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12:45 AM
@jcolebrand omg it's impossible to hide from ows :)
 
@Trufa Pardon me. I was commenting on the proletariat police cadre that serve at the whims of their masters. Also the fact that apparently in the US all you have to do to get beat down with a baton my a cadre of police is to protect your face
 
@jcolebrand hehe you should come to south america, you learn that pretty quick.
@jcolebrand sorry if that came out blunt :) no offense intended.
 
none taken. Posting on FB atm
took some pictures of dinner
think they look goooood
 
lets see them :)
are you still posting on g+ too?
 
pffft
the app sucks for my phone, and there's nobody else there, so it's suffering from empty house syndrome
 
12:53 AM
@jcolebrand amazing that they don't have a decent api
 
a public API you mean
 
just the feed if I recall correctly
yep
I'm leaving now
 
ooohhhh wait
 
sure
 
uploading a pic
 
12:54 AM
@jcolebrand cool
 
or not, wtf phone
> Tonight's dinner at Chez Brand: a sumptuous roast in an Italian style, new red potatoes whipped with a little garlic and Parmesan for texture and flavor, some green beans and carrots, and rounding out the plate a few pieces of baguette brushed in olive oil, accompanied by a tangy Chardonnay (it sounded good at the time but probably should've opened a Shiraz instead)
 
@jcolebrand being myself on a low carb diet right now, that looks like a lot of sins.
 
@Trufa one of the advantages to being resigned to be fat
I figure if science and capitalism are going to conspire against me and prevent me from decently being able to get unprocessed unsteroided unGMed food, I might as well die gluttonously happy
 
@jcolebrand I'm resigned too, just trying to be a bit less fat. Good thing I'm a big fella though!
 
@Trufa 270 and 6 foot
I've got room to drop a few
However since I look like I'm about 240, and since I'm in relatively good shape, I think I'll manage for a bit longer ;-)
 
1:01 AM
@jcolebrand you americans and you strnage numbers, you make mi google everything
 
once my sciatica clears up this week I should be able to get back to running without limping
@Trufa ok, I'm 19.25 stones
and .3636 rods
 
@jcolebrand I¡m 1.85 and 111 kilos
 
Meters and kilos! Whatever is this world coming to? those sound like standardized conventional numbers!
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So you're where I look like I am
 
@jcolebrand have you seen the light?
 
and where I plan to be by summer
@Trufa never! I prefer to delve ever deeper
 
1:04 AM
lol
 
my philosophy is let's see what we can awaken in the vast reaches
and if you get the reference, you'll love that I haven't mentioned Balrog's Bridge
 
@jcolebrand yeah, the only thing I have in favor is that I only have a tummy, I'm not fat anywhere else
 
I have the same "problem"
You do realize that that fat is likely to be nonmotile and therefore difficult to get rid of completely, right?
 
I wear it proudly!
 
Mostly because it's going to be hanging onto synthetic chemicals (such as those delivered via new car smell when you purchase a new car)
 
1:06 AM
@jcolebrand yeah I know.
 
So ... I believe you were going
congrats on your diet and having a goal!
 
so now yes I'm leaving
 
I'll be here all night, making Tolkein references in odd manner.
 
@jcolebrand no goal, just less fat :)
 
@Trufa which sounds remarkably like a goal ;-)
Welcome @NGLN, speak friend and enter
 
1:08 AM
@jcolebrand it didn't in my head, but I'll admit, just because I know how much you like it that you RE RIGHT AND i'M WRONG
 
hahahahahahahahahahahaah
I can't help it that everyone know's I'm right all the time ;-)
 
but those caps were accidental, no way I'm shoutiing around your correctness
 
lmao
 
1:52 AM
@jcolebrand I'm resisting the temptation to star, but I'll leave fodder for the next guy.
Cole is always right.
 
lmao
cue @RebeccaChernoff "Oy"
 
lol
 
No, no, no, there's no full stop at the end of that. It's just:
oy
not:
oy.
 
oy with a period is more srsbsns than just an oy by itself.
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1:55 AM
Ok, got a lot of stuff done today. Math HW involving infinite sets and some client stuff.
 
