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I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this
by OskarS 5y ago
I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points.
- viraptor 5y agoAnother option is calling it "OskarS presents: Fun with flags" (https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper_Presents:_Fun_with_Flags https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper_Present...)
- quickthrower2 5y agoI hope you don’t believe the other flags have the same aspect ratio.
- 867-5309 5y agothey'll run into flag being a language construct and have to rename variables fl4g
- herodoturtle 5y agoIf the dev used PNG / transparency they could stick to the standard rectangle and add transparent strips ^_^
- jaywalk 5y ago> the standard rectangle Nepal, Switzerland and the Vatican City would like to have a word.
- perihelions 5y agoEven the "normal-looking" rectangles aren't even close to standardized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_national_flags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_natio... ("List of aspect ratios of national flags") Some fun examples: - Denmark, defined as the exact ratio 28:37 - Vanuatu, 19:36 - El Salvador, 189:335 - Togo, φ=(1+sqrt(5))/2
- toss1 5y agoYup - need the full set first, then the bounding box of the superset for "the rectangle" Then should they be centered, left-aligned, top-left aligned...?? The fun never ends
- junon 5y agoThing is though, there are a lot of misshapen flags. This one is just one of the weirder ones :D
- crismiquelg 5y agodefinitely a source of potential memes!