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jadarnel27

3:00 PM

@awoodland Oh, haha. I thought you were abbreviating RadioShack.

Tim Stone

@YiJiangsProble_ I think mostly just hit http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/<route> with ?site=<site>

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Ah, I see

jadarnel27

@mootinator That timing seems very suspicious though. But I can't imagine there's a whole lot of power coming across the DVI cable, so I agree it's unlikely.

Tim Stone

But then you may have to deal with filters and such too, depending on what data's in use.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

How about the old StackAuth stuff?

Tim Stone

3:01 PM

mm, what was it doing?

Ah, getting associated users.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Obtaining combined network rep and sites participated in I think, I think that may not be available under the new version now

Tim Stone

It is

api.stackexchange.com/docs/associated-users

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Oh hey it still does, yay

Tim Stone

We need to switch to using network IDs for that, because the old association GUID wasn't returning all accounts for some people.

awoodland

@jadarnel27 capacitors shouldn't be failing even if there were something minor wrong and if there was something major wrong the symptoms would have been more severe than just a capacitor failure which happens all the time

Tim Stone

3:03 PM

I think I actually replied to a bug report stating I'd fix that and clearly I dropped the ball, ugh. |:

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Yeah, filters. Some of the default ones don't exactly match up to the old ones

Popular Demand

@TimStone Don't panic! Blame balpha! (This is your last reminder.)

Tim Stone

Oh, right!

blames balpha

He totally should have been reminding me, or something.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Also, reading through the code some of the indentations are off. Why did you change all the tabs to spaces @TimStone? glares angrily

Tim Stone

Bwuahaha

I don't remember.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

3:07 PM

shakes fist

Tim Stone

There was a reason...

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@TimStone Excuses excuses!

Tim Stone

The reason was specifically that I had changed Notepad++ to use spaces

But I'm trying to remem...Ohh

Because I started poking at PageDown and it uses spaces.

Popular Demand

Oh, spaces vs. tabs. Will you ever be solved?

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight

You're just trying to blame @balpha again, aren't you?

Tim Stone

3:09 PM

Exactly!

@PopularDemand I've decided that spaces win.

Because browsers use 8-space tabs, and that is unacceptable.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@TimStone So configure your damn browser!

Tim Stone

I don't think there's an option for that?

I could never find one.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Hmmm, Firefox has one as a CSS property: developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-tab-size

jadarnel27

@awoodland Maybe I'm think of this all wrong.

I thought the monitor wasn't getting power, because the little "power" light wasn't on (and nothing was showing on the screen). But if you wiggle the power cable around, the little light (and sometimes the screen) flickers on / off. Would a capacitor even cause that problem? Or would it have to be a fuse?

Yi Jiang's Proble_

You could just edit the user agent CSS to change it to 4

Tim Stone

3:12 PM

pre {
  tab-size: 99; /* Don't use tabs! */
}

3

Ahaha

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@TimStone You... you... you're evil

Tim Stone

I use Chrome, like a manly man.

Yeah, I get that a lot.

awoodland

@jadarnel27 wiggles definitely won't be a fuse.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@TimStone No browser is complete without the twenty thousand knobs and lights which you can fiddle around like in about:config

jadarnel27

@awoodland Oh. I guess that's either dead or alive, huh?

Yi Jiang's Proble_

3:14 PM

For future reference, Webkit may be getting this in the future: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52994

awoodland

@jadarnel27 if a capacitor in some power circuitry has (partially) failed and you're right on the edge of the allowed voltages it's not inconceivable that moving might alter things fractionally

Popular Demand

@TimStone I just did something like this in Eclipse and Notepad++ two days ago.

awoodland

(although it could be a faulty connector of course)

Yi Jiang's Proble_

So when it lands in Chrome I can go and hack into @TimStone's computer and edit his user agent CSS with tab-size: 0 or something

Which would be very fun to watch

Mark Hurd

Is there a better way to "announce" a new chat room than mentioning it here and adding a question on meta that mentions it?

