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1:26 AM

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Doorknob

2:06 AM

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Q: What is the name of the area of skin between the nose and the upper lip / mouth?

What is the name of the area that is between the nose and the upper lip, circled in figure 1 below? source of face image I have found that the area circled in figure 2, the small indentation under the nose, is called the "philtrum," which is what the many searches I have tried have yielded, b...

single-word-requests

> But I thought Stack Exchange was for programming!

~my parents. My reaction: "uggghhhhh"

hichris123

@Doorknob rofl

... I wonder if my parents know what SE is. :P

animuson

2:28 AM

Oh sweet I have a $15 coupon for eBay. :D

jadarnel27

3:10 AM

"We want to reassure you that none of our user accounts or websites have been compromised due to the Heartbleed security bug that has been in the news recently. However, we are going to force you to change your password the next time you log in." - email I got from Trip Advisor (paraphrased).

Tim Stone

Good thing they were all prompt about it.

jadarnel27

Haha, yeah. That's the best part.

That email really did just come to my inbox a few minutes ago.

animuson

They probably got too many emails about it and finally decided to just say "fine if everyone is gonna keep asking then you can all just change your passwords!"

jadarnel27

Heh, that's quite possible.

animuson

3:35 AM

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! I'm out of apple juice!

Andy

@animuson Today, I had a random cashier tell me that if she drinks apple juice right before bed she has weird dreams.

Apparently, me buying some apple juice means I'm entitled to knowing about her sleep patterns.

Just wanted to share that apple juice information

animuson

@Andy Caffeine causes similar affects for me. It makes me feel very tired and my dreams and crazy weird.

Andy

@animuson Caffeine makes you tired? That must make monday mornings difficult

animuson

Yeah I'm just all sorts of messed up. But I don't drink coffee or anything so...

Andy

Nothing wrong with that. I don't drink coffee either. I do depend on a Pepsi in the morning though.

GnomeSlice

3:49 AM

I drink Coke in the morning instead of coffee

I started drinking coffee when I was doing my internship but I stopped again when it ended.

animuson

I'm usually just naturally full of energy when I actually need it. I've never had a problem getting through a day at work or starting up in the morning.

Although on rare occasion I'm a couple minutes late because I got too distracted with a certain site on my phone...

Undo

It's so weird seeing @animuson being non-blue

animuson

Eeek! I just noticed my rainbow modification never got changed to this domain.

Wait, where did I even have that rule saved?

@Undo I can go hang out in the TL. I'm still blue there.

I'm going to bed now, though. Let's hope that apple juice I had earlier makes for an entertaining slumber.

Andy

@animuson Good luck with those crazy dreams

user202362

5:32 AM

user202362

Woohoo! No moderators on meta SE, time for some 'action' ;)

user202362

2nd thought ... too ~~busy~~ lazy

Jan Dvorak

5:55 AM

SPAM english.stackexchange.com/questions/166924/…

just as I woke up

Shadow Wizard

6:42 AM

@TimStone here, just for you, happy now? ;)

@JanDvorak he usually move to different site after whole day of spamming :(

Jan Dvorak

Baba's been to english.se for quite a few days now.

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak maybe the ubber sophisticated, self learning, auto-spam-blocking system is not active there? Hmm...

@telkitty.exe you want to mess with Tim (Post) and Shog?! ;)

Jan Dvorak

I have been told to send the dev team an email whenever I find a good heuristic. I think I'm on to something :-)

Shadow Wizard

(they are among those who moderate MSE)

user202362

Feels more like I am working for the SE QA team ... they are not even sending me a t-shirt for appreciation

Shadow Wizard

6:54 AM

@telkitty.exe they are probably afraid you will misuse the shirt ;)

user202362

I wouldn't trust anything SE send me, they probably used the t-shirt as a door mat for the toliet before send it to me ... nope!

Shadow Wizard

@telkitty.exe oh, you're optimistic. I can think of much worse things they could have done with the shirt.

user202362

besides why would I want to mess around with tpot or shaggy this time of the year?

Shadow Wizard

@telkitty.exe you said "time for some 'action'" and they are the ones who will need to clean the mess resulting from those actions :D

They will probably summon @Anna as well, she's still half CM anyway :-)

user202362

I thought Anna is a developer now?

