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Hahah
 
1:21 AM
You know the new Kinect cameras you can get for XBox 360s?
Well, here is an interesting video describing a really cool use for them:
That's right, a 3D camera.
 
2:04 AM
Q: How does SO have so much traffic yet so few people even casually clicking the chat links?
 
People probably just don't know what they're all about.
 
@DanGrossman The same reason why Meta is so much quieter
People are blind
 
proves he's not a robot for the 5th time today
 
2:51 AM
This guy is quite something, we should quote him every time a discussion about accept rate comes up:
15 Eligible questions, active for 11 months, yet not a single one accepted
I mean, I don't think I've seen someone actually actively avoid choosing an answer
But this seems pretty close
 
Maybe none of his previous questions had a correct answer. Looking through a couple, he never acknowledged any as being the solution in a comment.
 
His "best" question generated quite a large number of answers, all of which seems good
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Q: Efficiency of program

Abdul SamadHi all, I want to know whether there is an effect on program efficiency by adopting object oriented approach to a problem as compared to the structured programming approach in any programming language but specially in c++.

It's popular enough to generate a +8 answer, which should be good enough for anybody, frankly speaking
 
3:07 AM
I guess there's no reputation level where you can accept answers for another user
 
@DanGrossman No, there was a feature-req for that, but it was shot down pretty quickly
@GraceNote put it pretty well - paraphrasing here, "If we can accept answers on other's behalf, then the act of accepting answers will lose it's meaning"
 
anyone there?
 
@Chacha102 No. Oops.
 
 
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10:39 AM
 
@YiJiang :( ∙⌢∙ ): .⌣.
 
rages
 
@AidenBell As usual, then?
 
That guy EJP is getting right on my nerves
Each morning I wake up to another lame retort
 
@AidenBell That guy still hasn't deleted the answer, eh?
 
10:46 AM
Nope. Not only is he drawing out something pointless, in the wrong place, but he also fails to articulate himself
 
@AidenBell That's where I stop commenting and tell him to come onto chat if he really wants to continue.
 
I've asked a jQuery question which amazingly has not received an answer in 16 hours
 
@radp - It will only result in me tearing him apart. Or me ranting with no noticeable impact until I explode. lol
 
Possibly on chat.SE which is annoying enough to join :P
@AidenBell Isn't that the point? :D
 
@radp - In some ways, until I put my fist through my laptop.
:P
 
10:48 AM
@AidenBell That's why you get in chat, so other people can join in and call bullshit where it belongs.
 
It's not a particularly hard question, but my instincts that it'll require low level modification to the jQ UI library should be confirmed by the lack of answers
 
@radp - good point.
 
Nobody wants to modify the actual library, esp. something complex like jQ UI
 
@YiJiang Worst that happens you turn your site into Erkie.
Oh wait, maybe that's what happened...
 
@radp Gosh, Erkie is a mutation of jQuery! That's explains it!
 
10:58 AM
Just scored 5,710. :P
 
Glutton for punishment:
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Q: Running activex dll fromVB6 under windows 7

PatrickI'm adding some functionality to an old admin tool written in VB6. The tool uses a c++ activeX object. I haven't worked on the tool since I upgraded to windows 7 and now the active X object fails to load with the 429 "ActiveX component can't create object" error. I'm not knowledgeable about VB6 b...

 
 
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12:11 PM
@Benjol I think this question doesn't need a negative score to get a sympathy upvote.
 
12:27 PM
Quick question for the jQuery warriors amongst you
 
@radp Shoot
 
sometimes, Ars Technica articles come up with <ars:img src="foo" desc="bar"> tags that, I guess, are unprocessed tags waiting to be converted to whatever HTML Ars has for captioned pictures.
This makes the articles effectively imageless.
Now, I can fix this manually by going in the inspector and changing each ars:img to img.
 
@radp Looks like something used in their internal CMS
 
Yeah.
I also know I can select the ars:img tags with, well, $("ars:img")
...but then how'd I change the tag name?
 
