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Quill

12:02 AM

thoughts on adding a popup for documentation on MSE?

Quill

12:15 AM

Staff birthday at work, shots and cake at 10am

user202362

are you using this as twitter? :p

Quill

THEN TALK TO ME :p

user202362

I am :p

Quill

Adding Documentation is one of the biggest leaps forward @StackOverflow has ever made. @fredwilson explains it well: http://avc.com/2016/07/stack-documentation/

Tweeted by anildash on July 21, 2016 at 10:54 PM

user202362

shameless self promotion, I see :p

user202362

1:24 AM

JamesENL

1:34 AM

Woooooo! Reps for documentation

Quill

someone got 2k rep before they fixed the rep cap

user315433

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Portal

Image not found, or my internet provider did something to it

Quill

same here

Portal

1:50 AM

.. and a bit NSFW "recommendation" image :p

user202362

JamesENL

Morning

Quill

@JamesENL hey there

user202362

The connection customer funds, owns and maintains the electrical installation. The energy laws also require the connection customer to fund the premises connection assets that need to be installed or altered before the new connection or altered existing connection can be made. However, after connection, Ausgrid owns and maintains the premises connection assets.

user202362

right ...

Quill

2:35 AM

in Documentation Public Beta on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 mins ago, by animuson

Now I'm imagining Shog singing Still Alive, thanks.

no-context

Shog9

ate the first ripe blackcaps tonight, @tchrist

user202362

tchrist is exploiting the system?

Shog9

@Quill instead of just shots, eh?

Quill

red (coloured liquid style) whiskey, apparently

user202362

whiskey at 10am, wonder what kind of company you are working for

JamesENL

3:11 AM

Loving the free Documentation Rep

tchrist

4:11 AM

@Shog9 Oh good. Mine are just about over. Just enough that visiting houseguests can sample.

user202362

farming.stackexchange.com

user202362

omg there is no farming on stackexchange

Quill

sure there is..... there's a minecraft tag on arqade

hichris123

Docs: so good we need to announce it twice.

user315433

4:39 AM

Including on sites that have nothing to do with SO topic.

user315433

Where is the integrity? @jonskeet offers @dcampbell SO rep in exchange for Catan resource cards. https://t.co/trPwo9WxHa

Tweeted by aChrisSmith on July 22, 2016 at 2:44 AM

Quill

he really does love board games

user315433

But has no activity on Board & Card Games

user202362

I tell you what, I will exchange one of my chickens in exchange of 10000 SO reps, provided that you do not kill the chicken within 6 months after receiving it

user315433

Granted, that site has become 99% Magic The Gathering.

user202362

4:43 AM

I will sweeten up the deal: I will delivery anywhere in NSW free of charge

hichris123

5:28 AM

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Portal

6:19 AM

Sorry Docs, I have to turn off notification. Otherwise I'll get 10 notifications per hour... and red is somewhat scary.

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6:37 AM

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user202362

7:31 AM

user202362

10000 reps for a smallish donkey, you can't find a better deal anywhere else

Bart

@Telkitty I could give you 10k, but I'm sure you'll spend it on nonsense like Pokeballs or something.

user202362

Nope, not spending the 10k on anything, reps will sitting in my SE reps saving account

Quill

for a rainy day when the call to troll is too strong

Bart

7:48 AM

With all those CS GO skin betting sites gone now, perhaps we could set up SE-rep betting sites?

Quill

they're not gone what are you talking about

Bart

kotaku.com/…

You missed the scandals and the results of the last few weeks?

JamesENL

@Bart Isn't that just bounties?

Bart

@JamesENL you may be on to something there

JamesENL

I bet you 100 rep that you can't satisfactorily answer my question

Quill

7:55 AM

@Bart No, I saw the flood of youtube videos on the subject. but that doesn't mean they're dead. there's still kids wasting their lunch money on gambling skins

Bart

@Quill They all have had cease and desist letters. Most of them are already offline, have disabled cashing out, or advise you to cash out asap.

They are on their way out, if any still remain

Quill

Oh, I missed the part where they all got cease and desist letters

also I didn't know you played csgo

Bart

Occasionally. Not as much since Overwatch though. But I try to follow most major tournaments and such.

Quill

I haven't picked up Overwatch yet, I hear it's like TF2?

JamesENL

@Quill I love Overwatch

It is very like TF2

I'd also turn straight for Tracer

Bart

8:00 AM

Yeah, it's very much like TF2. I like it. It can use further balancing (heck, CS still can use that). It's just very well polished

Nice variety of heroes with skills

Quill

maybe I should pick up a copy

Bart

But if you're like me, Tracer and Genji are not for you. :D I either get disoriented or run into a wall

Quill

I just looked up from my laptop screen to find that it's pitch black dark.... it genuinely made me jump

Bart

Haha, been there, done that

Add to that a robot head in one of my previous workplaces, which would just tilt to a side for no reason at some point in the middle of the night.

