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1:52 AM
Wow, I'm close to getting the outspoken badge...
 
 
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3:27 AM
I demand more active meta users.
Oh wait, 10 different users. /me quietly retracts his star ;P
 
Heh, one of my servers was just swamped with brute force ssh access attempts.
Why it tried usernames like "riccardo" and "mexal" and "rodolfo", I do not know.
 
I was looking at my IIS access log.
It was full of attempts to find various things in the nonexistent wp-admin folder.
 
Good ol' WordPress. :P
 
I dunno about "good" q:
 
It should have just given up anyway, only crazy people run PHP+WordPress on IIS.
 
3:36 AM
Quick and dirty.
For instance
Okay, no for instance.
My example is an outlier.
 
> For some examples, google site:stackoverflow.com "good question" "see my answer". – Richard A 11m ago
Yeaaaaah, the results of that search do show a bit of a trend... shakes head
 
Quick and dirty wordpress site: saskatoonlionsband.org/wordpress/site
It's hard to burn your eyes more than the original.
 
I was going to say, hahah
 
One of my exes designed that site in a 'web design' class.
They occasionally send me a bunch of money for continuing to host it, so I occasionally try to convince them to get rid of it O_o.
 
Ah, I remember web design class in middle school, using FrontPage to make sites with tables and creating animated gifs
 
3:48 AM
....aaaaaand I feel old.
When I was in middle school 99% of my classmates had never heard of "the internet".
 
Heh. If it makes you feel better, that was nine years ago.
 
18 here :)
I had a friend once try to tell me wordpress/templating were going to make my job obsolete. O_o.
 
Hah
I know many designers who are even afraid of templating languages. Either you make it so easy it's useless, or you still need someone who knows what they're doing.
And now I think it's finally time to play more Deus Ex.
 
woohoo
 
I think if I didn't hate WP so much, I'd be a little impressed with how easy it is to develop cms stuff.
 
3:59 AM
The problem with the entire idea of a cms is that generally speaking, users shoot themselves in the foot with them.
"Here's a nice site."
User: "Needs more bold and emphasis and different fonts and colors! Ima just add that myself."
 
granted, my only experience with it is the dev days site
 
I like having 100 different people's ideas of how things should work meshed together in that backend.
>_<
 
I will lash out at the walls of your framework, test its limits, break it, and write it from scratch.
Happy to see the WP hate. :)
 
4:23 AM
I should be asleep. My first college class ever is in about nine hours. Just sent a client an alpha build of an app. Bedtime for me. Wish me luck!
@Fosco - Agreed on all three.
 
Good Luck Moshe :)
 
 
1 hour later…
Morning @Sathya
1. parent site changed to Superusers
2. Frozen
3. Mission completed
Congratulations
 
 
2 hours later…
7:21 AM
@TimStone you awake?
 
 
3 hours later…
10:32 AM
@PiedPiper didn't need to change the parent site
 
10:49 AM
@balpha Well, I am now.
 
too late, I already gave the million dollars to someone else
 
Aw! ;)
 
Jin
i made a funny error page image for Drupal
 
+1
 
Jin
@balpha oh i'm about to upload the theme files to dev
 
10:52 AM
alright
 
yawns And now that I'm awake, it's time for coffee..
 
11:28 AM
Genius, @Jin. Genius.
 
Jin
@Moshe ty
 
11:54 AM
@Sathya Why you didn't frozen room immediately, If we are doing something wrong?
 
12:11 PM
@PiedPiper checking.
 
12:44 PM
howdy @Sathya
 
En route 45 min.
 
hey @Kev
 
how is your day fairing?
 
@KevΩ no work today!
(well sorta)
Been in training all day.
Just got out, heading home.
 
@Sathya oh cool. what's the course?
 
12:49 PM
@KevΩ Insurance Foundation
back in later!
 
I have a question. I've created a couple of tag synonyms in some less-frequented tags. Since the tags have lower traffic, I don't anticipate the synonyms will ever be voted on. Is it acceptable for me to just go and re-tag the offending questions? Or is that frowned upon?
 
1:11 PM
@RobHruska - you ask a mod to approve the synonyms
 
@Kev - Is there any way to formally draw attention to it? Or would bringing it up in chat be an appropriate avenue to get that approval?
 
@RobHruska which site?
 
@RobHruska which tags/synonyms...i'll have a look
 
@Kev - It's a couple synonyms for - stackoverflow.com/tags/gorm/synonyms
@Kev - Thanks for looking
FWIW, I'd like to draw attention to this:
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Q: Allow 10k users to *suggest* tag synonyms on new and developing tags

John GietzenWhy can't 10k+ users suggest tag synonyms in tags that have very few questions? Tags that don't have tons of questions yet (because they are new) are pretty difficult to manage, because nobody has enough rep to propose synonyms. This is a problem, because the early days of tag development are c...

