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Even using absolute best prackies, developers are gonna find a bunch of stuff to complain about.

As a person who victimizes coworkers like this, I apologize. Thank you for pointing it out, and I will stop doing it.

Ned Kelly

Summarized from Wikipedia

Ned Kelly was a folk hero of Australia - think Bonnie & Clyde, Billy the Kid and Robin Hood combined. He was an outlaw of the lawless frontier of Australia in the 1800s and an activist against the growing organization of the Australian bush and the Squattocracy (settlers of the bush who farmed/grazed the land but had no legal ownership). He is especially known for his last stand against police, in which he donned a bulletproof suit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly

Analysis

sidneynolantrust.org

"Kelly is riding alone, across an open plain. The sharp sunlight delineates all the forms before us - the horse, Kelly’s gun, the distant tree line on this yellow sandy expanse. Everything is clearly and quickly articulated except for that famous body armour and helmet, which magically absorbs all light. Indeed, it is as if light particles are ‘bailed up’ and robbed by the event horizon of this formal black hole. Kelly’s helmet and armour become unknown volumes: both flat and a window into infinite space. Apollo’s order and sunlight is no match for a Dionysian Kelly, who in this instance may be simply riding, but if needed, he will dismount, disarm, endure 20 rounds of bare knuckle boxing and win.

This painting of Kelly is arguably the most well known of all Nolan’s works, and certainly the most recognisable of his initial Kelly series. Nolan depicts Kelly riding freely and, more importantly, for his own sense of freedom. We are given a vision of Kelly, the firebrand anti-establishmentarian, in a very precious moment. We are alone with him, away from the gang and all the transpiring drama. From this moment of solitude, we envisage our outlaw riding into his destiny.

Nolan’s image is a technical mirroring of its subject matter. It is also painted ‘freely’, in the spirit of our great anti-hero, Kelly. Nolan's technique dances above and around the strict academic laws of volumetric illusion, typically achieved through tonal modelling, accurate proportion and perspective. Nolan instead plays the game of figurative representation in his own idiosyncratic way, subverting artistic convention in the creation of a very ‘modern’ composition.

The image has such a graphic intensity that it burns into one’s retina, and even deeper into the individual unconscious. Soon enough, this image of Kelly gallops directly into the collective imaginary of an entire nation and the primers of art history. The 1946 Kelly will effect a shift from being one of many representations of Kelly to possibly the most recognised artistic symbol of this man. Even in terms of other dramatisations of Kelly, can the film interpretations of Mick Jagger or the late, great Heath Ledger, or Julian Schnabel’s ‘plate painting’ of Kelly, ever come close to claiming the iconic power of Nolan’s 1946 Kelly?

A great mystery of the painting is the much speculated upon visor in Kelly’s helmet. To see directly through the helmet form (which we know from Nolan’s statements, was inspired by Malevich’s black square) is to enter a wonderful representational dilemma. Is Kelly hollow, or a ‘body without Organs’ as the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze would put it? Is ‘Ned’ constructed purely of mythic surfaces? Nolan would later famously state that every painting of Kelly was in fact a self-portrait. The transparent visor in the helmet suggests that we can all inhabit this empty armour and ask ourselves: do we have it within us to be so wild, so passionate, so revolutionary?

The see-through helmet also destabilises the otherwise clearly defined figure/ground relationship. Kelly is stark against the immediate surroundings, but this vivid nature is also within him. Kelly’s agency is extended into the sky through this very powerful pictorial device. To be simultaneously solid and transparent – a dark Dionysus framing Apollo’s light. Given Nolan’s great interest in poetry, I cannot go past images conjured in T.S. Elliott’s ‘the Hollow Men’ (1925). While this poem might not be comparable in thematic, as far as imagery goes the poet’s utterances of “shape without form, shade without colour…”, “The eyes are not here, There are no eyes here…”, “Behaving as the wind behaves” and of course, the poems title, are all evocative of Nolan’s eventual 1946 Ned Kelly portrayal.

We simultaneously look at Kelly and look through him, but from behind, as with Casper David Frederich’s Wander Above the Sea of Fog (1818) (this time on a plain rather than a peak). As with Frederich’s figure, we assume we are seeing what Kelly is seeing before him – a vast open expanse. However, instead of us simply looking at Kelly who in turn ‘looks out’, Kelly is looking back at us through the sky itself. He is there before us and already away, taking Nolan with him, into the afternoon, then evening, and into a posterity of open sky and brilliant stars."

https://www.sidneynolantrust.org/nolan-100/ned-kelly-82/

No offense, but I know how to read a stack trace, and yes locate a familiar file - if you're lucky enough to have one listed therein.

