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12:04 AM
@GeorgeMarian I am not getting consistent results though...
The maps are loading, but they are putting the player in the bottom left corner and leaving him there.
 
12:15 AM
Odd... I think it has to do with keeping Xcode and my tilemap editor open at the same time.
 
 
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1:26 AM
arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/… <-- I've been here!!! Squee!!!
And if this were my regular computer I could show pictures of me in that labspace
I'm a little perturbed they didn't show the primary data collection computers but instead showed a compute lab
 
@drachenstern Cool.
 
2:23 AM
Apparently the Coffee Bean Wifi will log me out for 10 minutes after 2 hours for a coffee break...
I might just take them up on that offer if I'm here for 2 more hours
 
 
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6:17 AM
hello o/
 
 
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8:42 AM
6
Q: Merge [.net-generics] into [generics]?

abatishchevIs .net-generics really required? Should it be merged into more general generics, with appropriate synonym added?

any moderator here?
 
9:08 AM
@abatishchev: why Mr.Will is protecting Questions
 
@SankarGanesh sorry?
could you please give some links
 
@abatishchev yes, sure, today i saw my question has been protected by Will, stackoverflow.com/questions/3770822/…, I was confused why protected this Question
 
hm
strange
better to ask hisself
himself
 
ok cool
 
10:01 AM
poor pointy haired boss has reached enlightenment
 
@badpssockpuppet: lol
 
10:29 AM
Morning
 
@ÓlafurWaage Morining, Mate
 
I'm not your mate buddy!
:P
 
@ÓlafurWaage cool
 
Hehe, what is up?
 
@ÓlafurWaage Nothing, Me fixing the issue in My project and what about you
@ÓlafurWaage what you do for living other than Programming?
 
10:38 AM
Other than programming? Not much. I eat food :P
 
@ÓlafurWaage I breath air too, for a living
 
Nice, you must be a real pro :P
 
@ÓlafurWaage Actually, no - I have asthma, so my body occasionally tries to kill itself
 
But you're still alive, so that's a good track record.
 
hmm, lol
 
10:42 AM
Man I quit editing questions on SO, always when I'm done, someone else has edited it (and poorly)
 
@ÓlafurWaage oh, very sad to hear
 
I was sad as well.
 
@GeorgeMarian You can enhance the number of people who are shown lolcats when they attempt to access stuff they shouldn't!
Security by lolcats.
 
10:57 AM
@ÓlafurWaage can you give me that question, url
 
With the edit?
It's lost in the heap somewhere, I have no pointer to it.
 
@ÓlafurWaage ok coll, No problem , Buddy
 
I'm not your buddy, guy! :P
Are you from India?
 
hello :)
 
Hi :)
 
11:14 AM
@ÓlafurWaage yes, I m from india
@OctavianDamiean hello
 
@ÓlafurWaage I see what you did there, mate buddy guy sir Mr Doktor Herr.
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(Did I miss a few steps perhaps? Maybe 'dude' or 'man'.)
 
@Sankar have you seen the show South Park
 
@ÓlafurWaage: Sorry i haven't saw that, can you give a little brief about that
 
Ahh ok, I kinda realized you probably haven't seen that. That's the reference I keep doing. 1 sec
 
Thanks! ,This is mY Blog, sankarganesh-info-exchange.blogspot.com, Are you in twitter or facebook
 
11:21 AM
ya twitter, @olafurw
 
i m following you , my account is @sankarganesh87
 
followed
 
ok, Man, a Nice video that's ,:)
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12:21 PM
So, what language are you guys currently using?
 
a mix of Python and English
 
Do you think this BitCoin thing will work ?
 
1:01 PM
2
Q: How to use Office 2010's co-authoring tools?

Yi JiangOffice 2010 is suppose to feature some interesting collaboration tools that supposedly allows for real-time co-authoring of documents similar to what Google Docs offers. However, when me and my friend tried to make it work over SkyDrive we only got a dialog similar to this: These are the step...

Thrown in 100 bounty; anybody interested?
@Reno Not sure, I can neither understand the economics nor the technical side of the thingadongdong
 
friend of mine could use one more up boat for a badge: stackoverflow.com/questions/6066200/…
@Reno Not really... I don't see how it could. It will work for some people, but can't imagine it ever becoming much.
 
