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12:23 AM
I probably sound like a jerk when people start a support chat with me and I start my response with "As it says on the page you are currently viewing as we speak, ..."
 
 
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1:44 AM
<~ Has become a fan of Komodo Edit this week
It's been handling code completion and folding on my large projects really well, and generally much more stable than Aptana Studio has been on this computer
 
Speaking of being a jerk, I should probably stop moderating while in a foul mood. lol
@DanGrossman Yah, Komodo Edit is pretty nice. I've been using it off-and-on for a while now.
 
2:19 AM
LOL What happens when you do something wrong and you try to cover your ass:
 
Well, the code for my robot is online..
And we are currently adjusting it to make the robot work right
 
Grrr...if my comment wasn't long enough, why is the 15 second time enforced?
@TylerChacha Cool. Is that a homemade robot or a kit?
 
2:39 AM
Heard of FIRST?
 
Nope, I don't think so.
 
It's claim to fame is being the biggest Robotics League
 
We pay $6,000 for a kit of parts and 1 entry fee to a regional.
And our robot can include anything in the KOP (Kit of Parts) and $3,500 more worth of materials
So, they give us a lot of the parts, but a lot of the parts are home made as well
 
Cool. So more involved than what I was referring to with "kit."
 
2:41 AM
yes
Our team is 60 people big
 
Nice.
 
We get 6 weeks (Jan 8 - Feb 22) to design, build, and test a robot to play a game
on Feb 22, Tuesday, we have to ship our robot
The biggest problem we ran into is the 120 pound weight limit
 
The drive train is 40 pounds, our electronics box is 30 pounds, and the aluminum chasis is 20 pounds
that leaves 30 pounds for the stuff that actually plays the game...
 
What kind of game are they supposed to play?
 
2:43 AM
Changes every year
(So you can't start building early)
This year we have to pick up intertubes and place them on pegs that go up to 11 feet
Basically we had to engineer a forklift
 
Ok. That's what I was wondering, what type of game.
 
Last year it was soccer
err, a modified version of soccer
 
Cool.
 
2:54 AM
Just waiting for this service to end so I can go back and finish testing..
 
Voting ring.... Activate!
 
@mootinator Wrong room...
 
There's a room for that now?
I'm so out of the loop.
 
Yea. There's a room for voting rings?
 
Anyhow, @Moshe mysteriously appeared in the room as I said that, so I'm assuming it worked.
 
2:56 AM
Hah.
No, my phone's data plan cycled today.
I just finished studying.
@Tyler what service?
 
picturing Tyler on chat in mass
 
in ALL CAPS ROOM, 32 secs ago, by mootinator
VOTING RING ACTIVATE!
 
@michaelPetrotta as you know, I must take every opportunity to bug all iOS users here to buy Nippon. That said, go buy it.
:-D
 
Well, I know now.
 
@mootinator that was originally "Pikachu, return. Voting Ring, Go!"
 
3:01 AM
I see...
 
@MichaelPetrotta heh, kidding. But if you care, I'm preparing an update. iTunes.com/apps/Nippon
 
I find the lack of a Pokemans Room disturbing.
 
@motivator yep. Someone took that to be "Voting Ring Activate!"
I find your spelling of "Pokemon" disturbing :-p No "a" or "s".
 
Hahahahahaha
/me want to be able to star on mobile chat
 
3:05 AM
Don't worry buddy, I got you covered.
 
Thanks.
It's possible to star things that were already starred. Strange.
Nippon for iPad is in alpha testing.
Gtg. Later folks.
 
later, Moshe
 
Later...
 
 
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4:19 AM
It is later... Anyone here?
 
4:43 AM
Hello
 
Hey
 
Hi
I am... updating node.js to 0.4.1
 
@Tyler which iPod do you have?
 
2nd gen
 
@Moshe, was your game free for awhile or did I imagine you saying that?
 
5:03 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Just the person I was looking to harass!
With respect to the userscripts, what are we doing about license?
 
@TimStone o: whoops sorry gotta go!
 
:p
 
I dunno. I hate licensing. I got that far in the post template earlier today and gave up to do other fun stuff haha.
 
