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3:01 AM

@GeorgeMarian Because many people in the world suck? I dunno :P

I'm not cool with people being able to buy tickets under their name and give them to someone else just like that. I see no legitimate reason for that when you can buy tickets for other people no problem.

George Marian

Heh. AFAIK, the practical reason is due to car thefts.

Tim Stone

Ah, that seems a bit silly if no one reported the car stolen..

msnbc.msn.com/id/41377119/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

O_o

George Marian

OUCH, WTF?

Tim Stone

Right? People are insane

Rebecca Chernoff

I reject your conclusion.

Everyone but me is insane.

3

nods

Tim Stone

3:09 AM

@RebeccaChernoff But everyone is your sockpuppet, meaning in part that you poke fun at yourself, which is surely a sign of craziness.

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Bows to the lil' blue mod girl

Rebecca Chernoff

heh.

Tim Stone

Plus, let's face it, your weapon of choice to beat up waffles was a wet noodle.

Spaghetti is for eating, not whipping.

Chris Jester-Young

@TimStone That sounds like solipsism to me. :-D

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Hey, I've been slapped by wet noodles before - not funny ;)

Tim Stone

3:10 AM

@YiJiang Now I have a mental image of this, and it's hilarious

Rebecca Chernoff

@YiJiang, are you on skype or some other im service?

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff I use Pidgin with MSN and Google's whatever service

Tim Stone

tomsguide.com/us/…

The title of that article made me think something very different than what it actually turned out to be. :(

George Marian

@TimStone Unfortunately, @YiJiang's use of the word "slapped" brought on the wrong visual for me.

Tim Stone

....I had to think on that one for a moment, hahah. shakes head

Rebecca Chernoff

3:15 AM

@YiJiang with the gmail on your se accounts? or if not will you add me (rebecca@so) (:

Yi Jiang

Ah well, that worked I think

Trufa

Warning: utterly shameless plug coming:

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Q: What are the little arrows for in the CSS sprite in SO

I mean the little arrows under the big ones (the normal upvote/downvote). *link to image Are they for mods or something? Just curious. I can't believe nobody knows, I will retag as bug then ;) Thanks!

Rebecca Chernoff

Hrm. It isn't snowing outside, and hasn't been for several hours. Maybe we won't get a foot of snow.

Trufa

Any ideas?

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Ah yeah, your area was supposed to get it pretty bad, wasn't it?

Rebecca Chernoff

3:19 AM

Yeah. Where I am we stayed close to 32 degrees, so we got 2" of sleet. Of course, that's all frozen over now...but still, better than what they were predicting.

Round 2, the foot of snow, hasn't come yet, though it has reached other areas near here.

Tim Stone

Ick, still sounds rather unpleasant. I'm not sure if it actually did anything here today or not, I know it was supposed to, but I think it just opted to look nasty out.

Dan Grossman

The ground is all ice, so I went out because I like driving on ice and slipping around.

Tim Stone

Still more freezing rain on the forecast though, so I suppose it might surprise me.

Rebecca Chernoff

It took me 45 minutes to chip away at the frozen sleet...except that I only got halfway up the driveway...one shovel-width... |:

I folded after that.

Dan Grossman

Tim Stone

3:23 AM

@RebeccaChernoff At least you don't have to drive into work anymore, heheh

Rebecca Chernoff

I was hoping to get it all clear before the snow came. The storm has moved south I think though. Ah, great timing with that picture showing the storm south of StL @DanGrossman (:

George Marian

@Trufa Technically speaking, the arrows are for comment upvotes, but I believe you're referring to the triangles above them.

Trufa

@GeorgeMarian absolutely

!

sorry, I'm editing my question

thanks!!!

Rebecca Chernoff

(related to your flooding issues, your ! could easily be on the same line as your first line q:)

Trufa

@GeorgeMarian thanks, edited the question!

Rebecca Chernoff

3:27 AM

weird timing. It just started snowing...but ever so lightly.

Dan Grossman

"This storm reaches more than 2000 miles from coast to coast, with 30 states under storm warnings and over 6000 cancelled flights."

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung Sorry I went AFK (in case that wasn't clear :-) I may do that! I get, what is it, 15% off I think by using my Warrior card. maybe it's only 10%

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException 10%. But you can't combine that with this offer.

