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3:06 PM
hrmm?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PROVIDE THE ANSWER FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTION by user113099 on english.stackexchange.com
 
^ "despite"
 
USELESS TITLE IS USELESS
5
 
^ homework
 
Verbatim, yes.
 
3:15 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: sc-win32-status code is -2147023901 in IIS7 by Prashanth Krishnamurthy on stackoverflow.com
 
Ohh
 
He wrote the exam while listening to the approaching hoard of dinosaurs. Little did the dinosaurs know about his illness. — Kevin Workman 4 mins ago
:D
That is actually an answer.
 
He wrote the exam in the morning. It was a Tuesday and the sun was shining. While completing a question about the volume of chocolate milk that could be held in a cylindrical container, he was reminded of the summer days that he spent with his father. He felt it was a better time; before he knew about his illness. — Ian MacDonald 1 min ago
 
Ok, challenge accepted.
 
Lol
 
3:24 PM
I created an account just to upvote the comment by Kevin.
 
@LynnCrumbling Haha, good one.
He wrote the exam such that none of the questions could possibly be answered. No student would be able to successfully pass the final exam, and therefore all would be doomed to repeat his class. Such were the effects imposed upon his by pupils by his illness. — Lynn Crumbling 3 mins ago
For posterity.
 
And.. attempt #2 posted.
@KevinWorkman Dinosaurs will always trump anything that I'm going to be able to come up with. Except unicorns. Hrmmmm.Lynn Crumbling 19 secs ago
I think it's time for an avatar change.
That's the third or fourth one I've seen now.
 
Friday: Hi Jason. We're building the project next Thursday, shipping in next Friday.
Monday: Hi Jason. We're building the project tomorrow, shipping it Wednesday. Sorry about the misinformation.
Great thanks.
See y'all later.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: Spark as Hadoop Engine by Raj baba on stackoverflow.com
 
Wrong baba
 
3:34 PM
oh?
I'm going to mark fp, I think.
 
nevermind :D
 
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@LynnCrumbling Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
Perhaps I should have done fpu, but someone can always catch it later.
 
Still not a question.
 
3:36 PM
Yeah.. I agree.
 
voting to close as utterly unclear.
And, possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/28842487/…
 
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Q: Featured post on MSE no longer appears in the community bulletins of any SE sites

nicaelRecently I stopped seeing this post, which is currently featured, in the community bulletins of any Stack Exchange communities. But nothing happened with featured tag on this post last time (since feb 23, when it was added), so I can't blame caching. So it appears to be a bug.

it happens again...
 
HAHAHAHAHA:
Don't be too quick to dismiss the possibility of caching, for you are crunchy and taste good with cacheup. — Tim Post ♦ Feb 28 at 13:45
^ Nice spin on an old classic.
Uhhh..
@J.Steen Did you see this?
Amazingly, that got an upvote.
 
But anyone can repro it? Please tell me.
 
3:50 PM
@LynnCrumbling Yes. That's the one I linked.
 
@J.Steen Oh. palms face
 
Noooo problem. Have more coffee.
 
... why?
This question is totally unsalvageable, it even amassed 4 cvs and -2, I can't believe the flag got declined
-2
Q: Xenforo, How to allow login/signup only with steam

MenjuI truned in my Xenforo options the register off but then no new user could signup with steam, so I turned it on again but now some people don't use the steam integration (openid) but I want to only allow steam signup and not the normal register thing. Can you help me please?

It's dead. Thanks!
 
4:07 PM
I... don't even understand that question.
Oh, now I get it.
 
@J.Steen sips coffee
 
The undelete votes puzzle me sometimes. Like now. stackoverflow.com/tools
 
Need. More. Privileges.
 
OP votes?
 
> This page requires more privileges
Time to check my privilege.
 
4:14 PM
2335 rep. I can do that. In two years, judging by my current record.
2735, rather.
 
At my current rate of SO rep being -6 per day from downvoting, I'll be there in the past.
3
 
Ten days, for Jon Skeet.
@Unihedro Time traveller!
 
I'll tell you a secret.
 
@Unihedro flag/other/serial downvoting?
 
I'm advancing into the future right now continuously, a second every second.
 
4:15 PM
Who's that guy who died/stopped coming here and still hits rep-cap every day?
@Unihedro Technically, no, since the future is now.
 
@JanDvorak Considering Stack Overflow is the kind of site you can drop 40 downvotes and feel like you made the world better, yeah...
Most of them gets removed soonish though.
So I reclaim ~30 rep back.
 
@Unihedro but... downvotes on your answers?
 
I should go answer some low hanging fruit.
 
user259867
Stack Overflow: answer sources by the numbers by sklivvz, an interesting read.
 
