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!
Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected
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Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected
#122Earlier 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.
Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected
#123>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/
Re: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected
#124How 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
#125Earlier 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.