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[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: UIUC毕业证QQ/微信285347871办理美国uiuc伊利诺伊大学厄本那—香槟分校毕业证成绩单学历认证|University of Illinois Urbana Champaign by kavwz on stackoverflow.com

DragonLord the Fiery

sd trueu-

Not a whole lot of CJK spam lately.

user163250

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A: Shouldn't the person who rolled back the author's improvements to their own answer provide an alternative answer instead?

Altering the code of an answerer because you disagree with their coding style or used methods is completly unnaceptable.

user163250

New user that has been answering a lot of questions on Meta lately.

user163250

I can appreciate his enthusiasm for participation, but he doesn't realize how much of a minefield he's walking into on that particular issue...

josilber

haha

I really wanted to fix the spelling error, but then I decided not to poke that post

user163250

12:44 AM

Not a bad call, haha

josilber

Though I see you fixed a typo in YCS's answer

tchrist

Prepared to be backrolled.

user163250

lol

user163250

@josilber I'll admit, I did have slight reservations about touching it, even more so about commenting on the issue.

tchrist

He might be partial to anthers over stamina.

user163250

12:47 AM

We should do more rick rolling around here, rather than backrolling.

user163250

I'll write up a feature request...

josilber

hmm

I guess if one of the smokey maintainers added a random probability of being rick rolled on any link you clicked up, that could spice up spam moderation.

You expect weight loss pills, but you get Rick Astley instead

user163250

@josilber lol, that would certainly make things a little more entertaining...until we all got sick of it, eventually, lol

josilber

@Cupcake Yup, I would probably find it funny at most once

user163250

Wow, people are still answering this,

user163250

12:59 AM

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A: Where does a Git branch start and what is its length?

Some architectural details Git stores the revisions to a repository as a series of commits. These commits contain a link to information about the changes to the files since the last commit and, importantly, a link to the previous commit. In broad terms a branch's commit history is a singly lin...

user163250

Can't resist that big, juicy +500 rep bounty, lol

user202362

how does bounty work? thought it lasts for 7 days?

user163250

Yup, 7.

user163250

There's an hour left on that one.

user202362

well if someone puts a bounty on my question, does that person or I get to choose who gets the bounty?

user163250

1:04 AM

The person who offers the bounty gets to choose who receives it.

user202362

Oh

tchrist

Last week somebody smacked one of old answers with a 500 rep bounty. I didn't even see it coming till it hit.

user163250

1:21 AM

@tchrist did you get upvotes on it, or was the answer so good that it always gets upvotes, and you didn't notice any additional upvotes as being unusual and significant?

tchrist

@Cupcake well, I'm probably not the one to judge its goodness but it's my OVER 900 Unicode answer on SO.

So it gets upvotes all the time.

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A: Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?

🌴 🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪 🌞 𝕲𝖔 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔 𝕷𝖎𝖐𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖘𝖊 🌞 🐪🐫🐪 🐁 𝓔𝓭𝓲𝓽 : 𝙎𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩 ℞: 𝟕 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 Set your PERL_UNICODE envariable to AS. This makes all Perl scripts decode @ARGV as UTF‑8 strings, and sets the encoding of al...

bjb568

Trying to get Travis CI to work. MongoDB auth fails.

db.authenticate('DevDoodle', fs.readFileSync('../Secret/devdoodleDB.key').toString(), function(err) {});

$ mongo DevDoodle --eval 'db.addUser({user:"DevDoodle",pwd:"asdf",roles:["readWrite"]});'
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.12
connecting to: DevDoodle
{
	"user" : "DevDoodle",
	"pwd" : "f8e2f4ffc76494c5794037d9af5e367c",
	"roles" : [
		"readWrite"
	],
	"_id" : ObjectId("5621a373b929e3e796d82715")
}
$ node server 8080 --nossl
server.js running on port 8080
/home/travis/build/bjb568/DevDoodle/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:98
    process.nextTick(function() { throw err; });
                                  ^

bjb568

1:59 AM

Hey is stackoverflow.com/questions/2694603/… actually a thing?

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CRABOLO

you mean addition?

bjb568

Making the well-know meme image.

user163250

2:46 AM

@bjb568 yes, it's actually a thing.

user163250

bjb568

Screenshot?

:D

user163250

The question itself seems like it was meant as just a joke, since the OP started off by greeting everyone with "hallo"...

CRABOLO

where you the OP there @bjb? "Hallo" < -----

bjb568

:p

CRABOLO

2:49 AM

using the site before 13...

and trolling or using bad english

user163250

@bjb568 hey, wait.

user163250

There are a few key comments that I didn't include in the screenshot because they were hidden.

bjb568

:D

user163250

> Is this based on a joke seen on reddit? I'm guessing yes. – z5h Apr 22 '10 at 21:24

user163250

> doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif (from bobince's doxdesk.com/updates/2009.html#u20091116-jquery) – Daniel Vassallo Apr 22 '10 at 21:26

user163250

2:52 AM

> @Daniel: heh, I posted the image on reddit a couple of hours ago (reddit.com/r/programming/comments/buosj/…) – Andreas Grech Apr 22 '10 at 22:45

user163250

So, sorry to disappoint, but the meme was never based off a real question...or, at least if it was, it wasn't this one...

bjb568

aww

user163250

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A: Why is my query slow to fetch records with a large offset?

I've just come across this posting as we we're experiencing a similar issue. Our table has 113000 rows and we're trying to return 1000 rows at a time. When we get the first page of data it takes around 60ms, but it slows down to such an extent, that by the time we try to get the 100th page, it ...