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A friendlier MIT decisions page

5 points by gmaster1440 16y ago

nolite 16y ago
Dude! the school colors?!
- gmaster1440 16y ago
  Eh, they change everyday on mit.edu anyway :P
  - zbanks 16y ago
    You can't go wrong with blood on concrete, though! http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html
  - gmaster1440 16y ago
    Hm, blood on red does look good. I might change it then, soon.
  - nolite 16y ago
    Try the logo lab, or if you don't feel like it, the direct download http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/logo/forweb.html http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/logo/forweb.html
zbanks 16y ago
Nice to see I'm not the only EA MIT-hopeful on HN! :-) I like what you did. It's cool to make the stressful process a bit social. I understand there's not exactly a ton of data to work with, though. As a general rule with bookmarklets, however, it's good to put the bulk of the source in an external file that you can update: not only does it make the bookmark smaller, but it also allows you to push updates seemlessly. By the way, I was really impressed that they sent out an an email exactly (down to the minute) 1 week before the decision date. They said they'd give us a week's notice, but who knew it'd be so precise... All of this is causing way too much anxiety. Good luck!
- gmaster1440 16y ago
  Likewise :) Yes, I actually tried a load-script-into-head bookmarklet, but it didn't seem to want to work on chrome (though it worked on safari). If you can get a snippet working, I'd gladly implement it. Good luck to you too!
  - zbanks 16y ago
    You do load in jquery, why not replace that script URL with your bookmarklet script? Script tags aren't subject to cross-domain policies, so you shouldn't have trouble there. Plus, if they were, you would have seen issues alread.
    - gmaster1440 16y ago
      I tried loading the script, but what happened in Chrome is that the whole page was replaced with the url to the script. In Safari, on the other hand, it worked perfectly.
      - deleted 16y ago
        [deleted]
      - gmaster1440 16y ago
        nvm, got it ;)
bkudria 16y ago
OK, well now he's definitely getting in.

5 points by gmaster1440 16y ago

nolite 16y ago

Dude! the school colors?!

gmaster1440 16y ago
Eh, they change everyday on mit.edu anyway :P
- zbanks 16y ago
  You can't go wrong with blood on concrete, though! http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html
- gmaster1440 16y ago
  Hm, blood on red does look good. I might change it then, soon.
- nolite 16y ago
  Try the logo lab, or if you don't feel like it, the direct download http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/logo/forweb.html http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/logo/forweb.html

zbanks 16y ago

Nice to see I'm not the only EA MIT-hopeful on HN! :-) I like what you did. It's cool to make the stressful process a bit social. I understand there's not exactly a ton of data to work with, though. As a general rule with bookmarklets, however, it's good to put the bulk of the source in an external file that you can update: not only does it make the bookmark smaller, but it also allows you to push updates seemlessly. By the way, I was really impressed that they sent out an an email exactly (down to the minute) 1 week before the decision date. They said they'd give us a week's notice, but who knew it'd be so precise... All of this is causing way too much anxiety. Good luck!

gmaster1440 16y ago
Likewise :) Yes, I actually tried a load-script-into-head bookmarklet, but it didn't seem to want to work on chrome (though it worked on safari). If you can get a snippet working, I'd gladly implement it. Good luck to you too!
- zbanks 16y ago
  You do load in jquery, why not replace that script URL with your bookmarklet script? Script tags aren't subject to cross-domain policies, so you shouldn't have trouble there. Plus, if they were, you would have seen issues alread.
  - gmaster1440 16y ago
    I tried loading the script, but what happened in Chrome is that the whole page was replaced with the url to the script. In Safari, on the other hand, it worked perfectly.
    - deleted 16y ago
      [deleted]
    - gmaster1440 16y ago
      nvm, got it ;)

bkudria 16y ago

OK, well now he's definitely getting in.