Tumblr recently switched out their flash-based music player with a new, more mobile-friendly one. That's good, except the new one is devastatingly ugly and has totally different proportions. I'm not even sure it's displaying correctly - the arrow is off-center, the text looks wonky. I have been trying in vain to find ways of fiddling with its attributes, but the ones exposed are very limited. Has anyone else noticed this problem with the look, and has anyone had any success in customizing it?
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posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Apr 11, 2013 -
3 answers
I have finally hit the point where I'm unable to wear the shoes that have carried me through the first two thirds of this pregnancy. I'm looking for shoe suggestions that meet the following criteria:
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posted by House of Leaves of Grass
on Mar 23, 2013 -
18 answers
This envelope with a letter inside was found inside a large decaying bound edition of Shakespeare auf Deutsch in a junk shop in Bushwick that was only apparently open for a few months before disappearing. The letter, postmarked 15 March, 1939 - was sent to Paris by a Mr. Henri Wolf. The contents of the letter appear to be German shorthand. Included was small piece of what looks like code, there's nothing else on the back.
The letter, envelope, postcard, etc in question are at this imgur album. Hivemind: What the hell is this?
posted by The Whelk
on Mar 14, 2013 -
28 answers
I do some developery-type stuff at work and the more complicated it gets, the less organized I am. I often find myself wondering why I did this or that or what I was trying to accomplish with it. I reuse a lot of the same functions and bits of code but I don't have a good system of keeping track of them. I know about commenting within code, and I do that, but I'm looking for a larger system of general best practices more than a specific solution.
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posted by desjardins
on Mar 12, 2013 -
15 answers
I'm hoping to find short (2 month-ish to 6 month-ish) full-time, in-person programs that teach practical computer programming skills (Ruby, Python, iOS, PHP, R, Matlab, etc.)
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posted by carolinaherrera
on Mar 4, 2013 -
5 answers
I have an Excel spreadsheet with couple hundred rows: URLs, a few fields of identifying information (outlet, etc.), for media hits on the organization I work for. I need to make this into a pretty (or at least semi-legible to the computer illiterate) document that I can give to board members, senior staff, etc.
What I would like is to use some form of scripting to automate this. Bonus points if the script can somehow open the URL and take a screenshot of the story so that I don't have to.
I have a Mac, and both the Adobe and Microsoft suites. How do I not spend tedious hours manually doing this? Especially since I have to do it each month and quarter.
posted by klangklangston
on Jan 31, 2013 -
8 answers
Law portals & content portals use their Terms of Service to restrict access to data beyond what they can restrict by means of copyright. What are the limits to this practice, and the history of enforcement?
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posted by tmcw
on Jan 11, 2013 -
10 answers
What's the easiest, cheapest way to barcode thousands upon thousands of world-heritage-level works of art before they go into storage?
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posted by Quisp Lover
on Dec 3, 2012 -
19 answers
Are WordPress and Drupal themes, plugins, extensions, etc. legally obligated to be released under the GPL?
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posted by jsturgill
on Oct 8, 2012 -
7 answers
I am a software engineer, and my company has decided to open-source my project. Yaaay! Please help us find the right open source license.
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posted by Afroblanco
on Oct 8, 2012 -
17 answers
What is the quickest way I can obtain programming gigs from odesk/elance/etc?
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posted by RaDeuX
on Sep 23, 2012 -
3 answers
Mystery token! What is it's use? What is it made of? When was it made? What do the numbers mean? What do the letters mean? What does the grid mean? What does the dial mean? What is the significance of AM? What does W. & H. CO. mean?
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posted by clorox
on Sep 16, 2012 -
22 answers
I am looking for guidance on migrating an application to the cloud, from both a practical perspective as well as a theoretical perspective for a project.
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posted by conrad101
on Sep 5, 2012 -
2 answers
I have a really good idea for an online...website thing. Involving user submission. I don't know anything about programming or what-all. Help me figure out what tools I need to create this!
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posted by threeants
on Sep 3, 2012 -
15 answers
New PHP project in the works that I'm going to us as an excuse to learn a new-to-me framework.
Kohana and
Laravel are at the top of my list, but is there anything else I should consider? The project will be relatively simple, so a microframework might also be appropriate.
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posted by jsturgill
on Aug 31, 2012 -
5 answers
How much in-house print and/or photocopy production can federal offices perform without violating 44 USC ยง 501?
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posted by Jamesonian
on Aug 14, 2012 -
3 answers
I bought a Thinkpad through Gumtree (UK) last year and now Microsoft Office Professional Plus 10 is asking me for an authentication code. When I got the computer, windows had just been installed but I don't know if I got a trial version or a corporate version that was imaged onto the machine. Do I need to pay for an authentication code or is there a way to otherwise disable the authentication request message?
posted by parmanparman
on Aug 7, 2012 -
3 answers
I'm interested in learning about types of codes and signals that people use to translate language in various circumstances.
