« first day (496 days earlier)      last day (4516 days later) » 

12:39 AM
0
Q: What is Full Text Search?

MosheI'm working on an app for iOS and I asked this question. There's an answer which leads me to a whole bunch of posts related to something called "full text search". Based on the reading I've done, I can guess that it has something to do with searching an entire set of text some way as opposed to o...

runs and hides in a bush with binoculars
 
 
1 hour later…
2:10 AM
@Moshe The same person who told @mootinator "I'm not doing a full text search." is now asking what a full text search is? Shenanigans! I call them!
 
@Tiny I'm becoming more and more confused. I'm trying to make this work and ugh. It's broken.
 
I have 1600 records and Core Data searching is slow. Except it's not even core data. It's Foundation framework.
 
2:40 AM
@TinymooTim I actually modified the question. Still a terrible Q, but yea... It's that time of day.
 
May I recommend you check out Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater? buy.louisck.net (Produced, Edited, and Hosted by Louis C.K.)
He also did an AMA on Reddit earlier today: reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/n9tef/…
I watched the show last night, it was totally worth $5.
 
 
4 hours later…
6:58 AM
nice effect when someone pings :D
 
 
4 hours later…
11:19 AM
Good morning!
 
 
2 hours later…
1:44 PM
 
2:26 PM
@TimStone Nice. Are you into sports?
Because all but like three people in the mod room give me dark looks any time I bring the subject up.
 
Ugh, I'm not usually on this train, it's going express way past my stop. Noooo!
 
I'M ALIIIIVE!
good morning all.
 
Morning yo
 
2:43 PM
Mornin
Trains are a nightmare this morning and it's not even night. (Daymare anyone?)
 
No.
 
@Moshe hmmmm which train?
@SantaFosco yo? I am not a yo
 
2:58 PM
oy
 
@TheGhostofChristmasPresent Somewhat. Lately I've been finding it hard to follow a full season of anything, but in the past I've been pretty partial to football, soccer, and F1. The one thing I've never been able to get into from a watching-on-tv perspective is baseball, though. Not sure why.
 
@TimStone Probably because it's in contention for most boring waste of air-play... the commercials are more interesting.
 
That could be it, yeah :P
 
@aman took B instead of Q, skipped ave J.
The 2 and 5 were delayed.
 
3:13 PM
@Moshe lol oy. I get on on J every mornin' ^_^
 
I have arrived.
 
@aman What time?
 
@Moshe abt 745ish
 
Cool.
 
lol
@Moshe is it?
 
3:44 PM
@mods how do i complain abt a user on chat?
 
That's why balpha invented flags.
 
@PopularDemand well they dont work
whenever i post anything on js chat the same user always downvotes it no matter what it is
 
Then maybe your opinion is wrong.
 
he likes being an @ss
 
Wait, what?
 
3:47 PM
in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 5 mins ago, by Raynos
@Neal I hurd u liek downvote
 
Anonymous
Socialism!
 
You mean when you post a link to a "real" SO post, it gets downvoted?
 
@PopularDemand see my post before it
@PopularDemand by him. he even states that he did it
@PopularDemand what do u think i should do?
 
Nothing. Why does this require a complaint?
 
@PopularDemand REPS
 
3:50 PM
@PopularDemand bc he is an @ss on js chat and i can't even go there anymore bc of it
 
A remedy already exists for serial downvoting. If it really is him every time, it'll be fixed automatically. And I'm sure you already know that, so I don't understand why you're asking.
 
TRWTF is that the Javascript chat room didn't close due to jQuery existing.
 
I guess you meant "how do I complain about a user... on chat," rather than "how do I complain about... a user on chat."
 
@PopularDemand ummmm i guess?
dont know the diff but ok
 
How do we migrate the last bit of conversation to the whining room?
3
wink wink
 
3:51 PM
It's the difference between "how do I use the application known as chat to complain about a user" and "how do I submit a complaint about a person who uses the chat application."
 
@PopularDemand uhhhh
 
A dangling participle?
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Don't do anything... he has the freedom to down-vote, so do you... why do you think you need to do something?
There is no recourse for internet drama.
 
@SantaFosco but i can't rly speak in the js chat room bc of him
 
The correct course of action to deal with your situation is described by this video.
 
