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Richard aka cyberkiwi
Richard aka cyberkiwi
12:42 AM
oy
@TimStone meta.stackoverflow.com/q/81246/156011 now has an answer
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Yeah, I saw. :)
 
ircmaxell
ircmaxell
1:35 AM
Found the tracking number, the Xoom has shipped! Yay!
 
Moshe
Moshe
Please go answer:
0
Q: How do I install a userscript?

Moshe What are the steps to install a userscript for any of the major browsers? This question is for the benefit of those trying to get the minimal theme working. One browser per answer please.

browsers userscripts
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
 
Moshe
Moshe
Please post that as an answer then?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I'm not registered at SuperUser.
 
Moshe
Moshe
Meh. I need answers there.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
1:48 AM
Why?
 
Moshe
Moshe
I posted that on physics. People were whining about it being complicated. It's a valid question on SU.
I'm curious to know if Jeff knew that he was going to use it for mobile initially.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Well, there's nothing stopping you from going back and editing the link to point to the tag wiki instead. shrugs
 
Moshe
Moshe
Time. I'm occupied now. I'm on iOS. Three things stopping me.
And it is a valid question.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
You had time to post that question and then come in here and link it. I'm not particularly swayed by that argument. The fact remains that the tag wiki is an existing resource that has a better chance of being properly maintained than a handful of answers on a SuperUser question.
 
The Renamed Exception
The Renamed Exception
I'll post it then...
Also, Apple Town hall Chat about to begin
@Moshe done.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
1:59 AM
@TheRenamedException Woah, those are block quotes on SU?
 
The Renamed Exception
The Renamed Exception
@TimStone those are
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@TheRenamedException Huh, quite the bold line going on there. I clearly don't spend enough time looking at stuff over there, heheh.
 
The Renamed Exception
The Renamed Exception
14 mins ago, by Tim Stone
I'm not registered at SuperUser.
Well there's yer problem!
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Perhaps. ;)
 
George Marian
George Marian
lol
 
Moshe
Moshe
2:47 AM
Thank you @the.
Nippon.
It's free for a while. @TimStone please go rate it if you can.
Nippon.
 
Moshe
Moshe
3:37 AM
is rewriting calendar code
 
George Marian
George Marian
3:55 AM
@Moshe I'm sure you're having a blast. ;)
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@GeorgeMarian I'm pretty sure he's doing it wrong
 
George Marian
George Marian
LOL
I was going to say he should probably be using a library.
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@GeorgeMarian that's what I'm thinking
let's not spoil his fun tho
let's let him do it his way ;)
 
George Marian
George Marian
He's gotta learn some way. :)
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
(and yes @Moshe I'm sure it's the calendar code for your one app that takes a lot of custom logic and not really a calendar like we would all associate as a calendar)
@GeorgeMarian egads, can you teach my coworkers?
 
George Marian
George Marian
3:58 AM
@drachenstern I could try, but some people are beyond reach. ;)
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
anyone here on OSX atm? I have an interface question that's easier to ask how to ask than to just ask
 
Moshe
Moshe
@GeorgeMarian See the NSCalendar class. It's makes things easier, I just don't know which methods I need.
 
George Marian
George Marian
@Moshe Mmm...Objective-C. I've heard lots of bad things about it.
 
Shog9
Shog9
4:20 AM
I played with it for a while, 15 or so years back... Liked it a lot. Much nicer than C++. But... I didn't have a NeXT box.
And now... I don't have a Mac.
Bothering with a language that requires you to switch to a different platform just to be useful always seemed a bit pointless.
 
user157982
Hm, Objective-C isn't so bad
 
Moshe
Moshe
@drach I'm on OS now (on iOS for chat though)
 
George Marian
George Marian
@Shog9 Yeah. That's one thing the seriously disappoints me about the iPhone. What, I have to have a Mac to create albums on my phone?
 
user157982
It's no good if you want performance in my opinion, but it's pretty pleasant
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@Moshe already got it answered. Waiting 30 minutes to answer a question on chat is too long
 
Moshe
Moshe
4:23 AM
Heh, with a name like @nil, it'd sum up your views pretty succinctly.
Heh. @drach. Btw iOS has a built in library which I'm using.
 
user157982
Well, my name is Noel
 
user157982
So I just shortened it
 
Moshe
Moshe
Heh
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@Moshe well that's what you're supposed to do
 
George Marian
George Marian
@nil And squished the 'e.' You meanie. ;)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
4:25 AM
From my experiences, I can't stand Objective-C. To be fair though, I haven't used it that much, so I'm willing to believe that I just haven't messed around enough with it to get a full appreciation.
 
user157982
That vowel had it coming.
 
