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This is extremely well done. But incidentally: see if you're talking to the same man comes across a bit odd, seeing as lately a few women and children have been reported using IP addresses.
Sorry, too late to edit the comment now, HN won't let me anymore. I was using man generically, not specifically. Mankind, if you will. s/man/person
if you go to http://static1.robohash.com/ you get the same page as http://robohash.org/ but the IP used is not my IP. nice project though. :)
Static1.robohash.com goes through the CDN.. If you load a PNG through there, it's cached. I wouldn't do the whole site through there, though, or you'll get the CDN's IP!
your concept did a good job in alerting me that the IP that was supposed to me mine was not :)
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This is extremely well done. But incidentally: see if you're talking to the same man comes across a bit odd, seeing as lately a few women and children have been reported using IP addresses.
Sorry, too late to edit the comment now, HN won't let me anymore. I was using man generically, not specifically. Mankind, if you will. s/man/person
I like it but shouldn't it do similarity instead of producing a unique bot? For example, "similar" strings should produce similar bots.
It would be awesome if http://robohash.org/google.jpg generated a jpg, and http://robohash.org/google.png generated a png. It would be even more awesome if http://robohash.org/favicon.ico generated a .ico file.
Google.jpg does generate a jpg, but it's not the same as google.png; The reason for that is that I'm hashing whatever you send in, including the extension.. Otherwise, if you passed file.txt and file.mp3 they'd come to the same hash.
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Robohash looks great. As the 'inventor' of Identicon, I've been meaning to revisit the subject with animal (identimal) or robot (identibot) themes in mind so it's nice to see your rendition of the later. Well done, sir.
Identicons are a great idea, I really love them.. They're a good solution to a gut-check "Something is wrong here.." Sort of like a SSH-fingerprint. The problem I've had with them is that they're generate not all that memorable. Was that triangles pointing left, then up, or up then left? This is my attempt at addressing that problem for my own new project, but I'd love to see what you build! If you want to use these…
Abstract geometric identicons like my original implementation as well as variations used at Wordpress and StackOverflow are, while nearly impossible to remember, distinguishable in a pile which comes in handy when distinguishing the 'voice' of individuals in a long thread of comments.
To use identicons as permanent identity, one has to 'identify' with their identicon. We can identify faces of our friends because we shared memories with them, stories if you will.
So robotic identicons like yours can be made more memorable if users had some ways to create a story they can associate with it like 'blue viking with left arm missing', etc.
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Identicons are a great idea, I really love them.. They're a good solution to a gut-check "Something is wrong here.." Sort of like a SSH-fingerprint. The problem I've had with them is that they're generate not all that memorable. Was that triangles pointing left, then up, or up then left? This is my attempt at addressing that problem for my own new project, but I'd love to see what you build! If you want to use these…
Re 'not all that memorable', that's because identicons were originally designed for 'distinguishing' and 'matching' data, not 'memorizing'. Abstract geometric identicons like my original implementation as well as variations used at Wordpress and StackOverflow are, while nearly impossible to remember, distinguishable in a pile which comes in handy when distinguishing the 'voice' of individuals in a long thread of comm…
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Sorry, too late to edit the comment now, HN won't let me anymore. I was using man generically, not specifically. Mankind, if you will. s/man/person
I wouldn't worry about it. You didn't come off as sexist or anything; it was clearly just informal colloquial speak.
If I had corrected the poster’s lack of a final slash in his s/// syntax, I wouldn’t have been implicitly accusing him of being an incompetent programmer, because it’s a common and small mistake that I make too. But perhaps it’s worth pointing out every tenth time one sees it, as a mater of politeness, demonstrating the assumption that the poster cares.
So my purpose was not to say “you monster” but “psst, you missed a spot”, and that’s how he seems to have taken it.
To me, “man” meaning “human” isn’t colloquial at all (except in the slangy sense of don’t have a cow, man) – in fact, it’s stilted at best.
* I checked his profile.