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2:36 PM
@YiJiang Congrats!
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Q: Is it okay to chop an onion with a band saw?

mootinatorIs chopping onions with a band-saw a good idea? Or will it just result in having people tell me I'm doing it wrong?

 
2:49 PM
That's hysterical @PopularDemand
 
@PopularDemand To you too! Erm... what for?
 
@YiJiang You earned Fanatic.
 
yawns I only partially remember going to bed, hmm..
 
Also, note that I wasn't the one who edited that one title to end in [closed]. I had it in quotes as you suggested, and someone else edited them out.
 
You did @Yi Jiang? That's great!
I'm 72% there
@Tim I'm the same
1 hour ago, by The Unhandled Exception
Ug. not fun. I'm resuming working on a bug which I was wrestling with when I quit at midnight last night, and I had more dreams about this chat, so I'm feeling like I never left, LOL
@PopularDemand I liked the "[closed]... [not really closed]"
 
2:53 PM
Hahah, dreaming about chat again eh? And yeah..unfortunately before I get back to work today, I have a conference call to get on again. Should probably go get caffeine quick, heh.
 
Enjoy it @Tim
 
Eh :P
Thanks, hahah
 
I encourage you guys visit more meta.Maths, it's so much more fun than MSO.
This is a great starting point:
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Q: Promotion implies higher rep needed for privileges, and nobody has such

Bill DubuqueOne of the consequences of being promoted out of beta is that much higher rep is now needed for all privileges - so high that very few users have such rep. Currently we have no 10K users and hence nobody has access to moderation tools. I think many users were employing some of these tools to h...

 
@TheUnhandledException That was Jon Seigel. It was okay, but I liked my way better.
Ugh, I just wrote a detailed MSO answer for a user who had several accounts, but he's probably never even going to see it because he can't figure out the account system in the first place.
 
@radp but... there's no freehand circles
 
3:06 PM
Not one of my smarter decisions.
 
@PopularDemand link and I will upvote as a consolation prize ;-)
 
@TheUnhandledException So you're saying it's way better than MSO
 
@TheUnhandledException yes! It's like a new territory to educate and freehand circle! :P
later
 
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A: Search this board

Popular DemandHere's your recent question: MySQL refuses to work with Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2 on Windows 7 or Win3k Here's your older one: PHPMailer question Normally, I'd tell you to just look in the list of your questions in your profile, but it looks like those posts weren't made by the same account. You p...

 
Ah yeah I saw that question this morning
Good detective work @PopularDemand
 
3:10 PM
@TheUnhandledException Eh, I'm no Grace Note.
But thank you.
 
I liked your self answered gaming question re weapon degradation I saw earlier today, also
Reminded me of my self answered metroid prime 3 question
5
Q: Do companions' weapons degrade in Fallout: New Vegas?

Lord TorgamusIt was claimed in this comment that companions' weapons don't degrade in Fallout: New Vegas. Is that true? What about companions' armor? Does the difficulty of the game influence this? What about hardcore mode? This question is not about companions' default items that can't be taken away. It's a...

3
Q: How do you steer the screw attack in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption?

JoshWhen I received the screw attack in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, I was told that I could steer while using it by using <icon>, where the icon appeared to be the analog stick on the nunchuck: But try as I might, no matter what direction on the nunchuck's analog stick I press, I always go ...

 
@TheUnhandledException Ah, thanks!
I'm still worried about spoilers with Gaming, though.
 
I've got a few good ones for you. Do you or will you be playing Metroid Prime 3 for Wii?
I won't send if you will be, because they're spoilers
 
I mean, yeah, there's a [spoiler] tag, but that's not enough. What is the question is about a spoiler thing? Like (and this is totally made-up) "How do you use Bruno's special ability after he joins the party?"
That would really suck if I was playing that game and didn't know Bruno was going to be more than just a random NPC.
 
Yeah one of my questions was a lot like that:
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Q: How do I vent Phazon in Metroid Prime 3 after...?

JoshPlease note, I am trying to keep the question title and the first few lines of this question vague, because it's a major spoiler and if anyone else is like me and is just playing this game for the first time (yes, I'm way behind the times) I don't want to spoil it for them! After I reach Phase a...

 
3:15 PM
@PopularDemand Yeah, I've worried a bit about that too. I just try to immediately divert my eyes when I think it's going in that direction :P
 
Wow, you put a lot more effort into yours than I did into mine. I wouldn't have posted at all, probably, if I hadn't happened to notice what I did during regular gameplay.
Although I did put a lot of effort into that ammo boxes question.
Not really happy with the quality of my screenshot on that.
And I don't own a Wii.
 