That one

Quill

scary

Bart

8:10 AM

If you want to see how scary, watch this video we made some years ago: youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoHblnnvro :D

user202362

I am sure if there were real A.I.s, there would be robot cleaners, chefs & construction workers.

user202362

Nope, talks get us nowhere

user202362

I want artificial intelligence that does real work, otherwise it's just an artificial intelligent mouth

user202362

useless

Bart

@Telkitty we have moderators

user202362

8:15 AM

I am going to make artificially intelligent trolls!

Quill

@Bart still better looking than my neighbours

Derpy

@Bart did they had also limited power for the night?

Bart

@Derpy hehe, no, they were usually turned off. So there was no tension on anything and sometimes it would just "tilt" its head all of a sudden when something relaxed.

Derpy

@Bart you should have added an hidden speaker somewhere that played the March of the Toreadors when the head moved.

Bart

:D We already had it sing, which was terrible enough

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8:41 AM

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Quill

9:03 AM

heh, badge farming stackoverflow.com/help/badges/5850/bluebook

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Quill

9:23 AM

I'm starting to see the list of links to paste that JonEricson mentioned

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9:33 AM

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Derpy

9:51 AM

so. Just for fun. While doing some testing on an application, I suddenly started noticing an error "an internal error occurred in the microsoft internet extensions" pop up in the IE developer toolbar. The error traced down to accessing the "window.localStorage" property.

I restarted the machine, that was an Azure hosted VM

now, the problem is solved.

People around the net say that that error is due to corrupted local storage files...

so, why restarting the machine fixed that -_-?

Shadow Wizard

10:13 AM

@Derpy maybe some sectors are corrupted while others are not, and files can span many sectors. So maybe it depends where the OS starts looking for the file?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard don't think so. I think that there must be a service/component/demon/whatever that this "Microsoft Internet Extension" use, and that was the process that crashed/hanged/got stuck. I assume that this process isn't directly tied to IE, so it wasn't restarted by restarting the browser.

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Quill

sd k

Bart

10:55 AM

@Derpy I'd say it's most likely due to oscillation.

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Shadow Wizard

@Bart heh, it's really the answer to everything. :P /cc @Derpy

I don't get it. Why spammers read the tour??? money.stackexchange.com/help/badges/98/informed?userid=45468

Quill

maybe they think they need a badge to post?

Shadow Wizard

heh, he already posted. Even uploaded a picture. (spam, but not NSFW)

Derpy

11:11 AM

@ShadowWizard Have Fun

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Shadow Wizard

@Derpy interesting!

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Oh, btw, the number in the race IS a reference to the guide, since another character ask her if she learned about races by reading the "Egghead's Guide to the races" right after noticing the number.

BTW, I would also want to point out that the original radio show was pretty clear on the intended nature of the question.

Derpy

11:41 AM

@ShadowWizard scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58650/…

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Quill

sd k

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12:00 PM

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Derpy

(How to make @ShadowWizard flee: just start a MLP 101 lesson)

Quill

12:20 PM

lol

Quill

12:35 PM

Heads up: I’m on vacation for a week. I’ll resume #StackCode tweets when I’m back on 2016-08-01. Still tons of code (and libs!) to explore.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on July 22, 2016 at 10:50 AM in reply to Nick_Craver

Shadow Wizard

12:51 PM

@Derpy true for most people here... ;-)

bjb568

1:14 PM

4

A: What light colors will help calming down before bedtime?

Mary Jo's answer is spot on – blue paints are good, blue lights are bad, red lights are good. I was going to add a comment but I have more to say :-) Avoid blue because it is very high-energy in terms of wavelength. Red is good because it is very low-energy in terms of wavelength. Other colors a...

What a load of hyped-up pseudoscience misinformation. From a high-rep user as well!

Derpy

in Pallet Town on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 10 mins ago, by Derpy

Quiz: how are the two above images related?

Bart

Both consist of pixels. Next!

Derpy

1:42 PM

@Bart you... are a boring gray old pair of glasses, you know?

oh!

@InfiniteRecursion Quack!
(trad: hi!)

user315433

@Quill The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: put the #StackCode tweets together so they compile into Stack Overflow.

Infinite Recursion

Sigh! Portal and ᴡᴏʀᴅs have changed their names.

