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10:00 AM
there's a joke about tail in there somewhere...
 
how'd ya link images?
 
@JeffAtwood Hey! I have had that in my bio for months!
 
I fail at this
 
@iconiK just paste the url on a single line
 
oh... uh...
 
10:00 AM
@ikoniK hmm, one could connect an irc bot to SO through my soirc gateway
 
/me slaps himself with a sledgehammer
 
for now (?) it does not seems to handle mixed text and pics
 
Load-test this!
 
@JeffAtwood if you pay yourself to kill time on tweeter and spam on here, how about adding /me support? :P
 
even skype supports /me!
 
10:02 AM
so the answer is, for a number like 3607757 we can generate a base 62 of "PIhn" which is a savings of .. 7 chars vs 4 chars = 3 chars
 
even steam supports /me :D
 
@JeffAtwood at that rate, I hope you've got a short domain name to go with it
 
Even IRC supports /me
 
I'm afraid of all these Q&A sites...
 
stack-overflow.com
 
10:03 AM
they might become a omniscient AI that will eventually destroy all of us
 
@JeffAtwood sta.ck
 
@JeffAtwood speaking of your blog, many images on old posts don't show up.
 
> only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL.
 
I'm sure we could compress the world in two bytes
including checksum
 
10:05 AM
@controlbreak lossy compression?
 
kinda :D
 
Oh wait, right, with a large enough byte!
 
so let's see.. base 62 is 26 + 26 + 10.. we can add the $-_.+!*'() which is 10 more chars.. base 72 anyone?
 
I #define byte 8000000000
 
of course URLs with () and * are kind of a PITA .. ASP.NET does not like stars in URLs (this is changing in .NET 4)
 
10:06 AM
@JeffAtwood congratulations, you win two intrawebz
 
wds
If you want it to work correctly in a tweet for instance, you don't want to use '.'
 
Hello.. maik testing.. check.. 1.2.3. 3.2.1
 
wds
I'm not sure about '-'
Those all look like little faces in this font
 
'_'
 
10:08 AM
('_');
 
(O_O);
SMILEY OVERFLOW
 
boobs attack
 
yeah those 10 additional characters aren't exactly practical
so base 62 is about it, in practical terms (for URLs)
 
10:09 AM
٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
That looks like Jeff
 
^ new steam name
 
٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃).
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Q: How do I create Unicode smilies like ٩(•̮̮̃•̃)۶

Anirudh GoelHow to make Unicode texts like the one in the title, or like the following? ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃). As an aside, note that in your browser the above example should look like:

 
Oo nice !
 
♨_♨
◎ܫ◎
 
that question linking is pretty cool
 
10:10 AM
I know I know ! Just copy paste them (-̮̮̃-̃)۶
 
l̡̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ '
 
\(◕ ◡ ◕\)
 
aww tell me it ain't cute
 
10:11 AM
sup
 
#fail
 
凸ಠ益ಠ)凸
 
FLAGGED
 
:(
/me runs away in fear
٩(×̯×)۶
^ -> that's me punched
 
@iconiK Flagged because it lacks the right ear
that's gross!
 
10:13 AM
yeah it's all Vincent Van Gogh
 
@JeffAtwood you beat me
 
didn't scroll properly when that image was posted :\
 
How the heck are you so damn fast?
 
with base85 five ASCII characters represent exactly four bytes of binary data (32 bits).
 
10:14 AM
He has three monitors' powah
 
/clone @JeffAtwood
 
like he is suing someone
 
ooo, I want 3 monitors!
 
10:17 AM
@iconiK epic
 
@JeffAtwood that's nothing, how about 6?
 
@JeffAtwood where is the pizza...
 
I just want the nixie clock.
 
@alexanderpas opposite to the mouse
 
10:18 AM
I actually have only one monitors. This needs to cease
It's the very first time I can *edit a previous chat I did*
 
Jeff-branded and SO-branded gmail
That's something I wasn't previously aware of
 
@JeffAtwood how about 6x scan.co.uk/Products/… fed by one scan.co.uk/products/… ?
 
I'm on 4 19 inches monitors at work, and on a 27 inches at home, I actually prefer remote-login from my 27 to work. hate the plastic separator
 
dual video cards are kind of a PITA
 
That would be some serious screen space
 
10:19 AM
the big attraction of the newer ATI cards is, 3 monitors on a single card
 
This post will be edited twice!
 
