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1:00 PM
@rchern Well, crud. I thought it became the standard while I wasn't looking.
 
it is the standard. doesn't mean i have to like it. >_>
 
@rchern Oh. Okay then. Sorry for causing you discomfort.
 
Using this totally unscientific method of running this script every few minutes on the SO homepage
 
it got a bit of discussion on our meta, but not much. meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54/…
 
I have determined that the average number of views for those questions on the homepage is around 30-40
With a median from 10-20
Does that actually make any sense?
 
1:03 PM
ok, pop quiz time. if the source function for jquery ui autocomplete works fine, why would select and focus see ui.item as undefined
(:
@YiJiang, seems like that would work if there are a couple of very high outliers
 
@rchern Is your source function returning anything?
 
yup.
typing in a partial match, i see the matches appear in the ui as expected
 
@rchern It shouldn't, I think
> A response callback, which expects a single argument to contain the data to suggest to the user. This data should be filtered based on the provided term, and can be in any of the formats described above for simple local data (String-Array or Object-Array with label/value/both properties).
 
oh, um, it doesn't return anything literally. but the source function appears to be working because i see the data in the ui as expected.
sorry, it's too early (;
 
@rchern that is in fact the discussion I found before I created [site-rec].
 
1:06 PM
I think the source function shouldn't return anything, but rather, pass the array to the response callback
 
yeah, that's what it does
my bad @YiJiang
@PopularDemand, as i stated in an answer, and others did too, the readability is really poor. people who aren't in the know don't know what it means
 
@rchern Erm... console.log(typeof ui.item) ?
 
console.log(typeof ui); console.dir(ui)
 
@rchern I think that "rec" as shorthand for "recommendation" is more common than you think it is.
 
hopefully i guess shrugs
i retagged the 2 i saw from just now
 
1:10 PM
@rchern You sure you defined the anonymous function as select: function( event, ui ) ?
 
@PopularDemand It's more common than it makes sense
still annoyed by his game-reccomendation tag being changed to game-rec.
However we can't have fps because... oh well you all know this story.
 
@radp Ah, I see. Perhaps there was a fear that people would misspell it as you did? Or maybe people were just lazy and didn't know about tab autocomplete? Or were so lazy that they didn't even want to use autocomplete?
 
eh, misspells is what the synonym system is for.
 
@YiJiang, jsfiddle.net/wkmWC . I guess I should probably post on SO but I feel like I'm making a stupid error.
 
Hey, looks like the tavern people closed the regex to tell difference between 0 and O question
No reopen votes... yet
 
1:15 PM
@YiJiang Woo hoo, we've finally done something in the name of good here!
 
@PopularDemand, 'bout time (;
 
@rchern Right?
 
Morning
 
allo @spoulson
 
@spoulson Salut.
 
1:18 PM
@PopularDemand What you call me?!
 
@spoulson Heh. I think you're joking, but in case you're not, it's informal hello in French.
 
Obvious troll is obvious
@PopularDemand Bonjour, mon amie
 
@rchern Okay, the focus event works
Erm... actually, you already know that I think
 
@spoulson So, how 'bout that Meta?
 
o: no it doesn't. turn on your console when doing focus. the screenshot of undefined i showed ^^^ is from focus.
 
1:23 PM
@PopularDemand Not sure I follow
 
@rchern Your right... the ui object doesn't contain anything
 
@spoulson Like "so how about that weather?" only not.
I was just trying to move things along.
And now you ruined it.
 
@rchern Oh, but there is one thing you might want to take note
Remember that the alt attribute is for alternative
So there's no point in repeating label for alt
Just set it to blank, so that you're not repeating yourself there
 
@PopularDemand That's what I do. I ruin things for everybody.
 
Also, weird, but I think the icon from the sstatic CDN is cached, while the one you're using isn't
 
1:26 PM
Hmm, trying out the new Ubuntu 10.10 and am a little disappointed the netbook edition requires 3D hardware
Only because VMware doesn't emulate it and so the netbook interface won't run.
 