3:53 PM
and now he commented weirdly on my answer:
1
A: jquery right click event?

NealYou can also bind to contextmenu and return false: $('selector').bind('contextmenu', function(e){ e.preventDefault(); //code return false; }); Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/WS9S2/ Or you can make a quick plugin that does the same: (function( $ ) { $.fn.rightClick = functio...

 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Okay, I don't know why I keep taking this bait, but... you haven't justified this statement.
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA How does that work? the chat room is public.
 
Are his downvotes, assuming they are in fact his, somehow interfering with your ability to send messages?
 
@PopularDemand lol no. just he degrades alot of what i say.
 
That's his bag.. that's what he does. Doesn't prevent you from arguing with him.
 
3:55 PM
@SantaFosco kk
true true
 
I've gone into the Node room and argued with him on many occasions. It can be fun.
 
@SantaFosco haha sometimes ^_^
 
If he's being actively offensive (I don't have the inclination to read the transcripts), then flag, like I suggested in my original message. Otherwise, just deal with it.
 
kk. sounds like a plan.
(with a man a canal panama)
 
Now all you need is a canal and Panam...
2
Slow.
 
3:57 PM
@TinymooTim :-P
ooo! 3 more till Necormancer badge :-D
ddnt even think of that ^_^
 
Huh. "Grinch" didn't last long.
 
Jacob Marley?
 
Pls, support the request:
 
It was at that moment they realized the meme was dead; Dead as a doornail.
 
1
Q: Populate data dump with bounty amount details for BountyStart event

IdolonThere is a BountyAmount column in the data dump (added after Add bounty details to Community Data Dump), but for now it is only populated for VoteTypeId = 9 (i.e BountyClose event) and only if the bounty was awarded to someone. Can you please also populate the BountyAmount column for the BountySt...

 
4:12 PM
Er
@Idolon I think I wanted to query that at one point myself, so done.
 
@TinymooTim Thanks. Maybe you'd be also interested in the linked request: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/110182/158912 ;)
 
both question and accepted answer are absurd (along with my attempt at an answer)
 
4:30 PM
I lost 33 rep due to the big evil manual rep recalc I just did. Nooooo.
 
I would lose 43.. so I'll be avoiding that button.
 
wow i would lose almost 100
and poof its gone
 
rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 13 days
earned at least 200 reputation on 19 days
yeah what the hell... bye rep.
 
days represented 252
rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 41 days
earned at least 200 reputation on 67 days
w00t
(well that is on SO, not on meta)
 
Whoa. Nice work
 
4:37 PM
@SantaFosco thnx ^_^
 
4:52 PM
(redacted)
 
Oooh.
Aww I made the snowman go away :(
 
I thought tripod was long gone.
 
41 secs ago, by amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
user image
@SantaFosco lol so did i. although i think i still have one of my original sites on there
 
@TinymooTim Hello Snowman!
 
5:09 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA You are cut off from web design. never again.
 
@SantaFosco Thanks Santa Fosco!
 
@SantaFosco lol ive gotten better
@SantaFosco this one is not too bad: broadwayexport.com
 
I thought my oldest site was still up, and yet somehow I just have it parked:
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Much better.
 
@SantaFosco thanky ^_^ (although my wife helped :-P)
 
5:11 PM
Although my next oldest attempt is still hideous: cerebraldonkey.com
 
@SantaFosco hehe what abt blipit.net/new ?
 
Those buttons are rather hideous.
 
@TinymooTim that was my 1st php site
it was overrun by spammers hehe
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Worse, omg.
 
@TinymooTim A traffic detours RSS feed, nice. :D
 
5:13 PM
I need another adjective.
@TimStone It has 1672 followers on twitter.
 
@SantaFosco lol blipit was 1st
 
More popular than I'll ever be :P
 
@SantaFosco how bout docwho.co ? it was put together very fast
@SantaFosco this one i still think is awesome: blipit.net/pushForChat/?stack :-)
hehe
That was when i was playing with pusherApp
I also have the ability to clear the chat ^_^
 
Meh.
 
@SantaFosco meh?
its all javascript
0
A: Desable the F5 refresh action in my website?

