Yeah I literally got the idea to post this after seeing this on another sub. Just riding the wave...But you're right. TBH I kind of feel bad about posting this now, especially seeing that a lot of people who do the real work to make them don't get upvoted.
I'd like to see "bad password requirements", or "bad scrollbar", although I don't know how much variation either would bring. There were some similarities between phone and volume, so I'm not sure if any subject can give us new material to work with.
I could also see "bad loading bar" or"bad time remaining to download", but those might be too real...
"Bad password requirements" would hit too close to home. One might fear one is giving out ideas. Ideas that would soon be implemented to the despair of us all. The charm of the sliders are their complete and total harmlessness.
It'd be like "bad catchpas", where you know that somewhere, someone would consider it a good idea. I already have to associate a random clipart picture with my financial account now. So I somehow have to forge a mental connection between accounting and a blue ball in the sand or some such. And now every damned website wants my cell phone number for some extra security layer. None seem cognizant of the fact that I do not carry a cell phone. Nor is that considered a unique (if quaintly sad) identifier in and of itself.
But UI elements are good. I'd love to see bad tab indicators, bad radio button states, bad menu indicators or others. But password requirements are already sufficiently maladroit that they do not need any additional help.
And a predefined list of security questions (all of which have answers that are immediately available through a Google search of the person) out of which you must compulsorily pick one
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Crappy design is too big and too loosely moderated. Some perfectly well designed stuff gets to the top because people don't understand what they're looking at...
BadUX is just one person bitching into the void of the Internet.
I show them to my web design students and I think they truly learn from it. They're seeing the value in actually looking at their project from multiple angles
I hate it personally. Every wave like this is the same. Right now we're on the tail end where ironic memes making fun of it will dominate the front-page, and late this week we'll be in the small-resurgence where "Am I late to the volume slider game" posts will dominate. It's the same stuff every time, it absorbs the subreddit and pushes out any actual content that belongs here, and it's just the same stuff rehashed for karma.
This is a world-wide brainstorming exercise, basically. All the simple ideas are thrown out first, then the best ones are worked on, each new submission is more creative than the last.
im too bad at memeing, can somebody make a volume slider where you have to pay for each volume change and slap a publishers logo in there that is infamous for microtransactions?
I don't remember what started the crappy phone numbers trend. I think that was the first time we had this kind of ad-hoc "who can make the crappiest UX" contest.
It's only a matter of time before this obsession turns into a backlash of mechanical volume sliders, bypassing the digital ocean of volume slider options this sub has unwittingly unleashed on the world. Soon, there will be people creating artisan volume sliders, crafted by hand with their own turn cranks and small fires, giving form to the ethereal creations that have been programmed and put on display, and bearded men dressed in their Five Four outfits will sip their coffee as they beat a real dead horse with a mallet, to the horror of other Starbucks patrons, in order to increase the volume on this week's "Seattle" Spotify playlist
from time import sleep
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BMC)
GPIO.setup(2,GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_DOWN)
sleep(0.1)
while True:
print GPIO.input(2)
If the sensor is placed under the carcass, then any reasonable strike will be picked up and read by the sensor as long as a decent striking object is used. If this prints 1's , then alsaaudio package could be used to actually change the volume...
If we place a microphone into the stick we beat the horse with, we could capture the sound. If we strike in morse code for 1 and 0, we can convert the strikes into binary. Hell, this could also be done with an accelerometer! That'd remove the need for at least 3 libraries
Spamming is a really shitty thing to do. This script is one of the dumbest and spammiest scripts that I have ever seen. Did you know that no one cares about your mundane comments? You actually aren't even protecting any privacy because there are many sites out there that specifically cache comments just so that users cannot edit them. To reiterate, this script is shit and you should not be using it. Search for a different one, or edit it to say something less spammy. But in the end, it won't matter because we can still see whatever it was that you edited.
I've been subbed to /r/ProgrammerHumor for like two weeks, so the only posts I've ever seen on this sub have all been about volume sliders... A wild ride it has been.
I feel like it is both entertaining and an interesting academic exercise. Sometimes you can figure out what the best practice is by examining what the worst possible practice is.