Too bad the labels on the diagrams are offensively unreadable.
(and don't scale well when I zoom)
 
4:19 PM
@JanDvorak You lose a reputation point when downvoting an answer. That's what I do often.
 
Oh. That. Mods won't revert those.
 
@J.Steen tincan commented
 
answer gone, question isn't
 
yet, quest completed
 
4:26 PM
yet the side quest isn't: explain why the hell OP did that
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Are telescopes with a concave lens useful for astronomy? by bhagasas on physics.stackexchange.com
 
And you're asking us? :D Why not ask the OP themself?
 
@JanDvorak It doesn't seem that unreasonable, imo.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@Woodface Blacklisted user.
 
4:27 PM
Self-answered questions can be good.
 
rarely
asking questions is hard
 
user259867
The main takeaway from sklivvz's post: the Unanswered tab is near useless for getting answers to those questions.
 
@AlexisKing but the self-answering isn't what I'm questioning. I'm wondering what's the point of deleting the (0) answer but not the (-x) question.
 
4:45 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Which numpy library is compatible with python 2.7.9? by userxigement on stackoverflow.com
 
What keyword?
 
@Shog9
7 hours ago, by nicael
Just poking, @Shog9. Today I think I was serially up voted. If I am at risk of having it reversed tomorrow, could you reverse it now, today? Because as serial voting is immune to rep cap, I'll lose many reps tomorrow. Without those votes I'll reach the rep cap today anyway.
Please check.
 
user259867
I think it's <code>&gt;&gt;&gt; after HTML unescape.
 
5:00 PM
Ok. Let's have some fun.
These are all from the same user.
First-
Copied verbatim from: stackoverflow.com/a/233826/656243
^ mod flagged
 
5:14 PM
Left a comment. Small chance he'll see it, but oh well
 
5:24 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Brightness cannot be decreased remains maximum everytime by Satan on askubuntu.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.
 
> keep scrolling
-_-
their other answers are crap too
nuke-pls (offensive?) askubuntu.com/a/594702/282856
 
5:42 PM
^ all at -4 and -5.
 
@SmokeDetector fpu
 
@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
@ProgramFOX What keyword did that match on?
 
@LynnCrumbling username "baba-dev"
 
Oh. Hah.
 
Nice avatar @Woodface
 
Hiya Inf
 
Hiya @LynnCrumbling
 
The Duck returns...
2
 
Hiya flower :)
 
6:02 PM
Welcome Inf! I think we all missed you (at least I did) ;)
 
I missed you too ;) It's good to be back.
 
6:18 PM
ugh. declined naa's = flag ban.
70
A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

Daniel HonigI know Java isn't cool anymore, but if you want to use a really good library in Java, you might check into Tag soup which is built on top of Xerces. Link to Lib

^^ THAT was declined as NAA
As was this:
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A: How to Send RubyMine Notifications to Growl?

New AlexandriaYou could trigger the rspec run with an AppleScript, then upon completion call Growl. This applescript integration for RubyMine gives an idea of one way to hook events into Growl. It's not a complete answer, but it's a reasonable approach.

 
@Mooseman For how long?
 
72
A: Allow recovery from flag hellban

Shog9Update: Kevin Montrose makes it happen The hell-ban is no more! Long live the verbose, obnoxiously evident ban! Kevin has implemented (more or less) the system described below. Flaggers with a recent (past 7 days) flagging history consisting of at least 10 flags where >= 10% of flags were decli...

< 7 days
 
@SmokeDetector gp
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@LynnCrumbling Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
gp? what the heck is gp.
@Mooseman meh. that still sucks.
 
6:30 PM
@LynnCrumbling yes. yes it does.
 
And.. fwiw, the first one was definitely a link only. And the second one needs a lot of help.
 
user259867
6:44 PM
This page looks funny in Chrome, doesn't it?
 
@LynnCrumbling No, if you leave out the link to the lib it still says you can use TagSoup. It would be link-only if the post would contain any mentioning of the lib....
 
@Woodface Please ask them to use a reasonable font such as comic sans...
 
@rene Yeah.. okay, I could see that.
 
Looks fine in Mobile Safari.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SOUTH AFRICAN / ENGLISH PASSPORT by Elie Ghossoub on expatriates.stackexchange.com
 
7:09 PM
> Thanks for the reply
WHERE IS REPLY?
 
Why is it that whenever Inf comes back, someone posts a message about returning ducks and it gets starred?
Oh yeah, she's a room owner
 
Hi all
 
@Computerone hiya!
 
2
Q: On which Stack Exchange site can I discuss about a technical project implementation details?

Mayank JainI want to discuss and take recommendations from users about a technical project which I would be implementing. The project is to be implemented in Python. On which Stack Exchange site can I discuss so? EDIT: If anyone can suggest any site other then on Stack Exchange network then too it would be...

