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posted by Now there are two. There are two _______. at 3:27 PM on October 29, 2013
posted by Now there are two. There are two _______. at 3:27 PM on October 29, 2013
Netflix should hook this up to their streaming library and let it take requests.
posted by jason_steakums at 3:37 PM on October 29, 2013
posted by jason_steakums at 3:37 PM on October 29, 2013
This is her greatest gif(t) to humanity....
The rest is okay, but it's no 'Scroll down to Riker'...
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:40 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
The rest is okay, but it's no 'Scroll down to Riker'...
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:40 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Is there an easy way to implement the VLC code she mentions? Is it as easy as opening a command prompt in Windows, plunking in the code (tailored to whatever video you are watching) and hitting "return"?
posted by KokuRyu at 3:56 PM on October 29, 2013
posted by KokuRyu at 3:56 PM on October 29, 2013
"I can feel it."
"Feel what?"
"My lipstick suddenly wearing off."
posted by Sys Rq at 4:24 PM on October 29, 2013 [3 favorites]
"Feel what?"
"My lipstick suddenly wearing off."
posted by Sys Rq at 4:24 PM on October 29, 2013 [3 favorites]
I feel like this is appropriate.
Is there some sort of joke that I am not getting here? That just seems like among the most pointless GIFs in existence. Pointlessly animated, that is.
I remember when GIF's were pretty much the internet standard for image sharing. Many a long wait on dialup for the interlacing lines to clear up and give me the fully focused view of fake Kelly Bundy spread eagle were the boner killing bane of my early teens. Then JPEG came along and livened up the party. And though the animation capabilities of GIF's were always there, it is only relatively recently that they became a "thing", as it were. A memetic means of getting across a very short video w/text. Now, GIF's are so synonymous with animation that I think a lot of younger users don't even know that GIF's aren't inherently an animation format.
Anyways, my point is that it is a hard G. And I will argue this point to the death.
posted by mediocre at 4:24 PM on October 29, 2013 [4 favorites]
Is there some sort of joke that I am not getting here? That just seems like among the most pointless GIFs in existence. Pointlessly animated, that is.
I remember when GIF's were pretty much the internet standard for image sharing. Many a long wait on dialup for the interlacing lines to clear up and give me the fully focused view of fake Kelly Bundy spread eagle were the boner killing bane of my early teens. Then JPEG came along and livened up the party. And though the animation capabilities of GIF's were always there, it is only relatively recently that they became a "thing", as it were. A memetic means of getting across a very short video w/text. Now, GIF's are so synonymous with animation that I think a lot of younger users don't even know that GIF's aren't inherently an animation format.
Anyways, my point is that it is a hard G. And I will argue this point to the death.
posted by mediocre at 4:24 PM on October 29, 2013 [4 favorites]
I feel like this is appropriate.
That just seems like among the most pointless GIFs in existence.
Exactly!
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:26 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
That just seems like among the most pointless GIFs in existence.
Exactly!
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:26 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
And though the animation capabilities of GIF's were always there, it is only relatively recently that they became a "thing", as it were.
They've been a thing as long as the web itself.
[flashing 'under construction' sign]
posted by Sys Rq at 4:27 PM on October 29, 2013
They've been a thing as long as the web itself.
[flashing 'under construction' sign]
posted by Sys Rq at 4:27 PM on October 29, 2013
I felt like the GIF was appropriate because it actually was a good story. I didn't realize that would be contentious.
posted by themadthinker at 4:30 PM on October 29, 2013
posted by themadthinker at 4:30 PM on October 29, 2013
They've been a thing as long as the web itself.
Well yeah, and they along with blood dripping borders and any one of hundreds of neon green and yellow migraine inducing background GIF's were always around. But the explosion of them as memetic devices is relatively recent. Of course, by relatively recent I mean within the last 15 years.
posted by mediocre at 4:31 PM on October 29, 2013
Well yeah, and they along with blood dripping borders and any one of hundreds of neon green and yellow migraine inducing background GIF's were always around. But the explosion of them as memetic devices is relatively recent. Of course, by relatively recent I mean within the last 15 years.
posted by mediocre at 4:31 PM on October 29, 2013
mrtatemyballs.gif
posted by mediocre at 4:36 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by mediocre at 4:36 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Ok for a POC. To scale that out as a "service" is going to take a bit of work.
She is going to want to refactor that to use some kind of work queue. To scale it cheap and easy she could have multiple instances behind LB, but that isn't very dynamic. A queue system would let her spin up more instances as load increases.
Each instance should handle X number of conversions concurrently. She is going to have to experiment with this number based on system resources.
Some kind of sane temp file system (right now she has filename = "star_wars.gif" hardcoded in there).
Add performance monitoring. Even logging the start/end/elapsed for each conversion would do wonders. There is no way to plan for growth if she has no idea what sort of resources each conversion requires.
Moar logging. She throws aways errors.
Once you have your work queues in place, log to a queue, saves you from having to do your own aggregation or log shipping from 50-100 servers.
She should maybe implement some kinda pattern to easily swap out VLC. I know in many situations we have to swap out a key component due to licensing or performance issues.