Oded

brown

2

Bart

Wise words right there

user202362

50 shades of brown ... doesn't sound very romantic >_<

Bart

1:57 PM

#brownmatters

Oded

#brownlivesmatter

Bart

#hashtagsmatter

user202362

My new fetish is watching hawks and eagles caught in chicken coops

Infinite Recursion

#trainsmatter

Oded

#mattermatters

Bart

2:02 PM

#antimattermatters

user202362

there, a group photo of a hawk and a chicken

user202362

of course birds of prey were letting go in the end

Infinite Recursion

#tellykittytrainwrecker

bjb568

#choochoo

user202362

2:12 PM

fine, next time I will try to find one in duck pens >_<

Derpy

@Telkitty @infinite lives in a pond, not a pen

user202362

ducks only swim in ponds, they live in pens, houses or other kind of duck accommodations

user315433

2:29 PM

ru.SO became the 7th site to reach 100K questions, after SO, Math, SU, AU, SF, and TeX.

user315433

Somehow it's the question milestones that get celebrated, not answers.

user315433

SO will reach 20,000,000 answers in a couple of months, btw.

user202362

I totally see how you can be subbed by a bot. Just do a cron job every morning with a bunch of SQLs and if certain interesting number turns up, broadcast them somewhere

user202362

forward a few tweets if they matching certain keywords too

user202362

anything predictable can be substituted by bots in theory

user315433

2:41 PM

Three SE sites have more questions than answers: Cross Validated, Software Recommendations, and Health. For the former two, the excess of questions is by 1-2%; for Health it's over 20%.

user315433

On the opposite extreme, PPCG has 10 times more answers than questions. Well they aren't really Q and A, so maybe exclude PPCG. Then the leader is Worldbuilding with the answers/questions ratio over 4.6.

user315433

I guess we've established that fantasizing about imaginary worlds is easier than giving correct answers on a complex subject.

Derpy

3:02 PM

We also established that "fantasizing about imaginary worlds" isn't to be considered "complex".

I think that the answer, if any, should be considering that Worldbuilding doesn't necessarily require knowledge of outside technologies that you didn't create.

Answering a Worldbuild question only requires you to understand your own mind, answering a question on an api requires you to understand the mind of the api creator.

I can't do either, but I would assume that the first one should be easier.

Unity 3D

3:15 PM

Documentation syntax should be a markdown list right?

Mine is and it doesn't let me submit

Bart

You get an error?

Unity 3D

Yep

Bart

Which is? And can you post the markdown somewhere?

Unity 3D

I'm trying to figure out which line is causing it, wait...

Ah.

Optional<T>

user315433

@Derpy It may well be complex. The correct was another adjective I used. I can give a lot of answers on very complex subjects, if correctness isn't expected.

Unity 3D

3:22 PM

Didn't escape brackets

Bart

What usually fixes it, is to add >20k spaces to your markdown

Unity 3D

???

Derpy

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs it depends on the definition of "correct". A sum may be correct. What is correctness when it comes up to a World building answer?

user315433

We don't know, and so we drop it, and life becomes easy and enjoyable.

Bart

@Unity3D you weren't around for the lovely site outage this week?

Unity 3D

3:27 PM

just missed it

But heard about it

regex

Bart

stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/…

Derpy

well, have to go for now.

See you

Bart

See you later @Derpy

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Quill

5:27 PM

I was answering a whole bunch of questions in the docs chatroom and then I fell asleep <_<

my head hurts <_<

Quill

6:12 PM

just hit rep cap from docs

Bullets

►

Magisch

6:36 PM

༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ praise documentation ༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ

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Quill

in Documentation Public Beta on Stack Overflow Chat, 39 secs ago, by Jon Ericson

@Braiam Good call. Winter Bash 2016 is officially canceled.

no context needed

rene

7:46 PM

SO, where we hat fun

user315433

If @Nick_Craver can get the verified checkmark, @StackExchange and @StackOverflow ought to be able to.

Quill

8:02 PM

First 24 hours of Q&A (2008): 2706 users posted a question or answer First 24 hours of Docs (2016): 2763 users posted a topic or example

Tweeted by spolsky on July 22, 2016 at 3:55 PM

Quill

8:20 PM

I don't speak cat but I'm pretty sure he wants in. https://t.co/gxI4m9krsy

Tweeted by MrDrewScott on July 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM

cute

user315433

9:07 PM

There's one more VP now: VP of Marketing, Alexa, previously Director of Marketing.

user315433

Her pinned tweet:

user315433

PSA: When you message me here on Twitter, you're not actually referring to Amazon Echo. I'm not nearly that useful.

Tweeted by Alexa on July 13, 2016 at 12:19 AM

user315433

She once mentioned being offered a nontrivial amount of money for her Twitter handle, which she declined. (I suppose alexa.com wanted it.)

Quill

9:39 PM

Who was previously VP of Marketing?

user315433

9:59 PM

This is a new position.

Quill

ah, I see

I wonder whether she'll join the elite-VP-or-above-only-podcast-crew now?

user315433

A more diverse podcast crew wouldn't hurt. Or just a different one.

Quill

they should just play roulette with the staff list and then pick two random people for each podcast

Shog9

funny enough, there's an internal tool that tries to match random employees up on a monthly basis (3 per call I think?) just so folks talk to each other more often. Could just record that...

Quill

is that the story behind #StackWedding?

Shog9

10:07 PM

...what?

Quill

didn't two employees get married a while back? am I remembering wrong?

Shog9

oh, yeah. But they actually worked together. Like, in the same office I mean.

Quill

ah, right

Shog9