 
@Computerone yes?
 
7:18 PM
Isn't Programmers SE the answer for this one ?
 
@Computerone Could be.
Looks like the help center there would accept everything except the 'discuss' part.
SE isn't supposed to be used as a discussion (forum) site.
 
Hmmm quite ambiguous
 
@Computerone what is?
 
The question
 
7:24 PM
the one you oneboxed, or the all caps title?
 
"On which Stack Exchange site can I discuss about a technical project implementation details?"
 
@Computerone yah, it could stand substantial improvement.
 
Too broad as Servy says..
 
yeah, he'd be better off asking in a chat room.
 
Yeah....
 
7:27 PM
@SmokeDetector doesn't look to be in all caps...
 

 Python

Room rules: sopython.com/chatroom Code formatting guide: tinyu...
 
Gonna post it there to find out opinions..
 
Okay.
@Computerone Are you going to post an answer?
 
Nope I am confused..
As what to answer
 
maybe I will then.
 
7:34 PM
ok sure..
Are you going to post that programmers SE would be appropriate place for him to ask his question ?
 
@Computerone no.
 
ok..
 
@bjb568 - Are you daft? Many have well groomed information, all have a tag wiki. — Travis J 34 mins ago
@bjb is slightly burning @Travis...
 
That chatroom is a good fit, we discuss off-topic things there all the time @Computerone. And your topic isn't going to violate any rules of that chatroom AFAICT.
 
@61612 The only rule here is to make sure that your bot works before letting it loose.
 
7:42 PM
Mmm, &quot;Retag&quot; bot thing?
 
Jan 17 at 13:20, by Sam
Looks like the bjb bot has died. \o/
 
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A: On which Stack Exchange site can I discuss about a technical project implementation details?

FrankBecause the question you are looking to ask is more ambiguous than most SE sites will want, and you point out that you want to discuss things (which isn't suitable to SE's strict Q/A format, I'll suggest that you post your question in a Stack Overflow chat room. Specifically, the Python room. Be...

 
Feb 15 at 23:32, by bjb568
(started the bot)
Feb 20 at 0:14, by bjb568
Ok, my bot probably won't do that again.
Jan 25 at 22:34, by bjb568
Ok, I'll add some javascript anti-bot stuff.
Feb 28 at 1:02, by bjb568
looks like bot post
And the last one...
Feb 28 at 1:02, by bjb568
by dumb bot
Dec 27 '14 at 7:32, by bjb568
If my bot goes wild, you can kick me.
 
@AstroCB ahh, got it
 
@SmokeDetector fp
 
7:51 PM
@Frank Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
 
Wut... Why Servy's profile meta.stackexchange.com/users/186381/servy?tab=activity throws a error?
(Going to report it if someone else can repro)
 
status-reproed
only the 'activity' page tho
 
Yes, only activity.
 
status-reproed
 
I gunna report
 
@61612 go to the activity tab
 
Umm.. yes
 
@61612 reproed?
 
Yeah
 
8:03 PM
ok, that's 4 out of 4 then.
 
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Q: Why Servy's profile "Activity" tab throws an error?

nicaelJust go to http://meta.stackexchange.com/users/186381/servy?tab=activity. That's what I see:

(Tagged with [servy] as can't repro on other users :D)
 
user259867
hichris123 won't let you have nice things.
 
I'll go ahead and add tags for all other MSE users...
4
 
@rene lol
 
user259867
nicael should have at least filled out tag wiki when creating the tag.
 
8:11 PM
@rene We had a Skeet tag. Now we don't. See the problem there? :P
If Servy had a tag and Skeet didn't...
 
we have a tag but no tag. ... and no tag.
Bart is a bigger meta meme than brown now...
 
@hichris123 That is too bad you deleted that tag ;)
Not enough friday?
 
Cookie-monstrous. — Edwin Ashworth 5 hours ago
 
@rene I didn't do it! It was probably that monster @animuson who also got rid of .
 
Those pesky mods taking their duty so seriously
 
8:24 PM
*seriously
 
sure
 
xD
 
1
A: Why is one user's profile page throwing an error?

OdedThere was a missing check on the newest badge that would cause the page to throw an exception for certain badges. Servy just got another badge which isn't erroring... But I have fixed the code path and am pushing the fix soon.

 
@nicael that was fast.
+1 for awesome service
:P
 
8:49 PM
Go watch apple.com/live/2015-mar-event if you haven't watched it already
 
@bjb568 meh, why? None of it particularly interests me.
 
Let me guess. They introduced something amazing that's flatter and lighter and better than the previous thing.
 
