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Dan Grossman

00:00

I do love virtualization, and Linode <3

Moshe

@drachenstern Looks pretty solid. Note that I'm as JS rusty as can be. I need to get up to it, still working on handling canadian ZIP codes.

Dan Grossman

yesterday, by Dan Grossman

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford

Yahoo Press

Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code. Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables. When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including:Syntax Objects Functions Inheritance Arrays Regular expressions Methods Style Beautiful features The real beauty? As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts. Of course, …

Moshe

@DanGrossman Yes, but I'm broke too. :-)

Dan Grossman

Hmm

I could give it to you for free.

Moshe

@DanGrossman Okay...

How so?

Dan Grossman

00:02

The last page of the book says "Try the online edition free for 45 days. Go to oreilly.com/go/safarienabled and enter the coupon code SNOZRBI"

Moshe

And I need to sign in, no?

Dan Grossman

I guess so

Moshe

@DanGrossman Okay, I'm in.

Thank you.

Sweet!

\o/

Dan Grossman

OpenSSH recompiled, now I need to build a newer version of Apache

Now on 2.2.17, better

In another 4 hours, I should pass the PCI scan :/

drachenstern

00:24

I can haz townhallchat?

Moshe

Interesting stuff going on here...

@drachenstern - I was using $("#div").load("google...."); but I want to grab the data in a variable, not load into a div.

I'm working on $.get now...

ideas?

Dan Grossman

$.ajax({
  url: "http://whatever.google.com",
  success: function(data) {
    //your data is in data!
  }
});

Moshe

@DanGrossman I know, see the Javascript room, please.

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript

drachenstern

@DanGrossman concur

Moshe

1 min ago, by Moshe

JavaScript

Discussion for JavaScript and the many frameworks - jQuery, Pr...

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drachenstern

00:39

nom nom nom ~ I so love slow roasted pork in a rich au jus, with creamy garlicy mashed potatoes, and green beans, and a tall glass of juice to go with

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Ah, I wish I had the kind of energy necessary to make such things.

badp

@DanGrossman yo dawg I herd you like data

drachenstern

@TimStone I believe it cost me about $0.30 in energy costs ... and about $6 tops in materials, cos you see, I believe firmly in letting Betty and Hormel do the cooking, at the expense of sodium

goes for two meals too!

Tim Stone

:P

drachenstern

You see!!! And the best part, took all of 12 minutes to nuke the whole thing :D

nom nom nom

badp

00:46

Hm, something special is about to happen.

Tim Stone

SuperSpecial?

badp

nah

drachenstern

@badp what's that?

badp

@drachenstern Nothing you'd care about.

drachenstern

Try me and see sir ;)

@Moshe you're too much ...

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 47 secs ago, by Moshe

How do I use JSONP?

Moshe

00:53

@drachenstern I'm not in always in touch with the terminologies. I am lazy and fail to Google before asking

drachenstern

@Moshe yes I know this

@Moshe read this blog: wearehathway.com/blog/tech/…

Moshe

@drachenstern Thanks.

Dan Grossman

> "We are exceeding the amount of water the city's water system can produce at one time" -- Mythbusters

drachenstern

@DanGrossman I love that episode (assumes it's the flying car from waterjets one)

Dan Grossman

@drachenstern :nods:

Moshe

00:58

Thanks guys.

I have to be somewhere in 120 seconds. Cya

George Marian

Android and iOS get a little Minecraft love - Time-wasting goes mobile

drachenstern

@Moshe read this too: zipmaps.net

ok ya'll, THC starts nao!

badp

The first Python version, 0.9.0, was released on Feb 20, 1991. Python 3.2.0 was released exactly 20 years later, on Feb 20, 2011.

Tweeted by gvanrossum on February 23, 2011 at 6:59 PM

yeey

Dan Grossman

@drachenstern You might not want to broadcast your drug use habits so publicly

George Marian

Heh, I'm using 2.6.

drachenstern

01:01

@DanGrossman yes yes, and if anyone follows the context of this chat for more than ten minutes they know it's a Town Hall Chat :p

Dan Grossman

@drachenstern The NSA machines sitting on every tier 1 backbone slurping up all the text don't know context! The local authorities have been contacted so that you can be sentenced to 10 times more prison time than if you had run someone over with your car.

drachenstern

@DanGrossman nice ;)

George Marian

lol

Dan Grossman

01:31

I have amish macaroni salad. Yum.