NealThat is nice ^_^. and I want cookies and ice cream every day :-D You cannot block that type of action from the user.

hehe im mean :-P
 
5:48 PM
Not sure if this is the right chat room to ask this (if it isn't I've been assured by a reliable source that its the server's fault), but I want to make sure that posting comments like I did on vbscript or Batch Script is OK.
 
It's a bit snarky, but I wouldn't consider it flaggable.
 
I should probably work on a less-snarky version of it (at least I managed to avoid suggesting he/she try careers.SE :-P )
 
Nonsense; it's not snarky enough
 
6:06 PM
@Fezziwig You too? What is this name-changing madness?
 
@TimStone Hey, I was like third. I didn't know it was going to become a thing or I would've refused on principle
 
@TimStone twas a meme for a day
7
A: The Many Memes of Meta

Bob CratchitMeme: A Stack Overflow Carol Originator: Tim Post Cultural Height: Christmas About: One day near Christmas, Tim Post decided to change his name to Tiny Tim, a character from Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol. That prompted other users to change their names to other characters from it, includ...

 
@TimStone I suggest Tiny Tim Stone so you can be like the rest of the tiny tims.
 
The things that happen while I'm away... shakes head
 
Anna Lear switched back, so it must not be cool anymore
 
6:11 PM
Cause we're the coolest. lol
Oh in that case. :P
Obligatory pondering what I should eat for lunch comment.
 
...
 
Oh noes, now @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA can't speak anywhere!
 
Quick question: Is it possible to search for questions that were closed as a duplicate of a specific question?
 
I just found out that a professor in my University's CS dept is researching in the subject of full text search. Yay!
Email. Sent.
 
I wonder what kind of sweet ride he's going to buy with the grant money.
 
6:24 PM
@ShawnChin I don't think so
 
ah.. nvm. Found a relevant meta post. Answer = not possible.
 
@ShawnChin Not that I'm aware of, but url:"http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/<id>/*" closed:1 might get you close.
 
Thanks tim. Will give that a go
 
Appointment. Made.
 
6:54 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA You do know that you can ignore a user in chat, right?
If you really do find someone annoying
 
@Chris Unfortunately, that makes the room nonsense half the time because you start seeing halves of conversations (or worse, you misinterpret which posts are replies to which other posts).
 
@PopularDemand True, but I guess if you're curious you could always check the transcript
 
Yeah, but that largely defeats the purpose of ignoring people in the first place.
 
I guess if I found someone to be abusive, I would at least prefer to choose when to read their comments
Rather than getting pinged every few minutes
 
I ignored PopularDemand ages ago, so I'm a little confused right now
 
7:03 PM
Aw...
:)
It might be nice to have a "spam" (Bayesian) filter for annoying posts, rather than ignoring all of a user's posts
 
Heh
Good memory!
 
Not really. The day you finally get to stop interacting with Michael Mrozek is pretty memorable. Maybe you'll experience it for yourself someday.
 
Wow, I didn't even notice that ignored avatars shrink in the upper-right corner of the screen
@PopularDemand Hm. This doesn't happen to be a running joke like all the cracks about Jason Punyon, is it?
 
Not sure what you mean... I don't listen to the podcast with any regularity.
 
7:12 PM
Oh
Jeff and Joel are always joking about getting rid of Jason Punyon
For some reason
I'll have to take your word on Michael Mrozek :)
 
OYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOY OY
 
7:28 PM
@TinymooTim :-P
@PopularDemand yea, i dont like doing that
@Chris ^^^^
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Ah, okay, just a suggestion
 
7:52 PM
1
A: Why aren't the characters floating two levels down?

CraigThe freefall was to wake them up from the next level (so they would feel it!) This is how I see the "falling" happen: Level 1: Van falling Felt at Level 2 Level 3 feels nothing -- can get stuck. How is this remedied? Freefall on level 2 which will bring them back from level 3. ...

^_^
:-P
 
Neal uses the double emoticon blast! mmyers is temporarily stunned.
2
 
^_^ ohai!
 
@TheGhostofChristmasPresent B-) u know u are *_*
 
Did Movies finally stop with the spoilers tag? I expected that whole page to be blanked out
 
@Fezziwig haha me too, but see the OPs comment on the question.
 
