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Tim Stone

8:01 PM

@RebeccaChernoff Err, unsummons

jcolebrand

That really wouldn't help would it @oKtosiTe

ok, why do you show up four times in the tab completer?

On a hard refresh it's now two

balpha

for (var i in users) { if (users[i].name === "oKtosiTe") console.log(i) }
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165932
165934
165935

that's why

jcolebrand

Yes, but why is it doing that?

also, I like to use k for key there :p

balpha

it's "id"

jcolebrand

well I tend to use it on on arrays that don't have a proper key value :p

Tim Stone

8:07 PM

He had some account issues earlier, so presumably because of that.

jcolebrand

oh, he spawned a bunch of new users somehow?

That would explain it

balpha

yeah, they have since been merged

but they left traces in chat, that's why they appear

jcolebrand

Yah

When will that server refresh occur? in an hour?

Rebecca Chernoff

whenever we convince the hamsters to get to work |:

Tim Stone

Unfortunately they've formed a strong union.

jcolebrand

8:11 PM

I should eat lunch

that would show them

Tim Stone

I had Chik-fil-A. Delicious.

jcolebrand

Oh, I should've gone and gotten that

I considered it

however, I'm committed at this point to PB&J and soup

considering opening the jar of nutella in the kitchen and trying it ... been kinda wussing out on trying it

Tim Stone

It's a wonderful cocoa-hazelnut spread. What's not to love? (Actually I don't really eat it, but)

jcolebrand

Yeah ... um, fear of the unknown? I'm quite a fan of trepidation

oKtosiTe

@jcolebrand meta.stackoverflow.com/users/165932/oktosite got merged with my current account. I hope.

jcolebrand

8:17 PM

Yeah, I had issues when I started doing self propgation of a new OID

oKtosiTe

Nope, still here. meta.stackoverflow.com/users/165935/oktosite

Meh, I really want to use SE OpenID, but it won't let me.

jcolebrand

I am using it just fine

took me one mistry to get it right

@balpha go here:

Ask Different Chat

Tim Stone

@jcolebrand Eh, I think your answer was right.

(I don't think that the comment really pointed out anything that invalidated it)

jcolebrand

I think Petrotta had a better point tho

it was a question of why on the views

the views should be consistent

Tim Stone

They're different views though.

jcolebrand

8:31 PM

As an edit that makes more sense

Ergo, I edited it in

Tim Stone

Yeah, I'm confused by that, but alright. :P

jcolebrand

it wasn't an answer was it?

Tim Stone

It was, that's just how those two completely separate views work.

jcolebrand

Now why did Kia blow away my changes?

but why do they do that?

Tim Stone

shrugs That's how all of the tabs in the search results work, except for active.

Shog9

8:38 PM

@jcolebrand Don't just ask, rollback or merge - he didn't leave a revision comment, so changes are fair game.

Tim Stone

I've actually always wanted a search view that combined asked date and relevance, but I don't know how that would work in a non-configurable way.

jcolebrand

@Shog9 I don't want to start an edit war while I'm eating

Shog9

@jcolebrand Well, finish eating first then

Chances are, it was a mistake

jcolebrand

I'm sure it was

Tim Stone

I'm not sure that his edit made much sense copied directly from his answer. :P

jcolebrand

8:39 PM

also, I'm lazy to make the edits, I'm attempting to fix myself food

ok fine, I'll go undelete my answer

Shog9

If you're wrong, ok, he'll explain his edit while rolling back your changes... If you're right, you get edits.

Tim Stone

You still haven't eaten?

Shog9

Oh, well... food is more important.

jcolebrand

I was cleaning the dishes so I could get to the counter and ...

at least I have my laptop in the kitchen

Granted, that's not saying much. It's 25' from where I normally sit

damnit, where did ben go?

Also, not only having the laptop in the kitchen but also my iPhone hooked up to the little speaker set I keep in the kitchen playing metal ... nice

should I ask this on cooking?

I have an unopened jar of maraschino cherries (I know it's unopened because the vacuum seal is still depressed) with a "Best by" date of 10/03/09. Are they safe to eat or should I pitch them as-is?

They've been refrigerated for the past two years

Ok, that's it. Nutella is too rich for me. It might be good on ice cream.

Shog9

@jcolebrand I don't think maraschino cherries go bad.

jcolebrand

8:48 PM

I don't think so either

Shog9

Granted, I don't like them fresh... But they're pretty well pickled, so unless you're leaving them open on the counter for days or something...

