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drachenstern

3:00 AM

And yet here we are BACK to that topic :S

Dan Grossman

> "What do all these have in common?" Chef Wendy asks. "Broccoli, mushrooms, tomatoes, inosinate, guanylate, and autolyzed yeast extract? Give up? They are all sources of monosodium glutamate. So don't bother telling me you're allergic to MSG if you eat pizza.

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@drachenstern It's a circular linked list!!!

drachenstern

I feel that we are on the verge of a dying group

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException I don't like cycles tyvm ~ I like deliberate paths. Very solvabe. Very Turing Complete.

Also, nobody needs to point out that I had a message with four zeroes on the end, I saw it

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@drachenstern Wow! Awesome!

Moshe

I find it funny that I got a 'Nice Answer' on the voting ring question.

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3:01 AM

I didn't see that, but, it's cool

@Moshe I do too

Rebecca Chernoff

Oh wait, actually.

checks

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@RebeccaChernoff Do you have more search powers than us normal mortals?

Dan Grossman

> "What are you doing right now?" "Watching a meta discussion about discussions in a meta site about a programming Q&A site. Someone just mentioned Turing completness." "Oh."

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Rebecca Chernoff

Ok, yeah, that was my first message. In another room my first message was on 7/15 not 7/14.

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@RebeccaChernoff How did you search? I searched my history for the word "chat"

Yi Jiang

3:04 AM

in Chat feedback, Aug 16 '10 at 4:41, by Yi Jiang

Hmmm... I'd expect something more sophisticated than just ajax POST every 2 seconds

Tim Stone

I painstakingly scanned the transcript.

Yi Jiang

My first message I think. Ha!

Tim Stone

Apparently I became a chat member several days before I actually said anything. >_>

Rebecca Chernoff

I viewed the transcripts for the deleted rooms from the beta and just clicked through each time span doing a browser search for rchern. >_<

drachenstern

@TimStone that doesn't surprise me

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3:06 AM

@RebeccaChernoff LOL

drachenstern

@DanGrossman Did this surprise said individual?

Dan Grossman

Not very much

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@YiJiang BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!

ignores @YiJiang

Yi Jiang

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException I was expecting long polling with comet :P

Rebecca Chernoff

In another room, my first message during the beta was:

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Tim Stone

3:07 AM

Hahahah, already causing trouble.

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That's awesome

Tim Stone

You and @YiJiang shakes head

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Hang on. :(!?

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Tim Stone

.... :O

Rebecca Chernoff

LOL

drachenstern

3:08 AM

So should I join the dba meta chat since it's in beta?

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@YiJiang OMG. Good catch!

That's hysterical

drachenstern

The sad part is I'm not really a dba, just a glorified programmer

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@drachenstern It's OK, you can still join

I'm not really a CTO, I just play one in chat

Dan Grossman

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/messages/430038/history

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Oy, stop rewriting history!

Dan Grossman

3:10 AM

You edited to adjust your whitespace cropping?

Wait....

You flipped your smiley!

Rebecca Chernoff

Nonsense.

Yi Jiang

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff you can't fool us with your mod powers :p

Yi Jiang

Do you want me to make an animated gif with that?

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AH! And she didn't even use her newfound powers to cover her tracks!

drachenstern

3:12 AM

@DanGrossman welcome to 1984

@YiJiang lol, sure

Dan Grossman

@YiJiang yes

Rebecca Chernoff

oy

Tim Stone

Ah crap...

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Wow, @RebeccaChernoff wasn't the first to say "Oy" in here!

Aug 5 '10 at 19:31, by George Marian

oy...drives me nuts when a site needs javascript to function but they fail to inform me of that fact

Sep 1 '10 at 13:56, by rchern

oy

Dan Grossman

> I use Boxbe to prioritize my email. While I did receive your email about "Customer Receipt/Purchase Confirmation", you are not currently listed in my priority Guest List.

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3:13 AM

@TimStone What happened?

Dan Grossman

I shouldn't have to answer spam filter challenges to send you a receipt.

drachenstern

@TimStone jes?

