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    • Swasticons

      @thecreativeone91's avatar looks like a swastika, as a Jewish person I am offended:

      swasticon.png

      Not really.

      Actually this is a common problem with four frame identicons. That's right, they're called identicons, lol Web 2.0.

      Probably the worst algorithm is the, at one time, most implemented open source one:

      http://sourceforge.net/projects/identicons/

      I started with this one myself and noticed while some only slightly resemble swastikas like @thecreativeone91's though some are so blatant to where it's as if they were made for a white supremacist. This is still a common problem regardless of implementation software:

      https://www.google.ae/search?q=identicons+swastikas

      This happens because, as described above, there's an issue with how most people do this. Typically they draw a box in some random or algorithmically defined way, then rotate it 3 more times to create 4 frames. Of course, one could not rotate them, and this was my first attempt at a fix, but weirdly enough it still happens, albeit slightly less often.

      Instead the best thing to do is to either create 4 or more random frames within your image, which is pretty intensive (but if you cache it, not a big deal) or what I did was generate 2 or 3 (based on the algorithm) and randomly rotate those to create 8 frames. Believe it or not my solution still sometimes creates things which slightly resemble swastikas, but it's far better than a lot of the solutions out there.

      Additionally there's a pretty good solution for WordPress:

      http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_identicon/

      It's still neat though and can give some insight into alternative ways to do it than how most open source methods do it, i.e. how to not create swastikas.

      posted in Developer Discussion common problems
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    • RE: How do you feel when a recommendation you give winds up bad?

      Just always add "this may work" so later if it fails just say "I said may dude, this isn't on me"... I'm half joking about this.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: I think your'e wrong

      @dafyre said:

      @tonyshowoff Aww, come on. I'm good for it man! At least find me my own nigerian prince to help!

      Well, TBH, he saved my life once

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows

      Jeeze if I had 10¢ for every time @scottalanmiller brought up F#.... I'd have 40¢, and that's counting here and SW. What I'm saying is F# needs to be discussed more, personally I prefer it over OCaml, and other similar things such as JoCaml, well that name is hilarious but again, be it that, Erlang or some other crap, I like F#

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: Getting Started with DreamHost

      The primary issue with DreamHost is they hit capacity, a lot, because their unlimited everything often causes people to fill up drives, put in thousands of domains for their crappy WordPress "blogs," and the system itself does not automatically scale, new machines have to be set up and sometimes accounts moved around. Furthermore their front end does not communicate well with the backend so if there are these problems accounts are pushed to setup anyway and problems like @scottalanmiller's are created.

      It's certainly an infrastructure problem, however since it's more of a classic shared host infrastructure it's going to take a lot of time, money, and effort to move it to something more scalable. They certainly seem to be moving in that direction, but when you have who knows how many people signing up per day and beating the absolute hell out of your systems, it's a long road.

      Overall I've used them for about 10 years (personal stuff, DNS [yes, I'm serious]) and they're pretty great compared to other shared web hosts, especially when it comes to trust worthiness and user care, in other words I'd think DreamHost would feed my dogs if I asked them to, however I don't think Hostgator would -- if that analogy makes sense.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: A Short History of the OSWALD

      The prototype, code named "Lee Harvey" was a controversial one.

      posted in News
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    • RE: OSv: The Operating System Written for the Virtualized World

      I think CP/CMS and later z/VM beat them to it, also considering the latter was released in 2000.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Open Source Databases Threatening the Established Proprietary Market

      I've seen DB2 in use, we had so many machines with it holding customer information.

      I was young then, and the memories have stayed with me.

      The horror, the horror..

      Then the company bought out another company which also had DB2 on some old Unix V knock off and some weird flat file thing on some PDP-somethings and we had to interlink the services and slowly transition everyone over.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Jitsi

      Jitsi made me think "some sort of JIT VM?"

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: I think your'e wrong

      @dafyre said:

      Welll dang, I missed my chance! Maybe I could borrow some money from you?

      Yeah see I don't really loan people money, I got burned one time, it's nothing against you it's just a policy, you know

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows

      @dafyre said:

      What supports C#? Running remotely or VSCode itself?

      MonoDev, SharpDev, and JetBrain's IDEA supports it via plugin

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: I think your'e wrong

      I already got my cheque, I'm glad I was able to help that prince of Nigeria get his money out safely.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Help name Webroot's very first Guard Cow

      omfg, so cute I think I just might explode all over my office!

      Seriously!

      Maybe "Moo-valong! Nothing to see here!"

      posted in Self Promotion
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    • RE: PHP 7 Coming with Up to 100% Performance Improvement

      I've been working with PHP 7, it's pretty impressive so far, I really love the type hinting / pseudo-static typing -- it's something I've wanted for PHP for over a decade. There are missing extensions which haven't been ported and most importantly, xdebug, doesn't look like it'll be ported for a while, as on github I noticed the primary contributors were complaining that it'd be "too hard" to do it. In the mean time I created a drop in replacement which works somewhat OK:

      http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/php-7-replacement-for-xdebug-tracing/

      Code is under MIT/X11, because unlike Stallman, I don't believe in forcing you to let me see your code, in other words, I've showed you mine, you need not show me yours 😉

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: Installation of Linux OS with Windows 8

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Remember, Linux is not an OS so the question as to "how" to do this can't be answered unless we know which Linux you are considering.

      At least you (or him primarily) didn't say GNU/Linux, I'd have puked all over myself

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Finger Prints Are Not Passwords

      God, out of all biometrics, I really hate finger print probably the most. There's zero scientific evidence they're unique and the manner of which they're matched is dubious at best and always has been. Hell, there have been people convicted for matching finger prints when they turned out to actually be innocent. Consider also finger prints can slightly change over time or even drastically depending on various environmental factors and a lot of matching is left to human judgement, even after computers match them for crimes.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Block ADs on Skype

      I can't believe you people, Microsoft works hard for that money and... lol I can't even finish this sentence.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Block ADs on Skype

      Man, you trying to get stuff for free? BTW, hope that doesn't violate the license or cause other issues in the future, such as update issues, feature access problems, etc.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Almost to 5K unique threads!

      creates script to post 320 new topics

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Motivating Workers

      @Nic My cousin and one of my sisters in Bosnia live on about 500 euros a month pretty well. Compared to how much I had to spend living in Manhattan...

      tl;dr I agree.

      posted in IT Careers
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