The Renamed Exception

@drachenstern YEY!! Nice work

@ChrisJesterYoung Ok, that's right. So yeah, an extra 10% is nce!

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException If you go to the one by Southpoint, many of the people there (including one manager) know me by name.

The Renamed Exception

3:32 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung Same here! You know Brandon by any chance? :-)

Or D.J. or Cory, no, wait, I think Cory left

Or, what's the other manager's name, I want to cay Chris but I know that's not it. Scott, that's it

As @RebeccaChernoff knows, I eat there a lot :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

heh

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException I think so, but I'll have to see. :-)

@RebeccaChernoff What, you eat at P. F. Chang's a lot too?

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung Brandon's their best server. He's in a rock band :-D

Rebecca Chernoff

me, no

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung No, I always talk about it :-)

And she harasses me for it ;-)

Tim Stone

3:34 AM

@Trufa A quick glance at the CSS suggests that those arrows might not be used...

The Renamed Exception

Dec 31 '10 at 0:03, by Rebecca Chernoff

You've likely eaten everything P.F. Chang's has anyway. (;

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException Hahaha, awww...we eat there a lot because they have a gluten-free menu, and my wife is gluten-intolerant.

The Renamed Exception

Nov 12 '10 at 0:05, by rchern

Aren't you supposed to be at PF Changs right about now?

Jan 13 at 17:06, by Rebecca Chernoff

To be fair @Josh, I don't believe I've ever made fun of you saying that P.F. Chang's is not good. For how often you eat there, perhaps. Or more likely just for no specific reason at all. (;

:-D

Dan Grossman

Is PF Changs food by chance all frozen?

Chris Jester-Young

@DanGrossman No.

The Renamed Exception

3:34 AM

No

Dan Grossman

it tastes like it :/

Chris Jester-Young

@DanGrossman Your palate sucks.

The Renamed Exception

They did launch this frozen in-te-supermarket dealie but I don't trust that

Michael Petrotta

PF Changs is decent. It's not Chinese, but it's decent.

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung agreed :-)

Chris Jester-Young

3:35 AM

@MichaelPetrotta Its decor may not be Chinese, but my folks think the food is good enough.

Trufa

@TimStone ok, that might explain it but i would find it strange due to the effort the team invests in speed and efficiency!

Dan Grossman

their locations all have 3/5 stars or less on yelp

The Renamed Exception

@MichaelPetrotta It's "California style". I don't know any good places for real Chinese anymore.

Chris Jester-Young

@MichaelPetrotta And my mother is from Hong Kong (i.e., have picky palate). :-P

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung have you been to the Neo China in Durham? If so, is it any good?

Michael Petrotta

3:36 AM

That's it exactly - California/Asian fusion.

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException I haven't. Sadly, few Chinese places have a gluten-free menu, so we seldom try a Chinese place unless I know it has a GF menu.

Tim Stone

@Trufa Forcing people to download a new sprite image would likely be more wasteful than just leaving it as-is anyway, it's not like those 60 some pixels will cut the image size down by much :P

The Renamed Exception

The Neo China in Cary used to be excellent but they went downhill after spending all their money on the Sushi Bar

Michael Petrotta

San Francisco has real Chinese. When I lived there and worked with folks from China, I got taken to some great places.

Dan Grossman

Michael Petrotta

3:36 AM

(as I'm sure do other cities)

Rebecca Chernoff

sushi! want

Chris Jester-Young

(Chinese food is notorious for having gluten everywhere, not least because most dishes contain soy sauce, and most varieties of soy sauce is made with wheat.)

The Renamed Exception

@MichaelPetrotta I wandered through Chinatown in SF once, it was huge and I got totally lost :-)

Tim Stone

I want sushi too, dammit.

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung yeah, good point

Michael Petrotta

3:37 AM

@The: no good Chinese in Chinatown.

Trufa

@TimStone i second that"

Tim Stone

....I want to be in Philly so I can have sushi delivered.

Michael Petrotta

That's for tourists

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Which type of sushi do you like best?