Shadow Wizard

7:00 AM

@telkitty.exe yes indeed, writing C# all day and night

user202362

beats writing objective c ...

Shadow Wizard

C# is lovely, no doubt

Microsoft chose a musical note for a reason, C# is like music to our brains

user202362

C# is indeed nice, although 1) I am generally not a big fan of any language that has a newer version every 1-2 years 2) I <3 linux

user202362

that's not to say Linux is much better than windows, but it is easier to understand what's going on because many versions of linux are open source

Shadow Wizard

@telkitty.exe these days all active programming languages have new version every 1-2 years. Hmm... so you're a fan of COBOL?

@telkitty.exe Linux is not a programming language.

user202362

7:07 AM

Linux is an OS

Shadow Wizard

Oscillating System, yeah

user202362

but to really understand what's going on you need to understand the OS underneath

Shadow Wizard

@telkitty.exe true, but good programming language will make it moot.

user202362

lol?

Shadow Wizard

7:36 AM

@telkitty.exe I mean good programming language will let you do anything without requiring you to understand how and why it works. :)

Stijn

@telkitty.exe It's not like you have to relearn stuff, it's just new features or new syntactic sugar.

user202362

7:52 AM

@Shog9 You know sometimes it is not how to rub a bottle but which bottle to rub, every intelligent person eventually learns. Sometimes you can rub a magic bottle for a life time, no genie would ever come out

user202362

there are better bottles ...

Shadow Wizard

8:03 AM

@telkitty.exe I feel like there's something deep and wise behind your words, but it keeps evading me.

Bart

"Hello, my name is Shadow Wizard, and I am a rep vulture." ... HI SHADOW WIZARD!

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Shadow Wizard

lol

I knew it will haunt me!

By the way, I had to hack my way to starting the answer with "Hello".

Bart

haha

I see ....

Shadow Wizard

8:19 AM

Now the hardest question ever: is Baba a spam kitten, or a hardcore spammer? — Jan Dvorak 25 mins ago

Louis

9:58 AM

cv-pls-opinion-based stackoverflow.com/questions/23354290/…

Louis

10:53 AM

cv-pls-typo stackoverflow.com/questions/23344704/…

The OP actually had a problem that was not a mere typo but he/she/it accepted an answer that says "you forgot to close a string here."

If this were a great question, I'd rather save it through editing.

But this is a terrible question that does not deserve to live. So... I'm going to take the OP's acceptance at face value.

Jan Dvorak

11:50 AM

SPAM askubuntu.com/questions/457641/01210313046

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak at least it's not the baba! Interesting to mention the spammer logged in via Facebook.

rene

@ShadowWizard Too bad I missed that?

Shadow Wizard

12:06 PM

@rene if you must know, this is most likely the spammer, on Facebook. (same picture as his profile picture in the spammed site)

rene

Hmmm, I'll leave it at that...

Louis

12:21 PM

cv-pls-opinion-based stackoverflow.com/questions/23363828/…

Bart

12:40 PM

Well that was confusing for a second meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2805846/engineer

Shadow Wizard

@Bart yeah Jeff got plenty of clones

Bart

No, Jeff has got plenty of clone. He doesn't do plural.

Lix

Blue!

Shadow Wizard

@Bart remember this guy? ;)

@Lix Brown!

Bart

Yep @ShadowWizard

Lix

12:50 PM

@ShadowWizard - how pre-split of you

Bart

In all his identities

Shadow Wizard

@Lix pre-who?

Lix

pre-(mso)-split

Shadow Wizard

@Lix oh, I'm old fashioned :D

Bart

@ShadowWizard is like so pre-split.

Shadow Wizard

12:59 PM

Yeah, I'm pre-historic. I'm a meta-dinosaur!

So, @Lix, is this your doing? Your top secret project? :D

Oh, poor balpha

> no more Mercurial sniff

Lix

@ShadowWizard - oy... that sounds like a terrible idea :/

@ShadowWizard - I wonder if they support RTL on that top secret site :S:S probably store passwords in plain text

Shadow Wizard

@Lix in one word: SharePoint

Lix

in two letters: oy

@ShadowWizard - how I suffered from sharepoint :/ :/:/

Shadow Wizard

in three letters: vey

Lix

And I didn't even use it!!

