Tavern on the Meta

Not a new thing, but still neat: experimental fluid dynamics in your browser. Maybe not as fun as MS-DOS games, but... BTW, setting ultra-high quality is a way to stretch the browser to its limit.

Lynn Crumbling

It makes me so sad that the home page for Nibble Magazine was made using a FrontPage template.

Louis

Don't read the rules, post something, see reputation plummet. It's a hobby, I guess.

bummi

12:45 AM

@rene licence should have 40 new feeds

user259867

1:04 AM

Google+ SQL-upgrading Hangout has just started.

hichris123

1:37 AM

@Fundamental And people are having issues. :P

Braiam

lets shout "SAVE THE UNICORNS" so the servers don't come down

user259867

Brief summary so far: Windows updates, SQL backups, BIOS patches ... while they are trying to upgrade hardware.

hichris123

@Fundamental The answer to everything: BIOS!

Your cat isn't eating? Update her BIOS?

2

Braiam

@hichris123 @bjb needs to know this, just in case...

bjb568

k

hichris123

1:44 AM

lol

user259867

Makes your git issues seem so small in comparison...

bjb568

Git still is confusing.

hichris123

@Fundamental I have more issues, but not with git anymore. :(

user259867

But git being confusing usually is not a problem. Search SO for something that remotely looks like your situation. Copy and paste command strings into your console. Repeat until it works.

bjb568

@Fundamental Safari handled it well (on a laptop here). What does the huge and brightness of a particle mean?

Braiam

1:52 AM

@Fundamental that's too naive....

bjb568

@Fundamental ^ what happened when I tried doing that

There should be 3 branches and one merge there.

Braiam

what you need is git flow....

hichris123

@bjb568 Rewrite history.

3

Braiam

@hichris123 that sounds so cool taken out of context

bjb568

@hichris123 That's what I did :P

hichris123

1:53 AM

@Braiam I know, right? :P

bjb568

> $ git flow hotfix start asets
> Switched to a new branch 'hotfix/assets'

@Braiam I found a typo after looking at their site for 3m…

Braiam

@bjb568 stingy

the branch management is solid

bjb568

k

Will test when has timez

user259867

@bjb568 Good question, no docs found. My best guess: brightness = velocity and hue = pressure.

Undo

We need a "people watching the live stream" room

Sompuperoo

2:00 AM

@Undo this room works just fine imo

Undo

Too much other noise :/

user259867

> We copy Stack Overflow to E: drive...

user259867

At the rate the SQL upgrade is going, chat upgrade / interruption seems unlikely.

Lynn Crumbling

well, it's time to head home. 'night all. taco bell, here I come.

Braiam

> SO in a floppy

@rene stackstatus.net/post/107352821074

Jan Dvorak

2:21 AM

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27810505/…

Undo

> Stack Overflow takes a while to shut down

Wonder why :P

hichris123

> on January 4rth

@Frank ^ :P

bjb568

@LynnCrumbling yay tacos!

Poll: What instruments do you play?

Undo

2:38 AM

@bjb568 keyboard

bjb568

Me too.

hichris123

Eeek chat's going down.

user259867

EEEEEK

This one?

@bjb568 shrugs

2:41 AM

@Braiam Yes.

What's that from? Looks familiar.

Undo

@bjb568 hover over it.

bjb568

Oh

I don't have the bottom bar thing.

Undo

wow mSE chat is 13GB

bjb568

2:46 AM

kewl

anorton

How did you download it?

Undo

bigger than I would have guessed

user259867

@anorton mentioned on Hangout right now

anorton

oh.

Braiam

@Undo ~~database~~ all our silly conversations, right?

bjb568

2:50 AM

yup!

Undo

yeah :P

bjb568

and spam

hichris123

Someone go fix my errors: forum.xda-developers.com/chef-central/android/…. I'll give you XDA rep. ;P

bjb568

And praises to moderators.

@hichris123 ew, a forum. Does your mom know that you went there?

2

user259867

I think the internal company chatrooms are also linked to MSE, no? For example, Bret Copeland "talked 5h ago" but obviously not in any room we see.

hichris123

2:51 AM

@Fundamental right

@bjb568 lol

bjb568

> It seized Melaka from the Portuguese and fought the British and Javanese for control of Java

O_O

People wanted Java?

hichris123

We will be taking chat offline in a few minutes to move database servers in Oregon.

Tweeted by StackStatus on January 7, 2015 at 2:55 AM

Eeek!

user259867

> Here's a command you don't want to issue...

hichris123

I'm curious what'll happen when chat goes offline.

bjb568

Panic

hichris123

3:04 AM

yay! Panic!

