Morendil comments on LessWrong anti-kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 02 July 2010 08:15:19AM 0 points [-]

Fix committed and pushed. Though I'm getting the impression this is mostly for my own benefit?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 02 July 2010 08:23:31AM *  0 points [-]

I had been using the anti-kibitzer, but since yesterday if I pushed the button to turn it off I would get:

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/Macbi/lesswrongscreenshot.png

And if I pushed it again the page would be pure white (not even an anti-kibitz button). (Latest version of Firefox being used on Windows 7)

Comment author: Morendil 02 July 2010 08:48:38AM 2 points [-]

Yep, I've been seeing just the same thing. It's the defect I've corrected, and it will go away as soon as Tricycle push it to production. That sometimes takes a few day or more.

The specific defect in the code might make an interesting anecdote in that "programming as a rationalist skill" post I've been planning for ages. My thesis is that every single "bug" in software is the result of a map-territory mismatch.

In this particular case, I'd been assuming that once a Web page was loaded, its CSS stylesheets could be accessed by a Javascript program through an array whose ordering wouldn't change. This assumption turned out to be wrong: the "AddThis" widget at the bottom of a post inserts a stylesheet right at the top of the array, shifting the main stylesheet one place forward, so that it is on that stylesheet that the AK script stomps.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 July 2010 08:53:06AM 0 points [-]

I may take another look. I used it for a while... must be a year ago now. I hacked it around a little too, to add a couple of features I desired.

Comment author: Morendil 02 July 2010 09:01:04AM 0 points [-]

What were those?

Comment author: wedrifid 02 July 2010 10:24:21AM 1 point [-]

Turning off the 'new messages' notification and blocking comments based on user. I also had it so it would selectively block comments by a user only when they were replying to me.