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1:41 AM
Good evening, folks.
 
hey hey
 
Sup, @GeorgeMarian?
 
Not much, just chilling after dinner.
 
Cool.
Finishing an iPad UI for a client's app and gotta get on his case to do his end of the deal.
 
Is he dragging his feet on it?
 
1:44 AM
@GeorgeMarian No, he's got a Jewish News blog. I am updating his music stream app in exchange for some advertising.
 
OIC. I thought there something you needed from him to finish the app.
 
He's put my ad on his affiliate sites and he's going to run my article.
@GeorgeMarian Well, yes, a pre-release review, but I have to finish the iPad UI.
@GeorgeMarian - How wrong is it to put a "cooperation" clause in a contract?
I have thought about that.
 
How do you mean?
 
Like "If the client doesn't respond to said request for a digital resource (image, audio file, etc) then the developer can cancel the contract."
Something of the sort.
Basically, I'm working on my own schedule, not your flakey one. Take it or leave it.
Is that too harsh?
brb
 
Depends on how it's worded, I guess. But, in general the idea is sound. If you depend on deliverables from them, it should be fine to have some stipulation in the contract for dealing with that.
 
2:09 AM
@GeorgeMarian Okay, thanks.
 
 
2 hours later…
3:55 AM
I've got a question about practice and database design.
Is everyone asleep?
waits for TimStone to make a remark about never sleeping.
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Q: Listing database and table names in a database?

MosheI'm thinking of making a sandbox system for clients to preview website projects. I'd like to make a UI for myself/coworker(s) to add projects and clients to a database. Some of these projects require their own databases. Let's say a client wants a WordPress based blog - they need a database. So...

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek! My accept rate dropped by one percent!
 
4:07 AM
There. sigh of relief And, I got another 8 rep or so...
 
@YiJiang EPIC!
 
Anyone want to read a blog post I just wrote?
 
@TylerChacha Sure.
Did you actually play Nippon today, btw?
 
@Moshe Here it is. Don't say I didn't warn you: chacha102.com/the-3-levels-of-thinking
 
4:20 AM
Okay... @TylerChacha - Great concept, a few bits of feedback. May I?
 
HOW THE HELL DID YOU READ THE ENTIRE THING?????
 
@TylerChacha I read 7/8ths of it then finished.
I'm a quick reader.
> If you were waiting for the point of all of this paper, you can stop waiting now. I’d like to argue that Implementation is a very closed-mind type of thinking, and that it is this way because of humans ability to understand complexity.
 
sure, give me feedback - Besides the fact that the first few paragraphs need better cohesion
 
"humans" should be "human".
 
4:22 AM
so skies the limit should be so "the sky is the limit".
 
And also, you practically run through your "middle type of thinking" to reach the punch-line.
the first type and third type are described in more depth than the second.
Just saying.
:-)
 
ok
So, on an intellectual level...
 
That's it for now.
Interesting observation.
There are indeed different viewpoints on things.
I would say that people tend to apply all of these levels of thinking, but choose where to apply the detail, based on what they are drawn to.
Say I like, I dunno, bug catching.
I'll pay attention to the detail of the kind of net, the size of my containers or jars or whatever.
If I'm a cook, on the other hand, the word "roach" just might not invoke that same train of thought. ;-)
 
I mean, I guess the main purpose of the article was more to propose that as you move into more technical, more complex views of thinking, you mind shuts down its ability to come up with new ideas because of the obvious and easy solutions already available
 
4:25 AM
So, while your premise is correct, that there are different levels of thinking, no everyone only fits into one, er -excuse the pun, train of thought.
@TylerChacha Well, I can hear that too. Sometimes we fool ourselves into thinking that the obvious solutions are the only ones.
Anyway, nice article.
 
Yeah, It needs some editing..
 
True, but it's nice.
 
@TylerChacha - Hey! what was that for?
 
@Moshe What was what for?
 
4:29 AM
@TylerChacha Why did you move my question to chat feedback instead of just answering it?
 
