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12:00 PM
lol
 
Oh he has been suspended today ? and is already complaining on meta?
 
@Mvy from chat. currently.
 
Yes
This was what I meant actually
 
he is also going to run for the next moderator elections judging by his comment
something I'd die for to see
 
@OctavianDamiean I'd love to see that.
 
12:05 PM
I sometimes wish I could set a bounty immediately.
 
I will forget till then
guess next run is not before 2012
 
@ÓlafurWaage for which question?
 
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Q: How can I in ant wait until a file is usable?

Ólafur WaageI'm trying to fix a build file where a part of it runs a bash script to generate a file. This file generation takes under a second and wasn't a problem until we moved to eclipse. The issue is that if I save any file in eclipse with a change and then run ant to build. I get a "class not found" er...

 
I've upboated it, if it helps
 
thanks
The issue is that questions disappear from the frontpage very very quickly.
 
12:23 PM
@ÓlafurWaage turn on the debug flag with fork=”no”
Then run the build, you might get the root cause of the problem
 
Nope, still says the same thing. Not seeing the root cause
 
I wish there would be a close reason like Please use a search engine or the API documentation
 
How about ant -diagnostics
I'm no expert btw :)
I probably worked once on eclipse + ant
 
Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold
it's a strange feeling.
 
1:14 PM
Huh, Wikmedia's servers is currently experiencing some sort of 'technical difficulty'
 
snicker
in android on Stack Overflow Chat, May 20 at 12:36, by ZiYA
@ManjotSingh jordar now its time of chicken
 
it's now time of chicken! you know...
 
oh yea right :p
honestly I've had enough of them and the whole discussion ... every time I see one of them or their room I'm close to vomit. Not only that they are disrespectful but also ignorant ...
 
1:26 PM
it's going to be interesting seeing the long-term fallout of this...but now I've also had enough and will be taking a "wait and see" attitude...unless they address me again.
also, I think -12 is the largest number of downvotes I've seen on a question, ever.
 
I think there was a reddited question the other day that was at -56 or something.
 
@TimStone Worse, but it was deleted after a while
 
Was it on meta ?
 
Ah, I imagined it was, heh. shakes head
No, it was on SO.
 
Current winner:
-49
Q: How to send 100.000 emails weekly ??

xRobotOn my blog, I have 100.000 subscribers and I want to send them an update email weekly. How can I do that with PHP ?

 
1:34 PM
wooo
 
-49, 64 favs, 43k views? eeek.
 
and you saw the acepted answer?
+358?
^^
 
1:39 PM
I was in that thread whoop
 
the reddit thread linked to that deleted question?
yay for google cache...webcache.googleusercontent.com/…
 
@tombull89 It wasn't deleted for a while after it was reddited
 
well the OP is kinda lucky
 
1 1 1 1?
or he got downvoted a lot?
 
1:47 PM
That question got the gold views page
Thanks to reddit
 
oh
 
2:26 PM
May 16 at 16:02, by Popular Demand
Oof. 1 rep, 1 gold badge, 1 silver badge, 1 bronze badge? There should be a special dishonorable mention for that.
 
XD
You've just earned the "WTF was I thinkinq" badge for your question xxxx
Damn my flag just turned invalid
user can't use correct vocabulary...
 
Ima be a fanboi and watch that MS press conference now.
 
I like it when I'm able to answer my own SO question.
 
LOL
the one on Ant?
 
Needs more turtleneck.
 
2:42 PM
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Q: Do I need to comply with the EU Cookie Directive?

rrI work on a service that has multiple EU clients. The service is hosted and maintained in the US. Before I even worry about compliance, I'm trying to figure out whether my service needs to comply at all. Is there an anything out there that explains the new EU cookie directive rules in plain Engl...

Interesting question; to reopen or not?
 
ya, needed to turn off the building of the workspace in eclipse, it was locking the generated files
 
Leaning towards the not side
 
@YiJiang Not on SO. It's not directly about programming. On Programmers, perhaps. But it's ultimately a law question that just happens to be tangentially IT-related.
 
@Reno I don't know who was it that flagged their message, but the one flag resulted in me coming across that room and the eventual suspension.
 
Anyone wanna tell me, please, which hard drive on this page is the best one:
 
2:48 PM
@Moshe hard drives are passe :P hides
:629511 :P
 
Seriously, I need to order one for someone I know.
Which drives there are worth looking at?
 
you want a bulky one?
 
I'm a big fan of segate. I've recently got one of the goflex 250GB portable ones, which comes with a USB > SATA cable which is so worth it.
 