Chat down yet?

nope.

user259867

Are we down yet? ... Are we down yet? ... Are we down yet? ...

bjb568

no

user259867

Community put a 500 bounty on my question, nice.

user259867

It has good taste in questions.

hichris123

@Fundamental Ye... wait, no.

user259867

3:11 AM

this question

bjb568

@Fundamental yay

it looks kewl

user259867

Excluding Meta (as we should), the first user to reach 100K on two Stack Exchange sites is Daniel Fischer

hichris123

@Fundamental Not Gilles? :O

Yep, guess he doesn't have 100k on two sites.

bjb568

Huh

es muy interesante

haco mi tarea de la clase de español

hichris123

in What on Earth? on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 hours ago, by J. Musser

I'm not a conspiracy theorist ...

@Frank is a conspiracy theorist by thinking he's not a conspiracy theorist.

Braiam

3:18 AM

@hichris123 he's trying to confuse us!

hichris123

lol

Braiam

note to self: Frank is full of conspiracies

user259867

@Fundamental Source: This query. It does not show Fischer yet; the two users there have 100K on Meta and SO. Nobody else has even 75K on two non-meta sites.

hichris123

Shog's kinda close.

bjb568

Mis amigos poco compartímos las meriendas.

Is that right?

Braiam

3:24 AM

depending of what you mean to say...

Mis amigos (y yo (implied)) compartímos un poco las meriendas.

bjb568

Ugh, I think it's supposed to be -en, not imos

Spanish is confusing

We're doing conjugation.

Undo

... is the thing blowing up?

bjb568

@Undo Caching, it takes an hour to blow up :P

Braiam

@bjb568 darn, use the suffix correctly! ARGG!

bjb568

:P

Braiam

3:28 AM

(depending the suffix, you can change the voice, time, person, number, etc. of a word)

bjb568

Many confuse

Such complicated

Very ugh

Kinda scary that I'm working on 1.2.3.14.1

Book, chapter, section, exercise, problem

hichris123

eek

We are failing over to our redundant SQL servers now, there will be a brief maintenance page.

Tweeted by StackStatus on January 7, 2015 at 3:39 AM

Doorknob

Eeeeeeeeeek, anyone else getting an ugly offline message?

... apparently.

bjb568

yea

Doorknob

3:44 AM

heyyy, we're back

bjb568

we were gone?

Braiam

@bjb568 then who are the ones here... if we are gone?

bjb568

:O

Braiam

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Doorknob

Hooray, I finally get to post my first decent AU answer. :P

bjb568

3:48 AM

Llama!

Doorknob

heh, yeah, that's my username

(and hostname, incidentally)

hichris123

llama@llama.llama

bjb568

Shog9

password: alpaca

5

Doorknob

@Shog9 shhhhh

bjb568

4:08 AM

> There have been reports of Windows users using git-flow. ---Un---fortunately, I have no Windows environment to test it on,

Stupid md parser.

Anyway, that's the reason why I installed.

@Shog Have you read my flamey mail yet?

:P

Shog9

4:20 AM

@bjb568 I think you must have sent it wrong.

bjb568

I think the contact form is crap.

Looks designed so that people won't want to contact you guys :P

Shog9

Did you use BBCode to format it? Because I delete anything with BBCode unread.

bjb568

BBCode? O_O no

Does the thing support md?

user259867

> I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em
There probably was a problem at the post office or something
Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot 'em

3

Undo

This thing on?

Braiam

4:24 AM

we are back... if you haven't noticed

Undo

Yay it works! :D

bjb568

:D

AstroCB

works on my machine™ — Sklivvz ♦ 2 hours ago

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/143446/…

user259867

define:suppleness ... "the quality of being supple". Okay

Braiam

4:33 AM

I always consider it being soft and bouncy

bjb568

@Fundamental wat, flag button no do nutin

user259867

@bjb568 What to do you mean?

bjb568

I did try hard reloading

@Fundamental UX no werk

user259867

Bad news: you're suspended network-wide.

bjb568

:O

@bjb568 *UI

Hard to type while.brushing teeth.

Night!

Unihedro

4:58 AM

@Braiam @Frank I'm here now, was at school

Braiam

summon success!

user202362

I see here is the best place to summon an army of downvoters ...

user202362

mostly volunteers too!

Braiam

5:15 AM

My parents sent me to several years of intensive Kix test prep.

user259867

has no idea

Braiam

> The take home message of this comic must be: Never use a UV light in your bathroom. Maybe Randall did this by mistake causing the creation of this comic.

Sompuperoo

Dec 15 '14 at 5:07, by Shog9

TODO: set up more autodelete rules for y'all before 2015

@Shog9 ever do this ^ ? yes or no is acceptable answer. If yes, then I can search for them like they are secret hats!!

user259867

They are even more secret if you don't know they exist.

