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5:59 AM
Me: "Tomorrow's the big day!" - Friend: "Yeah, I love Thanksgiving!" - Me: "No not Thanksgiving... All the Black Friday sales start at 7 and 8 pm!"
 
 
5 hours later…
11:09 AM
@balpha Superping is broken .. 'select any (site name) user' no longer works
 
the close icon also disappears a few moments after opening the dialog
 
@marcgravell If this reaches you, it's not broken :)
 
@balpha then it is fine
 
@TimPost any specifics?
 
@balpha Hit @@, then try to select 'any Meta Stack Overflow user', there's no dialog
 
11:13 AM
any JS errors?
 
nope
 
oh wait
the second option
never mind
 
yeah you're right
looking
 
11:25 AM
So how I see it is that the second option shouldn't even be displayed on chat.meta and chat.so, since the chat user ids are identical to site user ids. It seems to be working fine on chat.se, right? @MarcGravell Am I correct, or what exactly is supposed to happen there?
 
that sounds about right
 
Can you take that? I have to get packing for the conference. @TimPost see above; it's really just confusing UI
 
@balpha That would explain it :) We should definitely leave it there, perhaps make it bold.
 
 
1 hour later…
12:56 PM
Does anyone here know if the 7 days automatic ban for rejected suggested edits is still correct?
It's stated in an answer by Jeff linked from meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/76251/…
But Gnat seems to think otherwise in the comments below my answer here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/156470/…
 
1:20 PM
@Bart I seem to remember talk about it possibly being extended, but I can't find it now.
 
ugh, reduced? for some of his suggestions it should probably be extended
 
@TimPost Ah okay. Well, I have given him the "just wait and see" in the comments. That always applies. :)
 
@ThiefMaster Doh, extended I'm working on a serialization library that seems to be permeating other thoughts.
 
1:54 PM
What's the general consensus on users use the "answer your own question" feature to post howtos? e.g.
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Q: How to easily setup googleTest on Linux

DevNoobDebian does not provide any precompiled packages for gTest anymore. They suggest you to integrate the framework into your projects makefile. Really!?! No way. I made a little HowTo for those who want to keep their makefiles clean.

Edit to make it more QA-like? close vote? ignore?
 
2:52 PM
I find the fact that there seem to be more Black Friday sales every year perplexing. Hey, let's skip work and go shopping, eh...
 
Working is hard. Let's go shopping.
 
:)
@AnnaLear So out of curiosity do you observe US or Canadian stat days or neither?
 
@mootinator Canadian. Well, I get time off then anyway. I don't actually celebrate most of them on account of being Russian and never quite assimilating into the holiday culture here.
 
Ah. :)
We have a "Observe whatever days your main client does." policy at my company. I don't think we have any US contracts though, so that basically just means people doing federal work get more stat days.
 
Yeah, my contract gives me local holidays. Which actually works out alright, cause then the entire team isn't out the same day. :)
And I get a quiet-ish day to catch up on stuff.
 
3:07 PM
So what you're saying is that we should direct all complaints to you all day long. I shall make a note.
 
@TimStone Sure! I don't recommend making the assumption that I'll do anything about them though. ;)
 
Minor details!
Oh nifty, I'm only 92 reps away from 10k on Stack Overflow. A lesser member would actually post new answers in hopes of getting reps, but I have faith that my necro-rep gathering answers will carry me to victory.
 
I just hit 9k the other day. A lot of it is from a slow, steady, patient necro-rep trickle.
 
I have just over 2k rep from bounties now, mainly puny 50 rep ones. Only one of those questions is a terribly good source of necro-rep.
 
Yeah, I was gifted 1k in bounties, which helped move me along a little. :P
 
3:22 PM
Hehe.
One could really take the fun out of reaching 10k and gift you with a 100 bounty and gift jcole with a 250 bounty :P
 
He was on his way to beating me there and then he went and got a new job...so my laziness might still pay off. :P
 
I'm hoping to sneak in a Great Answer badge here soon too
My Subclipse icon answer is now up to 95
 
96 - You get my sympathy vote for having to know anything at all about eclipse.
 
Hahah, thanks ;)
Luckily I no longer have to know anything about it either, IntelliJ FTW!
 
3:36 PM
Yes, me too. Mind you I'm using IntelliJ for PHP development at the moment, which isn't entirely optimal. The difference it made for Grails development was incredible.
 