@spoulson I was like that, in grade school. That's why I'm a software developer today!
 
And I'm not sure my Dell Mini9 has 3D hardware for upgrading
 
@YiJiang Yeah I realized that, but right now I just want it fully functioning, ya know? (:
 
@rchern I'm sorry, I really can't find the problem
When I added that code back into my version
Somehow it works
 
hello all
 
1:34 PM
@rchern I think it's because you're using an array of objects instead of strings
 
@AidenBell Hello.
 
Anyone here ever seen this from VS: "A debugger is attached to YourApp.vshost.exe but not configured to debug this unhandled exception. To debug this exception, detach the current debugger."
don't see how I can detach the current debugger without the application stopping.. :(
 
@PopularDemand How's you today?
 
@AidenBell Alright, I guess.
Doesn't seem to be a spectacular or unusual day so far.
 
Good stuff I guess
 
1:47 PM
@AidenBell Meh, I'd be much happier if these environment errors would disappear. There are configuration changes going on over my head that I can't figure out how to work around.
 
Hehe...
Hmmm.... chat doesn't detect this as a image
Stupid query string
 
@YiJ when it doesn't, put an exclamation mark before the URL
 
Hello
 
All tech sites should aspire to be banned in China and Iran
It should be a medal of honour
 
I'm really happy today
 
1:57 PM
Standing meeting time!
 
@Chacha102, why?
 
Whoa, I hadn't looked at IE9, sorry, I mean MSChrome before. Amazing.
 
@JohntheSeagull MSChrome... haha. I don't know why, but it's a little unstable for me. Crashed more than a few times after waking from sleep
 
@Benjol The next content for the next expansion of World of Warcraft is being released today
 
Tomorrow in europe
 
2:06 PM
:)
 
@YiJiang Although I don't see it being a reason to move away from Chrome (especially while it's at beta)
 
And in 10 days I get to go to BlizzCon
 
To do what?
 
Isn't Chrome 7 out one of these days?
 
@LasseVKarlsen 8 is in the dev pipelines I think
The version numbers mean nothing now with the new version every 6 (?) weeks schedule
 
2:08 PM
It means new features
Or at least a new major milestone
A sprint so to speak
 
@LasseVKarlsen Nah, I don't think you can associate any feature with any version numbers now for Chrome
 
@YiJiang The current dev release is 7. There is a new channel thought that AFAIK is on 8. Can't remember the name for it at the moment
 
I thought 7 was supposed to get hardware acceleration on Windows
 
There we go, the new channel is Canary: chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
 
@LasseVKarlsen I think it's easier to refer to the progress of new features based on which channel the feature is appearing in
 
2:11 PM
@LasseVKarlsen I wish it didn't. I also wish the Mac version would stop switching graphics cards.
Just for browsing.
 
Good morning everyone
 
I maintain that Chrome munches more memory than FF
@TheUnhandledException mornin'
 
Quick. Hide all the alcohol and food.
 
@AidenBell It does, without all the memory leaking Firefox addons at least
 
@AidenBell Not a remote chance in Hell. I have done that test. Firefox is dead to me as far as I am concerned. I would rather use IE.
 
2:17 PM
@Diago LOL. Working today, won't be drinking until later :-)
 
@TheUnhandledException - You going to try and avoid winding up @PopularDemand today? lol
 
@AidenBell But then Safari has given me the best performance of all.
 
@AidenBell LOL, yes :-)
 
@Diago - My test is "the sites I go on" and "leaving the browser open for days" ... FF will sometimes go mental and eat 2Gb .... but on average, I feel Chrome hides behind the whole multi-process thing. Im sure exhaustive testing would agree with you.
 
@Diago Gasp! IE9 or some other IE?
 
2:19 PM
@AidenBell Chrome actually has a about:memory tab that does this I think. The last time I tried it it also captured Firefox's memory usage, fancy that...
 
