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radp

12:07 AM

text NFSW → jwz.org/blog/2011/01/man-busted-for-building-vibrator-bomb

drachenstern

@radp NOT THAT !

@radp that!

radp

@drachenstern Oh, then I don't.

Dan Grossman

radp

@DanGrossman A counter!

Dan Grossman

hmmm

could do that

drachenstern

12:11 AM

A counter for what?

radp

People using the service, or visiting the site, or something.

Dan Grossman

there's so much variability between laptop screens these days I worry my design looks like crap on other screens because of things I can't even see on mine

Maxim Zaslavsky

what's that screennshot about?

(just got here fyi :D)

radp

@MaximZaslavsky about the question

@Josh is it you with the book open?

Dan Grossman

12:28 AM

@MaximZaslavsky what @radp said... hoping for feedback on what to put there in my design

radp

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Maxim Zaslavsky

@DanGrossman oh okay. one obvious solution is leaving it as negative space; in other words, maybe putting nothing there would be better.

Dan Grossman

i think it looks really off-balance empty

on internal pages of the site I can shift the logo up there, but that doesn't fit the home page concept

Maxim Zaslavsky

i see what you're saying

drachenstern

@DanGrossman I concur negative space

Make the logo larger on the home page/landing page

Not much larger, just 25%

have it drive upwards a little

Dan Grossman

12:32 AM

drachenstern

you didn't change anything

Maxim Zaslavsky

sure he did - neg. space

i think it looks somewhat okay

Dan Grossman

drachenstern

@MaximZaslavsky oh, well I saw that

@DanGrossman only if you rotate the text with something else ... a ticker of sorts? a WoB?

Dan Grossman

<~ no design skills

drachenstern

12:37 AM

@DanGrossman so beg Jin ;)

Dan Grossman

rotating text?

George Marian

@drachenstern How about keeping the negative space, but making that top bar shorter?

Dan Grossman

like a vertical marquee?

George Marian

Please, no marques!

drachenstern

@DanGrossman that's what I'm thinking

@GeorgeMarian no no no

Maxim Zaslavsky

12:38 AM

@drachenstern :)

drachenstern

Look at the Wheel of Blame

it's a vertical marquee just really really fast

Dan Grossman

implemented in jQuery to replace the contents of a real <marquee> tag?

drachenstern

something like that ... I'm thinking like 5 divs hidden and one visible, each to replace the other, with a slideup each time. One negative top slideup to leave the space, the other positive slideup to enter the space

I've done it before, can drag up some javascript if you like, but it's gonna be rather custom each time ...

actually my codeblock doesn't have vertical sliding, thought it did

I must've taken that out

George Marian

Dan Grossman

that's an option

drachenstern

12:46 AM

I'ld have to see what a content page looks like

idk, I liked the bigger bar for some reason, but the smaller one is nice

Shog9

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A: Just get rid of the lazy moderator flag comment box.

As a result of this question, I am seriously considering increasing the text input limit on the moderator flag box from 140 to 141 characters.

radp

@Shog9 ouch.

If I went in and edited "141" to "9,001" would I get burninated?

drachenstern

@radp yes

Shog9

No, it'd just get rolled back.

drachenstern

@Shog9 I made it awesome

Tim Stone

12:49 AM

@radp He's only three gravatars to your right, I think that's within striking distance.

radp

@TimStone Fixed.

Rebecca Chernoff

gets the burninator ready

Dan Grossman

:wants to know the history of the coding horror logo... did it come from the books? earlier than that? does jeff license it?:

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff You just have a burninator laying about? :P

radp

@DanGrossman it's explained on codinghorror.com

Lance Roberts

12:50 AM

@Shog9 Victory!

Maxim Zaslavsky

@radp yup just search for it

radp

@TimStone I guess it's near the kitchen in the office.

Shog9

@DanGrossman click on the about link on the blog

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone All team members get one.

Tim Stone

@radp That'd make sense.

Jeff Atwood

12:51 AM

@LanceRoberts was your request serious? what can't you fit in 140 chars?

