point to computed GOTOs.
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RE: Are you clickier than a 4th grader?
It thought I was 15 years younger than I actually am, and I'm in the middle of acclimating to not using mouse acceleration (just an experiment to see if I can mouse more accurately without it), so... yay me?
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RE: QA
@morbiuswilters said:
@Cassidy said:
You're barely 30? Yeesh, that explains a lot....Q3TA...
My Junior year of High School called and was like "Wow, people really still play this 12 years later?"
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RE: Subversion comments
@blakeyrat said:
If Ben L was trying to say, "I am still using a Pentium 4", he could have JUST FUCKING TYPED IT with a hell of a lot less effort than posting a screenshot I don't know how to interpret.
You seriously couldn't grasp the meaning of "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU", floating plain as day in the middle of the screenshot? You're [i]that[/i] dense?
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RE: I love you guys, seriously
@morbiuswilters said:
@Zylon said:
Anyone who even cares about the tag cloud enough to bother screwing with it is an idiot.
If you hate everything about this site, why do you come here?
That's quite a one-to-many relationship you're imagining in that crazy little skull of yours.
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RE: I love you guys, seriously
Anyone who even cares about the tag cloud enough to bother screwing with it is an idiot.
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RE: The Downward Spiral (a company WTF)
@Mason Wheeler said:
An e-reader (even a Kindle) would never have lasted that long, even on a battery, but the books did just fine.
WTF. An e-ink Kindle should be able to last for days of heavy use without charging.
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RE: YouTube doesn't recognise itself
@ubersoldat said:
TRWTF is your Firefox... what's up with the color and all those menu's?
All those menu's WHAT?
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RE: The Intern
@snoofle said:
I weep for this industry.
Since you're apparently stuck using Java, I'll weep right along with you.
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RE: I just installed Windows 8 (2013 edition)
@dhromed said:
It's fine. Haters can go suck a dick! :D :D
So if you mod, delete, or reconfigure the things you don't like, and learn to ignore the things that you can't fix, and manage to figure out the terrible touch-centric interface, then it's fine, is what you're telling us.
THANKS.
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RE: I'm OK .. you're not OK
@OzPeter said:
I use a lot of VM's to separate work I do for one client from another client.
Y'know, normal people use "folders" for that.
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RE: Hacker News is the DeviantART of developer side projects
@Soviut said:
@Zylon said:
Hi, welcome to Sturgeon's Law. I don't believe you two have met.@GNU Pepper said:
No, it means it's filled with 95% of the code equivalent of anime, furries and creepy fan art.HN is the DeviantART of developer side projects.
So there's quite a lot of really awesome code on it?