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ElendilTheTall has great advice regarding placing commas when you pause when reading a sentence aloud. The only thing I feel needs to be added to that answer is to not overuse commas; that is, don't use a comma when you need a period. Each sentence should be one complete thought, with a noun and...

> @josh: you are correct, i usually add to many commas. – Praveen Prasad 1 min ago

Tim Stone

10:35 PM

Heh :P

@PopularDemand He's popped in a few times in the last week or so. I harassed him a bit about not being here more.

George Marian

@drachenstern And all he has is 1200 rep? ;)

badp

@Josh "If you're German, only keep one every three commas."

Josh

haha

drachenstern

@GeorgeMarian I guess so. idk, I should think Joel would know what he was talking about, seeing as he own's one of the top 300 websites in the world, and seeing as how Ubuntu is one of the top 10 desktop OS in the world (if you can assume that Ubuntu is somehow not quite Linux) so surely those two would've had room to talk at some point in the past and it be a verifiable thing

Josh

@GeorgeMarian when did he join?

drachenstern

10:49 PM

2 months ago

Josh

I was trying to answer questions and there's only 8 "unanswered"

drachenstern

Mark Shuttleworth, Isle of Man

1.3k 8

George Marian

@drachenstern I would hope it's verified.

badp

It's kinda weird to learn that Joel only found out now

George Marian

That was tongue-in-cheek. I wouldn't expect him to have much time to spend on the site.

badp

10:50 PM

Mark has had at least one "event" on AskUbuntu such as the Ask Me About Unity day IIRC

George Marian

@badp I'm not sure, but it may be a good thing that I missed that.

drachenstern

/facepalm ... who are these people and what did they do with my coworkers?

2

    try {
        xyzInfo = _bal.xyzMapInfo();
    } catch {
    }

Josh

UG

drachenstern

<-- >> caps room

Josh

Hey wait...

That's an Unhandled Exception!

dances on @drachenstern's coworkers' code

drachenstern

11:00 PM

lol

well, the one good part here is that I was wanting to code-review what he had done here, so I guess I get to do that now :\

Josh

Could be worse. Could be:

try {
        xyzInfo = _bal.xyzMapInfo();
    } catch {
     //Fumble...
   }

drachenstern

or the du jour

Josh

...ok I should really be working now, LOL

drachenstern

try {
   // something
} catch {
   throw;
}

same dev

@Josh I am :\

Lance Roberts

This makes me want to scream.

Josh

11:03 PM

@drachenstern ...wtf???

Lance Roberts

2

Q: Why did my tag-synonyms disappear?

I had created tag synonyms for vba, of excel-vba, word-vba and access-vba and they had one vote sitting on them. I was just trying to recruit another vote, when I went there and noticed my synonyms had completely disappeared. Could we get a full explanation of what's going on? What's the point...

support bug tag-synonyms

drachenstern

@Josh yes. That.

I need new coworkers, but I love my bosses

Josh

@LanceRoberts oooh. ouch

ChrisF

6

Q: Source site links on the recently imported posts list shouldn't redirect

In the 10K tools recently imported page each entry in the recently imported posts list has a link to the post, and a link to the source post that was migrated: However, the link to the source post doesn't include noredirect=1. Clicking it causes an auto-redirect to the post on the target site,...

feature-request 10k-tools redirection recently-imported

Josh

@LanceRoberts I do see his point here though:

> @Lance excel-vba is a synonym for vba excel ... our system does not support that. A synonym can only go to one tag. the synonym you propose loses information hence it is bad. – waffles♦ 30 secs ago

ChrisF

11:04 PM

Tempted to retag this with [bug] rather than [feature-request]

drachenstern

Also, the boss told me to order a monitor stand for my middle monitor :D ... guess I shall ;)

Josh

@ChrisF I have not 10k but that sounds like a bug to me...

ChrisF

@Josh You've convinced me

Michael Mrozek

I try to phrase things as feature requests instead of bugs to avoid [status-bydesign]

ChrisF

@MichaelMrozek Feel free to roll back

Lance Roberts

11:07 PM

@Josh My response:

certainly before the switch gets done, there should be a look to make sure that all of those with excel-vba have an excel tag there also. Most do, but there could be a quick add of that tag for those that don't, so that information isn't lost. Once the transition is done, then people will naturally add the excel tag on, once they see that their tag gets synonymed.

drachenstern

damn you stomach

damn you

Josh

@LanceRoberts Good response

@drachenstern you just nuked meta

drachenstern

@Josh what?

Josh

I tried to upvote your "did you nuke it from orbit" comment and now meta shows:

ChrisF

@Josh - it works for me

Josh

11:09 PM

Maybe this is Meta telling me I should be working and not upvoting @LanceRoberts' questions...

drachenstern

works for me

@Josh probably so

Josh

@drachenstern Yes, this confirms it

drachenstern

I'm gonna /afk

Josh

@drachenstern catch you later

Lance Roberts

@Josh No, I'm sure you just need to upvote more of my questions, and all your problems will be solved.

@josh, someone just removed an upvote, was that you? :)

Josh

11:13 PM

Wasn't me!

But since you don't feel my name needs a capital letter maybe I will!