I never said I had two monitors
 
@JeffAtwood 1) you can use a 6-port video card; 2) they are easy to do
 
that "eyefinity" card is two video cards glued together
 
Meh
@JeffAtwood get yourself a three PCI-E x16 mobo and three GT 220s
 
10:20 AM
Super Neat!
 
@JeffAtwood a bit of solder here...
 
wds
3 GTs? What's the draw on those?
 
power draw? GT220 uses no power
 
wds
That image scrolled properly for some reason
 
10:22 AM
Bon appétit à tous, it's lunch time to me
 
they don't tend to scroll properly if the browser window isn't focused
or you're in another tab
 
/set status OutToLunch :$
 
Yes another *****mn Steam update.
>.<
 
is that censoring done by the chat thingy, or did you write them iconik?
 
I did
 
10:25 AM
ah
 
@CharlieSomerville I believe he did
 
I can test the chat censoring if any, but Jeff may eat me.
 
well somebody was talking about shit-enter earlier
s/it/ift/ :)
 
holy ...oops
no censoring there
 
10:27 AM
@GregHewgill That's what message editing is for ;P
so you can talk about duck typing.
 
lol
 
OMG NEGATIVE
 
community casts a lot of downvotes
 
Evil
 
10:28 AM
he's something of a .. hater
 
@JeffAtwood He's not even coming to test the chat.
 
This is sort of cool, but I see no use for it screentoaster.com/watch/stUE5XQEVMRFtXQ1xVXFlYVlZX/…
 
SO is run by a bot! =)
 
question (i'm not sure if it's been answered before anywhere), why is ownership of votes on deleted posts assigned to community? why aren't they just deleted along with the question?
 
questions aren't really deleted
 
10:30 AM
deleted votes means the deleted question would show zero votes
 
ah, makes sense
 
basically a parent child issue.. the child is implicitly deleted if the parent is deleted
 
Is stackoverflow.com/users/-1 hirable? Has a CV on careers? He/she/it totally should
 
but you have to remember to check this all the time
 
i was under the assumption that deleted questions were actually purged from the db
 
10:31 AM
get 10k rep and you'll be able to see all the deleted flotsam :)
 
no, and now we don't want to because of ..
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Q: Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?

Jeff AtwoodStack Overflow has been wildly successful. And maybe in some ways too successful. I am concerned that Stack Overflow is being inundated by a stream of low-quality questions from users who are accidentally poisoning our well -- by turning off and turning away the core answerers who do all the rea...

since deleted stuff turns out to be a good predictor of bad performance
 
Yeah especially this introductory issue:
 
... am I too late for the load test?
 
@josef u r never too late
 
10:32 AM
@josef that depends, what is your weight in stone
 
@JeffAtwood SO REALLY needs syntax highlighting for LOLCODE
 
@JeffAtwood Are these types of question displays only allowed for meta, or any of the SE network of sites?
 
try it and see
 
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Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

Kaestur HakarlI am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...

 
@iconik: it needs syntax highlighting for a lot of non C-style languages, however then there's always another language to add, ad infinitum
 
10:34 AM
WTF?
 
0
Q: Get hash code for an int and a Nullable<int> pair

CodesleuthCurrently I'm using the following class as my key for a Dictionary collection of objects that are unique by ColumnID and a nullable SubGroupID: public class ColumnDataKey { public int ColumnID { get; private set; } public int? SubGroupID { get; private set; } // ... public over...

 
@CharlieSomerville yes but LOLCODE is TEH SHIZ!
 
0
Q: Get hash code for an int and a Nullable<int> pair

CodesleuthCurrently I'm using the following class as my key for a Dictionary collection of objects that are unique by ColumnID and a nullable SubGroupID: public class ColumnDataKey { public int ColumnID { get; private set; } public int? SubGroupID { get; private set; } // ... public over...

very cool
I guess deleted questions it doesn't work for
because I tried stackoverflow.com/questions/1 and got nothing
 
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Q: How to safely pray?

espaisCan somebody please give me a good overview of the prayer system in Nethack? From what I understand, pray once and your god is more than happy to help you out, but if you pray again you get punished pretty severely for being so needy. Basically, how does Nethack prayer work?

 
Can I parse HTML using REgex?
 
@FlorianDoyon Are you Chuck Norris?
 