Tim Stone

3:15 PM

@YiJiangsProble_ Yeah, it's in the CSS 3 Text module now

awoodland

@MarkHurd maybe those new community bulletin things? - depends why the room was created.

Tim Stone

@YiJiangsProble_ :O

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Invisi-tabs! Mwahahahahaha

Popular Demand

@YiJiangsProble_ about:config is old news. about:robots is where the cool kids hang out.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@PopularDemand Pfft, have you not seen about:mozilla?

awoodland

3:17 PM

@MarkHurd if the room is associated with a tag it'll appear on the right for questions in that tag I think

jadarnel27

@awoodland True. That's part of why I took it apart, I thought the connection where the power cable went in was just loose or something.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Anyway didn't Chrome remove about:robots?

Mark Hurd

I've created Data Explorer Discussions.

But I didn't do it from the tag.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@MarkHurd Not much point seeing that the Tavern doesn't see much activity already

Popular Demand

@YiJiangsProble_ Note to self: sneak about:bobince into the next version....

Yi Jiang's Proble_

3:18 PM

We usually talk data explorer stuff here too

@PopularDemand about:jquery and about:table would be amazing

awoodland

@MarkHurd room admin can change the tags still I think

@MarkHurd - data explorer discussions happen in here semi-regularly

Popular Demand

@YiJiangsProble_ Those sound suspiciously like useful resources.

jadarnel27

Popular Demand

Ooh, magic smoke vent.

jadarnel27

Does that one on the bottom look severely broken?

Mark Hurd

3:21 PM

OK tag added.

jadarnel27

I don't know how close to perfect these components need to be, but all of them looked tightly sealed except for that big one.

awoodland

@jadarnel27 they're not meant to look like that

mootinator

@jadarnel27 Yes, that's a broken capacitor.

awoodland

it's not oozing goo, but it's definitely broken

jadarnel27

Hahaha, nice. At least I was looking in the right spot then.

awoodland

3:24 PM

looks like that ought to be user servicable

the writing on the side is what you need to find a replacement, but it's unreadable in that photo

jadarnel27

@awoodland I may have a better one. Also, it's still lying on the table at my brother's house, so he could always check it for me =)

I guess this would have been "too localized" to ask on an SE site. I don't even know where it would be on topic.

Mark Hurd

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Q: Announcement: Data Explorer Discussion on Chat

I have created Data Explorer Discussion in Chat. My reason is due to this query for this question.

awoodland

@jadarnel27 there's an electronics one, but I think they more do design than debugging

Moshe

Break ALL the CAPACITORS!

jadarnel27

@awoodland Ah, neat. Yeah, a cursory look at their faq does not look like it invites this type of question.

awoodland

3:31 PM

How about "no user serviceable parts" on area51? ;)

jadarnel27

@Moshe LOL.

Popular Demand

3:44 PM

@TimStone I don't suppose you ever figured out how Java was trolling you, allowing you to beat it at its own game while cackling gleefully?

Tim Stone

I did not, unfortunately.

Popular Demand

Another thing that I do not suppose is that my previous question would have a different answer if I removed the bit about crazed laughter.

jadarnel27

Everything's better with a little crazed laughter.

jadarnel27

4:09 PM

I wonder how likely it is that I will injure myself during my first attempt to solder something.

Tim Stone

Are you taking bets?

Popular Demand

Careful; he won't be effective at administering payouts after he gets injured.

jadarnel27

Sure. Preferably in the form of meaningless Internet points!

almost typed pointless Internet points

@PopularDemand Thank you for your confidence =)

Lix

Meaningless?? Humph... whatevs... (* goes to approve some tag wiki edits *)

Popular Demand

Oh, snap! Lix toooooold you!

jadarnel27

4:20 PM

"...after he gets injured" - not even an "if he gets injured"? Harsh.