The Renamed Exception

@MichaelPetrotta oh, didn't know. I didn't eat there, just wandered around :-)

Dan Grossman

3:38 AM

@TimStone Mizu?

Tim Stone

To Hong Kong! demands dim sum

Trufa

@TimStone so, if you want, post it as and answer

Tim Stone

@DanGrossman Yeah

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Also, is there a Benihana in STL? If so, I'll take you there if we ever meet up, and we can do bottomless sushi. :-D

Dan Grossman

tasty

Trufa

3:38 AM

@TimStone it seem a logical explanation

Dan Grossman

:had sushi today:

Tim Stone

Then there was Nara's, but the only reason that anyone ate there was because they served alcohol without carding. >_>

Chris Jester-Young

@TimStone Hong Kong is awesome. I miss the place as much as I miss New Zealand.

Dan Grossman

@YiJiang's election page is increasing in popularity! w3counter.com/stats/visitors/47698/day/1000/0

Chris Jester-Young

/me was born in Hong Kong, but lived in New Zealand for 20 years.

Tim Stone

3:39 AM

I visited New Zealand briefly, went mountain biking...good times.

Yi Jiang

@TimStone The only place where you can get real dim sum, if you ask me ;)

Chris Jester-Young

:-D

Trufa

@TimStone but the question that the does come to mind is where is the sprite for voting on merging tags

The Renamed Exception

►

Trufa

?

Tim Stone

3:40 AM

@YiJiang And I would, and I'd agree. :D

Rebecca Chernoff

@ChrisJesterYoung No ):

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung Brandon is in the middle on bass :-p

Tim Stone

@Trufa Yeah, I'm not 100% sure though.

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Awwww....

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman Gaming's elections just started, and they've been quite excited by the stats page

Chris Jester-Young

3:40 AM

@TheRenamedException :-D

Trufa

@TimStone fair enough!

The Renamed Exception

@YiJiang oooh, more elections

Yi Jiang

@TheRenamedException Gaming, Webapps and Ubuntu

Tim Stone

@ChrisJesterYoung Ah, I lived in Hong Kong briefly, then went to NZ on a school trip, heh. :)

The Renamed Exception

Meaning more town halls huh @Rebecca?

@TimStone LUCKY

Chris Jester-Young

3:41 AM

@TimStone So what's your nationality? :-)

Tim Stone

Now I'm hungry again, argh!

Rebecca Chernoff

I just grabbed some food (:

The Renamed Exception

I do not want to do a digest for gaming's town hall!!!!

Chris Jester-Young

@TimStone Me, I'm a New Zealand citizen, but currently hold a US green card, and live in the US.

Tim Stone

I'm a U.S. citizen, although I've lived outside of the U.S. for a good chunk of my life so far.

Chris Jester-Young

3:42 AM

Nice, nice.

Yi Jiang

@TheRenamedException Put, in giant flashing bold letters, a message asking all participants to use replies ;)

Tim Stone

At the moment I'm in boring ________ though. sigh

The Renamed Exception

@YiJiang I will scream if thy don't :-)

Chris Jester-Young

O_o

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException Sure you do! ;)

Yi Jiang

3:43 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung It's a seeekret!

Chris Jester-Young

@YiJiang Oooh, so mysterious. :-P

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff What did you get? I'm trying to remember what I have to make, heh..

Yi Jiang

(I'm afraid @balpha's got us all)

Tim Stone

@YiJiang What has balpha done?

Dan Grossman

The Renamed Exception

3:44 AM

In fact @RebeccaChernoff I would appreciate it very much if you could mention for the next Town Hall (programmers right?) that it is helpful if candidates use the reply function when answering questions

Rebecca Chernoff

@TheRenamedException, ya know, you don't have to do any town halls...

Yi Jiang

@TimStone The erhm... seekret thing

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff yes I know :-) I do intend to do Programmers, but I will probably skip Gaming :-)

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff He's doing work for you, for free...just roll with it!

Yi Jiang

Und also ze funny German akcent

The Renamed Exception

3:45 AM

Yeah @Rebecca :-)

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Ah.

The Renamed Exception

@TimStone Well, there is this mysterious 250 unicorn exp bonus which I am hoping may be mine ;-)

Tim Stone

I know I'll regret this, but I guess I'll do Gaming.

