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Sorry for prolonging this, but a few things in the post below trouble me. I have no vested interest in Sci-Brick, nor do I have a specific problem with any of the parties involved, but when I detect illogic, and stated aims in disparity with actions (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) It was more a matter of keeping the table easier to read and deal with for things like just listing members, which doesn't require a full bio and location, than of actually saving bytes. (...) The idea was to avoid lookups in those huge tables (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Depends how much space you need to save, I guess. If you're using varchar's or text fields (for profiles certainly), you're only adding an extra... 2 bytes for a null entry? Forget if it's 1 or 2. So maybe 18 bytes extra per member. I guess (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) I think I might have required unique member ids on those tables too. The idea was to keep the number of columns in sb_m down, but maybe that's not really necessary. (...) The zipcodes table is 40,000+ rows, while the world cities table is only (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) I might suggest combining sb_m, sb_m_loc, and sb_m_profile into sb_m, and just not fill in the _loc and _profile bits unless either supplied or member is a "full" member. Unless people can have multiple locations and profiles... Also, you (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) It is a fairly easy job, just somewhat tedious. Well, the goal was to use the (URL) template engine> to completely separate style from content. (...) I am...here's the database structure I came up with (with a couple notes): (URL) file> As you (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Are you insisting it be PHP? If you don't mind some perl (and really, why would you? :), sounds like an easy job. LMK if you're interested! Dan (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) The above message was not approved by the Grand Admiral, who wishes to remain uninvolved in the preceding poop-storm. -Grand Admiral .space Curator (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Huh-- it's kind of interesting to see that some people are annoyed with SciBrick for being too elitist, but Eric seems to want to make it moreso: (URL) that I'm really for or against the elitism, I suppose. There's plusses and minuses on both (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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Hey, this is fun. Let me try. Blah blah blah. blah blah blahblahblahblahblah...ahblahblah blahblahblahblahblah...ahblahblah blahblahblah blahblahblahblah blah blahblahblahblahblah...ahblahblah blahblahblahblahblah...ahblahblah later, scott. (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Wait wait wait now, YOUR VISION? You see, that there highlights exactly what went wrong. It was never supposed to be, nor should it have been, YOUR vision. It was always supposed to be OUR vision. We are (or were, until this discussion (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick) !
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(...) Ryan, This appears to be a mistake on my part, as I was Communications Officer at that time and also maintaining the yahoogroup and website (whew!. Because it's been so long ago, I can't trace how you were missed, so the best thing I can do is (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Wow, that's nice of ya. Name callin' is a new one. I'm sorry if I'm mean, judgemental or a kill-joy. I've never been that way maliciously to my knowledge... I try to be honest when I post, if that comes across poorly then I'm sorry. This (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Hey, there's nothing wrong with A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-Ts. :) -JHK (Yes, I'm alive. Fear me.) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) It was reliant upon you to abide by my vision when you joined. Not chip away at the prestigeous org I intended to put in place. e (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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One last thing and then I'm done for the next few days.. I need a break from Lugnet and all.. again, if anyone wants to contact me privately about this, you can email me. Please feel free - but I'm beginning to lose my composure and so I'm gonna (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) Eric, This specifically is something I disagree with. People with "no good MOCs" are people who could use some help getting better. People who "dont want to pound the pavement looking for exhibits" have lives outside of LEGO and should be able (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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In lugnet.org.scibrick, Leonard Hoffman wrote: SNIP (...) Fine. You want an open discussion about what I found wrong with Scibrick? I tried going back to the website to find the list of rules and regs, but the site is down for maintanence. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick) !!
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* As written to a friend asking what the heck is going on: I wrote~ Well, I quit SciBrick after Brick Fest. I posted something in my compter that I had for a while that I wrote about SciBrick. I forgot I posted it already a year ago. Then because I (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) We are in the process of creating a website which helps to automate the membership process so things like this don't happen. We have not been actively recruiting members lately because we were still trying to work some kinks out of the system. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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