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5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

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Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#11

Post by packetslave »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #10

Hey Scribd and or Google Chrome team. I was just tricked into clicking an ad that simply said "play now" underneath the first slide. I thought it was going to start a slide show of the presentation. Scribd, if you are going to let just anybody advertise on your site you need to clearly mark what is an ad and what isn't. Google team, clicking the add opened a tab that when attempting to close opened a custom dialog wi…

What made you believe this is the support site for either Scribd or Google Chrome?

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#13

Post by Danieru »

packetslave wrote: post #11
jay_kyburz wrote: post #10

Hey Scribd and or Google Chrome team. I was just tricked into clicking an ad that simply said "play now" underneath the first slide. I thought it was going to start a slide show of the presentation. Scribd, if you are going to let just anybody advertise on your site you need to clearly mark what is an ad and what isn't. Google team, clicking the add opened a tab that when attempting to close opened a custom dialog wi…

What made you believe this is the support site for either Scribd or Google Chrome?

The guy who founded Scridb is here as well as tons of googlers.

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#14

Post by endgame »

Mizza wrote: post #12

Just got a full page ad with sound from this page. Fuck Scribd. Any links to a video *or a PDF of these slides?

I assume you mean a "video OR a PDF", but since it's scribd we're dealing with here, a video of the PDF would still be better.

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#15

Post by oinksoft »

Danieru wrote: post #13
packetslave wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you believe this is the support site for either Scribd or Google Chrome?

The guy who founded Scridb is here as well as tons of googlers.

As well as a ton of AdBlock users who'd prefer discussion of the presentation's content, and have no idea about the obtrusive adverts others mention ...

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#17

Post by tar »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #10

Hey Scribd and or Google Chrome team. I was just tricked into clicking an ad that simply said "play now" underneath the first slide. I thought it was going to start a slide show of the presentation. Scribd, if you are going to let just anybody advertise on your site you need to clearly mark what is an ad and what isn't. Google team, clicking the add opened a tab that when attempting to close opened a custom dialog wi…

It's stuff like this that forces people to use AdBlock.

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#18

Post by Smerity »

This presentation is by Armin Ronacher, the author (amongst many other things) of Flask, Werkzeug and Jinja2. If people find this presentation interesting he catalogues and provides slides (and recordings where appropriate) of all his previous presentations: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/talks/

For those who prefer straight PDF over Scribd, Armin has a PDF provided for this presentation[1]. There's also a video but it seems you need to be a member of EuroPython[2].

[PDF]: http://dev.pocoo.org/~mitsuhiko/badideas.pdf

[EuroPython recording if you're a member]: https://ep2012.europython.eu/conference/talks/5-years-of-bad...

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#19

Post by drivebyacct2 »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #10

Hey Scribd and or Google Chrome team. I was just tricked into clicking an ad that simply said "play now" underneath the first slide. I thought it was going to start a slide show of the presentation. Scribd, if you are going to let just anybody advertise on your site you need to clearly mark what is an ad and what isn't. Google team, clicking the add opened a tab that when attempting to close opened a custom dialog wi…

What? You killed Chrome because of what? What is a custom dialog? How is a "custom dialog" going to create a vulnerability?

Re: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

#20

Post by downvoteme »

Here's a shell function. Pipe the scribd html page into it and, voila!, out pops .jpg urls for each page of the PDF document. Feed them to curl or whatever you program you use. Open them with your browser or your image viewer. Pipe them to ghostscript, remake the PDF to your own specs. Whatever. But for the love of God, stay away from scribd.com That site is an annoyance and I doubt it will ever improve.

scrib(){ sed -n ' s,http://html.scribd.com,\

&,g; s,http://html[1-9].scribdassets.com,\

&,g; s,assets,,; s,pages,images,; s,jsonp,jpg, ; s,html[1-9].scribd.com,html.scribd.com,; s,pageParams.contentUrl = \",,; s,\";,,; s,orig=\",,; s,\"/>,,; /^$/d;

/html.scribd.com.images.*jpg/p; ' |sed '/http/!d'; }

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