@jcolebrand Try it on pumpernickel.

jcolebrand

Yeah, no. Still unopened. I probably will consume them at the rate I have been to date

@Shog9 perhaps.

Shog9

If you have some cranberries, those are good too

jcolebrand

I'm drinking cran juice right now, does that count? ;)

Shog9

man... if you had sour cherries, a sour cherry and nutella sammich would be excellent

next time, buy sour cherries and leave the pickled ones sitting on the shelf.

jcolebrand

8:51 PM

lol, ok

Tim Stone

@JeffAtwood Are you seriously going to mark this question status-completed just because you misunderstood the feature request?

Unless Stack Exchange search is about to get super powerful, but I'm going to assume not.

jcolebrand

Which Q?

Tim Stone

It's linked.

Shog9

That question has a very misleading title

jcolebrand

damnit, that's subtle

That sounds like a place for a user submitted app using the API

Tim Stone

9:05 PM

Yeah, it's kind of in line with a deferred request to have a global search that works similar to the per-site searches.

jcolebrand

I could go for making an app tho that takes a UID and parses the associated users list, then trawls all the sites and presents a list ordereable by date, votes, sitename

we are looking for an app for nodeknockout in August, that sounds like as good a two day app as any

Tim Stone

That'd be nifty

jcolebrand

Yeah, so I think I'm going to get @Raynos to do that in August

Gives us time to sketch some layouts, decide how far down the rabbit hole we want to go

We're already self-named after the SO chat room we're in (SO642)

Rebecca Chernoff

meh, doing it that way is painful. so many http requests

jcolebrand

Are you going to create a new stackexchange.com/MyUnansweredQuestions route then?

Shog9

9:12 PM

Ugh.

jcolebrand

I thought the idea was "where the company won't, the community will"?

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Well, less requests than locking someone in a dark room and having them do the lookup manually I suppose.

Hm, the OP of this question is likely digging himself a hole with that comment. :/ I have no idea why someone down-voted in the first place, but I have a feeling the comment provoked the second down-vote, heh.

jcolebrand

So I was just herping on the derpbook, and my brother-in-laws little brother was tagged in his friends album, and like all 12-14 year olds, they are definitely ... yeah. So anyways, there's two boys wearing an Elmo shirt and a Grover shirt and the one with the Elmo shirt has a 'stache, and the other one doesn't. ... Elmo and a 'stache.

Tim Stone

lmao

jcolebrand

I think that could be a new meme for something

Elmo and a stache.

Tim Stone

9:22 PM

I am terribly afraid to find out what that could possibly be a meme for.

Rebecca Chernoff

when I started looking at a general "I know this got posted I just don't remember where" solution, it was...depending on what you want, you have to pull questions, and pull answers, and pull comments, and pull replies. there's 60 sites, and perhaps you want metas too. you could be issuing 480 requests, and that's assuming you're not doing any paging on any of those requests

jcolebrand

Well, there's 4k

@RebeccaChernoff I would do it the smarter way than that

I would pull the users's associated list first

Most of us are not Ivo

Most users have like 6 accounts

Rebecca Chernoff

sure

jcolebrand

So that's like 12 requests

and it was only for unanswered questions

so no answers, no comments, no replies

Rebecca Chernoff

the case I was looking at was mostly just searching metas for posts from the team...but that info could be in questions/answers/comments/even replies

jcolebrand

9:24 PM

I was thinking of replicating the default list box style for the Qs and provide links out to the sites where they belong

Ok, I see. Well yours is definitely a more advanced use case than mine

Tim Stone

Yeah, I resort to my memory being more practical than the API in that case, heh.

Rebecca Chernoff

and limiting by associated users eliminated...nothing (;

jcolebrand

@RebeccaChernoff for whom? For you? Of course! For me? About ten sites! for Tim? like 40 sites!

Tim Stone

> @Nathan Now that you mention it, this may have something to do with the fact that I'm using the Dvorak keyboard layout (which maps 'k' to the Qwerty 'v'. Yup, that's exactly what it is). – Chris 3m ago

:O!

jcolebrand

For great justice? @Shog9!

Tim Stone

9:26 PM

blames dvorak

jcolebrand

@TimStone blasphemer!

Never blame dvorak! What did it ever do to you?

