a request/suggestion for the saidit site.

submitted by humancorpse from (self.whatever)

wouldnt it be nice to see how many people (total) are online with saidit in all of the subs combined?

like if maybe next to the saidit logo at the top of the page there could be a simple number in parenthesis? SAIDIT(27)

as the site is now, i can see how many users are online in the /s/news sub or in the /s/politics sub, but i dont know how many people are online sitewide.

/u/d3rr /u/jasoncarswell /u/magnora7

also, it would be nice if my "messages" icon was dynamic and did not require a page refresh.

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Code it up and submit a pull request Ed

[–]humancorpse[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I didnt actually say that i was interested to do the coding, I was just making a suggestion.

I am not saying that i wouldnt be willing to help you.

fyi, I might have mentioned this before that I am very busy with a seventeen year long monster coding project.

https://files.catbox.moe/cpji3q.gif

just fyi, this is a typical image of how most traders make their trading decisions:

https://www.forexfactory.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4068963&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1635338042

doesnt that chart look like total bullshit?

yeah, it does. but that is the kind of bullshit that typical traders conjure up.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

https://i.redd.it/v7jfdrli4lqz.png

[–]humancorpse[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

why would a squirrel shit on a clown's shoulder?

oh... now i get it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought you might appreciate that a guy who invested $7000 in Shib Inu (shitcoin) in Aug 2020 is now worth $5 billion on that deal.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

I like your two ideas, but I don't code.

I stumbled on this OP by chance today. FYI, mentioning names in posts doesn't land in their messages, but up to 3 names mentioned in each comment will. Also, next time consider /s/IdeasForSaidIt.

/u/d3rr, /u/magnora7

[–]humancorpse[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

first, you need to decide(with approval from saidit management) if either of these ideas is a go or not.

if it is, then someone that does know how to code should look at the source code for saidit and see what is what..

which programming language was this forum written in?

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Python. See also /s/FreedIt, and maybe /u/fschmidt, a new co-developer, may like your ideas.

[–]humancorpse[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (8 children)

i couldnt code with /u/fschmidt , he is in love with java and i am an old C programmer.

java is a very nice language and it has some very special capabilities, not that i am aware of all of them or even understand them.. i went to a computer trade show once and some guy did a little demo of what can be done with java and i was really impressed.

but this project of creating a custom webserver really requires that you get as "close to the metal" as is possible, and java just simply is not the language for this task.

honestly, it would be my preference to write a custom web server in straight assembler because it would be so very compact and fast, but i am much more fluent in C than i am in assembler and really C is fast enough... assembler would really be overkill.. with a web server, the speed bottleneck isnt so much the programming language, but instead is the network lags.. but still i wouldnt choose java for this task.

https://files.catbox.moe/71kbha.png

[–]fschmidt 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I was programming in C at Bell Labs in 1978. I have done a lot C socket code, so I know exactly how it works. Java is just a better tool for network programming than C is. C is better for other things like writing device drivers. I just use the best tool for the job, whatever it is. Of course all tools made in the West since about 2000 are horrible for any job.

[–]humancorpse[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

truth is, i cant argue with that.. if you have been coding c since 78 then you probably know your business better than most and probably better than i do.

was it bell labs where they created C? omg. did you work with k&r? holy moly.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

fyi, my first C compiler was the microsoft quickC for dos in 1991. I loved it.

i served eight months in jail in 1993 and i did some c coding for a client while i was locked up.

my largest program that i wrote while locked up was 43.5 legal pad pages long(double spaced).

it was a flat file database manager.. it had full on screen editing. you could create a record, edit a record, save a record, delete a record, and search for a record.

i earned fifty dollars per week while in jail for doing this programming.. my client would deposit the fifty every week onto my jail account and he also gave me a $1500 bonus the day i got out.

it was so wonderful when i walked into his office and i saw that database manager running on an old 286 pc with the amber monitor.. i had only imagined that program in my mind.. i had not one chance to test compile it... it had to be perfect.. and it was.

zero.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it was it Bell Labs where they created C and Unix. No I didn't work with K&R.

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    [–]humancorpse[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    ouch.

    memory management does have its uses, but i dont think that i want to use that for writing a web server.

    i know how to keep tabs on and prevent overwriting buffers and stuff like that.

    my first computer was an atari 400 in the year of 1983.

    i wrote basic language programs(with line numbers) for about six months and then i dabbled in assembler and then in 1991 i simply fell in love with C language when i purchases the Microsoft QuickC IDE for DOS.

    [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Not true.

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      [–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Automatic memory management is good. Java has it. I like it. Some modern languages like Rust are rejecting automatic memory management, presumably because it is good.

      [–]forscher 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      This could violate my privacy rights. I also could litigate on this.

      Just theory though.

      So far.

      But you know:

      You never know how far a simple small subpeona gets you into somebodies shit. :)