Shadow Wizard

1:04 PM

@Lix welcome to the club! ;)

And I did use it

Lix

Shame man :P

Shadow Wizard

@Lix yeah, but you know, when the big boss want SharePoint, nothing can budge him

But I am clean for over two years now :D

Lix

@ShadowWizard -this is true hey...

Ah... I stopped hearing about it after I got out the army...

But they LOVED it there...

Tim Stone

It's okay @balpha, it was the right choice because branching. :P

Shadow Wizard

@TimStone dunno but anything that makes balpha sad can't be good ;)

balpha

1:07 PM

branching is meh

Lix

@ShadowWizard - did you watch that video clip on inet? What's with the synthesized speech??

Tim Stone

I dunno, I've always found the git workflow to make a lot more sense. Probably because I don't really understand the hg workflow, since it seems to imply making a lot of repository copies.

balpha

If the git ui just wasn't so horrible

By default, `git hammer` operates on your living room window. To target the nail instead, use `git swing --carefully origin/wall nail`.

Tweeted by balpha on April 29, 2014 at 8:25 AM

Tim Stone

I use SourceTree, which is okay-ish.

But yeah, using git commands can be frustrating sometimes.

hg definitely wins out in that sense for me, just because it seems a lot more organized. If I understood how to work on more than one separate thing at a time with it I might look at it more favourably, but until then I'll stick with git. :P

Shadow Wizard

@Lix didn't watch yet, the synthesized speech is part of Ynet videos I think.

I actually never watch Ynet videos because the ads

Lix

1:21 PM

@ShadowWizard - It just sounds so bad :/

@ShadowWizard - I generally stay away from ynet....

from most Israeli news really...

Shadow Wizard

@Lix personally never heard it myself, just keep seeing people keep mentioning this in comments :)

Lix

actually... from most Israeli television...

Shadow Wizard

lol, so why you still in Israel? :D

Lix

@ShadowWizard - I ask myself this question quite often...

I wonder if SE would let me move into one of their empty server racks....

balpha

we have no such thing

Shadow Wizard

1:25 PM

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A: I wonder what a company cage looks like?

No no no, you obviously misread this. We have a cage downstairs that we stick other companies in. And yes, EA is in there for that whole SimCity debacle.

@Lix the cage is now empty ^

Lix

@balpha - fine then... I'll just find a corner somewhere... I won't bother anyone... promise!

ah... this spot looks free...

taken.... I live here now....

Bart

Doesn't the pillow say "NO"?

Shadow Wizard

@Lix oh no, you took the invisible unicorn place!

Bart

Pillow has spoken!!

Lix

@Bart - it's just cut off... the full text is "NO place like home" :P

Don't be jealous now folks...

Bart

1:28 PM

Seems like a very welcoming choice for an office. "There's no going home" might be better.

Lix

hehe

I'd just flop down on the couch and be like:

balpha

@Lix how about here -- you could watch people WORKING ON UR PROBLEMZ

Bart

That would qualify as a "cunning use of flags".

Lix

lol

@balpha - SOLD!

Bart

I had a wander around @Lix, but I seems like they're going to blur your face ...

Lix

1:32 PM

But but but... I like my face :/

Can I borrow your glasses during the blurification process, @Bart?

Bart

And blurify my entire world?

Lix

Hmm... I'll have to get back to you on that one...

Shadow Wizard

Not blurred here, @Bart

@balpha who is sleeping there? Was he punished by a downvote? ;)

Anyway Stack Exchange needs a rename, it doesn't fit in iPhone! Suggestions, anyone? :-D

Bart

SExchange

Lix

@Bart - you had that one ready...didn't you!

Bart

1:42 PM

For years. And I was finally able to use it. It's a good day.

balpha

@ShadowWizard she isn't sleeping, she's watching Bubble's presentation with great interest

Shadow Wizard

@balpha she?! Guess my built in gender identification algorithm is bugged! )-;

balpha

the hat is giving a clue; compare stackexchange.com/about/team

Bart

@ShadowWizard back to gender sensitivity training for you

Shadow Wizard

@balpha ohhhh, sorry Abby!