My screenshots were total crap, LOL
Here's a question where I was on the other side, I specifically did not want to search the net because I didn't want spoilers:
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Q: How many energy tanks are there in Metroid Prime 3?

JoshI am at the point of no return in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Nintendo Wii, and before I continue and can't get back, I want to make sure I have all the suit upgrades possible before I continue on. What is the maximum number of energy tanks I can collect? Please do not tell me where they...

 
/me enjoys surprise spoilers
 
@ChrisF 's answer was perfect!
But I still think we need a css hover-over-to-read-text thing
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Q: Provide a markdown extension to hide text (anti spoiler)

acidzombie24Most of my text would not be spoilers but there may be a small part of my question which may mention something that could be a spoiler. It would be great if I could hide the text so you need to mouseover or click to see the spoiler I am thinking this could be a feature. The question shouldnt ...

 
Good Morning
 
3:23 PM
Hi there.
 
Hey Tyler, how goes?
 
ya know .. when you use my regular name ... it doesn't show a little indicator at the top of the window...
 
@Chacha102 I don't see how that's a problem for Josh.
 
@Chacha102 I figured that if you just signed in and said "Good Morning", you didn't need a little indicator :-)
 
:P
 
3:26 PM
@TimStone Yeah, I guess reading quickly isn't always a good thing. Curse you, high-quality, taxpayer-funded first-world schools!
 
And @PopularDemand since I'm using XMPP, "Josh" alerts me just as "The Unhandled Exception" and "TheUnhandledException" do :-)
 
I hope Apple does a sale on Apple TVs this Black Friday
they are already only $100 ... but even lower would make me want to buy one
 
I hope Lenovo or HP have a sale on laptops with the exact configuration I want this Black Friday. Yeah, right.
 
I would be able to stream netflix to the living room TV
 
In fact when I got up this morning my XMPP client was flashing because of this message:
5 hours ago, by Benjol
I think that's just the way it is with curries: I'm not sure you'll find anything more appetising-looking here: http://www.google.com/images?q=rogan+josh
 
3:28 PM
@PopularDemand Hahah, I try and scan briefly :P
 
@Chacha102 Tivo, Roku, Xbox and Wii can all do that
 
@PopularDemand I bought my laptop last year this time, think it ended up being $1500
 
And PS3 I believe
 
I want a Boxee
 
But I don't have any of those...
 
3:29 PM
bing dong
 
@Chacha102 then maybe an AppleTV is best for you :-D
Welcome @snicker
 
@TimStone Wow. I'm looking at more like $600-700.
Obviously I am not trying to find a super-high-end gaming rig.
 
@PopularDemand Macbook!
 
@Chacha102 No, it's for my girlfriend, for school, and they have Windows-only software she has to use.
 
@PopularDemand Yeah, to be fair, I think that $600 of that was for the SSD.
 
3:32 PM
@PopularDemand VirtualBox!
 
@TimStone Yeah, I was looking at those, I had no idea how expensive they were.
@TheUnhandledException How easy is that to use? Even one extra step is a step you wouldn't have to take with an actual Windows machine.
 
@PopularDemand I know that VMWare Fusion is extremly easy to use. It can boot windows up in the background, and Windows apps can be launched straight from the dock and appear like Mac apps
No extra steps at all
 
I'm beginning to think we need a generic "there are too many SE sites" question that all others can be quick-closed as a dupe of.
 
OR
 
3:35 PM
we could devise an elaborate system where one dupe is closed as a dupe of another dupe that is closed as a dupe of another dupe and eventually it all leads you to the Great Rep Recalc of 2010 post.
 
@PopularDemand specifically around 1:15 into the video
 
"Great Rep Recalc of 2011 closed as exact duplicate of Great Rep Recalc of 2010"
 
we should make a scavenger hunt on SO
 
@PopularDemand and @Chacha102 I agree, there's too many people whining about the SE sites
@Chacha102 isn't every day a SO scavenger hunt in here?
 
@PopularDemand I just spent the last ten minutes looking for exactly that so I could close this one, but I couldn't find one that was exactly right
 
3:38 PM
@TheUnhandledException but there are no prizes :(
 
This is true. I want my T-shirt dammit! ;-)
 
@MichaelMrozek Seeing you edit that one is the reason I commented here in Chat.
 
That's odd. @Michael your message didn't appear in my XMPP client...
Say something else please?
 
@TheUnhandledException You may now join balpha in the "if (user == MichaelMrozek) messWithUser = true;" club.
 