I'm tempted to enterprise this thing up.
posted by Ad hominem at 4:41 PM on October 29, 2013 [3 favorites]
She is going to want to refactor that to use some kind of work queue. To scale it cheap and easy she could have multiple instances behind LB, but that isn't very dynamic. A queue system would let her spin up more instances as load increases.
Each instance should handle X number of conversions concurrently. She is going to have to experiment with this number based on system resources.
Some kind of sane temp file system (right now she has filename = "star_wars.gif" hardcoded in there).
Add performance monitoring. Even logging the start/end/elapsed for each conversion would do wonders. There is no way to plan for growth if she has no idea what sort of resources each conversion requires.
Moar logging. She throws aways errors.
Once you have your work queues in place, log to a queue, saves you from having to do your own aggregation or log shipping from 50-100 servers.
She should maybe implement some kinda pattern to easily swap out VLC. I know in many situations we have to swap out a key component due to licensing or performance issues.
I'm tempted to enterprise this thing up.
posted by Ad hominem at 4:41 PM on October 29, 2013 [3 favorites]
intersectional feminist, tea enthusiast
I'm a tea feminist and an intersectional enthusiast. We have WAAAAAAY more fun.
posted by Brocktoon at 4:42 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm a tea feminist and an intersectional enthusiast. We have WAAAAAAY more fun.
posted by Brocktoon at 4:42 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Actually, this seems like a good enough place to bring this up. Lately as a language convention when I feel a particular GIF is apropos, or for whatever reason and the GIF is well known enough I will just straight up say "orsonwellsclapping.gif" Much in the same way that Sys Rq did above, but using the organic analog means of manipulating the passage of air through the vocal folds in my throat to produce the sound of the aforementioned word.
Does anyone else do this?
posted by mediocre at 4:44 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Does anyone else do this?
posted by mediocre at 4:44 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Is there an easy way to implement the VLC code she mentions? Is it as easy as opening a command prompt in Windows, plunking in the code (tailored to whatever video you are watching) and hitting "return"?
VLC runs on windows too, only caveat is the command line args are a different format.
posted by Ad hominem at 4:59 PM on October 29, 2013
VLC runs on windows too, only caveat is the command line args are a different format.
posted by Ad hominem at 4:59 PM on October 29, 2013
Does anyone else do this?
Yes
foreveralone.jpg
posted by louche mustachio at 5:14 PM on October 29, 2013
Yes
foreveralone.jpg
posted by louche mustachio at 5:14 PM on October 29, 2013
orsonwellsclapping.gif
foreveralone.jpg
Funnily enough, I was talking to one of my actor friends just the other day about Jack Nicholson's film career. He asked me which role I thought was Nicholson's best performance. "Larry," I said, "It has to be jack.torrent!"
posted by comealongpole at 5:43 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
foreveralone.jpg
Funnily enough, I was talking to one of my actor friends just the other day about Jack Nicholson's film career. He asked me which role I thought was Nicholson's best performance. "Larry," I said, "It has to be jack.torrent!"
posted by comealongpole at 5:43 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
I thought the internet just spontaneously generated gifs, kind of like how mushrooms supporting up after rains.
Also, now I want to read Blue Milk Special again.
posted by happyroach at 9:38 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Also, now I want to read Blue Milk Special again.
posted by happyroach at 9:38 PM on October 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
I saw it and was wondering where the "give me a quote, return a set of matching gifs" button was. Awesome hackery, though.
posted by plinth at 7:15 AM on October 30, 2013
posted by plinth at 7:15 AM on October 30, 2013
Actually, this seems like a good enough place to bring this up. Lately as a language convention when I feel a particular GIF is apropos, or for whatever reason and the GIF is well known enough I will just straight up say "orsonwellsclapping.gif" Much in the same way that Sys Rq did above, but using the organic analog means of manipulating the passage of air through the vocal folds in my throat to produce the sound of the aforementioned word.
Does anyone else do this?
posted by mediocre at 7:44 PM on October 29 [1 favorite +] [!] Other [4/4]: «≡·
I really doubt that people know the names of even the most famous GIFs, especially given how they tend to be transmitted; hosted on some random akamai image cluster, embedded in an imgur page or buzzfeed article, attached to an email, saved into a local documents folder with a subjectively easy to remember name (maybe in a non-english language), etc.
If people do this, they aren't doing such a great job cluing in the common folk. Or even sometimes cluing in the search engines. The name of a given meme rather than the name of a file relates to much more reliable and useful metadata, I think.
posted by oceanjesse at 2:48 PM on October 30, 2013
Does anyone else do this?
posted by mediocre at 7:44 PM on October 29 [1 favorite +] [!] Other [4/4]: «≡·
I really doubt that people know the names of even the most famous GIFs, especially given how they tend to be transmitted; hosted on some random akamai image cluster, embedded in an imgur page or buzzfeed article, attached to an email, saved into a local documents folder with a subjectively easy to remember name (maybe in a non-english language), etc.
If people do this, they aren't doing such a great job cluing in the common folk. Or even sometimes cluing in the search engines. The name of a given meme rather than the name of a file relates to much more reliable and useful metadata, I think.
posted by oceanjesse at 2:48 PM on October 30, 2013
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And an American hero.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:26 PM on October 29, 2013 [8 favorites]