George Marian

@DanGrossman What makes it Amish?

Dan Grossman

@GeorgeMarian The recipe. Instead of just mayo they use mayo, mustard and vinegar, or somethin'. I don't know but it tastes good and grocery stores in PA sell it

Dan Grossman

01:59

TIL @ircmaxell's avatar says "Help! I'm trapped in a bar-code factory!"

George Marian

@DanGrossman Ah, yes. PA.

> Invitations come from your peers. We’ll give members a few invites to distribute to programmers they know and trust. Or, contribute to Stack Overflow (and our other sites), get voted up by a lot of smart people, and you may get an automatic invite.

waffles

02:26

everything you wanted to know about the Epic badge (and were afraid to ask)

1

A: Epic badge with too few days hitting the reputation cap?

Congrats on getting the Epic badge, it is a really hard badge to get! There are many little subtleties going on that I should explain. Badges look at current rep levels in the DB There are certain edge cases where rep levels in the DB do not match the rep report. The rep report show what you...

Michael Mrozek

@waffles I have a question about the Epic badge: why am I too much of a failure to get it? WHY?

Also, IIRC you're the one responsible for privilege wikis, so I blame you for another user confused by the "view vote counts" wiki

drachenstern

I want to know why rep is so hard for me to get passively!

Michael Mrozek

@drachenstern Seriously; I already posted stuff last week, and they want me to post stuff again?

Tim Stone

I asked and answered a question today.

Ignore the fact that Popular Demand had to spoon-feed it to me.

drachenstern

@MichaelMrozek I know!

Michael Mrozek

02:33

@TimStone Most SO answers secretly come from @PopularDemand. He's the puppet master behind the scenes

Dan Grossman

Wait, we can ask questions? I thought only anonymous Google surfers could do that...

Tim Stone

@DanGrossman Well, it was a MSO question. And it wasn't a question, it was a bug report. And it was [status-bydesign]. But, still.

mootinator

02:46

@DanGrossman I thought there was a maximum age for asking questions.

drachenstern

Ok, I had a good THC. I also have managed to piss the wife off. So I'm gone. I should be back at the "normal" time tomorrow

Pearsonartphoto

03:04

Wow, it's amazing to see actual arguments in a chat room...

Dan Grossman

I've achieved the gapless activity histogram

@Pearsonartphoto Arguments? Where?

Pearsonartphoto

SFF

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction

I'd probably post in the Teacher's lounge, but one of them is a mod, so...

It's starting to cool off, finally, but it was going on for maybe a good 10-15 minutes...

Dan Grossman

Someone just started a support chat with me to get help using some other website. "They don't have any support and you do, so I thought you'd help"... ...

mootinator

03:46

Uhh...

We get that a lot actually.

Dan Grossman

What is going through their heads? :p

George Marian

04:18

@DanGrossman LOL

Mark Elliot

0

Q: about malloc calloc and realloc

whenever we write the program using malloc , calloc and realloc where does the varies go and sit, i.e in which part of the memory do they go and reside. also whether the variables (in all cases) are allotted a contiguous space or the variables go and sit wherever the space is available

c

good candidate for closing as dupe before too many others add less-good answers than the duped question

mootinator

I'll get back to you on that one in approximately 1000 rep :/

Tim Stone

Closed.

mootinator

\o.

Er, \o/

Mark Elliot

yay

so why is it that approving/rejecting edit suggestions shows up in the activity log but closing stuff still doesn't?

Tim Stone

04:35

Hmm

That's a good question, I'm not sure if anyone has brought that up yet or not.

George Marian

Because, we don't want people to know how we voted...oh, wait...

mootinator

lol

Dan Grossman

Tim Stone

Hooray!

Mark Elliot

@TimStone it seems to come up frequently, but now I'm confused, if they're going to show edit votes I have to imagine they should show closing votes

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Q: Add a "voted to close" activity event somewhere on the user profile page

Often when I vote to close, I want to go back and check the comments on the question, to see if it's been improved, to comment further, or to answer the question. It would be helpful to add a bit of a trail so I can find those questions again. I'm suggesting adding an event to the Activity page ...

feature-request vote-to-close profile-page recent-activity

George Marian

04:41

@DanGrossman So unexpected downtime was worth it, afterall.... ;)

@MarkElliot Oh, in that case it'll get fixed like the envelope was fixed.

