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In context Forum: Suggestions 2008-07-01 19:35:41	That's the promise of Markdown. That promise will not be fulfilled until Markdown's parser is a human being. Until then, Markdown is, "Write stuff as though it were plain text, have it parsed wrong, try again, curse at it, Google up a Markdown reference, realize you need to escape something that looks like Markdown, guess at the escape syntax (one backslash for every Markdown character! \_\_foo\_\_, not \__foo\__, you fool!), finally get it right." And what happens when someone wants to add a new type of markup to Markdown? They have to invent some ridiculous syntax for it, because Markdown's syntax isn't regular. With something XML-oid, you can just add an element <foo> and be done with it; with Markdown, you have to come up with some ridiculous sequence of special characters to represent your new markup. Not cool.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2008-07-01 03:34:19	Markdown isn't cool. Irregular syntax is never cool!
In context Forum: Suggestions 2008-06-27 18:25:02	I don't crave HTML on forums. Content and presentation must remain separated, and since your presentation layer is already an HTML template, the additional layer has to be something like BBCode. Anything else is just unsafe. Only if you do it unsafely. If you process HTML the same way as BBCode, and pretend it's a completely unrelated markup language to what you're outputting, there's no problem.
In context Forum: Comic Discussion 2008-02-26 04:38:29	Both would have been significantly more fun had the guy carrying me not been an unpredictable sociopath. Bevin, what was it like picking Darcey up? =P
In context Forum: General 2008-02-26 03:31:32	Did you really program that so quickly? It's very nice.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2008-02-25 22:36:47	Same markup as on eCritters (basically).
In context Forum: General 2008-02-23 05:22:56	Self-portraits are hard. Let's go shopping.
In context Forum: General 2008-02-15 04:05:03	I would suggest cutting back on the number of easy levels, but keeping a few of them to help people get familiar with the interface and the concept of the game and so on.
In context Forum: Bugs 2008-02-09 06:19:57	It's not as terribly inefficient as people seem to think (compared to a file being served from a PHP/whatever script, not compared to a file being served by a highly-optimized Web server), and it's a lot easier to handle. And premature optimization is Osama bin Laden!
In context Forum: General 2008-01-30 12:07:26	That wasn't using Comic Sans and a distracting image background when I posted it. I swear.
In context Forum: General 2008-01-25 03:39:00	Like Sudoko, only not at all like Sudoko. I kind of like it.
In context Forum: Comic Discussion 2008-01-22 08:05:40	Alternate text: "boobs - the greatest invention since the universe".
In context Forum: Comic Discussion 2008-01-09 07:20:32	What's the conversion rate between hugs and blowjobs?
In context Forum: Suggestions 2008-01-02 03:45:31	to pages when a user is logged in, so that search engine bots don't follow or cache what they find when they occasionally encounter a logged in session How the heck would they do that? If you mean PHPSESSID in the URL, that doesn't work here because it's a bad idea.
In context Forum: General 2007-12-29 08:54:05	If it's true by definition, liefKb, then it disproves itself. That's the entire point. No it doesn't, because it isn't a generalization and thus isn't talking about itself..
In context Forum: General 2007-12-17 19:32:17	...but, does that case describe all generalizations? (including the generalization that all generalizations are false?) That isn't a generalization, because it's true by definition.
In context Forum: General 2007-12-17 06:20:37	Says Wikipedia (emphasis is mine): For any two related concepts, A and B; A is considered a generalization of concept B if and only if: * every instance of concept B is also an instance of concept A; and * there are instances of concept A which are not instances of concept B. Thus, by definition, every generalization is false for some items.
In context Forum: General 2007-12-14 23:47:37	Post search by author. Linked to from profiles.
In context Forum: General 2007-12-14 21:49:54	Sauerbraten, but I barely play it.
In context Forum: General 2007-12-14 21:45:31	I need to ask Leif for powers that let admins move stuff around... Done. Thanks to bensonk for a good idea on how to implement part of it.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-12-12 02:48:34	Done.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-12-12 02:37:18	Done.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-12-12 02:26:42	Meh. The bandwidth savings over just pressing 'reload' don't really seem worth the extra maintenance effort.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-12-11 19:53:04	It bothers me too, but honestly if I said, "Needs moar Asyncrhonous Javascript" fewer people would understand what I meant. So say AJAS like WokTiny said. That should get the meaning across clearly enough. I don't particularly like the idea of forums auto-updating without reload. It seems very un-Web-like. Except for things that are naturally dynamic and ever-changing (clocks, for instance), and except for special views of data (like digg spy, which isn't digg's home page), I don't think Web pages should change on their own after being loaded. I also don't even want to think about what it would do to server load. Has any major forum ever done this?