Bah! Making me do all the work. ;)
 
I like to pretend licensing issues don't exist.
I meant to look at it, but I may or may not have forgotten to look. >_<
 
5:11 AM
But yeah, I'll write the one for SE Chat Modifications either tonight or tomorrow morning, and then the one for SE Modifications as soon as I finish these updates to the auto complete, if that works for you.
Hahah, I see.
(I wanted to fix the known issues before I post it and have people come harassing, heheh)
 
Yeah, I've been meaning to take a closer look at what you did, but I've been busy. (:
Not that I'm worried. (:
 
I feel like I should have been busy too, but I'm going to worry about that later, hahah.
@RebeccaChernoff I am, a bit. ;)
 
hmm
adds "check Tim's code" to her list (;
q:
 
Hahah, better safe than inundated with bug reports.
 
I was kidding. >_<
 
5:24 AM
But userscripts are serious business!
(as is the WwF game it's your move in cough)
 
@TimStone Yes, and you can write good code. (;
@TimStone this is a LIE
 
@RebeccaChernoff I never lie! That being said, we may have to jump ship now that @MichaelMrozek can play on Android :P
 
@TimStone I haven't even installed it; I now realize how bad I am at scrabble
 
@MichaelMrozek The solution is to just blame the tiles.
 
Oh, I already did that
 
5:34 AM
Hmm, to play or not to play...Jin's a crafty one, might leave a TW tile open for him.
Hooray, a different play.
 
5:53 AM
welcome back @waffles (:
 
thanks, was a good break
 
you managed to have fun despite missing us? (;
 
'Ello there @waffles!
 
@RebeccaChernoff yes despite :)
hi @TimStone
 
Hmm, I got Tumbleweed for my neglected bug report. :o
 
5:59 AM
about?
 
Another (fairly minor, seemingly unlikely) chat ad issue.
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Q: Chat ads can cause a JavaScript error when a displayed room has no messages

Tim StoneWhen the chat ads in the sidebar display the last activity information (e.g. "n mins ago - username") the code makes the assumption that there's always a message object to get that activity from. This apparently isn't always the case though, so the call chat_ad.userLink(e.messages[0]) results in...

But it broke the userscript for an hour, so naturally it's Serious Business. ;)
 
Hmm why do I think that was fixed?
 
adding this function to data.se
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A: Date ranges in T/SQL

Sam SaffronThere are quite a few tricks in here, hope you find it useful create function dbo.fnGetDateRanges ( @type char(1), @start datetime, @finish datetime ) returns @ranges table(start datetime, finish datetime) as begin declare @from datetime declare @to datetime set @from...

 
Ohh, nifty.
 
@Rebecca it was.
Why?
 
6:04 AM
Woohoo! I was right!
I mentioned it to someone because they like to get the free games. But then they accused me of lying.
So as long as I'm right, all is well in the world. (:
 
@RebeccaChernoff I dunno, the JavaScript hasn't changed, though it's possible whatever server-side issue there was might have been resolved.
 
Oh well I may make it free again at some point. I'm working on a major update. iPad UI, new achievements, bug fixes, minor gameplay changes.
What are this persons initials @Rebecca, I can vouch for you if you like.
In the app description :-)
Dear (person), No, nobodylied to you. Nippon was free. You missed it.
 
Haha, s'ok.
 
I actually wonder what impact that would have on sales...
Haha.
 
lol, I'm not sure that'd be wise.
 
6:10 AM
Me neither.
 
At this point though, publicity is publicity.
So the camp I worked for is closed this summer.
 
@waffles Nice
 
/me is thinking about a real summer job.
 
'Morning' all, anyone know if/how I can invoke the notification bar myself from a userscript?
 
6:13 AM
Define "invoke".
 
Interesting question @Benjol I'd star if I wasn't on iOS.
 
Also, it seems there's a wintery mix headed my way overnight, hmm..
 
@TimStone Show with my own message
 
@TimStone ditto that weather advisory.
 
@Benjol Oh, for some reason my brain absolutely failed on parsing "notification bar", sorry about that.
One sec.
 
6:17 AM
You can star on iOS. Just turn off the mobile view. Add ?mobile=false to the url
Such a pain.
 
@Benjol notify.show(message)
 
@Benjol why not?
 
@TimStone, you da man, I go try right now, thankee :)
 
@Benjol For some reason I can't get rid of it now though, lemme see what I might be missing :P
 
@TimStone Ah, yes, so I see :)
This is so me, I'm not sure if I want to laugh (because I'm not the only one), or cry (because it really is that bad)
 
6:20 AM
Ah, I see what the issue is.
You need to pass it a unique ID
notify.show(message, uniqueID)
 
Questions marked as spam don't show up in the header? (as a count)
 
@TimStone And presumably not one that the server expects :)
@TimStone, I'm trying to make my user script tell people when they don't need it anymore :)
 
Oh, the one you commented about the other day?
 