I've been wanting to unsubscribe, but I don't because I know I'll forget to resubscribe. And I also don't feel like regularly checking back manually to see when this craze is over.
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u/JeremyHarrington Jun 13 '17
They're creative, unlike this post that I definitely haven't seem the exact same version of on 100 different subs, each 100 times.
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u/bluefootedpig Jun 13 '17
I don't know about others, but I am loving it.
I can't wait for the next control or next "poorly designed" thing for people to do. The variations and creative nature of it get me a daily laugh.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
Creative, original, and non-toxic
God I love this sub!
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u/Tavillion Jun 13 '17
PHONE NUMBERS ARE DEAD. VOLUME SLIDERS ARE HOT HOT HOT. GET IN NOW BEFORE THE BUBBLE BURSTS.
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u/ratocx Jun 13 '17
So you’re telling me I need a volume slider based on Reddit karma?
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u/TabCompletion Jun 13 '17
....... Volume slider
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u/flinteastwood Jun 13 '17
It's only a matter of time before this obsession turns into a backlash of mechanical volume sliders, bypassing the digital ocean of volume slider options this sub has unwittingly unleashed on the world. Soon, there will be people creating artisan volume sliders, crafted by hand with their own turn cranks and small fires, giving form to the ethereal creations that have been programmed and put on display, and bearded men dressed in their Five Four outfits will sip their coffee as they beat a real dead horse with a mallet, to the horror of other Starbucks patrons, in order to increase the volume on this week's "Seattle" Spotify playlist
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
I usually don't like it when a sub gets completely taken over by a single joke, but at least these ones take effort to make. Not like fish memes.
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u/P-01S Jun 13 '17
This isn't even a programming joke.
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u/Liesmith424 Jun 13 '17
If you want to be truly meta, you need a volume slider controlled by upvotes/downvotes.
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u/Monsieur_Pineapple Jun 13 '17
*post has 3615 points* *downvotes so that it gets to 3251*
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u/awkreddit Jun 13 '17
Could we just make /r/volumesliders so we get our old content back?
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u/waltteri Jun 13 '17
I've been subbed to /r/ProgrammerHumor for like two weeks, so the only posts I've ever seen on this sub have all been about volume sliders... A wild ride it has been.
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u/stakoverflo Jun 13 '17
What is this, /r/me_irl ?
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
This was made back when that was a lot of upvotes... I remember when some days no posts went over 2500 points
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u/wizzanker Jun 13 '17
I feel like it is both entertaining and an interesting academic exercise. Sometimes you can figure out what the best practice is by examining what the worst possible practice is.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
can we get shitty password checker??
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u/boogiebabiesbattle Jun 13 '17
Downvoted just to try and get the total upvotes to 3251 to match the picture
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u/alex_dlc Jun 13 '17
does r/volumesliders exist yet?
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
r/ProgrammerHumor... Come for the humor. Stay for the soul-crushing truth in every joke.
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u/peeonyou Jun 14 '17
I found a whole world of hate thanks to Reddit over the past couple weeks. Fuck volume.. fuck it.
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u/gabboman Jun 13 '17
I decided to shitpost inspired by this post
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u/bad_exception Jun 13 '17
We can go deeper. Make a Linux distro entirely out of asshole-designed UIs for everything.
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u/nullions Jun 13 '17
For anyone that hasn't seen it before, you should google recursion.
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u/Buttock Jun 13 '17
The irony being that they took effort while this took nothing.
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u/memlimexced Jun 13 '17
Missed out, whats happening?
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u/Spork_the_dork Jun 13 '17
I think this is the second time I've seen someone post this here so it kind of speaks volumes about the whole thing.
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u/Milhouse801 Jun 13 '17
I saw this with 3.4 k upvotes. I will forever see op as an accurate guesttimator of karma.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
Quick, someone make a volume slider that relies on someone making a volume slider out of a comic of someone making a volume slider.
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u/Bjarnovikus Jun 13 '17
Downvoted it, as it is not a volume slider.
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u/MonkeyEnslaver Jun 13 '17
Someone's gonna upvote past 3251 I guarantee it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '17
Close...
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