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I'm really enjoying having a stand up desk
- I mean desking a have up stand********
- No, standing a desk up have********
- I think I got it right the first time. I really enjoy having an up desk stand********
- ffs********
- Well, it looks like set has finally snapped.********
- Only is he is doing a hand stand at the point of writing that.mugwart
- you will lose so much weight, I haven't set down in like a year, eat like a pork, don't gain any weightGeorgesII
- Yeh I had one from the start of the year. It's awesome.antonyjwhite
- Georges why?
I have a desk what has a standing position but i never switched to it.sted - I have one that goes up or down so can put I can sit when having lunch, or being a lazy fuck. I stand most of the time though and my legs and back feel great********
- Living the dream********
- https://media.giphy.…********
- I've been using a standup desk for almost 2 years and it's done wonders for me! (healed the weakness/pain of a shattered ankle, improved my posture, ...Krassy
- ...improved the way I feel, etc.)
I love it! I never lower it to sit down.Krassy - Headphones on and technogroove while working for hoursKrassy
- Lol @commentsmaquito
- in the year 2028 we will be doing this at our desk https://www.walmart.…bklyndroobeki
- My desk is quite dishonest.robthelad
- so now you jerk off standing up?scarabin
- You Sir, are a comedian of the highest calibre.********
- mind your shoes, all i'm sayin'scarabin
- your desk is standing up? How long did it takes to make him do it?Bennn
- To be fair I've never jerked off sitting down. Mug's game.********
- not my game...mugwart
- lolscarabin
- Haha. Don't lie********
- so mugwart sits and set stands above him, that's a nice brofap technique :)sted
- well Simon's latest photo shot is pretty good!mugwart
- I mean desking a have up stand
- HijoDMaite3
"American Life"
In a town in southernmost Sicily
Lived a family too proud to be poor
In the year that fever took father away
They hastened for American shores
Now a mother and her son are standing in line
It's a cold day on Ellis Isle
And they look to the Statue of Liberty
For the boy we have American LifeOng is a Laotian refugee
He works in the audio trade
The smoke from flux is filling his lungs
He's earning minimum wage
Spending spare time down on
San Pablo ave
Once a week gets a woman for the night
And he writes home tales of prosperity
For the boy we have American LifeBob is an unemployed veteran
Born and bred in the South Bronx
He's living off the streets down in east L.A.
Residing in a cardboard box
Now he plays a little quit and he has a small dog
Searching for aluminum cans
And he hold on tight to his dignity
He was born into American Life
- ********0
everything is a contraction
- rabbit1
Had a cigarette today, after my BBQ sausages and day at the beach with a beer. It was ok, I don't think I will have another one though.
The beach was nice though.
- scarabin0
man. dreamweaver and web dev sure is flashy now what with the divs and the collapsible code and the bootstraps and CSS.
in my day we made it with fucking tables and blinking fonts and you liked it.
- as someone who has earned a living from web dev pre/post tables I concur.fadein11
- i need a website like, yesterday, so i bought a template (sorry) and have been hacking the shit out of it. interesting to see how things have changedscarabin
- live preview is pretty greatscarabin
- lol blinking fonts and table fuck is so 2000 :)sted
- I remember splitting up large images (on front pages etc) into a grid of smaller ones, and putting them together in a table,,, for faster loadingdrgs
- hahabklyndroobeki
- I only ever use the code editor in dreamweaver scar - I would avoid its wysiwyg tools like the plague. Still applies to pretty much all web dev.fadein11
- @drgs - indeed. also remember that well. Still done in HTML emails until recently lol. new technology can be so backwards.fadein11
- yeah, for me chopped up images with iframes stuck in 'em were my go-to. now things are all responsive and fluid and lovelyscarabin
- fadein11 let me tell you a secret: there is a proper code editor in dw. I proved back in the day that you can sitebulild with that faster than any other editor.sted
- of course today there are much better text editors than dw, but it's still an option.sted
- @sted - eh? thats what I use every day - the code editor - was just saying avoid all the wysiwyg nonsense.fadein11
- ah you were agreeing with me... sorry - another time I misread something on here. yep I still use it because I cant be arsed to learn something new.fadein11
- the recent set of upgrades to DW actually bring it in line w/a number of editors people rave about... I think DW is great these days... use it all the timePonyBoy
- yep pony - editor does all I need.fadein11
- i've only been using the wysiwyg panel to find my spot in the code panelscarabin
- yep best thing to do. people used to slate DW because of the code the visual editor created which was true. but the editor is coolfadein11
- BRING BACK FULL FLASH WEBSITES!fruitsalad
- what is Flash? i only heard about MACROMEDIAsted
- Text as a gif, with antialiased edges and bit masked transparency, in a table with a jpg background, positioned with transparent spacer gifs. Looked amazing.monNom
- 1px.gifpablo28
- sted
- I had both a geocities and angelfire hosted websites back when downloading a 3 minutes song took you 25 mins.Maaku
- i used to sell CD-Rs full of nine inch nails .MPGs on ebay before youtube came around. and had a .MIDI download page on my websitescarabin
- that sounds crazy to say nowscarabin
- bklyndroobeki0
On YouTube, does anyone know what the blue line under "# views" indicates?