@YiJiang Oh, you should hit me with an HTML tag for forgetting to look into that, sorry. :/
 
1:18 PM
badge'd
 
@ÓlafurWaage Thanks :)
 
np :)
 
@Pekka Hm, if Will's request gets denied/ignored, do you think that'd be something that would be good to add to that comment question-link conversion userscript?
 
@TimStone absolutely! I thought the same thing when I read the request.
 
I'll keep that in mind :)
 
1:26 PM
I think this should be core functionality. But it's well possible it gets ignored, like so many other good things.
So having it as a userscript would be great.
 
Aye, I'll hold off until we see what the response is, since userscripitization has a habit of killing features in their tracks :P
 
@TimStone true, good point! :)
 
2:02 PM
BAH
take 5 minutes to write a personal answer for someone who was lost in learning to program
submit, and it is closed as subjective.
#&#$&%#
 
initial burst was over 60mbps though
 
2:19 PM
Yay consistency!
 
not bad
 
Speed-wise, it's almost on the dot for what I pay for, so no complaints.
 
The only reason I'm getting such good speed is because I'm basically at RHNet (the ISP they are testing at)
 
yeah
 
@TimStone Your packet loss graph caps at 100%? I thought a more reasonable value would have been 1%
 
2:32 PM
Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with that.
Oh wow, it recorded it at 18.42% one hour yesterday O_o
 
This question was first asked in November 2009 and was just edited bumping it back to the front page. It's already got an answer so isn't there something in place to stop it being pushed to the front page? And how far back should we go for edits? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28867/…
 
@tombull89 It was edited because another post was just closed as a duplicate of it. The front page is supposed to show questions that have activity; editing a question counts as activity
 
@MichaelMrozek ok, I see.
 
If you're not comfortable with that, then you can use the new question queue as your main queue instead
 
3:04 PM
Has anybody not seen this yet? I think it's going viral youtube.com/watch?v=pnVAE91E7kM
 
Think it's going viral? It has 6million views in 4 days. I think it is already viral :P
And yea, it's pretty cool
 
that was my point :p
 
3:33 PM
@drachenstern As far as movie trailers go, it kinda dragged.
 
@mootinator the end was kind of weak as well
 
@drachenstern Yes, me. I don't use YouTube, blah blah blah, </brokenRecord>
 
You don't need the whole action sequence in the trailer.
 
@PopularDemand well tbh, I hadn't seen it before today ... only because I'm on a roll with not getting stuff done.
 
@mootinator But then people have to set aside time and money to see the entire film in a theater!
 
3:34 PM
Altho, I've answered coworker questions and researched tickets this morning, so that counts for something, right?
@mootinator and yet they do nowadays don't they?
 
@drachenstern InDEED.
Heh.
re: That Oatmeal comic about moving. That pretty much describes my last move, except I paid the two people who did show up with a $80 steak dinner instead of a $3.99 beer.
 
@drachenstern I'm willing to give you points for that.
 
@TimStone so long as I'm ahead by the end of lunch, in some way
@mootinator so when are you moving again? ;)
 
@drachenstern Hopefully not anytime soon
 
@mootinator There once was a time where I could make a joke about your 80CAD steak dinner being the same value as the 3.99USD beer...oh how the mighty have fallen. Also, now you've made me hungry.
 
3:41 PM
lol
 
@mootinator Do you need help moving any time soon?
(I'm/we're going to keep peppering you with this question until the answer is "yes.")
 
Hmm, no but I do need to build a fence.
 
@mootinator ... what's that worth, a gourmet burger and fries?
 
That's worth at least an all you can eat Asian buffet.
 
If it's some sort of sushi buffet, I'm all in.
 
@mootinator Call me when you have something that qualifies for western European or North American food.
 
@PopularDemand I'll let you know when the house needs painting.
 
I thought if we painted and did the porch we got a car ... that's how it worked for this kid
 
@mootinator Thanks!
 
@mootinator Brilliant!
 
3:52 PM
@drachenstern Hah!
 
@mootinator: and @drachenstern: hah!!!
 
@SankarGanesh Aha!!!
 
@mootinator hehehe, seeing you after a long time, hope u do well,:)
 
Exploding watermelons in China
 
@SankarGanesh Yes. I have to go point out something obvious to a coworker now, sec.
Huzzah.
 
4:01 PM
Coworker shame achieved?
 
Yep.
 
4:14 PM
@mootinator you'll enjoy the comments here (I think) but don't forget my productivity warnings as of late
 
@mootinator ok cool
 
4:34 PM
@drachenstern O_o.
supposes he should implement a form which doesn't trust users so much now.
 