George Marian
George Marian
lol
 
Moshe
Moshe
@George h squishd th "e" h's just a mani.
 
user157982
@TimStone It's a matter of personal preference, so I think it's perfectly reasonable to not like it
 
Shog9
Shog9
favorite part of ObjC: dynamic types via id
 
user157982
4:26 AM
I just like messaging
 
George Marian
George Marian
@TimStone I think most of the complaints I've seen centered around the fact that it's yet another C/C++ and required a new way of thinking about it.
 
Moshe
Moshe
I like ObjC but you should see the negative effect it had on my JavaScript coding. longVerboseAndExcessiveMethodNamesWith:(id) arguments Like:(id) this
 
user157982
Heh
 
George Marian
George Marian
 
user157982
You have to strike a balance between being descriptive and verbose
 
user157982
4:28 AM
And for most people, or at least in my case, that's pretty hard
 
Moshe
Moshe
It's News hour with @GeorgMarian!
@nil yep.
 
user157982
Apple screws it up pretty often too.
 
George Marian
George Marian
Yeah, I know. It's nothing to do w/ Objective-C, but it's a decent article about node.js.
 
user157982
Just look at tableview stuff
 
Shog9
Shog9
@Moshe the lack of namespacing (or rather, the "namespace via huge honkin' identifiers" idiom) is a downside
 
George Marian
George Marian
4:29 AM
@Moshe Hehe. Just keeping my peeps informed. :)
 
Shog9
Shog9
@nil Start with one character. Then add more, typing one-handed, while using your other hand to punch yourself in the face. Stop when sufficiently descriptive.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GeorgeMarian Hm, and that might have been my issue with it. "Oh, so we're doing C++, if C++ was drowned in a sea of square brackets." Admittedly not a good criteria for determining the usefulness of a language, heh. :P
 
George Marian
George Marian
@TimStone LOL
 
user157982
@Shog9 The problem is that it rapidly becomes unpleasant
 
George Marian
George Marian
Speaking of brackets, remembering which bracket is for what type of data structure in Python took some work. :)
 
Shog9
Shog9
4:32 AM
@nil That's the idea. Exhaustively descriptive identifiers are mostly just exhausting... Like character names in a fantasy novel.
 
Moshe
Moshe
Okay. So I am confused. I need to get this worked out. I need a Hebrew NSDate from a Gregorian date.
@Nil any idea how to do that?
 
Shog9
Shog9
Problems that aren't really problems:
2
Q: Cooking makes my clothes smell.

z-bossSo I have to change my clothes after cooking. It is especially noticeable when I fry something: onions, meats etc. How do you deal with this problem?

clothing
 
George Marian
George Marian
heh
 
user157982
@Moshe I haven't the faintest idea
 
Moshe
Moshe
Tagged clothing? I say off topic
@nil ok.
 
user157982
4:34 AM
I've never had to change my clothing after cooking O_o
 
user157982
Maybe it's a bachelor thing...
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
You aren't cooking EXTREMELY enough, apparently.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
I have frequently. Might be because I go to bed after eating dinner, tho.
 
user157982
Extreme cooking? Is that like wrestling a bear while cooking eggs?
 
Moshe
Moshe
Bedtime. I'll deal with it tomorrow. Not urgent. I am building several apps simultaneously. Hebrew dates are important to several of em.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
4:35 AM
Total pro flavour infusion!
 
user157982
I'd be curious to know how hebrew dates factor into anything modern O_o
 
Moshe
Moshe
@Nil. - well it ain't cooking bear while wrestling eggs.
If anyone hasn't gotten sick of this: Nippon is free for a another day. In honor of anticipated iPad update.
 
user157982
Nippon?
 
user157982
So do I get tickets to Japan for free or something?
 