- likes/dislikes ratiosted
- how'd you know this?bklyndroobeki
- If you look closely the grey portion (on the left end) is thicker than the rest of the line
https://www.youtube.…drgs - from a google employee, it's called sparkbarsted
- thanks!bklyndroobeki
- any usertest?bklyndroobeki
- detritus1
Just had to duck out of my mother in law's 60th birthday bash as I quietly farted the most awful stench before standing up and walking away from the table, leaving varying family members eyeing each other up suspiciously, noses wrinkled in disgust.
Now to go back down and join them and see if they've worked out who just raped their senses.
Ho hum.
- Fucking pork is evil.detritus
- if fucking pork is evil, i don't wanna be goodscarabin
- http://www.thedailyb…Gnash
- lol GnashBuddhaHat
- pango0
Ugggggh fucking snow everywhere....
- BuddhaHat0
Anybody got any good egg white recipes? omelettes etc?
- egg white? Meringues: http://www.bbcgoodfo…
easy, but long to make.uan - thanks uan, but I'm looking for recipes of the healthy variety, not including 115g of sugar :)BuddhaHat
- lol, I just scrolled down, and also without another 115 of icing sugar :)BuddhaHat
- bit of sugar won't kill you...but I say this because I don't drink sugar drinks nor use sugar in coffee/tea, nor eat cookies or stuff like that :)uan
- Turns out, eating only egg whites and avoiding yolks was just another health fad that turned out to be 100% bogus. Go ahead, eat the whole egg.monospaced
- oh really? so the stuff about the high cholesterol was just junk?BuddhaHat
- eggs are designed to nurture baby organisms...so thinking this could be bad for an adult is quite a strange ideauan
- ahh yep, just found a Time article to debunk it. thanks mono.BuddhaHat
- you will not like my next proposition, but the only other egg white recipe I know...
http://www.epicuriou…uan - yeah, the whole "bad cholesterol" thing was a bit exaggerated, to the benefit of big pharma for decades ... PLEASE eat the whole egg, it's so much bettermonospaced
- jaja, no, tengo algunos amigos chilenos, me gusta mucho un vaso de pisco sour :) gracias.BuddhaHat
- eating just the egg whites is like eating mostly nothing, nutrient-wise, plus they taste like crap by themselvesmonospaced
- yeah, they look rubbery as hell. I was just looking at diet plans for post work-out food, and I saw lots of mentions of egg-white this, egg-white that...BuddhaHat
- I will happily continue eating them the way I have, when they still actually have taste.BuddhaHat
- I do this:
http://i.imgur.com/K…sted - Science never gets it wrong. Right?!Hayoth
- If you don't eat the yolk, you're not eating any of the protein, and most of the vitamins.Continuity
- not off the top of my head nofadein11
- The egg white contains about 4 grams of protein, the egg yolks carry 2.7 grams of protein. (v.quick goog search)BuddhaHat
- Ah. I stand corrected.Continuity
- make a fritatta. fry some veggies slightly, pour in some eggs, and throw the pan into the oven until they're set. slice and servescarabin
- Add an egg yolk for each white and enjoy...MrT
- Omelette with tons of fresh pepers, onions and garlic, "tortilla del pobre".OBBTKN
- that's what I ended up making OBB :)BuddhaHat
- Late to the party, but TODO EL HUEVOgarbage
- egg white? Meringues: http://www.bbcgoodfo…
- BuddhaHat0
I followed up my meal with an episode of Taboo. Man there is some gnarly violence/gore in that show. Great stuff.