The one that replaces Unanswered with Review.
 
Yeah :)
Lemme double-check what happens when you close the bar.
 
6:23 AM
Given that it's 'planned' anyway
@TimStone, it calls 'mark-as-read' on the server
which sends back 500 if you don't give it an id it knows (I guess)
 
If you give it a negative number it seems it skips that part.
 
@TimStone good to know,
 
(Well, rather, something less than -1)
 
@TimStone works from firebug, but not from inside my gm apparently...
 
Ah, yeah, I don't think that the page variables are directly accessible from inside of GM (we inject the userscript into the page to get around this).
 
6:29 AM
fyi answers vs questions over time data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/93438
how I wish data.se had graphs
 
now we just need....GRRRRR be slower.
 
@Rebecca your turn, btw. (WwF)
 
Heheh, well I'd love to help with that, though I'd imagine with the catching up I'd have to do with respect to C#/.NET, someone should beat me to it.
 
Oh, hey @TimStone have you tried Komodo Edit?
 
I have not
 
6:34 AM
You should.
Let me get you a link.
 
Hmmm, I'll give it a shot. Unfortunately I'm bound to Eclipse for work, but.
 
shudders
 
I wonder if Komodo Edit is portable to iPad, not that I would be able to at this point...
 
...Well, not entirely true, but the effort required for me to force people to change...heh
 
6:36 AM
Now, I was asleep hours ago. Honest.
Gnight.
 
Well, the other day you mentioned that you were more productive with a dark theme in Notepad++, so I figured you were a good candidate for Komodo Edit.
@Moshe Well, it is cross-platform. :)
Oh, and g'night.
 
@GeorgeMarian Ah, well, I certainly appreciate it. If I like it well enough, maybe I'll be persuaded to push it on everyone else, hahah. ;)
 
That's the spirit!
@TimStone Oh, and if you happen to like it enough to plunk down for the IDE version, let me know. I've been curious, but not curious enough to spend $300 on it. :)
 
Sure thing :)
 
7:26 AM
(if the unanswered tab is no longer there, it notifies user that they can uninstall the script...)
 
Nifty :)
Break time for me.
 
7:53 AM
Weird, how come in the low quality posts tab of /review, some posts have 'flag for attention' and others don't?
 
good question...
 
@Benjol they need to have a score of 0 or less
makes it hard for you to flag stuff that is probably ok
 
@waffles, ok, I see, is that new? I never noticed it before.
@waffles, tbh, I think you should always have to click through... I nearly always do anyway
 
@Benjol it is not new, its just the random ordering thing we added last week exposes this
 
the only thing missing now from my 'sucks' list is being able to mark as 'ignore' :)
 
8:36 AM
in Tex Town Hall Chat on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 min ago, by Rebecca Chernoff
The Town Hall Chat will take place on Thursday the 24th at 7pm UTC, 2pm EST
@TheRenamedException ^^
English will be before that but I'll schedule that tomorrow morning to see if the last couple responses come in.
 
@RebeccaChernoff, has anyone found out whether/why nohat isn't nominating himself?
 
Might I suggest asking nohat? (;
 
@RebeccaChernoff, I did try in chat, but our timezones haven't crossed over yet :)
looking now...
 
8:55 AM
Odd, trying to create an account on Code Review, using Google for the OpenID provider is hanging in Chromium.
 
9:24 AM
@Benjol Which notification bar?
 
this one: notify.show("my message", -123); @TimStone helped me :)
(Dunno who starred it, or why)
I used it to update my Unanswered->Review script so that it will tell people they can uninstall it once it gets implemented by the team
 
@Benjol Just remind me again the things people star in this room ;)
 
Anyway, quite pleased with my script #1. Now trying to come up for an idea for #2
 
9:57 AM
Hahahaha, this is great
user image
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I saw a photo of a note once that somebody had put up at some public place
That said something to the effect of "Attention - I have built a time machine. On June 12th, 2012, 10:13am, I will appear this very spot. Please stay clear of the spot around that time, as my machine has trouble with accuracy and I don't want any bystanders hurt"
I've since been thinking about putting up similar notices in the city. I think I'll do it one day
 
10:15 AM
@Pekka :) Morning. How's things?
 
@Benjol morning! Busy busy, but fine.
It's damn cold here, but sunny which is nice
And yourself?
 