I don't think @Moshe understands how full stop adds SRS BSNS to EVERTING
 
is. feeling. grown. up.
 
@Moshe good job. Only four more years (they lied, it's really five, at a minimum, unless you add a minor in which case "hahahahaha") and then you'll be ready to feel like you don't know where the salt is in the kitchen anymore.
 
@jcolebrand huh?
 
I'm thinking of a minor or double major in a modern language or film/digital media.
 
1:57 AM
@RebeccaChernoff he said he felt grown up
 
Also, it seems I am to be learning C# after all. I have to push apps for this MSP thing, so I might as well write a few of my own.
 
I was pointing out that he needed to finish his degree (he's in semester 1, just past midterms) and then tell us how he feels
and that they say the degree is 4 years, but it's often 5 for most people
 
right, and I was questioning your timeframe. (:
 
@Moshe C# is good stuff
You're gonna get spoilt
 
@jcolebrand I'm actually referring to the fact that I'm getting up/sleeping on a normal schedule.
 
1:58 AM
@RebeccaChernoff did you get a BS in CS? In 4 years?
 
@jcolebrand I like ObjC, not sure how it relates to C# though.
 
@Moshe oy.
@Moshe about like pita bread relates to a baguette.
 
@jcolebrand Oy? Why? That's the first step to being. productive.
 
@Moshe nah, GTD is the first step to being productive
 
@jcolebrand technically less, technically more. I did a 5-year BS/MS program, and I had a minor in there as well.
 
1:59 AM
@RebeccaChernoff >.<
I have no real clue how long it took me
 
@jcolebrand GTD? (Google defines as "guaranteed")
Oh. I see.
 
@jcolebrand I did it in 3, but I had an absurd amount of AP credit.
 
Yup, but I can't do that on no sleep.
 
I brought in ~30 hours from random schools, took ~15 hours at local communities (they were closer than the Uni), had an AAS (70+ hours by itself) and got two minors.
@Moshe getting things done
 
I think I only was able to transfer like 3 credits in, heh.
 
2:00 AM
lucky you? :p
 
I was supposed to be able to transfer credits from yeshiva, but I didn't really follow the program - was coding most of the day, so I didn't have the nerve to ask. I might yet, though, might chill there during winter break.
Does C# really make it easy to write once and deploy to multiple versions of windows/xbox/WinPhone?
 
YES
However
 
Like HTML standards, or like, for real?
 
you're giving up a fair bit of design control to deploy to everything with one binary
 
I was going to graduate in 4 with just the BS/minor, but then in my last semester transferred in to the 5 year program to add the MS....as I'd taken some classes already that counted, so it all worked out in 10 semesters.
 
2:02 AM
@Moshe well ... see, there's the thing.
C# != WHATWG
C# = .NET = CLR + MSIL
HTML = ... HTML
 
Heh, ok.
@jcolebrand That's like my infinite sets homework! lol
Did I mention that the kind MSP folks are sending a Windows Phone 7.5 to each of us?
@jcolebrand How does the one binary/standard UI thing work for games?
 
@Moshe I don't understand what you're asking
 
If I'm going to port my RPG to C#, will I have to write different code for each device, or does can .NET automagically help with screen sizes and map boundaries and such?
 
it can automagically help
but you'll need to probe it for those details
it won't know on its own
 
Ok, sounds logical.
I know I discussed this last December-ish, I redid my resume a few weeks ago, because a family friend asked for it, and I've got some inconsistencies in it. Am I supposed to use first or third person for describing my achievements?
 
2:12 AM
that depends
what positional-tense did you use for everything else?
 
Not sure, I started in third, but switched and now it's inconsistent. :-(
 
pick one
which do you prefer?
 