@AidenBell Oh, I am a fragile flower, no question about it.
 
@PopularDemand Like SO, I have a rule. The only Beta browser I support is Chrome Dev Channel.
 
@PopularDemand - I know, I heard you crying and everything
from England
:P
 
@AidenBell In that case, on my particular configuration, Safari wins hand down but Chrome is close enough for me to use it.
 
@Diago - I use chromium mainly ... which is the real test I suppose.
 
2:21 PM
Nobody else is worried about Chrome's un-disable-able messages to Google or automatic downloads of updates?
 
@AidenBell Firefox, always. Chrome's extension's quality just kills me
 
@AidenBell Does Chromium have the sync features of Chrome? I know it doesn't have the branding?
 
@YiJiang for web development work, yep FF
 
@PopularDemand Privacy? We still have that these days?
 
@Diago - Not that I am aware. Not sure if it phones hope though. But it still annoys me that if you bang in a URL without http:// much of the time it decides you actually want to search google
No branding though
I think mainly it is void of Google's "extras"
 
2:23 PM
@AidenBell That's the deal breaker for me. I use a few different machines and OS's and having everything in sync is a life saver.
Only because it's simple and easy to configure and get running.
 
@Diago - I only come here, Python's docs and dev.server.lan lol
@Diago - Also, Chromium is the only stable release of the Chrome(ium?) source on Fedora IIRC
 
@YiJiang When Google flips isEvil to true for April 1 one year, I will live slightly longer than the rest of you people.
 
@AidenBell I have a few sites I visit but I do not have much reason to be online anymore.
 
@AidenBell I thought Google maintains it's own repo?
 
is it just me or is bicycles.stackexchange.com down
 
2:26 PM
@PopularDemand Awesome. It means I don't have to plan further then 1 April every year :)
@JoePhilllips We know. They are all down it seems.
 
@Diago - Really? No Facebook or Twitter lol Nice stat - 90%+ of social agnostics are engineers of some discipline.
 
6
Q: Stackexchange DNS seems to be down.

C. RossAccording to discussion in our chat, and downforeveryoneorjustme, http://rpg.stackexchange.com is down. I can still access it, so I think it's a DNS thing. Update: Gaming seems down too, and a number of others mentioned in the comments

 
@Diago Weird... gaming returned 404 for about a second there, then started working again
 
@AidenBell I hate twitter, despise Facebook and the whole social networking thing is a waste of freaking time
 
Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find rpg.stackexchange.com: No answer
 
2:27 PM
@YiJiang I am assuming our very smart network specialist are working on it
 
@Diago - Agreed. I had a Facebook for a month as I am "willing to challenge my principles" but they were solid hehe
 
@AidenBell @Diago is just bitter because nobody wants to be his friend. (;
 
@rchern "friend"
 
Facebook is great and annoying at the same time
 
ambiguous on FB
 
2:28 PM
@Diago I strongly maintain that Facebook is trying to be the internet
 
@rchern No, because my wife seems to think everything on Facebook is true. Let's not go down that road.
 
One word. Farmville.
 
TV commercials nowadays carries a "Friend us on Facebook" button instead of their website's URL
 
What the... how did I never see this before? From the blog post "Improvements to the bounty system":
 
@YiJiang remember AOL keywords?
 
2:29 PM
How is there a +750 bounty?
 
@AidenBell I'm not that old....
 
@YiJiang - Christ! Im 23 ... how old are you?
 
(The actual SO question only reports a +50 bounty for that answer.)
 
@PopularDemand Two different bounties on the same answer?
@AidenBell 16
 
@Diago: Wait, there are things that are not true on the Internet? I'm not following...
 
2:30 PM
@PopularDemand I have no lost all respect for you. In one foul swoop.
 
@JoePhilllips No... it's just annoying.
 
