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SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: C# .NET HOW TO GET INFORMATIO ABOUT THE TOOLBAR IN THE DESKTOP on stackoverflow.com

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@animuson Slacker!

6:48 PM

Nah, I don't listen to the radio much.

... sigh

in Sandbox on Stack Overflow Chat, 12 secs ago, by Caprica Six

@hichris123 slacker One who procrastinates or is lazy.

Blasphemy!

@hichris123 Mmm... guacamole...

@animuson Go close some questions! Now!

@hichris123 Good boy! Very good boy!

6:53 PM

I'll give you a cookie!

That's a good boy.

@bjb568 Your accounts should be unmerged... Let me know if anything got missed.

@AnnaLear chat.stackexchange.com/users/112832/bjb568 link to parent user is messed up, 404's.

@hichris123 fixing

7:09 PM

@Anna stackoverflow.com/a/24988713/2371861 should be in my acciunt

@bjb568 done

Recent flags too. (You don't need to move the declined ones :P)

How dare you make her work hard!

:P

Flags might be a lost cause.

wait, hold on. what do you mean by "recent flags"?

Recent, as in the flags I cast after my account got merged.

7:16 PM

Yeah, those are a lost cause, sorry.

@AnnaLear You kinda created two accounts, one for the one bjb doesn't want and isn't borked: chat.stackexchange.com/users/123449/bjb568, and the one bjb wants and is broken: chat.stackexchange.com/users/112832/bjb568

Can't test properly, on mobile.

what you guys did to this poor user?

@hichris123 I haven't done anything yet. ;) Chat and user merges don't work together super well. I'm gonna need to hunt down a dev more familiar with chat.

Andy

@Braiam He looked at us funny.

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7:30 PM

@bjb568 that won't get implemented

@Andy like this :) or like this >_<?

Andy

It was more that wild eye look of wonder a child gets when finding a secret room.

O_O

Andy

ʘ‿ʘ

user163250

7:58 PM

meta.askubuntu.com/a/11647/20214

user163250

That won't onebox?

meta.askubuntu.com/a/11647/169736

Stijn

Try using the share version of the link

user163250

@Bart sure, that's what they all say :P

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user163250

8:00 PM

@Stijn nope, no dice.

meta.unix.stackexchange.com/a/2884/41104

user163250

@MartijnPieters hmm, who's the spammer?

Are all syntax error questions considered off topic for SO Main?

meta.stackoverflow.com/a/267059/792066

nope....

user163250

@SterlingArcher give me an example of a syntax error that shouldn't be closed.

8:02 PM

Err, that's why I asked :>

Stijn

Anyone using Google DNS and having trouble accessing reddit the last few hours? Whenever it goes down for a few minutes I get google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find www.reddit.com: Server failed from nslookup

> Don’t write a quick, incomplete answer just to immediately edit it and fill in the missing details.

you mean that SO doesn't have FGOTW?

Stijn

@Braiam not my blog, but he acknowledges that FGOTW exists and tries to discourage people

I found it refreshing to read

me too!!!

@Cupcake /me nervously scratches arms I don't know what you're talking about.

user163250

8:16 PM

@StevenV Will was being a BIG MEANIE, so I wanted a cupcake to cheer me up. Plus, didn't you know that requests that contain cupcakes have a 100% higher chance of being approved? — Cupcake 24 mins ago

user163250

Will, United States

76.8k 11 12

user163250

^^^ MEANIE!

user163250

:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

Cupcake-spamming!!! flags

Will is not a meanie ... or at least not in comparison to this "Won't" user that I've encountered before.

8:28 PM

And that "Bart" user... :P

I don't get why he isn't suspended yet @bjb568

@bjb568 That Bart user is so annoying, I really don't get why he comes here anymore.

Maybe Bart should be suspended, @Bart.

Maybe people asking for suspension of other users should be suspended...

Oh...what did I just say?

in The Room With The Moderators on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 20 hours ago, by hichris123

@3ventic The moderators of Moderators are moderated by the moderators who participate in Moderators but are not moderators of Moderators themselves.

Q: Best practices on GitHub repos, to Fork or create a New Branch

@hichris123 That sums it up nicely...

user163250

8:52 PM

Should this be closed as opinion-based?:

user163250

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I'm looking for the best practice, forking vs branching on GitHub. I've read this Forking vs. Branching in GitHub, but it's not relevant. Our team of 5 people are working on the same repository, and we would like to avoid merging problems, conflicts or regression in the code. The goal is for th...

git github git-branch git-merge git-fork

user163250

Startups just entered private beta:

user163250

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Startups – startups.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for entrepreneurs faced with delivering a new product or service under conditions of significant uncertainty.

Currently in private beta.

How many times have they tried that one?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: AT COMMAND SIMTOOLKIT MODEM HUAWEI MG323 IS NOT COMPLETELY THE DESCRIPTION on stackoverflow.com

8:58 PM

@SmokeDetector User has a non-answer, too.

