off-topic 2020-05-05 | Slack Archive

Jonas Collberg04:05:39

Is it possible turn off the "badge" (small blue circle) on top of the Slack icon that shows up as soon as anyone writes anything in any channel in a workspace?

p-himik05:05:56

Maybe there's another way, but I just mute all the channels I'm not that interested in.

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Jonas Collberg05:05:34

I'd like a mute-all :/

Alex Miller (Clojure team)05:05:28

does "pause notifications" do that? (I don't know)

Jonas Collberg05:05:32

@U064X3EF3 unfortunately it doesn't seem to...

seancorfield06:05:57

Preferences > Notifications > Nothing should do it.

seancorfield06:05:13

And questions about Slack can always be asked in #slack-help

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Jonas Collberg07:05:39

> Preferences > Notifications > Nothing should do it. That's not it... Subtitle under that option is: You won't receive desktop notifications from Slack, but you will still see badges within Slack.

Aron09:05:33

you can mute the channel and then the badge only shows for unmuted

Aron09:05:38

although maybe worth noting that no notifications are allowed from the browser window where slack runs, I mean, I read when I have time, no need to notify me : )

Anton Volkov09:05:14

Hello everyone! For the past month I finally had time to work on something that I have been thinking about for a while. There are some benefits to Corona time, I guess. I have create an experimental graphical development environment for Clojure. I’m would like to find few people who is working with Clojure more that I do to help with testing it. If you are eager to try, shoot me a private message. Here is ~15 min demo that showcases what it’s all about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTHAY9-1UhI

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λraulain10:05:20

Hi @UTWDZ4SB1 I really like your project and can already see a few cases where i would like to have such a tool, like on a tablet when I am on the move, or for educational purposes.

λraulain10:05:53

I hope you open source it soon. 😊

jaide18:05:05

"Wats" of Ruby and JS https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat. I love how hysterical the crowd gets as it goes along.

andy.fingerhut18:05:37

That is a very fun talk. I have watched it at least 3 times spread over several years, and used it as inpiration when naming this repo: https://github.com/jafingerhut/batman

andy.fingerhut18:05:17

Apparently the image of someone dressed as Darth Vader pouring sea water into a pitcher, standing in the surf at a beach, was created by someone else, not specifically for that talk, but by some kind of artsy type of person: https://www.danielbozhkovart.com/darth-vader

jaide19:05:30

I love this image. It's so perfect! Especially how it lends itself so easily to many "deep" interpretations but for all we know the artist just thought it would look funny.

hindol18:05:18

This reminds me of a C programming puzzles blog(?)/book(?) I did long back. Each answer went very in depth about why it does not do what we expect it to do. Can't find it now.

hindol18:05:31

Of course, for Java there is the http://www.javapuzzlers.com/

jaide19:05:26

Shared the python one a few days ago https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

hindol19:05:39

Yeah, I saw that when you posted, 🙂

jaide19:05:54

Oh! Sorry about that 😳

hindol19:05:23

Oh, no worries.

jjttjj20:05:23

Seems like the graalvm homepage has been hacked, or at least is being misused by someone probably. From the page source:

dominicm20:05:59

Wow

jjttjj20:05:28

cant find an obvious place to report this

jjttjj20:05:20

I guess I'll @ them on twitter

jjttjj20:05:33

actually, I think it's just a legitimate Russian site/link woops :man-facepalming:

dominicm20:05:16

😂 I also didn't ready beyond the "is a social network for friends..." and "read more"...

jjttjj20:05:12

Yeah when you search google for "graal java", that text blurb comes up as the preview text which is odd

phronmophobic21:05:46

it still seems kinda suspicious in the sense that if you’re hacking sites and trying to increase your page rank, you might want to include contextual info to make it so google doesn’t auto flag it

phronmophobic21:05:44

but it seems like the sentence has enough logic to it that the site wasn’t hacked by a bot?

dominicm21:05:51

Yeah, it makes sense if you keep reading

dominicm21:05:54

I was just super lazy :)

jjttjj21:05:58

Yeah on the page that site is the second example in their "Use Cases" turnstile thing which seems legit

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p-himik07:05:49

But it probably still a good idea to let them know that Google decided to use the first large text paragraph for the summary on its search results page.

Cameron22:05:25

never realized some of the crazy things you can do with symbol names / identifiers :thinking_face: if I start it with a period, then for the rest of the name it seems I have free range to continue using periods (so .cat.do....go or the keyword :.cat.do....go so far seem to work, even though doesn't -- or rather, they both can be created, but there's only problems reading the second)

Cameron22:05:29

well, I suppose reading is the part that's fine if I'm creating them that way -- so I suppose its more evaluating them

Cameron22:05:24

and indeed so far

..dog..cat..> (first '(cat.chicken cat.dog))
cat.chicken

ignore my namespace name, I had to know

andy.fingerhut22:05:28

I would be wary of using such symbol names, since they are not officially supported, so various things you try to do with them might not work.

andy.fingerhut22:05:12

https://clojure.org/reference/reader#_reader_forms "Symbols beginning or ending with '.' are reserved by Clojure." Just because it says 'reserved by Clojure' does not mean Clojure will prevent you from using them -- it just means that their meaning could change in a future Clojure version, and thus some tools other than Clojure's built-in reader might be more restrictive in allowing them.

andy.fingerhut22:05:33

If such concerns do not bother you, then go for it!

seancorfield23:05:52

Also: you can build an awful lot of very interesting things with symbol and keyword but many of those will not be readable or usable as input to the Clojure compiler (i.e., to the reader). Going beyond just "Symbols beginning or ending with '.'" 🙂

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