There has got to be some finite combination of stars that make up constellations. You all see the Big Dipper but thereabouts I see Jerry the Cowboy and Alan the Cowboy.
Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
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#142"Later he applied his extravagant principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen, he would say (for example) Maximo Perez; in place of seven thousand fourteen, The Train; other numbers were Luis Melian Lafinur, Olimar, Brimstone, Clubs, The Whale, Gas, The Cauldron, Napoleon, Agustin de Vedia. In lieu of five hundred, he would say nine. Each word had a particular sign, a species of mark; the last were very complicated.... I attempted to explain that this rhapsody of unconnected terms was precisely the contrary of a system of enumeration. I said that to say three hundred and sixty-five was to say three hundreds, six tens, five units: an analysis which does not exist in such numbers as The Negro Timoteo or The Flesh Blanket. Funes did not understand me, or did not wish to understand me."
-- Funes the Memorious, Borges
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#143"Later he applied his extravagant principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen, he would say (for example) Maximo Perez; in place of seven thousand fourteen, The Train; other numbers were Luis Melian Lafinur, Olimar, Brimstone, Clubs, The Whale, Gas, The Cauldron, Napoleon, Agustin de Vedia. In lieu of five hundred, he would say nine. Each word had a particular sign, a species of mark; the last…
Brilliant. I knew it was Borges after the first sentence! There’s something a little Library of Babel about this project.
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#144WARNING
There is zero indication on the whole site as to who is responsible for this.
There seems to be no privacy statement.
The registrar is anonymized.
The chances of this being a cutesy email phishing site are VERY HIGH
Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#145kinda duplicate of
https://www.color-hex.com/color/7fffd4
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#146A few of my favorites so far: Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA It's Still Basically Black: #000001 Nice: #696969 (lol) These would make for some great candidates: https://colors.lol/ ;)
I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc: blue #aabbdd green #aaddbb purple #bbaadd pink #ddaabb orange #ddbbaa (I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)
After seeing your comment, I thought blue should be #DaBaDe(e) but I wasn't first to come up with this idea: https://colornames.org/color/dabade
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#147WARNING There is zero indication on the whole site as to who is responsible for this. There seems to be no privacy statement. The registrar is anonymized. The chances of this being a cutesy email phishing site are VERY HIGH
They don't seem to be asking for emails though. At least not when you go to name a color or downloading data.
The only place where they are asking for e-mail is on the contact form which makes sense.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil
>What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? It's waiting for review approval on the chrome webstore.
after checking icon and layout, they just install the extension in a sandbox and if it runs without a javascript error it passes.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
The entire website is obviously a silly joke. Even if the colours were distinguishable you wouldn't go about naming them in this fashion but in some more systematic fashion
I thought the entire thing was an excuse to have yet another node dependency. const namedColors = require('namedColors'); const chalk = require('chalk'); console.log(chalk.hex(nameColors['Hacker News Orange'])( lol, you just downloaded a 200meg dep for named colors ));
Good, let's have it so that the the senior developers can come in and save the day by hardcoding the "hacker news orange" :)
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#150WARNING There is zero indication on the whole site as to who is responsible for this. There seems to be no privacy statement. The registrar is anonymized. The chances of this being a cutesy email phishing site are VERY HIGH
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