Uh. I found a horrible question, so I edited it massively. I downvoted, then decided maybe I was a little harsh. So I revoked my downvote and noticed that I just gave this guy 2 rep (he was at 1 to start with). Exactly the opposite of the intended effect. Is that by-design?

yeah

well, sorta

won't-fix

Moral of the story: don't second-guess yourself ;-P

That took 10 seconds to load? :|

Those 204s man, they're just trouble

@Shog9 A milliner.

So I took this spatial relations test... (psych.io/spatial) I worked out every answer and was absolutely certain, and it says I got 2 of 9.. wtf.

Hmm, I got 8 out of 9.

Nice work Tim

Now I'm curious which one I got wrong, heh. My mind processed some of them a lot easier than others, interesting how that works.

@PopularDemand Now that sounds plausible

@Fosco Wow, that is devilishly hard.

I have this sudden urge to get ridiculously expensive blinged out rims put on my mini-van.

@mootinator I don't know why you wouldn't.

@Fosco question 6 hurts my eyes

wow, I got eight out of 9. Interesting.

I really want to draw them out or something and check them out

@mootinator Tangentially related:

nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html?pagewanted=3

"The exploration into cardholders’ minds hit a breakthrough in 2002, when J. P. Martin, a math-loving executive at Canadian Tire, decided to analyze almost every piece of information his company had collected from credit-card transactions the previous year. [...] Anyone who purchased a chrome-skull car accessory or a 'Mega Thruster Exhaust System' was pretty likely to miss paying his bill eventually."

I wonder where blinged-out rims fit into that equation...

if, like me, you wanted something a little easier to print out and play with. Sorry it wasn't cropped, grabbed in browser.

cutting it out and folding it is cheating!

Glad you guys are enjoying :)

Also, I am seriously dominating the starred message list... those damned Sticky ones are hiding more.

Don't worry you still aren't close to winning the room yet.

@Shog9 who's going to cheat? I'm going to rotate and adjust

heh.. i wish there was a win-condition

@Fosco I'm pretty sure I've won the room >.>

33.5k messages in here, room admin, etc

Nice

jco the barfly

well, compared to how much work I have gotten done lately, sounds about right

uhh

hahaha, that's what I said

maybe C&D match each other, but A doesn't match C, so I say A is the odd man out

but I need to pen and paper that one to be sure

If there's no time limit, I don't see why printing and cutting out is out of the question.

Tests like these promote inefficiency.

it wouldn't really test your spatial reasoning at that point..

The idea is what can you do with just your mind

also, for the Gentlemen and the Appropriately-Minded Ladies (meaning the ones who won't bite you for meaning well) thetinkerspacks.bigcartel.com/product/literary-pin-up-calendars

I can come up with a solution to the problem which doesn't involve getting a headache.

That's practical use of the mind.

> Server Error in '/' Application. Operation could destabilize the runtime.

Huh, I wonder how I made that happen (in my code).

Division by Unicorn?

Perhaps, the exception is being thrown inside of Dapper.

Division by unicorn would magically stablilze the runtime.

Oooo 325 delayed rep. That's always fun.

@mootinator Recalc?

Three bounties.

Nice.

Thus completing my simple but fun and completely arbitrary goal of accumulating more awarded bounties on SO than Jon Skeet. :P

throws confetti

Now I shall have to ignore SO for another 6 months, even though I learn many useful things by not ignoring it.

I'm just here for the whining.

Or I could continue my pointless quest for domination and stalk Pekka next.

Stalking Pekka is always advisable, I think.

Arg.. pushes sacrificial cookies in @MarcGravell's direction

Ah ha!

Hint for getting rep on new SE sites: Post stuff early! I have question number 1 on 3D Graphics, and already got 6 upvotes for a mediocre question.

It's also the only post on the site yet...

Hah, nice

Tricks to getting diamond on a site: be really active on the meta in the first two weeks, then continue being active on meta, then ask to be a mod.

Usually you'll get pro-tem. Then at that point, winning the first election is a matter of being consistent

>.>

@jcolebrand Heh, nice strategy.

What's up folks?

@jcolebrand - I've bee trying to Google before asking potentially dumb questions, but I don't think I can effectively Google that one.

@Moshe proven strategy?

@Moshe cute joke, uncalled for. -1

I'm not happy with how I refactored this still... Uh-oh.

@jcole ok, I've been -1'd then.

We discussed something interesting in math class today.

Actually, it might pertain to SE mod elections, but....

The question posed was as follows:

@TimStone nomnomnom (burp) - now... what were they for?

@MarcGravell lmao

I was hoping making a sacrifice to the Dapper gods would appease the code, and waffles wasn't about.

If you have an election, where you vote for one of several (say, four) candidates, and you must rank your favorite, second favorite, and third favorite, etc. How do you rank each candidate?

entirely possible

that error usually means something is using "call" instead of "callvirt"

is that a dapperism?

In this case the problem was me accidentally trying to map a bigint from the DB into an int field on a struct.

In this election, it's not just first place votes that count, but so do the others.

if so, chuck me a repro (if possible) and I shall attempt to make it less broken

Am I wrong for weighting each vote?

@TimStone interesting; it should error, for sure, but it shouldn't destabilise anything. Sounds like broken IL to me.

I shall investigate

If I change the type to a class I get a conversion exception on the error message that's supposed to tell me that the DB type is incompatible with the member type too, for some reason, but that's less scary than "Operation could destabilize the runtime", heh.

ah! I know what that'll be then

@MarcGravell I also hate XML, in case it wasn't apparent.

Well, since Jul 17, 2008 (according to google) I've been trying to make sure that there is a sensible, non-xml, non-BinaryFormatter, non-NetDataContractSerializer, full-on-fast-binary-without-the-crap serializer in .NET

it has been .... interesting

Also I found a /blame Kevin in the SqlBuilder, but I can poke Sam about that later.

bubye. see you guys and gals later

have repro, cheers Tim

See ya, @jcolebrand

Awesome. I started looking at the responsible code, but my eyes glazed over a bit at the magic, heheh. :)

pushed to google-code if you want to cause madness

Fantastic, thanks! I'll take a peek after dinner.

Additional +1 for the test case ;)