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8:04 AM
@radp Lolwut?
 
@YiJiang loldat.
 
@radp lolwut'ssointerestingthere?
 
@YiJiang The insightful comment, which is insightful.
 
@radp Right, you totally misspelling the acronym of the Great Firewall, that
 
I mispelt nothing :(
 
8:08 AM
@radp Because I was talking about cancer, no?
Transforming growth factor (sometimes referred to as Tumor growth factor, or TGF) is used to describe two classes of polypeptide growth factors, TGFα and TGFβ. The name "Transforming Growth Factor" is somewhat arbitrary, since the two classes of TGFs are not structurally or genetically related to one another, and they act through different receptor mechanisms. Furthermore, they do not always induce cellular transformation, and are not the only growth factors that induce cellular transformation. Types * TGFα is upregulated in some human cancers. It is produced in macrop...
 
@YiJiang @radp is secretly Chacha?
 
@TimStone Possibly. Remember, everyone's a puppet of someone else nowadays
 
Ah
 
Except Jon Skeet, but that's only because he controls all of them
Weird, but the script isn't producing such good results now. The only useful line produced so far after six runs is this:
 
@YiJiang I'm badp's sockpuppet. shocker!
 
8:13 AM
> I'm still hanging on to the fact that some of the users on SO speak really really bad English
 
Heh :P
 
Which won't be so bad except for the fact that I've had to manually throw away 90% of the sentences. If only this script could produce lines like that all the time...
 
shakes head
 
I just can't understand why'd you port algorithms to such a poor language as js :/
I mean, sure, you can plug the missing methods in
and much of the language's retardedness is with the browser-specific datatypes like NodeLists
 
@radp ... which have been abstracted away by awesome libraries like jQuery
 
8:18 AM
@YiJiang ...which are a testament to the poorness of the underlying language.
Instead of fixing the language, let's make a layer of not-as-much-brokeness!
 
@radp Also, you're conflating the DOM with Javascript, which are totally different things!
 
@YiJiang So why does JS not implement the DOM with native data types?
 
JavaScript's lack of String functions makes me sad.
 
You can implement the DOM with any other language - it just happens that Javascript is the one
@radp What do you mean?
 
Why does JS need a NodeList data type and a List data type?
 
8:19 AM
Yeah, it's pretty stupid in Java too because of the types and methods specified in DOM.
 
where List has all the nice list methods and NodeList is what you actually work with
 
/blame DOM specification
 
NodeList is what functions like document.getElementsByClassName or document.querySelectAll return, to be clear.
 
shudder
Working with the DOM is so much fun...
 
@GeorgeMarian The DOM is really fascinating.
It was like people sat down..
Said "This is how data structures work in every other language"
 
8:22 AM
Hehe.. the script just returned this:
> @radp Also, you're conflating the fact that didn't work out quite as expected. :P
 
And then followed with "Let's choose absolutely none of these methods and name our own."
 
Yah, pretty much. It's like it was coded with job security in mind.
 
Java tried to make iteration less painful, but since NodeList has no iterator..
 
> @waffles Never heard of SASS. Googled. (: If only there was wondering what Adobe was talking about cancer, no?
Right, so Adobe is talking about cancer... and SASS... or something
 
....Right. :P
 
8:26 AM
Okay, this one is absolutely hilarious
> @TimStone Possibly. Remember, everyone's a NodeList data type and such.
 
Hah :P
 
> @radp ... which have been abstracted away by awesome libraries like NodeLists
jQuery = NodeLists!
 
NodeList itemRefs = itemGroupDefElement.getElementsByTagName("ItemRef");

for (int itemRefIndex = 0; itemRefIndex < itemRefs.getLength(); ++itemRefIndex) {
    Element itemRefElement = (Element)itemRefs.item(itemRefIndex);
sigh
 
Alright, let me fiddle around with some of the constants and see if something better will come up
 
so how long before Python is ported to Chrome and Firefox? :P
 
8:29 AM
@radp You're going to hate it when the DOM is implemented with it, that's all I'm going to say for now :)
 
How do you efficiently minify a whitespace dependent language? ;)
 
D:
tim: distribute .pyc's
 
> Right, so bad except for the script isn't producing such good results now. The users on SO speak really fascinating.
Hmmm... isn't Dissociated Press suppose to produce grammatically correct sentences?
 
It's self-referential!
 
@TimStone Does this language have a function/construct to evaluate code from a string?
 
8:31 AM
@radp Hey, compiled files not welcome here :P
 
eval I guess
@yij dis.dis ftw :P
 
@DanGrossman In reference to the minify comment? I dunno, I'm not a Python person.
 