Rebecca Chernoff

I bugged @MarcGravell about adding to the chat search functionality such that you can filter by room and by person. Then it'd be easy to just give a link per each candidate.

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException Oh, this is true. I had forgotten about that.

Rebecca Chernoff

3:45 AM

@TheRenamedException, meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/…

Yi Jiang

@TimStone I can do the giant flashing letter for you

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Excellent, if candidates don't obey, I'll just cause them all to have seizures. That'll give me time to get caught up.

The Renamed Exception

AWESOME THANK YOU @Rebecca!

Yi Jiang

Chris Jester-Young

@DanGrossman Fancy geolocator.

Rebecca Chernoff

3:47 AM

@YiJiang ?

@TheRenamedException, but you're not getting one for each THCD! q:

Dan Grossman

ooh, the heavy ice is arriving

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Isn't that what you mean by searching per room per user?

The Renamed Exception

This means that my meta rep now far exceeds my rep on any other site. I am proud to join the lame club and hail to my new president @PopularDemand!

Dan Grossman

ice storm warningggg, i'm gonna stay up late to watch it, and find my flashlight

Tim Stone

@YiJiang You can't filter though, you have to give some search criteria.

Rebecca Chernoff

3:47 AM

@YiJiang You can't leave the search keyword field blank though.

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException Hoorah!

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff haha, thanks. I do it out of love for the site and respect for the work you're doing, not out of need for rep. But I really appreciate the 250 bounty!

Also

> You've earned the "discussion" badge. See your profile.

LOL

Dan Grossman

This weather announcer is funny... "There could be a thunderstorm with ice in it. I've never even seen that! And it might happen!"

The Renamed Exception

For a second I thought that was a new chat badge! ;-)

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException Hmm, perhaps if we combine your Meta reps and my SO reps, we can soon reach 10K

The Renamed Exception

3:49 AM

I would have so much more rep on SO if it weren't for chat

Yi Jiang

@TheRenamedException That reminds me, where's my [discussion] badge?

Rebecca Chernoff

I know you didn't do it for the rep...but I know it took a lot of time and effort.

Tim Stone

@YiJiang You should answer five more questions.

Just sayin', since you have nothing to do.

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Which I did, most definitely

The Renamed Exception

It did, but, it was worth it. I was re-reading SuperUser's and it was very helpful in deciding who to cat my #2 and #3 votes for

Yi Jiang

3:51 AM

Oh, you mean 5 more questions

Erhm... how does that help?

Tim Stone

@YiJiang "You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge."

My brain today... shakes head

Anyway, you only have 15 non-CW answers according to the tooltip.

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Ah, so I do have to answer 5 more questions

Tim Stone

Yep.

Rebecca Chernoff

Y'all should bug @MarcGravell about that search functionality. q:

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff People should just post and answer questions appropriately :p

Dan Grossman

3:55 AM

:bugs @MarcGravell's computer:

The Renamed Exception

I will! @MarkGavell! We need the ability to search for all posts by a user in chat!

@RebeccaChernoff or is there a better place? Chat feedback? :-)

:488346 :-)

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException I'm sure Marc will be bugged no matter where you @-notify him :P

The Renamed Exception

Probably true!

Dan Grossman

-2

A: C++ mysterious code. any security issue?

Denzell Washington!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Renamed Exception

Actually @Rebecca I want to try a new idea for the Programmer's town hall, I think if I create a spreadsheet with columns for each candidate, and post new rows for each question, that will help me greatly in organizing as I go and knowing when everyone answered

Because that was my biggest difficulty (and what people emailed you about, LOL) was my missing answers / mixing them up

Tim Stone

3:59 AM

@DanGrossman ...Huh.

Yi Jiang

Hmmm, they added a 'help' link

... which loads inline, huh

Tim Stone

@YiJiang And here I was trying to figure out what the hell that box was supposed to be pointing at.

Yi Jiang

@TimStone That box is the result of a gnome-screenshot bug

Rebecca Chernoff

@TheRenamedException That would be far more organized than I am. Tis a great idea though. Why didn't I think of that?

Chris Jester-Young

@YiJiang Who use gnome-screenshot, anyway? xwd 4eva!

