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user-inactivated  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I made a website explaining Ethereum transactions, what do you guys think of it?

Yo. Pretty - and pretty clear.

That being said:

    So if the pool is very full and your transaction didn't go through after a few hours.

"In Case of FOMO". Last sentence. Has no meaning, even in context.

Besides, "very full" is redundant: you're assigning comparative quality ("very") to an absolute value ("full"). Try "densely filled".

On inline style vs using a stylesheet.

EDIT: also, are we shying off naming Reddit now? Is this our nemesis now?





kleinbl00  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's the thing: a glass is either full or not full. An egg carton is full or not full. A freeway, on the other hand, can be "nearly full", "full," "overfull" or "packed to a standstill" and it never reaches the same "full" state as a glass or an egg carton.

Ethereum transactions more accurately mimic the freeway than the egg carton. It's not like the buffer overruns and the transaction fails out forever; it sits there until it goes.

EDIT: no wait. That's the beer talking. It does fail out. But there's still a "congestion" period where it doesn't fail out and that should be explained, in my opinion.

Maaan. Should not drink a 22oz kirin on an empty stomach.

user-inactivated  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"So, if it's full, I presume it's at 100% - then, a 'very full' one is at... 110%? How the f--"

-- me, mimicking what I imagine to be the model of a rational reader

veen  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks! I forgot to proofread that last part. When I wrote it I though 'oh! explaining nonce might be a useful thing' so I abandoned the sentence.

My CSS...is not very organized. When I started, I did not have many repeating styles, so creating a class for every part of the page seemed unnecessary. I'll see if I can clean that up. :)

It's not a nemesis, more that it doesn't really matter. I could've also written 'another site' instead.

kleinbl00  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For some reason, on OS X on chrome the letter spacing is negative on certain words. They end up crowded.

veen  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeeaah it's not loading the font in the SVG properly. Does the same thing on my phone.

user-inactivated  ·  2474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    more that it doesn't really matter

The only reason to use a euphemism is that it does.

I think you'll agree that, without a proper reason, saying "I live in a city in the Netherlands" sounds odd. "Yeah, duh! But now that you've mentioned the city, I'm curious what that city is". See what I mean?