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I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.

751 replies

Blacklight · 12/02/2015 21:26

I am male, mid 20's and grew up with this technology.
Wondering what something means?
Wondering how to do something?
Wondering how your kids did something?
Wondering if you should let your kids do something?

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EmpressOfJurisfiction · 12/02/2015 21:44

A web expert. Great, you can answer a JS question that's been bugging me. Why is === better than ==?

Lj8893 · 12/02/2015 21:44

Yeah well in even younger than you op, so ??????

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 12/02/2015 21:44

I'm sure if you asked him nicely he'd show you how to type them, usual. He might still have to post them for you though.

CrazyOldBagLady · 12/02/2015 21:44

What makes you everything I hate about people on the internet?

Medoc · 12/02/2015 21:46

Everything I hate? But you didn't use 'your' instead of 'you're' or 'of' instead of 'have' :S

MistressMerryWeather · 12/02/2015 21:47

1 == '1' // true
1 === '1' // false
1 === 1 // true

MistressMerryWeather · 12/02/2015 21:48

Opps!

I meant to say something about handbags and that just popped out.

usualsuspect333 · 12/02/2015 21:48

Are you struggling to find the reply box, Blacklight?

ragged · 12/02/2015 21:50

Oh that's funny, coz I'm female & mid-40s & I grew up with this technology too.

Tim Berners Lee is almost 60 now.

EmpressOfJurisfiction · 12/02/2015 21:51

Cheers, MistressMerryWeather.

HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 12/02/2015 21:51

Oh thank GOD you're here! Thank you SO much. I've been using these magic boxes for over 20 years without a CLUE what I'm doing. I remember when the demon known as the internet came into my house. you'd have been about 5 back then. I have been keeping the evil at bay with chicken legs and candles. Thank goodness you've arrived.

Back when my job involved working on these machines all day, I just bashed them with my tits and hoped for the best.

I'm not actually sure how I managed to get on here, tbh. I was dusting it one day and all this stuff appeared.

DextersMistress · 12/02/2015 21:51

mistress shuffle off back to the kitchen, there's a dear Wink

Medoc · 12/02/2015 21:52

Plus, if you're only early mid-20s, then I was on the www before you were even born.

TheFirstOfHerName · 12/02/2015 21:52

I have an actual question for Blacklight

What does 'mansplaining' mean?

EmpressOfJurisfiction · 12/02/2015 21:54

Bashed them with your tits, HowCanIMissYou? I spend all this time debugging and running tests, and I could just be bashing the computers with my tits?

MrsMinton · 12/02/2015 21:56

I was playing frogger on my Tandy computer before you were born.
Now that was a game

HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 12/02/2015 21:56

and dusting, empress. Don't forget the dusting...

LadySybilLikesSloeGin · 12/02/2015 21:56

Why is this in the internet safety section? You're not that good at working your way around the internet if you can't find the right section for your thread, are you? Wink

FiftyShadesOfGreen4205 · 12/02/2015 21:59

I am a bit stuck in coming up with an efficient algorithm for computing the optimum time to dunk a dark chocolate digestive in tea of 80°c to produce enough softness for oral ecstasy but not so much as the biscuit disintegrates. TIA.

MistressMerryWeather · 12/02/2015 22:01

I think it means he's here for our safety Sybil.

Goodness know what sort of trouble we could get in.

Blacklight · 12/02/2015 22:01

@Hassled

More than anything it's an image hosting site, that is, it's used for storing pictures for people to link elsewhere. Depending on whether the account is "private" Pictures can be viewed randomly, by anyone, from searching or by following the account in a similar way to twitter accounts. It also has the ability to send images to specific people for only them to see.

The app itself has access to GPS on the phone it is being used on so can capture the physical location the image was taken.

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EmpressOfJurisfiction · 12/02/2015 22:01

puts Marigolds and feather duster on shopping list.

Woman in early 40s here, another one who was coding before you were born, love. Is there anything we can help you with?

AnyFucker · 12/02/2015 22:02

You are right

I do hate you

GiddyOnZackHunt · 12/02/2015 22:02

ragged yep me too. Shall we have a chorus of "This is what a tape loading Chucky Egg sounds like"?

Or just wave our punch cards at him?

PacificDogwood · 12/02/2015 22:04

Remind me, why do I had 20 yo while males on the interweb? Confused

I love you as much as AF hates you, Blacklight - 1/0, you see Grin