8:01 PM
I thought the OP took it too far. I think over a year is plenty of time for anyone who cares about being spoilered to see a movie.
 
There should really be an "If it's been on video for 6 months, spoil away." rule.
 
It'd be clever if the spoiler tags automatically stopped working on a post over X days old
2
 
That would be nifty.
 
@Fezziwig hehe meta it. see how many downvotes ull get lol
 
8:04 PM
I thought most of the meta participants were anti-spoiler tag.
 
8
Q: When editing an answer with spoilers, the links are not hidden in the markdown preview

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM AWhen you edit an answer with a spoiler. For example here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/71396/edit The links in the preview area (for the spoiler) are shown. Why is this? I believe this should be fixed. This is tested to be the case in at least: IE 8 Firefox 6 Chrome 12 Scre...

@TinymooTim exactly
lol still no answers on my Q
even though i offered a bounty
 
You really bountied that? I imagine that's massively low on the list of bugs
 
lol
prob
might not even be on any list lol
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Hence why anything which automatically kills them would be a good thing.
 
 
1 hour later…
9:23 PM
Hi
Eeeeek! Three finals on Thursday.
 
Eeeeek! People throwing new things which I need to have done in 2 days into the mix.
Brain is protesting this unfair treatment rather than just dealing with it efficiently.
 
Yup, I know the feeling.
Ok, essay time.
Last paper of the semester - then I'll be done.
 
@TinymooTim I only like doing things when there's a time crunch. Give me a month to do something? lame... want it by 4? yes!
 
@SantaFosco I'm normally that way.
 
I'm always like that, it's ridiculous. I try to stop...and fail
If I had three finals on Thursday I wouldn't have started studying yet
 
9:39 PM
Okay, I know this is weird, but when someone says "This task is like such and such other task" my brain automatically gives consideration to reusing bits of that code even if such a thing is impractical.
Then I feel like simple new task is taking me far too long.
That's when I have a mini panic attack.
It's an which code should I reuse induced paradox of choice thing.
 
fracking awesome: xkcd.com/980/huge
(start on the bottom right)
 
9:58 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA I thought that was fairly bloated and useless actually.
 
I know, I know.
 
 
1 hour later…
11:05 PM
Can someone give me some advice on community wiki?
 
What do you want to know?
 
Hi @Chris, the Chinese site has just gone to beta
 
Is there a canonical question that explains testing a webpage by setting up a local web server or using remote server?
 
I think it would be valuable to have a CW post that provides a detailed explanation of each of the limited number of "radicals" and how to pronounce them correctly
I know CW is rare these days and I'm not sure how to provision one for a beta site without a mod?
Should I just ask and flag or...?
 
I assume you've read Grace Note's recent blog post about Community Wiki, yes?
Posted by Grace Note on August 19th, 2011

When you mark a post community wiki on a Stack Exchange site, that means …

this post can be edited by anyone with 100 reputation

this post does not generate any reputation for anyone when upvoted or downvoted

The main advantage of community wiki — more editing — was nerfed when we introduced suggested edits. With suggested edits, anyone, even an anonymous user, can edit anything — so long as another experienced user reviews and approves their edit.

This leaves many wondering — what’s the point of Community Wiki? …

@xiaohouzi79 Why can't you just ask the question "What are the Chinese radicals and how are they pronounced?"
 
11:13 PM
I read it at the time....... just going over it again now
 
okay
After you've asked the question, you can provide your own Community Wiki answer for others to help fill in, if you like
 
Maybe it doesn't need community collaboration, just thinking its more of a list type question which would benefit from having a single answer
 
The question itself doesn't necessarily have to be CW
 
ok, ill go for it, thanks for the advice
 
No problem!
 
11:43 PM
It's time to post about finals on Facebook - three of them this Thursday. On second thought, time to study for them.
 
11:56 PM
5
Q: Why can't I permalink to this Data Explorer query?

ChrisWhy does this Data Explorer query explode (on Firefox 7.0.1, Mac OS X 10.6.8)? I can run the query once, when I compose it for the first time, but all further attempts to access it from my profile or a permalink result in the JSON (?) dump above. Any ideas?

@TimStone Just out of curiosity: any updates?
 

« first day (496 days earlier)      last day (4516 days later) »