Is this using some kind of open format exchange or do you have something hard coded for specific sites?
 
10:37 AM
ok I gotta go to sleep, can't keep eyes open.
 
I'm recruiting for the cult of Tony The Pony
 
jpg
yes you can florain - just like shooting your brains with a loaded gun please for love of holy dont =>
 
YOU GUYS DO SOME LOAD TESTY THINGS WHILE IM GONE
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Nite @Jeff
 
Nite @JeffAtwood
 
10:37 AM
@NickBerardi it uses the api
 
@JeffAtwood sure, g'night
 
@JeffAtwood Sleep tight and don't let tje bugs bite
What sites integrate with this?
 
@iconiK No I get the API for the SE sites, but @JeffAtwood posted a Amazon link that came up formatted
 
In computing, regular expressions, also referred to as regex or regexp, provide a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. A regular expression is written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies parts that match the provided specification. The following examples illustrate a few specifications that could be expressed in a regular expression: * The sequence of characters "car" in any conte...
 
10:38 AM
In computer science and linguistics, parsing, or, more formally, syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a text, made of a sequence of tokens (for example, words), to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given (more or less) formal grammar. Parsing is also an earlier term for the diagramming of sentences of natural languages, and is still used for the diagramming of inflected languages, such as the Romance languages or Latin. The term parsing comes from Latin pars (ōrātiōnis), meaning part (of speech). Parser In computing, a parser is one of the components...
| icon = | alt = HTML | screenshot = | extension = .html, .htm | mime = text/html | type code = TEXT | uniform type = public.html | owner = World Wide Web Consortium & WHATWG | genre = Markup language | container for = | contained by = | extended from = SGML | extended to = XHTML | standard = ISO/IEC 15445[http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/ W3C HTML 4.01] [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ W3C HTML 5] (draft) }} HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surro...
 
@FlorianDoyon ■ web apps ■ gaming ■ webmasters ■ cooking ■ game developers ■ electronic gadgets ■ photography ■ statistical analysis ■ mathematics ■ home improvement ■ gis ■ tex - latex ■ ubuntu ■ personal finance and money ■ english language and usage ■ user interface ■ unix and linux ■ wordpress ■ theoretical computer science ■ apple ■ role-playing games ■ superuser ■ serverfault ■ stackoverflow ■ walrusoverload
 
Guess no Google love.
 
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Florian the problem with HTML is that the web is full of non standard HTML... the browsers would and often still do interpret badly formatted HTML.
 
5
Q: What links and sites are handled specially in chat?

Juha SyrjäläThere is special linking to some sites in chat. What is the full list of supported and integrated sites?

 
Blogged: Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Call For Speakers http://nick.io/cb9pR6
 
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10:40 AM
what is that annoying beep when a new msg comes.... arrrch
 
@balpha Out of curiosity, if I put up an external site with a set of APIs compatible with SE's, would it work?
 
@jpg why don't you turn it off?
 
@jpg you can turn it off in the top right
 
jpg
10:41 AM
got it didnt see it thanks
 
@badp I think we double-check with StackAuth, but I'm not sure
 

Open House

load testing; for help, see the http://chat.meta.stackoverflow
 
all the styling stuff should be coming from StackAuth, at least
 
Is this chat custom written?
 
@KevinMontrose yeah, it does
 
10:42 AM
I thought you were using Campfire?
 
@SebastianHoitz yes
 
SO also was using UserVoice
 
@NickBerardi
 
chat is only on meta right?
 
10:43 AM
Lets see what kind of backend processing the chat can handle
 
@FlorianDoyon Currently, although I don't see the need to split each per-site room into its own site personally.
 
@FlorianDoyon currently yes
 
post links from here for 1 min straight meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/57286/…
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Q: What links and sites are handled specially in chat?

Juha SyrjäläThere is special linking to some sites in chat. What is the full list of supported and integrated sites?

 
meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1
meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2
meta.stackoverflow.com/q/3
 
0
Q: Why can't we re-vote on answers?

Daniel HanlyEarlier I answered a question, and somebody offered a completely different answer which (upon my understanding of the original question) was invalid. Because this answer wouldn't work, I down voted it. However, the Original Poster then edited the question and offered some more information, at th...

 
10:44 AM
:(
 
Who killed Prolog? http://j.mp/cI0NxI
 
Actually -- doesn't the onebox support thing work on the users' end?
 