My company is giving out free ice cream!
 
there are couple running at 7.2krpm, go for those
 
2:51 PM
Curse you, telecommuting setup!!!
 
@Sathya Not for me, but physical size doesn't matter too much. It needs to be inexpensive and be able to work for manual data backup and such. I'm planning on using it to get someone's photos from a bad windows install and then giving it to them.
@Sathya Which brand?
 
Thanks @Sathya the only message I've flagged is the one where someone wanted to kill me on the internet
 
BINGO
 
@Sathya Ok, thanks.
 
2:53 PM
I have no idea why they were picking on me though
 
@ÓlafurWaage Bingo?
@Reno Who?
 
the numbers
they were removed though
 
@Sathya, got anything that will help my company send ice cream over long distances?
 
@Reno ah that one was posted yesterday, IIRC.
 
@PopularDemand Apple does, but it's top-secret until someone leaves it in a bar, while trying to mix ice-cream with alcohol.
 
2:55 PM
 
@Sathya That just takes me to the company's demo video, not a Newegg listing. Please to fix link.
 
@PopularDemand that'll cost you an ice cream :P
 
Hmm, now I wonder if there're any good ice cream places around here I go for lunch. ...um, that is, I mean, after lunch. Because I am a responsible adult and all.
 
@Moshe some unruly users in the android chat room
 
@Reno - Ouch. Seems like one of those users was banned (several times?) before.
 
3:01 PM
Jepp many times.
 
@Reno hmm, I didn't know that.
 
Octavian was being targeted at first, then me and now they are trying to get balpha apparently
 
@Reno one thing I never managed to understand is why they thought you were a girl.
 
@Sathya - Actually, I just ordered something else from newegg and they've sent me a promo code for WD 2.5 hdd. Is it worth going for one of those?
 
I know right? :D
 
3:04 PM
@Moshe lemme check
 
I was ignoring them a lot. Girls ignore them IRL. Ergo I'm a girl ?
The only hypothesis I've got
 
@Reno I thought it was because you spoke english well...or so they gave the impression.
 
@Reno guess your avatar fooled them.
 
Well I tried speaking to them in hindi. Maybe you are right.
 
@Reno That would prolly cause me to threaten you too. :-)
 
3:08 PM
Nope they guy in the avatar is a guy o_O"
 
@Moshe I'm hesistant to recommend WD because of this:
 
@Sathya - Might I bug you about my question again?
 
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Q: How do I remove a MyBook's "WD SmartWare" virtual CD from my desktop?

Justin LoveI recently got a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive to enable Time Machine. It has it's software installed on a "virtual CD" called "WD SmartWare" which shows up on the desktop any time the drive is plugged in. Since I will use this virtual drive only very rarely, how can I hide it from...

@Moshe yeah, bear with me my connection is crapping out
@Reno o_0
 
@Sathya Sorry.
@Sathya Ok, I see that.
 
@Moshe The only reason I don't buy portable WD's is because of this crap/annoyware. 3.5" internal drives, no problem whatsoever.
 
3:11 PM
Just hit the NYT's new paywall. Its implementation is so weak that it's almost as if they want you to circumvent it...
3
 
if you still want a WD however , newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136469 @Moshe
 
@Sathya Hrm, the seagate is still cheaper after 10%.
 
@Moshe yeah, but Seagate is 500Gigs. This is 1TB
 
@Sathya Noted.
Actually, my promo code is for passport drives only, it seems.
 
3:25 PM
o/
 
\o
 
\o/
 
/o\
 
well, we've not had any for a while. don't know if they count from me, but:
Oy.
 
\o\
 
3:29 PM
o.O so it does work.
 
1st rule: do not talk about Oy
 
0
A: What's up with this room being gallery again?

Octavian DamieanIt is like that because of a certain reason. The reason is quality issues. People constantly jump in and ping everyone in the room with the ever same question. Most of the times they don't even post their question on SO. This issue has been discussed here on meta a few months ago with the result...

you have your answer @drachenstern ;)
 
we have that in here as well
 
@drachenstern What, quality issue? Nah, have you not seen how bad that room is sometimes?
 
@YiJiang specifically duplicated Qs repeatedly
 
3:32 PM
SEND ME TEH CODEZ
 
@drachenstern without being disrespectful no you don't.
you should really check the transcript, not only a few days back but several day
I would go as far as saying that this chat room used to be the worst chat room around
 
@OctavianDamiean I've been looking at the transcript. Besides the obvious non-community aspect, which was resolved, what else?
 