@YiJiang - Sweet mercy, I wish I was 16 again. I wouldn't be in here I tell you that
 
@Diago - Na, it is a valid topic :P
 
@Diago @rchern "How do the people writing in RTL languages emote? (:"
 
2:32 PM
@Diago Bug report: I just lost all my rep on Diago.SE.com, why?
 
@PopularDemand I told you already
@AidenBell Then I am definitely submitting my Vampires & Werewolves SE site.
 
@Diago Your reply points to the 750-rep bounty thing, which makes no sense.
 
@Diago - My "contemplation of the font and relative dimensions of keys on modern and historic keyboards" will beat it to commit
 
@AidenBell yijiang.life = 0;
 
@YiJiang - When I was 16 .... ah the tales lol
 
2:35 PM
@PopularDemand It's the auto reply system kicking in. I just mentioned you directly.
 
@AidenBell Would anybody vote for Stonehenge.SE?
 
@AidenBell Probably. But I could always follow up with Diago.SE as already mentioned :P
 
no. It needs to be utterly useless
 
@YiJiang Actually I am sure I saw one named that not to long ago.
 
Is that Q&A about @Diago ?
 
2:36 PM
@AidenBell Yeah. But I should maybe go with JonSkeet.SE first :P
 
i'm pretty sure that's been created and closed
 
@Diago - Skeet can ** my * and then * it right up the *** lol
bold fail
 
@Diago Wait, you mean that didn't get closed and rolled into history 1 second after it's proposal?
 
@Diago Oh, right. I'm still confused. But whatever.
 
Yey, I've earned the "Enthusiast" badge on Meta
 
2:38 PM
@YiJiang If you could provide five good example questions for each side, sure.
 
status-enthusiast
 
SO is broken. My question is 20 minutes old and has no answers!!
(;
 
link
 
@rchern Reproed by thousands:
 
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Q: jQuery UI AutoComplete ui.item is undefined

rchernA jsfiddle of this code can be found here. Pretty basic code. I just want an autocomplete list for the list of sites in the Stack Exchange network with their favicon. The source function works fine. I can type in sta and see the matches. If I hover over them or select one, but the focus and ...

 
Tim
That's really a tag? :P
 
it came up in the list shrugs
 
@rchern I'm retagging it
Now it's javascript jquery jquery-ui jquery-ui-autocomplete
 
that's a lot of tags for 1 simple topic (;
 
@YiJiang You forgot [programming] and [computers].
 
2:43 PM
Hey @TheUnhandledException take a peek at posiverse.com/jason
 
@PopularDemand Well the, the chain of tags would looks like jquery-ui-autocomplete jquery-ui jquery javascript-library javascript ecmascript web-development user-interface programming internet computers human earth the-universe
That covers about it
 
oy
 
@YiJiang Agreed, that would be optimal.
 
@TheUnhandledException I put together a mockup, and the new addition to the team started a real template.
 
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Q: Jquery UI autocomplete event change

Stenly.kHi I got a problem with change event. By documntation there should be object ui.item After an item was selected; ui.item refers to the selected item. Always triggered after the close event. But when I try it ui.item is undefined :( I want unset s_town_id when input in autocomplete doesn't ...

@rchern
 
2:45 PM
@Fosco Sweet! Checking now
@Fosco I like it, nice work!
 
it's a bit too purple-y for me, but you might like it since your gravatar is too...
 
@AidenBell, i recall reading that. the accepted answer gave me a headache trying to understand it >_>
 
@TheUnhandledException hehe.. the girl on the right with her hands up in the air.. she's yelling "PURPLLLLLLE!"
 
@rchern Self answer, let me see if I can decipher it
 
2:48 PM
@Fosco ROFLOL
Don't you mean BLURRRRRRPPPLLLLEEEEE!!!! :-D
 
:P
 
@YiJiang, doesn't seem valid, event doesn't have a originalEvent and type is "autocompletefocus" which seems like i wouldn't want to ignore that.
 
@rchern do you have a URL to the page?
 
