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Are we really so desperate to stick with buzzwords and "hot tech" that we wind up creating Heroku-powered Ruby apps with Bootstrap UI widget-filled pages to serve up a set of 5 static images over HTTP, rather than just, say, uploading them to imgur?
Are we really so desperate to stick with buzzwords and "hot tech" that we wind up creating Heroku-powered Ruby apps with Bootstrap UI widget-filled pages to serve up a set of 5 static images over HTTP, rather than just, say, uploading them to imgur?
Whilst this is a post of derision, I do think people only know the highest level abstraction mankind can accomplish these days. It's embarrassing really. There is elegance in simplicity. Please continue to take the piss out of it :) I actually knocked up a single new static error page for our main web application a few weeks ago in 620 bytes including inline css (quite big if you ask me). It had no dependencies. My c…
I don't understand the point of redirecting every number between 0 and 100 when there are only five gifs.
That way the browser can download and cache 5 possible images rather than 100 and the user just has to think in terms of 0-100.
This is the part I'm not understanding. Why would the user want to think in terms of 0-100? What benefit is there to that? One way or another, you're going to be doing Math.floor(val*N/maxVal). What difference does it make if N=5 or N=100?
The only advantage I can see is that setting N higher means that you can later add more steps without breaking backwards compatibility. But this is one case where that definitely won't happen, since the steps are a historical reference.
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Whilst this is a post of derision, I do think people only know the highest level abstraction mankind can accomplish these days. It's embarrassing really. There is elegance in simplicity. Please continue to take the piss out of it :) I actually knocked up a single new static error page for our main web application a few weeks ago in 620 bytes including inline css (quite big if you ask me). It had no dependencies. My c…
For some reason seeing a size expressed in bytes makes it seem small. Saying 620 characters sounds much more reasonable.