You trust your users? Is it an intranet only app?
 
@drachenstern Yes, some of them.
 
@mootinator for intranet only I would be more lax. But for internet facing I trust no one
on the internet, everyone wants to kill you dead.
 
@drachenstern This is just a role based "this manager can set bill rates" vs "override any bill rates coming from this user with the value from the internal price list."
 
@mootinator so intranet. That's fine.
 
4:43 PM
Something I won't be doing is getting a pay rate from a person entering a time ticket ;P
I'm smart like that.
Of course this means I have to make up some role names now, and they still haven't given me any idea of who will have access to what.
 
I need to transition my roles to a DB based system. That hasn't happened yet.
 
5:19 PM
It's irritating me that I can't just dive in and code like a maniac :P
 
5:46 PM
Yeah, I've been having that issue for three days now
 
@drachenstern facepalm Ahahaha
 
I know right?
> A customer asked me to make him a very short Cat5 cable.
 
I'm impressed you managed that
 
6:02 PM
@MichaelMrozek not I'
it was a reddit post and an imgur
hence the "caption" underneath as near as I could manage, I figured it was easier than linking to reddit
 
Oh. Respect retracted
 
however, this needs everyone to read and then goto reddit and read the first few comments. I felt the same as the initial posters
if that didn't make your eyes mist, this should i.imgur.com/Sb0Bl.jpg so .. yeah
I think I need to go home for lunch and love on my dog.
 
6:27 PM
pets his kitten
 
6:59 PM
wtf?
This company has a job offer on careers.stackoverflow.com
 
Everyone needs good programmers these days :P
 
Somehow, to me, a medical marihuana site with skyscraper ads featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg seems... less than believable
"Quote unquote medical"
Plus they promise "other office perks" (wink wink)
 
Hahahah
 
7:25 PM
@badpssockpuppet "I is in ur firewal, blockin thingz?"
 
7:47 PM
@GeorgeMarian I wish I had an lolcat guarding my servers. Would you mess with a cat that was pointing a gun at you, saying random shit? I think not.
 
LOL Good point.
 
8:20 PM
Hello
 
@TylerChacha Indeed
 
8:32 PM
Hola folks!
More RAM ftw!
My computer is zipping right along now.
 
Next upgrade, SSD
Then you're gonna have no excuses for non-productivity, for at least 8 months on average
 
@drachenstern Hehe, interesting. What do those cost?
 
Argh.
Contractor just lost a hand in the hall outside my office.
 
more than a mac should be worth
@mootinator seriously?
W
T
F
 
KernelPanic oh no.
 
8:36 PM
He was screaming for a good 5 minutes there :/
 
Where the aich eee double hockey stick apparatus do you work?
I would have been too. I don't even want to consider the potential of losing my hand.
I'm like a little bitch when I have an issue with the quick under my fingernail
 
2-3 offices down the hall are being converted into one.
Putting walls in, taking walls out, rewiring, new flooring, all that fun stuff.
 
Losing hands was part of the contract was it?
Did the contract also involve rams, milk, a newborn, garlic, hemlock and the light of the full moon?
 
How do I reboot my MacBook now?
 
@drachenstern Wait, are contracts not supposed to include those things?
 
8:43 PM
I mean, that was only a few days ago ....
 
@Moshe Just send it back to the apple store and they'll send you a new one
 
@MichaelMrozek well we've already had someone lose a hand over this contract, so ... ya know ... they could've already met their quota ...
 
@drachenstern Normally it's an arm and a leg, he got a deal.
 
HELLO
 
@TylerChacha INDEED
 
8:47 PM
...
 
27 mins ago, by Tyler Chacha
Hello
26 mins ago, by drachenstern
@TylerChacha Indeed
 
I'm a friendly person..
 
I know
 
I'm currently under the impression that Vietnam commanders made war decisions by putting all their options, even the horrible ones, up on a wall, blindfolding themselves, and throwing darts
 
in the "Vietnamese war" that the US fought in the 70's-ish?
 
8:50 PM
yeah
 
I figured they were gonna see how long they could play hide-n-go-seek with the US napalm bombers
 
tries to get his focus back.
 
@mootinator fail
 
@TylerChacha says screw it and goes home early? Yay, long weekend.
 
