Wizards Den

Shadow Wizard

5:22 AM

cool!

user335633

5:35 AM

hello!

Shadow Wizard

6:20 AM

@DamienPaul hehe, hello stranger! (or actually @Trop? ;))

user335633

6:54 AM

@ShadowWizard aye, I be Tropiks - but I figure as I am moving away from the tropics, then a name change is needed

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul lol, so now you're a DJ? :P

And what brought you to the Den? Tavern not interesting enough anymore when @Bart is not there? ;-)

user335633

7:10 AM

@ShadowWizard lol no

user335633

@ShadowWizard curiousity, the cat and the horse it rode in on

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul lol, I already got a horse, and @Yve is riding a horse in real life... as for cats, well, @Unicode is actually UniKitty you know. :D

@Sнаđошƒаӽ just a random ping.... hello! ;)

user335633

@ShadowWizard well, this is kind of awesome-ish

Shadow Wizard

So @Dam what's your role?

user335633

data scientist -medicine

Shadow Wizard

7:21 AM

Huh! Wait... just saw your profile... 39?!?! You're older than me!

user335633

turn 40 in just over a month

Shadow Wizard

For some reason thought you're younger, lol

Well, @Yve is also from Australia and in our age range.... ;)

@DamienPaul I turned 38 couple of months ago ;)

user335633

most people think I am younger :)

user335633

so, you're with in 2 years of 40!

user335633

what is your role?

Shadow Wizard

7:24 AM

@DamienPaul yup, with two children, 6 y/o daughter and 3 y/o son. :)

@DamienPaul web developer, these days building a site with node.js

user335633

@ShadowWizard I have no children (taht I am aware of)

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul only in cyberspace, or in real life as well? ;)

user335633

@ShadowWizard awesome! enjoy the work?

user335633

@ShadowWizard both - and people say that I have a face for radio

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul oh. By choice? Or just never found the right girl... ?

user335633

7:26 AM

@ShadowWizard have not met the right girl

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul yup, it's a very small company, no rush, and flexible hours.

@DamienPaul oh my, sounds like older version of @berserk - hey, he's still not pingable. You know him?

user335633

nope, not sure who that be

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul face for radio is... weird, as face isn't relevant for radio, lol...

berserk, India

176 1 6

let me find sample message...

user335633

@ShadowWizard exactly - probably just as well, I have given the bogeyman a complex

Shadow Wizard

Jan 29 at 7:32, by berserk

but I am little shy in girl stuff :(

user335633

7:29 AM

awwwww

Shadow Wizard

If you'll search his messages you'll find.. interesting stuff, lol. Warning: NSFW. :D

user335633

ahhh the best kind!

Shadow Wizard

Only language, no pics!

:D

user335633

lol, 2nd best

Shadow Wizard

So @Dam you want to become a Den'er? ;)

user335633

7:33 AM

sure!

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul lol, well, it involve pings. Ask @Joe. He went through it very bravely.

user335633

pings eh?

Shadow Wizard

Proper welcome of @JoErNanO to the Den ;)

Mar 16 at 18:17, 55 minutes total – 43 messages, 3 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked Mar 16 at 21:07 by Shadow Wizard

So @Dam sure you want such a thing too? :D

user335633

LOL

Shadow Wizard

But we need at least two people for a proper welcome. @Rub or @Dro will you be up for the task? Or even the great @JoEr himself? :P

Rubisco

7:37 AM

Who dares wake me

Shadow Wizard

Me! hides

pointing finger at @Dam

Rubisco

Now if Damien comes to LO, it'd be very confusing.

There's another Dam there.

Shadow Wizard

Oh, right! Knew that nick is familiar.... lol

But he can change name on that site only, keeping @Dam here. :)

user335633

LO?

Rubisco

Another chat

Unrelated

user335633

7:39 AM

ahhh

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul @Rub's favorite room... I think. ;)

user335633

lol

Shadow Wizard

Language Overflow

This is the main chat room for ell.stackexchange.com. Welcome!