Tim Stone

My remaining tiles in my WwF game against Jin aren't going to be easy to place. :P

drachenstern

Speaking of which, I got a game I should be playing huh?

Tim Stone

Oh, yeah. No rush or anything, I'm not going anywhere.

mootinator

3:15 AM

You got game.

drachenstern

I think I may end up passing @YiJiang before I stabilize on my place in this chat :|

Rebecca Chernoff

I've been totally neglecting WwF to play Drop7. Oops.

drachenstern

Otherwise if I don't stabilize there I'll be be ahead of @PopularDemand

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Had you said "To make things awesome" I would have been behind you on that, but...

drachenstern

Cos I'm past Tyler

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3:16 AM

@drachenstern You're moving right up!

drachenstern

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException yeah but is that a good thing? :p

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@drachenstern Sure it is!

Remember, this advice is coming from the #1 non-employee user of chat...

drachenstern

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException ;)

Tim Stone

One message shy of 12K...

drachenstern

lol, I aim to be the #3 such person

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3:17 AM

(I like my new status)

drachenstern

@TimStone say something else ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone Things were fricking awesome by 8am. Hrmph!

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make it important @Tim!

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff What's 8 am?

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff 8am yesterday?

oh geez, that's 12k? You coulda done better!

You coulda been a contenda

Tim Stone

3:19 AM

Heh :P

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern 'bout when I started, sure. (:

Tim Stone

It took you that long to sign up for all those sites? ;)

drachenstern

lmao

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LOL

drachenstern

I can see that I'm going to be regularly visiting three sites now :|

Rebecca Chernoff

3:20 AM

Yes. That's the one, SINGULAR thing I've done the past 2 days.

>_<

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Damn people in chat kept distracting her...

Rebecca Chernoff

I didn't start signing up for the sites until this afternoon. (;

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Honestly, I'm not sure what I accomplished in the entire last two days, so you've one-upped me either way. :P

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@Rebecca what's your StackFlair look like now? :-D

Tim Stone

My brain feels exceptionally foggy at the moment...

drachenstern

3:21 AM

I'm curious what they've had you doing

you could be ... keeping a blog or something

@TimStone and yet you're still both beating me

Tim Stone

Well, she had to go get the microchip implanted, I'm sure that ate up a few hours.

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or twiddiling or whatever it's called on twitter

Tim Stone

In WwF?

drachenstern

lol

@TimStone no, in general

reread your post

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone long line, seriously. ):

Tim Stone

3:23 AM

I'm not sure how my general disorientation trumps you, but uh, we can go with that I suppose.

@RebeccaChernoff Did you get your office furniture yet?

Yi Jiang

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drachenstern

@YiJiang I figued you were gonna go for a two panel flipper

Tim Stone

Hahah, oh boy...

drachenstern

that's more involved than I woulda done

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Oh wow...

drachenstern

3:25 AM

@TimStone you got it

Rebecca Chernoff

LMAO

Yi Jiang

@drachenstern That would've been a little boring, wouldn't it?

drachenstern

@YiJiang no

because the only thing to change would be the smilies

Yi Jiang

Hmmm... still a little too fast.

Tim Stone

@YiJiang You're right, we shouldn't have expected anything less from you.

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3:25 AM

You people have too much time

drachenstern

if properly aligned

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And by "you people" I of course include myself ;-)

drachenstern

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException hey I'm trying to talk to my sister and wife AND participate in the dba beta

Rebecca Chernoff

I busted out laughing...had to control myself before I could type, lol.

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@drachenstern For some reason I first read that as, "I'm trying to talk my sister and wife into participating in the dba beta" and was going to say Wait, what??

@RebeccaChernoff Yes the "MUAHAHAH" frame caused me to laugh out loud too. Good one @YiJiang

Tim Stone

3:28 AM

@RebeccaChernoff The last frame with the "MUAHAHAH!!" got me

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Hahah

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Thanks for the edit @TimStone ;-)

Tim Stone

Heheh ;)

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I was too lazy to type it correctly myself, but copy paste I can handle

Tim Stone

Good stuff :P

Rebecca Chernoff

y'all are nuts. so very nuts.