Tim Stone

Hahah

Lix

lol

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Alright, my monkey patching is done

Tim Stone

\o/

jadarnel27

That was possibly a very subtle jab, since I don't have the rep to approve tag wikis. Well played @Lix.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

4:22 PM

It works well enough locally, let's see if it'll work once the server gets it

Erm... what's the password for pushing to Google Code?

Lix

i kid i kid :) But now I was looking at some of the tag wiki's here on meta... might go over them too soon :)

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Hang on, I found it

I thought it was my Google account password

Lix

how random -

meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/tanstaafl/info

jadarnel27

=/

Yi Jiang's Proble_

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Q: Over Optimization Penalty

What includes in Google’s over Optimization Penalty. And how can recover my ranking and traffics of my site. My one of site (Magento Development) ranking and traffics are down. Give me your experience on this. PHP Development | Magento Development

discussion

Feels like spam, really

Tim Stone

4:33 PM

It is spam

Flag it as such

Not sure why StackApps has been getting so many of those posts. |:

mootinator

4:45 PM

One of these days when a code reviewer tells me LINQ isn't readable I'll show them the alternative.

Tim Stone

Heh :P

Popular Demand

Someone just suggested a tag wiki for recruitment. I need a mini-posse to help clean up the two questions currently using that tag; both questions are already at four close votes.

(The same guy submitted content for learning-curve, but one problem at a time.)

jadarnel27

Go Mrozek!

(I was too late)

Popular Demand

Argh, that first question is so off-topic there is no appropriate SO tag I can use on it, and the system won't let it sit around untagged.

Tim Stone

5:03 PM

Hahah

Popular Demand

You enjoy my revision comment, @TimStone?

Tim Stone

I did

Popular Demand

There are six learning-curve questions, and at least one of them has zero close votes. Going to have to tackle that later.

Tim Stone

I'll see if I can pitch in later...think it's time to go outside for a bit, as my brain is still having a hard time functioning today.

mmyers

6:38 PM

Hey @animuson, are you around?

Tim Stone

Uh oh, someone's in trouble shakes head Heh. :P

mmyers

Nah. If he were in trouble I would have struck swiftly and silently.

Tim Stone

Ah, I had forgotten you were a ninja.

mmyers

Disguised as an identicon. That way I blend in with the page background.

Tim Stone

A clever tactic

Moshe

6:52 PM

An identicon is a dead giveaway. I'd use a gravatar.

mmyers

I saw someone the other day who had a transparent square for their gravatar.

Although I'd like to know how a transparent icon casts a shadow.

Tim Stone

N.N., ::1

1.8k 1 6 28

feature-request support review discussion bug status-completed suggested-edits

@mmyers Does that mean twenty more weeks of summer?

jadarnel27

@TimStone I thought Micheal Myers was a mask-wearing, knife-toting, psychopathic murderer. Not a ninja.

mmyers

@jadarnel27 That's what he wants you to think

jadarnel27

Oh, ok.

shudders

looks around nervously

mmyers

7:00 PM

Jason_vorhees, Hell

581 1 15

discussion support feature-request stackoverflow reputation suggested-edits bug

:o

Seehvor_nosaJ

@mmyers: Now I am.

@animuson Are you actually selecting a custom flag and typing in "not constructive" like it looks?

animuson

Yes. I do that on old questions which don't get much 3k traffic anymore.

And on too localized questions which no one ever seems to want to vote-to-close.

mmyers

7:11 PM

Is it not possible to vote and then flag with a standard reason? (I don't actually know the answer)

animuson

No, selecting "doesn't belong here" always takes you to the vote-to-close screen once you hit 3,000.

mmyers

Even if you've already voted? Well, that's a pain.

animuson

Meh, it's not like it's a lot to type.

Although "off topic" is 1 character short of the limit, so I always append a period.

mmyers

I only noticed because usually I don't see NC flags until they're a day or so old

jadarnel27

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A: Why are some ads on Stack Overflow not written in English?

Those are job listings from Careers 2.0. They are targeted to users based on location and tags to make them as relevant as possible. Because the location tagging is imprecise, you may sometimes see job listings from nearby countries where a different language is spoken.

