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9:00 PM

I think @balpha is telling me I should be packing

(or working on XMPP)

Tim Stone

Heheh

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My plan for world domination is almost complete. I am the #3 user on both MSO and SO chat now! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAA

Now all I need is a death ray

Tim Stone

@TheUnhandledException The league of evil minions is taking an obligatory six to eight more weeks to finish that.

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@TimStone Awesome. I can wait :-)

Tim Stone

@balpha I want you to reimplement chat in the language and design of my choosing because I saw it work somewhere else and have decided to totally ignore the fact that what we currently have works perfectly fine. plzkthnx.

balpha

9:10 PM

where have I just heard that before :)

Tim Stone

I have no idea, I thought it was an original feature request ;)

rchern

/me recalls her comment about people having an open mind (;

balpha

@TimStone liar, you're still in that room

Tim Stone

@rchern If my mind was open, the scary thoughts would get out.

rchern

heh

Tim Stone

9:13 PM

@balpha If nothing else, I don't remember any IRC room I've ever been in having epic easter eggs, so.

Michael Mrozek

@TimStone You probably just didn't discover them

Most IRC networks have this awesome easter egg where you type "/me likes actions" and it outputs " MichaelMrozek likes actions "

(let it be known that I won't rest until we have slash commands. If that wasn't already apparent)

rchern

\o/

Tim Stone

@MichaelMrozek Yes, that must be it. How naive of me.

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@rchern Drowning?

Call 911

Michael Mrozek

@rchern You're the chat userscript person. You should get on that

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9:15 PM

@MichaelMrozek Get on what? Slash commands?

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, there is already a userscript for /me

Michael Mrozek

Yes

rchern

but i haven't installed it

Michael Mrozek

Oh. Jackpot

rchern

the point isn't for /me to look nice to me

Tim Stone

9:16 PM

Apparently @rchern is getting credit for the whole chat now.

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A: /me command for chat

Okay, well this has been a contentious debate but in the spirit of Friday, and the Friday opening a long weekend (here in the US anyway) I propose the following solution, which I hereby make Community Wiki so those jQuery experts out there can improve it: To add support for the /me command, if y...

rchern

it is for it to look nice for everyone

@Tim, what?

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@TimStone LOL

Michael Mrozek

is fine with it looking like this

Tim Stone

in Chat feedback on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 mins ago, by Irwin

"good job"? @rchern worked on this?

rchern

9:16 PM

o:

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@rchern Agreed

Michael Mrozek

@TimStone We need to encourage this. Anytime @balpha or @MarcGravell indicate they wrote the chat call them liars and defer to @rchern

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@MichaelMrozek AHAHAHAHA.

rchern

oh gawd

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That's tempting... but I'll pass

Michael Mrozek

9:18 PM

Oh, I see, that userscript messes with incoming messages. I want one that intercepts messages I'm sending and does stuff based on their contents

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No offense @rchern!

Michael Mrozek

Like I want to be able to type /join 77 and have it join chat feedback, not send that message

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@MichaelMrozek LOL. Like what stuff?

Ah

I could write that. But after XMPP integration

In fact XMPP will have some slash commands

Michael Mrozek

/star 240666, that sort of thing

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@MichaelMrozek exactly what I planned to do in XMPP

rchern

9:19 PM

hmmm

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/edit 240666, /star 240666, /delete 240666

Michael Mrozek

@TheUnhandledException I rather like the web interface though, I plan to keep using it

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, now that i've got the ids shown on all messages

hmmmmm

Michael Mrozek

@rchern My plan is to somehow identify the most recent 10 messages or so in a way that makes it easy to reference them, like /star A instead of /star ######

But it needs to be a way that doesn't change when a new message comes in

Maybe just cycling through A-J, removing whatever is on the tenth oldest and adding it to the newly incoming message

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@MichaelMrozek I love the web interface

I'm just saying

What you described is what I planned for XMPP

Michael Mrozek

9:20 PM

@TheUnhandledException Well, good idea :)

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@rchern Do explain?

rchern

@TheUnhandledException, i wrote a userscript this morning that shows the id of each message on the right just like the timestamp so that i can do explicit replies without the mouse

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@rchern DO WANT!!!!!!!

That's awesome

I like your style @rchern :-)

@TheUnhandledException I can use that to reply to my own messages more easily

As I just proved with the above dyslexia

@rchern I'm loving your timeline userscript

rchern

privatepaste.com/ce85377367 github link to the additional plugin is in there

@TheUnhandledException, what's your browser of choice again?

