I gave up arguing about jQuery UI at work, because no one else seemed bothered by the fact that despite all the bloat it still manages to not do what you need half the time.
The jQuery UI model of "pass all the things as strings!" to the named functions drives me a bit crazy too. I know why they did it, but it still irks me. dialog.dialog('close'); |:
hmm? eh, I don't care about the "auto" part. a note/prompt like the keyboard shortcut script does is fine...it's more the "updating" part that I care about (;
has nothing to do with that really. chrome made installing userscripts a pita. I don't even ever remember to go look for updates....and if I don't, how do I expect anybody else to? (;
Okay, seriously though, I'm perturbed by certain people I just can't figure out. And there's nothing really MSO-specific about it, or even SE-specific; it's just that I've seen it several times on MSO recently, and besides, this is MSO's chat. I see three options:
1) they're trolls, but only mild ones, and they aren't even very good at trolling 2) they don't think before they act, and just repeat information/rules they've heard before with no regard for context 3) they mean well, but even after thinking about their actions, they make the wrong decisions about what actions to take
@TimStone Hmm... hard to come up with one that's truly hypothetical but still useful. I guess something like removing the subjective tag from an MSO post because it's a meta tag, even though the post is actually about subjective questions?
@Shog9, @Zypher - If there's anything I can do to help let me know. I'm in Brooklyn for now, but if I can help next week, and school doesn't pick up, I'll gladly make my way over.
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Has Data.SE always been in OR, or was it part of the fallover? If so, is it on a system with lower specs than it was in NY?