Countdown to 1000000

A lot of people seem to be putting considerable thought into what they're going to write for the 1000000th question. I have bad news for at minimum all minus one of you

Fosco

i almost had a question, from a work issue that tied me up for hours.. but of course the answer was already on SO

rchern

3:27 AM

@MichaelMrozek, you mean there can't be more than one money question?

Michael Mrozek

@Fosco Seriously. Damn SO and its ridiculously complete answerbase, I never get to ask anything

Aiden Bell

that's it ... at 1m, all questions answered

Jeff Atwood

great, I need a vacation badly

Fosco

@MichaelMrozek exactly.. the nerve!!!

Dexter

What if the 1000000 question is a dupe?

Aiden Bell

3:28 AM

lol

Michael Mrozek

I'm not sure what the close percentage is on SO; i'm curious now

Aiden Bell

What are the odds Skeet gets it

rchern

hmm, let's see

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999947

Aiden Bell

Sat waiting from his rep throne

Fosco

3:29 AM

@AidenBell exactly 42%

Aiden Bell

I don't like those odds

Is his unicorn not enough?!?

Michael Mrozek

About 1.6%, if I did the SEDE query right (closed rate, not Skeet rate. I'm not sure how to convert Jon Skeet powers into SQL)

Jeff Atwood

maybe we could include t-shirts. I'm trying to decide how much I like you guys. "Do I like them one t-shirt worth?"

Michael Mrozek

@JeffAtwood Maybe 1 shirt for the lot of us; 15 shirts is pushing it

Tim

I've ran the numbers, and it seems that we're a very likable bunch.

rchern

3:30 AM

slinks into the corner so as to not ruin it for the rest of y'all (;

Fosco

@JeffAtwood I like you more than one shirt worth.

Aiden Bell

I have been in here since inception ... and counting in Tavern! ;)

I even tried to buy a t-shirt off @JohntheSeagull

lol

Dexter

@JeffAtwood: I was expecting special 1000000th question T-Shirts with unicorns and waffles!

Fosco

Keyboard waffles

Michael Mrozek

Just print the 1000000th question on the back, no matter how terrible it is

Aiden Bell

3:31 AM

lmao

Dexter

Oh, and the KBD Castle on the back!

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999948

Aiden Bell

@MichaelMrozek Let's hope it is a comical one

Fosco

1 Millionth question: "What's the best number?"

Jeff Atwood

like, it could be this one. sadtrombone.com

0

Q: How to display size and icon for pdf and word docs?

Hi, I have webpages that contain links to word documents and pdf files. For each link I want to display the file size and an icon showing what the file type is. I'm thinking the best way to do this would be with CSS? Can anybody give me an example of how to do this? Thanks!

In silico

3:32 AM

CSS?

Jeff Atwood

I know, that's barely programming

Aiden Bell

This room is going to make me miss my shell alarm on 999,999

hehe

In silico

Well to be fair CSS can be used for the presentation end of the question...

Sathya

seems like i'm just in time

Michael Mrozek

CSS can be used for all parts of all questions. It's like jQuery and regexps merged together

Aiden Bell

3:33 AM

The Tavern had a comical question via @radp "How to parse regexp with HTML?"

rchern

qpm is still at 2.03 though. i haven't seen it any higher than 2.04

Aiden Bell

@Sathya - crafty

In silico

I was playing devil's advocate

rchern

i predict a spike

Jeff Atwood

I feel bad, like now I should answer that dumb html / css question because I mocked it

Michael Mrozek

3:34 AM

@rchern I predicted it earlier than this. The SO community has either impressed me or let me down, I'm not sure which

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999951

In silico

@rchen: That's like predicting that everyone will have lunch in 20 years.

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, eh, i predict a spike of only about a minute...maybe 2 (;

Aiden Bell

less than 50 to go!

I can't believe that it has been 5 hours counting down in here

Dexter

@JeffAtwood I thought you were going to delete it? ;-)

Michael Mrozek

3:36 AM

Deletion: the ultimate answer?

Aiden Bell

@MichaelMrozek ultimate power .... power

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999951

Aiden Bell

anyone else got streamers and balloons?

I am however, drinking whiskey on my own :(

In silico

Aiden Bell

@JeffAtwood - I made that to celebrate

Tim

3:39 AM

@AidenBell Lies! You made that because @MichaelMrozek commanded it.

Aiden Bell

@Tim - Shhh because of the million question celebration ... !

Tim

Right, right..
*shushes*

Factor Mystic

how cached is so.com/questions count?

Michael Mrozek

@Tim Little did he know, I wanted it made to commemorate 1M

So everything worked out

Tim

Ah, very good then.

Aiden Bell

3:40 AM

@MichaelMrozek nice.

rchern

@FactorMystic, not sure how often, but it definitely is cached

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999952

In silico

The question count on the website itself appears to lag a bit

The Feeds report a number 2-3 questions higher

Factor Mystic

im still showing ...49

Kevin Montrose

its cached aggressively on the sites proper

Factor Mystic

3:42 AM

so, im getting ace page load times but i want to see it live :<

Kevin Montrose

less so elsewhere (though still to a degree)

Jeff Atwood

@AidenBell that's awesome!

rchern

api: "total": 999953,

Michael Mrozek

@FactorMystic api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/stats

Dexter

rchern

3:42 AM

@MichaelMrozek, does /stats report the same as /questions ?

would think so but eh

Michael Mrozek

@rchern No, it seems to be the real data. It's what the feed in here is using anyway

It's definitely ahead, anyway

Aiden Bell

@JeffAtwood hehe why thankyou

rchern

errr, i meant both from the api

Kevin Montrose

api caching is query based, /stats and /questions (and api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/… ) can all report slightly different values

rchern

api's /questions, not the web /questions

Michael Mrozek

3:43 AM

@rchern Oh! That makes much more sense :). I haven't been paying as much attention, but they seem to sync up the few times I've used /questions

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999954

Michael Mrozek

Apparently that's not guaranteed though, according to Kevin's message

Aiden Bell

Look at all the moochers cramming in, someone is distributing words

;)

In silico

We should have the question number on the site reported in octal after the millionth question like "03641100"

cschol

what better place to witness the milestone than here

rchern

3:45 AM

@MichaelMrozek, why would we believe @Kevin? It isn't like he has anything to do with the api

Michael Mrozek

@rchern He seems trustworthy. If it were @balpha or @waffles I would've kicked them already

cschol

@Dexter LOL. Funny.