Then you can compress the code, and eval the compressed code. Adding the decompress/eval code won't add more than you gain from compressing the rest of the file.
especially in a whitespcae dependent language
 
people many reverse compilers were built with it, although the opensource one is stuck at py2.3 and back
 
@radp It should import from the future when they make it compatible with 2.5/3
 
8:34 AM
yeah, python2 accepts 'gzip' as an encoding :D
(feature removed in py3)
 
:/
"Dive Into Python 3" mentions a gzip module
gzip the source files, you get back a much smaller string, and your minified version of the program is something like eval(gunzip('string'))
 
python3 is much stricter about differientiating chars and bytes.
this change is a world of good for the language really, it's worth to sacrifice a few gimmicks for that.
and there's the gzip module of course
so you have something like gzip(open("code.gzip")).read()
 
gzip uses the zlib module, which provides Decompress.decompress(string)
 
Hi all
I can't seem to get on stackoverflow itself, server takes too long to respond. Anybody a clue as to what's going on?
 
Hm, seems alright from where I'm sitting.
 
8:44 AM
It's just you, as it was in the other channel
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Q: printing prints slowly for bold text

BharanikumarHi , i have page , in this page i have around 45 lines , the first 5 lines are document heading, and this document heading css style is just font-family-arial, font-weight bold , and heading inserted inside the td , no more style, problem is , this first 5 line print very dead slow, after ...

 
status-no-repro
 
^ He wants us to make his webpage print out faster at his house...
 
darn... nothing wrong with the network here though, so I don't really get it
 
Check DNS, check ping, check traceroute, make the HTTP request manually with a telnet client to port 80... do what programmers do, isolate and debug
 
I'm busy...
 
8:49 AM
If you just need to search SO for answers, use Google and do a site search, then use the cache to read the answers
 
Result of running the script on the Javascript room:
> and it's not bad, but I add the kitten, so if you can somebody assist me?
 
@YiJiang lol
 
> and do i have an answering spree! :)
 
@YiJiang That makes me think of the wrong thing.
True story. Some guy in Buffalo was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty, after he was pulled over and found to have his cat marinating in the trunk of his car.
 
@GeorgeMarian Marinating?
 
8:57 AM
The really sick part, is that it was still alive.
@YiJiang Yeah, soaking in a mix of spices and what not.
 
Ehrm, I think you're supposed to marinate meat, not fur, even when it's an animal you do usually eat...
 
Well, the guy had some issues. He told the cops that the cat was bad, gallivanting around town getting pregnant.
 
@DanGrossman : I'd actually like to get on the site itself, I did know the google route
 
Only problem is that his cat was neutered.
 
I don't think coating live cows in BBQ sauce would make burgers taste different
 
9:01 AM
but no chance, nothing from here goes out to stackoverflow. It does to other sites, but I can't seem to get further than the intranet when it comes down to stackoverflow. I'll check with the admins
 
The guy was, as the Spanish would say, loco en la cabeza.
 
@DanGrossman yeah, reqd if you want something more complex than an one-instruction lambda
 
@DanGrossman But, apparently massaging them does. heh
s/apparently/supposedly/
 
I know in PHP land it's not uncommon for people to base64-encode an entire PHP application, and distribute eval(base64_decode('that string')); as anti-piracy obfuscation
 
@DanGrossman no one will ever guess that!
a bunch of exadecimal with equals at the end, it may be anything!
 
9:06 AM
> I took a button to be working, so straighforward and all that other 'classical' stuff is pretty painful. No need to make any more progress? Also, thank you have an abstract base class is probably a missleading name :-) at it now, hm, seems to of each Class thing
^ Result from the js room
Whatdya think?
 
"abstract class" in a js room?
 
@radp Not sure, I'll look for the message
in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 hour ago, by Ivo Wetzel
@jAndy Yes and a couple of other things, would be quite some overhead to implement something like a command pattern like structure where you have an abstract base class and then sub classes which provide the implementation of the actual execution
I want to run it on something like the C# room
Oh man... this came out of the C++ -> * room:
> programmers are already shoting themselves in a community like i said i'm thinking that A^=B^=A^=B; thing :-)
 
my eyes
what is that I don't even™
 
9:39 AM
I want to go to the supermarket, but I hate being the only person in there at 4:40AM as the employees try to figure out why I'm awake.
In commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore which combines a supermarket and a department store. The result is a very large retail facility which carries an enormous range of products under one roof, including full lines of groceries and general merchandise. In theory, hypermarkets allow customers to satisfy all their routine shopping needs in one trip. Overview Hypermarkets, like other big-box stores, typically have business models focusing on high-volume, low-margin sales. Because of their large footprints — a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter covers anywhere from to , and a typical Carre...
I'd like to see a rural North Korean native let loose in that pictured store.
 
