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@badp Hahaha, gogo bobince! I still remember his "the <center> cannot hold" post.

The Renamed Exception

So that's all I can think at this point @RebeccaChernoff. Aside from working faster, any suggestions for me? :-)

@ChrisJesterYoung he posts on average twice a year, but it's gold

The Renamed Exception

This week was a very crazy work week for me...

@badp Totally.

12:02 AM

> (That's an entirely rhetorical question. You can't actually answer, as I've never got around to adding any kind of comment system to this site. Maybe one day I will, and then you can tell me how wrong I am. Given the rate at which I update this site, that'll probably be in ten years' time, when we'll all be using holographic 3D fonts with time-domain anti-aliasing. In space.)

Wow, it's been, what, 14 years? the local television channel is still showing Titanic on movie nights

@badp In Space!!!

Hmmm, I didn't add the election monitor to stackapps because I didn't want to duplicate the content from MSO, but now with the new apps listing, should I?

@YiJiang go ahead, make your day

> Oh, and to add insult to injury, they've just skinned the UI, to make it all dark. Because ‘professional’ media apps have to be dark, right? It makes them go faster, due to ambient... reflection... tachonometry... sciencey... science.

meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/79039/revisions - did I mention I was terrible at names?

ircmaxell

@DanGrossman: around?

Ahem, Rebbeca...

12:13 AM

@ircmaxell Whats up?

ircmaxell

Reading about capped collections

seems quite interesting

Can I do GridFS ontop of that?

I don't think so, could be wrong though

ircmaxell

That would be ideal, since it would be then trivial to implement

hrm, I will need to think about this (since using mongo will be difficult since the output is piped to STDOut as a pretty high rate. So I'd need to pipe it to some kind of tool that splits it apart and inserts it into Mongo

@RebeccaChernoff I don't get it, the /users/{id}/associated route returns the association id, for what?

The association id will always be the same

@YiJiang Assuming I read your question correctly, you use the association ID to grab at a user's other linked sites. You can use it for, say, Rebecca's StackFlair.

12:24 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung No, I mean, you're already feeding the association id into that route, so why would the route return the association id, which is the same for every site the user participates on

For example,

  {
   "user_id":103,
   "site_name":"User Interface",
   "user_creation_date":1281406468,
   "association_id":"56541460-95df-4570-8911-e180125974ce"
  },
  {
   "user_id":117,
   "site_name":"Gaming",
   "user_creation_date":1278532753,
   "association_id":"56541460-95df-4570-8911-e180125974ce"
  },
  {
   "user_id":181,
   "site_name":"Science Fiction",
   "user_creation_date":1295387297,
   "association_id":"56541460-95df-4570-8911-e180125974ce"
  },
  {
   "user_id":243,
   "site_name":"Web Applications",

These are not questions I can answer @YiJiang.

@RebeccaChernoff To stackapps then!

\o/

@YiJiang Ah.

@YiJiang Because it can!

The Renamed Exception

12:30 AM

OK @RebeccaChernoff I am about to take off, anything else you need from me on the digests (or anything else) tonight?

1:00 AM

I need confirmation - I can't find the comment delete button any more, this is very weird

status-norepro

It's still in the DOM, but it's no longer visible for some reason

Chrome shows the button, but not Firefox. Weird

My screenshot is in Firefox, did you refresh and everything?

@TimStone Multiple times

I'll try restarting it

I just noticed something else - Pekka's comment there renders without that space behind it on Chrome

Seems like Chrome doesn't render empty elements at all, while Firefox will still respect the padding of empty elements

Hmm

Q: SkeetStalker - Get to unanswered questions before Jon Skeet!

1:16 AM

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Screenshots Main Page Supports all StackExchange sites via StackAuth Search for users on any site to stalk About I created this for fun and for a chance to play around with GWT & Google's App Engine. It's a tongue-in-cheek application to give people, who are sick of Jon Skeet and...

lol

drachenstern

1:49 AM

Dammit 28% battery :(

drachenstern

2:05 AM

There might have been a better night to take my nephew to see a movie :/

A: If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?

3

The original question was "whether employees are allowed to have side projects." I assume this was just an oversimplification or a misunderstanding by the "lady from Zynga," because I doubt they care if you have side projects... the real question is whether they claim to own what you do in your s...

^^-- insightful.

A: If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?

2:23 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung Several new answers in a few short hours - only a few is interesting, the other ones are rubbish

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Microsoft does the same thing unfortunately.

For example, should be deleted. I mean, how is this even related to the question?