Moshe
Moshe
@nil re hebrew dates: Jewish Religion, maybe? Re Nippon, iTunes.com/apps/nippon
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
4:38 AM
@nil you're new here huh?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@nil He should definitely make that a promotion.
 
user157982
@drachenstern Indeedy
 
Moshe
Moshe
(I'm on iOS. Don't mind the slow responses.)
 
user157982
@Moshe Are you making a Torah browser or something? O_o
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@nil ;) it shows
 
user157982
4:39 AM
I don't know how that stuff works, so eh
 
Moshe
Moshe
@nil no. That doesn't have to do with Hebrew dates.
 
user157982
El-shruggo then
 
Moshe
Moshe
Orthodox Jews pray three times daily. Prayers times are based on sunrise and sunset. The contents of the prayers change slightly seasonally.
 
Shog9
Shog9
Hebrew dates: hebrewdating.com
 
Moshe
Moshe
I'm making an app related to that.
@drach, hehe, sure does show.
 
user157982
4:41 AM
I am signing up.
 
Moshe
Moshe
@Shog9 er, not quite
If it was Hebrew NSDating, perhaps
 
Shog9
Shog9
(mmm... dates...)
 
Moshe
Moshe
No. Curious where you found that.
 
Shog9
Shog9
Googling hebrew dates
 
user157982
I wonder if those dates taste good
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
4:43 AM
@Shog9 shhh don't tell him all the secrets!
 
Shog9
Shog9
I've also found what appears to be an H.R. Geiger tattoo, if you're looking for something completely different
aaaand just remembered that I'm still logged in through VPN. Great.
 
user157982
A Geiger tattoo is the only tattoo that will justifiably look scarier as you age and deform.
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@Shog9 yeah I always hate when I realize that
 
Moshe
Moshe
Hrm. Stay here and be subject to jokes about my coding and potentially worse, or get to sleep...
is too tired for this
Night.
 
Shog9
Shog9
'nite @Moshe - sleep well, in whatever timescale you choose
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
5:17 AM
Is something happening with Ubuntu and Shuttlesworth?
Something about Banshee?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Banshee had a connection to the Amazon Store, which competed with the Ubuntu One music store, and Canonical said "Disable the Amazon Store connection by default, or we want 75% off the top of purchases made through it", I think.
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
Interesting
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
In short: They pulled an Apple.
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
I see this
Except they went way past 30%
man I got a computer I need to setup, and it's already time for finding a pillow ...
decisions decisions
"I can do it tomorrow"
> Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
> What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
5:29 AM
I love watching Pawn Stars and something gets evaluated by the expert and the people hear the top dollar at auction valuation and think that's what they're going to get ... they have no idea what overhead means do they?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
They didn't think that far ahead ;)
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
If I had something like that and they said "at auction this would go for 10-15k" I would ask for 3k for my item. And I'ld probably get it.
"I don't know why I bought this" -> "this was a great purchase and I'm glad I made it"
 
Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman
Did you see the one with the two target pistols?
The owner only wanted $1000 and the pawn store guy said it'd be worth more and he would feel bad only giving him $1000
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
Nah I didn't
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Heh, you know you're low balling the price when people feel bad giving you the value you quoted.
 
Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman
5:41 AM
I hate that half of these reality shows aren't real, though :/
Repo Men, Storage Wars, etc... they're just actors doing fake repos/auctions
Pawn Stars is nothing like a normal pawn shop, at least the shop really exists
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Hahah
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@DanGrossman hahaha
 
Benjol
Benjol
Pretty unimpressed by the answers to the april fool's question so far.
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
I think I'm gonna go see what the back of my eyelids has been up to
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
:p
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
5:53 AM
l7r
 
Benjol
Benjol
(Sorry tim :)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
G'night @drachenstern
 
drachenstern
drachenstern
@TimStone g'night
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
shrugs Hardly my most creative ideas. ;)
 
Benjol
Benjol
@TimStone it's pretty hard, because you have to come up with something that will make sense on all sites, not scare away new users, and not stop people getting on with the normal business of the site
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
5:55 AM
nods
 