@radp replaceWith should work here
 
12:30 PM
@radp yes, rather him than me :)
 
Hmmm... $("ars:img") doesn't seem to work
 
Okay
nevermind
$("ars:img") obviously doesn't work, I guess jQuery is looking for a selector.
 
document.getElementsByTagName('ars:img'); does
@radp The pseudo selector syntax, yes. But in this case I think it's XML namespace
 
However, document.getElementsByTagName('ars:img')[0].tagName = "img" is a no-op.
Which is the obvious thing that should happen when you attempt an invalid or unsupported operation: silent failure.
I guess what one'd have to do is get the image source with document.getElementsByTagName('ars:img')[0].attributes["src"], make a new img node, give it the src attrib and call it a day
...or flame the guys at Ars.
I guess I'll flame the guys at Ars.
 
var img = document.getElementsByTagName('ars:img');

for(var i = 0; i < img.length; i++){
    var r = document.createElement('img');
    r.src = img[i].getAttribute('src');
    img[i].parentNode.replaceChild(r, img[i]);
}
@radp Here ya go
Actually, I think you can escape the : in the tag name for jQuery selectors. Lemme see...
 
12:41 PM
Nope.
 
Oh, they fixed the problem. For shame....
 
Here, have a star still.
 
MWahahhahhahahha
Diamond mod Will obliterated EJP's nonsense
 
@AidenBell You called him in or he just happened to be passing by?
 
I flagged the post in frustration.
 
1:03 PM
@AidenBell I also do that sometimes. Then I think... what if I was the mod?
 
1:32 PM
I have a crazy day today and will be monitoring via XMPP. If you need me, @TheUnhandledException me
 
2:28 PM
This is what I mean about SO!
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A: Can I add a javascript alert inside a PHP function? If yes, how?

Aiden BellYes, you can, though I 100% guarantee this isn't what you want or what you mean: <?php function do_alert($msg) { echo '<script type="text/javascript">alert("' . $msg . '"); </script>'; } ?> <html><head><title>Hello</title></head&g...

A billion identical answers and answers that have a bit extra get swamped.
 
@AidenBell My brain...
 
@AidenBell, I don't get his comment on the top-voted answer
 
@AidenBell 8 answers in 11 mins... wow!
 
@YiJiang - Depressing stuff
 
Oh I give up. Markdown mini sucks
Why the F can't I bold/italicise a single character!?
 
2:45 PM
Dupe votes anyone?
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Q: Can I add a javascript alert inside a PHP function? If yes, how?

Ahmad FaridCan I add a javascript alert inside a PHP function? If yes, how?

 
@AidenBell That's a terrible dupe - I'm not voting for it until it get's cleaned up
 
Kev
What's the sort order for Featured Questions? I have one I put a 500 bounty on today but it's nowhere to be seen in the first 8 pages. I got my answer, but was interested to see where it would appear.
 
@YiJiang - there. Also good answer in the dupe
 
Kev
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Q: How do I prevent the Javascript InfoVis SpaceTree `ST.select()` method from collapsing nodes?

KevI'm using the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit and in particular the SpaceTree visualisation. I need to expand all of the tree and then show a path from a particular leaf node back to the root. I've got the tree to expand just fine but it's the selection of a leaf node and highlighting the path back ...

 
@AidenBell Voted
 
2:51 PM
@AidenBell, me too :)
He's proposing to delete it though...
 
@AidenBell voted
 
Gooooooooo team!
lol
 
Kev
Zapped
 
That is some blatant chat-army smackdown
hehe
 
haha
 
2:57 PM
Problem is with this 200 answers a second thing, is you answer first and check for dupes later ... so you have a two choices:
a) Be an answerer, blind to the scourge of duplication
b) Answer questions when you know a dupe *probably* exists, adding to the scourge
c) Avoid easy questions (which is 90+% now) to get a foot in
 
the obvious winning choice is a), then hope you float the top.
CLOSE ANSWERS AS DUPE FTW :P
Stupid idea of the now: let answerers merge their answers together. The merger's answer is deleted and he gets 5 rep for the trouble.
In the meantime the community is told to downvote dupes aggressively :P
 
@radp Post it to the "how to reduce dupes" question on MSO. It has 250 bounty on it right now I think
 
@radp - not a bad idea, though that sounds like some kind of CW deathmatch
 
This is the one
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Q: What can be done about repetitive questions?

