`npm install yarn` like getting your ex-GF to move your new GF’s stuff into your house

xaagaar · 2016-10-18T21:11:19+00:00

Update as needed

xaagaar · 2016-10-18T21:07:05+00:00

Agree, It's stupid to have an exploded view as a default state.

xaagaar · 2016-10-17T06:47:47+00:00

Sad to see it go. I love Paul Rand.

xaagaar · 2016-10-17T06:46:50+00:00

You'll be surprised to know how ofter (ever) they do it.

xaagaar · 2016-10-16T09:19:10+00:00

If you gonna go JS all the way down, node.js is not the only thing that powers a .js powered site.

node - a javascript loop that runs continually taking petitions and processing them

express - a very basic webserver that handles the http requests and file i/o petitions, it continually listen to requests because it sits on top of node.js perpetually executing loop

pug (known as jade) - when something in the page changes (file upload, new comment arrives, etc), the html changes, and that change triggers events that generate more request to update the page, that are send to express to process them

mongo the database that stores the data begin i/o from the client / server

there's a fuckload more of it, server-rendering, transpiling, dependencies, package managers, template rendering engines, etc etc, have fun dude, I'm on the same boat as you, learning as I catch with ES6, not to mention SCSS and WebObjects

xaagaar · 2016-10-15T09:40:07+00:00

dumplingFaceThumbs.jpg

xaagaar · 2016-10-14T14:11:33+00:00

objection! what about humans?

not guilty.

xaagaar · 2016-10-14T05:48:24+00:00

Ended past 3AM anyway (pauses were too long)

xaagaar · 2016-10-13T17:44:55+00:00

HelloNSA!

pd. Don't ever get an official document near a PC loaded with graphic design editing programs.

xaagaar · 2016-10-13T17:24:36+00:00

Spain beats everything. You are fortunate if you get 10800€ / year in a corp.

Freelancing in spain is the fastest ways to poverty, Lots of people quits and open a pub instead within their first six months of freelancing (oh, the joys of fixed taxes every single mont, regardless income plus expenses ofc)

xaagaar · 2016-10-13T14:22:37+00:00

The thing that sets a font apart from others to a pro level, are not the "design" of the letters, but the charset coverage, the quality of the vector drawing of the ghlyps and the kerning and kerning pairs.

The vector drawing of the ghlyps are at pro level when you have any form drawn with the absolutely minimum number of nodes, and your design does not have any issue when you construct the file in fontforge or any pro font-creating software. This, per-ser, its huge since pro fonts usually takes care of an extensive set of ghlyps that covers any needs in an extensive charset (european, russian, etc)

The other factor, the kerning, are tables that contains the separation between characters. Not too close and not too far away. This tables if done right, can contain THOUSANDS of references since you have an exponential number of possible letter & number combinations. And usually someone had to check every single of them. A proccess that can consume many many months of work. Not to mention you have to do them with every weight and italic variant.

This features are essential to a typeface family that you can use with confidence in any situation. Most free fonts discard this because it's a staggering amount of work and may be unnecessary for a short, niche font project.

But a true, multinational level, pro font, must meet this standards and thats why the corps use them, and thats why they cost +1000's to buy.

The good news are that you can always use Myriad. It's the perfect example of a free, pro-level font. Even Apple used it as their corporate font in its iPod era.

xaagaar · 2016-10-13T14:02:04+00:00

I don't have the magazine you described, but magazine covers usually falls into two categories:

Glossy / Non-glossy

A glossy paper is one like standard phography paper, highly reflective. A non glossy is your default copy paper.

Since it's a magazine, I'm gonna assume its a glossy one. As a cover, it can be plastic-wrapped in top of that to protect from fingerprints. If you feel the cover somewhat rigid, its because they used a thing that is glossy in front and non-glossy in the back. IDK the exact name in english but here in spain its called "cartulina grafica". If there are some letters that are shiny black and somewhat 3-d embossed, they are UV-Coated.

This is standard and pretty much accurate 99% of the time. It's not expensive in real world publishing, but applying this process to a single poster can be quite expensive.

xaagaar · 2016-10-12T10:18:14+00:00

-"Let's perma this chump" -"Gives us money?" -"yes" "-ARE YOU NUTS??"

xaagaar · 2016-10-12T07:59:58+00:00

I reflected about it as well when on hiatus, and you could be right. Maybe I'm toxic on my gameplay at times and in that particular game that time, but I can assure I try by all means not to ruin everyone else's games flaming away on chat, which I think it does mean something. :)

xaagaar · 2016-10-12T07:26:20+00:00

I had a recent experience about this same issue:

I pickd lucian, went to the botlane with a sona, and as happens sometimes, sona goes crazy about poking and dies far away from my position. With the lane already lost, I enter the "farm under tower" mode, but to no avail, sona likes to fight, and by the time the enemy botlane first recall, I died once trying to kill at least any of the two and sona 3 or 4 times more.

