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balpha

9:09 AM

@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback there is one

well-hidden :)

Tim Stone

Ah ha, right. Very sneaky. :P

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@balpha yeah :) I meant more as a "preview" button in the chat overview itself, but I guess once you're used to it, the transcript route works.

balpha

the "chat overview"?

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The overview page

@balpha oh, by the way. You guys forgot to implement <kbd></kbd>

Ovbviously an oversight that will be corrected in the next release. Right?

balpha

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9:12 AM

@balpha Aaaah! Sneaky. Nice!

balpha

unfortunately, this completes one of your feature requests, and you only get one. so no <kbd>

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@balpha Nah, it was already implemented. Doesn't count.

balpha

no, I did that just now. yes I did. yes I did.

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Damn chat and its transient nature! There is no way to prove this the atrocious lie it is.

Marc Gravell

@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback Forest of Dean; border of England and Wales. Nice area.

@Benjol yes; it is smaller than I expected

but when you're only a few inches from the ground, it gets hard to gauge scale

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9:17 AM

@Marc nice! Right inside the forest?

Marc Gravell

not right among the trees, no. But that is but a walk away. I'm on the edge of a town in the forest.

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@Marc nice! I never understood why J.K.Rowling had to make up place names for Harry Potter. You guys have such crazy real place names! Gorsty Knoll.... Milkwall... Ready Penny...

.... English Bicknor :)

Benjol

@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback: amazon.co.uk/Meaning-Liff-Douglas-Adams/dp/0330281216

or folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html if you prefer

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@Benjol ahahahaha! AMERSHAM - The sneeze which tickles but never comes

Benjol

My favourite: WOKING (participial vb.)
Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.

Dan Grossman

9:29 AM

Used up all my phone battery playing Angry Birds.

Marc Gravell

9:41 AM

@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback actually, she's from near here (she grew up in Chepstow); the RFoD is mentioned a few times

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10:01 AM

@Marc ahh, of course! That's why I was thinking about Harry Potter - they hide there in the last book.

radp

11:05 AM

I blame balpha

balpha

not my fault

radp

12:05 PM

checking disk 1 of 1 (46pct. complete)

sigh.

although I'm not sighing about that

I'm sighing about the lack of common spaces in university

I wasted one hour checking different places, but they all gave a very real sense of stack overflow

Benjol

go home?

radp

so I had to resort to the last two rows of a smelly, sweaty classroom, hoping the teachers don't mind.

benjol, home is 1.5 hrs away, I have a meeting here in one hour.

...a meeting in one of the common spaces. fml

Benjol

@radp, ok, my commiserations then. that's a heck of a long way, do you go every day?

radp

@Benjol every day I have 2+ hours of meaningful stuff to do.

(yay a real keyboard!)

Benjol

I understand why italian degrees take so long then, at 2h/day ;)

radp

12:13 PM

@Benjol by that I meant, some days I have exactly two hours of lesson

if it isn't something more than public reading of slides I'll gladly stay home

say, this friday I have a lab 10-12. What should I do?
a) wake up at 0630, take bus at 0830, arrive at 0845, take train at 0902, arrive at 0948, walk 1km, arrive at 1000, wait for lab to start at 1030, take lab till 1200, walk one km hurrily, take train home 1218, arrive 1301, take bus home at 1330~, arrive home at 1345,
b) wake up at 0630, take bus at 0830, arrive at 0845, take train at 0902, arrive at 0948, walk 1km, arrive at 1000, wait for lab to start at 1030, take lab till 1200, walk one km hurrily, take train home 1218, arrive 1301, fuck the bus and walk all the way home and arrive 1…

Choices, choices.

Benjol

@radp In that particular case, the choice is fairly easy ;)

I'm sitting here looking at some code that I was convinced couldn't possibly work, but when I ran it, it did. I had underestimated the deviousness of the person who created the code. Wondering if it might have been me

radp

or, you're looking at dead code.

Benjol

Worse than that, it's code in an event handler, which indirectly re-raises the event, so you've got (probably involuntary) 're-entrance'...

if(condition)
  A();
else
  B();

A() changes the condition, and reraises the event, which calls B()

radp

12:49 PM

-1, B() doesn't call A() back.

Benjol

1:01 PM

Just as well :)

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