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@rchern For SO chat, Chrome. For normal browsing, Safari :-(

Or Firefox if I'm under linux/windows

Michael Mrozek

9:26 PM

Maybe a little IE on the side. And of course Opera

rchern

ah, kk. chrome doesn't support @require in userscripts so i was gonna tell you to use that if you didn't use chrome

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@MichaelMrozek Neither of those two

@rchern Thanks!

rchern

it isn't perfect, but i also spent just a few minutes on it

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Safari doesn't support userscripts AFAIK so maybe I'll use Chrome for SO questions too :-)

rchern

(hint: edit a message)

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9:28 PM

Sec, copying more files to my laptop for my trip :-)

OK so... sorry for being lame @rchern but do you know how I install this in Chrome? :-)

Maxim Zaslavsky

9:44 PM

hello

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Hi @Maxim

How are you?

Maxim Zaslavsky

good, you?

what's up

when's Happy Hour?

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@MaximZaslavsky I'm going great thanks, since I have next week off :-)

@MaximZaslavsky I think the mods stopped that, they were getting complaints :-(

Maxim Zaslavsky

oh

lol

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Or were you being facetious? :-)

Maxim Zaslavsky

9:51 PM

:D

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@Chacha102 used to have an automatic popup every day for "Happy Hour", lol

George Marian

Maxim Zaslavsky

anyway g2g

bye!

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@MaximZaslavsky Later!

George Marian

gah...dang nabit

Michael Mrozek

9:52 PM

@TheUnhandledException Go here: mrozekma.com/so-chat-ids.user.js

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@GeorgeMarian That is awesome

George Marian

@TheUnhandledException Oh, the image is showing up?

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@MichaelMrozek Thanks!

@GeorgeMarian I followed the link

The thumbnail was broken

George Marian

ah, ok

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There we go

George Marian

9:53 PM

There we go. :)

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HEY! :-)

George Marian

The scotch for programming geeks. :D

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I have to try that now @George!

George Marian

It's pretty decent and not too pricey.

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I'm a fan of Dewars myself

John Dewar & Sons

Dewar's is a brand of blended Scotch whisky. History Dewar's was created by John Dewar, Sr. in 1846. Under the control of his two sons, John A. Dewar Jr. (Lord Forteviot) and Thomas "Tommy" Dewar (Lord Dewar), the brand expanded to a global market by 1896. Tommy became famous as the author of a travel journal, Ramble Round the Globe, which documented his travels while publicizing the Dewar name. Dewar's eventually expanded their product by constructing the Aberfeldy Distillery in 1896, which produces single malt Scotch whisky under the labels Aberfeldy 12 and Aberfeldy 21. The ...

George Marian

9:55 PM

Glenlivet is a favorite of mine.

rchern

@TheUnhandledException, sorry, was away for a bit. figure out the script?

George Marian

I'm a single malt kinda guy.

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@rchern yes with help from @MichaelMrozek -- thanks!

rchern

kk

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@rchern Wait. You were "away"?

I thought you were just part of chat!

How can you go "away"? ;-)

rchern

9:57 PM

oy

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LOL

rchern

i need to fix it to handle edited messages though

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@rchern Not bad for a quick script though!

Damn, something broke my fanatic script

On SO I now have: visited 368 days, 4 consecutive

)`:

Odd because on meta I've visited 153 days, 33 consecutive

George Marian

heh

That's what you get for trying to game the system. ;)

rchern

hehe

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10:04 PM

@GeorgeMarian This... is true, sadly

Tim Stone

0

Q: Timestamps: why not human readable?

This: 2010-10-15 00:22:30Z to 2010-10-15 23:59:59Z I didn't naturally associate the "today", etc. links with the timestamps. This isn't a problem unless it's the initial page load, whereby nothing is highlighted: Initial Load

This question makes me sad.

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I'm not going to complain about my cheating :-)

George Marian

lol

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@TimStone Um, how is it that question has a net total score of 1 when it has +0 / -1?

Tim Stone

@TheUnhandledException Uh, it was rolled back once, maybe that did it?

Seems..wrong though.

I have no idea, I can't see the split on meta.

But now it's time to go out for a bit, so I'll be back later.

faithfully idles

rchern

10:07 PM

i see a total of -1

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@TimStone Later!

@rchern I just downvoted it

rchern

when did you see total=1?

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Q: How can a post have an overall score of +1 with 0 up and 1 down votes?

I've been notified of this answer (meanwhile deleted) at score 0, upvoted it, realized it being a duplicate of this older answer and removed my upvote again, yielding 0 as expected. Later on I added a respective comment and because apparently somebody else upvoted the post in the meantime I tried...

bug voting

or maybe

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Q: Bug: Viewing total up/down votes incorrect before refreshing

See this video: http://screencast.com/t/JsMiMbOyyqYU (I'd also like to take this opportunity to point out my last bug request, which was closed as non-reproducible... but can't you just log into my account to reproduce it? I can reproduce it on every machine/browser I've tried it on, but only ...

bug

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@rchern Befor I downvoted

@rchern Probably:

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A: How can a post have an overall score of +1 with 0 up and 1 down votes?

Probably a race condition on the denormalized data. It seems to be correct now.

rchern

(:

Chacha102

Hello

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10:18 PM

Hey @Chacha102

I read the SO chat FAQ and cracked up at this part

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