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How a Hacker Asks His Date To Formal

25 points by Judson 17y ago

Judson 17y ago
Thought this was slightly entertaining. But I can't recommend this method to anyone trying to impress a non-tech girl, or one that won't see it as slightly humorous.
- Timothee 17y ago
  The non-tech girl will not be interested or impressed. The tech girl will not be pleased to see her name can be changed to anything with a different URL. Not a good plan!
- jdoliner 17y ago
  I beg to differ. I just found this little gem and asked out every single latent crush I have. All yeses every single one of them, I'm telling you guys it can't fail guys. Now this is going to a crazy formal :-/. I didn't really think about that while I was asking.
JacobAldridge 17y ago
And completely customisable for the rest of us - http://harmony.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jacob http://harmony.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jacob (Would have been more romantic had it been created for a single lady. I'm glad you can change the asker's name as well, otherwise it was just a website optimised for one guy to cycle through an infinite number of rejections.)
bojiang 17y ago
I love that you can change the name. Way to optimize for the unknown!!
tlrobinson 17y ago
http://hello.willyougotoformalwithme.com/world http://hello.willyougotoformalwithme.com/world
I-just-farted 17y ago
Oh dear. No rude word parsing. http://bitch.willyougotoformalwithme.com/asshole http://bitch.willyougotoformalwithme.com/asshole
sachinag 17y ago
Ah, it doesn't work for compound names (like Mary Beth). Hyphens and underscores still come through. :(
- ErrantX 17y ago
  http://emily%20a.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jud http://emily%20a.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jud
bmelton 17y ago
I recently put together a (very) basic website for my wife, that allows me to put little 'thinking of you' cards on it for her to see. It's fairly rudimentary, but she loves it. When I went to her office to take her out to lunch the other day, I was shocked to see that she had printed out each of the cards (basically business card format) and taped them to her wall. I've been thinking of expanding the idea and allowing for logins (as it currently has zero backend code, just HTML for the page and JS/AJAX to see browse the archive), but thought it might be fairly one-off. This has just changed my mind.
- noonespecial 17y ago
  Ooh! Give it a twitter @somethinorother listener and an auto-refresh tag so she can just leave it up and you can twitter a new message in anytime. Dammit, now I'm inspired too. Just when I thought I might get free time...
  - Timothee 17y ago
    And just a few days after Valentine's Day too ;-)
  - bmelton 17y ago
    It wouldn't work with the format it's in, as they're images, not text. I mean, they're mostly textual images, but they're images, just the same. I've found it's actually done wonders for my Photoshop skills too, as it has taught me better use of typography, color theory, and (as I got bored with the simplistic format) more actual graphic design technique as I started incorporating backgrounds (some lifted from others, some hand-drawn) to them as well.
leelin 17y ago
Wow, this is one case where a hijacking URL shortener actually comes in handy... the non-hacker girl will think it's just for her!
andyn 17y ago
http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/%3Cmarquee%3EWooo http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/%3Cmarquee%3EWooo Edit: <script> works to some limited extent although I've discovered Chrome will refuse to run such scripts. Can't seem to get the error message to show up again, something along the lines of "script contents seen in location. Will not run". Which is probably a good thing.
eplanit 17y ago
Let's not confuse 'Hacker' with simply being a 'Geek'. I'd hate to improperly elevate one, or reduce the other. Static HTML?...maybe even the term 'Dork' is more appropriate.
setori88 17y ago
excuse my ignorance, but is a "Formal"?
- arantius 17y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_formal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_formal Social event.
rphlx 17y ago
Bah. A real hacker would have used a .me domain, eliminating the .com
maxwin 17y ago
http://emily.willyougotodinnerwithme.com/max http://emily.willyougotodinnerwithme.com/max

25 points by Judson 17y ago

Thought this was slightly entertaining. But I can't recommend this method to anyone trying to impress a non-tech girl, or one that won't see it as slightly humorous.

Timothee 17y ago
The non-tech girl will not be interested or impressed. The tech girl will not be pleased to see her name can be changed to anything with a different URL. Not a good plan!
jdoliner 17y ago
I beg to differ. I just found this little gem and asked out every single latent crush I have. All yeses every single one of them, I'm telling you guys it can't fail guys. Now this is going to a crazy formal :-/. I didn't really think about that while I was asking.

JacobAldridge 17y ago

And completely customisable for the rest of us - http://harmony.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jacob http://harmony.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jacob (Would have been more romantic had it been created for a single lady. I'm glad you can change the asker's name as well, otherwise it was just a website optimised for one guy to cycle through an infinite number of rejections.)

bojiang 17y ago

I love that you can change the name. Way to optimize for the unknown!!

tlrobinson 17y ago

http://hello.willyougotoformalwithme.com/world http://hello.willyougotoformalwithme.com/world

I-just-farted 17y ago

Oh dear. No rude word parsing. http://bitch.willyougotoformalwithme.com/asshole http://bitch.willyougotoformalwithme.com/asshole

sachinag 17y ago

Ah, it doesn't work for compound names (like Mary Beth). Hyphens and underscores still come through. :(

ErrantX 17y ago
http://emily%20a.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jud http://emily%20a.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jud

bmelton 17y ago

I recently put together a (very) basic website for my wife, that allows me to put little 'thinking of you' cards on it for her to see. It's fairly rudimentary, but she loves it. When I went to her office to take her out to lunch the other day, I was shocked to see that she had printed out each of the cards (basically business card format) and taped them to her wall. I've been thinking of expanding the idea and allowing for logins (as it currently has zero backend code, just HTML for the page and JS/AJAX to see browse the archive), but thought it might be fairly one-off. This has just changed my mind.

noonespecial 17y ago
Ooh! Give it a twitter @somethinorother listener and an auto-refresh tag so she can just leave it up and you can twitter a new message in anytime. Dammit, now I'm inspired too. Just when I thought I might get free time...
- Timothee 17y ago
  And just a few days after Valentine's Day too ;-)
- bmelton 17y ago
  It wouldn't work with the format it's in, as they're images, not text. I mean, they're mostly textual images, but they're images, just the same. I've found it's actually done wonders for my Photoshop skills too, as it has taught me better use of typography, color theory, and (as I got bored with the simplistic format) more actual graphic design technique as I started incorporating backgrounds (some lifted from others, some hand-drawn) to them as well.

leelin 17y ago

Wow, this is one case where a hijacking URL shortener actually comes in handy... the non-hacker girl will think it's just for her!

andyn 17y ago

http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/%3Cmarquee%3EWooo http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/%3Cmarquee%3EWooo Edit: <script> works to some limited extent although I've discovered Chrome will refuse to run such scripts. Can't seem to get the error message to show up again, something along the lines of "script contents seen in location. Will not run". Which is probably a good thing.

eplanit 17y ago

Let's not confuse 'Hacker' with simply being a 'Geek'. I'd hate to improperly elevate one, or reduce the other. Static HTML?...maybe even the term 'Dork' is more appropriate.

setori88 17y ago

excuse my ignorance, but is a "Formal"?

arantius 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_formal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_formal Social event.

rphlx 17y ago

Bah. A real hacker would have used a .me domain, eliminating the .com

maxwin 17y ago

http://emily.willyougotodinnerwithme.com/max http://emily.willyougotodinnerwithme.com/max