The Renamed Exception

4:01 AM

I don't know why I didn't think of that until this evening, again while cooking!

Yi Jiang

@ChrisJesterYoung Never bothered scouting out my options there, heh

Chris Jester-Young

@YiJiang (I was being facetious. xwd is the old-school way to take screen shots in X.)

The Renamed Exception

With the SU digest I quoted you (using >) when you said "I see the following candidates present...", and pinned that, and for each question reviewed eah one. Today I realized I was doing it wrong

Yi Jiang

@ChrisJesterYoung Ah, right. Erhm...

Chris Jester-Young

@YiJiang It's like saying "who uses sawfish/metacity/Window Maker/Enlightenment/fvwm anyway? twm 4eva!". :-P

The Renamed Exception

4:02 AM

I can not type today

Yi Jiang

Okay, having it output the binary result of my screenshot to the console is pretty fun (ahem)

Chris Jester-Young

On which note, twm (back in those days) forced me to learn point-to-focus.

And ever since, I cannot function with click-to-focus any more.

I have to use point-to-focus.

Yi Jiang

(But I am considering looking for a better screenshot tool)

Chris Jester-Young

(And OS X's non-support for point-to-focus (q.v. Steve Yegge's post on the subject) means that I will probably never use OS X as my main OS.)

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung I can't make my brain work with point-to-focus. Maybe I just need a trial by file like that

@ChrisJesterYoung I thought there was a haxie or something which did that?

Yi Jiang

4:05 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung And you have to stop making reference to old school Unix software to me, I'm far too young to 'get' them

The Renamed Exception

@YiJiang no excuses!

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException Point-to-focus is really, really awesome once you get used to it. It means you just need to move your mouse to be able to type in another window, without messing up your z-order.

The Renamed Exception

Problem is I move my mouse too much :-)

Chris Jester-Young

You learn after a while to move your mouse to the right spot before you type. :-P

The problem with click-to-focus is that you have to click on the target window first, which brings it to the top.

This messes with the z-order.

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung ok, reading now, and it appears I was mistaken

Chris Jester-Young

4:07 AM

Some X window managers support clicking on a window without bringing it to the top, but such window managers are not supported by GNOME, for example (not sure about whether KDE supports them).

Dan Grossman

techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/bing-google-fight

Chris Jester-Young

@YiJiang Awwww.... looks up your age in MSO profile :-P

@YiJiang Wow, you're right. I'm almost double your age. :-P

@DanGrossman Bwahahahaha.

Dan Grossman

effin hilarious

The Renamed Exception

@ChrisJesterYoung this article is outdated, Carbon is barely used anmore

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException *nods*

Tim Stone

4:11 AM

Hmm...So I remember getting off my conference call earlier...

Rebecca Chernoff

@YiJiang, careful...get off @ChrisJesterYoung's lawn.

Tim Stone

And besides eat that pizza, I'm...not really sure I've done anything since then.

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Hehehe

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Lol.

Tim Stone

scratches head Hm..

Rebecca Chernoff

4:14 AM

lemme guess: you played Minecraft?

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff No, I didn't play anything o_o

That's why I'm so confused where the time went.

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Q: Question Editing tools appear to have died. Hacked?

I went to answer a question on SO and quickly discovered that the editing tools had disappeared! They're also absent as I compose this. The handy buttons for links, bold, etc., are gone. Also shortcuts Ctrl L, Ctrl B, etc. do not work. No obvious errors in Firefox's error console (just the us...

bug

Hilarious

Rebecca Chernoff

not even NFS?

Yi Jiang

@TimStone You were talking here, no?

The Renamed Exception

Um, I just remembered that I came back to my computer after dinner because I was supposed to be finishing this project... but, I haven't done anything on it! LOL

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Nope, no Xbox

@YiJiang Yeah, but I don't think any more than usual.

The Renamed Exception

4:16 AM

@TimStone please someone talk me out of answering that he's been hacked. Please. Quickly

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Hmmm... the attacklabs global object is still there

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Oh, wow, I didn't even realize that the problem was reproducible

@TheRenamedException To be fair, the names are kind of malicious-sounding :P

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Eh...

