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jadarnel27

3:26 AM

@mootinator I wouldn't worry too much about the formatting until you can use quotes correctly.

Also:

mootinator

@jadarnel27 I'll show you using quotes correctly.

Unless I don't.

jadarnel27

Yeah. No offense, but I'm betting on that second option ;-)

mootinator

So am I, but that's beside the point.

So, basically it supports single line quotes.

No replying.

I'm not doing it wrong, the site is =)

jadarnel27

Yeah, it's certainly kind of a lame implementation.

mootinator

No mention of it in the help, either. So it must not really work ever.
At all.
Like code blocks don't.

jadarnel27

3:55 AM

@animuson I thought you might.

mootinator

You're like some sort of clairvoyant.

ajax333221

4:08 AM

if I change username, is it possible to eventually use it again?

mootinator

Yes.

animuson

Wow, the ending to The Walking Dead game... wow...

ajax333221

(^ ͜ʖ^)

mootinator

6

A: Should you be allowed to change your handle in SO?

Like everything else, it should probably be rate-limited. If I've learned anything, it is that unbounded behaviors lead to pain. edit: after a two-day grace period for new users, one display name change allowed every 30 days.

ajax333221

I am playing Zelda - majora's mask, in case someone was dying of curiosity

jadarnel27

4:18 AM

Somethin's wrong with muh brainz.

Probably.

animuson

My 52nd platinum trophy. :D

jadarnel27

But I'm getting it checked out.

To be sure.

animuson

ZOMBIE!

mootinator

I am staring at an SO question being puzzled at what motivated it.

Oh, nevermind...

jadarnel27

My guess would be poor moderation on the part of the moderators.

jmort253

4:44 AM

@animuson Wait, that's out?

episode 5 I hope?

animuson

The last episode was released today. At least on PS3.

hotveryspicy

5:03 AM

Hello everyone

jadarnel27

5:37 AM

More like not veryspicy.

KABOOM!

...I mean, hello.

gnat

7:38 AM

@AnnaLear upon re-reading suggested edit, your note here makes pretty good sense - thanks. I would like to cut three last paragraphs from the quote, ending it at "...clicking into" - would appreciate your thoughts about this

jadarnel27

1:45 PM

I thoroughly dislike this "wrap the entire contents of a method in a generic try-catch block" practice. It is giving me a headache.

Moshe

Bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv a few hours ago... This is the news I wake up to...

Tim Stone

 boolean doAllTheThings() {
    try {
        complicatedStuff;
    } catch (Exception ignore) {} // pro-move

     return true; // This always succeeds because I never fail
}

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Wait, really?

C'mon chat.

@Moshe Lies!

Moshe

What lies?

looks around

jadarnel27

@TimStone Precisely!

It's like you've been looking at our codez.

Tim Stone

I have. @jadarnel27, I am your boss' boss. o_o

jadarnel27

1:57 PM

gasp!

Tim Stone

The fact that I live in Delaware should have been a dead giveaway, everyone knows that place doesn't really exist.

jadarnel27

2:22 PM

Ah, how could I have been so blind.

Then I shall have to request permission from you to use all my time refactoring code to handle errors the way I like them to be handled.

Rather than working on new and current projects.

Tim Stone

Permission granted. If anyone challenges you, just tell them the fat cats at the top said it was alright.

If anyone challenges that, just shout "THINGADONGDONG!" and run away.

jadarnel27

Hahahahahaha

That actually seems like it would work for a while. Mostly because a. People don't really care what I'm doing, and b. Most people are incapable of addressing things that make them uncomfortable (so they ignore them)

Tim Stone

If I didn't know better I might think we actually did work for the same company.

jadarnel27

"What are you working on, Josh?" "THINGADONGDONG!" "...Mmmhmm. Got big plans for Thanksgiving?"

Tim Stone

Actually that's brilliant, I should try that the next time someone asks me a question.

jadarnel27

2:46 PM

You can't. — SLaks 15 mins ago

That's...not even remotely helpful.

Also, he is maliciously circumventing the character limit and I won't stand for it!

Tim Yi Jiang

@jadarnel27 It answers the question.

Anna Lear

@gnat I don't think that needs to be in there at all, to be honest. I was going to suggest cutting down the quote to the "when someone goes to Stack Overflow..." paragraph, but then I realized that all it says is already in the tag wiki anyway.

jadarnel27

@TimYiJiang I can't tell whether or not you're kidding...