OK, not too cold. Rained yesterday, but we could do with more. Hasn't rained in something like a month and a half
Suffering from Distraction Affliction :)
 
10:42 AM
Are you trying to stop wasting time on chat? erkie.github.com
 
@Benjol heh, I know what you're talking about! :)
 
@Pekka Anyone here does, almost by definition :)
 
Hi! :)
 
@Benjol Yeah! Definitely. Hi @Nyuszika!
@Benjol very nice
If only it were sensitive of certain HTML elements, which it would collide with or bounce off of
One could build racing tracks on web sites
 
@Benjol One problem… when pressing space, the page jumps…
 
10:50 AM
But it can shoot at nodes, which is good.
 
@Benjol Took me a while to understand the Star Wars reference...
 
@LoïcWolff, me too. Luke & the buns helped.
 
What to do with an expensive imported avocado...?
What do the people who actually eat avocados do with their avocado?
 
@YiJiang Make guacamole?
 
@Benjol What's that?
Uh, okay, it's a dip
 
10:58 AM
@YiJiang mexican spicy mix of avocado, tomato and various spices, eaten with tortilla crisps
 
What do you do with a dip? (My mom wants to stir fry the avocado, which doesn't sound like a good idea)
 
@YiJiang or cut in half, take out the stone, fill the holes with a prawn/mayonnaise dressing of your own concoction
@YiJiang avocado is very fatty, I would imagine that stir fry would end... badly (burnt avocado soup)
or more simply, just salt and a bit of lemon juice.
avocado & pineapple salad, slices in a sandwich, mashed on toast, in a salad, in sushi, avocado fries (despite what I said, apparently), etc...
 
Okay hang on, getting tortilla chips isn't easy here either
 
5
Q: Different uses for avocado?

KyraI hear that avocado is really good for you and I want to try to eat more of it. Other than guacamole what types of food a recipes do you recommend?

 
@Benjol Reading that now, hmmm...
 
11:01 AM
triple oy
 
@YiJiang to be honest, if it was expensive, and you don't get them that often, I'd try something simple so that you do actually get to know what an avocado tastes like...
 
Well is it very expensive? It's more expensive than most fruits and vegetables here - I got one for S$1.35, which translates to US$1.05 and 77 eurocents (saiz W|A)
 
 
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12:42 PM
Morning. Avocado, Mango, lettuce, cranberries, (wal?)nuts and a salad dressing.
I forgot the recipe my mom uses.
Or you can put Avocado in Sushi.
</Nippon-reference>
Rice, nori, some kind of fish, avocado, optionally add some other ingredients like carrot. Roll.
Plain avocado tastes great too!
 
Oy...why did I start reading tvtropes? Now I may never get to sleep.
 
 
1 hour later…
2:12 PM
Boots required:
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A: What is the next promotion for a scrum master

NayenaI think you should stick with Technical Evangelist, that sounds pretty epic to me

Currently acreting answers ...
One more here too:
(Still on my review spree), what to do with a double bumped question like this? stackoverflow.com/questions/2726558/…
 
@Benjol Flag both, really nothing else you can do
 
@YiJiang ok, done
Quite pleased with my Review tab, I'm using it, anyway..
 
@RebeccaChernoff Thanks!
 
3:08 PM
8
Q: Legos not LEGO?

xiaohouzi79I've seen many people make reference to LEGO as Legos. e.g. "I enjoy playing my Legos". But from my understanding this is incorrect and should be referred to simply as LEGO (in capitals as per company standards) i.e. "I enjoy playing with LEGO". There is no reference to the terms Legos on the o...

in re: the comments on this answer english.stackexchange.com/questions/11326/… I forget, does punctuation count in the three letter rule? cf @Mr. vs @MrS ?
EL&U Nominations close in 4 hours. ... guess I'm not gonna withdraw since there's now 6 nominees. Interesting.
 
3:32 PM
@balpha Your "Reply links on comments" script works for me in Firefox Greasemonkey, but not in native Chrome beta 10.0.
 
getting any javascript errors?
 
Wait, n/m. Now it is.
Sorry.
Bad bug report. :-\
 
np :)
 
Thanks for the script!
 
enjoy it, tell all your friends about it, and buy the enterprise version for €299
(it adds an automatic insult when replying to a comment by @MichaelMrozek)
 
3:43 PM
I tried your threaded comments script and it made my brain explode. I'm not ready for something that extreme
 
@MichaelMrozek but did it work properly? Maybe I should try it...
What this site needs is more reddit.
 