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Yi Jiang

3:29 AM

@RebeccaChernoff Thanks. You too.

Rebecca Chernoff

was not including herself. (;

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@RebeccaChernoff Of course we gladly do include you in our crazy group, even if you have one of those pesky ♦s

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Right, and we didn't want you to look foolish with that mistake, so @YiJiang corrected it for you.

drachenstern

TIM! I. STILL. HAVE. NOTHING.

this sucks

Yi Jiang

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, Oct 25 '10 at 14:18, by Raynos

Oh god. Backwards smileys. Oh god someone actaully wrote a reversal script. Seriously do we have nothing better to talk about?

^ Typical reaction. Hmmm...

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3:31 AM

@YiJiang ROFLMAO

drachenstern

I can only hope you drew the Q

Rebecca Chernoff

@YiJiang good reaction!

Tim Stone

Pesky vowels..

Man, this sore throat is really distracting.

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Is there an easy way to revert all local changes in svn?

Tim Stone

And I really don't have that much wiggle room before my distractions become problematic.

Uhh yeah.

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3:34 AM

I guess I could do find . -not -name .svn -exec svn revert {} \;

drachenstern

@TimStone remember that vacation you said you don't want to take

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Oh wait. rm -rf * works better

duh :-)

Tim Stone

You can revert the root directory too.

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I tried svn revert . and it had no effect at all

Tim Stone

Hm

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3:37 AM

Could be because of my wacky repo / workingggggggggggggggggggggggggggg copy struture

wtf happened there?

synergy FAIL

I almost edited but I think it's better as-is

Tim Stone

Hahah

drachenstern

do I get relaxed voting restrictions on private beta?

Hey Tim will you move AWAY from the center of the board? :p :p

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@drachenstern What specifically do you mean?

I just created Trac ticket #888! XD

drachenstern

Do I still have a 20 or whatever cap? I need more votes!

Yi Jiang

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Lucky number!

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3:43 AM

30 per day, yeah, I think, right @RebeccaChernoff?

@YiJiang it was such a lame bug too

drachenstern

Also, are my votes on meta connected to my votes on the site proper on SE2.0 sites?

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I believe you get 30 on each

Rebecca Chernoff

30 on each.

drachenstern

Thanks

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30 on the meta and 30 more on the parent site

Because you also don't get Civic Duty / Electorate on meta for votes on the parent

which reminds me, I stopped voting on Unix questions recently, must pick that back up

No new answers here yet:

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Q: Is "a disclaiming" a gerund?

EDIT see end of question for updates: The question came up if this is proper English: Sorry, I felt the need for a disclaiming for some reason. And I think it is but some others say it isn't. I gave a further example to back up my case that that is acceptable with: "A disclaiming was...

drachenstern

3:48 AM

Yeah I'm gonna give it a few days. Feel free to remind me Thursday ;)

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Will do

Some SE sites are more active than others

mootinator

Attention span. I needs one.

Yi Jiang

@mootinator Here, you can have min- oh look, there's a squirrel!

mootinator

has departed

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@YiJiang I have a T-shirt that reads I don't have ADD, it's just that-- Oh look, a bunny!

Moshe

3:55 AM

Heh, all of you ADD infected people won't be able to read my blog post for longer than 30 sec - hey, there's a link:mosheberman.com/wordpress/?p=308

Moshe's predicted meme's of 2011:

1. IRC style /me comments

2. "...wait for it..."

3. ADD Jokes

4. Backwards smiley jokes.

And, once again, shameless plug:

mosheberman.com/wordpress/?p=308

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@Moshe Your site is slow to load for me

mootinator

/me doesn't get it. Ooh look, a bunny!

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Wordpress was pretty quick but the homepage won't load

mootinator

@Moshe Are we talking legen...wait for it...dary or something else?

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