Benjol
Benjol
I think inspiration may be found in some of more upvoted status-declined feature requests. goes looking
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
I had a dream that I was watching a documentary on Steve Ballmer starring Larry David.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
...Huh. :P
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
It was actually good .. Larry David reenacting the "Developers Developers Developers Developers" performance
Someone should make a documentary of Steve Ballmer starring Larry David.
and I need to not watch youtube before going to bed, or anything starring Larry David
 
Benjol
Benjol
6:18 AM
@TimStone, you may now mock my attempt at humour... :)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Hahah, for that last point, +1 :P
 
Benjol
Benjol
That would go down really well on math.se :)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Can you imagine the day after?
 
Benjol
Benjol
Actually, I seriously think any april fool thing shouldn't be implemented on math.se
 
Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman
I want to buy a house at a sheriffs sale, but it sounds too complicated
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
6:22 AM
Heh :P
Man, what the hell Chrome.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
I find myself getting very very annoyed by questions, and I don't know what to do about it.
-2
Q: I want to create a Pop 2011 calendar window in php, i want one good code, help ...

rylonhuntI want d good code.. dats working.... Provide me ur codes.........

php calendar pop
Snarky comments provide only momentary comfort.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Thankfully, I don't think that's actually a question :P
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
I want a nuke to deploy. Not 12 votes that don't last me half a day.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I'm so happy I have 32 flags now, heh. I should get more reps so I can get even more.
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta Add you status request here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/81173/…
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
6:32 AM
@Benjo: why?
 
Benjol
Benjol
@TimStone Have you gone past 500 now?
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Tim: 32 vote-to-close, or 32 mod?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@MichaelPetrotta mod
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta A new 'nuke' button, complete with animation, would be cathartic, even if it didn't change anything :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
Wow. Snark wins, I guess.
3
A: memory usage in oops

Michael PetrottaNo, it is not true. I would advise not listening to the person who told you that.

@Benjo: agree.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
6:34 AM
How did that slip through the cracks ...? hmmm
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
Thanks, Tim.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
Epic fail on our part. That should have been gone 15 seconds after posting. SO - you are slacking!
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Tim: out of curiosity, as a mod, do you have a limited... arsenal... of close votes?
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta I don't really 'have' votes anymore when it comes to that
My votes are now 'supervotes'
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
Ok, I feel a little better now. That's how these questions *should* be handled.
*closed as not a real question by Marc Gravell♦ 7 mins ago*
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
6:38 AM
Voting to close it as [whatever] closes it as [whatever] .. but no, I don't think there is a limit.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@MichaelPetrotta Moderator smackdown!
 
Benjol
Benjol
0
A: Careers 2.0 Featured Listing: Web company needs successor for retiring unicorns

BenjolBURN BURN BURN!!! button There's a limit to how much exposure to the low quality tab one can handle, after a while, noob-rage starts to take hold, and you start getting the urge to do more than just flag. It would be cathartic to have a 'nuke' button with some satisfying animation effect to con...

 
Tim Post
Tim Post
I've taken over 1200 actions as a moderator since elected, and have yet to see any kind of limit.
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta, just for you :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
muchthanks
and upvote
 
Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell
6:40 AM
@MichaelPetrotta what can I say; I'm grouchy in the morning ;p
 
Benjol
Benjol
> you might want to rephrase - "give me teh codez" doesn't go down well here
@MarcGravell grouchy but not lacking in humour :)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Heh, I came across a non-answer from the OP that basically said "I don't get it, I'm giving up," followed by some teacher blaming or something. :P
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Marc: appreciated. Grouchiness is useful if directed well.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@TimStone I like that idea
"Don't blame me for being ill prepared by my comp-sci teacher!"
I think I'll use that :)
 
Benjol
Benjol
my user-script auto-update-notification seems to work - glee
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
6:44 AM
\o/
Hmm, where's Yi Jiang when I need someone to tell me why my interpretation of JavaScript is wrong?
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
I'd be happy to tell you you're wrong...
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Key word being why :P
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Rebecca: well, we knew that already.
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
q:
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Though maybe it's something obvious that I'm too tired to consider.
If I have function myFunction(param) { var param = ..., param will always be undefined in any anonymous functions inside of myFunction
But if I do var anotherName this isn't the case.
I don't get what the difference is just because they have the same name.
Ah, I see.
go go SO
 