@mootinator in that regards: one of my IT guys just stuck his head in the door and asked where the rest of my team is
I'm like ... it's 3:45, they should all be here.
 
8:55 PM
@mootinator TGIF
 
no. No they aren't. I'm the only one.
 
lol
Oh, I always forget, Memorial day is next week.
 
Is that on Monday in about 10 days? Yes. Yes it is.
 
Victoria Day (Canada) is on Monday. Memorial Day is the following week.
 
I'm curious if we get a day off for MemD
 
8:57 PM
It's always vaguely confusing to have gas prices shoot up for no apparent reason the week after the May long weekend up here.
 
@Shog9 oooooo noooooo!!!
 
Hey! @PopularDemand! What's the deal awarding me a bounty?
 
@mootinator yeah, tell me about it
 
9:10 PM
@Shog9 You haven't enough rep on MSO.
 
@PopularDemand You and your "keeping things up-to-date" and "performing useful community maintenance", pssh.
 
@PopularDemand You lie! I know for a fact I had at least 125 points, and that's all anyone needs on MSO.
 
@TimStone It's a wonder Shog hasn't banned me yet. Maybe if I give him some more bounties.
 
@Shog9 well, he wanted to make sure you had twice that additional rep
 
@Shog9 Well, I would have made you an SU mod if I could have, but... oh wait, I don't need to say that anymore.
 
9:15 PM
@PopularDemand Yeah, keep it up... I knew from the start this whole "allow random users to post bounties on questions that've already been answered" thing would lead to nothing but trouble.
 
@PopularDemand +1
 
@drachenstern He should have made it 500 - Then I'd have had enough to down-vote all his answers.
 
@Shog9 ha!
 
Good thing questions are free.
 
@Shog9 Hold on, let me find a question you have a reasonable answer on.
 
9:20 PM
we do get off for MemDay
I was trying and trying to find it on the intranet
then I remembered I have a deadtree version behind me on my bookshelf
such a silly place to find information, in a deadtree binder
 
@drachenstern Ah, that explains why Pops has time for such an impossible task.
 
woot
 
@Shog9 that's still 10 days away tho
 
Yay!, My books have arrived
 
@TylerChacha Yatta!
 
9:21 PM
just in time for my weekend reading
 
What did you get?
 
Godel, Escher and Bach, The Art of War, and Drive
 
and I get to go home in 30 minutes
 
somebody gave me that book this week
 
9:23 PM
how is it?
 
so far pretty good
I had had another book I had needed to finish, so I finished that one
 
Is there some answer people would like to see a 500-point bounty on?
 
oh wow, that's tricksy
 
@PopularDemand One I've answered
 
@PopularDemand I'll assume you're not looking for "Any of my answers" as a response.
Damn.
 
9:24 PM
@TimStone Beat you to it
 
You did, you did.
 
Keep in mind that I'm asking for MSO, not SO or some other actually useful site.
 
Ok, thank G-d working again... I reseated it.
 
@PopularDemand MSO reps are useful too
 
@drachenstern Reps? ... Useful? .... .... .... ?
 
9:25 PM
Go add a bounty to something that's from 2009, for kicks.
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hahahahaah
I for one encourage the +1 of that
 
Ooh, there are lots of those. as well.
 
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A: Creating a developer test app

MosheI would agree that the text editor should be able to replace variable names with generic names etc, for the sake of protecting code, but this request is a bit much for a request of the SO team.

 
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A: Really Long Comment Wait Time?

Jeff AtwoodTwo modifications: Message changed to be more clear Only 1 comment allowed per {n} seconds; timer reset. Multiple comment rate limiter reduced from 30 seconds to 15 seconds. And like the 15 character requirement, yes, the intent is to discourage rampant adding of multiple low-value comme...

 
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Q: Revision count incorrect on CW question.

MachaOn this SO question, What does typedef do in C++, the number of revisions shown on the page is double the actual number of revisions. It was asked (as community wiki) 14 minutes ago at the time of this post. Then it was edited by cherouvim changing the text and title a minute later. At this poin...

I'm pretty sure that's OBE, in fact.
 
9:30 PM
@PopularDemand obe? already been implemented?
 
@drachenstern Either "obviated by events" or "obsolete because of events." My boss said it the other day and I'm trying to use it so I don't forget it.
Now that you can't CW your own posts, that question may no longer matter.
 
Ah, thanks
I'm gonna have to remember that ... obviated by events
 
My only regret is that nothing is compelling @Shog to answer that question.
 
