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2:03 PM
Last close vote gone. Now maybe I'll go through my delete votes too :P
 
@YiJiang, go, I've got a few left
 
@Rebecca. Eeeeeeeek!!
 
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Q: Everything is grayscale on my iPad?

templatetypedefHey all- I'm using my iPad to look at StackOverflow and everything is grayscale, even things like badges. Is this a bug on my iPad (this has never happened before now) or did the CSS just get updated? If it's the latter, it looks very odd on the iPad and is really jarring. Did the CSS for gra...

It's not even the full minimal stylesheet.
It's strange.
 
@Benjol Yes. It's not a great question, but I can understand what it's asking.
 
2:07 PM
@PopularDemand: @Mootintor:@DanGrossman@GeorgeMarian: hi
 
@PopularDemand, ok, if you edit it so I can, I'll unvote :)
 
@Benjol Posted to Regulator HQ, around 5 - 6 random questions with around 3 - 4 close votes
 
@Benjol I don't see how to edit it; would you understand "How is the minimax algorithm used in Chessmaster 3000"?
 
@PopularDemand, nope :) but isn't it inherently unanswerable, unless a google dev comes along?
 
@Benjol And I'm sure he wouldn't be allowed to tell those details
 
2:09 PM
@Benjol I don't know. It's possible that Google has released some broad information on the subject publicly that wouldn't hurt their competitive advantage. The only way to know is to search, I guess.
 
@YiJiang I've got 3 votes left :)
 
Eeeeeek!
 
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Q: Everything is grayscale on my iPad?

templatetypedefHey all- I'm using my iPad to look at StackOverflow and everything is grayscale, even things like badges. Is this a bug on my iPad (this has never happened before now) or did the CSS just get updated? If it's the latter, it looks very odd on the iPad and is really jarring. Did the CSS for gra...

is an iOS user and wasn't expecting this
 
Chessmaster belongs to google ?
 
2:11 PM
@Reno No, it was just an example.
Anyways, the point is: might not be as "unanswerable" as it initially appears.
 
@Benjol I'll take that as a challenge :P More posted
 
:) oh .. its ubisoft thingy . and now that you mentioned it i always wondered about the algo behind it when i was a kid
 
@Reno:Hi, Very happy to See you here
 
@SankarGanesh well hi !
 
@SankarGanesh Hello.
 
2:14 PM
@YiJiang ok, I'm all out of votes too :)
 
@YiJiang do you know anything about it? Did @JeffAtwood or @RebeccaChernoff say anything before I woke up?
 
3
A: Prevent Logout Action from Happening from Untrusted Sources in PHP

ZedIf you log people out using GET requests (or do anything more important than that using GET requests, for that matter) then your website will be vulnerable to cross-site request forgery attacks. You should use POST to log out people. GET is only for idempotent actions, see RFC 2616 section 9.1.

 
@PopularDemand Do u have twitter or facebook accounts
 
Gotta love accepted answers which are wrong
Well, perhaps not wrong, but not correct for the question
 
@ircmaxell SO Mobile is now minimaloverflow.
 
2:16 PM
@Moshe Nope, I posted the question here, but Jeff answered it before I could
He makes no mention of your style though
Truth to be told, I don't like the idea of using this for mobile
 
@SankarGanesh I do.
 
Dam, I want it to go back to the old way
 
Me neither, I'll get used to it, I suppose.
 
@PopularDemand give your profile names, i will gave a request there mate
 
@ircmaxell Yeeeeeeee-up.
@SankarGanesh No.
 
2:18 PM
@YiJiang where did he answer it? On that question I linked?
 
@Moshe Yeah
 
@PopularDemand why mate
 
eih
 
@ircmaxell I'm guessing that's not Zed Shaw :)
 
@SankarGanesh ...I don't know you at all?
 
2:19 PM
@PopularDemand ok, no probs
 
@Benjol: I would assume not...
 
The only bandwidth saver is removing images. Which was not done. Well, save three characters in shorthand hex values for gray, but..
 
Whoa. They rolled out the new /users.
 
Yeah, it's eih as well IMHO
 
1 hour ago, by Yi Jiang
Definitive proof that Paint > SO CSS
@Moshe I think there should be savings from not loading background images
 
2:21 PM
SO has background images?
I know the other sites do, but SO does?
 
@ircmaxell Sprites
 
Welcome back to page 1, @MichaelMrozek!
 
Ahhh, yes
 
Though I think the lightweight version still uses them
 
Even if you did get there through the page changing from displaying 5x7=35 users to 4x9=36 users.
 