@drachenstern Not entirely sure if banning the offending users would be considered as 'solving' the problem
 
@YiJiang ok, true, it's been bandaided
 
@drachenstern lets list a few, private programming support, constant pinging of everyone in the room with absolute low quality questions, driving away of questions from SO to the chat where they just don't belong to
oh and of course usage of foreign language
this room is going to stay in gallery mode for a while because I'm trying to create an environment where people can discuss Android topics without being bombarded with questions all the time, I've had users that were driven away because of just that behavior, they won't come back
especially with the latest events I'm not going to open it up again as it would result in a massive problem with those problem users
I plan to open it up in the future though
 
3:43 PM
I don't think this will work in the long term with this level of moderation - rooms should be self moderating, we can't have users moderating and locking down rooms with this level of control - it's an almighty waste of time for something which the community can do
 
I do agree but there had to be a cut, it was not possible to discuss anything in there
 
We can't expect volunteers to donate their time to moderate chatrooms when there are far more productive things to be done - like actually talking about stuff in the chatrooms
 
the moment I've joined the room people just started to ping me, sometimes even three at once and I am not the only user, everyone who just joined in
 
This developers life. Does anyone else "read" that podcast?
 
what podcast?
 
3:54 PM
This Developers Life
I can't tell if my iPhone is on crack and isn't downloading the full podcast or if the podcast really does just cut off like that
I seem to be missing whole segments of the show
 
4:10 PM
@drachenstern Your iPhone is likely on crack, but then again, I've had strange things happen with podcasts.
@Sathya Thanks, I already ordered the seagate, but I'm thinking of getting that for myself.
 
@Moshe ok, you're welcome!
 
4:31 PM
er, what's the tag for discussing the faq?
oh, site-faq
 
 
2 hours later…
6:11 PM
I swear based on the question and the answer picked (note the comment) this post was just a joke.
0
Q: String Formatting

klm9971Hello: I want to convert this string format: 11/2013 TO 201311 So, suppose my string is in this variable: string s = "11/2013"; What should be the code for this problem? Thanks!

 
When will people learn that "String Formatting," "problem with integers" and "error in java code" aren't good titles?
 
Apparently never, since that question isn't really about string formatting to begin with, but they went with that title anyway.
They'd probably just write "help" or "issue" if it'd let them.
 
Good programmers know how to communicate properly. Good programmers also tend to make decent amounts of money. Clearly, we should solve this problem with a paywall. Of course, for the really good contributors, the paywall might get aggravating, so we should reduce the fee for people who frequently post good answers. Why hasn't Jeff considered this before?
 
The perfect plan!
 
??
 
6:23 PM
@PopularDemand That might work. I'd also be in favor of monkeys flinging poo.
 
We should probably rename the site to Expertise Overflow to reflect the increase in quality.
Of course, that would lead to renaming the network, too.
 
@Hogan What an obviously great question, to be collecting so many excellent answers...
 
In other news, I just bought myself a Promoter badge.
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Q: Does Swing support Windows 7-style file choosers?

Lord TorgamusI just added a standard "Open file" dialog to a small desktop app I'm writing, based on the JFileChooser entry of the Swing Tutorial. It's generating a window that looks like this: but I would prefer to have a window that looks like this: In other words, I want my file chooser to have Windo...

A good answer, a good answer, my kingdom for a good answer!
King reserves the right to substitute another prize of equal or greater value. Current approximate value of kingdom: 50 Stack Overflow reputation.
 
^^
 
@PopularDemand I'm sure you can make that 75 with no effort.
 
6:31 PM
@badpssockpuppet Huh?
 
50 + 10 + 15
 
Ah, right. Fortunately, I'm covered: "equal or greater value."
 
@PopularDemand Your mistake was thinking that there's a good answer to Swing deficiencies. :P But yeah, the only way to get the native dialog is to go through JNI.
 
@TimStone Java, except Not: Impossible?
 
The reason being that native file selection dialogs vary too much between platforms, so the only way to provide a consistent API was to dumb things down, I imagine.
 
6:35 PM
@TimStone Never used JNI before, but I'm willing to try. Some more details would be nice (for you, if you like rep).
 
My C++ is a bit rusty to tell you how to invoke CFileDialog correctly, but I'm willing to take a stab at it later and write you an answer if you're set on trying that.
 
Fortunately, you want the Windows 7 file chooser. It's much, much nicer (API-wise) than previous Windows file choosers.
 
@TimStone If there's no other way, there's no other way.
Also, how is it that you almost always have an answer when I post an SO question here? You're like my own personal Jon Skeet! (@TimStone)
 
@Shog9 True, I like answering the dumb questions and I really like that my better answer was not picked.
Tho now that I think about it, I would mock such behavior in others....
hmm...
 
