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Lion will be a major update, no? Given how much he wrote for that 10.6 'minor' update can we expect more than 40 pages? :P

Benjol

@YiJiang, your script is ... the work of an evil mastermind.

12:54 PM

reddit.com/r/aprilfools2011/comments/gg87x/… Ehehehehehe :P

1:18 PM

looks like people still haven't noticed that unicornify hasn't been serving anything for a while now

reddit.com/user/MediumPace

@balpha "Maybe if we try harder something will work!"

btw on last year's april 1st, that graph peaked around 150

hum, there is others april 1st stuff than up/down votes? I don't see anything linked to your unicornify site @balpha

@YOU Its really all of the other sites copying what SO did last year

yeah. But unlike SO, they didn't make sure in beforehand that unicornify would handle the load

which, with the free quota, it obviously won't

1:26 PM

@YiJiang, what do you mean all other sites? non-stackexchange sites?

@YOU If you want to we can all be @RebeccaChernoff for today \o/ which would be a kind of April 1st, yes?

@YOU Yeah, because SE definitely isn't doing that for April 1st this year, so all those requests must be from outside the network

@YOU yes, a whole bunch of them

Oops, then traffic going to be worse :D

may be you will be as popular as gravatar :)

►

@balpha, ah, already over quota? thats bad :(

1:34 PM

hehe, looks like this was actually an april fools joke by a wordpress theme author :)

cravingtech.com/…

function mystique_get_avatar($email, $size = 48){
 if(date('m-d') == '04-01') return '<img class="avatar" src="http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/'.md5($email).'?s='.$size.'" alt="one trick pony" width="'.$size.'" height="'.$size.'" />'; // 1st april? :)
 else return get_avatar($email, $size);
}

that theme is downloaded 474,078 times

wordpress.org/extend/themes/mystique/stats

Ah, so its that theme alone that's causing this? Wow...

It might be just like DDoS :D

meta.slashdot.org/story/11/03/31/2125200/…

Ninefingers

1:49 PM

metro.co.uk/news/…

2:05 PM

> [10:04:59] <sniper506th> unix.stackexchange.com/users/73/michael-mrozek

> [10:04:53] <sniper506th> wtf is with your avatar?

@MichaelMrozek We're all BALPHA!!!

> If you know the theme author, please knock his head for me and thank him for wasting my time

He really doesn't like unicorns it seems

...there's a user script to make everyone me?!

@Trufa Well, not when they suddenly appear on his site without warning :)

@RebeccaChernoff Yes indeed, we're all Rebecca Chernoff \o/

2:11 PM

@YiJiang err @RebeccaChernoff does it turn everybody's smilies around the wrong way around as well?

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)': No

@badpssockpuppet It would be to processor intensive, you've seen how long that old script I have there takes to run

@MichaelMrozek hehe

@YiJiang Could've just done that on submission of comments or questions or answers :)

2:13 PM

3

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORD

Wether

morning

all

Wether

hi Trufa! how are you?

@PopularDemand Did you change the email or the gravatar?

@YiJiang Both.

2:19 PM

Then it'll take time for the email change to sync

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that gravatar.. do wop do wop do wop do wah...

The gravatar change should be almost instantaneous, just need to clear cache to see the change

@YiJiang I did a hard refresh on the image location, no dice.

Also, it's Impersonate a SE Inc. Employee Day isn't it?

@PopularDemand I see the waffles on the main profile

@YiJiang Yes. I thought it was just rchern at first, but then I saw ~~Mrozek~~ balpha.

2:22 PM

@PopularDemand It took about 5-10 minutes for the little gravatars to refresh correctly. A bit longer for chat to show up correctly.

@PopularDemand Well, now that we're all @RebeccaChernoff...

The big gravatar on my user page took about 1-2 minuites

(Or at least I think all of you are. Chat is becoming really weird)

It's all pretty aggressively cached.

12 hours ago, by Popular Demand

If we all become sockpuppets of different people, we can have a alternate universe SE team. Maybe even set up a chat....

2:26 PM

evil grin

2:37 PM

rep capped at 11111 :-)

@YOU Nothing a downvote can't fix :-}

:D

What's the difference between "Be the first in this community" and "This community is just getting started" on Meetup?

> "Here are some requirements, please write my program for me" is not an appropriate Stack Overflow question. (Actually, it's not a question at all.) – Lord Torgamus 5 mins ago

> @Lord: I didn't see a "please" anywhere in the post. – Mark Peters 2 mins ago

"Be the first in this community" means no one there yet

I am not sure with second one, may be someone already there?

