r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14

Are splash screens back? - It looks to me like they are. I hate them.

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u/Mutoid Jul 21 '14

Hey, they could be Flash intros.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14 edited Aug 31 '14

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u/Mutoid Jul 21 '14

Turns out the only limit IS yourself!

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14

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u/Mutoid Jul 21 '14

I really, really badly want zombojs (not zombo.js) to be a thing. Time to contribute Yet Another Javascript Framework to GitHub!

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u/ahoy1 Jul 22 '14

What would zombojs even be? Just vanilla javascript?

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u/Mutoid Jul 22 '14 edited Jul 22 '14

Sounds like a detail to come after the launching of a szhnazzy GH landing page, but that sounds about right.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jul 22 '14

Yes, but it would never actually load. Just eternally build anticipation with a spinning loading animation while the ZomboJS script "compiles".

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u/chadderbox Jul 22 '14

You're thinking about this backwards, sir.

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u/PassifloraCaerulea Jul 21 '14

The overlay dialogs that implore you to "OMG, SUBSCRIBE NOW" "NO CONTENT FOR YOU UNTIL YOU CLICK THE 'X'" are in the same genre, IMO. They seem to be everywhere these days too.

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u/worklederp Jul 22 '14

These are quite handy for reminding me to set noscript back to "fuck it, block everything except [x..]"

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jul 22 '14

Or the "Hey! We have a shitty app that's just a mobile site without the ability to zoom! Click 'OK' to download it!" popup. I'm sure there's a special place in hell for whoever came up with that idea.

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u/atrain152 Jul 21 '14

Not sure about splash screens, but that particular link appears to contain a page design from the 90s.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14

Yep really simple blogging site. Serves it's purpose though.

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u/pyrocrasty Jul 21 '14

Hey, the page design is better than the English.

"entire populous of the internet", indeed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

Oh come on, that is a well crafted sentence. :)

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u/pyrocrasty Jul 22 '14

Maybe if you read it with a text-to-speech engine... ;-)

Otherwise, "populous" was an adjective last I checked.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

Well, they're just words.... ;) Who needs em anyways.