@DanGrossman That photo screams "Consume! CONSUME! You NEED all this stuff!"
 
@radp Have a look at the bottom row. :)
 
I wish to consume...
 
@GeorgeMarian I have a cat, yes :)
She's a wild cat though, so all we need to buy her is food.
She does her hunting, her cleaning and her dumps outside.
Low maintenance pets ftw :P
 
9:54 AM
We have two. Purely indoor and spoiled rotten.
 
Well, my cat is spoiled rotten too obviously.
They're cats we're talking about.
Many mornings I woke up in my bed finding her purring on me :D
 
Despite being fed in the morning, one was mewing in my ear 12:30 yesterday.
 
@GeorgeMarian Well, cats do have a dozen meals a day normally IIRC.
 
She doesn't like the dry food very much. :)
 
After all, in the wild, it's hunt, then eat, then hunt again :)
 
9:56 AM
There is usually plenty in the little gravity feeder.
 
Oooh, fancy stuff.
We just have a drawer with food inside. She stands by the drawer to underline her hunger, I open it, she does the rest (and I go back to my business) :D
 
I think one of them was trying to send me a message by crapping by the door to my room. (I don't allow them in here, as I don't want fur all over the place and, worse yet, I don't want to run one over with my chair.)
@radp lol
 
That said, some cats are more attention whores than others. I know of friends with cats that unplug routers to attract attention.
 
The owner made the fatal mistake of paying attention to the cat afterwards, who in return learned this new trick.
 
9:59 AM
These cats are quite friendly and loving, not aloof like the "typical" cat.
 
eh, it's easy to "friend" a wild cat.
 
There more like dogs, in fact.
 
Feeding a cat reliably and consistently is enough.
 
@radp Feed 'em.
 
Let 'em in when it's raining and cold outside and bam! you have a pet.
This may not work as well if you live on the 12th floor of a building, however.
 
10:01 AM
One was nearly feral from the treatment it got at the breeder's. I've made him bolt just by sneezing.
Not much irony in that, in retrospect.
 
My cat shudders when I rub her on her back, two thirds between head and tail attachment
I guess her sterilization wasn't painless :(
 
I think it was a really dumb move to neuter her however.
She's the only female cat in the area.
 
The female licks the air when you rub the right spots. It's adorable.
 
:D
As much as it'd have sucked for us to have her breed by us, it would've made a lot of sense for the area to have a whole female cat around.
bbl train
 
10:04 AM
Train? Commuting? heh
 
10:19 AM
yep :) much faster than going home with a car actually
although I do wish I lived closer than 60km from university.
 
Yah, that's a bit of a distance.
 
the awesomest part of having a pet wild cat is her independence.
she owns ours and two more families, plus she can hunt.
That means we can leave lengthy times for vacation and leave her here and be confident we'll find her well when we come back.
 
Yah, that makes things much easier.
 
Oy!
 
We'd have to make arrangements for any kind of a long time away. Granted, having fish is part of that, too.
@YiJiang Yah, I feel you there. I should be sleeping.
 
10:29 AM
@GeorgeMarian Look at the edit history of that message :P I was just hiding my mistake
 
History? When did they add that? heh
 
I hate it when opera mobile swallows my messages.
 
I'm not a big fan of Opera.
 
@GeorgeMarian Given it's Opera Mobile, there's usually no other choice there
 
opera mobile is the only real browser for symbian.
 
10:32 AM
Ah.
 
it's actually incredibly featured for the platform, it even does web fonts and client side js
..on a 150eur handset
this particular bug is irritating however
 
11:23 AM
since we aren't speaking of commuting I'd like to send my heartfelt 'fuck you too' to ATB for its cleverly engineered timetables, carefully crafted to best waste my time
 
@radp What's 'ATB'?
 
something transit board?
 
train arrives at minute 58, my coincidence leaves at minutes 59 and 30, with 2 minutes of walk betwwen train station and bus station
 
@dan bingo!
 
11:26 AM
Dissociated Press:
> @GeorgeMarian The script just Programmers. Seems to be confident we'll find her well when we need to buy her hunting, her cleaning and her is food.
 
Today's news: "Thinking about food will cause you to eat less food. Imagine eating 30 pieces of candy and you will eat less real food."
 
what's best is that my time to travel from bus to home is 10m on bus and 40m on foot
 
The hunting, cleaning and food bit are from the cat conversation above
 
lol I was wondering WTF?
 