Mark Elliot

@GeorgeMarian sorry, I don't understand

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian lawlz

George Marian

@MarkElliot It's only been a year. You gotta give it more time. :)

Dan Grossman

Now I'm trying to write a mail to send to my users, sending it to myself, and it's ending up getting binned as spam :(

Mark Elliot

@GeorgeMarian ah, got it, so I have no hope for my other recent suggestion...

George Marian

04:43

And, even then, it won't be completely fixed. ;)

Mark Elliot

5

Q: Show full question or excerpt in suggested edits page for tag-only edits

It's difficult to determine whether a suggested edit that consists of only modifications to tags is reasonable without the context of the question. For instance, today I saw this suggested edit and had to click through to the question to determine whether it was worth approving or rejecting. Why...

feature-request suggested-edits

Tim Stone

I would have thought @waffles would have fixed that already. I gave one of my precious up votes to that suggestion. I demand satisfaction!

mootinator

I hate answering questions where the solution seems blindingly obvious to me.

Mark Elliot

@mootinator but answering isn't for you, it's for the asker

well, it's not always for you

Tim Stone

@mootinator I think I feel the same way about voting...maybe that's where my issue is.

mootinator

04:45

Well, as often as not I've missed some detail and they think I'm insulting their intelligence.

George Marian

@mootinator Well, hopefully that means there's a better chance that you'll be the FGITW on that question.

@mootinator Ah, yes. There is that.

Dan Grossman

X-Spam-Threshold: 95
X-Spam-Score: 100
Precedence: junk
X-Spam-Flag: YES

Mark Elliot

05:16

YAY! meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80320/…

Tim Stone

:D

Moshe

05:52

Almost done, yay!

I got the query working, now I need to get the string broken up into bits. Then I populate the fields and move on to styling.

\0/

Dan Grossman

06:25

:sends 26,000 mails:

Michael Mrozek

06:43

> But the funny thing is, Quora isn't even the most popular Q&A startup out there right now. According to Alexa and Compete, that would be Stack Overflow

Rebecca Chernoff

My Google Alerts emails were going crazy today. (:

Moshe

@MichaelMrozek, notice the last line. Something about a "benevolent dictator". Hehe, isn't that @JeffAtwood's line?

@DanGrossman, how do I attach an image to a PHP mail(); email?

Dan Grossman

@Moshe Very much manually, by base64-encoding it and generating the appropriate MIME boundaries per the e-mail specification yourself.

OR, you can use a mail library instead of mail().

Benjol

Any bored jquery experts here? :(

Dan Grossman

@Moshe swiftmailer.org

Moshe

07:07

@DanG interesting. How would that work? I didn't see anything obvious in he documentations.

@Benjol I just started jquery. What's the question?

Dan Grossman

@Moshe swiftmailer.org/docs/message-attachments

Benjol

@Moshe weelll, it's not exactly jquery, it's just trying to navigate through a slightly ambiguous DOM :)

@Moshe, take this page, for example (meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80320/…). from the answer comment box I'd like to get the answer user id, and from the question comment box, I'd like to get the question user id

Simple, except that there are two post-signatures on the question, because waffles edited it...

Moshe

@Benjol, it's early AM here so I'm on iOS, hence no view source. I would point out that one signature contains "edited" and the other "asked".

That said, find(); might work for you. Hrm... Substring or regulR expression matching?

Benjol

@Moshe, I'll let you know :)

Dan Grossman

> <td align="right" class="post-signature">

> <td class="post-signature owner">

different classes

Moshe

07:15

Is there really no unique ID on either of them?

Benjol

@Dan, yeah, but the problem is that on the answer, the one I want is just post-signature again

Moshe

Ah, @DanG good point.

Benjol

I think I've worked it out though, but with an if/else

  var div = el.parents('div');
  var selector = div.hasClass('answer') ? '.post-signature' : '.post-signature.owner';
  return div.find(selector).find('.user-details > a').attr('href').replace(/[^\d]/g, '');

Moshe

@Benjol sounds good. Is there no ! In CSS?

