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CC Inc

2:06 AM

@ThiefMaster Did you ban an <13 today?

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ajax333221

3:26 AM

I was struggling to open a bag of chips for like 1 min and didn't realize I had the scissors infront of me T^T

mootinator

chips...

I'm afraid to eat those

ajax333221

should I ask why?

mootinator

I'd tell you, but I don't actually know.

CC Inc

You don't know?

mootinator

I'm havin an attack of some sort of chronic gastrointestinal problem :P

Moshe

3:41 AM

Whao.

Shog9

@ajax333221 I hate it when I mistake scissors for something edible. I hope you weren't badly injured!

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Fosco

6:41 AM

I'm moving to San Francisco! It's official, yo.

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mr.soroush

9:21 AM

Oded

9:42 AM

Congrats @Fosco - good luck in your new job

balpha

@Fosco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!

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Tim Yi Jiang

10:54 AM

I just set up a spinning icon using Font Awesome. It looks great, but when I add a text shadow to it the text shadow starts spinning with the icon

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Oded

12:56 PM

@TimYiJiang - Sounds awesome. Can you post a video/animation of this effect?

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Tim Yi Jiang

2:05 PM

@Oded fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/#examples

Add a text-shadow to the animated element

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Anonymous

3:56 PM

IIRC somebody made a website hosting HTML versions of closed sites, generated from their dumps. I can't seem to find the post about it. Does anybody remember?

Tim Yi Jiang

@JeremyBanks Never heard of it, but there's a period of time where I couldn't be active on MSO, so I might have missed it

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Popular Demand

5:51 PM

@JeremyBanks I can't find a reference to an actual site that does this, but I did find a script by real Josh for converting data dumps to HTML:

Q: soDumpMe: a Ruby script co convert Data Dump XML to HTML

Screenshot / Code Snippet Screenshot coming soon! About This app was created to solve a request on Meta that the XML of the data dump is not readable. This app aims to convert the XML to HTML. This needs a lot of work to be useful! As more development is done I will update this question. ...

It seems to have been born in response to this MSO post:

Q: Data dump of closed beta sites

The data dump of some closed beta sites are available in xml format. Is it possible to see their content in a more readable form? Why are not these data available in HTML format too? One of the problems, for example, is that if I want to see the comments of a post, I have to search for them i...

discussion data-dump beta-sites closed-sites

Anonymous

@PopularDemand Thanks, I guess I'll use that. I'm sure I remember seing such a site, but a bunch of searching didn't turn anything up.

Anonymous

:1245114 Users with at least 10k reputation can see deleted posts.

feklee

Is it possible to see deleted answers? I posted a question which has been closed and finally locked, and two of the replies also disappeared, one of them being quite useful.

Anonymous

What site is it on? If Stack Overflow I can get the answers' contents for you.

feklee

Q: Send HTTP request from PHP without waiting for response?

I want to have an HTTP GET request sent from PHP. Example: http://tracker.example.com?product_number=5230&price=123.52 Requirement: The request should take as little time as possible. (it is not necessary to wait for the response) Suggestions? cURL with very short timeouts? Update: Just ...

php performance http curl

Anonymous

5:59 PM

one sec

feklee

Actually, I remember the answer. But I think it would be nice if it was available for others to see as well.

Anonymous

@feklee Unfortunately there's no way for regular users/visitors to see deleted posts. There has been a lot of discussion about it over the years, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

Anonymous

Will probably deleted the answers because most of their value was in the external links, which we don't like answers to rely on. (Too many old answers that become useless due to broken links, but continue to clutter up the site until somebody fixes them.)

Anonymous

in Room for Jeremy Banks and feklee, 1 min ago, by feklee

Thanks a lot! The shell_exec answer is the one I´d like to see restored, but I guess I have to wait for a moderator to take action (flagged).

Anonymous

If the post were edited to contain a bit more detail or an example it would probably be okay. As it is, it's iffy whether it will be restored.

feklee

6:08 PM

@JeremyBanks Well I disagree with Will (cURL is a standard tool, and the other message contained a useful link to another SO question). Will obviously didn't read my last comment. In particular - as I wrote - I am looking for methods. So the justification for closing the question is not just. Before that it was marked as a duplicate to a question which is related, but certainly requires a different answer.

My only explanation for the whole issue: People don't take the time to think about the questions that they are moderating, and they don't want to admit failure.

Really, if I find the time to do more in depth research, and I find a good answer, then what can I do?

Create the same question again, and post the answer?

Or even post one of the already existing answers myself, just to make it mark as accepted?

One of the answers that @Will deleted may be a very good and simple solution. I am just worried about performance, as written in my comment.

Anonymous

@feklee He seems to have conceded that it wasn't a duplicate, and so re-closed it as "not constructive" instead. Let me see...

feklee

Really, I just want a good question and answer to be out there. But if it's such a pain...

Anonymous

I agree that the question seems alright.

Anonymous

Sorry, if the answer is "use this package [link]" then we actively discourage questions like this, as they attract link rot and spam. Please visit [Meta] for more info on this. — Will 1 hour ago

feklee

@JeremyBanks Do you mean my question or the justification by @Will?

Anonymous

6:15 PM

@feklee Your question. I was going to comment on Will's comment as well, but I'm having trouble phrasing it... I don't agree with him.

Anonymous

I'll also flag it, since it's been locked so I can't vote to reopen.

feklee

I think @Will misread my last comment where I mentioned: In fact, if I discover that the method used in php-ga is a great one ... post that as an answer for benefit of all. Note that I wrote method used in php-ga, not simply php-ga.

Anonymous

@feklee That seems plausible.

feklee

@JeremyBanks Thanks for flagging!

Lance Roberts

6:33 PM

I sure wish they'd fix this problem:

Q: Please make the multiple comment timer less annoying (non-reseting etc.)

As a little feature to prevent comment spam, you can only enter one comment every 15 seconds. That's a very reasonable limitation, since you very rarely have a good reason to write comments that quickly. I've only seen it twice at all, I think, but both times it was extremely annoying. Only 1...

feature-request comments spam-prevention

Lance Roberts

6:54 PM

Thank you to the mod who deleted the comment thread, it had degenerated (on both parts), and then I took a look at the User Profile and realized that it was really not productive.

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Charles

9:16 PM

So someone objected to much to an edit I made to his question that he internet-stalked me and mailed random people at my employer asking me to stop editing his questions. Figured y'all'd get a kick out of that one.

Tim Stone

O_o

Charles

That is, incidentally, the reaction my coworkers had.

Tim Stone

Wait, and over that edit? o_O

Charles

Uhhuh.

Tim Stone

I...don't even know what to say about that.

Charles

9:22 PM

I know exactly what to say:

INTERNETS. SERIOUS BUSINESS.

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mootinator

10:23 PM

Oy.

Popular Demand

10:43 PM

the more I think about what kind "message" is sent by script actions like these to target voter, the more weird it feels. Hey, remember that guy who advertised Gucci handbags yesterday? Next time you'll see stuff like that, don't even attempt to downvote because it will be reverted. — gnat Jan 12 at 7:32