Not sure, I think third. Is there a professional preference?
Also shrunk to one page.
 
The preference is how you present yourself
Good job on shrunk to one page
nice clean design
 
@jcolebrand Danke, I heard that was important. (Here and elsewhere.)
@jcolebrand Kudos to Pages for Mac for that. :-)
My CS professor complained that the text is too small.
 
2:26 AM
it is a tad small
 
How's the rest?
 
So anyways
grade yourself against this list: joelonsoftware.com/articles/SortingResumes.html
 
Ok, thanks. I think I meant to do that.
 
You're going to be a much tougher grader than I am, I imagine
 
Lol, doubt it.
Also, I never wrote a cover letter before. opens google
 
2:33 AM
Ya know what a cover letter is about?
 
hang on
or not
 
2:51 AM
@jcolebrand I'm back, what's up?
Heading out in 10.
 
a cover letter is about conveying to the company that you're a worthy hire, that they should take a shot on. The resume is a formal (sorta) document that indicates the previous work you've done.
 
Is the cover letter directed at an individual, "To whom it may concern"?
 
If you're lucky enough to know who you're sending it to, sure
 
@Shog9 If not?
 
That's happened to me all of... once
 
2:55 AM
If you don't know who's hiring why are you applying there?
I sent out two resumes the last time I went job hunting
I got a job making well above the median in my area.
 
@Moshe The usual... "To whom it may concern" or "Dear Sir or Madam" or "To the esteemed hiring gods at BigCo" or "Yo Duuudes!"
 
Dearest Hiring Manager
 
@jcolebrand With little smilies or hearts over the "i"s, I'm sure. :P
Gnight for real, gotta run! Tschüß!
 
 
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8:16 AM
@Shog9: I need a help from you, are you free right now mate
 
 
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9:16 AM
@balpha, (grovel) could you point me in the direction of an event that I can hook into so that I can add the AutoReviewComments to comment links in /review? (flatter) Nice blog by the way
 
9:32 AM
@Benjol thanks, and ... hmm? you mean you want to be notified when the full post (including "add comments" link) is loaded?
 
9:51 AM
@balpha, yes, please. Currently in other pages I attach to the add comments link, which is already there.
Having said that, the other bits aren't already there, and I manage to attach to them. Is that because the 'click' handlers are in order (yours then mine), or just a timing freak?
i.e., I could just plug into the 'click' handler for the question-loader and answer-loader links, and count on your click being handled first?
 
not sure what you mean
but why don't you just use event delegation to bind to the comments-link?
in that case you don't have to worry about whether they're already there when you bind
 
googles event delegation...
 
That aside, I'm thinking of posting an official request for adoption on meta. This thing is getting a bit 'big' for me. And the global storage is a bit beyond me...
@balpha, thanks, that definitely looks like a nicer solution. And the answer to your question ("why don't you...?") is plain ignorance... in my defence, JS isn't my day job :)
 
well, then you've learned something new today
that's what it's all about :)
 
10:02 AM
Avoid using live, jQuery's slowly deprecating it I believe
 
@balpha, yup, as long as I can maintain forget < learn
 
@YiJiangs独角兽 on the plus side, they're adding another way to bind events with every version, so you still have the choice ;p
 
@balpha, is there a route map for JQ versions on SO? There's some nice async stuff in whatever then next version is, I believe, which could be handy for me...
 
most of the time we just update when we say "there's a bugfix/feature in the next version that we need"
 
OK, well it's pipe I was thinking of... it's in 1.6, I believe: api.jquery.com/deferred.pipe
 
10:07 AM
seems like not such a huge addition
 
It's because of this idea of piggy-backing on the global auth iframe, and using it as global storage using post Message (jsfiddle.net/Benjol/XNbXF), the problem is that it makes everything asynchronous, and I don't like n levels of callbacks...
 
welcome to javascript :)
but where would pipe help you with that?
 