Joel Spolsky swoops in and answers a year-old question =)

animuson

7:17 PM

He's going for that badge.

Isn't there a badge for late answers? I don't remember tbh.

jadarnel27

Sho is.

animuson

Once you accumulate so many badges, you only care about the shiny gold ones.

jadarnel27

@animuson Revival!

mmyers

Not eligible since there was already a +7 answer

animuson

Ah, but that one has that "first answer" condition. Too bad.

jadarnel27

7:21 PM

Ah, I forgot about that. Silly Josh.

mmyers

Most Revival badges seem to go to devs. Funny that.

animuson

Ugh I don't wanna go to the store. :<

Tim Stone

Oh, since you're already going, I do need a few things...

animuson

Ha, everyone always makes me go because I walk fast and I know exactly where everything I need is at before I get there. I can get a full cart lad of groceries in like 15 minutes.

Swoosh!

Of course I hate getting cart loads because then they won't let me use the self checkouts.

jadarnel27

So, I ordered a CD from CDBaby.com (a place where you can buy awful indie music). I got the best shipping confirmation e-mail ever.

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing. Our world-renowned packing specialist lit a local artisan candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your packag…

animuson

7:27 PM

O.O

Daniel Fischer

Somehow I suspect they're exaggerating.

animuson

Can they legally say that in a confirmation email? I wouldn't think a company would risk something like that.

Daniel Fischer

But they sure put a lot of effort in that message.

jadarnel27

Somehow neither the satin pillow, nor the gold-lined box, made it to me.

Daniel Fischer

Sue the mail service.

jadarnel27

7:28 PM

@animuson Who knows. I guess if it's obvious exaggeration like that, maybe it's alright.

@DanielFischer That's a good idea.

animuson

I don't think the courts care if it's obvious or not.

jadarnel27

I also never sent a picture, so I'm suspicious that they might not have it up on their wall.

animuson

Did you use your Gravatar email address?

You should send them some overly exaggerated email in return.

jadarnel27

Haha, that's actually a fantastic idea.

@animuson I think so.

animuson

27b/6 it up, man!

Daniel Fischer

7:34 PM

27b/6 ??

jadarnel27

I don't think I'm 1337 enough to know what that means.

animuson

27bslash6.com

Daniel Fischer

Never heard of that before.

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 Oh, that's going to cost you all of your Internet points.

I'm actually transfering them all to @animuson as we speak.

jadarnel27

Ouch. I was going to send my kids to college with those points.

@TimStone Which part costs me the points? Not knowing 27b/6, or using leet-speak? Just so I know. For the future.

Tim Stone

7:38 PM

Not knowing 27b/6

jadarnel27

Oh. In that case, I'd like to go ahead and tattle on @DanielFischer as well.

4 mins ago, by Daniel Fischer

Never heard of that before.

Tim Stone

Yes, we'll have to transfer all of his Internet points over as well.

Daniel Fischer

Surely only Americans must know it?

Tim Stone

David Thorne is Australian, so I'm not willing to accept that excuse.

Daniel Fischer

Native speakers?

animuson

7:42 PM

He is also officially listed as my Favorite Person on my facts page. :P

Tim Stone

@DanielFischer I don't know whether or not that factors in, but I'm feeling generous today, so that would qualify for a 50% reduction in Internet point penalities.

jadarnel27

This is hilarious. Goodbye the rest of today's productivity.

Daniel Fischer

Better than nothing, I suppose.

@jadarnel27 My revenge will be merciless!

I will never star one of your messages again.

jadarnel27

Oh noes.

Wait.

animuson

To him, that's possibly a good thing, given how much he complains all the time about receiving stars.

Tim Stone

7:45 PM

No, no, don't question it.

jadarnel27

@TimStone =)

@DanielFischer I read you loud and clear.

