Really? You are that susceptible to suggestion?

All comments in this thread taste like send-jeffamaphone-money.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 7:16 AM on June 2, 2008

Mods: I have some questions.

1) Can we repost old projects to get public comments? Public discussion may lead to more comments.

2) I've often wondered if it is kosher to post the same project again after some period of time if significant new functionality is added. I think the answer is either: "no" or "use your best judgement but be prepared for deletification."

Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:43 AM on May 28, 2008

Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 12:35 PM on May 28, 2008

I'll hold your doughnuts. Wait. What?

They have donuts made with cough syrup in Portland. I'm pretty sure that's what this thread is all about, actually. Getting horked on dextromethorphan. Sure, he pitched it as a desire to complete his Mod-signed t-shirt, but I know the Great White 'Fro cares nothing for signatures. I mean, all the "festivities" innuendo.

We must prevent this sickness. We must stop it from... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 7:42 AM on May 5, 2008

The thought of celebrating MetaFilter at a hotel bar makes me sad.

I was against it until you pointed out how sad and depressing it is. Now I'm all for it. Last year in Portland was way to happy-fun-frolicy. I vote for hard drinkin' in the sad surroundings of the hotel bar.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:36 AM on May 5, 2008

I thought it was okay, not great, but okay and if I'm feeling wavery and the flag queue is also sort of non-decisive we'll usually leave it.

Just because it's monday, the Iron-fisted moderating self-defenestrates, eh? Showing weakness just encourages the proles.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 7:34 AM on May 5, 2008

*steeples fingers, chuckles darkly*

Now that is the kind of moderatin' what keeps me coming back!
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 7:50 AM on May 5, 2008

Metafilter looks great on iPhone. :-/
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 8:49 PM on April 22, 2008

Pocket IE is probably the worst thing ever. Though, last I heard, there was a team being staffed to make it suck less. I wouldn't hold your breath though. I have seen the light, and it is webkit.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 8:58 AM on April 23, 2008

What good are the Internets without snarky comments? I'm all down with hate, I just prefer it to be clever and interesting hate. But, you know, whatever.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 1:22 PM on April 17, 2008

Metafilter is just fine.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:38 PM on March 26, 2008

Awww.

Metafilter should help drive adpotion of better hardware. For the good of the ecosystem.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 2:30 PM on March 11, 2008

That's too bad. This is just like smart tags all over again. They try to do what they think is best for customers, there is public outcry and whining, and they cave to pressure. Man, can anybody really take them seriously as evil, take-over-the-world types anymore? So sad.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 2:05 PM on March 4, 2008

As a newly minted Palo Altasiean, I may come to this meet-up, depending on how far I have to schlepp.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 6:40 PM on February 5, 2008

fuck.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 11:53 AM on January 31, 2008

I think HTML proficiency should be a requirement for posting HTML. Get rid of the buttons.

In other news, "proficiency" violates the i-before-e-except-after-c rule... never noticed that before.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 5:30 PM on January 26, 2008

Just because Metafilter set's a higher bar doesn't mean that occasionally we all need a good laugh.

I for one welcome our new single link youtube posting overlord.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 5:25 PM on January 26, 2008

This is the best meetup I didn't go to.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 3:37 PM on January 4, 2008

I'm just glad the gold bar--er, information bar--is keeping you all safe from whatever this thing is. :)
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:38 AM on December 31, 2007

Goddamnit if you want a call in show make your own goddamn call in show. I'd call.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 6:01 PM on December 30, 2007

Best not to have it. It's just begging for your site to be used by spammers. Then you have to add captchas and have opt-out lists... it's a big pain in the ass. Not rocket science either, however.

I joined metafilter because I want to know things that other people don't know. If I tell them as soon as I see it, I'll be a lot less entertaining at parties.