It's 6AM and I've decided not to sleep today
 
11:28 AM
@DanGrossman I used to do that a lot.
 
These TV commercials concern me... "4 piece sofa set $2999. No deposit required, no interest loan guaranteed, don't make a single payment for the next 2 years!" -- 2 years is a long time to assume the buyer will remain employed and able to pay for their furniture
 
@DanGrossman Agreed.
 
<~ Wants a lower tax bill. Must spend more.
 
11:49 AM
@DanGrossman Doesn't it say somewhere in the smallprint "don't worry, if you can't pay we will repossess your house"?
 
12:08 PM
Does people from Meta read Basic Instructions regularly?
user image
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@radp What makes you say that?
 
@GeorgeMarian Have you read the comic? :)
 
@radp Yup.
Well, that one.
 
Compare and contrast:
Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S
 
@radp Sure, there's a certain snarkiness.
Well, I'm going to have another go at this sleep thing.
@MarcGravell I'm at your service. ;)
Oh yah, it puts the name in there,
 
12:27 PM
@radp yes they do.
 
@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback I figured.
 
@radp the only person out of sync is Korneel Bouman, who actually manages a "thank you" on bug reports and feature requests, and an explanation when he marks something "status-declined" (gasp!)
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/70678/stackoverflow-careers-add-ability-to-search-by-career-level
That guy needs to be careful.
 
@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback My god! Politeness on MSO! Back in my days...
 
@YiJiang don't worry, he is the exception.
 
Has anyone else noticed that the Tags on the SO User page don't line up in Firefox or IE? They look ok in Chrome though.
 
12:34 PM
@PiersMyers Yeah, the CSS has been casuing that. Removing the margin-top rule fixes it though
/blame @waffles
 
12:46 PM
Speaking of new things
what's the MSO question about the new tag - title format for question page titles?
I couldn't find anything about it.
 
@radp I don't think there is - the team doesn't usually create new posts announcing changes unless it's big
There is one question complaining about how annoying that thing is though
 
Well, there'll be a question complaining about it though.
hah, found it.
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Q: First tag in the title of the page is not that convenient.

sharptoothAfter some recent changes whenever I open a question the page title reads <first-queston-tag>-<question title>-Stack Overflow. Tags are often quite long - for example there's visual-studio-2008 tag on SO. If browser uses tabs the tag might occupy all the tab width and no room for act...

adds self
At any rate I wish Google didn't have to jumble extensions, themes, links and apps together in the same "store"
 
@radp I still don't "get" the store thingadongdong
 
@YiJiang It covers extensions, themes, apps-that-actually-are-links and apps-that-actually-are-apps (and you can't distinguish between the last two).
Indeed I haven't yet found an app-that-actually-is-an-app, mainly because having apps in the home page is annoying.
 
o_o have they stopped incrementing reputation point on a vote up for a comment ?
 
12:56 PM
@Reno O_o When did you think voting on comments had any effect on reputation?
 
@YiJiang im pretty sure i saw my reputation jump when i wrote epic comments :O
 
@Reno, you imagined that
 
(._.') i guess no moar bonus points for me
 
@Reno Unrelated - check the FAQ on reputations
 
1:29 PM
@TimStone Right, your nightmare has came true. I've given Ivo my script and now KittenBot can now hold conversations
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Erm, then I think it should move to its own room. >_<
 
So quick into moderator mode
 
This is MSO... no blues for rchern.
...only happiness!
with chat bots!
 
How do you explain all the backward frowns?
 
Happy Friday everyone
 
1:35 PM
@YiJiang Lack of chat bots.
 
FRIIIDAAAAY
 
@radp But of course!
 
@YiJiang I'm glad to bring you enlightenment.
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Q: Can accounts be merged?

Ulrike FischerI have posted on tex.stackexchange as an unregistered user for some time. But it seems that this lead to two accounts with my name. Now on one of my PC the site no longer recognized me, so I created a real account with an openid. And now I have three identities: (user 955, 958 and 2388). Can this...

free reps
I have lunch to account for now though
 
1:56 PM
U no want free meta reps?
I go get free meta reps
 
2:08 PM
You know what I said about the talkative badge?
in Sandbox on Stack Overflow Chat, Dec 7 at 0:29, by Linuxmint
can someone plz star my post
Yeah, it's happening. Only in the Sandbox though, but still...
 
I'd be interested to know what your take on this is:
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Q: How about newlines within comments ?

VonCI am aware that comments have only a simple field, with no formatting possible and that is fine (if formatting is needed, your comment should actually be an answer!) But I find some comments hard to read because they are mainly one giant line (of up to 600 characters!). Any newlines entered duri...