Dan Grossman

ah, I missed that

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Ah, like an office warming gift.

Maxim Zaslavsky

@GeorgeMarian @dan yes, it'd be better with a smaller top bar. you could even make it the same color as the one on content pages.

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood damnit, for a minute I thought you were a regular chatter. Then I saw the hair.

Lance Roberts

@JeffAtwood A long paragraph to inform a moderator of something that couldn't be done in a short one. Somebody got hosed bigtime, but it's too late now to do anything about it. I won't give the specifics because it was for the one specific moderator who messed up.

drachenstern

12:52 AM

@RebeccaChernoff but it hasn't been six-to-eight weeks yet!!!

Dan Grossman

Jeff Atwood

I blame @RebeccaChernoff

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radp

@LanceRoberts You could've sent him a "PM" if you really need that sec -- star -- recy.

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood and /assign ?

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern Burninating you pesky users is a top priority of my job. Burninator was required on Day 1.

Jeff Atwood

12:53 AM

@LanceRoberts I'll look at increasing it some, but I doubt I want to increase it any more than maybe 50% in size

Shog9

In support of Lance's request, it's happened to me when suggesting - I always try to write something in justification of it (since I don't know if the mod reading will be familiar with the subject matter) and usually run out of room then.

Jeff Atwood

jarrod is working on redesigning the mod flag dialog and moving it server side -- all the other dialogs are server-side now (close, mod actions, etc)

Rebecca Chernoff

@JeffAtwood Hey, don't you remember the no-blame clause I negotiated? (;

Shog9

(So I fly into a rage, delete the entire text, and just write "MERGE BITCH!)

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Zypher

@drachenstern so .. wrong

George Marian

12:54 AM

@JeffAtwood For some reason this made me think of the lyrics to I'm My Own Grandpa which are ensconced in the comments to a recursive function in this one codebase I've worked with. Don't ask me why. I have not idea. lol

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern oy

drachenstern

@Zypher and yet someone starred it :p

Zypher

don't drive the only woman in the room away

... oh ... wait

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff as if you would work on a glass floor with devs under you anyways :p

<-- scared of heights anyways ... I believe it's a natural selection thing

Dan Grossman

that would be an interesting building

someone should build it

Jeff Atwood

12:55 AM

I guess I don't need these glass underpants I am wearing, then

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood ouch ... the first time you moved ... shred

Zypher

@JeffAtwood we have deciding that upgrading to plexiglass makes things more awesome

drachenstern

talk about shredding

So besides my dumb sense of humor ... Jeff are you moving it up by 50% then?

make it an even 200?

Shog9

I remember a library with glass floors in the stacks... Most were translucent, one floor was transparent. That floor was fun.

Dan Grossman

all field size limits should be powers of 2

drachenstern

12:57 AM

140: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean scelerisque metus mattis lectus feugiat ultrices. Maecenas convallis nullam.

200: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam ut enim sapien, ut mattis elit. Aliquam nec mauris eu neque aliquam egestas. Duis sed facilisis tortor. Proin venenatis cursus turpis duis.

210: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce sit amet sapien a libero sollicitudin interdum vitae nec turpis. Praesent eget lacus in neque porta tempor nec ut felis. Nulla enim mauris posuere.

Jeff Atwood

I'll have to look and see how big the database field is, but I can support it being a little larger, up to maybe 140 + 70 or something

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood just crush twitter, whatever you do ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

@DanGrossman Eh, I prefer a check-in policy of commit messages being haikus honestly.

Jeff Atwood

we can't have Lance upset, now can we? that would be calamitous!

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drachenstern

lmao

radp

12:58 AM

@JeffAtwood I wasn't kidding when I said it was 150 chars

It's "140 chars left" after you write the required first 10 chars.

Either that or you discard the last chars of sufficiently long mod flags :)

drachenstern

@radp wouldn't you?

Maxim Zaslavsky

@DanGrossman ok that's awesome!

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