Q: Move the remove tag "X" icon inside the tag in interesting/ignored tags

3:03 AM

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Currently, the list of tags in "ignored tags" and "interesting tags" has a little "remove tag" icon to the right of each tag. However, since this icon is not inside the div containing the tag, it can sometimes get wrapped onto the next line, which causes confusion as to which tag will actually be...

feature-request tags user-interface

A mod should add a status-competed tag to this

Earlz

2

Q: What is a good OS to mess around with Xen Dom0?

Hello, I'd like to experiment some with Xen. My problem is I do not know which OS to try to install it with. I use OpenBSD, but it can not run as Dom0 or DomU at this point. I use Arch Linux on my website's VPS, so I know it and like it. The support for Xen just doesn't seem to be there though....

virtualization operating-systems xen

odd, my question was moved from superuser to serverfault

It had nothing specific to servers though (unless Xen is considered server-only software). And when I tried to see who closed it, it apparently has been deleted off of superuser

@YiJiang But it's not completed?

Earlz

@TimStone what?

@TimStone oh sorry, wrong person lol

superuser.com/questions/153492/… wow, I got the Popular Question badge on a question with no upvotes :/

@TimStone Given that the little x doesn't exist anymore, the feature request is irrelevant, isn't it?

3:18 AM

...It does exist?

@YiJiang Agree. It would more rightfully be a comment.

(No userstyles there, as you can see the adobe icon)

I assume that this is somehow related to the hatred the comment delete button has for you. :P

Okay, this is totally weird

Oh, gosh, no, my mistake - I'm a moron

It was a tiny userstyle I'd written about a month ago for someone on Meta

I forgot to turn it off, for some reason

3:28 AM

Whoops ;)

4:15 AM

> Again, the above code will behave drastically different.

I'm not sure why, but I feel an urge to correct that to 'drastically differently'

4:39 AM

@YiJiang That's because you'd be right.

@YiJiang Remember, the proper phrase is "think differently", not "think different". Apple is just...funny in the head.

@ChrisJesterYoung Is it? I'm not entirely sure here

waiwai933

6:18 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung Actually, different is correct. It's like "Think big". It's telling you not to think differently, but to think of different things (a semantic difference).

6:35 AM

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/522/…

(Do not enter this room if you value your sanity)

sighs loudly

George Marian

7:22 AM

@YiJiang Eh?

javascript string validation

7:53 AM

-1

Q: Time validation

I have a text box which accepts time(max of 5 characters only), and a drop down which accepts am or pm value. I need to perform some validations for the string values entered into the text box such as: If user enters 9 => Should be changed to 0900 9:3 => 0930 09:3 => ...

@GeorgeMarian Starting all your questions with 'Need help' is... slightly redundant isn't it? Why ask questions on a Q&A website if you don't need help?

^ Close as repost, sigh...

George Marian

@YiJiang Yes, indeed. I had no idea what you were trying to point out. :)

8:27 AM

2

Singapore: UNSUPPORTED!!!

George Marian

9:03 AM

lol

9:43 AM

in My Erudition of Programming Languages on Stack Overflow Chat, yesterday, by Michel Geoffroy

@PrasannaVenkatesh: But aware no spam message, if you guys used spam message, then i also block writing access

that sounds like a challenge!

not worth my time, at any rate

-1

Q: Looking for job

Hello everybody! My situation is following: I'm a single C#, .NET developer. I don't want to attach my resume right now, I'll just tell about my project. I created a server, which are interacting with payment kiosks and processes the payments to operators. The server is a windows service, worki...

jobs

Uh... wtf? (look at split score)

10:19 AM

Hi! :)

<?php
    function truefalse() {
        return (time() % 2) ? /* odd */ true : /* even */ false;
    }
?>

10:43 AM

dl.dropbox.com/u/1722364/garden.pdf - JavaScript garden print stylesheet. What do you think?

@YiJiang Hi, nice! :)

Benjol

[morning] meta-heads :)

@Benjol good-morning

function typeOf(a) {
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(a).slice(8, -1);
}

Benjol

Just popping in to see if anyone has got any tips on plotting 180 as-yet-ungeocoded-addresses on an embedded google map

Q: Column 80 - Plain Text optimised SOFU

10:51 AM

I like StackExchange's global login – I login at StackExchange, and I'll be automatically logged in on other sites I'm registered on – when I first visit them.

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Screenshot / Code Snippet About Browsing the existing SOFU family of websites was ok in a text-based browser, but when you're stuck in a Linux shell with no way out and no other computers around and you just know you saw the answer on ServerFault last week, this is how you can find it easil...

app

@balpha There's that recent bug about the dismiss button on 10k tools flag section that was about a mod ability button being shown to 10k'ers

The button's gone, but the help section's still there

okay, will look; thanks

status-reproduced

11:27 AM

status-completed

12:13 PM

Look like you're working, actually be reading Reddit.

codereddit.com

6

@DanGrossman We need to make a SO version!