BoltClock's a Unicorn

1

A: Why does the inner nested table inherit border property from the outer border, given that border property can't be inherited?

try using below css: table { border: thin dotted #7e7e7e; padding: 10px; background-color: #e1ceb8; } th { text-align: right; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; } td { vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 15px; } table table { padding: 0px; borde...

In case anyone wondered why I posted this earlier

7

Q: WHY do people ask "why" questions with the "why" capitalized and over-formatted?

Seriously, WHY do people do this? And only with "WHY" questions — when asking other kinds of questions you hardly ever see anyone doing it. What is with this angry, demanding tone that seems to be so prevalent in "why" questions but not others? I've been observing this pattern for way too long a...

Nothing suspicious at all about an account created today, posting a wall of code while completely ignoring the question, and getting 2 upvotes within minutes, while the other two answers, one of which is posted by a moderator, which answer the question get no attention. Nope, it's just how SO works, I'm sure

user259867

5:32 AM

Hm. The author being a mod shouldn't be a factor, right?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@Fundamental No, but notice I said "suspicious"

The author being a mod is a factor for something else, but regardless of who's doing it or for what intent, it's simultaneously proving my point in my meta post

SO prides itself in quality answers to quality questions. By which I mean answers that totally ignore the question being perceived as more useful than answers that actually answer it

Because who cares about questions, honestly?

user259867

Let history will be their judge.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CALCULATE SEQUENCE NUMBER BITS FOR MAXIMUM UTILIZATION by ANKUR on superuser.com

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@SmokeDetector Even comes with bonus all-caps username!

user259867

Why is that even at SU?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

5:49 AM

Why not? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Shog9

SU is for asking questions when SO refuses to let you because all your previous questions sucked, right?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

user259867

And the all-caps block is still not implemented...

user259867

2

A: How to explain "instant" answers? Is there a secret queue or notifications for new questions?

Honestly, it's simply just because many of us sit at our desks, day in and day out, not only refreshing our email inboxes and Facebook feeds, but also our Stack Overflow front pages. When we see something uninteresting and derivative, we cannot help but answer it. This process takes mere minutes ...

user259867

Sounds so familiar. I see it on Math every hour of every day...

Jan Dvorak

6:07 AM

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27813385/…

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 91.4422: Global And China Cable Industry 2014 Market Survey Study Analysis and Overview on webapps.stackexchange.com

user259867

@hichris123 tpu (oops, wrong instance)

Jan Dvorak

now for that recommendation request...

BoltClock's a Unicorn

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/6671046

Jan Dvorak

@BoltClock'saUnicorn attempt to answer?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

6:13 AM

Either that or he didn't know how to get it past the 6-char limit

Please read this Doc: code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/wiki/GettingStarted — Rohit Batra 8 mins ago

He has posted a comment now

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 91.7623: Global And China Calcium Propionate Industry 2014 Market Survey Study Analysis and Overview on webapps.stackexchange.com

Andy

6:24 AM

spam stackoverflow.com/questions/27813562/…

Infinite Recursion

@uni's hat is nice

Unihedro

:D

Infinite Recursion

@rene /note to self: clear rene's stars frequently

Jan Dvorak

6:41 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246709/…

Jan Dvorak

6:55 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/143459/…

hichris123

7:15 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 54.4588: I just you're already skinny want Absolute Derma on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27812965/…

Jan Dvorak

7:31 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/143474/…

Jan Dvorak

7:46 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246712/…

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/143476/…

Patrick Hofman

@JanDvorak: All gone now.

Jan Dvorak

\o/

Sam

8:39 AM

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 46 secs ago, by Pham

Spam Q (90.9%): bracelet pandora prix forme de coeur exquise, by pandoraparis, on wordpress.stackexchange.com.

Bart

French. Must be spam

I guess it's no surprise my French still isn't up to scratch over here ...

Pham

Low Quality A (21.8%): I very appreciate your oppinion ,it can make me think what should we do ..., by chuangtianya, on webapps.stackexchange.com.

Sam

^ SPAM

Pham

Low Quality A (21.8%): I very appreciate your oppinion ,it can make me think what should we do ..., by chuangtianya, on mathematica.stackexchange.com.

Sam

^ SPAM

Patrick Hofman

8:51 AM

@Sam You just beat me

Sam

:D

Bart

Flagged and flagged

Pham

Spam A (72.4%): I very appreciate your oppinion ,it can make me think what should we do ..., by chuangtianya, on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com.

Spam A (72.4%): I very appreciate your oppinion ,it can make me think what should we do ..., by chuangtianya, on unix.stackexchange.com.

Patrick Hofman

Spam user ^^

Sam

5 different sites and counting...

Bart

8:59 AM

Yay, new account.

