Dial 911 for help?

Hmm, I thought making a bad joke would return this place to normal, but it seems not. :P

fail.

It would seem so

Anyone here know about rules for ads on Apple.SE?

Can I advertise paid apps?

Also, @Jin, next time you're around, I seem to have missed the discussion about the design for Judaism.SE and I'm interested in sharing my two cents as well. :-)

Ok, night.

@Moshe Yes. There's a specific rule against this for Stack Overflow's community ads for the obvious reason that advertisers can easily purchase ad space there, but on the smaller sites that don't run out-of-house ads you're permitted to put an ad for something that involves a fee.

(and obviously if the community isn't receptive to that they just won't vote up your answer; I'll also source Grace Note for support of what I said above)

Not sure where to assk this, but don't want to make a new question on meta ...

Is it considered okay to edit other's answers, adding more details? Or is that a bit too much?

See what I did here: stackoverflow.com/a/8788536/695132

@Szabolcs Yep, that's actually encouraged. Check out this answer (or that whole page, really).

I'm also wondering how come that both a moderator and a high-rep user showed up within minutes after that question was asked, even though neither of them are mathematica-regulars. Is there some automatic filter alterting them for messy looking questions?

Yes, the "/review" page does that.

@Szabolcs Check out: stackoverflow.com/review

Particularly the "low-quality posts" tab.

@jadarnel27 Oh, I've seen that but somehow never noticed the "low quality posts" tab before!

@Szabolcs Haha, I didn't notice any of the tabs for a while. It is a good way to find posts that need editing, though.

@TimStone How do I go about purchasing ad space? How do I find out what that costs?

stackexchange.com/about/contact

Though I'm not entirely sure if you want/can afford to buy space (admittedly I have no idea how much it costs) on the Trilogy?

in Careers my 'completeness' is 151/210 yet I still have no invitations.

nvm

@TimStone I think I missed the joke. :p

Why is it bad for Won't to edit the FAQ?

Oh, nevermind

Facepalm

911 votes, I see.

Just out of curiosity, does any country other than the U.S. use 911 for emergencies?

Canada :P

There are emergencies in Canada?

looks surprised

Wait, there are phones in Canada?

looks even more surprised

Milloy

RAWR!

It's been slightly less than an hour since the last message!

Employee only has two e's in it.

Also, magic strings are bad. But I already knew that.

Resharper is dealing with it.

@mootinator looks like 3 to me

Haha

@NickT Er, at the end of it.

@DavidFullerton /sigh taxes...

I'm trying to submit a form to an aspx webpage from an app.

Instead of a form, I want to use an HTTP Request.

Can any .NET programmer shed some light?

@Moshe yes, it's called a POST

Do you really not understand how the web works? And yet you write web apps?

@jcolebrand I do, but here's my question.

The ASPX is generating the forms on the fly.

I'm not quite sure what script is receiving the request and what it expects the variables to be called.

Here's the page: kof-k.org/kashrusAlerts.aspx

@jcolebrand I was planning to use a POST, but again, not sure what to name the data so that the receiving script knows what it's looking at.

@JeremyBanks that's exactly right

@JeremyBanks Do those change ever?

You make the POST once yourself to capture the form in Chrome, then use those field names

@Moshe if they rewrite the page and move stuff around, yes

@jcolebrand No, are they automatically generated each time a browser loads the script?

@Moshe if it's a form with a post, then it's either explicitly defined in the <form> tag or it's the same page.

@Moshe each time the server generates the page? Yes

quit thinking like a browser, think like a server or a developer

Lol, ok.

@JeremyBanks nope

@JeremyBanks out of curiosity, why did you ask that?

How's this strategy?

Load the page using GET. Scrape the field names. Send em back with the right data.

@JeremyBanks a) that was Moshe's comment, b) the server does generate it each time on the fly (except in the case of caching)

@Moshe yes, very reasonable thing to do (one might say, the only proper way to do it)

also allows you to navigate any cookies or hidden fields you might need

@jcolebrand Ok, cool. :-)

@JeremyBanks who are you talking to?

@JeremyBanks What do you mean? For scraping? I know the general idea of what the page looks like. I have a good idea of the organization and how often they will be changing this. It's one of two forms on the page, and it's not the first one.

Yup.

ok, going back on lurk. Ping me via TimStone if you need me again. Or on skype.

Ok, cool, thanks @jcolebrand.

grr email, y u no work leik SE posts/comments/messages where you can edit them within 2-5 minutes

this site has engendered absolutely awful habits

That, and (especially) editing other people's content.

Nowadays, when I see something on the internet with errors, I involuntarily go for the edit link.

Which, unfortunately, isn't often there elsewhere.

I often find myself looking for an upvote arrow on email messages

@Kevin our only hope then is that SE takes over the entire internet