- I'm trying to like it but...utopian
- My favorite show right now. So captivating.DRIFTMONKEY
- scarabin0
i wonder what the halftime scandal today is gonna be
- wait. is she a musician, or the latest batman villain?scarabin
- wtf is happeningscarabin
- I just found out that tonight's the super bowl...LOL! I thought it was in November.********
- But I guess in November is Thanksgiving or something no?********
- Easy to get the two things mixed up.monospaced
- rotflsted
- Why didn't Gaga bash Trump. The fake news media sad she was.Hayoth
- her performance was worse that utopian's shitting all over the COTD thread! hard to believe, I know, but yeah, fact.chukkaphob
- at least she managed to not lip sync the whole thing because she's an actual artist ... I"m not into her music but that was pretty impressivemonospaced
- she was terriblechukkaphob
- that's because you're not into her stuff, neither am I, but she is a great singer, she was able to sing on pitch the whole time, while dancing ... not easy to dmonospaced
- that jump was an obvious pre tape, she jumped onto a mattress. all fair considering she slayed the performance and YES it was a subtle political statement.sea_sea
- it looks funscarabin
- cbass99-4
SuperBowl commercials SUCKED this year. Where did the funny go?
- #magamonospaced
- Becasue everything should be for pushing a SJW message. If you think there's room for fun or funny while peoples feelings are hurt, then you're a nazi.IRNlun6
- ^
< nazis
vi_monk - the FUCK are you talking about IRN ... who's feelings are hurt?monospaced
- christ, see what I mean?IRNlun6
- i liked the "wireless pain" onescarabin
- the actual game was good and overshadowed the commercials for oncechukkaphob
- don't label me a SJW ... the only one whose feelings seemed hurt by non-funny commercials seems to be youmonospaced
- there were a few good spots.utopian
- Does every commercial have to be funny?ArmandoEstrada
- Raniator0
ForeverSpin. Does anyone ever buy these?!
- DRIFTMONKEY0
I liked the Busch commercial. Making fun of themselves.
- chukkaphob0
how are websites with such POOR usability such as reddit popular?
- QUE?sted
- i wouldn't use it without the reddit enhancement suite pluginscarabin
- content makes it popular, they don't give a damn about usabilitysted
- yes, I know content is king and all that jazz, but still -- the reddit user experience is absolutely painful!chukkaphob
- @scarabin what's that plugin you speak of, please?chukkaphob
- Headlines....Hayoth
- https://redditenhanc…scarabin
- https://redditenhanc…Gnash
- @scarabin thank you!chukkaphob
- yes to content, and yes to RES, and yes to content again, cos it's a freaking huge black hole timesuck of sometimes amazing sometimes crap content.BuddhaHat
- As much as I am a huge proponent of Usability, is this a case in point that Usability is not all that important? Ugh.chukkaphob
- i dunno, if i don't "get" how a website works within a few seconds i close that shit. i used digg until i found out abour RESscarabin
- that's why they don't have to care about usability. the content is so addictive and toxic that high end users ignore the difficulties of the uisted
- you already said that and you're pretty much stating the obvious. LOL!chukkaphob
- Why would anyone not be a 'proponent of usability'?detritus
- Look at 4chan. Garbage UI, incredibly popular.i_monk
- @detrius that's the paradox. Ultra popular sites with terrible usability are as successful and "useful" as they can be.chukkaphob
- chuck wtf is your problem? what i explained is the exact opposite what happens with radio listeners for examplested
- if the broadcast quality suxx high-end listeners tune in to an other station regardless of the content.sted
- @sted whoa whoa. Chill, bro! I have no problem. You just keep repeating the obvious, is all I said. We all know the content is valuable.chukkaphob
- Where does usability come into play? Only to enhance an experience? Why then do usability experts preach that usability is as important as content?chukkaphob
- yeah sorry you're right, i'm a bit tense today :)sted
- I don't think Reddit is so terrible as far as usability goes. It's just not a very polished visual design.yuekit
- @sted all good. Sorry if you felt like I was hard on you. I didn't mean to sound that way : )chukkaphob
- Bennn0
My gf, who has very low computer skillz and internet skillz, didn't that those 3 lines (hamberger menu) were a menu on a couple website/appshe was on.
For me its obvious. But it made me think that, yeah, when you dont know the codes, it's very unclear that's the menu.
I think UI/UX designer often tend to forget about large public when it comes to large public websites/apps. It's easy to think "everyone knows that".