;-)

Wes

11:30 PM

hi all

@josh when did you change your identity?

Josh

Hey @Wes, how goes?

Wes

not bad

Josh

Jan 7 at 4:09, by Zypher

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException also when chat re-syncs with meta your username will be shorter ... i ... couldn't ... stand ... it

Jan 11 at 1:00, by Michael Mrozek

The flagged star is becoming the unofficial Tavern mascot:

XD

Wes

so a while ago then

you get your problems sorted out?

Josh

Yeah

@Wes Um, which ones? :-)

Wes

11:32 PM

landlord car mouse clients email some others I forget

was over a month ago

maybe music player I'm not sure

Josh

OH

My month from Hell!

Wes

that bad huh?

Josh

Car, kinda. Mouse, yes :-)

Landlord, I get new developments weekly, LOL

Wes

hahaha

Josh

Client's email, yeah, we did a server migration and the new server is much better. But, new email problems continue to bug me ;-)

Rebecca Chernoff

11:34 PM

Has anybody used TimeToMeet or NeedToMeet or anything of the sort? (going for a super easy, low friction way of finding a time random people can do something)

drachenstern

Not I

Wes

Gotta run anyway just though I'd pop my head arround the door so to speak. Code Reviews in beta now need to find something to post

Josh

4 hours ago, by Michael Mrozek

@Josh No pity from me; I'm getting tired of sabotaging your customer's Outlook setups just to ruin your day

Tim Stone

I normally just let other people pick the time, heh.

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff Sorry, me neither

@TimStone that's super easy all right :-)

@Wes take care :-)

Wes

11:36 PM

@RebeccaChernoff sorry no

Tim Stone

Good for me because I'm flexible and indecisive, hahah. Bad for me because it means normally no one decides :(

Josh

You've been quiet today @RebeccaChernoff. I gave up on the whole being-silent-in-chat thing, you won, you know that right? ;-)

Rebecca Chernoff

heh

I've been working!

Josh

How are you @Rebecca?

@RebeccaChernoff this is good!

Rebecca Chernoff

Good. (:

Tim Stone

11:37 PM

She's been busy doing important things, and apparently unlike us opted not to gripe about them in chat. ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

Y'all seem to have survived without me. q:

Michael Myers

@TimStone Her bosses now know where to find her gripes.

2

Josh

@TimStone I can't remember who I griped to 7 months ago

@MichaelMyers HAHAHAHA

Tim Stone

@MichaelMyers Hahah, true, true.

Rebecca Chernoff

lol

George Marian

11:38 PM

FAA warns of ongoing GPS issues in southeastern US due to Defense Department 'tests'

Michael Myers

Aren't you all out of stars yet?

George Marian

Say, what?

Josh

@MichaelMyers I have been conserving them recently

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian ....What the....

George Marian

How many stars do we get anyway?

I'm rather surprised I haven't run out yet.

Josh

11:39 PM

30/day/room?

George Marian

@TimStone Move along. Nothing to see here...

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian An obscene amount

Michael Myers

That's probably when they expect the landing to be.

Josh

@TimStone obscenely low maybe!

George Marian

Oh, ha.

Rebecca Chernoff

11:39 PM

I thought it was 20

George Marian

I'm a little more....reserved, then some of you. :P

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff maybe it is

George Marian

Even at 20, I'm not surprised I haven't run out.

Rebecca Chernoff

hmm

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff Let's find out. Post 21 Oy s

Tim Stone

11:40 PM

@GeorgeMarian I have a single item starred on the right. :P

Rebecca Chernoff

That was not the way to the solution I was thinking of...

Josh

@TimStone I have 6 XD

Tim Stone

She's going to cheat and look at the code :o

Josh

LAME

George Marian

I have zero, but I haven't been around much of the day.

Josh

11:41 PM

Well lame for one who has legitimate access to the code :-)

George Marian

So, apparently, feedly stealth updated on me and I can't downgrade because I'm the FF nightly build.

Stupid thing keeps auto-refreshing after some amount of time out of focus. =/

Or, rather when it regains focus after some amount of time.

Tim Stone

I'm not familiar with the extension, but that sounds annoying. What's it for?

George Marian

Feeds. :)

Tim Stone

Oh, turns out that I'm an idiot and can't read properly. ;)

George Marian

Nice, magazine-style layout. It's pretty slick.

Tim Stone

11:45 PM

Ah ha

George Marian

Though, it does lack theme support, or at least a few different shades.

@TimStone lol

It's hella annoying. I don't do my reading in one sitting.

Tim Stone

I grouped stealth with the wrong word, somehow, heh.

George Marian

Oh, heh.

Tim Stone

My packet loss keeps climbing. O_o This makes me sad.

Josh

@TimStone This is weird...

Wireless?

0

Q: Is there a word for the "primary" verb in a clause?

In an answer to another question, I erroniously said: Each sentence sentence normally be one complete thought, with a noun and a verb. You should generally not have two verbs per sentence What I was trying to say was that each sentence should have one... "active verb", but I'm looking for t...

verbs terminology

(for any English experts)

Tim Stone

11:49 PM