I could pipe deferreds into each other.
The problem is that "done" returns the same deferred object, instead of a new one.
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A: How do you attach callbacks to the deferred object that is attached to a deferred object?

BenjolI started wrestling with this recently (see my question here), inspired by a blog series by James Coglan. After messing around with 'monads' for a while, I came back to wishing that it were possible to 'chain' deferred objects together. The problem is that "done" returns the same deferred object...

 
maybe I'm misreading the docs, but isn't this all there's to it?
function pipe(deferred, doneFilter, failFilter) {
    var result = $.Deferred();
    deferred.done(function (data) { result.resolve(doneFilter(data)); } )
        .fail(function (data) { result.reject(failFilter(data)); } );
    return result;
}
(untested)
 
@balpha, I dunno to be honest, I did lots of fiddling around on my own (cf that answer), but didn't look much closer at the actual source. And to be honest, even with that, the code for my userscript is pretty unmanageable. What I was aiming for was to have just one lots of asynchronous code, which would delegate to 'storage' which could be local or global.
But I think to properly implement that, I'll have to do 'block' storage, rather than updating elements independently. Long term project, but lots of users seem to be interested...
@balpha, thanks anyway, I'll see if I can get that delegate working first :)
 
 
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11:49 AM
It's awesome how many cool people are on StackExchange!
 
12:07 PM
how do you think, how often badge job is being pooled/pulled?
 
12:25 PM
@Moshe, I take it you're referring to me? :)
 
hi ya @Benjol
It's been a while
 
@Reno Yeah, I'm still laying low, but I popped in to beg help from @balpha, and just came back to see if he was still here, as my code still isn't working :(
$(".container").delegate(".comments-link", "click", function() {
  console.log("hello world");
});
That works in /review, from firebug, but not in a userscript... for some reason. I think there's too much ajaxyness going on.
 
I know nothing about JavaScript/ajax :D. I wish I could help though
 
no problem, it can wait, it's for the latest 'feature request' in comments here, so not exactly urgent.
see you around...
 
@Benjol I think you got the order wrong
Right? No, that is correct
 
12:36 PM
That is cool
Not everyone is familiar with OP
The only valid Google search result is from urban dict, which I believe is blocked at most workplaces * shrugs *
In other news I have a huge crush on Hannah Murray :(
Hi there @tombull89 :D
 
@Reno Greeting!
I see you're still having fun with the Android rooms.
 
Isn't Hannah Murray from Bristol?
 
Yes, she is.
I went to the same college (for a while) as the guy who played Sid. Never spoke to him but saw him a few times.
 
Oh wow.
I really like the characters from that show.
They've made a US version that is horrible.
 
I'm pleased it's put bristol "on the map" as it were. I didn't really like it though, the whole drugs subculture and whatnot doesn't do it for me.
Bit like "the inbetweeners", some parts are just to embarassing to watch.
 
12:48 PM
Oh yeah haha
 
Hey, @balpha. How goes it in the land of SE?
 
status-same-old-same-old
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@tombull89 I've been to Bristol, so clearly it's a happening place. :P
 
@TimStone Bristol, UK, or Bristol CT? ;)
Dammit there's 32 Bristol's in the world...
 
UK, of course.
 
12:59 PM
Haha, alrighty.
 
I've always wanted to go there. I have cousins there apparently.
 
It's not a bad place to live...although 1am in the city center on a Saturday morning is a bit...interesting.
(I don't like clubbing. Drunk people scare me.)
 
To tolerate drunks you need to be drunk. Resonance and all that.
 
I was there when the police raided the squatter settlement in expectation of the Tesco getting firebombed, heh.
 
Yeah...not a proud moment for us.
 
 
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2:18 PM
I open this room before my work e-mail. Hmm.
 