- *didn't know thatBennn
- What's the alternative? I think most users who use mobile know what it is.section_014
- qbn has one!scarabin
- Some write the word menu next to to highlight its interactionwhatthefunk
- sometimes we write menu bellow the lines with some tiny font :)sted
- This is something I mulled over a couple of years ago when building a couple of sites, before giving in and using them. ...detritus
- ... somewhat ironically, it was actually used in the Xerox Parc GUI back in 1980, so *should've* been one of the most recognisable icons by now, but nup.detritus
- Trump thinks it's a symbol for ISIS.utopian
- I don't buy it. It's 2017 and if you own a smartphone, you know what that means. Walmart.com uses it, if that's an indicator.aslip
- once we reached the year 1045 there will still be people that don't know what this is, you guys are all used to an environment where this is knownMiguex
- there are still (and will always be) people out there walking around with a flip phone, or perhaps no cell phone.Miguex
- and there is nothing wrong with that.sted
- sometimes we'll actually put the word menu under it.dbloc
- Not everyone is using apps and websites as much as us. When designing for large public, the hamburger isnt clear for everyone.Bennn
- You need to know your user. Some sites like this one that menu is fine, others like say the DMV. its not fine. Theres no right or wrong. But, its your...sofakingback
- Job to know your users and know when to use the right tools of communication.sofakingback
- If no one uses it, it will never become known.yuekit
- These tend to test poorly.IRNlun6
- I've been asked to use the word 'menu' in place of the burger more than once... I agree w/bennnnnnnn that it's still not recognizable to the norm public yetPonyBoy
- That icon is one of the biggest failures out there, I've never seen a user test where it did good. The word MENU scores something like 97% better... it's dumb.zarkonite
- The funny thing is, there's a standard for it that is stupid easy to adhere to when you need to use this. three equally sized lines. SIMPLE.mg33
- Yet look around and you are certain to find ones with four lines, ones with two lines... Silly designers wanting to "design" and be unique.mg33
- I seriously can't understand how more than 10 seconds is put into using that icon, when someone decides they need it.mg33
- it's an advertisement for adidas nothing more lol :)sted
- It's the icon for Trump's Walldbloc
- interesting read about the history
http://gizmodo.com/w…dbloc - it has achieved conventional status. it staysbrandelec
- If the navigation is hidden, users tend not to use it, so it's not very effectivedmay
- And it's not norm, many users can't identify it has a menudmay
- it's part of the mobile first ethos as most sites using it have a far larger mobile audiencewhatthefunk
- Really? Those saying the icon is not intuitive or recognizable or known , etc. are showing their age.
QBN members ave age > 45 years old. LOL!chukkaphob - you guys use your phones for webbing?Gnash
- Hijomate's dad's interpretation? But don't people usually try to tap any and everything to figure it out by discoverySquiddy
- FFS...just about every fucking mobile website uses a hamburger menu, can we move on?utopian
- Just wanted to add my
three line comment to this
three line icon, too.SimonFFM - Menu
Menu
MenumonNom - Does Jakob Nielsen approve of the hamburger?Continuity
- It can depend on your audience and how well designed and positioned everything is.monoboy
- I use the word MENU. Takes up a bit more space but tests better than a hamburger. I recommend watching a user test. You'd be surprised.monoboy
- However. Some users will persevere with a difficult UI if they dig the design and content. So it's not all about conventional wisdom. Again, think audience.monoboy
- My website looks different on mobile than on desktop.SimonFFM
- It's clearer: https://www.google.c…fruitsalad
- I didn't know it was called the hamburger menu.Raniator
- Design isn't just catering public ignorance. It's also educating the public and getting them used to new paradigms.cannonball1978
- no, interface design is supposed to be made in function of the target audience. otherwise you miss the target.Bennn
- @chuka I'm not showing my age, I'm showing my ability to use research and data to make decisions. That icon is a failure, the word MENU is better.zarkonite
- @zarkonite It's 2017. This icon is recognized and used e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e.
This is not even worth discussing. LOL!chukkaphob - It's like arguing that street lights should read STOP and GO instead of using RED and GREEN ;-)chukkaphob
- chukka: just because it's used by devs and lazy designers doesn't mean it works. I've yet to come across hard evidence that it works. You should use research tozarkonite
- and testing to help you in your work. Design is about problem solving, not just following the pack blindly.zarkonite
- Your example is good but it doesn't apply. You have to be trained to use a car, there's an education process that takes place that was never done for the icon..zarkonite
- ah, okchukkaphob
- ********0
Bored of everything web design. I want to create a fucked up interface that is aesthetically pleasing and functional.
- sted1
Check this out:
https://twitter.com/tanufuku/sta…- Silly to restrict them to rectangles as if they were windows in a finite screen.i_monk
- i_monk, that's probably due to the source content more than anything, I'd guessmonospaced