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As a corollary, here is a website about Dark Patterns, user interfaces that are designed to trick you:
http://darkpatterns.org/[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We should all learn from astronomers, who found that if you spout any old bollocks that cannot be disproven mathematically (a Hell of a wide scope, there), anyone doesn't happily wade thigh-deep in mathematical formulae (i.e. just about everyone in the entire world) will have no choice but to take your word for it.
They must have a terribly difficult time, writing up their "research" -- it's tricky to type with your fingers crossed behind your back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Duncan Edwards Jones Code Zone. "
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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"'To Serve Man'... it's a cookbook!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yeah that was one of my favorites.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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..it gets worse when you start relying on the dark logic
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Is that Seinfeld astronomy, a story about nothing?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain.
A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation.
Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up.
Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs).
Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sounds like it could be fun. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get to this before the middle of September, but this could well be a fun little challenge.
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I thought so too - until I got to the "Javascript" bit...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I'll just write it in Typescript. I've been using it a lot lately, and I like the way it works. It almost makes JavaScript enjoyable.
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"almost"
That's the key word here...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Yeah well, I'm not that much of a masochist
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It almost makes JavaScript enjoyable
How can you not love Javascript[^]?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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New feature needed, automatically check urls are valid and point to what you are expecting?
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Does it help you link[^] properly?
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https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wa[^]Quote: The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
Bad Link!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Sounds like a clbuttic mistake looking for a place to happen.
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I am sure you checked out before, but: you should not be the first one to tackle this. Before we reinvent the wheel, is there really nothing out there in the wild interweb that already does the job ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have checked. There's stuff that's close.
But not as fun as making it perfect ourselves and having an excuse to throw some prizes out...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ah, so you're trying to kill a few more kittens. Carry on.
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I'd be interested in using it, that's for certain.
Jeremy Falcon
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