@YOU Yeah, that seems to be correct.

@YOU, by the way, now that you're here: thanks for this.

23 hours ago, by Popular Demand

2:51 PM

Heh

...this year seems pretty tame. I'm disappointed. Still early, I guess.

A: Can we get a gallery of unicorns?

3:04 PM

have this on in the background:

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while looking at this:

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Maybe we will.

@PopularDemand Friday is not a good day to have April Fools Day.

Next year it's on Sunday, which could be even more boring.

us.toshiba.com/spectacle

At least Gravatar finally caught up with me.

@PopularDemand \o/

@RBemrose That guy looks like he's in pain. How did they attach the Spectacle, exactly?

@RBemrose At least it's skipping Saturday so we don't have to do the weekend thing two years in a row.

3:16 PM

@mootinator That's true. See? Leap Year is good for something after all!

DST, on the other hand...

Maybe I should calm down and eat some celery.

This would sell like hotcakes.

thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/…

thinkgeek.com/contests/3dgiveaway.shtml <-- I can't tell if this contest is real or not.

google.com/…

try it :)

A: Will the Stack Exchange Network fail?

@RBemrose If that's the one they advertised in last night's newsletter, they did say something like "We know it's Apr 1, but this actually is real."

It would be pretty lame of them to say that and then still have it turn out to be fake.

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"Will the Stack Exchange Network fail?" "Will"? It already has! But they fixed it.

Hm, I forgot links don't come through in oneboxing.

In other news, we are all going to die.

3:26 PM

@badpssockpuppet Sure, eventually. Are you telling me you know when?

Bleah, I have to itemize my time sheet today sometime, and I don't really want to.

@PopularDemand Too localized.

Oh wait, they asked me to use a different time code for this project this pay period, and this time code doesn't require me to itemize. Win! :D

3:43 PM

@RBemrose APRIL FOOL

@PopularDemand That would require some planning, since the email about the different time code came last week.

@RBemrose They must be using that GMail time machine feature.

ok, oversleeping sucks. Did I miss anything fun for 040111?

@drachenstern On SO or teh internetz on the whole?

@drachenstern You really overslept. It's April 2, now.

3:46 PM

@drachenstern Lets see... Think Geek is selling a PlayMobile Apple Store, StackExchange has unicorn animations for upvotes, etc...

@PopularDemand yeah, I did.

Unfortunately... what Popular said.

@YiJiang does it matter?

I forgot to check TG

reddit.com/r/aprilfools2011 should be good

ah, didn't even consider the reddit

also, xkcd was pretty effing clever

Q: Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

3:49 PM

11 hours ago, by waiwai933

57

I am having some difficulty compiling a C++ program that I've written. This program is very simple and, to the best of my knowledge, conforms to all the rules set forth in the C++ Standard. I've read over the entirety of ISO/IEC 14882:2003 twice to be sure. The program is as follows: Here i...

c++ visual-c++ g++ compiler-errors clang

Q: what's with the unicornes? they are awesome!

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Ok, I've just voted up a post, and an awesome unicorn pop up in the left! I'm curious to know the story behind them!

discussion up-votes unicorns

@drachenstern I couldn't see it. I could tell Firefox was trying to load something out-of-the-ordinary, but it was too big and/or processor-intensive to work properly.

don't have closing privileges yet

use your powers:

@PopularDemand probably too cpu intensive. They're drawing a 3D background on most of the clips that moves as you move the mouse

Worth installing Chrome, imo

@drachenstern Chrome creeps me out.

3:52 PM

@Trufa It's 1 minute old; I'm sure people will get to it soon enough

@PopularDemand I can understand that

@MichaelMrozek I guess so...

Worked okay for me on Firefox, but its nothing I'd write home about, frankly speaking

@MichaelMrozek ther you go

@MichaelMrozek Also, I see what you guys did there with the avatars, but now I'm not sure who I'm replying to ... is the name right or the avi?

(you guys being a euphemism for "not me")

3:54 PM

@drachenstern The name's right; Adam is currently @rchernsockpuppet419

OH NOEZ

Since I don't have a modern phone, I missed out on the Angry Birds craze, but yinz might like this: atlassian.com/en/angrynerds

A: Who needs to be fired for not implementing unicorns/ponicorns on comment moderation?