@PopularDemand You still have a week.
 
This is so you don't forget:
144,532,693 views
397,937 likes, 2,850,501 dislikes
Available in HD 1080
and it doesn't OB ... what did I do wrong?
 
9:38 PM
I enjoyed the conspiracy theory video of that abomination that I posted the other day much more. :P
You essed your http.
 
@TimStone youtube essed my http
I wanted it to OB so people wouldn't accidentally it.
@TimStone what's that?
 
I already did before you started with the stats. I hate you now.
yesterday, by Tim Stone
 
@TimStone I was TRYING
 
I guess I can let it pass this time.
 
@TimStone lmao
hilarious as well
 
9:44 PM
It's Friday, what am I doing not playing games?
@drachenstern Hahah
 
@TimStone ha!
 
@TimStone Work? It'd better be work, because otherwise it's throwing away precious moments of your life in The Tavern, which is inexcusable.
 
ok everyone, I'm gonna go home and pretend to do work there. Not that I'm getting anything done anyways.
 
Work it is, then.
 
@drachenstern Man, I can't wait to get home. I have some truly terrible code there that needs to be refactored, and I won't feel comfortable 'til it's done.
 
9:51 PM
@PopularDemand I feel like you're mocking me ... and yet, I'm going to go home and write code for myself ...
 
@drachenstern Not at all, I really want to go fix it. I was kind of on a roll last night but I had to go to bed or else I wouldn't have made it into work today.
 
@PopularDemand I've got some stuff you can work on after that.
 
@TimStone Hm... like what?
 
@PopularDemand oh, ok
 
Now you're going to make me think, I see your game.
 
9:53 PM
@TimStone If it's interesting enough, either inherently or because of offers of appropriate foodstuffs, I won't say no.
 
In that case, feel free to finish writing the job posting you'd want to see if I was going to hire you.
 
> Wanted: One expensive, slovenly, experienced internet surfer to waste time on reddit and stackoverflow all day, at my expense. I provide lunch, a furnished pest-free, utilities included apartment in a prime market area, with cable internet and cable television as well as a generous salary.
@TimStone like that?
 
Might need to refine that a little bit, but I like your direction. I don't think my budget does though. ;)
 
hahaha, I bet
 
Hmm, maybe I can just hire @PopularDemand directly and pay him in foodstuffs.
 
9:59 PM
> Wanted: One software developer willing to work for free. Only requirements are that the project be interesting and that food and drink are occasionally provided. Hours are whenever the developer feels like it (I get what I pay for).
 
@drachenstern Cable Internet? Where's mah OC3?
 
With the money you save, you may want to hire an additional tester.</fairWarning>
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@mootinator they're providing a furnished pest-free utilities-included apartment in a prime market area. You think OC3 is available there? I think not!
 
@PopularDemand I have a knack for identifying bugs, so we're covered.
 
@TimStone Awesome.
I initially thought you were referring to a personal and/or open source project. Now I don't know if you were just kidding, or what.
 
10:01 PM
Ah, no, I actually need to finish up a job description so that I can hire a new person.
 
Oh. Boo-urns.
 
Hahahah
 
shakes head Oh boy.
 
10:06 PM
 
lol
    /* TODO: Replace this with something having to do with roles */
    var trustBillRates = false;
    if (!trustBillRates) { ...
 
@mootinator ouch
 
PROBLEM SOLVED
No no, I did that :P And yes, it is bad.
 
@mootinator var trustBillRatesRelatedToRoles = false; if (!trustBillRatesRelatedToRoles) { =
 
shopped?
 
10:08 PM
lol
 
@TimStone brace is a variable now?
 
@badpssockpuppet the other code left off at a brace
 
@badpssockpuppet This is extreme programming. Damn right it is.
 
@TimStone That's rad.
Especially the language grammar must kick ass.
oh man.
 
10:11 PM
var trustBillRatesRelatedToRoles = false; if (!trustBillRatesRelatedToRoles) { Moms["your"].Done(); }
 
@badpssockpuppet 5,000,000 lines of Bison instructions.
 
10:43 PM
lol
 
So far so good.
 
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Q: I need an address matching algorithm

KyleI have looked around online for this but haven't found much really. Basically I need to compare a bunch of addresses to see if they match. The addresses could be written in all different ways. For Example : 1345 135th st NE, 1345 NE 135TH ST, etc. Plus they could be in different languages as well...

 

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