Sorry ... errr... your breaking ... err ... up... errr... crackle
 
Ah, I see...
Well, whatever. I don't think that was particularly nice.
yesterday, by Tyler Chacha
Maybe I'll actually play Nippon @Moshe
 
Whoa! The moon moved...
it used to be over that street lamp.. and now it is over that house..
the lamp is in the same place though..
 
yesterday, by Tyler Chacha
Maybe I'll actually play Nippon @Moshe
:P
Okay, fine. I'm out for now.
 
peace
 
4:31 AM
closes browser
 
I just wrote my first bash script, to automatically grab the latest node.js files and build it
#!/bin/bash

# Grab the latest node tarball
wget nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz

# Extract the filename and version number
FILE=$(tar -tzf node-latest.tar.gz | sed -n "1 s/\/// p")
VERSION=$(echo $FILE | sed "s/node-//")

# Exit if version is latest
if [ $VERSION = $(node --version) ]; then
	echo "Current version ${VERSION} is the latest"
	rm node-latest.tar.gz

	exit
fi

exit

# Untar and move to node dir
tar -xzf node-latest.tar.gz
cd $FILE

# Configuration
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/node
Wonder if its any good
 
 
11 hours later…
3:19 PM
cricket
I made a house out of CSS...
I was in the car and I asked one of my little siblings what I should build. she responded "build a house".
Well, HTML really isn't for that kind of stuff, but I tried.
 
3:31 PM
What CSS could be used to make this cooler?
It's made of CSS3 transforms and I only used the webkit version of the vendor-specific CSS3 properties (as well as the official ones.) Maybe I'll add the other ones later.
Thoughts, enhancements?
(I known it's just a house but...)
 
4:25 PM
Four hours later...
 
Hahaha, nice house!
Ideas:
* CSS gradients for the wall and roof
* A drop shadow from the roof on the wall (if it's possible to limit that to the wall only)
 
I need more blogs to follow
 
* Grass and a blue sky
@TylerChacha in what field(s)?
* Night mode with a dark sky, and glowing windows
Ah, forgot to ping @Moshe. See above
 
@Pekkasothertrollingaccount Anything that is interesting, new... preferably in marketing, programming, etc
 
5:03 PM
@Pekkasothertrollingaccount - Thanks
Good idea with the gradients.
I'm wondering about using transitions on transforms properties, do you know if that is possible?
And night mode would be cool... I wonder how to do that in pure CSS?
Also, what browser are you on?
 
5:41 PM
@Moshe I'm on Chrome 10. I'm sure more is possible animation-wise using transitions, but I haven't explored that field much.
 
Ok cool, thanks! Did you notice the effects with the windows, the chimny and the door?
 
 
2 hours later…
7:21 PM
Ok, can someone enlighten me why I would get a downvote for this:
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A: Highlight first column in a row using JQuery

HoganYou can also do this with pure css. table tr:hover { background-color: black; color:white;} table tr:hover td:first-child { background-color:white; color:black } example : http://jsfiddle.net/wBu5M/

Sure he asks how to do it in jQuery -- but if that is really what he wants to do CSS is the better choice.
 
@Hogan /facepalm
 
7:36 PM
@mootinator I'm thinking maybe someone liked their jQuery skillz more?
 
Probably.
 
8:27 PM
@mootinator Hmmm, down vote is gone.
 
Odd.
 
 
1 hour later…
9:33 PM
(@Jin)
 
10:02 PM
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Q: Please don't delete accepted answers just because you disagree with them

Lance RobertsI just noticed that Jeff has deleted this highly-upvoted accepted answer (10ks only) to this question. The answer is good and complete. It's highly upvoted (+19). It's the accepted answer. It's only apparent problem is that it points out a lot of declined feature-requests on the subject, i.e....

 
10:30 PM
Hehe, silly hacker. I'm on a Mac. Why am I seeing MS Security Center in the following picture?
^----- Right... But this isn't IE, It's Safari....
 
@Moshe This is a Trojan that is making the rounds.
 
@TimStone Fancy bottle rocket launcher?
 
10:49 PM
I could not resist creating a Jon-Skeet tag for this question
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Q: Implementing singleton pattern over a buffer manager

XaqronSystem.ServiceModel.Channels.BufferManager is an abstract class and I need it to prevent LOH in one of my projects. I have about 1000 data transporter objects with an internal buffer of 1 MB for transferring chunked data. Without a buffer manager I easily get into Large Object Heap problem. My q...

 
@Hogan I think it's only valid if the post has linked references.
 
@MrDisappointment heh... ok I put the link in.
 
11:45 PM
@Moshe hehe, think how hard a user agent check is?
 

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