Michael Mrozek

Assuming I even can kick people. I should probably establish that first

rchern

heh

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999959

In silico

3:47 AM

41 more questions!

Aiden Bell

@MichaelMrozek - so this room getting renamed the Countdown to 2000000 after this?

rchern

d'oh

Michael Mrozek

@AidenBell I was just going to append a 0, but I guess if you want to aim low we can do that

rchern

ha

Aiden Bell

hehe

In silico

3:47 AM

@AidenBell: No, the next countdown will be at the 1,048,576th question

Sathya

too bad there isn't a site

hasstackoverflowhit1millionquestions.com

cschol

there should be a badge though

Michael Mrozek

@cschol It would be the most diluted badge in the history of the site :)

rchern

@Sathya, purchasing the domain would be the longest part of that process

Aiden Bell

@Sathya - What would be on it?

Sathya

3:49 AM

> This domain name is not registered

rchern

<b>Yes</b>

Aiden Bell

<html><head><title>yes</title></head><body>Yes, it has</body></html>?

rchern

<b>No</b>

Aiden Bell

@rchern - Snap!

Factor Mystic

oh man getting there im nervous it will be a crap question

Michael Mrozek

3:49 AM

@rchern <marquee><blink><h1>No</h1></blink></marquee>

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999959

Factor Mystic

up past my bedtime for this :\

rchern

@FactorMystic, it will be....might as well accept it now (;

Sathya

well @rchern and @AidenBell beat me to it

I like @MichaelMrozek's <marquee> :P

Aiden Bell

999961

rchern

3:50 AM

one little javascript function to pull from the api and bam!

Tim

@Sathya I dunno, that might go against the trademark guidance

cschol

Funny if it was just some random guy asking for the way to the bathroom...

Factor Mystic

@AidenBell youre ahead of the api :o

Michael Mrozek

@rchern At this point I think I would probably just hard-code it and change the "No" to "Yes" when I watched the 1000000th post happen :)

Sathya

> Do not register or use a domain name containing our name (or misspellings of our name).

rchern

3:51 AM

nah, i see 61

Sathya

well you could turn it over to them

Dexter

I bet the prize is Jeff banning us all from the site and allowing us to "voluntarily" enter a mental institution.

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, lame ):

Aiden Bell

@FactorMystic - in your face

Sathya

was just a thought anyway, seen too many of those memes

Fosco

3:51 AM

is the feedbot turned off? I came up with a question

Tim

@MichaelMrozek But that's not nearly enough jQuery.

Fosco

waiting to hit submit :D

In silico

@Fosco: Is it a good question?

cschol

my counter still says 999954

Factor Mystic

not gonna lie ive got an odata question with my finger hovering over the submit button for this

Michael Mrozek

3:52 AM

It's 999961 atm

Fosco

@Insilico I think it's valid and not close-worthy, and not a dupe..

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999961

Michael Mrozek

@Feeds Thanks, but I had it covered

Aiden Bell

he

Fosco

@Insilico on second thought it might be too localized, but I'm willing to take a chance.

Aiden Bell

3:53 AM

999962

Michael Mrozek

I wonder if @Feeds alerts are automatically dropped or if they're crowding a database table somewhere waiting for a login that will never happen

Aiden Bell

@Fosco - Mine is sweeping and subjective, but i'm hoping it will get Ubuntu'd (given exception)

hehe

In silico

@MichaelMrozek: Is it not handled differently from human users?

After all, they have negative IDs

Fosco

mine is re: a php 5.3.3 change that is backwards incompatible

Michael Mrozek

@Insilico No idea, that's what I was wondering

@AidenBell Remind me to use "Ubuntu'd" around the AU mods every time they're on chat

Tim

3:54 AM

I suspect that they monitor @Feeds to weed out the crazies who try to hold a conversation with it.

Aiden Bell

@MichaelMrozek - Im going to force it into a "thing"

Michael Mrozek

@Feeds WHY DO YOU ONLY ANSWER WHEN NOBODY ELSE IS WATCHING?!

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999962

Dexter

HA HA!

Michael Mrozek

It's almost midnight my time; I was positive we'd make it before then

In silico

3:56 AM

It's not on my time...

Aiden Bell

@MichaelMrozek lucky, 4:56am here

Sathya

@MichaelMrozek on Eastern, I see

Aiden Bell

been up since 9:00am previous

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, off by 10ish minutes if pace holds

Michael Mrozek

@Sathya Unless I'm just trying to throw the coppers reading this transcript off my trail

Aiden Bell

3:58 AM

999965

Feeds

Number of questions on SO
999965

Aiden Bell

parrot

Jeff Atwood

had some quick dinner

Michael Mrozek

Only possible conclusion: @Feeds is @AidenBell's sockpuppet

Aiden Bell

@MichaelMrozek - True, she likes it very much

Factor Mystic

3:59 AM

@je

Reward for hitting 1M

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