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Since I'm a Unix sysadmin, NFS == Network File System to me.

Rebecca Chernoff

Yes well, you're strange.

The Renamed Exception

4:18 AM

@TimStone True

Chris Jester-Young

(I haven't been giving Server Fault very much love, though. Sad.)

@RebeccaChernoff <3 you too!

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff What did you mean?

Rebecca Chernoff

and I happen to know that @TimStone plays way too much Minecraft and NFS. (;

The Renamed Exception

I read that the same was @Chris did

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff I mostly play Forza at the moment :p

Pavel Chuchuva

4:19 AM

Check out experimental Stack Overflow search: google.com/cse/home?cx=001706605492879182808:f1h60vpj5g0

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException @RebeccaChernoff was just picking on me, as usual.

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Ah ha

Yi Jiang

Dan Grossman

@Pavel That looks like a scam.

Tim Stone

postSafeHtmlHook(e=undefined)

Well there's the problem.

Pavel Chuchuva

4:20 AM

@DanGrossman oops. Why?

Dan Grossman

@Pavel Since you have it searching your own site instead of the real SO, you could hijack the whole thing at any time to redirect somewhere malicious.

Rebecca Chernoff

@ChrisJesterYoung I would never!

Pavel Chuchuva

@DanGrossman I won't, I promise :)

Rebecca Chernoff

@ChrisJesterYoung I am shocked you think this!

Dan Grossman

@Pavel Easier to just search Google directly, with site:stackoverflow.com

Rebecca Chernoff

4:21 AM

(deja vu...)

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Deja vu is right. :-P

Pavel Chuchuva

@DanGrossman yes. I just wanted to see if it could be improved - with tagging.

The Renamed Exception

OK well now that I have squandered away my final working hours, time for some Daily Show and then bed, because I now need to get up earl tomorrow if I'm going to finish this project!

Goodnight everyone!

Tim Stone

G'night

Chris Jester-Young

@TheRenamedException Have fun!

The Renamed Exception

4:23 AM

@JoshsSocks: get in the wash please

Josh's Socks

Aw, man! I was hoping I could hide in the corner and harass @RebeccaChernoff after you left!

Rebecca Chernoff

...

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Gogogo, fix the bug!

Rebecca Chernoff

hm?

Tim Stone

15 mins ago, by Tim Stone

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Q: Question Editing tools appear to have died. Hacked?

I went to answer a question on SO and quickly discovered that the editing tools had disappeared! They're also absent as I compose this. The handy buttons for links, bold, etc., are gone. Also shortcuts Ctrl L, Ctrl B, etc. do not work. No obvious errors in Firefox's error console (just the us...

bug

Yi Jiang

4:30 AM

Hmmm... the people on Gaming is complaining that the list of tags for each canididates is inaccurate, and I would agree

Would it be better to just grab a list of recent posts, then extrapolate the tags from there?

Tim Stone

What goes wrong with the list of tags?

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Well, there was one candidate who's list got [spy], but not [TF2], which is the game from which [spy] come from

I've updated the page so that that shows now, but there are other problems

Tim Stone

Ah

Hmm..

Yi Jiang

I'm seeing this error on closed Apple.SE question:

missing ; before statement
sstatic.net/Js/wmd.js?v=53b0480ed738
Line 1

Dan Grossman

Tim Stone

4:39 AM

@YiJiang Yeah, because the ' isn't escaped, heh

var shareMsg = 'Stack Exchange Apple Q: Why apple doesn't make every mac with batteries?';

Dan Grossman

WYNGZ! As required by the US Government. No other misspelling is allowed for food products that appear to be bite-sized wing appetizers but don't contain wing meat.

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman Erhm.... o_o

So basically... food that looks like chicken wings but doesn't actually contains chicken wing meat?

Dan Grossman

yeah, exactly

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone is this the same as that meta post or a different error?

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Completely different

Rebecca Chernoff

4:41 AM

just opening it now

ah ok

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman And how alike must they be for them to fall into that category?

Tim Stone

A fix was already pushed for the one I linked, hooray! :)

Silly if (Z == "") { return } shakes head

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Ha!

