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Random Button
« on: 21 Dec 2012, 23:02 »
It's taking me to random comics.  New random comics!

When did it start working again?
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #1 on: 21 Dec 2012, 23:08 »
Two months ago - see this thread (which is still on the first page of Comic threads).
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #2 on: 21 Dec 2012, 23:46 »
Well now I just feel like a horse's ass.
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #3 on: 22 Dec 2012, 05:59 »
Do I want to know how you know what a horse's ass feels like?
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #4 on: 22 Dec 2012, 16:15 »
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the random buttons above and below the comic point to *different* random pages.

I'm obviously not counting Hannelore: of course she has noticed, and she probably even refreshed the page over and over until both were the same by accident.
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #5 on: 22 Dec 2012, 16:16 »
Quote from: PintsizeForPresident on 22 Dec 2012, 16:15
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the random buttons above and below the comic point to *different* random pages.

I'm obviously not counting Hannelore: of course she has noticed, and she probably even refreshed the page over and over until both were the same by accident.
Does that make me Hanners-like if I already noticed that?  :psyduck:
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #6 on: 23 Dec 2012, 00:45 »
Why is it even a surprise that two instances of a random function are different?
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #7 on: 23 Dec 2012, 01:23 »
Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Dec 2012, 00:45
Why is it even a surprise that two instances of a random function are different?

If I'd have programmed it, I would not have made them two different instances, just two copies of the same instance. I think it was implemented in PHP, in which case that is not very hard to do.
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #8 on: 23 Dec 2012, 01:25 »
Quote from: cesium133 on 22 Dec 2012, 16:16
Quote from: PintsizeForPresident on 22 Dec 2012, 16:15
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the random buttons above and below the comic point to *different* random pages.

I'm obviously not counting Hannelore: of course she has noticed, and she probably even refreshed the page over and over until both were the same by accident.
Does that make me Hanners-like if I already noticed that?  :psyduck:

I'm not sure... Did you try refreshing until they were the same?
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #9 on: 23 Dec 2012, 03:21 »
But they probably are both the same - in that they are both programmed to pull up an entirely random comic. I mean, that's what random is.
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #10 on: 23 Dec 2012, 06:11 »
"Ah shit, ah shit, they all fall down" -- recently reported variation
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #11 on: 23 Dec 2012, 06:24 »
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #12 on: 23 Dec 2012, 06:25 »
Quote from: Rimwolf on 23 Dec 2012, 06:11
"Ah shit, ah shit, they all fall down" -- recently reported variation

Wrong thread?  :-D
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #13 on: 23 Dec 2012, 08:07 »
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #14 on: 26 Dec 2012, 23:51 »
But the new ones are backwards-compatable...
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #15 on: 28 Dec 2012, 03:57 »
Only some of the time, and unpredictably so.  :wink:
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Re: Random Button
« Reply #16 on: 28 Dec 2012, 08:17 »
And getting less so every day.
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