Moshe
Moshe
7:01 AM
@Rebecca there?
@Rebecca if/when you read this: i am waiting for github comments.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
7:16 AM
Here's some pics of my DC in Chicago, and what happens to a Honda Civic when you load over 40 1U rack mount servers in it:
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
I hope you don't take this the wrong way @Tim, but they've made wonderful progress in camera technology in the last few years...
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta Most DC's forbid 'real' cameras
those were off the hip iphone shots
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@TimPost Yay Civic
Pretty nifty
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
He called me and said "I got over 50 1U servers in my civic" .. my first response was "What the heck did you do, FOLD THEM?"
 
Benjol
Benjol
@TimPost, so the data center is in the truck? :)
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
7:25 AM
@Benjol One is. We just closed what we had in NC and moved it over to Chicago
Those pics are mostly dev servers, minus most of the switches
 
Benjol
Benjol
Wow, could do with some of that nouse here where I work. They can't even get the web site dns to work without the www :(
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@Benjol just send an e-mail saying something about ROI, SEO and AFLAC
it'll get fixed :)
 
Benjol
Benjol
@TimPost, I did consider sending a mail to the director saying "HELP! The website has stopped working" with the www-less url :)
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
Management is a funny thing - they never question acronyms that they never heard of, nobody wants to be the one who 'didn't know' what it meant.
Heck, toss in DDOSOIOC - I doubt anyone in management is old enough to remember that.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
You can play some funny games that way.
So, the TLSR popped a real FLA last night, and I think we'll need to TANSTAAFL now.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
7:31 AM
@MichaelPetrotta Response from management: "Do you think that's responsible at this point?"
You see, as long as managers appear to be questioning you in front of others, you get what you want :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
Bingo.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
There are of course exceptions, but few.
@MichaelPetrotta Or the typical "clue me in without knowing" response:
@MichaelPetrotta "HOW will that actually help to accelerate our end game?"
Then you must explain the concept to said manager, while justifying it.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
That just begs for more TLA bull.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
I think I'm rare, I'm one of the few CTOs that actually write code.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
You can add @TheRenamedException and I to that short list. ;)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
7:34 AM
Though honestly, I gain more credibility by being one of the few that can explain concepts clearly, with small words.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
One day I woke up, my house was spinning in a tornado, I saw some lady on a bike while looking out my window, and now I'm CTO. Someone pass me a pair of red glimmering slippers?
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
stalking for a moment Philippines, huh? Have you read Cryptnomicon?
Story of another CTO in the islands.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta I travel extensively.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
archipelago, excuse me
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta We try to visit two new countries per year
Almost done with SE Asia :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
7:39 AM
My recent history matches that, but look past two years and that falls apart.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
Europe is next.
I have not been back to the US in almost seven years.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
Things have changed.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta Indeed.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
by the way For anyone who feels the need to start up a conversation in the gym locker room - most guys don't wish to have an extended discussion with a naked guy just out of the shower. Just fyi.
uncomfortable
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta HOW DID YOU KNOW ???
</kidding>
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
7:43 AM
Three hours ago. Was that you? Never asked his name.
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@TimStone hand me the flashy thing, we have another one
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost: Hi, I have a question to you
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
Hi Sankar
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@SankarGanesh are you familiar with the game called 'golf' ?
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
7:46 AM
@TimPost In that my name was listed, i donot know why, soory no idea about golf mate
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@SankarGanesh It is because you advanced in your reputation score significantly enough for an algorithm to decide that you should be listed
Leaderboard
Leaderboard is a series of golf simulation video games that was developed by Bruce and Roger Carver, and published by Access Software. Leaderboard, the first game in the series, was released in 1986 and included four different water-based courses. It was well received, being rated as 97% overall by Zzap 64 magazine and being prized with their "Gold Award". It was also highly rated by other magazines, with Your Sinclair rating it 9 out of 10, Sinclair User giving it five stars, and Crash rating it 80%. Leaderboard Tournament, released the same year, was a series of expansion disks each...
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost #1240 quarter rank -297 change 2,863 total reputation 1,039 quarter reputation, am i not able to get this mate, pls explain these foileds, i was confused why -297
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@SankarGanesh Perhaps something you asked recently received a lot of views?
@SankarGanesh the -297 means you dropped actually. I'm not at all familiar with how the selection process on stackexchange works.
It looks like the recent global reputation re-calculation was quite unkind to you, though
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Sankar: reputation was recently recalculated. Votes from deleted questions and answers, and votes from deleted users, were removed. I lost almost 200 points myself - it happened to lots of folks.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost Well, i was shocked why i got -297, whether i did anything wrong, like that
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
7:51 AM
Look to meta.stackoverflow.com for many, many similar reports.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@MichaelPetrotta so can you explain what fields these fileds do #1240 quarter rank -297 change 2,863 total reputation 1,039 quarter reputation
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@SankarGanesh Don't assume your self as the culprit :) I think it is due to your reputation dropping significantly due to the global re-calculation.
 