Rubisco

Obviously Den is my favorite room

@ShadowWizard Sha I'm gonna kill you

Figuratively

Shadow Wizard

And the other @Dam...

chat.stackexchange.com/users/43955/damkerng-t

@Rubisco can't do that, you're not DEAD any more! :D

Rubisco

7:43 AM

I'm now deadening

Huh

Apparently that's a word

Like a word-word

Shadow Wizard

lol

I learned a new word today too, coming from Jon Skeet Himself

Rubisco

Oh my

Shadow Wizard

@Jon lol guess one never stop learning... and I also had to Google for "jubilation" and learned what it means. Thanks! — Shadow Wizard 1 hour ago

user335633

I often make up words - when expletives are not enough

Rubisco

Heh

I had to Google it too

Shadow Wizard

7:45 AM

@DamienPaul very useful skill!

Rubisco

In my defense, I've heard it once before

user335633

@ShadowWizard i once said a word that had at least 14 syllables

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul whaaaat? How on earth did this happen?? lol :D

Rubisco

At most fourteen and half

Shadow Wizard

@Dam it had more syllables than @Unicode's years....

user335633

7:47 AM

@ShadowWizard a confluence of a program not compiling, a door-to-door salesperson and a nagging ex

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul sounds like the beginning of horror story.... or a joke.... :P

Rubisco

That's easy. Non-complicadoordoornaggingex

user335633

it was both

Shadow Wizard

lol poor @Dam

So what was the word?

user335633

I felt good at the end of it

Shadow Wizard

7:50 AM

Oh @Dam you currently have a gf? Or enjoying life as a Single? ;)

user335633

Ohmagreatgoogilymoogilyjamfactory

user335633

enjoying singularity

Shadow Wizard

lol x 2 :D :D

Well anyway @Dam we got a bot here, written by @ProgramFOX - when he's around, it got some cool commands and he can play WAG. ;-)

@FOX even love to follow boobs around.

@Dro knows about it.

user335633

LMAO

Shadow Wizard

@FOX following boobs

Apr 8 at 12:41, 11 seconds total – 3 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 5 secs ago by Shadow Wizard

This reminds me, @Rub really love bookmarks!

user335633

7:55 AM

lol

user335633

i have been answering stuff again, but especially calmly shooting down whiners

user335633

bbl

Shadow Wizard

:)

user335633

8:35 AM

have returnethed

Shadow Wizard

8:54 AM

returned has

user335633

indeedly!

user335633

silly question - self answered questions are fine?

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul of course, as long as the answer is OK of course. ;)

It's OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions

Jeff Atwood on July 1, 2011

The FAQ has contained one key bit of advice from the very beginning:

Jeff might be long gone, but the concept has not changed.

user335633

this is good - cause i did just that here stackoverflow.com/q/38789670/6613600

user335633

praise be to Jeff!

Shadow Wizard

9:08 AM

lol, cheers!

user335633

glad to be off inspiration

user335633

1

Q: onebox image broken for blog.stackoverflow.com

When oneboxing a blog post from http://blog.stackoverflow.com/, the image source is missing the domain, and thus showing a broken image. For example in this message: And the cause is this image source: As you can see, the domain is missing. (i.e. correct source is http://blog.stack...

bug chat blog onebox

user335633

+1

Shadow Wizard

haha, thanks!

Always good to find and report those small bugs... when not closing stuff as duplicate. :P

user335633

did my q-a pass muster?

Shadow Wizard

9:16 AM

@DamienPaul you mean the one on SO? dunno, not familiar with Python... @overactor appears to be pretty familiar with it, he might have a better opinion. ;)

user335633

coolness! - mind you, got a very helpful answer

user335633

your freehand circles and ellipses rock

Shadow Wizard

blushes

user335633

lol

Shadow Wizard

@FOX9000 shower

user335633

9:32 AM

lol

user335633

hello @Rubisco!

Rubisco

Jello

user335633

whats new?

Rubisco

Not old

user335633

lol

Rubisco

9:37 AM

Late Heavy Bombardment

The Late Heavy Bombardment (abbreviated LHB and also known as the lunar cataclysm) is an event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years (Ga) ago, corresponding to the Neohadean and Eoarchean eras on Earth. During this interval, a disproportionately large number of asteroids are theorized to have collided with the early terrestrial planets in the inner Solar System, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The LHB happened after the Earth and other rocky planets had formed and accreted most of their mass, but still quite early in Earth's history. Evidence for the LHB derives...

user335633

just improving one of my answers

Rubisco

This could be considered new according to some standards.

user335633

there we are - fixed

Rubisco

Yay

user335633

my self answer here stackoverflow.com/a/38791228/6613600

Shadow Wizard

12:39 PM

@PeterMortensen and close voters - we should not close official faq questions. — Shadow Wizard 3 mins ago