Didn't have Worldbuilding yet

Unihedro

9:16 AM

cv-pls Please give me code stackoverflow.com/q/5882005/3622940

VLQ / NAA stackoverflow.com/a/26899831/3622940

Sam

>>testing

Bart

>>smiting

Patrick Hofman

NAA: stackoverflow.com/a/27815860/993547

Bart

P.s. the Unix.SE SPAM above is still there at the moment.

Unihedro

9:41 AM

.......

My first declined flag in a while.

Bart

Yay!! No wait ... ahwww

Unihedro

I must redeem my flag! flags again

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 51.0702: Greatest Fat Loss Product About The Internet on drupal.stackexchange.com

bjb568

10:01 AM

(removed)

Pham

:2872162 i.stack.imgur.com/0qaHz.gif

Pham

10:16 AM

Spam Q (56.4%): Buy Sony Ericsson Satio And Live In Pleasing Mood Unfailingly, by user280329, on meta.stackexchange.com.

Patrick Hofman

@Pham Gone

Javageek

Not a question :meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246722/…

Any idea of what it could be ??

Sam

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 1 min ago, by Pham

Spam Q (55.6%): Muscle Booster with high energy, by Benjamintanaka, on superuser.com.

@Javageek It's spam.

Javageek

How do spams get in here ?

Sam

Simple, spammers/spam bots create accounts and then post their rubbish.

Javageek

10:25 AM

Shouldn't we include a captacha ?? while registration ...

Unihedro

We are already doing that.

But there are determined spammers.

Javageek

If a spam is detected are they banned from entire stackexchange communities ??

Bart

If they are pure spammers, their accounts are often nuked

Javageek

Oh ok got it Thanks !

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246723/…

bjb568

10:40 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/…

All of it @bjb568?

@Bart pretty much

@bjb568 MEW!

and the rest is VLQ

10:57 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/143506/…

Bart

Why is Drupal SE so attractive to spammers?

Unihedro

@Bart Because... it's the honeycomb of spam

Jan Dvorak

13

Q: Can anyone explain why Drupal Answers attracts more spam than any other SE site?

I am dying to know it. Maybe something in its name or logo...

discussion support

Bart

@JanDvorak Hah

Javageek

11:11 AM

Is Stackexchange hit by a massive spam flooding or what ?? I can see lots of spam posts ...

Bart

Where do you see them?

You mean the ones posted here?

That's pretty normal. And it's the tip of the iceberg.

Javageek

In Meta...

I just forgot to copy those links

:(

Bart

I don't see anything really extraordinary.

Javageek

Those were removed just now..

Check out here chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/773/low-quality-posts-hq

Bart

We get heaps of spam. It's nothing special. It gets cleaned up pretty fast. And as said, behind the scenes far more is blocked already.

Mooseman

11:27 AM

Who the heck cares — Lightness Races in Orbit 6 hours ago

^^ really?

on

9

Q: Dupehammer causes comment notifications

The dupehammer is a good system. But when a gold badge holder closes a question, the OP gets a "possible duplicate of" comment notification. This, to the best of my knowledge, does not occur when a diamond mod closes a question. I propose that all binding close votes refrain from leaving a comme...

bug comments notifications dupehammer

Bart

Easily answered; you do.

Btw, is it just me, or did you ask that question on MSO before?

Mooseman

@Bart Nope

Bart

Had a serious case of deja-vu

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): Why are you delete this answer iant♦ ?, by user43001, on gis.stackexchange.com.

Sam

Interesting...

Mooseman

11:35 AM

upvote-pls superuser.com/questions/42782/… (The comment)

hichris123

11:51 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 73.8544: in localhost i got the error? how to resolve this? on magento.stackexchange.com

Unihedro

cv-pls oh so very broad stackoverflow.com/q/27808651/3622940

Shadow Wizard

@Mooseman why? what's the point in doing it?

Mooseman

@ShadowWizard Explanation to the NAA queue and author. Upvotes = credibility since I have a mere 165 rep there.

Shadow Wizard

@Mooseman so downvote it. User has 1 rep so he can't post comments. Actually this is an answer, but exact copy of the other answer hence I flagged as "Other".

(NAA flag would likely be declined)

Infinite Recursion

12:17 PM

-1

A: iOS disable programatically created buttons until function completion

Deleted .

^46k+ user :(

Shadow Wizard

Yup. So sad ^

Javageek

Are questions reg. Microsoft excel on topic on SO ???

0

Q: MS Excel 2010 project planner

This looked very simple to me at first. But now I am stuck and realize I need help. I have to calculate the number of working days for each project undertaken by an employee. I have a Start Date, End Date, And standard Holidays in a year. I also need to add vacation days to this duration. Using ...