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Seeing as how we're all Rebecca Chernoff now, I'm guessing the person who needs to be fired is Rebecca Chernoff. (;

discussion feature-request status-completed stackoverflow support reputation bug

whatwhatwhat? Shog9 pretends to be a real person?

Joshua H. Heyer ♦, Colorado, USA, The Earth

49.7k 8 46 189

Ha, was just thinking that.

3:56 PM

@drachenstern It's Impersonate an Stack Exchange Inc. Employee Day!

@balpha Wow, where'd he rent the tux and body from?

@balpha haha I did not imagined him like that at all

he kind of looked liked a gangster in his previous avatar

@PopularDemand I think he just attached his head to a dummy at bloomingdales

@Trufa He's a scrapper

@MichaelMrozek beat me to it

3:58 PM

@MichaelMrozek what the hell is that??? :)

That'd be Shog9. Avert your eyes

Heh.

@MichaelMrozek what happend to his face?

Hey, there's no call to be mean

@MichaelMrozek he

4:00 PM

@MichaelMrozek Way ahead of you:

Mar 28 at 19:16, by Popular Demand

Feb 24 at 16:55, by Shog9

Only the people who've hung around meta a little know about the sick desires SO folk have for unicorns, waffles, ponies , freehand circles, jquery etc.

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@MichaelMrozek (I will say, however, that it's moderately creepy that you're hosting that image.)

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@PopularDemand Indeed

|:

4:08 PM

rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6214.txt

> Unfortunately the transmission elements specified by RFC 1149 are not generally stable enough for this and may become highly unstable in the presence of a cross-wind.

heheh

Mozilla Labs' April Fool - Protecting Users from April Fool Pranks

... too meta...

Both of those are too meta ...

Your mistake is thinking that there is such a thing as "too meta"

Kinda lame. But they still own...

groupon.com/pages/april-fools

Okay, the patent application is kind of amusing.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR
PERFORMING JOCULAR ACTIVITIES ON
AN UNSUSPECTING INDIVIDUAL ON A
PARTICULAR DATE

Wil

4:22 PM

Is there a policy/is it ok to cross post on sites? webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/11493/… is getting nothing on Pro Webmasters, so wondering if it would be better on web apps

oh holy crap, it's time for me to scoot out the door eeep ... bbl

maybe.

:O

Q: HELP! Site not rendering in IE3!

19

While performing some regression testing on the site, I found a number of issues with IE3. I've taken a look at the CSS and HTML, and most of it is pretty standard. We're doing a little bit of javascript compilation and I have some custom jQuery UI components, but I can't figure out where the ren...

javascript html css april-fools ie3

@Wil Generally, crossposting is a no-no (don't have the link handy) but if it's not getting traction you could delete it and re-ask elsewhere?

Wil

I just don't know where the question is best off :S getting worried as client wants me to migrate over the weekend

I'll leave it a bit longer just in case, then I will delete and repost. Thanks!

4:27 PM

I have decided to join the confusing people with other users' avatars movement. I'll steal badp's avatar, being his sock puppet and all.

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(@TimPost would very much relate)

They have the W3C XFactor. Our Music Award for 2011 is out. You're welcome! http://ping.fm/U9lZL #aprilfools

Tweeted by w3c on April 1, 2011 at 4:25 PM

Q: Is it possible to post questions across a couple of the sites because it's debatable which site it fits best?

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I know you can move a question from stackoverflow to serverfault for example but I have a question that's earned me the tumbleweed badge on SO and I'm not sure what the best thing to do with it is. It's about a web server so it might be answerable on serverfault but it's really more of a program...

discussion faq questions etiquette cross-posting

@YiJiang Ah, the real joke is the horizontal scroll.

Wil

@PopularDemand Thanks, reading now

@JonSkeet I chuckled a bit:

4:42 PM

A little careless of me, really. I normally try to answer with one hand or the other, but not both.

I think I'm getting revenge downvoted. Someone is paying attention to me!

@JonSkeet Cheese and rice, what happened to your face?

I'm borrowing mmyers' avatar and diamond for the day.

@JonSkeet Its alright, in the end, we're all Rebecca Chernoff!

Cheese and rice with chicken can be an excellent meal.

yesterday, by Yi Jiang

Cheese and rice, @RebeccaChernoff, cheese and rice :P

4:51 PM

@JonSkeet How boring. I thought perhaps you got smacked in the head with a waffle iron.

@PopularDemand Which is better than everybody and their cat turning into @RebeccaChernoff, anyway.

