Tavern on the Meta

Moshe

12:41 AM

So close to being done with this project. Dealing with a auto resize mask issue.

mootinator

3:39 AM

Needs to be burninated

0

Q: Emails showing from host.myserver.com instead of mydomain.com

included is the header results form yahoo message. You will see if there that is has server.realcashback.com.au but I need it to not be and to be from my server, is there any way to make it send as my domain.com instead of the server. The domain I want it sending from is not on the same server. ...

jcolebrand

5:55 AM

Trufa

@jcolebrand whats up with python there???

@jcolebrand where did you get that from?

Pied Piper

7:28 AM

@Sathya Unable to login at SE.Chat, again

How to get rid of this problem? Please help

Sathya

@PiedPiper logut, login

Pied Piper

Didn't worked

Sathya

@PiedPiper stackoverflow.com/users/logout

click there. logout of all. Login again/

Pekka

9:02 AM

Why is there always a surge of terrible questions around this time of day?

Contrary to popular belief, this is not India's fault. It's afternoon in India now.

Hmm. Most of the areas where it's morning at the moment is covered by water!

And Europe. Maybe it's all our fault after all, and we should be banned from asking questions on SO!

I'm half-joking, but there really seems to be that notable surge every day

Unless it's that I need 3 hours of sipping coffee to really wake up, and start noticing the bad questions. That is a possible explanation as well.

tombull89

Well, its a friday evening somewhere, so maybe they've started drinking early and drunkely come on SO?

Pekka

That is a possible explanation too!

Sathya

@Pekka no one asks during afternoon?

Pekka

@Sathya true, but there's a real surge, always around 9 GMT

It can be my subjective impression, but I think not.

Maybe there is a huge concentration of really bad programmers on the Azores.

Azores

{{Geobox|Region | name = The Azores | native_name = Os Açores | other_name = | category = Autonomous Region | native_category = Região Autonoma | etymology = açor, Portuguese for species of rapier bird, erroneously identified as goshawks; also derivation from the word for blue | official_name = Região Autonoma dos Açores | motto = (English:To die as free men is better than enslavement in peace) | nickname = | image = Azoren (14).jpg | image_caption = Mount Pico and the ...

Sathya

9:20 AM

@Pekka well fwiw I agree about terrible quality that is of my country folks.

Pekka

@Sathya yeah, I guess it's a mix of language barrier problems, and a considerable portion of inept programmers due to the economic attractivity of an IT career... With a huge lot of notable exceptions, of course. My superior in my first job was schooled in India, and I have nothing but respect for him until this day.

Sathya

@Pekka Agree. The language is a huge barrier - there are few of my colleagues who're pretty good at programming, but suck at communication

Pekka

@Sathya yeah. Maybe things will work better once there are localized SOs - if there are enough active expert answerers for each so they don't drown.

Sathya

@Pekka yeah.

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

11:28 AM

@TimStone ^This?

Well well, I'd say oy to that too :P

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

11:49 AM

15

Q: Clarify wording on badge page for post-associated badges that you can only earn once

The heading "$name earned this badge 1 time" is used for badges associated with specific posts. To me, this suggests that the badge could be awarded multiple times, but it's used for badges that can't be. In those cases it would be clearer to just use something like "$name earned this badge".

feature-request badges

There's one close vote here, surely that's not Lance's close vote, which would've decayed away by now?

Tim Stone

12:02 PM

@YiJiangs独角兽 See waffle's first comment on that question

Took me several minutes to figure out what was going on myself, heh.

@YiJiangs独角兽 There's less than 100 views, so the votes on that question won't age away yet.

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

@TimStone Interesting. I sort of remember seeing that from a post a while back, but totally forgot about it

Tim Stone

I think there was some other criteria too, but I forget.

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

Hmmm, looks like xkcd's blag finally updated to twentyten

genesis-φ

1:41 PM

Eeeek. I wanna see new changes :(

0

Q: Eeeeeek! Revision diff is blank?

There's just blank diff & post text is nowhere! In html it looks like <div class="diffs"> <div class="post-text inline-diff"> </div> <div class="sidebyside-diff dno"> <div class="post-text"> </div> ...

bug stackapps diff

jcolebrand

2:42 PM

@Trufa I created a form in googledocs

Popular Demand

3:13 PM

@jcolebrand, random question, is your node KO chat code open-source?

(And if so, where can I see it?)

mootinator

3:35 PM

Hmm, not sure I'm a big fan of the current order of the starred messages.

I need a different hobby. - 21h ago by mootinator

like keeping your mouth shut ;) - 2d ago by jcolebrand

Tim Stone

Hahah, I noticed that last night too. Rather unfortunate, really.

jcolebrand

3:50 PM

@PopularDemand yes but we haven't really started development of anything new, mostly due to we all being busy and not sitting down to organize anything. github.com/stackchat

mootinator

Sometimes I just want to slap stackoverflow users.

Pekka

4:07 PM

@mootinator I hear ya.

One day, there will be a kinetic social network.

Every user will have a feedback device of some sort next to their PC.