Benjol

@Moshe, dunno

Moshe

07:16

Well wait. It is used for !important.

Tim Stone

@Benjol I think I did this in some fashion in SEModifications if that doesn't work for you. Otherwise I can check if I decide trying to sleep isn't working :P

Moshe

google.com/…

Dan Grossman

Ooh, I should rent a beach house

Moshe

@Benjol, Use something similar to find(".post-signature, .owner:not") to get the edit related sig.

Does that work?

Benjol

@Moshe, but what does that mean? I do want the one with owner, if there is one with owner, otherwise I want the one without :)

Moshe

07:24

Ah. I didnt get that. My query gets only non-owner signatures

Well iirc find will return some empty value, perhaps null, if it finds nothing. Check for an owner sig. If that returns nothing, you can try my query. (I didn't test it)

Dan Grossman

3,000 more mails to send, then I can go to sleep... if I want...

Moshe

@Benjol, I have to get to sleep but basically, another tip. jQuery's find() takes valid CSS selectors. Google the "not" operator for CSS and use that for your fallback. Btw, when does a post not have an owner sig? Deletion? Cw?

Dan Grossman

api.jquery.com/not-selector

Benjol

@Moshe when it's an answer

Moshe

O

Ok. Gluck. Hope I helped. Nite.

Benjol

07:31

@Moshe, night, thanks.

Jeff Atwood

@Benjol you can now improve (suggested) edits

essentially 'edit the edit' is supported

waffles

0

A: Please allow tag editing when question is waiting for pending edit votes

Well I just fixed this an slew of similar requests. If you would like to edit a post that has a pending edit and can not wait, you can click the "improve" button. This button allows you to "edit the edit", add tags and whatnot. At the end of the process when you submit the edit, the communi...

Benjol

@JeffAtwood, wow!

Rebecca Chernoff

ooooooo very nice

Benjol

@JeffAtwood, at this rate, you're going to have to reopen my 'sucky' question so that you can mark it status-completed :D

waffles

07:34

@Benjol what is left there ?

Jeff Atwood

I just deleted it

Benjol

@waffles, can't tell you then :) You'll have to go and look. Not much, IIRC

@JeffAtwood what happens to rep? the original editer still gets some or not?

(my next userscript, FWIW)

Jeff Atwood

not sufficiently punitive for my tastes.. but opinions vary

waffles

@Benjol the rep bonus is still applied, but I am open to not providing it, cause the edit did not really go far enough

Jeff Atwood

I think silent rejection is fine

Benjol

07:37

@JeffAtwood That's what the user info is for. If the person hasn't been back in x weeks, it's not worth it

Jeff Atwood

this also makes rejecting edits a "make me think" .. it becomes friction

Reject.. but now I gotta think why.. uhh...

protip: stop sucking!

then I will accept your edits!

(most edits are fine btw)

Rebecca Chernoff

Yay! The StackFiddle got posted on StackApps. \o/

waffles

yeah the trouble with comments is that they lead to comment wars

Benjol

@JeffAtwood this refers to what? my screen shot? That's for reviewing low-quality posts, not edits

Rebecca Chernoff

4

Q: Stack Fiddle - Easily create a jsFiddle from Stack Overflow

Screenshot About Stack Fiddle is a Google Chrome extension that updates the code blocks on Stack Exchange sites. Each code block gets a header with links that allow you to set its type. Click the code type (HTML / JavaScript / CSS) of the blocks you want to include and then press the 'Se...

script chrome-extensions google-chrome jsfiddle

Jeff Atwood

07:40

@Benjol how will your user script work? if you reject the edit, the user can't be the target of @username messages?

is there some backdoor where pending edits still trigger @username matches and notifications in comments?

waffles

no

Jeff Atwood

thus, you'd only be "notifying" the post owner with a comment

who did not actually submit the rejected edit.. unless I am misunderstanding something here

Benjol

@JeffAtwood. Sorry. that screenshot is for comments on low-quality posts. Nothing to do with suggested edits. I should have marked it as 'new topic'...

Dan Grossman

threaded-chats

Jeff Atwood

I see

Benjol

07:42

The problem is that when I flag stuff, I generally like to say 'something', especially for new users who won't understand. Until now I'd been copy-pasting. This is just to make it easier. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Jeff Atwood

Stack Overflow is so large now that I don't think we have time to help the bad users so much. I don't want to be rude to them, but basically they need to go away.