@YiJiang The point stands, I believe.

Maybe Jon Skeet's Left Hand would be a better character.

I mean, even with the name I still get skeeted by Jon Skeet's right hand.

Question: Can mods change names sooner than normal people, or do they still have the 30 day cooldown like normal users do? :)

@RBemrose They can change their names and everyone else's names whenever they want

Moderators can edit any part of anyone's profile at any time, and by extension, their own.

4:58 PM

@MichaelMrozek That's absolutely correct, and I never said otherwise!

And if not, I'm going to be very disappointed in about 10 minutes.

lol

I suppose it would be wrong to demonstrate by vandalizing unix.stackexchange.com/users/2610/lord-torgamus

No. No, it wouldn't.

@MichaelMrozek Only morally :P

5:00 PM

@MichaelMrozek balpha already did.

There, much better.

You know, I would link to Rebecca Chernoff... er... Black's video Friday in chat, but apparently people can and will flag that Youtube video.

@RBemrose I've actually seen that used on reddit to ~~rick~~ blackroll people

@RBemrose Only because it's been posted 78 times already, I'll bet.

@YiJiang Hey, I only linked to it after someone else mentioned the word Black (including capital B and italics). :/

5:04 PM

Thanks for the excellent future gravatar idea.

@PopularDemand Aw, it doesn't show up in the chat transcript, either.

@mootinator Now, now, let's be nice to @YiJiang's friends.

But on the topic of Friday, glad to see it is... only 4 more hours here at work and then I can... er... check out all the April Fools stuff that's blocked here. ;)

Hah.

and make sure my TF2 events server is properly configured for tonight's event.

Myself

finally my gravatar is updated

5:07 PM

Huzzah, an impostor!

@Myself Well, your coding is a horror, so it's appropriiate. ;)

huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/… <-- Interesting subscription idea! ;)

"Today the Obama admini-[click here to continue word for a small fee] said that the interv- [click here to continue word for a small fee] in Libya would contin-[click here to continue word for a small fee] indefi [click here to continue word for a small fee]..."

Still pretty readable.

If we all changed our gravatar to @Moshe's we'd have a @Moshe pit.

HEh.

But it's pronounced moe-sh-eh.

5:22 PM

You put the "sh" in its own syllable. Is there actually a break between it and the "eh"?

No.

@mootinator Voting to close as horrible pun.

Just explaining the pronunciation. I've had people drop the E.

On iOS with low data and two weeks so, Tschüss.

I've been pronouncing it in my head as "mo-shee".

@JonSkeetsLeftHand Same here. And I do not intend to stop.

5:24 PM

No the e is like eh as in meh

meh.

mo-shay?

Mosh eh

@Moshe Sounds like a horrible pun involving Canadians.

Almost anything can be a setup for a horrible pun involving Canadians.

5:32 PM

Woah!

@RebeccaChernoff I just repro'ed your failed cookie step in Firefox O_o

Speaking of cookies, I finally read through to the end on chat's "login" page today... And thus was able at long last to get into SE chat on my phone. +1 for forcing me to type in a custom login URL on a tiny keyboard, @balpha

if you managed to type it, it wasn't complicated enough. I'll fix that immediately

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Try to work a tilde in there somewhere. And/or URLencoded characters. Anything hard to remember or requiring me to pick a symbol out of a table, really.

Also consider an image, just in case I try to get clever and copy-paste it.

@JoshuaHHeyer Meh, far too easy - why not use the full range of Unicode characters, eh?

@YiJiang That sounds like the sort of overly-clever idea that ends up breaking and allowing anyone to log in by including an unexpected, URLencoded NULL in the path...

5:42 PM

@TimStone lol

April Fool's!

No, I actually did.

But once I refreshed it fixed itself. I have no idea what the issue was.

discussion support bug feature-request status-completed badges reputation

who is this?

Jon Skeet's Left Hand ♦, USA

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@Trufa Why, Jon Skeet of course

Just like all of us are Rebecca Chernoff, or some variable thereof

Q: Did not receive 'Nice Answer' badge

3

Not sure if this is a bug or I am just missing something but I did not receive a Nice Answer badge for the following question: Why does .NET add an additional slash to the already existent slashes in a path? It's been quite a while since the answer received the 10th up vote so is there somethin...

bug badges nice-answer

@YiJiang Apparently in Jon Skeet's case, he's too much for any one other person to become, so they have to limit themselves to their appendages instead.

5:47 PM

@YiJiang :)