I'll send her a cake if she's offended ;)

So that hat is part of her daily outfit? :)

rene

1:59 PM

That is not going to make your case any better @ShadowWizard :-)

Today's Listening

heya @GnomeSlice

Ahoy

Was listening to your chiptunes the other day :)

GnomeSlice

2:05 PM

@Lix Mine, or just ones I linked?

Lix

I think they were yours... For some game you were involved with...

GnomeSlice

@Lix gnomeslice.bandcamp.com

Those?

Lix

yeeeesss

Those ones :D

@GnomeSlice - have you heard of Fearofdark?

GnomeSlice

@Lix Yes.

Motorway is on my next-to-buy list.

Lix

►

GnomeSlice

2:08 PM

fearofdark.bandcamp.com/album/motorway

Lix

Your sounds made me relapse and start looping motorway :P

GnomeSlice

@Lix Heh, that's from Motorway.

@Lix If you're into chiptunes I can give you tons of stuff to check out. You may or may not have heard of some of it.

@Lix Do you know Vince Kaichan?

vincekaichan.bandcamp.com/album/ilio

Lix

After I found motorway It's been hard to find more that I really enjoy

Shadow Wizard

@rene why, just because the cake is a lie?

GnomeSlice

Heh

Lix

2:10 PM

nope... never heard of Vince Kaichan... checking it out now...

GnomeSlice

@Lix My favourite chip release so far this year.

Lix

@GnomeSlice - this has potential :D

@GnomeSlice - "Some extremely well crafted tunes here" - well said

GnomeSlice

@Lix :P

@Lix Another one of my recent favourites: blitzlunar.bandcamp.com/album/triptunes

The tracks all feel pretty different, there's something for pretty much everyone.

Whoa, wtf, he made it free?

Awesome.

Lix

@GnomeSlice So far Vince Kaichan is pretty awesome.... Can't really connect with the Blitz Lunar ones...

GnomeSlice

@Lix Try "Holyday".

Shadow Wizard

2:20 PM

Oh great, now my shame is pinned ↱

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/111590/…

Lix

@GnomeSlice - haha... cute :P

Bart

@ShadowWizard haha

Shadow Wizard

You pinned it, @Bart? ;)

Bart

Nope. Twasn't me

/me looks at @jcolebrand

GnomeSlice

2:30 PM

@Lix If you want, you can look through my bandcamp collection: bandcamp.com/gnomeslice

There's a lot of stuff in there you probably won't like though, I dunno if you're into EDM.

Lix

@GnomeSlice - I can listen to almost anything given the right mood... I'll check it out :) Thanks!

Shadow Wizard

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Q: Meta.SE not oneboxed in chat?

I noticed something while chatting at Root Access today. I recognized that a Meta.SE question was not oneboxed: I suspect this might not have been implemented after the MSO --> MSE split. So, I thought this could be a feature-request.

bug chat onebox

well it's oneboxing here

3ventic

in Sandbox on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 10 secs ago, by 3ventic

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Q: Meta.SE not oneboxed in chat?

I noticed something while chatting at Root Access today. I recognized that a Meta.SE question was not oneboxed: I suspect this might not have been implemented after the MSO --> MSE split. So, I thought this could be a feature-request.

bug chat onebox

No repro in chat.SE either

You're too fast, @Shadow

Shadow Wizard

Found the "bug": SSL

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/110820/…

https is still a no no

3ventic

for SE links, yeah

images and some other https links seem to onebox fine though

Shadow Wizard

2:36 PM

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Q: HTTPS urls don't onebox in chat

When posting an HTTPS url like https://stackoverflow.com/..., it does not onebox in chat. For example: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12317079#12317079

bug chat onebox ssl

3ventic

VTC'd

Jan Dvorak

2:50 PM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/111598/…

qwertynl

Hi all

Bart

3:19 PM

Hiya

Braiam

3:31 PM

Hellow

GnomeSlice

Ahoy

qwertynl

Shalom

jadarnel27

4:00 PM

Brown.

Oy

Hey

o/

4:17 PM

\o

\o/

So nice

Quick, everyone flag @GnomeSlice for posting a YouTube clip with a provocative thumbnail.