Clearly one can answer someone's question in a way that is completely unhelpful. That comment answers the question as asked, but doesn't help the OP with what he's really asking.

mootinator

3:01 PM

So this morning I wake up to: "Quick! Help our DBA with the database issue he's having no trouble handling!"

jadarnel27

And since SLaks is perfectly capable of recognizing what the OP was trying to get at, his comment comes across as snarky and unhelpful.

Tim Stone

@mootinator They needed your moral support!

mootinator

> Random Dev: So, uh, have you looked in the Activity Monitor?

> DBA: dirty look

jadarnel27

Brave move with the quotes there, mootinator.

mootinator

I'm becoming one with the chat engine.

gnat

3:10 PM

@AnnaLear understood, thanks

mootinator

I'm semi disappointed that rgchris fella never suggested oneboxing open graph pages in chat.

It sounds like an idea which would almost certainly be shot down, mind you, but disappointed nonetheless :)

Popular Demand

3:27 PM

@TimStone Oh, I get it; it's funny because complicatedStuff should be followed by parentheses, possibly containing arguments.

Tim Stone

Exactly, I'm glad someone caught on.

mootinator

bazinga

Popular Demand

Not to worry; in all of the code I wrote yesterday that uses that format, I made sure to put parentheses after all my method calls.

jadarnel27

There's battle scars on all my parens.

mootinator

There, I suggested it on someone else's post so I can lose reps faster: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/156373/153001

Popular Demand

3:36 PM

Sucks to be you; I liked that suggestion, and upvoted it, so you gained reps instead of losing them!

mootinator

Noooooooo

jadarnel27

3:56 PM

So, anyone seen the new Twilight film yet?

mootinator

Have you asked @animuson?

ThiefMaster

....

are you serious?!

Why would any sane person watch twilight?

Vote ring on SO - better lovestory than twilight!

mootinator

My wife won't even watch Twilight, and she shut herself away from the world for a week to read the books.

jadarnel27

@ThiefMaster Hey man, I thought the books were very entertaining. Granted, I'm not the best example of a "sane person."

mootinator

Mainly because Kristen Stewart, but I digress.

jadarnel27

4:02 PM

I've only seen the first two movies, but I enjoyed those.

Then again, I have notoriously low standards for enjoying movies.

mootinator

I managed to read The Hunger Games trilogy, despite the annoying lengthy passages about needing to look pretty while mercilessly slaughtering people, and doting over boys.

Daniel Fischer

> edited in 18 seconds

Huh?

mootinator

Sounds like a good movie.

ThiefMaster

the hunger games movie was not bad imho

but twilight... ugh, just no

mootinator

I kind of wanted to punch Katniss after the first two books. Yes, those boys are, in fact, both interested in you. Deal with it.

Popular Demand

4:10 PM

Half of you are suffering from cognitive dissonance and the other half are coming after me with pitchforks, huh?

mootinator

Nope. Just working.

I don't know what it is about CakePHP that makes me want to stuff everything into controllers.

animuson

@jadarnel27 For the record, I do not watch Twilight...

Tim Yi Jiang

@mootinator How about Models and Views?

mootinator

4:27 PM

@TimYiJiang Views, yes. I always seem to end up with a massive block of code in my controller and nothing in the model before I think "Wait a minute here..."

I blame PHP.

Tim Yi Jiang

Controllers are kept thin and used as glue to go between the data and the views

It doesn't always work though

Well, when working with CodeIgniter, the Models usually contain the database logic

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Time

Daniel Fischer

> closed as not a real question by Daniel Fischer, chris, sftrabbit, Matt Ball, Blastfurnace in 10 seconds

Time flies in weird curves for me.

mootinator

flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Daniel Fischer

Obviously, my browser thinks it's earlier than it is. Or Stack Exchange thinks it's later than it is.

mootinator

4:40 PM

It's just you.

8

Q: Comment appearing after reply, timestamp in future

I this question, I replied to a comment. The comment I replied to then appeared below my comment with a timestamp in the future: The comments will now just appear out of sequence, but at the time the timestamp was in the future. This has been posted a couple of times in the past, but it appea...

Daniel Fischer

stackoverflow.com/posts/13497757/revisions

First deleted, then closed, then several edits. Does it look like that for everybody?

Anna Lear

yep

I'm gonna blame time travel. Do you really think the fact that SE's logo is the same colour scheme as the TARDIS is pure coincidence?

jadarnel27

5:23 PM

I'm going to blame Time Stone, for somehow making me type his name that way first every time.

mootinator

I'm going to blame Moshe. Because nobody has blamed Moshe for anything lately.

Popular Demand

5:39 PM

The WoB says it's radp's fault. We have a procedure here, people.

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balpha

5:52 PM

blame was volunteered

0

A: Eeek! Chat made the robot precognitive!

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