Rejoice rejoice kbd is backSome questions tend to get asked in thousands and thousands of permutations. One such type of question is questions on Apache's mod_rewrite. This list of questions tagged .htaccess catches most (not all) of them. There are three "please write my rewrite rule for me" type questions today alone. ...

+250 from Pekka
 
3:12 PM
Why was this closed?
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Q: Everything Should Be Different

j_random_hackerI feel strongly that the current SO website would be much more effective if it was completely different than how it is now. Problems include: Closing eyes or adjusting monitor orientation causes site to disappear from view. No useful information about paint. Everything should be different. I...

 
@PopularDemand Well, it's not Friday... yet :P
 
@YiJiang It's always Friday. (In Iceland.)
I don't actually want it reopened, I just wanted to say "why was this closed" totally non-seriously for once. It's obviously a dupe of "Suggest a new front page layout" and "Question title that doesn't describe the problem."
 
@YiJiang That question is slightly different -- it's about dupe questions, not dupe answers.
 
The problem with dupe answers is that, when you look at common questions
The community usually upvotes the first correct sounding answer
But usually those ones are the ones that are missing valid but non-critical improvements
So what do more experienced users do?
 
Edit the points in? :P
 
3:19 PM
a) Edit. Nope, we can't change the original answers intent
 
No! Because edits give you no rep.
@YiJiang Refining an answer doesn't change its intent.
 
b) Post new answer - No, we don't want to duplicate 90% of the answer just to add in some optimizations
c) Comment - possibly, but there's no guarantee the answerer will answer
 
It is annoying to read a 95% complete answer
 
Good whatever, everyone.
 
regardless of the number of answers
You could answer, but it'd be repetitive.
You could edit, but you get nothing from it.
You could leave it be, but then it'd be uncool.
 
3:20 PM
@radp No, but for, say simple jQuery answers usually it's difficult to introduce best practises without changing part of the answer's solution
 
@Fosco You too!
I might have to start using that one.
 
:)
 
@Fosco Ave
 
@Fosco 早上好
 
 
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4:47 PM
Good evening, gentleman (and gentlewoman)
 
@Eldros Who are you talking to?
 
@Eldros Yeah, who might that be? @rchern is a bot, in case you didn't know
 
@YiJiang one is never too prudent (and I forgot the plurals)
 
@Eldros Ah, okay. The singulars confused me; everyone was grayed out except for radp.
 
so, what are the news?
 
4:51 PM

Space?WhatSpace?

23 hours ago, 41 minutes total – 100 messages, 5 users, 3 stars

Bookmarked 22 hours ago by Yi Jiang

 
@YiJiang I'm beginning to have headaches and my eyes bleed >_<
 
@Eldros Sounds like Meta alright. Welcome!
 
@YiJiang The atrocity!
 
@YiJiang oy
 
@eldros what didy ousa y?at roci ty?i have noid eawh atyo umea n.
 
4:57 PM
@YiJiang you'respacingistooregular
 
23 hours ago, by Yi Jiang
@TimStone Ofcou rse! Were ally shou ldbe more even -han dedw itho ursp aces
 
Argh, this office. Too cold to not wear a jacket; too hot to keep a jacket on constantly. (I know, my life is so hard.)
 
I woke up earlier with a headache that's still lingering. Is it really Monday already?
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Q: Everything Should Be Different

j_random_hackerI feel strongly that the current SO website would be much more effective if it was completely different than how it is now. Problems include: Closing eyes or adjusting monitor orientation causes site to disappear from view. No useful information about paint. Everything should be different. I...