Tim Stone

@jcolebrand Just because I didn't listen to you about joining DBA

Rebecca Chernoff

lol what?

jcolebrand

@TimStone seee!!! This is what I'm talking about! L! A! Z! Y!

Rebecca Chernoff

I still use ctrl+c and ctrl+v for shortcuts.

jcolebrand

9:27 PM

@RebeccaChernoff huh who? These are not the droids you are looking for

Rebecca Chernoff

ie, I hit the key labeled "i" to copy

jcolebrand

That's just sillyness

HI All

Hallo

greetings

9:37 PM

Indeed

Tim Stone

'Ello

Shog9

Who's pinging me? And what's all this nonsense

jcolebrand

No'ody

Which is obviously short for noodly

which means it's FSM business

Shog9

@jco: why not just find associated sites with > 0 posts (scrape SE user page), run site-search on those (with ninja ops), and aggregate results (using magic)

jcolebrand

@Shog9 because it would seem to me, that using the SE API would involve less work than scraping

and using node would let me do magic

Shog9

9:44 PM

@jcolebrand You sound nuts

jcolebrand

And doing it for nodeknockout gives me a raison d'être for the competition, and prevents me from having to create a db backend

user157982

He only sounds nuts?

jcolebrand

@nil have you seen my face? I look relatively pleasant!

AND! I have a body.

Shog9

@jcolebrand Vote for this: stackapps.com/questions/2332/… ...and you should have all the data you need in the API

jcolebrand

It's not much of one, sure

user157982

9:46 PM

Oh sure, that's what they all say.

Shog9

Some have less

jcolebrand

but it's mine, and it's the one I have

@Shog9 I know. I feel bad for your body, that it had to put up with your head for so long

@Shog9 yeah ... that's what I was talking about doing

Shog9

Or, you know, just scrape it and be done. It's only one page.

Tim Stone

Meh, the /users/<id>/questions/unaccepted route is pretty simple.

jcolebrand

@TimStone presenting it for all the sites takes a tad of effort, don't you think?

Tim Stone

9:55 PM

It takes a few steps, but all the pieces are there in the form that you need them, so not bad.

jcolebrand

I know, right

jcolebrand

10:10 PM

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Q: Is it better to ask one complex question or a bunch of tiny questions?

I don't want to annoy people. I also don't want others to do my work for me, but my programming skills are completely self taught, as are my math skills, so there are some missing pieces in my knowledge. So if I ask one question, then when it is answered, ask the next question, is that consider...

VtC: Dupe

Shog9

> Who downvoted you? That was uncalled for. Offset.

kicks @jco

jcolebrand

huh who what?

Yes, well, I didn't think he deserved all that

Tim Stone

Sympathy up-vote?!?

jcolebrand

He did have a point, just not on this particular situation

I preferred his score to remain at null

@TimStone aye, what can I say, I'm a big ole softy

Shog9

I am straining, as hard as I can, to resist down-voting him purely because you up-voted him for having a down-vote.

jcolebrand

10:18 PM

lmao

edit instead and I'll remove

Tim Stone

Retaliatory down-vote?!?

Shog9

I consoled myself by deleting @jco's comment.

jcolebrand

I noticed

Tim Stone

I'll thumbs up that.

jcolebrand

for great justice:

i.imgur.com/gXrcN.gif and because that's annoying to watch on repeat, if you wanna see it click

Shog9

10:22 PM

@jcolebrand Done. Do your bit...

jcolebrand

done

Shog9

Heh... Now that edit has resulted in a better answer with a worse score. Brilliant!

jcolebrand

in other news, I passed 4k on meta today

ok, I'm gone now. I'm not sure when I'll return. I am sure, however, that nobody really cared to know that. Can't unknow it now tho ;)

Tim Stone

I know, I almost didn't want to up-vote you, but ;)

Michael Petrotta

My brain is superior, @jco. unknow

Tim Stone

10:39 PM

> @WTP: I don't need to know the details here. I just want to know Hans' impression about this feature-request. – xport 2m ago

That's kind of an odd response to what WTP said, huh

@jcolebrand Someone down-voted your bug report about the comment deletion rate-limit dialog bug? The hell?

They must have thought that was a really bad joke.

George Marian

Well, apparently the latest kernel update is the culprit. =/

Tim Stone

10:56 PM

Hm, I wonder what they changed that's causing you issues.

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