@Doorknob It's great!
@Bart YES! WEEEEEEEEE
 
And it comes with uniquely new and improved connectors that are great, yet completely incompatible with anything else.
 
@bjb568 That was one of the least convincing arguments I've ever heard. :P
 
8:53 PM
@Bart that's one reason why I really don't like Apple.
 
@Bart yeah… no
 
And it runs Windows 10 as well...
 
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic devices. USB was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals (including keyboards, pointing devices, digital cameras, printers, portable media players, disk drives and network adapters) to personal computers, both to communicate and to supply electric power. It has become commonplace on other devices, such as smartphones, PDAs and video game...
 
Apple devices now support USB? Woot.
 
C
 
9:06 PM
'cause we need another standard to rule all standards.
 
Looked up the pneumonic. It means "parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction". That is awful and I want to kill whoever made it. — bjb568 10 secs ago
 
Got an email from SE about LH
 
Wat do you mean...
 
Is it one of those "thanks for participating!" emails that I immediately trash because they're only useful for people who are new to SE? :P
 
@Doorknob No, that came months ago.
 
9:13 PM
So wat email is this...
 
It's titled: Moderation for Lifehacks Stack Exchange
@Doorknob 12/29/14 to be exact
 
@Frank Heh, I guessed :D
 
@Frank Oooh! :D
 
When are they going to announce?
 
@nicael idk
 
9:17 PM
Hmm, I guess they send those manually, since mine had different titles. (But I did get the boilerplate "intro to being a mod" email when I get appointed on Puzzling, which was wholly unnecessary since I got the same thing from PPCG :P)
 
@Frank :D lol, but wat in this email then? "Do you agree to be a mod" and nothing else?
 
Anyway, (if you choose to accept) looking forward to seeing you in TL :)
 
@nicael maybe.
@Doorknob what makes you think I would want to do a thing like that? ;]
(jk)
 
@Frank there is no way to escape. :D
 
> The term “climate change” is reportedly banned in Florida

As rising seas lap at its shore, Florida’s come up with a fool-proof plan for dealing with climate change: an official policy of ignoring the problem and hoping it will go away.
Well then. (source)
 
9:21 PM
@Frank and to be frank?
 
@nicael no. To be J. Musser.
@Doorknob climate change is a lie
things have always fluctuated and so on.
there is no 'normal'
really
 
@Mooseman r u there? Did you receive the same email as @Frank did?
 
user259867
The importance of being J. Musser, one of less known Wilde's plays.
 
@nicael dude, you're really into it. Like a little kid in a candy shop. Calm down already.
 
user259867
For all we know, nicael is a little kid in a candy shop, with Galaxy S5 in hand.
 
9:27 PM
lol
 
user259867
Constantly zooming in on this or another detail of an SE site...
 
Now when you search J. Musser on google, the first two results are SE accounts of mine.
 
@Frank :/ I though I were in a chat room...
 
When you search "user doorknob," the first four results are me. (Of course, searching just "doorknob" does not turn up anything SE-related :P)
 
@nicael so you are
 
...I wonder why mathoverflow
 
@Frank Then I am interested to know, why can't I discuss it there?
 
@nicael feel free. I'm not your supervisor.
 
@hichris123 yay!
 
Now if I was, you'd be fired...
(jk)
 
9:33 PM
@Doorknob I'm going to have to do repo sync when the sources are updated, aren't I. :P
 
what is this and why am I on it?
It's on the first page when I search 'J. Musser stack exchange'
Is it because I have so many accounts?
 
> TrueBadges is the combination of TrueAchievements and Stack Exchange ' badges.
You must have registered.
 
@hichris123 nope, I'm unregistered
 
hrm.
@AndrewT. Android 5.1!
 
user259867
9:39 PM
Exciting! Even more "X stopped working after upgrade, help" questions for Android Enthusiasts
 
user259867
They were swamped with the 5.0 upgrades recently.
 
user259867
Anyone in the mood to code-format that? Too late, suggested edit pending
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@Woodface Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
@hichris123 Someone else must've registered me.
 
user259867
9:51 PM
@Frank Which two sites are missing?
 
@Woodface are there any dev-only sites?
 
user259867
There are, but I don't see how that site would know about them.
 
@Woodface I'm not sure then. It'd take quite a while to pinpoint 2 sites.
 
user259867
I'll write a script for that.
 
user259867
@Frank You are missing edX sites: cs50.stackexchange.com and edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com
 
Sue
9:59 PM
@nicael Hi. Thanks for answering my comment/question about the fanatic badge yesterday. I hadn't realized the system defaults to the badge what it thinks you want, but we can change it. So much to learn...
 
user259867
Fun fact: edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com is the only SE site whose name begins with a lowercase letter.
 

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