@rene ^

If anything, we have to first flag, ask to remove the faq then close. But otherwise just close others as duplicates of the faq, even if older or asked better. As far as I see it, faq comes first.

rene

@ShadowWizard ah, I missed that it was tagged faq :(

thankfully we have at least one user that pays attention

Shadow Wizard

:D

Well, closed the other one as dupe. If the faq will get closed, I'll reopen. The wonders of the hammer.... :P

user335633

1:01 PM

mc hammer?

user335633

you know "can't touch this"

Shadow Wizard

lol

@DamienPaul this hammer:

user335633

so cool!

Shadow Wizard

Yup. Got three of those on MSE, two in SO. ;)

user335633

an orchestra of hammers!

Shadow Wizard

1:09 PM

yup. Lovely sound!

user335633

I using the teaspoons of editing at the moment

user335633

my goal is to reach 500 rep some time before the 4th millenia

user335633

what i do is, if i can't answer (most of the time), I edit and flag

user335633

1:24 PM

How many have these hammers?

rene

@DamienPaul here you go for Stack Overflow per tag: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/543937

user335633

one day i'll get a hammer - somewhere in the geological future ;P

user335633

that's a lot of hammers

rene

@DamienPaul turns out if you focus on a tag it doesn't go unnoticed. That was when I was working towards this one

user335633

this is good - something to aim for!

FOX 9000

3:32 PM

Bot started.

Shadow Wizard

>>cat say hello to {{ping Dam}}

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard say hello to @Dam

Shadow Wizard

>>cat throw {{randomchoice hammer tomato}} on @{{randomchoice {{getcurrentusers pingformat}}}}

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard throw tomato on @FOX9000

@ShadowWizard throw tomato on @ProgramFOX

Shadow Wizard

whoops. hides

>>reply 5285331

FOX 9000

3:42 PM

@ShadowWizard tile

Shadow Wizard

hmm... let's see something....

>>link OMNOMNOM where_have_you_gone_come_back_or_I_will_fox_you

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard Link added.

Shadow Wizard

>>reply 5254990

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard Message does not qualify as a message that belongs to the word association game.

Shadow Wizard

grrrr

>>unlink OMNOMNOM where_have_you_gone_come_back_or_I_will_fox_you

FOX 9000

3:44 PM

@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: link?

Shadow Wizard

>>removelink OMNOMNOM where_have_you_gone_come_back_or_I_will_fox_you

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard Link removed.

Shadow Wizard

@FOX9000 hehe

yay!

@FOX9000 !delete!

>>link hehe where_have_you_gone_come_back_or_I_will_fox_you

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard Link added.

@berserk where have you gone come back or I will fox you

Shadow Wizard

yay!!

@FOX9000 !delete!

haha, all evidence gone. :D

@FOX9000 mile

FOX 9000

3:50 PM

@ShadowWizard anchorage

Shadow Wizard

@FOX9000 shortage

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard labor

berserk

4:15 PM

@FOX9000 lol.

kicks @Sha in the butt

DroidDev

4:26 PM

@ShadowWizard welcomes @DamienPaul into Den of boobs

did I get that right?

berserk

Never knew Shadow is a boob.

DroidDev

4:45 PM

oops...

Shadow Wizard

5:30 PM

@DroidDev yes! :D

@berserk that was my secret, but it's now exposed.... :P

@berserk good to have you back!

So now we can give @Dam a proper welcome

Especially when @Dam is not here

So @Dam will get some pings to his precious inbox

I warned @Dam in advance, same way I did with @Joe

Right, @Joe? And @Rubi helped with @Joe. /cc @Dam

I am still not sure if @Dam likes boobs.

Rubisco

I'll just keep watching

ProgramFOX

You never get bored with ping spams, do you, @Sha?

Shadow Wizard

@Dam is Single, was Double before.

@ProgramFOX some see this as spam, some as proper welcome... /cc @Dro @ber @Joe @MAR @Dam :D

@Dam might be just a one time visitor, but also might become a real Den'er.

I do hope to see @Dam back here.

It's now 03:35 AM in @Dam's place, so guess he's sleeping.

Nothing like waking up to a bunch of pings, right @Dam?

And the fun part is that you can revenge, @Dam

@Joe is good at ping revenging. @Dam you can ask him for advice.