Benjol

@JeffAtwood, well this will make it easier for me to make a minimal effort at educating them. Before nuking their rubbish :)

Jeff Atwood

in other words, when you have 2500-3000 questions per day, and many times that for answers.. helping the bad users is simply not going to scale

Reno

so true

Jeff Atwood

it IS important for smaller sites, even perhaps SU and SF to some extent

Benjol

07:45

@JeffAtwood, from your point of view, maybe. But from the point of view of a single reviewer, it doesn't make much difference. I personally can't handle the 3000 questions per day anyway, comments or not.

Jeff Atwood

but once you have critical mass of GOOD users, you stop needing to hand hold the bad users

the only thing you need to do, is prevent the bad users from harming the experience of the good users

that is a different war

Rebecca Chernoff

@Benjol 2 questions per minute. Come on, keep up!

waffles

@JeffAtwood an incredibly difficult war imho

Jeff Atwood

it's a rescue mission (se 2.0 sites) versus a seek-and-destroy mission (SO, SU, SF)

Benjol

@Jeff, maybe you need to build something like this into the review pages :) erkie.github.com

Jeff Atwood

07:47

helping bad users at SO scale is impossible IMHO

we have the automated review tools and the mandatory question EULA

very few bad users can be reached in my experience

Rebecca Chernoff

They're generally the users that aren't going to read no matter what you put in front of them.

Benjol

Mildly related subjective question: after how long does "welcome to %sitename%" become redundant? :)

Jeff Atwood

yes, and they will absorb infinite time from our GOOD users

Rebecca Chernoff

Do we have a picture book EULA? Maybe cartoon style?

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Benjol

@RebeccaChernoff, aren't you supposed to be working on a video? :)

Jeff Atwood

07:49

e.g. Benjol is a good user and he could be answering something meaningful rather than using his tool to insert a comment for an unreachable user

I know this sounds depressing

maybe it is

waffles

OMG ... not even 1 close vote stackoverflow.com/questions/5100628/…

Jeff Atwood

but you have to fight the wars you can win

Benjol

@JeffAtwood or wasting my time here in chat :) In any case, strictly speaking I should be refactoring some C# right now :)

Rebecca Chernoff

@Benjol huh?

Dan Grossman

@waffles And the answer is W3Schools of course! Hahahaha.

Benjol

07:50

@RebeccaChernoff, just being silly. I think a video tutorial could be good :)

waffles

downvoting

I hate that nobody downvoted that question before me ... lots of people looked at it

Rebecca Chernoff

@Benjol you should see if @badp finished his video for Gaming. Though that is gaming themed.

waffles

Joe Celko got one upvote

its just tragic

Jeff Atwood

where

oh, I thought you meant Joe was on our site

bah

Dan Grossman

:sends Joe a letter, "answer a question on StackOverflow, it'll make Jeff's day":

Rebecca Chernoff

07:52

@waffles voting is way underused I feel like. It frustrated me to no end on WA. Rep levels were so stagnant and the community couldn't vtc at all.

Reno

I think that a comic book-cartoon style thingy leaves a better impression. Kinda like what chrome did on its release.

waffles

yeah we need some way to convince people to vote more

its almost like I would like to promote the users that voted the most during the day in the /users page

Rebecca Chernoff

@waffles agree 100%

The problem is doing it in a way that keeps voting meaningful.

Jeff Atwood

good idea, give it to nick

well we do have the suffrage badge

waffles

will do

Rebecca Chernoff

07:55

@JeffAtwood Ok, so people use all their votes on one day, get the badge, and then go back to 0.

waffles

one reason some people don't downvote crap is cause they are worried about the sympathy upvote

then your downvote causes the user to gain 8 rep

Jason Plank

What if suffrage could be awarded multiple times? I think someone might have suggested this already somewhere...

Jeff Atwood

8 rep? your math sucks @waffles

try 3 rep

waffles

hah ... talking about answers :)

for questions it is 3

Jeff Atwood

answers aren't as problematic

Rebecca Chernoff

07:57

ehh

Dan Grossman

there are a lot more answer votes than question votes, no?

Rebecca Chernoff

What about a set of badges, used <x> votes on <y> days? Mortarboard = Suffrage, and then a setup like Epic and Legendary?