@animuson If it made it into private beta, does that mean that the team approved of it, or is it an automatic process?

@animuson Isn't that what startups do...

@Jamal Just means it has enough support to give it a try. The team doesn't really "approve" of things. If they adamantly disapprove of a particular proposal, they won't let it go anywhere. Private beta just means "here's your chance to prove to us that you can make this site work."

I know there was at least one before this that got closed down, and I thought they had gone through a second beta cycle that also got closed. Don't remember though.

I see. It just seems that the launching message suggests that someone else is preparing it.

Well it's not automated in the sense that the team does have to prepare each site.

Epah Maulana

1 1

at-command command modem windows

He actually put his one question as his profile description. That's a new one.

9:09 PM

@Cupcake yup

@Jamal All they need is a textbox.....

@animuson This is the second time. AnswerOnStartups was a SE 1.0 I think that went to 2.0, but didn't have much activity.

@rene waits for MSE post

@hichris123 I'd say so. If I were a moderator I'd suspend him. Perhaps I should make that my main argument during the next election.

We will be performing a brief read-only test of the Oregon data center tonight: http://stackstatus.net/post/93337822009/read-only-test-july-30th-2014

Tweeted by StackStatus on July 30, 2014 at 8:55 PM

9:21 PM

NO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

@rene why do you care, you'll be sleeping..

@VotetoClose Does that matter?

I don't understand why they don't ask me first...

Anybody wants to salvage this?

I already did a google translate but I basically get some advertisement text...

stackoverflow.com/questions/25047126/… ... this brought in 5 answers that are more or less the same, because the question is so simple. I'm wondering if there is anything we can do to maybe add an internal "maybe this should be closed" flag if a question is answered very quickly and many times. Would need to be say verified by respected users or something

almost like an auto flag?

I'm thinking out loud so feel free to crush my logic

@rene yea, that definitely looks like spam.. maybe his account was hacked?

9:31 PM

@SterlingArcher Oh, javascript... easy rep...

No activity since March 1st

javascript is love

@VotetoClose Hard to tell...

@SterlingArcher just send me the divorce paperwork...

@SterlingArcher The problem with auto-flags is it just says "mods, handle this". Now if it auto-put it in the CV queue...

@hichris123 yeah I said "Would need to be say verified by respected users or something" but I didn't specifically exclude mods. Mods don't need to be pinged by a bad question, but maybe something like.. (visible to.. 5k+?)

"This question recevied 6 answers in 2 minutes. please review content [ vote to close ] [ all good brah ]"

Where X number of answers in Y amount of time triggers it

@rene booooo why don't you like JS?

So dynamic. So offline development. So love!

9:36 PM

@hichris123 You may shutdown the servers... I'm done...

:( lol

@rene no. I need the servers. :P

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1255731/english-dictionary-sql-dump

@SterlingArcher I'm spending more time on mdn to find the good parts Crockford talks about then writing actual code...

@rene prototype functions are a good part

user163250

@SterlingArcher JavaScript is Life.

9:39 PM

I just learned how to iterate a NodeList without a basic for loop

@Cupcake :O it's almost ogre now

user163250

Ogre?

@SterlingArcher What was wrong with the for loop?

@rene absolutely nothing. It just feels awesome using [].forEach.call(NodeList, function() { ... });

@Cupcake oh. I thought you knew.

I won't ruin your life.

@SterlingArcher Tsk, developers...

►

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Developers.

user163250

9:42 PM

I think I can head bang to this. Very. Slowly.

user163250

Oh gawd.

@SterlingArcher After this I wanted Windows95, BOB and Clippy...

user163250

So awkward.

@rene js win: gist.github.com/rlemon/7914903 rlemon made this to inline youtube videos to the chat

It's awesome

@SterlingArcher nice...

9:45 PM

yup

Martijn Pieters

@Cupcake: this spammer: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237328/how-we-have-we-carry-out-a-digital-footp‌rinting-for-an-organization

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10:02 PM

I have reputation on Software Recs!

Martijn Pieters

Ah, you don't have 10k yet; it was promoting this Git repo: github.com/MayankPalSingh/Digital-Footprint-Mapper

10:17 PM

@animuson Ton of deleted posts?

I finally went through my four pages of downvotes and retracted some on posts that had been improved.

oh

Jason C

10:43 PM

I want to start a hot-or-not style website, but for freehand circles.

There really is a lot of subtle complexity, I think one can be a legitimate connoisseur of them.

11:38 PM

Hello guys help me earn the informer badge:

Uhh not sure it'll count like that

Informer badge? There is no such badge.

This: moderators.stackexchange.com/q/5/170

@animuson Umm the informed badge i meant

Visited by 25 unique ips

I want to be the first to earn this badge :P

Doorknob

@TheWobbuffet Informed == "read the about page"

That's the Announcer badge. And referrals from within the SE network don't count towards it.

I meant Announcer, yeah

11:41 PM

Also, the site is in private beta, so only users with an account would even be able to see it.