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Canned Emails – a minimal site with prewritten emails
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#32The fact that there's a canned e-mail for breaking up is slightly disturbing.
Just slightly? This is what led me to believe at first that the site is meant to be humorous and not something serious.
Why not add a canned mail for "will you marry me?", "Your parents were involved in a crash" and "you have 6 months to live" ?
Also, if someone will send me an "Hey. How's it going?" canned mail, I can assure you they won't be hearing from me.
I admit I find it hard to fathom how someone would have such a lack of respect for their relationships with other people (and therefore, implicitly, lack of respect for themselves) that they would actually use this for personal communication.
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#33You should never ask to ask for a question. And you shouldn't announce your question. Just ask.
Similarly, I believe you shouldn't ask strangers how are they or even use it as a greeting.
It helps to understand that asking how someone is at the start of a conversation should generally be interpreted as a social convention rather than a literal question.
The socially correct response is either something like "fine", or to repeat the question. Note that if you're going to answer it as a question, the correct answer is always "fine" regardless of whether one really is fine; if you said something like "terrible" you'd be obliging a stranger to pry into your personal business. The fabric of society is very complex, as someone once said.
These are all valid in various dialects/registers of native English:
Greeting: How are you?
Response: Fine, thank you
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Greeting: How are you?
Response: How are you?
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Greeting: How do you do
Response: How do you do
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Greeting: Sup
Response: Sup
Re: Canned Emails – a minimal site with prewritten emails
#34The fact that there's a canned e-mail for breaking up is slightly disturbing.
Just slightly? This is what led me to believe at first that the site is meant to be humorous and not something serious. Why not add a canned mail for "will you marry me?", "Your parents were involved in a crash" and "you have 6 months to live" ? Also, if someone will send me an "Hey. How's it going?" canned mail, I can assure you they won't be hearing from me. I admit I find it hard to fathom how someone would have s…
Hi Placebo how's it going? I saw those pictures you posted on Facebook recently (omg that plate of food you were eating looked so delish!), they sure brightened up my day. They also reminded me it's been awhile since we've spoken and I miss catching up with you. We should plan to see each other in some future non-specific event, let me know when you think it's a good time and I'll send you my public Google calendar so you can check if I'm busy that day. I also want you to know how special your friendship is to me and that you should feel free to reach out to me with a direct message on Twitter at any time. Well placebo, I'm glad we had this talk, have a great day!
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#35Today I contributed to the greater good of society: var output = ""; $('h2 a').each(function(i) { output += "TITLE: " + $.trim(this.innerHTML) + "\n"; var email = decodeURIComponent(this.href).slice(13).split("&subject="); output += "SUBJECT: " + email[1] + "\n"; output += "BODY:\n" + email[0].replace(/\n( )+/g, "\n") + "\n\n\n\n"; console.log(output); }); That being said I love the site :)
console.log(output); needs to be last line outside each() :) Or move var content = "" inside each()
Whoops, you're right, console.log was supposed to be at the very bottom of the script. By default most browser consoles scroll you to the bottom of the output, so I just read the first half scrolling up and never noticed. No matter, amarraja's version is much better.
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#36Today I contributed to the greater good of society: var output = ""; $('h2 a').each(function(i) { output += "TITLE: " + $.trim(this.innerHTML) + "\n"; var email = decodeURIComponent(this.href).slice(13).split("&subject="); output += "SUBJECT: " + email[1] + "\n"; output += "BODY:\n" + email[0].replace(/\n( )+/g, "\n") + "\n\n\n\n"; console.log(output); }); That being said I love the site :)
Slightly tweaked your script to display inline $("h2 a").each(function(){ var email = decodeURIComponent(this.href).slice(13).split("&subject="); var subject = email[1]; var body = email[0].replace(/\n( )+/g, "\n"); var parent = $(this).parent("h2") parent.after($(" ").text(body)); parent.after($(" ").text(subject)); });
This is great! For anyone wondering, use this one.
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#37This is so misleading, clearly they are not prewritten.
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#38Today I contributed to the greater good of society: var output = ""; $('h2 a').each(function(i) { output += "TITLE: " + $.trim(this.innerHTML) + "\n"; var email = decodeURIComponent(this.href).slice(13).split("&subject="); output += "SUBJECT: " + email[1] + "\n"; output += "BODY:\n" + email[0].replace(/\n( )+/g, "\n") + "\n\n\n\n"; console.log(output); }); That being said I love the site :)
Slightly tweaked your script to display inline $("h2 a").each(function(){ var email = decodeURIComponent(this.href).slice(13).split("&subject="); var subject = email[1]; var body = email[0].replace(/\n( )+/g, "\n"); var parent = $(this).parent("h2") parent.after($(" ").text(body)); parent.after($(" ").text(subject)); });
SO much easier reading it this way :D
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#39Wow, so much potential. There's some weird formatting going on though. I might be using slightly old and lightweight e-mail client (M2 in Opera12), but I still don't think it should look like this http://puu.sh/fTYSp/c4f0a3bb84.png
It's because of the templating, each secondary line has a lot of space in front. Could be fixed if the template/source were left aligned.