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I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points…
Hmmm, when the Romanian (and some other) communist regimes were overthrown in 1989, people cut out the socialist coat of arms from the center of their flags. Now I'm thinking, maybe at least one of these countries should have had the good sense to make the hole in the middle of the flag official? Would have been a nice curiosity...
Off topic, but articles like this are a good case study in whether Google should return articles written for the sole purpose of marketing and SEO or not. It’s quite interesting, and probably useful when you’re researching flags. On the other hand, it’s obvious that the Kobadoo wrote it as “content marketing” ie probably paid someone to write it who has no organic motivation other than that and no particular interest…
Off topic, but articles like this are a good case study in whether Google should return articles written for the sole purpose of marketing and SEO or not. It’s quite interesting, and probably useful when you’re researching flags. On the other hand, it’s obvious that the Kobadoo wrote it as “content marketing” ie probably paid someone to write it who has no organic motivation other than that and no particular interest…
I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points…
If the dev used PNG / transparency they could stick to the standard rectangle and add transparent strips ^_^
Nepal, Switzerland and the Vatican City would like to have a word.
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If the dev used PNG / transparency they could stick to the standard rectangle and add transparent strips ^_^
> the standard rectangle Nepal, Switzerland and the Vatican City would like to have a word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_natio... ("List of aspect ratios of national flags")
Some fun examples:
- Denmark, defined as the exact ratio 28:37
- Vanuatu, 19:36
- El Salvador, 189:335
- Togo, φ=(1+sqrt(5))/2
I've been using Anki to learn various kinds of geographic stuff, flags among them—and let me tell you, country flags around Europe sure could use some variation. I mean, I get it that flags were designed to be recognized from afar, with large fields of color, but now I have to memorize the order in all those tricolors like I'm doing middle-school rote learning again. Especially Ireland and Ivory Coast—what's up with…
Off topic, but articles like this are a good case study in whether Google should return articles written for the sole purpose of marketing and SEO or not. It’s quite interesting, and probably useful when you’re researching flags. On the other hand, it’s obvious that the Kobadoo wrote it as “content marketing” ie probably paid someone to write it who has no organic motivation other than that and no particular interest…
It's only a difficult conundrum if you posit that the goal of search is to produce a single result set. Google already allows you to drill down by publish date, by target locale and language, and by all sorts of other things. I'd love to see a search axis for websites with obvious monetary incentives.
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> the standard rectangle Nepal, Switzerland and the Vatican City would like to have a word.
Even the "normal-looking" rectangles aren't even close to standardized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_natio... ( "List of aspect ratios of national flags" ) Some fun examples: - Denmark, defined as the exact ratio 28:37 - Vanuatu, 19:36 - El Salvador, 189:335 - Togo, φ=(1+sqrt(5))/2
Then should they be centered, left-aligned, top-left aligned...??
The fun never ends