2:24 PM
@YiJiang hey, some of that is likely my CSS you're talking about. :p
 
@Moshe None of the new /user CSS are users, rest assured of that
Though saying that your CSS is better than SO isn't much of a compliment
 
2:37 PM
Heh.
I got a bounty for the blatantly obvious answer, yay!
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Q: Collaborating on an iOS game with an artist living somewhere else / modifying files in an iOS app without rebuilding

ToastorHi, a former coworker (artist) and myself (programmer) are currently developing a small game together in our free time. Since he is not at all interested in learning how to use XCode, save making his own builds (I don't blame him, he is a great artist, but with only little understanding for tech...

Voting ring , Gooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
 
> you wont get any explanation here, dude.. yeah, just buy the books, and come back after you done...this not a place for a learning student..
How did that get an upvote?!
(It is on a terrible question, but still.)
 
@PopularDemand And then they released the weekly /users page, and I dropped to like page 8. @RebeccaChernoff is on a roll
 
3:17 PM
is just under 5K
 
@Moshe want me to push you over? :-)
 
@Moshe -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
 
pushes moshe into the 5k pond
 
@Reno Care to do the same for me?
Probably need a little more work.
 
gives moshe his first nice answer badge
 
3:22 PM
1 short of good answer on PSE
@KlausByskovHoffmann lol! Nice!
 
@LoïcWolff they may think im a sockpuppet and stuff
 
@Reno Or that every person on the chat suddenly understood how great my answers were and decided to upvote them.
 
perks up did someone call me? I thought I heard "sockpuppet"
 
@LoïcWolff you'll trip the scripts ;)
ok, just ducking my head in, leaving again, kinda behind and need to catch up. If you see me sticking my head in, swat me back out again ;) ttyl
 
grants the good answer to ircmaxell on pse (eventhough the answer is just a cartoon;-)
 
3:26 PM
Yay!
@KlausByskovHoffmann I got 4 badges from that one answer now (Teacher, Nice Answer, Mortarboard, Good Answer)
 
@ircmaxell good for you :-)
 
@Klaus thank you. bows
 
lol. Almost everyone will upvote any seemingly relevant XKCD post
off, later
 
@moshe, no worries... keep up the good work
 
Well, who asked for the most stuff this week that Jeff doesn't agree with? See:
 
3:30 PM
Very early alpha of SEChatObjects almost done
 
Still looking for better naming suggestions for a collection of javascript classes and events for chat related things: chat users, chat rooms, chat messages, and events (chat user join room/leave room/message posted/message edited, etc)
 
> Your solution is the best on the web. I would vote up your answer but I do not have enough credits.
 
@Moshe it's a JavaScript library which provides an OOP view of chat
 
Someone needs to tell that guy about insert coin on Gaming chat.
 
3:32 PM
So you can say SEChatObjects.currentROom().observe('newMessage',function(e){ if(e.user().name == 'Moshe') e.message().setContent('Oy'); });
 
Ah. Cool.
SECRoom(), SECUser(),?
SECEvent() et al
 
@Moshe Currently SEChatObjects.ChatRoom SEChatObjects.ChatUser, SEChatObjects.ChatMessage, and SEChatObjects.ChatEvent
 
@TheRenamedException JSThirdPlace?
 
@LoïcWolff I like it
 
I'd make aliases to those
 
3:34 PM
@TheRenamedException those names are pretty meaningful. Why change them?
 
@Loic yep, sounds good.
@the remember the users of you library...
 
@KlausByskovHoffmann I don't like SEChatObjects
 
Shorter but descriptive names.
 
@Moshe What are you saying? I do not understand
 
@TheRenamedException No need to add Chat to everything. ThirdPlace.User, ThirdPlace.Message...
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Or 3rdPlace (but I don't know if you can name something starting with a number)
 
3:37 PM
@LoïcWolff good suggestion
 
@LoïcWolff Good point
 
I'm just saying that if I use your library, I don't want a long object name, but I dont want it meaningless either
 
@Moshe Right. I think ThirdPlace.Message or ThirdPlace.User is great
open to new namespaces other than ThirdPlace but I think that is clever and succinct.
 
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A: Generic htaccess redirect www to non-www

sulfythe only way I go, I struggled for 30 minutes to give head. Thanks for the idea RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.ro RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site.ro/$1 [R=301,L]

 
@PopularDemand whaaat?
 