Yeah, I haven't tried it for PHP, but on the whole I've been pretty pleased with it. They event added support for some special features in the framework we use, which was nice.
Hmm...four days off. Sounds like time to finish all the Data Explorer things I was hoping to do last weekend before work ruined my plans.
 
I get a lot of false 'method not found' errors, etc. Though now that I think about it, I might be able to fix that by actually importing all the library code into my project structure.
 
And then collect all the sweet, sweet Meta reps.
@mootinator I imagine so, it does a surprisingly decent job with JavaScript
 
 
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4:51 PM
Someone just told me that C# should be read as C Waffle
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I can't argue with that.
 
brb, making a language called Eat#.
Or possibly Moar#.
 
IHO#
(>'_')># I was gonna give you this waffle... #<('_'<) But then I was like, (>'#'<) "I'm hungry." (>'-'<) So I ate it. (>^-^<)
 
5:15 PM
0
Q: VirtualBox client configured by Vagrant gets assigned inexistent name-server IP

Cedric MeuryThis is similar to this question, but my problems are more severe. I cannot resolve any host names inside my precise64-client set up by Vagrant. vagrant@gitclients-vbox:~$ nslookup google.com ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached The vagrant machine uses 10.0.2.3 as a name-ser...

.... migrated from SF to SO by a mod. Is this a case of "here, have some crap back?"
 
yeah, that's a little odd. I closed it on SO to reject the migration.
 
and this from SU:
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Q: Finding windows 7 and office keys WITHOUT software

NopeNopeNopeI am currently working on an application which will audit computers, and one of the things that it is mandatory for this app to achieve is to get the license key from the install of OEM windows and Retail Office, in order to retain this information for future purposes, such as re-installation and...

 
Eh, that one kinda makes sense.
 
Just read that again. I suppose you're right.
crawls back into hole
 
But what if I want to program a robot that can find Windows 7 and office keys without using software, just by scrounging the PC with his shiny robot fingers?
 
5:34 PM
@Pekka Then you might find this post interesting: robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/287/…
 
Wes
5:45 PM
anyone know of social provramming sites SE is too strict with some things. or is there a subjectve.SE.com
nobody biting today? feels disconcerting to not see users in room. on android tablet
 
@Wes one example of social programming site I can think of is SO chat
 
Wes
thanks @gnat
 
6:01 PM
@TimYiJiang That is brilliant
 
Wes
are there clients for so chat
like a pidgin plugin or something?
Or an IRC connection
 
I believe there's an IRC thing on Stack Apps somewhere
I can't find it. I just remember I tried it once to see how it worked
@Wes Maybe this?
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Q: IRC access for the chat?

jszWill there be any way of accessing the chat over IRC? As beautiful ajax interfaces are ... IRC is still #1 for chats.

 
@animuson I've heard it's pretty broken, as is real Josh's XMPP bridge
 
Wes
yeah just reading that
is it based on anything or just implemented from scratch?
 
6:21 PM
/raw STAR 1189881
Darn, didn't work.
Now I want to extend the IRC protocol with all this extra junk.
 
Wes
/help
naw nada
 
haha
the funny thing is.. i'm pretty active in irc and i missed the ctrl-up-edit feature a few times recently
 
Wes
So are people here staff? @TimStone @balpha @RebeccaChernoff guessing your all staff?
 
some are
 
Anonymous
@Wes You mostly guessed right. Anna Lear is also staff. Tim Stone isn't staff, but he does contribute to Stack Exchange's open-source projects (and maybe other stuff? not sure). Nobody else is staff, but there are a couple moderators.
 
Wes
6:34 PM
funny heard notification sound twice. three times
 
Anonymous
@Wes You're notified again when I edit the post addressing you.
 
@Wes People who are trying to be annoying do that a lot. Seriously.
 
Wes
Okay thats cool
 
This chat needs a global beep ^G like IRC.
:P
hides
 
Wes
isn't that just BEL?
 
6:37 PM
Yes.
 
Wes
Not part of IRC really then
I like doing that to peoples .bat files
 
True.
 
Wes
echo ^G >> blah.bat
drives people mad
 
But I can't send one here =)
 
Wes
wow remember bell from Amstrad 6128
Ctrl G or char$(7)
cant remember if you inserted one if it beeped when you listed the code.
and NUL (charachter) that one was annoying
you could edit the graphics of that one but never figured out how to display it
 
6:42 PM
^_^
 
Wes
Good times
I must have read the manual like 100 times
 
I read RFC1459 before I could understand half of it.
 