Yup (Not shown here, but this question is [closed])
 
@TimStone So did I. Excedrin Migraine is my best friend sometimes.
 
5:02 PM
To the pills!
 
23 hours ago, by Yi Jiang
@chacha sure !the nwer ot13 them essa geso that itwo uldb e*re ally *unr eada ble!
That is a powerful encrypting
 
@Eldros Yup. It manages to look like random crap to the casual observer just by shifiting around the whitespace
 
Actually it looks like a normal, well-formed sentence to the casual observer. Same principle as "the letters don't need to be in order to recognize words". Only upon closer inspection do you realize it's been jumbled a bit.
 
@YiJiang not really...
 
@DanGrossman It actually took more than a few second of staring at my own message to realise that them essa geso is the message so
 
5:09 PM
As someone a script that would scramble the letters in each words?
 
@radp The longer the words the better the effect
@Eldros Sort array by random, simples
 
sure! the nwe---
sure! then wero---
sure! then we rot13 them essag--
sure! then we rot13 the messages otha--
sure! then we rot13 the message so that it would be really unreadable!
 
@radp I don't know why, but my brain somehow jammed on the essa geso part
 
@YiJiang Why haven't wou tried it yet then? :p
 
My point was that when I tabbed to this screen, I immediately saw parts of words (that, unreadable) and assumed it was a normal, well-formed sentence. It wasn't until I tried to read it that I saw anything out of the ordinary. It certainly didn't look like "random crap" :)
:sniffles: lunch time
 
5:14 PM
@Eldros ra le bhtcaeeyetrldlw ntuunbeld unssela otutdBoasue
var msg = 'Because the result would be totally ununderstandable';
msg = msg.split('').sort(function(a, b){
    return Math.round(Math.random());
});

console.log(msg.join(''));
 
I didn't meant to scramble the words together too.
The letters of a word stay in the word
but scrambled
 
>>> var msg = 'Because the result would be totally u...dom() * 2) - 1; }); console.log(msg.join(' '));
Because the result would be totally ununderstandable
>>> var msg = 'Because the result would be totally u...dom() * 2) - 1; }); console.log(msg.join(' '));
Because the totally would be result ununderstandable
>>> var msg = 'Because the result would be totally u...dom() * 2) - 1; }); console.log(msg.join(' '));
the Because result would be totally ununderstandable
>>> var msg = 'Because the result would be totally u...dom() * 2) - 1; }); console.log(msg.join(' '));
 
xecatly, ouy nca rdea tihs saeily
 
Hmm... I think my shuffle function isn't very good
 
@DanGrossman got it
 
5:16 PM
@DanGrossman get out of my head, geet out of my heeeead
 
Oospe... sorry about that
 
problems?
:p
 
Your hands are already on the keyboard, use it! RT @elijahmanor: "International Mouse Freedom Day" by @robconery #tech http://bit.ly/dayiez
hehehehe
 
var msg = 'Because the result would be totally ununderstandable',
    words = msg.split(' ');

for(var i = 0; i < words.length; i++){
    var w = words[i].split('');
    words[i] = w.sort(function(a, b){
        return Math.round(Math.random() * 2) - 1;
    }).join('');
}

console.log(words.join(' '));
ecBaesu hte srleut wudol be ttaolly nunurdestandable
 
@YiJiang You should keep the first and last letter untouched.
(I know I know.)
 
5:22 PM
sneaks into @rchern's house, superglue her hands to keyboard, yell "Ha!" triumphantly
 
@YiJiang I can understand that
 
@YiJiang she'll type with her nose if she'll have to!
 
@radp And then she'll just get that stuck to her keyboard.
 