* wink *

Daniel Fischer

wink wink nudge nudge

animuson

Oh, another one of Amazon's impossible-to-open boxes.

jadarnel27

Because I have a lazy eye, I can only wink successfully with my left eye. If I wink with my right eye, it looks like I'm having a stroke or something.

animuson

Oh my gosh! It pops out at you when you open it! That's new.

jadarnel27

7:48 PM

^---That's what she said.

@animuson To be fair, I think I only complained when I was being "mercilessly troll-starred"

animuson

Why does my PS3 say it's one hour earlier? o.o

user159773

The latest OS update includes a time machine.

user159773

8:06 PM

Umad?

Daniel Fischer

Nomad

mootinator

9:01 PM

@animuson Why did you set your timezone to GMT-6 (Saskatchewan)

animuson

I figured out that the PS3doesn't automatically switch for DST, apparently it's been wrong for quite some time.

Daniel Fischer

Bully for the PS3, not participating in that nonsense.

Tim Stone

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Q: Courtesy pings should be deletable by their targets

If a comment says only ([cC]ourtesy\s)?[pP]ing(,|ing|\sto|\sfor)*\s*@[^\s]+ or @[^\s]+\s*([cC]ourtesy\s)?[pP]ing.{0,2} (or something like that), then the person identified in the database as its "ReplyTo User" should be allowed to delete it, and if he flags it as obsolete, then that flag sh...

feature-request comment-replies flagging-comments ping

WTF is a courtesy ping?

animuson

You know, when they ping you to tell you that your flight is now boarding.

jadarnel27

Never heard the term. But I do think that's an interesting idea, I suppose.

Tim Stone

9:10 PM

If it's happening enough for it to be a problem, those comments should just be refused. >_>

That's just...what.

@animuson Ah, of course

animuson

Mmm, seasoned cheeseburgers.

jadarnel27

I <3 LINQ to XML. That is all.

animuson

"Roses are red, violets are blue, And loading screens are white." - I can tell this game is going to be lame.

I was right, this is horribly lame.

Tim Stone

What game?

animuson

Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time

Tim Stone

9:22 PM

I see, hahah

animuson

Ok I'm done. On to something else. o.o

animuson

9:46 PM

2012-04-26: Stack Exchange is experimenting with automatically following links and might post comments and add them to a list on the /review tab when they are dead. - Ohhh fancy.

Tim Stone

Aye

animuson

Tim Stone just got 3 badges :o

Tim Stone

O_o

So I did

animuson

You'll also be getting 3 Enlightened badges because those were all accepted answers as well. ;)

Haha

Tim Stone

Hmm

Apparently when you get more than one of the same badge, on the "all" filter for activity it rolls them up into a single entry.

But on the "badges" filter they're separate

animuson

9:53 PM

Isn't that good? The actual link there always links to the same page.

I don't see the point in putting three links to the same page in a row.

Tim Stone

There's no indication it was three separate events rolled up into one though, which seems a bit off.

animuson

Poop, reputation capped. :(

Daniel Fischer

What a horrible fate!

animuson

10:19 PM

Has that "votes" tab always been there next to the activity history?

Tim Stone

waffles added it the other day

It's been gone for a long time

animuson

I see. I saw it there and was like "Oooooh what is this... :O MY VOTES!!!"

Tim Stone

Apr 26 at 1:29, by Tim Stone

71

Q: Where did the Votes Tab go?

My profile page used to have a votes tab that showed me what my latest X votes were. It is not there anymore. What happened to it? Why was it removed? I looked everywhere but couldn't find anyone talking about it. I use this often to go back to downvotes and see if they've been edited to fix a pr...

discussion feature-request status-completed user-interface profile-page

animuson

Now let's go flood meta with feature requests on it.

Aha! It does not show questions which you've voted to delete and are now deleted. O.O

Tim Stone

Yeah, you very rarely get shown deleted anything.

animuson

10:25 PM

Couldn't that be slightly confusing though? "I know I've voted to delete things before, but my votes for deletion page is empty."

Tim Stone

Somewhat. But at the moment it's considered better than the alternative, it seems.

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