So good morning @Dam and hope you'll have a good Sunday! :-D

berserk

5:58 PM

@ShadowWizard damn, I was having a boob around everyday and couldn't catch :C

@ShadowWizard ty :3

Shadow Wizard

6:44 PM

@berserk and you keep kicking the boob's butt! :D

berserk

XD

user335633

8:32 PM

you pinged?? LOL!

user335633

17 pings - that is awesomely impressive! A very nice thing to wake up to!

user335633

I am enjoying being a Danizen @ShadowWizard

user335633

Hey @ShadowWizard which time zone are you in?

user335633

I was more of a String before, but now I am more of a Debonair Unhandled Exception

user335633

@ShadowWizard

user335633

8:41 PM

@ShadowWizard I am enjoying this!

user335633

did you see and worship the updated self answer I wrote @ShadowWizard?

user335633

You are right, this is fun @ShadowWizard!

user335633

@berserk @Rubisco

user335633

@ShadowWizard - cause I can

berserk

@DamienPaul hi, welcome to the Den :)

you can ping me to your heart's content

user335633

8:49 PM

thank you, thank you @berserk

user335633

that's a dangerous allowance @berserk!

user335633

I am enjoying the pings alot @berserk (especially getting revenge on @ShadowWizard)

user335633

I also get a little insecure about my posts @berserk (I know I shouldn't)

user335633

so how are you @berserk?

user335633

have you had a ping storm from @ShadowWizard as well?

berserk

8:56 PM

lol

I am fine, wbu? :)

user335633

pretty good- woken up by a rather unsettling nightmare, but the coffee is fixing that

berserk

ah

user335633

so, what do you do for a living?

berserk

I am android dev

user335633

very nice! I have been dabbling with Android

user335633

9:04 PM

though I have been using Python

berserk

hmm

user335633

I am about 300 years from reaching 1K

Shadow Wizard

lol

You are a true Den'er @Dam :P

@DamienPaul my pleasure! :D

user335633

bwahahahahhaaha

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul UTC+2 (so now it's 12:10 AM here)

user335633

9:11 PM

isn't that your bedtime?

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul of course, it's LEGENDARY!

@DamienPaul nah, still got ~1.5 hours to go... will go over what @Dro sent yesterday then play some Witcher :D

user335633

@ShadowWizard lol - did you actually read it? LOL

Shadow Wizard

@DamienPaul read? Yes! Understood? No! :P

@DamienPaul not sure about a storm but over the time @ber got thousands of pings from me.... right, @ber? :D

user335633

LOL

berserk

XD

user335633

9:13 PM

1000's?? LOL

Shadow Wizard

It's more like endless rain of pings :P

Yeah, usually with throwing stuff on @ber

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=throwing&room=721

@Dam ^

Actually I started slacking recently, need to sharpen my throwing skills again!

throwing boobs on @ber

user335633

LOL

user335633

ROFL even

Shadow Wizard

See @Dam? That's what we do here. :D

@DamienPaul hope the floor is not too cold! ;)

user335633

I live in the tropics, cold floors are lovely

Shadow Wizard

9:16 PM

:D

user335633

mind you, I am moving to more temperate climates

Shadow Wizard

Well there's always pmsl as well!

It starts hot, then turning cold..... :P

user335633

that be true, and of course, the immortal ROFLMAO

user335633

yup, I'll be absorbing the energy

Shadow Wizard

Lots of energy.... ;)

user335633

9:21 PM

I need it for the editing that I do

user335633

lol, I just remembered I answered an old Hadoop question about documentation - and i do not know why

Shadow Wizard

lol

user335633

I don't even know Hadoop

user335633

Hadoop counters

Shadow Wizard

That's too bad!

user335633

9:29 PM

but now that I found the documentation the questioner was asking for - I have access and now the power is mine!

user335633

0

A: Hadoop Counters documentation?

Chapter 8 of the Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (full PDF in link from Washington State University), provides details of Counters, to do with MapReduce. This starts on page 225 and are listed in Table 8-1. A more up to date edition (4th) of this resource is available at Safari Books Online (you wil...

berserk

@ShadowWizard :3

pls throw a gf on me :3

user335633

LOL

user335633

but, to be honest, when I read the documentation about hadoop counters, I have to say that they were interesting

user335633

OMG

Proper welcome of @JoErNanO to the Den ;)

Language Overflow

@FOX following boobs

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