Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat

[timmy]

I remember where I was when Peter Brock died

Popped down to the corner shop for snacks. Saw news on telly there.

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

i remember where I was when reiji and sei defeated meijin kawaguchi in the gunpla battle world championship

[thejester]

I remember where I was when Peter Brock died

Popped down to the corner shop for snacks. Saw news on telly there.

and steve irwin

what a terrible week that was for australia

[evilsoup]

You won't believe this one simple trick that can change your life and restore your faith in humanity

[Flagg]

You won't believe this one simple trick that can change your life and restore your faith in humanity

The rape and murder of Justin Bieber?

[evilsoup]

what is it with the hatred of Justin Bieber? I just don't get it

[Veef]

He's kind of a douche. More so than most celebrities.

also he's a one man boy band which threatens the masculinity of all males

[Ralin]

I found him mildly amusing and relatively inoffensive until a friend linked me to a list of things he has done. Before then I'd only heard about the Anne Frank thing, which struck me as tactless but well intended

[evilsoup]

well OK, but the Anne Frank thing was well after loads of people started going on at him

[Ralin]

well OK, but the Anne Frank thing was well after loads of people started going on at him

I hadn't even heard of him before I saw a trailer for that movie about him, mind.

Also when the Anne Frank thing happened a rabbi who's an expert on her gave an interview where he more or less said that she probably would have been a huge Belieber.

[evilsoup]

ugh
some woman who runs a women's shelter on the radio, seems like exactly the kind of person who I should be nodding along to and agreeing with
but no, today they're talking about domestic violence against men, and she's spending so much time trying to minimise the problem
this isn't the first time it's happened either; the last time this program was talking about this, they had these four domestic vioence experts going on and on about how some male abusers pretend to have been hit by their victims in order to cover themselves... while they had a male survivor of an abusive relationship with a woman on the other side of the phone line

[Oxymoron]

Isn't it it what they call "radical feminism" - IE actually sexism going the other way trying to present itself under a progressive veneer?

[Bakustra]

ugh
some woman who runs a women's shelter on the radio, seems like exactly the kind of person who I should be nodding along to and agreeing with
but no, today they're talking about domestic violence against men, and she's spending so much time trying to minimise the problem
this isn't the first time it's happened either; the last time this program was talking about this, they had these four domestic vioence experts going on and on about how some male abusers pretend to have been hit by their victims in order to cover themselves... while they had a male survivor of an abusive relationship with a woman on the other side of the phone line

it's all about economic thinking. you wanna maximize the amount of limited dollars that goes to your program, so you diss others to increase this chance. then people invent stuff to try and avert this like intersectionality, but whoops! now you've turned it on its head and you're trying to make your shelter a shelter solely for black closeted lesbians now!!

[adr]

Isn't it it what they call "radical feminism" - IE actually sexism going the other way trying to present itself under a progressive veneer?

no

[Glass Fort MacLeod]

i remember where I was when reiji and sei defeated meijin kawaguchi in the gunpla battle world championship

I do too. I was sitting there thinking 'man that was awesome. Especially the music.'

[Dooey Jo]

after spending a weekend writing javascript, i conclude 95% of the errors i get are due to ridiculous things a proper language would catch at compile time, or the bizarre variable scope

Have you considered playing with TypeScript or Dart? Both of those languages compile to JS but have sane typing.

Nah, I haven't been doing basically any web development since like 2008, and they didn't exist back then. Seems a bit overkill for what I'm doing now, basically adding another step between writing and testing. Dart also appears to be a completely different language, which seems a bit pointless. I actually like Javascript in many ways. It's way neat.

I just wish writing stuff like
float x = y*y;
wasn't an error, even though "float" is a keyword for some reason.

And speaking of not doing web development for six years, I had the most shocking experience yesterday. I'm developing in Firefox 'cause traditionally that's where shit just works, and since it's just a bullshit test concept kind of thing I'm not going to care if it doesn't work in anything else. But I needed to test some client-to-client code and really needed another browser, so I fired up IE11 and prepared for the inevitable horror of seeing my beautiful design mangled to hell.
Instead I find it looks goddamn identical
Intrigued, I pressed the "activate" button, and it worked without a hitch.

Huh.

I guess the standards are actually working now


tho i still think HTML5 is a piece of crap and refuse to leave tags unclosed, out of mercy for poor parsers that don't want to hardcode a doctype address or what tags can and can't be open. what a beautiful place the web could be if the new standard could say "pages with broken markup shall be refused to be rendered at all and an error message displayed instead".

[adr]

float x = y*y;
wasn't an error, even though "float" is a keyword for some reason.

my javascript inspired script.d allows that and auto just so I can copy/paste code between it and regular d easily enough lol

I fired up IE11 and prepared for the inevitable horror of seeing my beautiful design mangled to hell.

dude ie rox and has for like ever

tho i still think HTML5 is a piece of crap and refuse to leave tags unclosed, out of mercy for poor parsers that don't want to hardcode a doctype address or what tags can and can't be open. what a beautiful place the web could be if the new standard could say "pages with broken markup shall be refused to be rendered at all and an error message displayed instead".

closed tags are beautiful tags

BTW they did that refused to be rendered thing with xhtml

LOL

[phongn]

The whole damned Internet is engineered around Postel's Law, so expecting HTML to be any different is a faint hope. Plus it'd piss off too many people.

[Jung]

I guess this means it might be a good idea to stop giving hurricanes girl names.

[adr]

whelp no more weekly sister missionary visits at my house they said this isn't because of my crush, it is "kind of walking the line on rules"

of course i came to the same conclusion before even asking the first time which is (one reason) why i could barely believe they didn't say no right up front, so i graciously accepted my inevitable fate... por ahora

but it still makes me sad.

[Ralin]

The hypothetical proposed reminds me of an episode of Walker Texas Ranger where the death row inmate was really coerced by the real killer, who threaten to kill the inmate's family if he didn't take the rap. I am not going jump up and down until they had their day in court, but I must say the hypothetical is really far fetched.

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh it's working!

[Darksi4190]

I think last sunday's Game of Thrones had the most brutally awesome death i've ever seen on T.V.

[evilsoup]

like a grape

[Ralin]

I think last sunday's Game of Thrones had the most brutally awesome death i've ever seen on T.V.

The more I think about it the angrier I get that they're changing things from the books to give Sansa more agency and wasting screen time on that which could be put to better use making Littlefinger look awesome and brilliant and pimping.

[evilsoup]

are people actually making complaints like that