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Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

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Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

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post #54

How has no one mentioned the gears in the background on this page yet? It's a touch distracting, but there is some smart stuff going on to make them line up. Sadly the CSS is optimized, which makes understanding its implementation a little tough, but i suspect it'd make for fun reading!

The background is a canvas element - the gear turning is implemented with javascript.

Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

#122
post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only diversity in looks and skin color is endorsed. Not the diversity of ideas (at least when it comes to online discussions on the subject) or backgrounds or experiences ;-) Which seems to be the opposite of what the original goal was i think.

Ain't that the truth. If you tuck your wiener between your legs and dye your hair green people will be clamoring to have you speak at conferences even if the only thing you've ever done is use a twitter brigade to bully projects into adopting a code of conduct.

Dunno - I never met a person like that in real life either. Maybe I'm lucky to only deal with reasonable balanced people at conferences.

Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

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>submissions were uniformly good > you would have been picked if not for this not good quality]> please. What are the chances this submission was brigaded to the top^ spot? ^ http://hnrankings.info/12725337/

Just ate it up, eh?

Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

#124
post #121
post #54

How has no one mentioned the gears in the background on this page yet? It's a touch distracting, but there is some smart stuff going on to make them line up. Sadly the CSS is optimized, which makes understanding its implementation a little tough, but i suspect it'd make for fun reading!

The background is a canvas element - the gear turning is implemented with javascript.

Thanks, I should have said CSS/JS, it too is impossible to read due to the optimization.

Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

#125
post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only diversity in looks and skin color is endorsed. Not the diversity of ideas (at least when it comes to online discussions on the subject) or backgrounds or experiences ;-) Which seems to be the opposite of what the original goal was i think.

Ain't that the truth. If you tuck your wiener between your legs and dye your hair green people will be clamoring to have you speak at conferences even if the only thing you've ever done is use a twitter brigade to bully projects into adopting a code of conduct.

Please don't create new accounts to violate the guidelines with. Not only do we ban them (which we've done), but we ban the main account if it continues.
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