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Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

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Post by JoeCortopassi »

xxpor wrote: post #29
JoeCortopassi wrote: post #12

I would love this idea, if it was limited to 10-20 lines. The forced conciseness of it would make devs focus on brief concepts and structure, rather than complex methods. It would end up being like Dribble rather than Gist/PasteBin, and be a great place to browse for techniques I hadn't previously encountered. Think about how fun it would be to scan through an Instagram style list of stuff like this: ############~C~#…

Quick question: wouldn't 1?1:var always return 1?

Nope. Having '1' as the condition in the ternary operator, causes 'var' to never be evaluated (to avoid accidental operations with getters and such), but the compiler allows the 'var' to affect if the '1' is treated as a float or an int. Here's a breakdown:

if var is a float...

  (1?1:var)/2
...becomes...

  (1.0/2)
...which equals 0.5 and is considered true when evaluated. But if var is an int...

  (1?1:var)/2
...becomes...

  (1/2)
...which equals 0 and is considered false when evaluated

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

#32

Post by randomdrake »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #12

I would love this idea, if it was limited to 10-20 lines. The forced conciseness of it would make devs focus on brief concepts and structure, rather than complex methods. It would end up being like Dribble rather than Gist/PasteBin, and be a great place to browse for techniques I hadn't previously encountered. Think about how fun it would be to scan through an Instagram style list of stuff like this: ############~C~#…

Hyperpolyglot has some of this stuff. It doesn't provide particularly rich and deep examples, but it is an easily scannable list of small code snippets. If you haven't seen it already, you should take a look.

http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

#33

Post by saraid216 »

ruswick wrote: post #11

It's a nice novelty, but it certainly won't ever usurp Gists. I'm not sure that it was intended to. However, there is one aspect of the site that really irks me: the wood grain background. For whatever reason, this style has become really pervasive among "hacked-together" sites. Moreover, it sucks. The site would be better served with a geometric pattern, or no background at all.

Could you elaborate on why the wood grain background sucks?

I'm working on a project and I'm considering using a wood grain background for a specific UX, but I'm not a designer and have been postponing making any decisions about it.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

#37

Post by ruswick »

saraid216 wrote: post #33
ruswick wrote: post #11

It's a nice novelty, but it certainly won't ever usurp Gists. I'm not sure that it was intended to. However, there is one aspect of the site that really irks me: the wood grain background. For whatever reason, this style has become really pervasive among "hacked-together" sites. Moreover, it sucks. The site would be better served with a geometric pattern, or no background at all.

Could you elaborate on why the wood grain background sucks? I'm working on a project and I'm considering using a wood grain background for a specific UX, but I'm not a designer and have been postponing making any decisions about it.

The organic pattern and light color are somewhat distracting. It also doesn't seem thematically consistant, and sort of belies the idea of a modern site focused on programming.

Most of all, I just get this visceral sense that wood grain is sort of distasteful, and that plain backgrounds are more aesthetically pleasing.

http://cl.ly/image/3R392H2g371t

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

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Post by Groxx »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #31
xxpor wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quick question: wouldn't 1?1:var always return 1?

Nope. Having '1' as the condition in the ternary operator, causes 'var' to never be evaluated (to avoid accidental operations with getters and such), but the compiler allows the 'var' to affect if the '1' is treated as a float or an int. Here's a breakdown: if var is a float... (1?1:var)/2 ...becomes... (1.0/2) ...which equals 0.5 and is considered true when evaluated. But if var is an int... (1?1:var)/2 ...becomes..…

Is that part of the spec for coercions, or is it exploiting a typical compiler's behavior? It certainly doesn't appear to be a required way to process that statement (optimizations could remove the 'if' portion entirely), unless it is actually required of the compiler.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

#39

Post by saraid216 »

ruswick wrote: post #37
saraid216 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on why the wood grain background sucks? I'm working on a project and I'm considering using a wood grain background for a specific UX, but I'm not a designer and have been postponing making any decisions about it.

The organic pattern and light color are somewhat distracting. It also doesn't seem thematically consistant, and sort of belies the idea of a modern site focused on programming. Most of all, I just get this visceral sense that wood grain is sort of distasteful, and that plain backgrounds are more aesthetically pleasing. http://cl.ly/image/3R392H2g371t

Hm. I've been thinking about going with a darker wood. (And it is thematically consistent in my case, since my goal is to evoke the sense of an old, well-kept bookcase; the project has nothing to do with programming beyond, well, the fact that I'm coding it.)

I'll think about it. I'll pass it through people with actual skill at UX first, too.

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