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posted by Sreiny
on Aug 2, 2012 -
10 answers
Help me find a system I can use to post student programs such that other students can easily read through different programs and provide feedback.
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posted by procrastination
on Jul 19, 2012 -
4 answers
I have done some java but I am still a novice programmer and would need to start from a beginner's level. Could anyone please give recommendations for suitable good books. I will also try the official python tutorial as well, but I don't find online resources on their own to be as good as having a book to supplement helpful online materials.
posted by conrad101
on Jun 27, 2012 -
9 answers
I'll be teaching a class on "dynamic websites" to some designers. What's the best (and free) way to get them playing around with MySQL?
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posted by jragon
on Jun 10, 2012 -
7 answers
Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as '
Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two?
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posted by 0bvious
on Jun 5, 2012 -
4 answers
I'm looking for plaintext or PDF searchable versions of the New York State and New York City Codes. I'm specifically looking for something within the Building Code, but I would also like to have basically every state and local law, rule, ordinance, regulation, recommendation, and suggestion in an actual searchable format.
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posted by a_girl_irl
on Apr 26, 2012 -
6 answers
What is considered good practice (but not ADA) for interior door clearance in a small residential bathroom with an outswing or pocket door?
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posted by pizzazz
on Mar 29, 2012 -
5 answers
Perl one-liner help - increment a number in a find-replace situation starting at a specific number?
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posted by odinsdream
on Mar 13, 2012 -
8 answers
Is there any way to match a Canadian Zip code to the census/sub-census that it belongs ?
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posted by djfreex
on Jan 26, 2012 -
2 answers
Can anyone help me make sense of the javascript/jQuery (and black magic?) behind the category list in the portfolio of this Wordpress theme?
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posted by This_Will_Be_Good
on Jan 10, 2012 -
11 answers
At the dinner table we were talking about code phrases to self identify belonging to a specific group that are used in public (cruise ships, bars etc...) such as "being friends with Bill W" or "friends of Dorothy" for members of AA and lgbt. Are there any more examples that you can think of?
posted by saradarlin
on Dec 29, 2011 -
80 answers
I'm looking for a forum where I can ask questions about networking, security, coding, operating systems, web design, etc. There are
many of these out there, but I'd like to find a
single community which covers all these topics more or less equally (so it isn't a Linux forum with a small section on BSD, or a coding forum with a small section on networking). I'd like it to be the sort of forum where users stay around for several years as they learn and contribute at different levels, with high literacy and education-to-spam levels. Could I have your recommendations please?
posted by westerly
on Dec 18, 2011 -
9 answers
Help me understand the national electric code with regard to rewiring and updating several rooms in my 1940s-era house.
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posted by JohnFredra
on Dec 6, 2011 -
8 answers
I'm looking for a way to generate something aesthetically pleasing from a somewhat successful software project I'm involved in, with an eye to giving it as a gift to the project manager.
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 3, 2011 -
6 answers
What great code/text editors provide a perfectly consistent experience across both Mac and Windows environments?
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posted by Shepherd
on Oct 13, 2011 -
29 answers
This weekend I'm setting up a website for an academic event. I'd like the homepage of the site to have large, clickable progress bars that display the number of posts for each of the subpages (News & Announcements, Blog, Events, etc.). As more posts are added to each of the subpages (posts would likely be sorted and displayed by category and tag), its respective progress bar takes up more screen real estate and the tally count listed on/near it increases. Basically, I want the homepage to look like a giant, dynamic bar chart. Is there a freeware (or cheap) template, widget or piece of code that allows me to do this?
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posted by iamkimiam
on Sep 15, 2011 -
7 answers
I'm learning PHP and MySQL, trying to work from scratch before I ramping up to a framework. I've installed a templating system, just to play with it, so my templating/view logic feels well-organized. But how do I organize the other simple DB query code so it's more MVC-ish?
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posted by circular
on Sep 13, 2011 -
17 answers
I find single playing cards on the street which I'm convinced are some kind of code, does anyone know more about this?
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posted by ninjablob
on Sep 8, 2011 -
23 answers
How can I create a file that has the information for a calendar event that automatically downloads to your phone's calendar?
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posted by Peregrin5
on Aug 30, 2011 -
4 answers
I need a script that opens a webpage, takes a screenshot, saves it to a file on a network. It has to run every two hours. I've been playing with AutoHotKey but I am not really sure what I'm doing.
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posted by desjardins
on Aug 24, 2011 -
13 answers
I intercepted someone's scavenger hunt and may have an anagram (or some other cypher) that needs solving.
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posted by cmoj
on Jun 15, 2011 -
17 answers
I would like to know how often one letter is followed by all the other letters. For example: A is followed by R 20% of the time, while A is followed by Q only .1% of the time.
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posted by 47triple2
on May 21, 2011 -
15 answers
