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Stephen and I talk and joke on the donationcoder irc chat group all the time and he is always encouraging me to improve the site and he is always a very positive, enthusiastic, energetic voice.  So if anyone took his post as anything but some fun ribbing -- know that it was received with good cheer.  And stephen, don't stop trying to get me to improve the place.  :Thmbsup:

App your design looks pretty good -- and your suggestion about putting it off until we do some other changes is a good one -- especially since I think the move to a cms is in order and that would be a good time to do it.  Right now i'm comfortable with where they are.

Those who are pointing out that the buttons should be converted to purely local js, you are right.  Currently they all use the canonical scripts from facebook, twitter, google+, reddit.  I will try to change them all to be simple local images where the js is purely local and just opens up a window when clicked to access the remote site.  That will be the lightest weight solution with no ability of facebook/tritter/gcrap to do any tracking stuff.
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i've put the social sharing buttons all on one row now.
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how's the new version -- small static buttons on bottom of forum page (sidebar of site pages).
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I've heard enough, it's gone.

I'll try to find some static small unobtrusive buttons that are barely noticable.
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i'm with giampy.
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After some well-meaning nagging I have put a facebook share code on the site and forum pages --- you'll see it if you scroll down to bottom of forum pages.  It's powered by getsitecontrol.com.
Personally I find it too much in your face distracting, so I don't want to keep it.  I'm open to adding some very subtle extra button somewhere that pops up a menu, but this one is too much for me.
But I've promised to leave it on for a day so to see if people dislike it as much as me.  Post your thoughts here.
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fixed it :)
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7 segments achieved ($3,500 from 189 donors!)  :-* :-*
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2015, 03:40 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2015, 07:00 PM »
Low tech gadget entry:

If anyone plays in a lake or on the beach, and doesn't know about these cheap things called "water shoes", you don't know what you are missing.  They are super light weight slip-on things that dry quickly, and have a thin rubber sole.  They make it fun to walk in mud or on rocks without killing your feet.

Screenshot - 3_27_2015 , 6_57_42 PM_ver001.png
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2015, 02:32 PM »
Back on topic: There are still some lost sheep that haven't been heard from.. How can we find them?
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2015, 02:31 PM »
Ok tell you what, after the fundraiser when we are swimming in dosh, i'll print up a list of all 5,000+ posters and we'll get those 5000 post mugs (or shot glasses) sent out to all who havent gotten them yet.
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2015, 11:54 AM »
and a "lost sheep" one would be cute ^_^

i don't want to encourage more lost sheep!!

and we work on exponentials here, the next Post Achievement mug should be at 25,000 posts.

i suppose there are a few more members that need 5000 post mugs too..
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2015, 11:46 AM »
hahaha did I already send that out?  my memory has never been my best quality.
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2015, 11:26 AM »
f0dder you have already earned the never-yet-created, occasionally mentioned, 5000 post mug.
if we could find someone to design that mug..
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You could disable non-contiguous matching above that too, if you want to further weed out spurious matches.

Remember, non-contiguous matching is what allows "msw" to match "MicroSoft Word", and so it naturally matches lots of stuff.
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Try the new beta:

You'll find a new option in the Search Behavior tab:
Screenshot - 3_27_2015 , 10_30_41 AM_ver001.png
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Yes, that's much better. I'll put up a beta on friday for testing.
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so i added an option for "any chance something along the lines of that force matching the first letter(s) might sneak in there?"
but the outcome seems less than usable -- files you expect to be found are not found.
for example if you search for "firefox" it won't find "Mozilla Firefox".

perhaps what would be better is if the option rejected when the first search letter(s) dont match the lefthand side of ANY word in the filename?

FARR already gives a strong bonus to such situations -- it's one of the ways it tries to do a good job of ranking results -- but i could add an option to reject violations..
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Thank, colin!

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Absolutely, i will add the option asap.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Syntax in Different Programming Languages
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2015, 03:00 PM »
Very related: http://hyperpolyglot.org/
Programming Languages - commonly used features in a side-by-side format

I like this one -- no filler just tables showing how small snippets of code would look in different languages.
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I just tested the zip, and it's fine.
Let me tell you what can happen that would explain your problem -- sometimes when a download gets interrupted for some network reason, the browser thinks it downloaded it fine, and so all future attempts to download the file give you the same bad partial file.  It's a real flaw and leads to huge amount of confusion.

What you should do is try using another different web browser to download the file -- and let us know if that works.  You could also try clearing the "cache" of your web browser, though its not clear to me how to do that in all cases.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: scrolling window OUT OF MEMORY CRASH...EVERY TIME
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2015, 12:27 PM »
can you tell me the exact error it gives you next time it shows?
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Go go thermometer cody!
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