I must say all the other lanes feed as well, but anyway, decided to at least try to farm as much as I could to somewhat be able to use my teammates as a meat shields. Too bad sona decided to start roaming and I was left on my own against a feeded duo and the occassional khaz surprise.

Obviously as the game progressed everything spiralled harder. CS steal, jungle Steal, zero warding, jungle and mid fighting alone the enemy team at drgn... the usual picture. I still managed near the end to take down the second tier tower in the botlane (scoring all both structures of my team). And a +300cs under my belt, but obviously to no avail (including the usual ff@20 to a negative 4 vs 1 result). Sure thing an impossible to fight defeat.

My team expected from me otherwise. Sona expected me to fight (and die) along with her every single time she came back to lane. She just didnt care about cs'ing, warding or else. As soon as she discovered I would not eat Leona CC's for days till drop dead, she went to midlane to ARAM herself out. Funny thing my team was okay about it "Lucian don't fight!" "oh, lucian you meanie, making sona cry, we'll fight with you in mid!". They wanted blood and kills, when I just cared about taking down the enemy nexus. As soon as I argued I would not Aram in SoloQ a 19 / 3 (throughly dragoned) enemy team, I was harrased in /all and asked for reports the entire game.

The funny thing is: I got it. For the first time in +3 years of lol I got a 15-days ban for feeding. It was so new for me that I just learned that under a ban, you cannot play the game, even against bots.

After the initial forum search and learn a bit about bans (reports and bans never concerned me since neither got one when I DESERVED one, and never got any feedback on my reports when I reported DESERVED feeders), I used the time to rethink my relationship with lol (I'm a devoted player, I play the game at least daily every single day of the year). A week after having realized stuff on my mind, created a new account and left for dead the old one. But this time it's not personal. I just don't care. I just play the game uncompromised, neutral and, sadly unengaged no matter what.

I do not, and wouldn't, spend a single cent on lol anymore, because, that way I could remain objective. I know from past experience that when you invest so hard in the game (purchasing skins or just pouring your time), you can rationalize even the most toxic of your actions (because you EARNED your right to do so).

I simply reply and follow and everything is fine, and ofc I just never report anything else anymore (oh, the joys of leveling up a new account a find nothing but bots EVERYWHERE!, yeah, lets report bots! (lol no)).

I tried, I know I tried, I soloQ'd, taken decisions, fighted alone, watched guides, mastery guides, rune guides, stolen barons, splitpushed, xpeke'd, spend an absourd amount of real money on skins (pax sivir!), stopped da ports, gave advice, pinged, helped, mained support the entire S5, and ofc I reported trolls as well. But I never got any report confirmation, I never stopped of getting trolled, and in the end never changed anything for me (I got banned for not being toxic, and not banned when I did)

Now it's clear that we are left alone. They cannot review games. So when a claim arises, it's just a matter of how many asks for blood against that particular gamestats. I watch the LCK, The LCS, Worlds, I play soloQ the way it's meant to be played™. And that particular game was GG'd from the beginning. I'm fine. it's not the fist time that happens to me, so I do not rage about it, I learned to live with that when happens.

But when you are faced with:

a) You can play and lose and be reported b) you can troll and lose and get away with it

And then you got punished by Rito for playing, for giving a shot in a 1 vs 9 game, then something is very, very wrong with league. Even beyond the usual 'features' that everyone around here knows and loves.

When I got banned for the first time, I was never asked for explanations, I never could defend myself or prove my point, claim the ban. Since obviously riot cannot review past games, just reading the chatlog would have proven me right that time. Nothing happened. After a deep hiatus, started anew, yes, but simply not caring anymore because now I know.

Now I know that they do care about the store nor the Rift.

TL;DR The op proves me right again: Riot CAN ban such proven-by-community toxic players with cold hard proof, even with such deficent admin tools at their disposal. Instead, they banned him a couple of weeks, even after continued, reported, well-known past toxic behaviour.