3:45 PM
@KlausByskovHoffmann No comment.
 
I struggled for 30 minutes to ... Where did that come from?
Tourettes in writing?
 
-1
Q: Should there be some type of chit-chat site on StackExchange?

DmitriHow about making something like chitchat.stackexchange.com where people would not have to necessarily ask questions but be more like a regular forum format to discuss things. There could still be up/down votes but does not have to be a "best answers" feature. Right now it's hard to start off-to...

 
@LoïcWolff No spaces.
 
@PopularDemand Thanks :)
 
Why does Microsoft hate Netflix?
@LoïcWolff I for one welcome our new chat.chat.meta.stackoverflow.com overlords.
 
3:55 PM
@mootinator let's talk about it on meta.chat.chat.meta.stackoverflow.com
 
The funny thing about rep recalcs is that you can tell who's addicted, or doesn't visit SO very often or was on vacation or whatever based on when MSO posts show up.
 
OK, Almost have new status script working...
 
Could a mod move this chat room to MSO? If not, just remove it and I'll create it there again. Just ping me if it's done.
 
heh, cute.
Just finished a rather epic (for me, anyway) excel formula and my brain has liquified and is leaking out my ear.
 
It's a bit confusing that I get desktop notifications if I'm pinged in a room that I'm not in… room name should get more emphasis so I notice it in these cases. And maybe add a link to the room, in the case I'm not inside that room.
 
4:16 PM
status-wants-userscripts-in-safari-mobile
 
status-wants-userscripts-in-opera-mobile
 
@Nyuszika7H what is this placekitten thingy ?
 
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Q: eval php or asp code with c#, is possible?

albanxhello I am writing a c# comand line application which interacts with mysql db. I read some text on the db that may be php code or asp code. Is there any way to eval or interpretate this code inside c#? Ex: static void Main(string[] args) { String phpcode="$test='THIS IS A TEST';return $test";...

 
@Reno read the pinned messages at the right
 
static void Main(string[] args)
{
   String phpcode="$test='THIS IS A TEST';return $test";
   String res=EVAL(phpcode);//or aspcode or some other not compiled language
   Console.WriteLine(res);
   //res="THIS IS A TEST";
}
 
4:23 PM
@LoïcWolff Ctrl+K
 
@Nyuszika7H Thanks. This place is way too complicated for me :p
 
@LoïcWolff though Markdown isn't so hard…
 
@Nyuszika7H gotcha
 
@Nyuszika7H No, it's not, I'm not used to the shortcuts (even if they're the same on SE)
 
**bold** bold *italic* italic ***bold+italic*** bold+italic `code` code [tag:foo] [meta-tag:bar]
[status-baz]
status-baz
> blockquote
> blockquote
    firstLineOfCode();
    thisIsMultiLineCode();
firstLineOfCode();
thisIsMultiLineCode();
 
4:28 PM
i want to pin this but it'd be ugly on that wall -------->
 
@Reno what do you want to pin?
 
the stuff you wrote, i think its pretty cool, ( for noobs )
 
Markdown Editing Help Chat uses a limited subset. You can't use formatting in multi-line messages (except for making all fixed-width), headers and everything that would only be useful in multi-line messages. Images can't be inlined, you can only post them in separate messages, like this: !http://path/to/ima.ge For tags, you can use [tag:tagname] and [meta-tag:tagname].
@Reno unpin that, pin this
 
Do not work on chat.stackexchange.com at all?
 
who has fast fingertips and can pull the actual elimination results for a previous election so I can push a link to someone?
 
4:38 PM
@drachenstern Like these? Or are you referring to something else?
 
@TimStone that's the one
 
Also, I feel like I've been hit by a train, ugh yawns
 
I admit it, your search-fu is stronger than mine
@TimStone me too for some reason :\
 
Yo, people
How do I get ChromeOS on my mac?
 
@TylerChacha eh, you don't? ... hmmm, google here we come
 
4:40 PM
lmgtfy.com?
 
@TylerChacha is this close enough? cultofmac.com/…
 
@NickT oh no you didnt
 
lol
 
@drachenstern I was debating using that article
I'll try it later today
 
@TylerChacha so use it, find what breaks, come back and ask again
 
4:41 PM
Paralells..
 
;) its the next best thing invented after google , i.e
 
That is the only problem. I'm looking more for a guide to bootcamp
 
@Reno the hell you say
@TylerChacha what's wrong with using VBox?
 
@drachenstern Paralells isn't free. Is VBox free?
 