12:27 PM

Hi! :)

drachenstern

1:41 PM

@YiJiang re: stylesheet PDF, nice

Zwcat

1:55 PM

I am testing the chat func

@Zwcat chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/38/sandbox

A: Is it OK to copy game descriptions from Wikipedia for new tag wikis?

2:42 PM

I'd like doublechecking on this:

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If you do it right, yes. Wikipedia is licensed under the same license as Stack Exchange content is: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike. From the Wikipedia attribution requirements page: To re-distribute text on Wikipedia in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including: ...

especially the final two paragraphs

@badp I thought there was a Meta question just the other day

@RebeccaChernoff Hi, are you there?

@YiJiang I did flag for migration to MSO.

Added another gotcha

@Nyuszika7H sort of.

@RebeccaChernoff please delete my long message, I've already flagged it…

thanks

2:49 PM

...if you've flagged it, there's not much value in calling anyone out by name. It isn't a severely urgent issue.

beep

@RebeccaChernoff it breaked the chat layout for me (Chrome 10 dev), and it was too late when I realized that

beep beep

I'm a jeep

Which is why you flagged it.

@YiJiang There is, I answered that one too

2:58 PM

Hello,

                                                                                                                            Hello, Is it possible to write an email to a SO's user ?

@eyquem Not unless they make it publicly available

Thank you. I would like to inform someone I made a new answer, several days afterthe discussion on a problem.

by the way: made an answer, or , did an answer ? Please

@eyquem They would've been informed if they wanted to (checked that 'inform me of new answer through email box), else I'd say let it pass

@eyquem Neither, I'd say 'added a new answer' would be better

3:17 PM

Someone explained to me: "Martin v. Löwis won't see you comment unless you post it under his answer as a comment with "@Martin v. Löwis:" before it; it's possible another format might work, but I'm 100% sure this format works; meaning the next time he is on the stackoverflow site, he'll see your comment." What does it mean: "the next time he is on the stackoverflow site, he'll see your comment." ?

Thank you for the answer you add to my question :)

@eyquem He'll see your comment the next time he's on the site, he'll see a new notification on the Stack Exchange button on the top left corner of all SE sites informing of the new comment

SE ? what is it ?

@eyquem Stack Exchange

i ru to hide....

i run to hide....

@eyquem You what?

3:24 PM

I didn't think that SE could evidently mean Stack Exchange: shame on me. So I want to hide me, and I run to do so rapidly... It 's a french turn of phrase

« button on the top left corner of all SE sites informing of the new comment». I never see that.

Ther's an enveloppe on the left of my user's name. Passing the pointer on it shows: "you have no new replies". I conclude it never changes when one have a comment preceded by @user , because it is never different than "you have no new replies".

3:44 PM

To anyone who doesn't know or hasn't seen it... SE HL2:DM starting in just over 2 hours.... meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79027/…

@RebeccaChernoff used rchernoff@chernoff.com as the email on github. The funny thing is, chernoff.com does exist. Hmmm...

@YiJiang rebecca.chernoff.com Error 403 - Forbidden You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges.

@Nyuszika7H Give a girl some privacy! Sheesh.

@Wil /me thinks about trying out Steam over Wine.

... I thought HL2 ran on Linux? If not Wine, then something... Sure I remember something :S

maybe regular HL :S if not...

4:00 PM

@Wil In any case I need to get Steam working on Wine anyway; I have zillions of games on Steam, and I miss playing them. ;-)

@ChrisJesterYoung ... or go to Windows :)

4:17 PM

@Wil I'm not a big enough fan of Windows (nor a big enough game player) to want to use it full-time. ;-)

(And before anyone mentions dual-booting, just remember that "reboot" is a four-letter word in the Linux world.)

Q: Voice recognition, is there a way I can determine what the user says, possibly via regex?

Oh right, the HL2 bit...I had meant to install it, hmm..

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Hi, I'm using the voice recognition feature in android, I can speak into my device and be presented with a list of possible words. When I say "start" it gives me the following words it thought it heard : stocks stock stop start stops starks That list will depend on user accents amongs...

java android regex android-sdk-2.2 voice-recognition

Reading the tittle originally, I was confused. :P

@YiJiang ...?

4:34 PM

@RebeccaChernoff See PM. :-)

(C/PM? Bwahahaha.)

lol

5:50 PM

Gaming starting in 10 minutes! :)

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/271/se-game-on

I'm getting again Portal not found for OnStartups :/

what ip do you get for it?

Hi! :)

6:58 PM

now it loaded correctly

@MichaelMrozek Was that for Apple? I'm having problems there as well (I blame Steve Jobs). The other ones work fine.

