parkrun thread
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Jun 2019
4:14pm, 13 Jun 2019
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Wriggling Snake
Yes. Perhaps that is or was my problem with it. It always got used for requirements and design docs and was consequently massively painful to update, requirements needed constantly updating even though the authors spent all day making then look nice rather than correct. It grinds my gears even now.... |
Jun 2019
6:25pm, 13 Jun 2019
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Steven Garden
I always liked pdfs. I'm a research scientist so obviously do a lot of reading. Someone would send a word doc and you'd open it and Word would spaz out and fill everything out with red and green squiggly underlines and some obnoxious paperclip screaming "OMG THESE AREN'T REAL WORDS!" Screw you paperclip, just cuz you don't understand them doesn't mean they aren't real words. Give me a nice quiet pdf any day of the week. |
Jun 2019
7:16pm, 13 Jun 2019
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Badger
Yup. It's great (and as HG has already said, intended for) things that are locked down and don't need further editing or to be particularly machine readable. I think it's the people who are the problem...
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Jun 2019
9:18pm, 13 Jun 2019
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KinkyS
I always used to email out invoices as pdfs. I don't want people mucking about with them!
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Jun 2019
11:56pm, 13 Jun 2019
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The_Saint
But totally unsuitable for being able to use race results as data
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Jun 2019
12:01am, 14 Jun 2019
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Badger
Don't think anybody is disagreeing with you there.
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Jun 2019
9:14am, 14 Jun 2019
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The_Saint
Oh I read it that this was maybe just me, a case in point this week, I wanted to simply do this twitter.com from these results twitter.com 30 minutes with a PDF exporter, a Text editor to clean up the mess made by the exporter and Excel I was able to do so - yes it would have been quicker to type them - which illustrates my point. |
Jun 2019
9:34am, 14 Jun 2019
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LindsD
I know this has been discussed on FB, but I'm not on FB, so bear with me. One of my first tourist parkruns was Johnstown Castle. When I started to do the alphabet, I was smug/pleased that I didn't have to go to Jersey or Jersey Farm for a J as I already had one. Now Johnstown Castle has been renamed Wexford Racecourse so I have lost my J. HOWEVER. Johnstown Castle and Wexford Racecourse are nowhere near one another, unless I'm much mistaken. And I definitely ran around the grounds of Johnstown Castle, and I've never run on Wexford Racecourse. So how can my result from then now be logged as Wexford Racecourse? I haven't ever run that parkrun. It's not a winter variation or a slight route change. It's a different parkrun, surely? There is nothing that I can see in their news that explains any of this and I'm a bit miffed. |
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Jun 2019
9:55am, 14 Jun 2019
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Badger
Not at all, TS, the consensus is PDF is a great format for the specific thing it's intended for, but people use it for other purposes which it isn't fit for. I think you might have come across as condemning the format entirely, which I wouldn't agree with. I think the most usable race results I've seen lately (outside parkrun) have been published as Google sheets - easy to filter or sort for anything you're interested in (club for you, my age group for me  )
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Jun 2019
9:58am, 14 Jun 2019
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TomahawkMike
The move to Wexford racecourse was reported in Jan 2018 as a temporary move due to works at the castle which were going to take months. I wonder if the move has simple been made permanent? It's a 10 min drive from one to the other.
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