@AidenBell, there's a jsfiddle link in my post.
sec
 
ah cool
 
2:52 PM
@AidenBell Which is actually based, sort of, off my code. Here's a working version using mine here: jsfiddle.net/yijiang/7ZTaJ/6
The only major difference I can see is that her's uses an array of object, while mine uses an array of strings
 
Tim
She also has a typo ;)
 
dammit
where?
 
Tim
.data("item.automcomplete",item)
 
@rchern Oh and before I forget
 
Tim
The m after auto
 
2:55 PM
        return false;
    }, // <- IE hates this
}).data("autocomplete")
 
@rchern - jsfiddle fully crashed Chrome then lol.
 
@YiJiang That gets me every time
 
@Tim @#%$&**(&%@$##^&^^&%%$
 
Switching to NetBeans IDE helps me a lot
 
it crashed chrome?
not for me o:
 
2:56 PM
It highlights extraneous commas as syntax errors
 
Tim
@rchern I actually only noticed after I compared against what @YiJiang had
 
@rchern yea, with a million print dialogs
@Tim the force is strong in this one
 
@Aiden, interesting. definitely not crashing on me
 
@rchern probably my buggy build. Fedora don't like Chrome at all, 0%
 
Morning.
 
2:58 PM
@Tim, you should add an answer to my question so I can be fully embarrassed and accept your answer. >_<
 
I accidentally fired a client. Now what?
 
/me races to rchern's Q
 
@Moshe Find a replacement :-)
 
@Moshe Isn't it usually the other way round? Client fires you?
 
@Aiden, even if you do post it before @Tim, since he pointed it out here I'm still accepting his answer (;
 
2:59 PM
@YiJiang well, ask @Fosco. He did that yesterday.
 
I love Miss Steaks
 
@rchern - im bored
 
Tim
Bastard beat me by 4 seconds :P
Hahah
 
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A: jQuery UI AutoComplete ui.item is undefined

Aiden BellI fully spotted this. Nothing to do with Tim. return $("<li></li>").data("item.automcomplete",item).append(a).appendTo(ul); Should be return $("<li></li>").data("item.autocomplete",item).append(a).appendTo(ul);

 
I hope you had an enjoyable [jewish] holiday season season. It has been a while since we last spoke about your app.

When we originally negotiated a price, we had agreed on $600. I mentioned to you on the phone in a later conversation that $600 was well below the market price but that I would agree to work for that amount considering that I had offered that price originally and that I wanted to keep to my word. You also were concerned about updates, which I told you at the time - and you agreed - would be dealt with under a separate agreement, as is standard practice.
 
3:02 PM
sounds eerily similar...
 
Any thoughts on this email?
@Fosco - actually, I consulted a lawyer lol.
The reply was interesting too.
 
@Tim - hey you got a +1 from the race.
 
@Moshe anonymity?... did you get scammed?
 
@Moshe - How true is (2)
 
how is that accidental?
 
3:04 PM
@Fosco - no. It's a Hasidic fellow. In their community, technology os taboo and he wants to remain anonymous to keep his personal life afloat.
 
ah..
 
And it's a news site. In a religious community it gets really political.
 
Ohhh... this is an email from you
oh yea, it says Moshe at the bottom
 
So what did he answer?
 
@Aiden 2 is true and yes it's from me.
The response:
 
3:06 PM
@Moshe - Apologies misread
 
Firstly I apologize it just matter of being bz miscommunication from my end.

Makes absolutely no sense cause of no deposit to jump the project price to , $1, 700.

I would have understood if u said u won’t proceed unless u get depot but where does 1+1 = 2 here.

In this case il pass sorry I don’t work like this.
 
I haven't yet received a response from the email I sent yesterday to my trouble client.
@Moshe you're better off...
 