I think it worked; I didn't use it very long
 
I never stopped using it since the first version (almost a year now). I actually miss it when I'm on a machine that doesn't have it installed
 
Through a series of controlled experiments, I've determined that @RebeccaChernoff is slow
 
@MichaelMrozek Interesting synopsis there... didn't think it was time for them to have an election right now ...
Also, I'm /afk for at least an hour, going to get unshaggified. Yay for barbers.
 
3:52 PM
Apple and UL are both supposed to start today. Supposedly
 
@MichaelMrozek I was wondering when those two would start elections
 
4:18 PM
Hi again! :)
 
hello
@Nyuszika7H I will be working on status script again shortly
 
@TheRenamedException shirtly? :P
 
yes, as in when @RebeccaChernoff sends me a StackOverflow T-Shirt ;-)
 
@MichaelMrozek In case you haven't noticed, elections start at 20:00 UTC.
 
@RebeccaChernoff (:
 
4:20 PM
@RebeccaChernoff So you're even slower than I thought...
 
@balpha Could I get a rush order please?
 
@RebeccaChernoff Too late, the product is dead. That'll teach me to ask a Nokia executive for business advice.
 
@RebeccaChernoff LOL
 
nooooooooooooooooo
 
@RebeccaChernoff oy!
 
4:26 PM
@RebeccaChernoff You could always talk to Ivo, I hear his KittenBot is great at dolling out pain
 
@TheRenamedException Kitten is broken :/
 
@Nyuszika7H awwww how sad
</sarcasm>
 
@TheRenamedException LOL
 
I'm thinking of three status types: "Available", "Busy" and "Away". Thoughts?
 
4:33 PM
@TheRenamedException I think it would be better to allow users to specify anything, not just statuses… e.g. /msg Hello, world! Status: Available
 
@Nyuszika7H I'm thinking both
like "Status: Available - Hello world" or "Status: Away - Went to lunch"
Like AIM or Skype
 
Yeah.
 
So I'm thinking "Available" (normal), "Busy" (I'm here, but replies will be delayed) and "Away" (I am not here and will reply later)
Skype has "Do Not Disturb" but we don't need that. Just sign off chat ;-)
I'm going to indicate each user's status with an icon on the right
Thoughts @Nyuszika7H?
 
@TheRenamedException /me thinks
 
4:50 PM
Heh. I signed up for SEOMOZ PRO, told it about my website, told it about my competitors. The reports basically say "it's hopeless, you'll never rank for anything. Your site has 2.1 million follow-links, but your competitors have over 100 million!"
 
"P.S. You're missing a title tag on this page. ;)"
 
status-status-not-working
sweet, fixed it
OK @Nyuszika7H, I now have it so you can do the following: /status (anything) -- sets your status to (anything), marked as available
/status [Available,Busy,Away] (anything) - sets your status to (anything) with the type you specify
like: /status Away out to lunch
When I get back from lunch I'll work on making the status show up on the right
 
status-status-not-working
 
@Nyuszika7H I haven't posted the updated code yet :-)
Oh, no:
I think that means I chat too much
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5:31 PM
@TheRenamedException as do I :p ... and I leave in about 45 minutes to go take Nata to the doctor. So much for getting work done today, all told I've been here for about 2:15 of useful work time, taken up with checking emails (and a touch of chat and following up on dba.SE mod issues like reformatting posts quickly and deleting a few stray answers)
 
Hmm...overslept, whoops.
 
@TimStone yikes
what causes my arrow/home/end/insert/pgup/pgdn/backspace keys to quit working in VS but nowhere else?
 
Yeah...Well, not that I had anything specific to wake up for, but I had intended to be awake much earlier...basically by not going to sleep, but...heh.
 
@TimStone I know the feeling
 
5:51 PM
Ouch. Jin is probably not too pleased with me.
@drachenstern Either you're somehow running VS on iOS (in which case you don't have those keys) or PEBCAK, or I have no clue.
 
@Moshe yeah that's my thought pattern too. I have no clue. And if I tab around my documents a bit, and a few apps, then it disappears. No-repro so no report.
@Moshe what did you do now?
 
I played the word "SHADCHAN" in WwF. 104 points.
I agitated things by translating in in-game chat.
S'okay. I bet he wins by 50 or more.
 
@Moshe "I agitated things" ... tsk tsk
@Moshe this is Jin, that's a safe bet.
 

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