Rube Goldberg Code

[SnowMule]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Not quite RGC, but very fitting to the thread title and idea. 🙂 http://www.haneke.net

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Back when I hosted my own servers... that was the background of my index.html for a while.

Along with a bunch of <marquee> and <blink> tags, and an obnoxious .midi that auto-played with controls hidden.

I had a bunch of other tessellating animated gif's that I'd rotate through as the background image every now and then. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNlfmLt1j7g was another I used for a while... (also the ringtone on my phone right now )

[Hooovahh]

I remember seeing some 90s looking websites, and I found more than I expected.

http://bojackhorseman.com/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53792/17-ancient-abandoned-websites-still-work

And a subreddit for 90s designs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/90sdesign/

[elset191]

This all reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azl5jxcXCZk

[altenbach]

(seen here)

Another one of those colloquial translations:

"So if this is true, I have to do...".

Maybe we can blame LabVIEW speak?

 

[TroyK]

I have this incredible urge to move the controls to the left and the indicators to the right... why would you do that??? It hurts to look at through my OCD eyes.

That block diagram affects me the same way this picture does...

My apologies in advance for the anguish this picture causes to all my OCD brethren. Perhaps I should have put it in a spoiler tag with a warning.

[Hornless.Rhino]

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@TroyK wrote:

I have this incredible urge to move the controls to the left and the indicators to the right... why would you do that???

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I also want to stop it showing everything as icons.

Really though they could have gone one further and done a not equal to false 😛

[altenbach]

An example why unbundle by name is sometimes better and more self-documenting:

(seen here)

[PaulG.]

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@altenbach wrote:

An example why unbundle by name is sometimes better and more self-documenting:

(seen here)

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Unbundle by name is always better and self-documenting.

I challenge anyone to give me an example where bundle and unbundle is better than bundle and unbundle by name.

[Hooovahh]

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PaulG. wrote:

I challenge anyone to give me an example where bundle and unbundle is better than bundle and unbundle by name.

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Error wires when I want the code or source?  

Even then I probably would use the by name, but when someone uses the normal unbundle on an error wire I don't think what they did is wrong.  Partially because I know what the error cluster contains, 3 unique data types in a specified order, so looking at the unbundle I know what each terminal represents.

Maybe this isn't an example of where it is better, but it would probably take less BD space.

[Intaris]

There is a single situation where unbundle is better than unbundle by name, when the elements in the cluster (which may have an origin beyond your control) has NO NAMES.

Good luck getting at your data without either "cluster to array" or "unbundle" (or flatten to string or flatten to XML but I think unbundle is still a little better)