@Moshe just drop it
 
Tim
@rchern As far as silly mistakes go, if it makes you feel better, I was "testing" some jQuery code the other day and was getting frustrated that an event handler wasn't working....Then I realized that I hadn't actually written down the code yet, only thought about it, heh.
 
i've done that before too haha
 
3:07 PM
@Tim +1
I have dreamed code and thought it was written
 
what i'll commonly do is have a jsfiddle or linqpad piece of code, and then think i copy it into my project and actually have not
 
Now what?
 
Tim
I feel better knowing I'm not the only one now, hahah.
 
Truth is that there is a competing site that I have a good working relationship with.
 
@Tim - For some reason, it never needs debugging in dreams
 
Tim
3:10 PM
@AidenBell My conclusion is that reality is broken.
 
@Fosco - the difference is that you are talking about more money and more professional work. Being a student, I'm freelancing as a hobby/sidejob.
And, I've already done a lot of the work.
@Fosco - why am I better off?
 
@Moshe I said that because he sounds like he's way more trouble than he's worth.. Maybe you can open-source it, get some publicity or something to show as a portfolio piece.. maybe you can find another client and re-use a lot of the code, etc..
If he was avoiding paying you $600, there's no reason to think he'd fork over $1,700.. and my think wasn't much more, just 2100, and I'm owed 1100 which I may never see.
 
Any watchmakers in the room? By very slim chance?
 
@Fosco makes sense. I mentioned - he has a competitor. I just like to make things right.
 
@AidenBell I used to make watches in Switzerland.. what are the odds?
 
3:13 PM
@Fosco Seriously!?!?!
 
@AidenBell No :) sorry, couldn't resist...
 
Awesome
Bastard.
 
I hate hardballing. And I do think I would have eventually seen the money.
 
lol
 
In also concerned about bad rep.
 
3:14 PM
he wont be telling anyone, since technology is taboo right? :P
 
And I don't mean SO rep.
 
@Fosco - Hasidic high-five
 
@Fosco, well he can work under his psuedonym or whatever.
Gtg back to class
 
@Moshe sounds like you could blackmail him for at least the $300.. not that I would ever suggest you do that.
 
@AidenBell lol. Please.
 
3:18 PM
@Moshe - I think @Fosco is right in all seriousness.
Cut your losses and turn it into a personal gain
 
2
Q: Could Stack Overflow be damaged by "URL poisoning"?

Alexandru LuchianThis might not be a big problem, but say the following URL is a good Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer Try this. Open a search engine, say Bing (I will explain later why I'm choosing Bing) and search for: what do y...

 
@PopularDemand Fun question, definitely should try it out with the Google "Add a URL" thingy next time
Though the author noted that such URLs get flushed out of the Google system much faster than Bing
 
@PopularDemand Wow, I don't understand, how is that working?
How does Bing know that URL will work?
 
because they check it, and it does work.
 
@TheUnhandledException I can only assume that he posted it on a personal blog, or something.
 
3:23 PM
@Fosco How do they know to check it?
 
@TheUnhandledException It crawls them, so if I post that URL some where, and it get crawled, logically that link would appear in the database
 
@PopularDemand That makes sense
 
I didn't realize at first that you could actually use that URL, so I tried to clarify that in my edits.
 
I've been commenting on this post for 20 minutes and I still don't get how you could use it to do anything useful at all
 
@MichaelMrozek My comment didn't work for you at all?
 
3:23 PM
@TheUnhandledException There's also the "Add URL" service provided by all of the search engine
 
@TheUnhandledException he submits the URL
 
@MichaelMrozek Yeah I'm not sure I see the issue. I know it's very weird, but haven't been convinced it's an attack vector
 
Example, then:
 
@PopularDemand I didn't get what you meant in it, no
 
@PopularDemand - Yea, that is interesting
 
3:24 PM
@MichaelMrozek Well, you could set up a Bing/Google bomb with this
 
I guess I wasn't clear if he posted the URL, or if Bing pulled the URL out of thin air
 
I don't quite get it either.. because all you'll get people to is a SO question.
 
