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FTFY
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Yesterday's code block CSS was ok on Chrome, today's isn't: [image]
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Why is the bottom advert multiplied? [image]
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Well, someone has to pay for the article updates...
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It wasn't sure we saw it the first time.
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I don't know about you be I do my DWTF reading on my own.
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Because it was going to a list of TDWTF sponsors, iterating over them, and appending all of them to the page ;)
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:sleeping:
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I'm not sure I understand the WTF here. Obviously the old design firm doesn't want to advertise themselves as the designers of a site they no longer control, because God only knows what horrors Felix might be inflicting on it over their name. So the "Designed by" credit calls back to a server the designer controls and can change the reply from at any time. "We got fired" = "our credit line is now a blank space" (or just block the customer site).
Having the list be parsed out of a page rather than fed as a query result may save enough in CPU cycles/administrative aggravation (one less database to maintain) to make the bit of extra bandwidth to serve out the whole list to be parsed worth it, especially if it's a small firm whose customers aren't getting huge amounts of traffic.
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I could be wrong, but generally you don't want your full customer list going out to your competitors.
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Future ads will have eye tracking and only let you view the article after you've actually looked at them.
What, stop complaining, someone has to pay for all the free content.
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What will they do when they run into a box that doesn't have a webcam attached, then?
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They'll modify all those "You're viewing the site with AdBlock enabled, please disable it to support us" pages to mention webcams instead.
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And then I'll just say "Belgium you".
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Adblock will learn to simulate a screen reader for blind people.
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Also, what will people who actually need to use a screen reader do?
I suppose any advertiser who makes that leap into the future will find out very quickly what the words "ADA lawsuit" mean...
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i already do that.
flash? none for you!
silverlight? nope. not installed. (or disabled if i can't uninstall it)
images in common aspect ratios/sizes for ads? blocked.
addblock+, installed and active!
of course this means that about 60% of youtube is inaccessible as they are only slowly rolling out HTML5 video... but since they have perfect support for new videos (not so much legacy) I'm usually fine.
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That's what I'm saying. They'll have to look for a screen reader in addition to the camera. So Adblock will adapt.
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In 2028, the glorious Global Government for Peace and Love will mandate that all electronic devices have at least one camera, GPS receiver and permanent internet connection, to help fight terrorism and enemies of the glorious People's Democratic State. Covering the camera, pointing it away from you or not smiling enough when reading the state-provided news will be punished with up to 15 years in a reeducation camp.
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Designers often brag on who their clients are. Besides which, if they put the same or very similar tag line on every site they designed, Google will tell anyone their complete customer list anyway.
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meh. still better than being an enemy of the state in North Korea.
if you get declared emeny of the state in DPRK you get sent to a concentration camp, so does your entire family and you stay their your entire life. and your children stay there their entire lives, and THEIR CHILDREN stay there their entire lives. Their children can leave the concentration camp, but get 0 state assistance, and are stigmatized but the community who is afraid of associating woth someone from one of the camps for fear of being labled an enemy of the state themselves.
yeah. DPRK SUCKS!
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Oooh oooh oooh wait I got this
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FTFY * 4
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I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
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i'm sorry, but i've exceeded my quoata of spellar flags to hand out for correcting my speeling.
i'm just too slopy a typist to keep up with aal the speelar flags i would ahve to hand out.
if you want to be pedantic/dickweedish about the content of my posts i still have flags to hand out for that.
Cheers!
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The web looks better when you look at it through lynx.
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What about gramming? One of those was a gramming error.
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gramming to, because it's the same flag as spellar.
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FTFY
Fine, you badge flag hoarder.
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what? i'm only saying you'll not get flags for correctiong my spellar and gramming, because it's too easy a target. i'll still flag if you do it to someone else or do earn a pedantry flag.
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<aside>I'm not correcting that one cause it's kinda fun.</aside>
The trick is finding them before they get corrected.
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yeah. i tend not to post edit my posts.
or pre edit for that matter.
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A WTF in PHP? You don't say...
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From the behavior of most people, I thought we had that already. In 1984, the State installed the cameras. In real 2014, people actually pay for them of their own volition and pay more to have better ones. I suspect former Stasi agents are kicking themselves they didn't think of selfies.
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Furnace controller: the camera is a FLIR Lepton module (including calibration microshutter) pointed into the combustion chamber, the GPS receiver is a time reference, and the permanent network connection? It's a point-to-point to the thermostat, TYVM.
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Hey! We do have webcams here. And girls sitting in front of them
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No pendantry flag for you for shooting fish in a barrel.
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Should've put some dickweedery into it. Asshole.
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Spelling / grammar flags are best deserved, IMHO, when you take the error at face value and respond as if serious. Corrections are just meh...
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Sure. But if you put some dickweedery into it, you can go for the alternate badge progression.
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Fine. How about spellar\gramming?
Not required for spellar\gramming. I hereby sentence you to play DF with @ben_lubar for 4 hours.
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Corrections are how I got my spellar/gramming badge.
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That's what I meant, since there was no dickweedery other than the implicit dickweedery of correcting the typos of someone with terminal badspellitis.
The time I corrected her for using "bug" yesterday instead of "big" was different because the particular typo was funny.
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You used \ the previous two times, you incompetent.
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Not via one of my flags.
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I'm not sure how much it should take but it seems like the spellar/gramming badge should require above-and-beyond the call pendantry, perhaps on the order of subtly using affect correctly, in a way that would mislead people into thinking you should have used effect, like in that one XKCD I CBA to look up.
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Oh no! The apocalypse is nigh! Every man (and woman) for themself!
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YES