2:43 PM
@mootinator lol... just joined and read your message, realized I hadn't loaded Outlook yet. ;)
 
2:55 PM
Quick question: Are the primary election results going to be available forever? Or should I copy them down (I want to do some analysis
 
3:10 PM
so, you probably don't need to hurry :)
 
Clever way to avoid promising anything... smart guy, this Ben is.
 
I plead the fifth
(which I can't, since I'm not a American citizen, but "Ich mache von meinem Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht nach §52 StGB Gebrauch" just doesn't have that ring to it...)
 
Word of the day: Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht. 7 syllables?
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3:30 PM
Haha, in English class, trying to write a journal entry, and I come in here to a zillion syllables in German. That's not helping my English skills.
(Neither is browsing the web during class.) closes browser
 
Contest... come up with the best Tavern Haiku that uses Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht. Just come up with a 5 syllable line before and after.
 
Are you sure that's 7 syllables? :P
 
It is by my count / pronunciation... I did ask, haven't been told otherwise yet :)
 
I can confirm :)
Zeug-nis-ver-wei-ger-ungs-recht
 
3:54 PM
just for anyone interested :-D
 
4:11 PM
@SankarGanesh Not really... What's up?
 
4:53 PM
Aha! The Precognitive badge whoring site is nearly ready for beta. (i.e. Movies)
 
/me jumps on the bandwagon.
 
Could be fun.
Or a horrible catastrophe.
Definitely one of those.
 
5:10 PM
Could be both
 
This makes me wish for a close reason of "The problem likely has absolutely nothing to do with what the OP thinks it does." stackoverflow.com/questions/8215611/…
I could of course be wrong, but it's a bad question with a lack of usable information either way.
 
There should be a Closed: Reason XY Problem
 
Excellent!
What about drive-by questions like this which will never help anyone else: stackoverflow.com/questions/8214799/return-from-jquery-ajax
 
The problem is that it keeps on printing this error:

The upload path does not appear to be valid.
ROFL
 
it didn't even say that before... he finally edited that in, but it's still useless.
 
Are you sureÉ
I was rofling at "I checked for the existence of './uploads/' locally but it still tells me it's a bad upload path."
 
5:43 PM
i don't see a revision history, is there a time-period where an edit is just made to the original?
 
5 minutes, I think.
 
ok, then yes I'm sure.. it wasn't there :)
 
It wasn't - he stealth-edited it. I closed and linked to previous questions on the topic.
 
Thanks Shog.
 
applauds
If anyone I worked with commented this verbosely I would slap them:
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Q: Using jQuery in ASP.NET/jQuery

Sify Juhyfunction pageLoad(sender, args) { if(args.get_isPartialLoad()) { } } **how can i use the above function to fire the given script below to fire on asynchronous postbacks???** how can i use the above function to fire the given script below to fire on asynchronous postbacks??? ...

 
6:00 PM
Wow... that's just a tiny bit excessive. o_O
 
@mootinator To be fair (I guess), it's copied from a demo of the plugin where explaining all of the options might make more sense.
 
does anyone know how does badge job work?
 
Hmm?
 
i'w waiting a gold badge for 1000 upvotes, and still haven't got it
*i'm
 
there's a gold badge for up-voting?
 
6:06 PM
which badge?
 
so wondering why, or what have i misunderstood
1000 upvotes in c#
 
> Earned 1000 upvotes for at least 200 answers
 
oh, garnered upvotes.
 
Do you have at least 200 answers in that tag? When did you receive your 1,000th up-vote?
 
It's granted after the tag scores are recalculated for the previous day, at 03:00 UTC
 
6:07 PM
Asked 115 non-wiki questions with a total score of 332. Answered 676 non-wiki questions with a total score of 1004
3:00 utc, thanks
 
@TimStone Ah.
 
Why the person didn't, you know, remove the comments....I dunno
 
...Wut
 
I'm struggling with regex. Can I get some help here? (Although, to be honest, I'm not sure it's actually a regex question at this point.)
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Q: How do I use regex to search ignoring certain characters with NSPredicate?