(Ahem, glares at @balpha with the I told you so look)

Dan Grossman

> FSIS allows the use of the term "wyngz" to denote a product that is in the shape of a wing or a bite-size appetizer type product under the following conditions in which the Agency considers its use fanciful and not misleading:

> The statement may only reference the term "wyngz" (no other misspellings are permitted). All labels bearing the term "wyngz" need to be submitted to the Labeling and Program Delivery Division (LPDD) for sketch approval because it is considered a special statement that cannot be generically approved

Tim Stone

@YiJiang The best part is that it does nothing that would be upset about an empty string, then checks if the length of Z is 0 and return ""

Dan Grossman

4:43 AM

> The poultry used is white chicken (with or without skin); "wyngz" is placed contiguous to a prominent, conspicuous, and legible descriptive name (e.g., "white chicken fritters") in the same color font; the smallest letter in the descriptive name is no smaller than 1/3 the size of the largest letter used in "wyngz”; a statement that further clarifies that the product does not contain any wing meat or is not derived only from wing meat

> e.g., "contains no wing meat," "with no wing meat," "contains breast meat and wing meat") is placed in close proximity to the descriptive name and linked to "wyngz" by use of an asterisk. "Wyngz" referenced elsewhere on the package, e.g., on the front riser panel, would also need to be displayed with an asterisk linking it to this statement on the principal display panel.

Tim Stone

"" was OK, undefined, not so much.

@DanGrossman Heh, nice

@YiJiang Are you going to report that other issue?

Yi Jiang

@TimStone After I finish glaring at @balpha

Tim Stone

Ah, OK :P

Yi Jiang

He needs to feel the blame!

Tim Stone

What are we blaming him for?

Yi Jiang

4:47 AM

Not adding back those damn semicolons

Tim Stone

To where?

is confused now

Yi Jiang

Weird, I can't seem to repro that on any other sites

Why is Apple's wmd different?

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Hm?

I think you may be confused. :P

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Well, yes, about the nature of the error, but I'm still checking if the error is present on other sites

Tim Stone

The error you saw is due to the apostrophe in the question title, which isn't escaped in the Facebook share link prep code.

For example:

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Q: Gamepad for Assassin's Creed for PC not working

I have a Logitech wireless gamepad which is not recognized by AC. Any ideas?

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I have no idea why Firebox tells you the error is in wmd.js, heh.

Yi Jiang

4:53 AM

@TimStone Ah, interesting. Why did the error for the Apple.SE question appear in wmd.js?

Huh, well... the one for the Gaming question is correct

Tim Stone

Firebug is occasionally retarded?

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Only occasionally? ;)

Chris Jester-Young

@TimStone Not as often as you are. *grins, ducks, and runs* (Seriously, no offence; you just walked into it. :-P)

Dan Grossman

:gasps:

Tim Stone

I was trying to be nice. ;)

Dan Grossman

4:54 AM

I just ran into a pending edit in the wild for the first time.

Tim Stone

@ChrisJesterYoung :O Don't make me send @RebeccaChernoff after you

Chris Jester-Young

@DanGrossman It's a New Feature.

Tim Stone

"Watch as @DanGrossman hunts his elusive prey..."

Dan Grossman

:grants reputation by approving... feels god-like:

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman I don't think the rep award has been activated yet

Chris Jester-Young

4:55 AM

@DanGrossman I actually had fun rejecting an edit.

Someone wanted to add a [homework] tag for a homework question.

Though, IIRC, metatags are deprecated, so.

Yi Jiang

You know, @TimStone since you found the source of the problem, you should post the bug report ;)

Dan Grossman

stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/homework

Chris Jester-Young

@TimStone @RebeccaChernoff hassles me often enough without any prompting on your part. ;-)

Rebecca Chernoff

I would never!

I am shocked you think that!

Tim Stone

@YiJiang If you insist :P

@RebeccaChernoff I'm shocked at your continued shock.

Yi Jiang

4:58 AM

@TimStone connects @RebeccaChernoff to a light bulb Ah, light!

George Marian

Ha. OpenOffice has no love for VBScript, but it doesn't complain about JavaScript.

Chris Jester-Young

@YiJiang ...yeah, just don't go there. :-O

Dan Grossman

I always get the most upvotes when I'm mean.

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