8:11 PM

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

3

@DanGrossman LOL

8:41 PM

@balpha It was Unix and Linux, but it seems better now

Hmm. Or not

meh, needs a little growth. The more questions there are on the site, the higher the chance

I keep losing because of that damn linux tag. It's in every set of three

yeah, the moderators on that site must not be very good

oh, wait...

Hey, we decided the linux tag is legit. I blame retaggers for not removing it from posts that don't need it

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A: Why is there a linux tag?

It does make sense for the reason Steven said -- to mark questions that are Linux-specific. Unfortunately, I think it's likely to get put on lots of questions that aren't actually Linux-specific, just like distro tags will get put on questions that aren't distro-specific. There are even 18 questi...

That guy knows what he's talking about

8:56 PM

> just like distro tags will get put on questions that aren't distro-specific

that works for whole sites, not just tags ;)

Sigh. Yes, but we dealt with that, with some redrawing of the on-topic venn diagram; we don't hate each other any more. In theory, anyway

@balpha amen q:

one in particular...

@RebeccaChernoff Don't be mean to xeno when he's not even here to defend himself

Aren't you a mod on that site? Get to work

I guess I was wrong in using unix.se as an example if you put [unix] and [linux] on questions.

That's what I get for assuming and not looking. (;

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Tweeted by codinghorror on February 12, 2011 at 9:10 PM

yay NYT Log In screen!

Q: convert dataset to a format silverlight can support or pass dataset as supported format.

9:13 PM

0

using dataset at the wcf side is a must, i tried a lot to convert ds to queryable and what not, but doesnot work silverlight gird will not accept it. i also tried sending ds.toxml but that display a column of characters at the silverlight datagrid please help out, have to display dataset in ...

silverlight dataset source-code requirements

Can anyone see a question here?

> please help out, have to display dataset in silverlight grid, what is the code..

@RebeccaChernoff All right - can any see a question that can be reasonably answered?

+1 Mrozek.

I think it makes sense once you understand it, but I don't know enough about WCF or Silverlight to be sure

He's got a "dataset", and he wants to show it on a "silverlight grid", but can't figure out how to convert to a format the latter expects

Well I'm using WCF (RIA Serivces) and Silverlight at the moment but I don't know where to begin answering it.

If he's got an IQueryable<> data set then it should "just work" assuming he's bound his grid correctly - but that's a big assumption. Hence my request for code.

9:22 PM

I feel good if I manage to edit a question faster than somebody can comment asking the OP to format the question properly. Bonus points if the commenter has 2k+ rep

Did I grossly misunderstand this question? Why was the API suggested before Recent Activity?

@RebeccaChernoff That's exactly what I thought he meant when I commented with "it already sorts by date"

No, he wants it in date order but he's looking at the user page I thought?

> The Reputation tab on the user page is great, except it orders it in amounts of reputation, is there a way to order it in date order?

Iunno, whatever haha.

That is a list of reputation-altering events, but it's sorted by reputation, not by date

He wants it by date, I hoped for the same thing, I don't think it exists

^ Unrelated, my rep graph is awesome.

Either your reputation audit or the recent activity I point to in my answer.

9:31 PM

"Oh, I feel like having 10k tools". Zip zip, a week later I go straight to 10k.

@RebeccaChernoff The audit is virtually unreadable, no links/text just database identifiers and the recent activity list isn't the same (nothing that shows an answer being accepted, for example)

@DanGrossman It took me 9 months of fairly steady progress

Use the reputation audit user script @YiJiang wrote. However, Recent Activity does show when an answer is accepted.

I don't think that script converts IDs to titles though

3 downvotes in 6 days? Weak

9:35 PM

oy

Hmm. I got two downvotes on meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78126/…

Lame. Or oy, as it were

Jeff's funny.

(I hate whichever one of you just downvoted it)

-- 2011-02-01 rep +171  = 7137
-- 2011-02-02 rep +183  = 7320
-- 2011-02-03 rep +275  = 7595
-- 2011-02-04 rep +290  = 7885
-- 2011-02-05 rep +350  = 8235
-- 2011-02-06 rep +147  = 8382
-- 2011-02-07 rep +335  = 8717
-- 2011-02-08 rep +241  = 8958
-- 2011-02-09 rep +470  = 9428
-- 2011-02-10 rep +305  = 9733
-- 2011-02-11 rep +305  = 10038
-- 2011-02-12 rep +168  = 10206

Jeff's often funny; he's also wrong, in this particular case

9:39 PM

Jeff is funny and often wrong. But it's his company, so what can ya do?

Complain on chat?

@MichaelMrozek Jeff's something of ten is a fun New York? :P