Benjol

What do you want to encourage here? Voting, voting on questions, or downvoting on bad questions?

Rebecca Chernoff

Get people into the habit of voting so that it becomes more a part of regular usage of the site that continues after earning the badge(s) rather than just wham/bam/done.

@Benjol D, all of the above.

Jason Plank

@DanGrossman In regards to answer vs. question votes: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74271/…

Benjol

08:03

Personally, rep never really comes into my mind when voting. I just tend not to think of voting unless I think a question is interesting, or an answer is good. A naff question is more likely to get a close vote from me...

Rebecca Chernoff

General voting, voting up good questions, voting down bad questions, voting up good answers, voting down bad answers, voting down posts rather than flagging when that's appropriate, etc.

Benjol

08:21

Using firebug, how do I work out what the code for a given event on a given element is? so far, I've managed to click through to something which looks like all the javascript for the whole page concatenated into a big blob..

Sankar Ganesh

@TimStone:Hi, Mate

Sankar Ganesh

08:47

@GeorgeMarian:Hi

Benjol

(reading blog) hehe, my oneyear subscription to careers just became a life subscription :)

Sankar Ganesh

08:59

@MarcGravell: Hi, Mate, I have a question to you, can i shoot it

Benjol

@TimPost is being nice today :)

3

A: Running my own OpenID identity server/service (php)

http://wiki.openid.net/Run-your-own-identity-server

Sankar Ganesh

@MarcGravell: and @Benjol: peoples creating chat rooms, for instance i am able to see chat rooms for iphone, again people creating a room for iphone, is there any restriction for creating duplicate chat rooms, or how i can take this action to moderators

Benjol

@SankarGanesh, dunno to be honest. Maybe you could flag a message to draw attention to the room. Maybe you could start by pointing people to the pre-existing room(s)...

Sankar Ganesh

@Benjol: if flagged that , then what actions will be taken, may i know about that

Benjol

@SankarGanesh I depends what the moderator decides.

Rebecca Chernoff

09:11

I only see the obj-c room, nothing else related?

Sankar Ganesh

@Benjol:ok, mate

@RebeccaChernoff: Pls see there are two rooms Iphone is a old room and now you cna click created tab and see iphone/ipad room is created yesterday

@RebeccaChernoff:pls see it, already we have objective c , iphone room , now yesterday a new room created in the name of iphone/ipad , pls check it now

Rebecca Chernoff

Hmm, weird, search only returned 1 room the first time.

Sankar Ganesh

@RebeccaChernoff: click chat in your proile , then you can chat rooms, in that pls chosse created tabs , then you can able to see newly created rooms , in that i saw a new room called iphone/ipad,i was wonder, why a new room created in the name of Iphone/ipad because we already have a iphone room, that's why am i asking this question here

Marc Gravell

I can merge rooms if we want

would need the specific example though

Rebecca Chernoff

First I would wonder why you prefer the iPhone room rather than the obj-c room? Isn't the point being more inclusive?

Second, @MarcGravell, the dupe check seems to check title only, perhaps checking the room description would help?

Marc Gravell

09:19

maybe, maybe

Rebecca Chernoff

ie, I just entered "iPhone" as the name for a new room and I got the 2 iPhone rooms but not the obj-c room, which has iPhone in the description, not title.

but if they're putting that in and checking the box on the dupe check...not sure what else could be done

seems like both those 2 rooms have been around and are just about equally active in terms of messages/wk

Sankar Ganesh

@RebeccaChernoff: you are right

Marc Gravell

perhaps we should ask them why they are estranged?

maybe it is a bracing thing...
{
}
vs {
}

Sankar Ganesh

@MarcGravell: how can we stop people creating a new rooms where we have already an existing room for on that

Marc Gravell

we have some dup detection, but stopping people being dumb is hard

we'll solve that right after we solve duplicate questions on SO

Rebecca Chernoff

09:24

@SankarGanesh create a new room and put iPhone in as the title and go forward - you'll see the dupe page. Obviously don't override that but if people are doing that what else can be done really? (;

Marc Gravell

except intervention after-the-fact, the same as elsewhere on the network

badp

mornin'

Sankar Ganesh

@MarcGravell: how can i flag that room as duplicate , so that you can take neccessary actions

@badp: hi, Good Morining

Marc Gravell

I think you already did

Rebecca Chernoff

@SankarGanesh flagging is to make people aware of the situation. I think that's been accomplished here. (;

badp

09:26

@SankarGanesh honestly I don't think there's value in forcing him to join your room if he doesn't want to

Rebecca Chernoff

Though generally you'd want to flag a message in the room - there's no flag for a room as a whole.

