The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by OskarS on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:28AM (#30425770)

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.

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by herodoturtle on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:42AM (#30426665)

If the dev used PNG / transparency they could stick to the standard rectangle and add transparent strips ^_^

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by jaywalk on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @10:19AM (#30428991)

> the standard rectangle

Nepal, Switzerland and the Vatican City would like to have a word.

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by perihelions on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @10:36AM (#30429195)

Even the "normal-looking" rectangles aren't even close to standardized:

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

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by toss1 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @11:09AM (#30429584)

Yup - 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

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by viraptor on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:28AM (#30425775)

Another option is calling it "OskarS presents: Fun with flags" (https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper_Present...)

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by junon on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:17AM (#30426951)

Thing is though, there are a lot of misshapen flags. This one is just one of the weirder ones :D

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by 867-5309 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:05AM (#30426013)

they'll run into flag being a language construct and have to rename variables fl4g

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by quickthrower2 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:49AM (#30425904)

I hope you don’t believe the other flags have the same aspect ratio.

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Re:The only flag of the world that is shredded by design by crismiquelg on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:19AM (#30428185)

definitely a source of potential memes!

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