Benjol
Benjol
@Sankar, you will get by better in life if you refrain from calling us mate, mate :)
 
Reno
Reno
In april you will be able to cash in your rep points
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
What's wrong with "mate"? genuine question
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
7:52 AM
@SankarGanesh You probably provided some answers that were up-voted many times and later deleted as questions were closed and deleted
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@Reno how it is possible in april
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Benjo: might there be a particular date in April? Maybe, very early in the month?
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta It's not wrong, just sounds overly familiar for an essentially anonymous chat. Though that may be a cultural thing.
@MichaelPetrotta, you meant @Sankar, I think
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@Benjol I don't find colloquialisms from other countries inordinately out of taste.
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
No, I meant @Benjol. Not important, though.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
7:55 AM
@MichaelPetrotta #1240 quarter rank what is this rank denotes, whether it denotes i had yielded 1240 rank out of serveral stack users, am i right or wrong
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
'mate' is a neat word. If said for the first time, it's an offer of friendship
 
Benjol
Benjol
@TimPost OK, I'm just anal then :) (I have another thing about non-capitalised i)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Sankar: I'm the wrong person to ask.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@MichaelPetrotta oh sorry
any guys tell me #1240 quarter rank what is this rank denotes, whether it denotes i had yielded 1240 rank out of serveral stack users, am i right or wrong
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@Sankar I can't help but notice your last name, which is Ganesh
Remover of obstacles :)
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
7:58 AM
@TimPost yes, am i first name is sankar and last name is ganesh
@badpssockpuppet: Hi, I have a question to you
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@Sankar Don't put much thought into collected data that is presented in various ways, just continue to be helpful. You did nothing wrong, the system 'in general' is just updating to remove votes from questions that were obliterated
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
If I want to passively-aggressively annoy someone, I'll call them "boss" or "buddy".
or "champ"
 
badp's sockpuppet
badp's sockpuppet
@MichaelPetrotta Hey lad.
@SankarGanesh Shoot.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost Hmm, Sure
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@MichaelPetrotta Here you address a guard, police officer or waiter as 'boss'
 
Benjol
Benjol
7:59 AM
@MichaelPetrotta or "ducky", "darling", or "love"? :)
 
Reno
Reno
kid, or sir or ladies for a group
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
I would like to call as Mate,
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
"ducky" files away for later
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@SankarGanesh Really, don't think twice about it. Once in a while, Stack Exchange re-calculates the reputation score of everyone and a few odd things happen.
@SankarGanesh It is software, after all :)
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@badpssockpuppet Actually my name is listed here, i was confused why my name is listed her, but @TimPost clears that, in a nice manner
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
8:01 AM
@SankarGanesh I'm happy I could help set your mind at ease on the matter.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost yes, you are absolutely right, i will do myself keep rockingto helping people
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta There's a whole load of even less-appropriate ones here: yaelf.com/toe.shtml
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
@Benjol: yikes.
"big-daddy-yum-yum"
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta, they are mildly.. erh.. eccentric :)
> little-diddle (Caution) :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
"schnooky lumps"
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
8:04 AM
@SankarGanesh Awesome :) Again, no worries.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost Hmmm, Thank You Very Much, My dear friend, I love your logo,:)
 