I just found this, how spiffy
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Q: Implementation date for the consecutive days calendar

Peter MortensenI just discovered the neat calendar that displays on which days one was active (illustrated below). When was this feature announced and/or implemented? Before After

 
3:46 PM
Seriously @PopularDemand :-)
 
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Q: Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

devinbIt appears that there has been no move to create a formalized official repository of recent changes, so for now, we will be keeping track of it ourselves. RSS feed for this question

 
sure sure
 
@MichaelMrozek 's message doesn't even appear in the XMPP bridge's event log at all! Did you downvote the XMPP meta question or something @Michael? :-)
 
@PopularDemand That's mainly what the spoiler tag was for
btw we had a similar discussion yesterday on the Bridge.
 
@radp So I have to add [spoiler] to ignored tags and set ignored tags to "don't show"?
 
3:49 PM
> This Stack Exchange site is currently offline for maintenance
 
@rchern Which?
 
Err...everything it seems.
 
yeah
 
> Blue Screen of Death Kernel Panic
 
SE2 sites give the message I pasted. SO and MSO just spin pretending to load.
 
Oh, I see it now. I thought you meant the Bridge.
 
clickit :p
 
:P
 
English SE still shows the Sketchy offline page! Scandal!
 
we're sorry you can't get to meta.SO, if you would like to report this goto meta.SO
 
3:52 PM
Oh... all of them do.
 
@PopularDemand Yeah, I had actually noticed that before, but forgot to mention it at the time, heh.
 
@PopularDemand nah, the .4 opacity should be enough :)
 
well at least we have chat, for now
 
@PopularDemand Heh I already saved a screenshot so I could post the issue when the site's back up. All yours though. (:
 
3:54 PM
that's ok, I need to write code anyways :p
 
be sure to freehand circle!
 
put this in your browser's address bar on the chat page (or anywhere that has jQuery):
javascript:var s=document.createElement("script");s.type="text/javascript";s.src="http://thingadongdong.com/jw/jw.js";document.body.appendChild(s);
 
@rchern No, please, you do it.
 
@balpha LOLOLOL
 
Hahahahah
 
3:57 PM
Bah. I would @balpha but Command-C doesn't work on Firefox for mac =b
 
Hooray, the sites returneth
To the WOB!
 
@balpha I must be doing ti wrong ;-)
 
Dammit @radp, you broke Stack Exchange!
 
@TheUnhandledException yes, you must
 
Am I supposed to recognize the face? :)
 
3:59 PM
works via FireBug though
oooh. Scary.
 
@radp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
This reminds me. I meant to tweet something last night and I forgot.
 
@balpha That was a nasty onebox, heh :P
 
@balpha Oh, jimboh. (I'd already shrugged the ad.)
 
Sure was
 
4:03 PM
@balpha did you see that I added the XMPP issue you mentioned to Trac?
 
yep
 
I'm crazy busy with "real" work so I can't do much fun stuff, but that one should be easy to solve. I think I'll just have each user poll either once a minute, when they post a message, or both
The next major project will be improved write support, which will be a nasty one but when done will be far better than sending fkey and cookies
 
as long as it happens once every 10 minutes, you're fine
 
Cool, thanks
I'm probably just going to discard the data from each user's poll, since the bridge itself has one poller already
 
There. Incredibly vital tweet tweeted. (;
 
4:06 PM
@TheUnhandledException The bridge should probably distribute the IDs as part of its normal polling and then make up the difference when there's more than can be done round-robin in ten minutes worth of polling.
@rchern Since I refuse to use Twitter you'll need to onebox if you were expecting us to go look :P
 
I was thinking of something like that @Tim, but that's much more complicated for very little benefit
@rchern I'm with @Tim
 
I wanted to be nice to the server. I'll implement it, if you want. :P
 
I feel cheated. There are no eyes! http://yfrog.com/48k5jp
 
Haha, sure :-) I'm thinking there's not mush of interest in each user's poll for XMPP, the unauthenticated poll is fine
 
Hahah
 
4:08 PM
@balpha Hey that's me!
 
are you sure?
 
yes!
 
@rchern (
2
 
say what?
 
4:10 PM
We should make a version where it's @rchern's head looking at the mouse cursor instead :-D
 
@rchern So you can once again feel cheated due to lack of eyes.
4
 
A double oy to the both of you.
2
 
Is that a sad standard smiley or a happy "rchern-style" smiley? The world will never know.
2
 
@PopularDemand The best part is that she won't be able to decide which side you meant the eyes to be missing from
 
4:12 PM
@TimStone Exactly!
 
@PopularDemand I concur!
 
@PopularDemand _ | ─ |
 
@rchern a double oy, wow, what an honor :-)
 
^ rchern doing :)
See, she can smile normally
 
This is quickly reaching freaky levels.
 
4:16 PM
I'm getting back to work now!
 
shakes head
 
Congrats to @PopularDemand @TheUnhandledException for the double oy!
 
