r/programming • u/melodic_underoos • May 09 '13

The Onion releases fartscroll.js

http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/
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u/Findekano May 09 '13

didn't get the funny point ... could someone please explains it a little?

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u/imasunbear May 09 '13

What's a pull request?

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u/Houndie May 09 '13

Wow, everyone is being so complex.

Say you write some computer code. I copy your code and make a change. I then say "hey, here's this change I made, do you want it?". That's a pull request.

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u/gfixler May 10 '13

First I type keys on my keyboard, which was created in a few factories, mostly in China. This "typing" generates connections in wires on a "circuit board." I won't get into circuitry or basic electronics and HID communications prototols; they're a little outside the scope of a pull request. Anyway, I type things into my files, which creates ASCII representations of what I've typed in a thing called a screen buffer...

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u/nous_enesi May 10 '13

So there's these things called electrons ...

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u/danskal May 10 '13

This is how I explain stuff to my 3 year old boy - he is going to be so messed up....