4:45 PM
It is free as in $$$, but the good version is not free as in beer
 
We need more pinnable things..
 
hmm
 
And by good version, I mean the version that supports passthrough USB and other good features...
 
@ircmaxell wait, they took that out? those farking pricks... does the free client on VMWare still allow passthrough USB?
you can always build the image with VBox and run it on VMWare
 
I had to download the non-gpl version for my laptop to get it to support passthrough USB, so that was my experience
 
4:50 PM
Interesting.
you can see how often I use USB passthrough on my VMs
 
I had to for support of DRM EPUB files...
Actually, that changed recently
now you just need the non-free (as in liberty) extension pack to enable USB support
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A: Everything is grayscale on my iPad?

ircmaxellPlease make this optional for all mobile devices and not just iPad. I like the full version on my Android. At least make it so that we can disable it via either a button on the bottom (view full site or something) or a user preference. I know I can change the user-agent to get it. But I wan...

 
> Make it so
 
5:06 PM
Skeet just posted a feature request of the same
 
Skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
 
Skeet skeet?
 
<--- Been watching too much Paddington Bear with the 8 month old.
 
Argh
in Status Script Discussion, 1 min ago, by The Renamed Exception
Chat /status script v0.2a2 now available. Now works in all rooms, and provides ThirdPlace alpha 1!
 
@TheRenamedException eh? script not working?
 
5:14 PM
is wondering when his Xoom will ship
 
@drachenstern I clicked "send" by mistake
Script now works in all rooms. However it looks like it does not make you auto-join the status control room. You'll still need to join that room manually
 
what does that room do? update the XMPP bridge?
 
@drachenstern The status control room? It's used by the status userscript to exchange user status updates
 
@TheRenamedException so what is special about that room?
 
ROBOTS WILL FLAG EVERYTHING YOU SAY, THEN PROCEED TALKING ABOUT ERRORS, KEYBOARDS AND MONITORS
 
5:18 PM
@drachenstern When you change your status with /status something, the script posts to that room. It then watches for updates from others from that room and when it sees them, it colorizes the user's gravatar in all rooms and sets the title attribute of their gravatar to their status message
 
@TheRenamedException I guess I'm asking the wrong question: is there anything about that room or does it just make your script polling easier than fetching lots of API data?
 
sorry one of our servers is having a load spike, sec
 
I pulled a Java! The userscript works now, but it's got a lot of open bugs and it's called version 5.
 
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Q: Careers 2.0 Featured Listing: Web company needs successor for retiring unicorns

balphaYou know what day is coming up, right? Just to get you up to speed: Stack Overflow's first April Fool's day came with glitter, cornify buttons, lots of pink, and Comic Sans. Last year, all user avatars turned into unicorn images, provided by a web service created by some weirdo with too much fr...

5
 
5:24 PM
@drachenstern There's nothing special about that room. It's just this way I can piggyback on the exitsing event poller, rather than writing my own and casing additional load on the servers
 
lol
 
@TheRenamedException that's what I thought
 
@balpha Bwuahaha
 
@balpha AWESOME
 
Arg. A client decided to mess with the server I setup. So he just called me to say the display isn't working anymore cna I fix it. So I try to ssh in and get a dropped connection. I ask him what changed, he said nothing. I asked if his internet was up, he said no, why... sigh
 
5:27 PM
@balpha before I cook one up is there a supported way to make a user join a room?
 
just poll on their behalf (using the /chats/123/events route)
just look at the first ajax request that gets made on page load; that's exactly what makes you enter the room
 
@balpha testing now...
 
@balpha awesome thanks. I have a bug somewhere else apparently but this sould be perfect
 
@balpha is there anything else? Do I need to perform a GET on the room itself first..?
or post the room ID to /events? That looks right
 
5:45 PM
hmm, you're right; scratch what I said, I was misremembering
I am never wrong. If I give a wrong answer sometimes and later correct myself, that's just a caching issue.
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LOL
I think I got it, testing again
 
ARG! He unplugged the network cable and forgot to put it back in
 
Nice, got it
Thanks @balpha!
 
Hi! :)
 
Now he wants to move it again. You can't stop people from doing bad things...
 
5:58 PM
@ircmaxell check the BOFH stories, I'm pretty sure there's something in there you can use right now :)
 
One thing I was thinking about was painting the case with rubber (all around), then wrapping it with aluminum foil. Connect the 120v input to the aluminum foil and done...
the computer won't skip a beat since it's basically a Faraday cage...
 

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