Marc Gravell

meh, pick a message, any message

Sankar Ganesh

@RebeccaChernoff: yes, there's no option for flag for a room to be banned

@MarcGravell: we should some kind of actions has to be done, to flagg a whole room , if it duplicate one, am i right

Reno

yeah dont add so many features to SO. You will end up getting a giant confusing mountain of poop. ;)

Marc Gravell

let's just keep it simple, eh?

Rebecca Chernoff

09:28

Heh, I'd make a suggestion, but people would think I was serious and then I'd get blamed for it.

Benjol

@badp, morning, Rebecca said you were working on a video for gaming?

badp

@Benjol Yup, and today I'm on Windows so I can open its "source"!

Benjol

@badp, is it finished yet?

badp

nope. Need some timing adjusting (it's too fast) and voice-overs and maybe some trimming down.

Benjol

@badp Who's doing the voiceovers? :)

Sankar Ganesh

09:32

@MarcGravell: ok, after picking any Message, what i have to do

badp

@Benjol TBD, so far.

Rebecca Chernoff

@SankarGanesh, the interesting thing I am noticing here is that you aren't in any of these rooms. Nor do you show as frequently being in any of them. You seem to have a vested interest though?

Reno

is it a android versus iphone thing ? You have a lot of android tags lol @SankarGanesh

Jez

anyone interested in languages? you might want to follow my french language proposal: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/29480/french-language

:-)

Sankar Ganesh

@Reno: and @RebeccaChernoff: no , i am guy who doesnot want malpratice, i love android , iphone and blackberry and symbin, i m very working on android , but i m giving my time to spend in iphone too start learning that too

Benjol

09:37

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Q: Should we do anything about the huge language mess on Area51?

There's a long list of languages proposal on Area51, varying from an all encompassing language site to a focus one language site like the successful English Language & Usage. When I say they vary, I do mean that. As I just said, there's a site to contain all the languages question, whether...

discussion area51 stackexchange-2.0 languages

@Jez, you're entering a minefield.

Marc Gravell

@SankarGanesh click on the drop-menu (left of the message) - there should be "flag for moderator" - but we already know about the iphone rooms

Sankar Ganesh

@RebeccaChernoff: and @Reno: I personally, Stack is our resource, we should be active , if any malpratice done here, it

Jez

boom boom boom

Benjol

And I proposed English/French translation, so.. choose your weapon :)

Reno

im kidding man

Sankar Ganesh

09:38

@MarcGravell: Well, may i know what action you will take on this

Jez

english/french translation would have a big overlap with 'good french usage', would it not?

Sankar Ganesh

@Reno:lol

Jez

and isnt stackexchange about creating lively communities?

unnecessary balkanisation is bad

Rebecca Chernoff

@SankarGanesh, Marc is combining the rooms. Goes back to being curious that you aren't in the rooms - you'd see if you were.

Benjol

@Jez, check this out too (if you haven't already): discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/272/…

Sankar Ganesh

09:39

@RebeccaChernoff: hmm, @MarcGravell: thanks for your action

badp

Yay for 9kers who comment on CW answers, "It's wrong" without fixing

Jez

benjol: yep seen it

seems to me to be an open discussion

Sankar Ganesh

@RebeccaChernoff: :)

@MarcGravell: and @RebeccaChernoff: i m very happy, @MarcGravell: thanks for your immediate action, thank you very much, mate

Tim Post

From one of my co-workers (just now) : "you just exponentially increased run time in the good way (decreased it)"

(I added a timeout to CURL)

I don't know if I should cheer or cry.

Rebecca Chernoff

I think when you can't decide between those two, you're supposed to drink. (;

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user153011

09:46

Hi! (:

Sankar Ganesh

@Nyuszika7H:hi

Tim Post

@RebeccaChernoff Sometimes, I wish I did.

user153011

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user153011

Hooray!

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