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12:27 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps answer, few unique characters in answer, offensive answer detected: iTunes on PandaBoard/Rasperry Pi or other single board computer by daMAN on apple.stackexchange.com

bjb568

Jason C

@IͶΔ Oh, crap, I totally forgot to unpin those.

Quill

12:47 AM

@JasonC lol?

Jason C

Yes.

Lol now. Do it.

DO IT.

Quill

lol

Jason C

Thank you. Your compliance has been acknowledged.

Quill

you couldn't tell, but that was backwards

Jason C

I could tell. The shadows were all wrong.

Quill

1:54 AM

I'm happy that there are generous, professional programmers on this website, whose aim is to help others. Instead of poking fun at the askers, or looking for their ponies. Thanks Jon. — Delphi.Boy Sep 6 '13 at 13:22

user202362

Ad for Silk Road, I was almost excited ...

user202362

Then I realised that it's a different Silk Road

tchrist

2:39 AM

@bjb568 looser

Shog9

3:02 AM

Nothing wrong with.... Yknow... Actual silk.

user202362

Or actual road

user202362

Silk Road (online pharmaceutical) probably became more well known/infamous after they were busted ...

Jason C

@Shog9 Wild guess; what do you think the % of users on SO is whose profile ages / birthdates are relatively accurate?

tchrist

Relatives?

Well, mine says I'm a few hours older than I am, but that's hardly my fault.

Jason C

There is one person who is -972 years old.

user202362

3:15 AM

Meaning if you are 30, it's relatively accurate if you claim to be 29 instead of 97

user202362

You could claim to be born in 2988?

Jason C

@TelkittytheWebDeveloper Yeah.

I feel like the accuracy of ages for users who are reported to be 13 to, say, 75, might be decent though. data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/435769 seems reasonable.

user202362

Double posted after editing again

user202362

Mobile chat is kind of unstable today

Jason C

E.g. data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/435770#graph

tchrist

3:19 AM

I wonder whether they lie to the compiler.

user202362

Inb4 April fools day compiler - the compiler that would always lie to you ...

Shog9

@JasonC 0%. Pretty sure we skew it intentionally.

There's like... A feature request somewhere.

Unikitty eats a cat

@JasonC do you think I am 96 years old?

user202362

It's not users birthdays, it's a number of years those users get to live :p

hichris123

@JasonC Age isn't even displayed except for the network profile now...

Shog9

3:27 AM

@Unikittyeatsacat at least. Clearly, dementia is setting in hard.

@hichris123 still in data dump (but corrupted)

@TelkittytheWebDeveloper it is their sentence.

Jason C

@Shog9 How skewed? Like, totally destroyed? I have this query, duplicate questions per user by age: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/435777#graph but based on whatever the funked up ages are.

Unikitty eats a cat

Mobile chat bug found...

Jason C

Skewed enough to make that query meaningless?

Unikitty eats a cat

@Shog9 strange, I don't remember anything about world war 2

Jason C

Actually, this is probably a better query: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/435778#graph - dupes per question asked by age, but still, the skew?

Oh, @TimStone, maybe you have some insight. Do you think however you guys skew the ages + users lying about their ages makes that ^ query completely meaningless? Or is it still pretty representative.

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