Also, just what is metafilter's privacy policy?!
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 2:17 PM on December 27, 2007

I'm with you blacklite. I tried to get some PM's I worked with to do the same thing, but they were having none of it.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:39 PM on December 27, 2007

Nuthin'
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:23 AM on December 25, 2007

:-/
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 11:30 AM on December 24, 2007

Yeah, I'm assuming it's IE specific.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:33 AM on December 22, 2007

Yeah, IE7 is better but not perfect.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 6:58 PM on December 22, 2007

It's because we all know French is sexier than Irishness. If Paddy McCelticDude would just fucking learn French...
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 11:17 AM on December 12, 2007

I was actually the developer who fixed this feature in IE7. The IE6 version is horribly broken. The only way to reliably fix it is to clear your history AND cache. This can be done from the inetcpl (Tools->Internet Options).

If anyone wants a more detailed explanation, I can go on at length.

And before anyone gets too snarky with me, I realize that it still isn't 100% in IE7. To which I respond: it's a lot fricken better than it was.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:58 AM on December 6, 2007

Oh, then you have to re-add it as a favorite.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:59 AM on December 6, 2007

I suspect if you found someone willing to sign large enough checks, puppy meat would start to taste good again.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 11:10 AM on December 6, 2007

Jeeze, I went to lunch. Remain calm.

So the way IE6 did it was when you made something a Favorite, it would download the favicon once. The url for the favicon would be stored in history, the actual icon would be stored in the temporary internet files cache. So you visit a site, it does a lookup in history to figure out what the url for the favicon is, then it looks in the TIF to see if the icon is there. If you cleared either one, history or the cache, the icon was... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 1:54 PM on December 6, 2007

Hey, cut the guy some slack. He's probably busy. Fixing Vista.

Nope, I left MSFT in May.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 1:55 PM on December 6, 2007

If you have favicons in IE7 that are horked, this guy managed to save the FAQ I had posted.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 1:56 PM on December 6, 2007

Whir: No--it should be brain dead simple if you build it right. I was stuck patching an existing system. The crappiness comes from building it on the shell image list and all the shell interfaces, like IExtractIcon. It should be just a straight-forward database query.

There are some complexities: Sites can specifiy via <link rel="shortcut icon" href="mypath\myowndamnname.ico"> tag that points to some other location. This can be done per... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 5:51 PM on December 6, 2007

I implemented comment editing on a site that I run. I did what odinsdream suggested here. Whenever a comment is edited, I put a big [EDITS] button at the beginning of the comment. Clicking the [EDITS] button takes you to a page that shows you all of the edits for that comment, starting with the original, as well as the time stamps for each edit.

This prevents anyone from making a change that changes the meaning of their comment since they can be easily called on it.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:55 PM on November 30, 2007

> Being able to edit my comments has made me kind of sloppy about my typing.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. Spell checkers make me lazy about spelling. Refrigerators make me lazy about how long I keep food. GPS makes me lazy about learning the damn street names in this town.

Accomodating technology is good. Lazy is good.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:58 PM on November 30, 2007

I can complain still:

What no EV cert? Lame. I demand pretty green address bars. Otherwise, how do I know this is really MetaFilter? I mean really MetaFilter?
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 7:15 PM on November 29, 2007

Seems to work with IE7+Vista.

Still no https login... ?
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 3:14 PM on November 28, 2007

YAY for SSL.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 8:51 PM on November 28, 2007

I demand more snark.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:48 AM on November 25, 2007

Look for a "?" in the title field and display a warning to the user: "Looks like you typed your question in the title field. Nobody will see the title. Did you really want to do that? You should put your question in the field marked 'question'."
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:22 AM on November 12, 2007

I'm against Christmas. It should be easy to write a regular expression to replace it with something else.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 6:37 PM on November 1, 2007

Waiting.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:30 AM on November 1, 2007

I for one welcome this thread.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 2:27 PM on October 30, 2007

I won't make it. I'm broke. :(
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 12:53 PM on October 29, 2007

I'll probably try to maybe come.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:51 AM on October 9, 2007

Wait to ruin it for everyone afrononblinka.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 12:12 PM on September 14, 2007

I've seen good snow there in December more often than not in the last seven years.

I'm in, providing the SO doesn't object.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 10:38 AM on September 4, 2007

Whistler. Snowboard.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 3:40 PM on August 24, 2007

I can't belive you even suggested this. Now we all know you have lots to hide.
posted to MetaTalk by jeffamaphone at 9:22 AM on August 9, 2007