Blogged: Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Call For Speakers http://nick.io/cb9pR6
If StackOverflow Chat had video service, it would be a great contender against TinyChat.
 
10:45 AM
@badp It looks like it
 
@badp no
 
If you ever get this advise, for your @AdSense account, http://nick.io/98J19R be sure to take it, daily income is up by 3 times
 
Load testing is the process of putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response. When the load placed on the system is raised beyond normal usage patterns, in order to test the system's response at unusually high or peak loads, it is known as stress testing. The load is usually so great that error conditions are the expected result, although no clear boundary exists when an activity ceases to be a load test and becomes a stress test. There is little agreement on what the specific goals of load testing are. The term is often used synonymously with software performance testi...
 
being rate limited we need more people
@SaraJChipps Very nice view of the water.
 
A mother insult (also referred to as a yo momma joke) is a reference to a person's mother through the use of phrases such as "your mother" or other regional variants, frequently used to insult the target by way of their mother. Used as an insult, "your mother..." preys on widespread sentiments of filial piety, making the insult particularly and globally offensive. "Your mother" can be combined with most types of insults, although suggestions of promiscuity are particularly common. Insults based on obesity, incest, age, race, poverty, poor hygiene, unattractiveness, or stupidity may a...
 
10:46 AM
Who killed Prolog? http://j.mp/cI0NxI
 
How to start your company with less than 2k dollars: http://tcrn.ch/bbeLIx a GREAT talk!
 
Spam may refer to: * Spam (food), a canned meat product * Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired electronic messages **E-mail spam, unsolicited or undesired email messages * "Spam" (Monty Python), a comedy sketch * Spam (gaming), the repetition of an in-game action * Street spam or flyposting, illegal blanket advertising in public places * "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff * "Spam", a track on It Means Everything, 1997 ska album by Save Ferris * S.P.A.M., Single Player Adventure for the Macintosh, a 68k text-b...
 
Es funktioniert! It works! 動きます! Jetzt nur noch ein paar kleine Details, und wir können richtig testen!
 
10:46 AM
"How does one get rep in meta stackoverflow? This place scares and frightens me."
 
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Did you consider the fact you could test load equally as well by editing instead of submitting?
 
we're still load testing our public beta chat -- please join if you have a meta.so account! http://goo.gl/uSFu
 
does the twitter integration also expand links to pics?
 
@FlorianDoyon I believe so
 
What different sorting algorithms sound like... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA
 
Seems like some of the link formats haven't totally been flushed out
 
Youtube could be expanded too
 
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__NOTOC__ أهلا بكم في أسبوع البرمجيات هذه الصفحة تابعة لمشروع ، وتهتم بالبرمجيات. بانرات دعائية بوابة برمجيات يرجى إضافة القالب التالي إلى المقالات المنشأه في مجال البرمجيات مستخدم أسبوع البرمجيات صندوق مستخدم أَضف إلى . {| |- !الكود !النتيجة |- | | |- |} لا تنسى إضافة * لا تنسَ إضافة إلى المقالات المنشأه في مجال البرمجيات تحت قسم "أنظر أيضاً". * لا تنسَ إضافة إلى المقالات القصيرة. * لا تنسَ إضافة في أسفل المقال عند التصنيفات. استخدام قالب عند الكتابة عن برنامج معين، ينصح باستخدام القالب . المقالات المطلوبة {| class="wikitable" style="...
جمهورية الصين الشعبية تعرف أيضًا باسم الصين، هي الدولة مع أكثر من 1.3 مليار نسمة. تقع في شرق آسيا ويحكمها الحزب الشيوعي الصيني في ظل نظام الحزب الواحد. تتألف الصين من أكثر من 22 مقاطعة و خمس مناطق ذاتية الحكم و أربع بلديات تدار مباشرة (بكين و تيانجين و شانغهاي و تشونغتشينغ و اثنتان من مناطق عالية الحكم الذاتي هما هونغ كونغ و [[ماكا
 
You guys made Chrome spike to 100%.
 
@iconiK Not hard, loading about:blank does that :)
 
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and, after 1934, also head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler, ruling the country as an absolute dictator. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919 and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a failed coup called the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in 1923, for which he was impr...
 
10:53 AM
@StephenDenne doesn't seem to like those
 
fail
Cookie to who guesses who that is!
 
the name is in the link
 

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