@PopularDemand I'm lucky like that, apparently. Plus, you usually ask Java questions so there's that too. ;)
 
6:39 PM
Come to think of it, "Stone" is what would come out if you took "Jon" and "Skeet" and mashed them together.
 
I'll see what I can whip up later if no one beats me to it, have to jump into two hours of meetings starting at 3:00 first though.
Hahah
Oh, Philadelphia...
 
@TimStone I've seen weird street markings in Philadelphia, but that is something else.
Hm, this is less crazy than I remember.
 
I like how the people use the middle of the road as a parking space.
 
I remember it at night, I suppose it's worse then.
 
Heh, everything in Philly is worse at night. :D
 
6:49 PM
Ha.
 
Oh look, Google Street View took a picture of my car.
 
@TimStone Lame, they blurred out your license plate number.
Uh, I mean, yaaay!
 
Yeah, I noticed that, hah.
 
@TimStone That house looks pretty british, with that tall, slim door and the similarly shaped windows.
That's a pity, if you ask me.
I like my windows well rounded.
 
meta is offline?
ok it came back
 
7:02 PM
not anymore
 
@badpssockpuppet Thick walls too, apparently, which was also a shame.
 
7:30 PM
@PopularDemand sadly I'm my friend's personal google. Apparently I'm faster than they would be trying to look things up on G
@TimStone so now we know where you used to live eh?
 
nods
 
> despite fears of tl;dr syndrome, I am offering . . .
 
7:57 PM
> I am new to the world of coding as well as CSS and have noticed that when I resize my browser, all my float elements move to say the right and the user is forced to scroll horizontally to view say the menu.
I have found that the thing does what it says on the tin it shall do, and this frustrates me
OMG ... /me shakes head
-5
Q: way to increase reps (best)

PRASHANT Phello, i am frequent in use of poor MOBILE for access of the stack overflow with limit width and slow answer question fast is never possible answer question with formated english is never possible what is way to increase reps ? WITH NO answer in short speed i ask here because on META que...

 
My eyes are still bleeding
 
8:14 PM
I snagged my /chacha open id!!!
 
@TylerChacha I'm sure people were tripping over themselves to get that one
 
@MichaelMrozek Says the person that just followed me on Twitter
 
@TylerChacha Er...no?
 
@MichaelMrozek I remember seeing your name on my list of recent followers
ayway..
 
@TylerChacha You may have been confused because I raced with inhuman speed to get @MMrozek as my Twitter username, and I recently started following you.
 
8:24 PM
that reminds me, I couldn't login to my twitter yesterday (or somesuch), pissed me off.
 
@PopularDemand I assume he's talking about "Michael P. Mokrysz", which is definitely my name
 
@MichaelMrozek Heh.
 
ok, got it. Somebody remember my new password
it's *******
 
@drachenstern hunter3 really isn't that much better.
 
what an interesting site idea ... not sure if it's really useful but ...
Just posted a question in @forrst http://bit.ly/iysazc
no duh:
Speculators charged with manipulating crude oil prices http://on.cnn.com/mdK35h
 
8:31 PM
> They come with advanced Forrst.me features like stats and custom domains, unlimited attachments, a monthly balance of Acorns, and a badge for your profile
Wait a minute. SO has never given me a monthly balance of acorns
 
@MichaelMrozek I thought you would like that ;)
we should demand our acorns on meta!
 
Oh question deleted by owner
:S
 
What's up all?
 
All fine
And you @TylerChacha
 
@Mvy Good
 
8:49 PM
ello :)
 
olle :)
 
-9
Q: Why Do We Need to Close Questions?

Guido AnselmiSomething is rotten in the state of StackOverflow... Possible Duplicate: Why do people (i.e. pro-Microsoft developers) have the right to close subjective and argumentative questions? I understand why questions are closed, for not conforming to the FAQ etc. etc. My question is why do ...

lul
 
you forgot : [closed]
:P
Hopefully it's for duplicates not for overly broad :P
 
yea for a dupe :)
 
reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hj2fv/… <-- haha (also: note that this is REDDIT I am linking)
 
9:01 PM
oh lol
 
omg, I don't have enough freetime in the world for reddit.com/r/volleyballgirls but I'm in love ;)
 
10:10 PM
anyone here?
 
nope :D
 
10:26 PM
no
 
10:38 PM
^^ I scored a +9
Strange the the super ex-envelop menu tells me 200 rep earned today but not the reputation summary
 
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