Benjol
Benjol
@MichaelPetrotta My colleague is giving me weird looks :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
on that note... good night, all
 
Benjol
Benjol
night, squidgy :)
 
Michael Petrotta
Michael Petrotta
oy
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Tim Post
Tim Post
8:08 AM
@SankarGanesh "Ram Man" .. once I became a moderator, a helmet seemed rather prudent.
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost Ram Man means
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
@SankarGanesh It is a cartoon character from this (very old) series:
 
Reno
Reno
haha we should append or change the username on SO with a randomly selected term from yaelf.com/toe.shtml
for 1 april
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
Masters of the Universe
Masters of the Universe (commonly abbreviated to MOTU; and sometimes informally referred to as He-Man, after the lead hero) is a media franchise created by Mattel. Although featuring a vast line-up of characters, the main premise revolves around the heroic characters of He-Man and evil Skeletor on planet Eternia. Since its initial launch late 1981, the franchise has spawned a variety of products, including six lines of action figures, four animated television series, countless comic series and a film. Designer Roger Sweet claims to be the chief creator of He-Man and MOTU, although th...
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost oh, nice
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
8:10 AM
It also shows my age quite well
 
Sankar Ganesh
Sankar Ganesh
@TimPost: lol
ok guys bye cya
 
Reno
Reno
Actually every 80's kid grew up on he-man
 
Benjol
Benjol
@TimPost Goodness, that's very old is it? :)
@Reno Reno, add that as a suggestion, I like it :)
 
Reno
Reno
:( im not old if i know my he-man stuff ... i hope so
@Benjol yup :)
 
Benjol
Benjol
@Reno If you're old enough to worry about being old, then you are old :)
 
Reno
Reno
8:13 AM
@Benjol touche
 
Benjol
Benjol
@Reno Erh, having said which, if your user profile is telling the truth, you are definitely not old :)
 
Reno
Reno
oh ... that. I was only checking whats the lowest age accepted in SO. You know programmers always do ridics bound checking and stuff ;)
 
Benjol
Benjol
Public confession: jquery rocks, big time.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
8:44 AM
@waffles Oh, so that's why you didn't invent a unicorn-based algorithm for magically changing annoying user behaviours, because of ad revenue. It all makes sense now. shakes head and sighs
 
Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang
Reeeeaallly slow day.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Heh :P
 
Benjol
Benjol
@YiJiang what counts as modern?
 
Moshe
Moshe
9:06 AM
JSFiddle doesn't work well in Safari Mobile. Can't scale.
 
Reno
Reno
The video on this page is pretty interesting
 
Tim Post
Tim Post
9:21 AM
Can anyone find a single cigarette maker that has a twitter link on their web site?
I think it would read something like this: "@whoever -Woah, sorry about the cancer, you should have smoked less. In other countries, we're required to sell cigarettes individually or in packs of 10 instead of 20 .. perhaps move to one of those .."
 
Barry
Barry
9:41 AM
I have answered a question on SO and now I have got in to a massive comment discussion with the OP. How do I politely get out of it ?!?
1
A: having problem with inserting an image into a database

BarryThe problem is in your Trigger statement. You have to explicitly convert the @id variable to a varchar. declare @id int; set @id=1; update ImageGallery set img_id='img'+ convert(varchar(10), @id) set @id=@id+1

 
Benjol
Benjol
@Barry, "Sorry, your requests are going beyond the scope of the original question"
 
Barry
Barry
@Benjol Thanks - I don't think the OP really understands what they are doing :-/
 
Benjol
Benjol
@Barry, you could say that too if you want :)
 
Barry
Barry
@Benjol :) Probably a little harsh!
 
Benjol
Benjol
@Barry, in fact the ideal thing would be to incorporate the extra information you've provided into your answer, then flag your answer and ask a moderator to clean up the comments.
@TimPost, what do you think?
 
Barry
Barry
9:53 AM
@Benjol - I have edited my answer and flagged for Mod to clean comments.
 
Benjol
Benjol
@Barry, sounds good. Thanks for asking
 
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