GnomeSlice

@jadarnel27 plsno

jadarnel27

Classic GnomeSlice.

GnomeSlice

4:28 PM

It's music.

jadarnel27

I figured =)

TGMCians

\o

Louis

5:03 PM

cv-pls-repost stackoverflow.com/questions/23370511/…

You can check the auto-generated comment from when I vtc as duplicate to see the original.

(Same user reposting same question.)

TGMCians

done

@Louis three times viewed and three close votes

jcolebrand

5:19 PM

@balpha It's Chris isn't it?

Louis

@TGMCians we need two more!

TGMCians

yup

Stijn

5:41 PM

cv-pls-typo stackoverflow.com/questions/23371425/…

@Louis done :)

I've been wondering for a while if it'd be a good idea to create a cv-pls room, sometimes I feel bad for using the Tavern for such things.

Jan Dvorak

6:30 PM

@Stijn there is, it's (confusingly) called "PHP"

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Doorknob

9:17 PM

Well that was fun :D

rene

9:35 PM

@Doorknob Nice :-)

Doorknob

Thanks :P

Braiam

@GnomeSlice obvious click bait :/

brasofilo

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Q: How do I add real-time analytics to my Q or A on SO?

the question is: Is it possible to add some sort of tracking or live analytics to the questions or answers I post here on Stack Overflow? At the bottom is it possible to add Analytics to a page that is not ours?

google-analytics analytics google-analytics-api dashboard

This one is borderline Meta, not tested but seems pretty cool

3ventic

fits both imo.

brasofilo

Yep, I thought so... I mean, SO :)

Shog9

10:13 PM

What the top bar would look like for 10K users if we didn't exclude the close queue from that indicator

3ventic

hah

Doorknob

Haha

3ventic

imagines the time when the queue was 120k

Braiam

that 10k is the close queue?

Doorknob

remembers that glorious day when it hit 0

rene

10:15 PM

@Braiam 10248

Braiam

btw... 974 flags?

hichris123

@Braiam Mostly other flags, I imagine.

GnomeSlice

10:36 PM

@Braiam It's music.

3ventic

Someone's on a VTC spree against all the close vote queue questions..

hichris123

@3ventic ?

3ventic

12 questions regarding the close vote queue, mostly focusing on SO in the review queue on MSE

with the "specific site" close reason

Louis

11:12 PM

Repost case: Usually, when a user reposts their question, I vote to close as duplicate the newer question but I have a case her where I think it would be better to vote to close the older as duplicate because the newer question has an answer on it but the old one does not. I've already voted to close the old one because it was unclear. I'm not going to revoke my close-vote. This is why there is no possible duplicate comment. I need folks to please put in some votes. Links to follow.

cv-pls-duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/23159388/…

This is the question that should be the target of the v-t-c as duplicate link (the er... canonical one): stackoverflow.com/questions/23257266/…

This is the same user (but different posts) as the other case I brought up in this room earlier today.

michaelb958

11:28 PM

Why in the hell does Stack Overflow have an elvis tag.

hichris123

ಠ_ಠ

> The Elvis operator is a shortening of Java's ternary operator. One instance of where this is handy is for returning a 'sensible default' value if an expression resolves to false or null.

Huh, okay.

Louis

Elvis (text editor)

Elvis is a powerful vi/ex clone, i.e. it resembles the Unix text editor "vi" very much but adds quite a few commands and features. Elvis is written by Steve Kirkendall and is distributed under the Clarified Artistic License which is used by Perl. Elvis is the version of vi that comes with Slackware, Frugalware, KateOS, and MINIX 3. Comments Elvis was the pioneering vi clone, widely admired in the 1990s for its conciseness, and many features. It influenced the development of Vim until about 1997. It was the first to provide color syntax highlighting (and to generalize syntax highlighti...

hichris123

@michaelb958 ... I think you left out a ? there. :P

michaelb958

elvis and elvis-editor are now both dead.

Louis

I think once upon a time I used elvis because vi was a symlink to it.

michaelb958

11:34 PM

@hichris123 The lack of ? usually signifies extreme lack of over-emotional reaction, often due to being overwhelmed by the stupidity. Compare the difference between "What?" and "What." - the latter sounds more resigned and annoyed.

hichris123

Meh, true.

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