Like the famous Failure -> George Bush one
 
@Fosco That's the part I'm stuck on. I don't know how getting an unrelated SO post as the #1 search result for "my competitor is a terrible person" does anything
 
3:26 PM
> I feed that URL to search engines, and post it in an answer to the question, to boost interest in my product. I guess that's not a good example, but I hope you get my point.
Well, what is a good example? :-)
 
Say I work for the IDE SolarShadow. I see that there's a high-scoring WebNuts post on SO (question #1234567). I can now go out and spam links to stackoverflow.com/questions/1234567/webnuts-sells-cheap-viagra-ha-ha-ha to try to make WebNuts look bad. As a side effect, SO becomes associated with Viagra spam.
Any resemblance to actual IDEs is, uh, "coincidental." As in you're supposed to get it, but no actual wrongdoing or shadiness should be inferred.
 
@PopularDemand But how does that make WebNuts look bad? People google for "WebNuts" and see a link to "Whatever the real title is for question 1234567", and think "well that's a stupid first result". And that's it
 
@MichaelMrozek The URL is also displayed in search results, isn't it?
 
@PopularDemand And enough people would read and think "well if that URL says it, WebNuts must be terrible" to actually matter?
I know little to nothing about search engines, but SO is about the 9000th site to do this embedding-titles-in-URLs thing, so I'm fairly convinced this can't be a brilliant new attack vector (even disregarding the ones that depend on an accurate title to resolve)
 
Tim
@MichaelMrozek Well, tons of people spread chain messages....so I'm not sure on this one. :P
 
3:29 PM
@MichaelMrozek Yeah, I agree with this. I don't see the issue here
 
@MichaelMrozek I'm not saying it's a huge problem, but it's also not a non-zero problem. I'm not convinced, myself, that we should do anything about it.
 
@MichaelMrozek True, but that doesn't mean SO shouldn't try to prevent this from happening (if it could, that is)
 
I thought it was only fair to the OP to try to clarify what he meant, though.
 
Maybe the solution is a 301 redirect?
 
@TheUnhandledException If this is actually a problem, that probably is the best way to fix it
 
3:30 PM
@TheUnhandledException Pain, when question titles are edited legitimately.
I guess it could be handled automatically.
 
I'm still astonished that one person linking to stackoverflow.com/questions/123456/fake-title is enough to completely poison a search engine's results for "fake title". If that's true search engines are not doing things right
 
@MichaelMrozek How many other websites could there be about Ben Miller liking bananas?
 
@PopularDemand Well hopefully this attack isn't dependent on there not being any existing results for the search term, or this is even less effective than I thought
 
@PopularDemand That's what I meant, editing answer
 
@MichaelMrozek Only because the search term is rare enough
 
3:33 PM
Who posts a body-less question? (I know, I know, "NullUserException does!")
 
Then why not just make an entry on your blog with "fake title", and let search engines index that; using SO doesn't seem to be relevant
 
@PopularDemand Question is straightfoward enough, and so should the answer
@MichaelMrozek Basically, Googlebombing
The terms Google bomb and Googlewashing refer to practices intended to influence the ranking of particular pages in results returned by the Google search engine, in order to increase the likelihood of people finding and clicking on selections in which the individual or other entity engaging in this practice is interested. It is done for either business, political, or comedic purposes (or a combination of the latter). Google's search-rank algorithm ranks pages higher for a particular search phrase if enough other pages linked to it using similar anchor text (linking text such as "miserab...
 
Well, clearly I don't understand this very well, but something seems very wrong with either search engines or this MSO post, and I don't know which. I have a meeting though, I'll read through the comments after and try to understand it
 
Tim
3:47 PM
Apparently Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers. Not sure how that would differ from a normal ATM, but thank you Snapple Facts for sharing that enlightening piece of information.
 
@Tim Meh, you can't trust Snapple facts. They used to claim that humans can't lick their elbows, too.
 
Ey, Camtasia 7.1 is out, lots of really cool new tools
 
Tim
Damn Snapple conspiracies.
 

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