Wes
never really read much RFC's
first used net in 2000
never heard of usenet till much later
 
First used net in 1991.
 
Wes
what on a 14.4 k modem?
 
6:45 PM
Might have been 1993.
Either way.
 
Wes
I've to go apparently I've to talk the dog for a walk buy some chocolate and teabags.
 
@mootinator Luckily every sane irc client filters that :P
 
I don't recall. My uncle worked at a research facility and let me use his home connection for IRC and a Star Wars MUD.
 
Wes
AFK
 
Wes
7:13 PM
back
 
wonders if @Crickets is about to make an appearance.
 
No.
 
Shame.
 
Wes
anyone see why eclipse is giving an error on this line?
src = 'http://www.stream.cz/object/' + src.match(/stream.cz\/[^/]+\/([0-9]+)/)[1];
not my code
from tinymce but I don't see an error with it.
Its complaining about the close ]
 
You need to escape the slash in [^/]
 
7:24 PM
^
 
Wes
That stops eclipse complaing but its a third party library
 
I don't think it's actually invalid to not escape it inside a character class, but a lot of tools don't care... It's a weird edge-case.
 
Wes
also showing an error in jquery_min.js but I'm not going to paste that line
 
> Your regex will work fine if you escape the regular metacharacters inside a character class, but doing so significantly reduces readability.
 
Wes
Oh well
 
7:41 PM
Interesting.. I'd have assumed JavaScript simply passes everything between / and the next unescaped slash to its regex engine
 
Wes
@ThiefMaster I assume it doen't call a browser
better solution put third party libaries in another folder
and somehow ignore that folder in eclipse.
If thats possible
 
8:00 PM
oh, it's just eclipse whining.. submit a bug report
if it's valid javascript it shouldn't complain :p
 
 
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Wes
9:34 PM
@ThiefMaster true
 
Wes
9:56 PM
-7
Q: Very real question became closed. What to do?

kjetil b halvorsenMy question algorithm for linear order of spatial locations so that close sites becomes close in linear order became closed for no real reason whatsoever. It is a very real question, and some of the comments show that people knowleadgable didnt have any problems understanding it. At least I ...

 
10:08 PM
Click dropdownlist in Crystal Reports. Wait for it to do something. Get bored. Open chat window. Notice dropdown opening/closing. Open Crystal Reports. Repeat.
 
Wes
@mootinator Is that a statement of what you are doing? or A description of a process? Or advise? or an order?
 
That's what I was doing until I broke the cycle and just typed the name of my SQL server instance manually.
 
Wes
10:39 PM
Just noticed that accepted changes on this questions title where nearly the exact opposite of the origional edit
should I not have suggested the edit?
 
the title is kind of bad (useless for any future visitor), but the one edited by ben wasn't really helpful either - i'd say the current one mentioning there's an error is more useful
 
Wes
10:57 PM
Dunno put in error details in the question title? just of future reference
 
11:25 PM
Lies, no one's ever allowed to leave Meta. It is the Hotel California of Stack Exchange.
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an undownvote feels like taking your shoes off after a long day
 
Since that post was never edited, I can only assume this means the mod team is playing mind-games with me.
 
What if you didn't wear shoes that day?
 
Whoops, wrong chat room.
 
11:37 PM
I'm waiting for Amazon to flood my inbox with "Your Item has Shipped!" notifications...
 
Wahoo! Sales!
 
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Q: How did this curious undownvote pattern come about?

PekkaI got a heap of strange undownvotes yesterday: I'm wondering how this was possible. Were the downvotes not too old to be revoked? The original downvotes that were cancelled don't show up anywhere in my list (I went back a month or so), and neither of the posts had seen a recent edit that woul...

@AnnaLear knows the secret! :O
 
Secrets!!!
 
@TimStone Still waiting to find out some specifics... surprisingly hard to do when everyone is out celebrating some weird belated holiday. ;)
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I'm sure Tim Stone knows the secret too, and isn't telling us. GET HIM!
@AnnaLear Go Canada!!!
 
11:43 PM
@AnnaLear It is rather silly of them, I agree. :P
@animuson There's some information that's above my (non-) pay grade.
...But I refute that fact and maintain I see everything and therefore must somehow know. o_o
 
And you aren't telling us.
 
Here, this'll explain everything:
 
Haha I just got a -10 User was removed too. What the hell is with all the user removals lately??
 
Could figure out which posts the up votes disappeared from, but that sounds like far too much work for a holiday.
 

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