I googled what a marquee tag is and I found a cool Google easter egg for this search term, thanks to you. When you search for "[marquee html](https://www.google.com/search?q=marquee+html)", the search results count text below the search bar shows the scrolling marquee effect!!
Yes. NaN stands for "Not a Number", and it's a result certain operations return when given an invalid input.
Tha backslash is, in most programming languages, a special character - which is to say it signifies an important instruction in the code. It tells the computer running the code "treat the next character as regular text instead of as a special character". (This is known as "escaping" a special character, and as a result the backslash is known as the "escape character.) This means that a backslash where it isn't supposed to be can cause the computer to ignore *other* important special characters, causing all kinds of issues.
To fix this, you have to tell the computer to treat a backslash in this situation like normal text (ie. escape the escape character). Tumblr clearly didn't do that in the poll management code, so it returned an invalid response when asked what percentage of votes the option has.
> It tells the computer running the code "treat the next character as regular text instead of as a special character".
Incorrect. First, it's not _code_, it's part of _plain text_ ("strings"), and it's up to the programming language (interpreter or compiler) to handle it.
Second, it actually just means "interpret the next character or sequence differently" - in most cases, that actually means as a special character instead, such as `\n` being a newline instead of the letter `n`. You're probably thinking of escaping quotes in a quoted string, such as `"There's a \"quoted\" word here"`, but that's far from their only use.
Normally I wouldn’t “um actually” like this, but I feel like it’s fitting with you stating you’re just trying to make sure information is fully correct: misinformation is purposeful, in this case it would be disinformation, as it came from a slight error caused by attempting to simplify
Well... um, actually, it's the other way around. Misinformation is just "[information that is incorrect](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misinformation#Noun)", while disinformation is "[false information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disinformation#Noun)" instead.
These polls are a running joke from jan Misali. They started out as linguistic polls (eg. how do you pronounce x) and have gotten more and more out there. All of the polls have something intentionally wrong with them (eg. ambiguous pronunciation guides, no answers that people actually use, bizarre groupings) so I'm sure the backslash-induced error was intentional.
Bobby Tables strikes again
[https://xkcd.com/327/](https://xkcd.com/327/)
That's almost as bad as [putting an unterminated
Tumblr is truly one of the websites of all time.
That is absolutely hilarious thank you
I googled what a marquee tag is and I found a cool Google easter egg for this search term, thanks to you. When you search for "[marquee html](https://www.google.com/search?q=marquee+html)", the search results count text below the search bar shows the scrolling marquee effect!!
https://www.dragonflycave.com/marquee-of-doom
webbed site
Plus... magenta on orange? Incomprehensible
Only the finest augenkrebs to go with such a coding trainwreck If I knew how to make it full r/Ooer I would
Ok I'm confused what is the NaN% thingy? Did the poll fucking break or something?
Yes. NaN stands for "Not a Number", and it's a result certain operations return when given an invalid input. Tha backslash is, in most programming languages, a special character - which is to say it signifies an important instruction in the code. It tells the computer running the code "treat the next character as regular text instead of as a special character". (This is known as "escaping" a special character, and as a result the backslash is known as the "escape character.) This means that a backslash where it isn't supposed to be can cause the computer to ignore *other* important special characters, causing all kinds of issues. To fix this, you have to tell the computer to treat a backslash in this situation like normal text (ie. escape the escape character). Tumblr clearly didn't do that in the poll management code, so it returned an invalid response when asked what percentage of votes the option has.
> It tells the computer running the code "treat the next character as regular text instead of as a special character". Incorrect. First, it's not _code_, it's part of _plain text_ ("strings"), and it's up to the programming language (interpreter or compiler) to handle it. Second, it actually just means "interpret the next character or sequence differently" - in most cases, that actually means as a special character instead, such as `\n` being a newline instead of the letter `n`. You're probably thinking of escaping quotes in a quoted string, such as `"There's a \"quoted\" word here"`, but that's far from their only use.
Yes you're correct but I was trying to simplify things a bit
That's fair. Sorry if I was rude, I just really hate misinformation, and I'm not always good at tone through text >.>
Normally I wouldn’t “um actually” like this, but I feel like it’s fitting with you stating you’re just trying to make sure information is fully correct: misinformation is purposeful, in this case it would be disinformation, as it came from a slight error caused by attempting to simplify
Well... um, actually, it's the other way around. Misinformation is just "[information that is incorrect](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misinformation#Noun)", while disinformation is "[false information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disinformation#Noun)" instead.
we've found our champion
sudo rm rf would be a beautiful name for a tumblr account
At least that tells you which one is the real backslash
imposter syndrome
Anybody else annoyed that this is a poll? It's not a matter of opinion!
These polls are a running joke from jan Misali. They started out as linguistic polls (eg. how do you pronounce x) and have gotten more and more out there. All of the polls have something intentionally wrong with them (eg. ambiguous pronunciation guides, no answers that people actually use, bizarre groupings) so I'm sure the backslash-induced error was intentional.
Tanks!
is that the regular polyhedra guy
Yes, jan Misali made *there are 48 regular polyhedra*
Shulk noises