In context Forum: General 2007-12-09 01:04:40	Am I the only person to ever compare Deep Space Nine's Vorta to dogs? Vorta were a (in relative terms) primitive species which was genetically altered by a more advanced race, and they now regard the advanced race as gods and wish only to serve them. Dogs were a primitive species which was genetically altered (with selective breeding) by a more advanced race, and they now regard the advanced race as gods (or royalty, at least) and wish only to serve them (us).
In context Forum: General 2007-12-09 00:58:31	It's sort of like duplicating all the addons if you open a second window, whereas if you stick to tabs the only added drag on your memory is remember how many sites you have open. I'm not sure that's true. I've done a bit of extension development, and as far as I know, extensions are allocated globally to the Firefox instance, not once per window. There may be per-window resources (especially if the extension modifies the browser chrome), but I would expect those would to be minor compared to most extensions' global code and data resource.
In context Forum: General 2007-12-07 05:29:40	No, I don't want my text to randomly disappear. No, I don't want the element to randomly drop down below the float even though ITS WIDTH IS FINE ASDF. FUCK YOU IE. If you're using it, please stop. No, please die. It'll make the world a happier place.
In context Forum: General 2007-11-29 02:11:35	Is it possible to define a mapping between rational numbers and integers, so that every rational number can be converted to a unique integer and back? I'm sure there's an answer to this (perhaps it's even taught in elementary school...), but I can't seem to find it with Google, and this is eating my brain.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-23 20:53:57	`var self = this;` Deeply ingrained Python habits? =P
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-22 08:27:54	I've always believed that a Web site's success is proportional to the number of Greasemonkey scripts existing for it. So, yay.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-21 19:18:03	Oh... right. I'm apparently not much better than ELIZA.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-21 17:15:42	I think you can use Unicode sub/super-scripts, as in πr². How would [sub] and [sup] work in <title>?
In context Forum: General 2007-11-21 03:06:50	Ridgewood, huh?
In context Forum: General 2007-11-20 18:12:47	Darcey, you know how I made this site for you and all? Well, with that being the case, don't you think I've earned the right to axe-murder one of your readers a year? Pleeeeease?
In context Forum: General 2007-11-20 17:52:51	INTERCOURSE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOOD NIGHT!
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-20 15:56:18	Time zones disgust me. Daylight savings time makes me murderous.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-20 12:13:51	I find it sad that Firefox spellcheck catches spellcheck but not ain't. 'Ain't' is a word. And in the absence of 'amn't', it's the best substitute for the ungrammatical 'aren't I'. (The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage agrees, but notes that 'aren't' is more popular for that purpose.)
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-20 04:36:41	You can define additional tags that get translated into HTML with my library, UserHTML.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-19 15:07:54	Yeah, I know. I was agreeing with you on the (occasional) usefulness of AJAX, not disagreeing. But I probably won't do the JavaScript state-maintaining thing simply because PHP's concurrency model makes keeping connections open impractical. (God do I hate PHP.)
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-18 23:42:16	Advice for Web developers: don't be lame like me, use HTMLPurifier, or the equivalent in your language. (I wrote UserHTML for Python, and it mostly works.)
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-18 23:21:26	Yeah, absolutely. My basic philosophy is to use the minimum amount of (client-side) technology necessary to achieve a maximal level of usability, and to make sure it degrades gracefully. In practice, that means I don't use a huge amount of AJAX (or AJAJ (JSON)) except when it's really necessary to implement a useful feature.
In context Forum: General 2007-11-17 11:52:10	I have a horrible habit of copy-and-pasting little one-line snippets of code (the most recent example is `iter(lambda: filelike.read(block_size), '')`, which is from the Python WSGI specification) without bothering to change the variable names to match mine. Usually, I won't notice the error until it shows up in a traceback and I shout, 'WTF, you idiot?' at myself.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-15 07:32:00	Unfortunately, that's impossible to do with a stateless protocol like HTTP. Any site that claims to tell you who's online is lying.
In context Forum: Suggestions 2007-11-13 08:46:54	I wonder if Leif hashes the passwords in the database. Of course. They really should be salted too, but they're not.
In context Forum: General 2007-11-04 01:58:49	I am going to wear it tomorrow and there will be pictures. Y'know, CafePress lets you make thongs, too.
In context Forum: Forum Games! 2007-11-03 03:40:35	I give up more!
In context Forum: Forum Games! 2007-11-03 03:38:30	wins
In context Forum: Comic Discussion 2007-11-01 20:17:00	I put on a pedobear mask to greet trick-or-treaters. It was fun. (No one got it, as far as I know.) What's with how today's trick-or-treaters don't actually say 'trick or treat'?
In context Forum: General 2007-10-29 19:19:39
In context Forum: General 2007-10-29 00:46:01	My dad doesn't want me using linux because it isn't standard Yes, it is. (More or less.) Windows isn't.