My point is, there is no excuse for them being so terrible except that they've always been that way.

The important information should be brief and at the top. This is design 101. The same ideas that have driven newspaper articles and websites for as long as the two have been a thing.

You put the important stuff in big letters at the top, and the rest, if you need it, is beneath the fold.

Edit: just to drive the point home: I'm sure it's not the packages I've downloaded that are causing the error, I am positive it is my code, so show me where my code had a mistake first. Then you can show me the horrible "wall of text" that is the stack trace so I can understand it better later, but 99% of the time, just seeing the line that caused the error is enough to know what the problem is.

Hey hey. JavaScript is easy. It's when you get into virtual doms that debugging becomes a nightmare.

Can you give us an eli5 on sourcemaps?

It is 2023 my brother in christ! We deserve better error outputs than a stack trace.

1. Tell me what line in my file caused the error,
2. Tell me the values of the variables involved,
3. Then you can have the stack trace.

Why are we pretending like these error messages are acceptable in 2023?!

Yeah, but that's some bullshit. I want to know what line in my file is causing the error.

And they know! They know what line in your file caused the error! They know the value of all the variables when the error hit. But do they show that? Fuck no.

Also the part where someone else wrote the code 20 years ago, and they haven't worked for the co for 19 years. And now you have to find a bug that makes no sense, with no idea how he even compiled the code. You work on it for 3 months and every day someone's riding your ass about it till they finally say well, let's put it in the backburner.

Goddamn Windows 95

All religions have weird beliefs, that's why they're religions and not facts.

Yes, tape has very steep entry costs and requires maintenance and storage.

Most of the time it doesn't make sense for a person to use it, but rather a corporate entity that needs to backup petabytes of data multiple times a day.

So tape doesn't make sense for the typical person, unless you don't have to buy the equipment and store i.

But, if you're even a small company it becomes cheaper to use tape.

Companies don't like deleting data. Ever. In fact some industries have laws that say they can't delete data.

For example, the company I work in is small, but old. Our accounting department alone requires complex automated processes to do things each day that require data to be backed up.

From the beginning of time. I shit you not. There is no compression even.

And at the drop of a hat, the IT dept needs to be able to implement a backup from any time in the past. Although this almost never happens outside of the current pay cycle, they need to have the option available.

The best way they have to facilitate this (I hate it - like I said they're old) is to simply write everything multiple times a night. And it's everything since we started using digital storage. Yes, it's overkill and makes no sense, but that's the way it is for us. And that's the way it is for a lot of companies.

So, when we're talking about that amount of data, and tape having a storage cost advantage of 4:1 over disk, it more than pays for all the overhead for enterprise level backups.

Speaking of slasher films, does anybody know of any movies that have terrible everything except a really good plot?

Agreed - although I didn't realize about the size, that's even more incredible. I'll have to see if there's any around me.

Bro, trying to give padding in Ms word, when you know... YOU KNOOOOW... they can convert to html. It drives me up the wall.

And don't get me started on excel.

Kill em all, I say.

That is funny tho, thinking about the art vs the artist's intent.

In this case, the artist made a great many of these, and decided to call them elements.

Then, you posted 33 here.

Then I, acting upon only the context of the painting and title, decided to look up what element 33 was.

And now when I look at all those beautiful paintings I only think of arsenic. Whereas if I had seen them all together, the element number would've been basically meaningless - just an interesting way to name paintings that don't really have names.

So, in that case, I thank you for the opportunity to have more attached meaning to this than would've otherwise been allowed.

Oh, ok. Thanks.

I realize that I left this part out of my citation above... Arsenic is found in prawns I guess, which live in the ocean. Beyond that, I'm not sure either, but the work is called element 33, and element 33 is arsenic.

Perhaps it's a comment on suicide or perhaps the drudgery of common life, or perhaps the fear invoked by seeing nothing but water. That's just me though, that's what I thought about as I looked at this work.

Edit: re-reading my citation above, I realize I left out the part where prawns are a major source of Arsenic.