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@Rahul is South Yemen a country yet?
 
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@Rahul Holy shit, if you type "deu" it brings up Germany, that's awesome
 
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05:35
@BenBrocka and GB produces United Kingdom, and CH includes Switzerland
 
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10:01
That country selector is really good, Erics; thanks for adding it to my old UX.SE question about country selection. That question has been getting loads of new responses in the past few days, glad to see that old questions with an accepted answer can still get attention. Good for the UX.SE community.
It's excellent, although I notice Eng / Sco / Wal all -> United Kingdom - but what of Northern Ireland?
Nobody cares about Northern Ireland!
I wonder if it would be nice to see why each item in the drop down is being shown - based on the characters so far eg type Eng and you get United Kingdon (England) with England in lighter font.
I think that's overkill really for a country selector. i'd make an assumption that the majority of people who are picking a country out of a list on a form will basically pick the closest one to their entry. The 'fuck it, that'll do, close enough' approach to form completion.
Start typing England, it shows 'United Kingdom', so they pick that.
(just an assumption though)
true if you are putting on your own country - yes
but say I used this in a parcel sending application where I have a from and to
well - I guess I have the address anyway...but I might still want to validate
10:18
I guess some analytics would be useful. If people are searching for specific regions and not returning correct results then you could monitor and adapt it.
I notice it doesn't have 'Dubai' in there, but does pick up UAE correctly. That sort of issue could be spotted and rectified depending on the analytics.
It's an odd ordering left in the list if you type one character, delete it and then scroll down.
Leaves United States and United Kingdom at the top of the list, but I guess that is quite common (i'd like to see them appear down in the 'U' section as well though).
there isn't a 'u' section
Uganda, Ukraine..
ooooh - bug in Opera!
10:26
Ooh yeah, Opera is all over the place with the ordering there.
don't know where the extra 'ss' came from :-)
So I think that partly explains my feeling of why the hell is that country appearing near the top of my list then :-)
10:50
I think they put Lesotho in there to teach you that it exists
Maybe tomorrow they'll have something else up there
Lesotho isn't that small
I can think of about 20 countries off the top of my list that are smaller
Nevermind :)
You mean the random position
Actually, the CIA World Factbook can waste a lot of your time - don't go there :-)
It's like wikipedia surfing
I wish they'd use paragraphs though!!
I start out looking up something on electronics and two hours later I'm reading about the differences between two extinct dialects of Chinese with no idea how I got there.
11:00
@JonW the article discusses the custom ordering is deliberate
I like how the jquery example page references their article on Smashing Magazine but doesn't actually give you a link to it so you have to go find it yourself.
haha - I went to look at the usability report and the purchase form - and someone's already been and gone and filled it in before me: usd.swreg.org/com/shop/126125/cart/2642635901
they just failed to leave their cc info as well :-(
Urgh, I hate 'hints' inside form fields.
did you see the barrel roll one?
nope
type in "do a barrel roll"
:)
very cool
I loved that one. Also like 'Tilt' and 'Recursion'.
DIdn't notice you'd already covered recursion. Although I could say I did it on purpose as a deep meta joke there.
11:20
haha
recursion is a good one too.
Strangely, it doesn't return any results at all for 'gullible'
11:36
Also, make sure you don't type 'Google' into Google, because that breaks the internet.
Man - I just had to try that didn't I...
 
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Q: How to improve my layout

Mr. MagooI have a couple of questions here: 1) What if I have two news stories posted for a day should I bullet the titles or how should I format them so that it stands out more that they are separate news topics? What if a single news title extends to a second line? Should I indent the second line? 2) ...

Everything about this one just screams off-topic. The subject alone is almost word for word a match to the examples we've given in the past for what is an inappropriate question here.
haha yeah I saw that one
14:24
@JohnGB I love the recursion one
Are Macs the only OS that use 1000 bytes as a kilobyte?
I honestly didn't know any OS did that but I don't own a mac
no, mem is 1in 1024.
was HD industry that started 1,000
That's what I figured, this question claims mac reports it in 1000 kb
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Q: Files size units: "KiB" vs "KB" vs "KB"

Henry JacksonI'm working on a web app that will show the size of certain files, and I'm wondering if there's any consensus about how to report the units of bytes. Technically the IEC has weighed in with an official standard, but I'm not sure that's worth much. Several options: "1 KB" means 1024 bytes (as W...

MAybe I'm just too techy, but I've never met anyone who thoguht the hard drive manufacturer was right and their computer was wrong when tiher 500GB drive shows up as 465
14:43
just asked my old roomate off the cuff in Gchat
he thought it was all by 1000s not 1024
i swear that is the "non technical" response by MOST people
Maybe for metric users I guess, here in America I don't think most people recognize SI prefixes above kilo
besides, even if they do think it's 1000 bytes and their computer always reports a file as 3KB, you're still breaking convention once you display a different value since the user doesn't know the actual count of bytes
you're just making the numbers different for no reason
Damn. Google Translate translates 345EUR to 345USD when translating from Dutch to English
just a little bit of fail there
15:08
That's weird
Why would it do that?
Money == money
right?
Not sure why it has such a definition, and Google translate is usually surprisingly accurate...in german anyway
I think Jeff's point about Kibibyte/ect sounding ridiculous is a great reason they haven't been accepted
they do sound pretty stupid
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Q: Why do some webmasters INSIST on having auto-playing music elements on their webpages?

Anonymous -Is there any positive reason why someone might implement an auto-playing audio feature onto a webpage? I seem to see it all the time, especially on band pages and so on. The frustrating thing is trying to find the little 'flash player' box to mute or pause the track (if they've bothered to includ...

If the expected answer to your question is "Because they're stupid" it's not a real question, is it?
15:44
@Erics Apparently macs really DO use 1000 actually
 
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20:56
have a great weekend everyone!
likewise

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