People you have friended can stroke you, poke you....

Hackers will try to find ways to slap you.

mootinator

I suppose I shouldn't try to answer questions by cutting/pasting production code most of which is far more clever than what they're asking for.

Trufa

@Pekka lol

Pekka

@mootinator That sounds wise.

Hi @Trufa, long time no see!

Moshe

@Pekka Until I unplug the USB end of the cable and it lies limp on my desk, while I bludgeon it to death. I can still poke you, only you can't slap me.

Pekka

@Moshe There will be mechanisms to detect that, resulting in inability to poke or, in extreme cases, your exclusion from the network.

Trufa

4:12 PM

@Pekka hi to you too! it has been some crazy weeks, with little time!

Moshe

@Pekka Well, if I were the hacker in your story...

Pekka

@Trufa same here!

Trufa

@Pekka lots of work?

Pekka

@Moshe Yeah! Of course, we on SO would have a natural inclination towards hacking the system, and slapping users who ask dumb questions.

@Trufa yeah!

mootinator

Though It's amazing how much zeal there is for enabling people to do dumb things.

Trufa

4:13 PM

Well that's good! right? :)

mootinator

"I want to implement this feature actual people will find annoying."

Moshe

@Pekka - In school, a friend of mine and I grabbed a group study room and I let him read my German book. (Which I've still been to busy to take seriously.) Here's what I drew on the board:

mootinator

Ah, he accepted an answer.

1

Q: c#: how to show success message in client before page redirect to another page

what I want to do is when user click submit button, the backend code will add it into database, and show a success message in client before page is redirect to the next page. How to write code in backend? I use this.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.GetType(), "clientScipt", "<scrip...

c#

Pekka

@Trufa well, it's all work of the "Thank God when it's over" variety, so I'm not overjoyed :) But it's okay. Job has do be done, and all that.

mootinator

Translation: How can I slow down my users just to show them a message?

;P

Moshe

4:15 PM

Pekka

@mootinator but he has a right to know how to parse HTML with Regex!

Moshe

It is called "Das Kind trinket das Bier".

Pekka

@Moshe hahahaha

Trufa

@Pekka I know that kind glad it's over for you know!

Moshe

There was a modification I made afterward, where the kid is holding a beer in the other hand too, but I didn't take a picture.

Trufa

4:16 PM

@Moshe My first words in every language

Moshe

See the shirt?

Pekka

@Trufa thanks! But it's going to be a few more weeks :) But not indefinitely any more.

Moshe

Inspired by the I <3 NY shirts.

Pekka

(Meaning that I'm spending way more time on SO than I can really afford to :)

@Moshe charming.

Moshe

Danke.

"It is too late to undo this operation." - Well, that's one sentence a surgeon never wants to hear.

mootinator

4:20 PM

Anyhoo, I should be fixing code, not giving it away to people who don't appreciate it.

Trufa

@Moshe it is also a good idea to learn "ich liebe dich" for when you are druck :)

Moshe

@mootinator ET Codez Home

@Trufa heh. (Are you right now, since you missed a letter there?) ;-)

Trufa

@Moshe hehe I wish!

just the dyselxia kiking in (sic)

Moshe

The thing about those groups study rooms is that they're fully visible from the outside, so that people don't get too comfortable in there. So, I like drawing that really large picture of a baby with something to the effect of "staring is rude", or "The baby is sleeping, go away". Makes it akward to look at the whiteboard.

I've also gotten librarians shaking their head at me for a "Apple FanBaby" with an iPod and a huge Apple on its shirt.

Fun fun.

Trufa

I miss my mac :(

Moshe

4:26 PM

@Trufa What happened to it? (Or is that the baby talking")

Trufa

I sold it, I'm on linux now which is not so bad, but I'm programming a lot on c# for the university, so on windows most of the time, which sucks (not starting a flame war here!!)

Moshe

@Trufa Flame war!!!

Trufa

Go!

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/09/…

(un related)

genesis-φ

6:32 PM

Am I allowed to post dummy answers when I delete them imediatelly?

Shog9

what do you mean, "allowed"?

genesis-φ

If I won't get punished or something

Shog9

6:49 PM

no guarantees. I mean, if the quickly-deleted answer is filled with profanity and anti-semitic threats against the OP, he might wish for something more than just deletion.

of course, if by "dummy" you mean "empty", then yeah, I doubt anything interesting will happen.

Tim Stone

7:07 PM

Native username tab completion in comments eh? Hmm, guess I'll have to remove that from the userscript...

Rebecca Chernoff

aye (:

Tim Stone

Is it going to be rolled out quickly, or should I check for it in the userscript for the time being?

Popular Demand

7:20 PM

3

Q: Are bugtest questions okay?

Is it okay to ask bugtest questions on Meta Stack Overflow once in a while? By "bugtest questions," I'm referring to posts that only exist for the purpose of attempting to reproduce a bug, like this sample: Hey, please don't delete this question, I'm trying to repro a bug that [user24601] ob...

discussion etiquette allowed-topics

Transcript for