 
@Benjol I completely agree with the current implementation
 
@Benjol I supported the original proposal to change it to the way it is now, and I still think that the current implementation is the best
 
yeah
 
Just to be clear - it's not about return = submit
(though they're related)
 
2:11 PM
No newlines sucks when you comment about Python, but comments do not need to take more space than they do now.
 
It was whether to allow multiline comments
 
They are 2nd class citizens after all
 
(Also in the context of the strife on math)
 
If you want to link to something more than a one liner there's always pastebin/etc.
@Benjol Math shouldn't complain at all, when they can newline with $$$$
(that's an empty display equation and takes much more space than a newline too.)
 
@radp, it newlines too much though (to my eyes)
 
2:12 PM
@Benjol Yes it does :)
It's the same kind of abuse that people do when they post comments shorter than 15 chars however
 
@Benjol Do not support - the implementation he's talking about is incredibly complex compared to how simple it is now
 
I think that given the amount of grief that the [enter=submit] feature is generating, it would be worth rolling back, just for the sake of peace.
 
how are No. [ ](http://i.like.kittens/) and ...blah $$$$ blah... really different :)
 
(Either that or we go the other way and have auto-complete in comments :)
 
Since I want to be able to do the former, I can't complain about people doing the latter.
Oh well.
 
2:14 PM
@Benjol It would, but what would happen to the original supporter of that proposal? (sigh)
 
@Benjol Honestly, I have seen 0 grief at gaming
see, people who like change does not complain about it all the time
but don't be fooled into thinking nobody likes change, just because those who don't want it are very vocal!
 
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Q: Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form

bobinceI don't think I'm going any more crazy than normal, but I'm surprised I can't see any other meta mention so far. This started happening recently on at least SO and ubuntu.SE, and occurs in at least IE and Firefox. So I'm guessing it's a deliberate feature not [bug]. But I'm not keen. It's not st...

 
yeah, 47 people, how many regulars are there in Meta again?
 
to be honest, I'm fine with the new functionality, but you've got to admit that post got a heck of a lot of votes
 
I mean seriously now. :|
 
2:18 PM
Yeah well, there is a gigantic culture clash problem on math.se, I don't know if anyone saw it coming.
 
wait what ?
 
@Benjol The fact is that, after a while on Meta, you realize that votes on Meta doesn't really mean anything
 
People are jumping from SE 1.0 to SE 2.0 and have trouble accepting anything that has changed in the meantime. :|
 
Seen from the MO people's perspective, SE people are spoiling their fun; from SE people's perspective, MO people are a bunch of rude louts :)
 
That's my view, because it's all people continue to complain about.
OMFG CAPTCHAS. OMFG RETURN IN COMMENTS. OMFG JEFF ATWOOD.
That said, about return in comments, deceze has a very very valid point.
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A: Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form

decezeA huge problem that probably very few have noticed so far: This new behavior completely screws people using IMEs. I-what you ask? Input Method Editors for writing complex languages. For example, to input "入力" I have to type n-y-u-u-r-y-o-k-u-[space]-[enter]. The last enter, which is necessary to...

 
2:21 PM
Yeah, and it hasn't been addressed yet, as far as I know
 
I guess that's the main reason why they haven't tagged it status-declined/status-bydesign yet.
 
What shocked me the most were comments on meta.math basically saying "yeah, well he's a very smart guy, so he should get special treatment"...
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speeshul people you say ? .. hmm
 
@Benjol because you haven't seen the Captcha questions, which basically say "yeah, well we're a very smart site, so we should get special treatment".
 
hohum, how crazy am I, worrying about the meta of a site where I don't even have an account? :)
 
2:26 PM
Because we care about SE 2.0 and thus care about Maths and MO
 
@radp, yeah, well that might work for MO, but the stated aim of Math.se is to reach out to the masses, so that doesn't work too well.
 
If MO decided to go "with hell with you, we're going Shapado" (say), that'd be a big loss for SOIS, Inc.
Who knows, maybe they'd even enjoy getting their Interesting Person badges. =_=
 
As I see it, a troll is a troll is a troll, whether he be smart/boffin/professor or whatever. And trolls are toxic for any community.
 
Eh, I wouldn't label him a troll, but certainly his ego is bigger than mine.
I wouldn't mind having Jeff start an email to me with "hey badp" at the very least.
 
@radp, in fact, I wasn't thinking of that person in particular in my previous line :)
 
2:30 PM
happy holidays guys
 
he's more of an 'internet curmudgeon' (someone called me that once, I quite like the expression :)
@Reno, already? what time zone are you in? :) Oh, you mean the weekend?
 

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