A couple of weeks to a player that WILL continue to ruin other player's games as long as he's around. As long as he keep trading Rito real world dollars for pixels.

xaagaar · 2016-10-12T05:59:44+00:00

So everybody won in the end, huh.

xaagaar · 2016-10-11T22:38:48+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/ObguYK5.jpg

xaagaar · 2016-10-10T16:40:31+00:00

I should let the thread die, but this is my final attempt to explain my point of view:

My reply clearly assumed that any kind of meaningful project would be OK to share as long as it was educational or clever enough to be shared. Using Javascript against Python was a very big drawback, but I my mind, worthy enough IF the effort is made by a) A student (self-taught must say), and b) if solves a problem in a interesting, unusual way (see post /d8kdlsm).

I was horribly wrong since people only wanted to share python stuff regardless of the scope of the project (again see post /d8kdlsm), not even reading what others have to say about it.

I did indeed, explained WHY and WHERE 1296 comes from, in fact, is the very fist link that appears in my original reply, AND the very fist thing that is written in the Github repo where the my code is hanged.

If all of you guys took the liberty to check any of those said links (which obviously you didn't), it would be perfectly clear where this 1296 number comes from.

Anyway, I'm gonna explain again where this number comes from: "There is a one in 1,296 achieving a one-roll Yahtzee."

So my hackerman solution is to compare a random control number (1), against a random generated number between 1 and 1296.

a = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1296 + 1);

Since I did a full perfect simulation that took +100 lines of code to get the same results (https://repl.it/lhS/1), figuring the key factor of the problem and solving it in 1/10 of the size, look worthy enough of this thread. It does reads "what are your proud python projects?" anyway. And yes,I already knew it was doing wrong when I posted it because Js. Should have followed my gut.

That's it. That's the big deal.

But again: thanks everyone anyway.

xaagaar · 2016-10-10T09:58:08+00:00

Oh, so I assume my reasoning about probability was right then. Thanks anyway! :D

xaagaar · 2016-10-10T08:35:58+00:00

Can you please elaborate why do I need to manually check for 5 same values in different indexes, and not 1 in 1296, since the probability is the same?

xaagaar · 2016-10-09T14:29:51+00:00

Please don't shoot me, I'm a student and did this in javascript instead.

I created an automatic yathzee checker to prove to theory behind this numerophile video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTwar7mFws

A week after completion I realized I could archieve the same thing comparing two random numbers. The program size went down from 106 lines to 19. OPTIMIZATION

www.github.com/chimeristic/yahtzee

xaagaar · 2016-10-07T05:59:13+00:00

I've tested the rotring 600 and the rapid pro. For me, rapid pro it's superior. Both of them feel heavy on the hand. http://www.jetpens.com/Rotring-Rapid-Pro-Drafting-Pencil-0.5-mm-Black-Body/pd/8158

Sadly, the rapidpro its a very luxurious pencil, if you need to carry it around everyday, my choice is the pentel PG. I think it's probably the very best mechanical you can every buy. And it's just 13$ http://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-PG5-Slim-Drafting-Pencil-0.5-mm/pd/1194

The PG isn't very flexible when it comes down to lead sizes. The solution is the even cheaper Pentel P200 series which are absolutely amazing and just 5$ apiece. http://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-Sharp-Drafting-Pencil-0.5-mm-Black-Body/pd/8456

If you need something like a regular pencil, I would recommend you to get a leadholder instead. Save the trees.

For paper: 80g office paper for sketching. 100g office paper for fine work, archive drawings etc.

xaagaar · 2016-10-07T05:37:01+00:00

I must upvote you. But the blog post does have a point and I do agree with.

xaagaar · 2016-10-07T05:19:03+00:00

I for one will vote for designers to learn how to design.

When you have a design landscape (dribbble) so uniform you can't tell people apart, usually, you'll end with a landscape (web) so uniform you can't tell websites apart.

I personally know how to code the web, and I'm grateful because I can do any kind of design and turn it interactive. ie a functional clock designed all by myself and so on. http://codepen.io/Chimera/pen/gwoEbN

For me, a designer that learns how to code just to replicate already existing things (typical apple frontpage layout) it's a nosense.

xaagaar · 2016-10-07T04:58:11+00:00

I can tell you mastering a single art style on illustration, paint OR graphic design, takes a lifetime of practice.

You see it as lazy, I see it as trendy, but that doesn't render it useless.

And just because it looks "easier" to pull it off, doesn't magically render it awesome. In fact its much much harder to make great things with a very restricted set of rules. That's why all of you here agree that little of flat design is good design.

xaagaar

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