Well this is time for me to prepare some sustenance, as I need to be fed :p
see you around
 
var msg = 'Because the result would be totally ununderstandable',
    words = msg.split(' ');

for(var i = 0; i < words.length; i++){
    var w = words[i].split('');
    words[i] = w[0] + w.slice(1, -1).sort(function(a, b){
        return Math.round(Math.random() * 2) - 1;
    }).join('') + w[w.length - 1];
}

console.log(words.join(' '));
@radp Bcaeuse the reslut wolud be tolalty unundretsandable
^ Not random enough
Beuacse the result would be toltaly uunndrestabdnale
Beacuse the rseult would be totally ueunnrdtsabdnale
Beaucse the rseult wuold be totally ueunnrdtsbandale
Beuacse the rseult wuold be totally ueunrdntsbandale
Beucase the rselut wuold be totally uneunrdtsbandale
Beuacse the reslut wuold be toatlly unneurtdsbandale
Bueacse the reslut would be totally unnuertdsbandlae
Bueacse the relsut wuold be ttoally undrnsuetabndlae
Bueacse the relsut wuold be ttoally uabdnrnnsutdaele
Becuase the relsut wuold be tatolly uabdnnrnsuetldae
See, I think there's something wrong with the shuffling function
 
5:29 PM
@YiJiang that's the point -- just random enough.
 
By definition though longer shuffled words would look more random
 
at some point, the sandbox might become useful (;
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or not actually sending the message to chat q:
 
@rchern never!
 
):
 
5:45 PM
@PopularDemand There's also a minimum tag score needed to propose synonyms for that tag
 
@YiJiang I'm not done with it.
 
@PopularDemand so I deleted my comment after reading yours :p
 
It confuses me how this can ever happen:
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Q: database acceleration book

bookcan you recommand a book about database acceleration?

 
@MichaelMrozek That is... wow... breathtakingly wrong
Also, the [luck] tag there is...
 
@MichaelMrozek It's pretty simple, really. Some human being with an Internet-connected computer visits the Board Games SE, clicks "ask question," enters "database acceleration book" in the "title" field, enters "can you recommand a book about database acceleration?" in the "body" field and enters "luck" in the "tags" field, then clicks on the submit button. The computer handles the rest.
Or were you asking about how oneboxing happens?
@YiJiang @drachenstern I updated it. Still needs more work.
 
6:00 PM
@PopularDemand but it's a start.
 
6:10 PM
@MichaelMrozek maybe this is about the sysadmin version of monopoly? Where you don't have colored street groups, but subnets; the trains stations are MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres and SQLite, and you don't rent but get hosted?
 
@balpha "Chance: Database Acceleration Book / Advance three spaces"
 
hehe
Is there a SOopoly?
 
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Q: Would you play a Stack Overflow board game?

Jon SkeetI've just been alerted to a company which produces board games - you design the game, artwork 'n all, and upload the assets to them. They produce the game and sell it in their store, taking half the profits. I'm a big board game fan (1), and would love to help design a board game around Stack Ov...

 
@rchern I'm sure we could do with a little less 'o's
Lest you run out of them for your 'oy!'s
 
I have an endless supply of `oy`s. No worries!
|:
 
6:15 PM
Stack Overflowopoly...Has a nice "How the hell did you fit four ohs into that word?" ring to it.
 
@rchern Reminder: All smileys must be directional agnostic from now on
 
nothx
 
Hm, I froze the smilie on the wrong position, whoops.
 
@rchern steals some of @rchern's stash Oy!
 
6:21 PM
@PopularDemand thanks you've given me inspiration to start this article in the near future en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(card_game) ... I have quite a few of the cards for this game, but by no means a full set
 
@drachenstern I had no idea such a game existed.
 
@PopularDemand Looks like one of those limited run not-very-successful card game tie-ins
 
Isn't it crazy how a link to an SO post leads me to wikipedia leads me to realize that page doesn't exist leads you to learn about a card game that was fun but not successful?
 
@drachenstern insert appropriate xkcd here
 
@PopularDemand Does such a thing exist?
 
6:29 PM
 
oh, lol
Yeah I managed to skip the 3 hours tho ;)
 

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