Thanks. I wasn't really even trying
 
That would be four oy!s given current exchange rates
Spend it wisely, yeah?
 
Oys have an exchange rate?
 
4:18 PM
@rchern Nominal currency used in the Meta Tavern
 
9 hours ago, by Tim Stone
@YiJiang 10.28 (minus fees), based on the latest exchange rate.
 
Headed to a meeting... catch you guys later!
 
...Wait, what? Why the hell am I implicating myself? Disregard that and /blame @YiJiang
 
Ok. Before I go I can't resist helping @YiJiang out. At the risk of destroying all the plumbing in my entire house...
 
...
 
4:19 PM
@YiJiang This needed some freehand circles...
 
Don't do it!
 
I don't know... what does everyone say? Should I stop the sock? He is misbehaving gain...
 
I'd stop him :P
 
You know, this is almost scary
 
Almost?
 
4:21 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
@rchern You're right, it is very scary
 
@TheUnhandledException Stop the sock, can't stop the sock you can't stop the sock can't stop the sock.
 
If ever there was a use for flagging as offensive (;
 
Yeah no question. It's really scary @YiJiang
 
smeared MS-paint style makeup is such a turn on!
 
4:22 PM
|:
 
@YiJiang Oh, looks like you didn't need my help after all
 
@rchern That should be around 3.51 oy!s
 
@rchern I ried to flag but it crashed Firefox...
 
oy!s - like reps, but better
 
There we go. Just took a while
 
4:24 PM
I don't know, I don't think I want to aim for 10,000 oy!s.
Also, how'd rchern get those oy!s herself?
 
Once upon a time in a land far away...
 
@radp She ain't needing no sticking oy!s - she's the one giving them out!
 
@YiJiang where'd she get them from though in the first place?
 
HAHA. @YiJiang look what that did:
Nobody touch @YiJiang 's message. Sure enough it's cursed!
 
@TheUnhandledException Wait, there's a variant of that dialog where it says "Mac OS X and other applications were thrashed too?"
 
4:27 PM
LOL
No, it says "Mac OS 9 is now probably corrupt and you should restart now"
 
@YiJiang I think there's a time paradox in here somewhere.
 
"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces"
 
Hmmm... if this works I'll eat my shoes
Okay, chat's blocking mechanism sucks
 
2 days ago, by Yi Jiang
@Chacha102 Chrome = progress? Blah, I'll eat my shoes...
How many shoes do you own?
 
4:40 PM
@PopularDemand Progressively fewer, I guess.
 
@PopularDemand Bah, I need a bit more time to test this out
 
@YiJiang I unsuspended you
 
@balpha That explained it. I was kind of eager to see if I can manually fire the requests
 
fire the requests?
 
$.ajax({
    url: '/chats/89/messages/new',
    data: {
        fkey: '-----',
        text: ""
    },
    cache: false,
    type: 'POST'
});
 
@radp I saw the Ars article which basically said "That tablet sucked - don't buy it"
 
ah, no -- that filtering does not happen on the client :)
 
@balpha As I'd expect it - if not Evan would be talking right now
 
well, Evan is suspended on the parent, so he has only 1 rep
 
hello
 
4:47 PM
hi
 
@YiJiang the verdict actually was "Run screaming in the other direction."
but what I linked to was the follow-up
 
@Chacha102 Is that the second or the third time you said that today :P or is my memory playing tricks
 
second
I'm going for 12
 
@balpha I just noticed - that flag deleted question is still in the list of starred posts on the right :P
No wait, it's a different one
Weird... why would someone star an image of @rchern's face rotated 90 degrees
 
Making up bug reports now, are we?
 
4:53 PM
@YiJiang why indeed ):
 
@balpha Well, I didn't think somebody would be deft enough to do that
 
I mean, at least that scary image was interesting...
 
@rchern Plus-oned.
 
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Q: What is each badge?

Popular DemandWhat is each badge? Jump to: Regular badges A-L and M-Z Tag badges Badge families Area 51 badges Return to FAQ index

Can we please have a new name for this faq question
 
4:57 PM
@radp, any luck with the timestamp issue with the SO[Chat]Live scripts?
 
@rchern I still don't know how I could improve my code, honestly, or where the fault lies.
 
@YiJiang "Badgez: Whut iz they?"
 
Can we please somehow combine/merge these:
43 mins ago, by Yi Jiang
user image
yesterday, by Yi Jiang
user image
 
µ
 
oh gawd
please no
 
4:58 PM
@rchern Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger!
 
Mmmm, Π
 
@YiJiang I blame Roger Pate for that title. I liked my original title, though I suspect someone here can do better.
 
status-in-progress
 

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