MosheIn Hebrew, there are certain vowels that NSPredicate fails to ignore even when using the 'd' (diacritic insensitive) modifier in the predicate. I was told that the solution is to use regular expressions to do the search. How do I take a search string and "use regex" to search hebrew text that c...

 
6:23 PM
Ack. Worst XKCD ever.
 
The super huge chart?
 
Yup.
 
@Moshe Err, reexplain what you're trying to do to me, because I'm not fully following.
 
@TimStone I've got an article of text, where the text is both hebrew and english mixed together.
Hebrew has vowels which are not (easily) typed on iOS.
 
That visual was ok for radiation doses, but honestly.
 
6:25 PM
I am trying to allow searching of the text.
 
I don't need you to show me how much an iPad costs in green squares.
 
@TimStone I want to match both hebrew and english, while ignoring the vowels.
I have a search box, and when the user changes the search query or mode, a method (posted in the question) runs which adds all matching articles to an array.
 
So you're basically trying to do a contains(), ignoring vowels?
 
@TimStone Yes sir.
 
I'd just strip out the vowels from both the haystack and the needle then just do a normal search, which it seems that someone suggested already. Is there a reason you can't do that?
 
6:34 PM
It's not so easy to remove the vowels from the haystack, I don't think.
Well, maybe it is, let me see...
 
Really? You flagged "yup"?
 
Who did?
 
@Shog9 I wanted it deleted because of my next message. Sorry. :-(
@mootinator Me.
bows head in shame
 
I find it offensive.
Oops, that was star.
 
@Shog9 Lol, drat.
 
6:36 PM
Apologies.
 
What have I done?
Wait, if mods can rewrite the transcript, I'd better be careful what I say.
 
chuckles
 
That's pretty darn scary.
 
lol
 
Thanks. I won't do that again.
really won't do that again
 
6:44 PM
I'm in a Stack mood today...
 
That's obvious
....aaand, now I'm hungry for pancakes.
 
Ugh, I couldn't eat another bite...just had a delicious sandwich, but now I am absolutely stuffed.
 
You should totally drop eating and use jQuery.
 
7:00 PM
If I could replace eating and sleeping with code I'd certainly be fair more productive.
 
I replace (some) eating with smoking... keeps the weight off.
 
I replace (some) smoking with eating... keeps a few tastebuds alive
 
7:22 PM
I had the remainder of a box of pasta from Costco for lunch.
(I just had to get that in there so I stay in the running for that @PopularDemand award)
 
7:43 PM
I replace eating with water. Keeps me skinny and alive.
What a novel concept.
Er, some eating.
 
give me teh most complicated of codes: stackoverflow.com/questions/8217607/…
 
8:14 PM
\O/
@TimStone Problem solved!
Pseudocode:
 
//Declare regex for hebrew vowels
//Insert it between every character in the search term, working backwards from the last character
//Add a .* to each side of the regex
//Perform a 'MATCHES' search
Problem solved!
 
8:31 PM
If I wanted to ask a question on Meta, but it has already been ask a year or two ago with high vote counts but nothing done about it, should I repost the question? Or is there another way to bring attention to the old question to try and revive it?
Question I was looking at is meta.stackoverflow.com/q/52750/158605
 
Ah... I had up-voted that one in the past. Re-posting is obviously a bad idea, it would just get closed... There's a +500 bounty, which is supposed to draw attention. I don't know what else you can do except hope.
 
Hrrm I don't have the rep to post a bounty
 
8:53 PM
Another give me teh codes: stackoverflow.com/questions/8218387/… (bonus points - parsing HTML)
 
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Q: Regular expression must end with gmail.com or start with 1234 Is Either or Possible?

GeekenderTitle pretty much says it all, basically can you specify that it must do one or the other?

 
Anonymous
I had it all nicely formatted...
 
I had to downvote that question because the question upvoting communists got to it.
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