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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by kibwen »

BeFlatXIII wrote: post #95
liontwist wrote: post #80

This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th... Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. EDIT: I…

> Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. It's all down to a lack of viable micropayment infrastructure. See also: ad tech.

Micropayments exist in apps, and yet that hasn't done anything to stop apps from having both micropayments while also being infested with ads.

It's time to dispense with the myth that micropayments were a missed opportunity for the web. Commercialization enshittified the web, and micropayments would have just accelerated that decline.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by sieabahlpark »

nemomarx wrote: post #99
BeFlatXIII wrote: post #95

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> Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. It's all down to a lack of viable micropayment infrastructure. See also: ad tech.

I think a lot of forum posters wouldn't want to charge micro payments for it though?

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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by thatfunkymunki »

dcminter wrote: post #48
richrichardsson wrote: post #39

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I wonder why it ended up being "hash-tag" on social media when it's quite common for North Americans to refer to the symbol as the "pound symbol"?

No idea, but it used to cause confusion that on a British keyboard Shift-3 produced the £ symbol, but a US keyboard produced the # symbol - while in the respective countries they were both referred to as "pound" Perhaps some British influence somewhere? Where were # tags first popularised in the public imagination? Twitter I assume? Or something else? --- Edit to add side-observation: "Octothorpe" I quite like, but I…

> I have similar pain with {} and []

in grade school I believe we were told those were "braces" and "brackets" respectively

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by 6510 »

6510 wrote: post #98
gedy wrote: post #90

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Well at the time, I do know that the vast majority of complaints I heard from colleagues was that it breaks too easily and wouldn't render after that.

I cant remember but I had a list of unsolvable problems that just ruled it out. I think in one instance I wanted to populate a form after it failed validation but couldn't correctly escape the value attributes. I believe the biggest design flaw is that the data is the first document it loads. It doesn't work like that. The application should load first, then the ui logic, then the data and then you should get to load…

This was an enjoyable read

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10vfgiq/what...

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by Sesse__ »

lblume wrote: post #46
bombela wrote: post #32

I can only think of one thing. The computational overhead of this parsing insanity. With the size of modern web pages and the scale. This must amount to a very significant cost.

Highly unlikely. The parsers are written in efficient languages, and nobody is setting color attributes in a loop. Also, this is not how it is done today, and old websites are usually a lot faster than modern ones. I would even argue that the parsing CSS's color syntax is way more expensive than this comparatively simple step-by-step algorithm.

> and nobody is setting color attributes in a loop.

You would be surprised! For instance, MotionMark, one of the main web benchmarks, keeps mutating CSS colors directly on (thousands of) elements to animate them, every frame.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by hnuser123456 »

liontwist wrote: post #80

This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th... Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. EDIT: I…

Marketing? I don't see anything for sale or even any ads on the blog page.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by bhhaskin »

hnuser123456 wrote: post #107
liontwist wrote: post #80

This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th... Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. EDIT: I…

Marketing? I don't see anything for sale or even any ads on the blog page.

A ton of blog content is still "marketing" content. Even if it doesn't directly display ads. It's "SEO".

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by herbcso »

DonHopkins wrote: post #100
afandian wrote: post #67

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And, inevitably, the next generation [0] comes along and use the colour without having any idea of who Chuck Norris even was. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461264

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I'm sorry, but you're missing the spirit of this. It's a post about the spirit of Chuck Norris as represented as a concept on the Internet rather than the actual person. Yes, the person may be reprehensible, however that is not what's being addressed here, rather it's the idea of the concept of Chuck Norris.

And that's the whole spirit of this post in the first place. There is a certain sort of beauty to being so forgiving. The fact that HTML rendering can deal with this level of inanity is frankly an awesome aspect of the web that has enabled loads of creativity by non-programmer types (speaking as a programmer here). I think sometimes we need to pull our heads out of our collective asses and allow for this sort of thing to permit beautiful things to happen.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by DonHopkins »

herbcso wrote: post #109
DonHopkins wrote: post #100

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I'm sorry, but you're missing the spirit of this. It's a post about the spirit of Chuck Norris as represented as a concept on the Internet rather than the actual person. Yes, the person may be reprehensible, however that is not what's being addressed here, rather it's the idea of the concept of Chuck Norris. And that's the whole spirit of this post in the first place. There is a certain sort of beauty to being so for…

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