 
1:17 PM
@RobHruska - is gorm how the grails-orm community really refer to it? would it not be better having grails-orm as the master tag and gorm as the synonym....i've done some rails myself but gorm never jumped out before
though i do see gorm has the highest number of questions
 
GORM is how it's referred to in the documentation and most everywhere else I've seen. grails.org/doc/latest/guide/…
 
@RobHruska - good enough for me
 
Cool, thanks
 
@RobHruska approved
@RobHruska may take a minute or two for the caching to catch up
 
RIght on
 
1:23 PM
Seven minutes to class.
 
@Moshe anything good?
 
@Kev well, we shall see. My first college class ever so...
 
dub
Hello,
There is a question on stackoverflow in which I eventually solved the asker's problem. However, there was a lot of talk between the asker and me and it now looks more like a discussion than a clear question/answer.

I'm pretty sure some useful information can be salvaged from the page but I don't know where to begin. What should I do ? Flag it ?

Here's the question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7093409
 
hey are there any rules on display names being made of english characters...?
 
@Neal provided it isn't offensive you can use whatever
 
1:30 PM
@Kev but its hard to respond to an OP when his name is キューゾ リファイ
i have to copy/paste that...
and there is no reply button...
 
@dub if you think the question and answer don't lose anything valuable then the comments can be deleted
@Neal I guess that's the OP's lookout if he wants to make it hard for people to interact with him
 
@KevΩ ....
 
@Neal you could ask him nicely to change to ASCII explaining why his display name is problematic
 
1:45 PM
@KevΩ :-\
thats too complicated...
 
@Neal gimme link to a post and I'll pop in a comment
 
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A: javascript setInterval in array

NealDo Not use eval. Try this: var tmp = new Array(); var v = new Array(); for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { var j = 0; tmp[i] = setInterval(function () { if (j < 10 + (i * 5)) { alert(i + ' ' + j); j++; } else { clearInterval(tmp[i]) ...

the OP
 
@Neal you don't need to @ the op on his question comments, he'll get pinged without an @
 
@KevΩ but not in his comments on my answer.
 
Personally, I think it's kind of offensive to tell someone "You should consider changing your name, because people are too lazy to copy and paste" :P
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Although this situation did remind me of an update I wanted to make to a userscript. makes note
 
1:51 PM
@TimStone - well...we are an english language site and if the OP wants to get help then it does make life easier
 
@TimStone well it is a confusing name... there should really be a reply to comment button
 
shrugs If people can't be bothered to reply because of such a trivial inconvenience, then I guess that's the OP's loss.
@Neal That's , but balpha does have a userscript for it.
 
@TimStone it's not a trivial inconvience if you're on a phone or pad device...marking text is a pain
 
@TimStone dont get why it was declined
 
I'm sure someone else will fill the void of questions that go unanswered because people on mobile devices weren't able to easily respond, heh.
 
1:56 PM
@TimStone Yeah... that or they can reply without naming the person. It's not the end of the world if they don't get pinged, if it's important they'll be checking it.
 
Aye, also true
 
@Neal if you want, pop a nice friendly comment under his question and, I don't see any harm....or...you could ask a meta question an find out if the community thinks it's rude, or not.
 
@KevΩ :-\ idk
 
@Neal It was deemed unnecessary, I think (I disagree, but it was related to the reasoning behind reducing @username: in general)
 
@TimStone thats silly....
 
 
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2:59 PM
@jcole - \0/ first class is over.
 
@Moshe I'm glad .. what class? Tell me when you've gotten through with a semester on set logic
 
People, Power, Politics.
 
3:18 PM
@mmyers You get bonus points for having a default gravatar and having "generics" as one of your top tags.
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3:36 PM
Where can I get books for cheap online?
I've bought a bunch of computer books over th past several years, and those new ones are a lot cheaper than the used ones for my courses. Sheesh.
(but of course, you must've been expecting the above rant at some point or another)
 
@Moshe half.com
@Moshe and a few others
 
 
4 hours later…
7:23 PM
The only thing I like this time of year: My paycheque being $500 larger.
 
7:38 PM
I'm liking the cooler weather, though I don't look forward to the end of summer.
 
@mootinator ?
 
CPP and EI contribution limits.
I expected that to be a non-sequitur to most people, but said it anyway, being a jerk.
 
8:31 PM
Oy, permanently down to two people in my office as of the 9th.
 
8:49 PM
ugh.... will this ever be seen? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/103888/…
 
Feh
I wouldn't worry about bumping a page of old questions (personally).
Wait.. That's an answer.
;P
 
@mootinator ....
it really should be done tho..
 
So why not do it then?
 
@mootinator bc i dont want to bump all the Q's, it has to be done by a mod..
 
Okay, but you're talking about 58 posts. Judging from various posts on meta 30 or so is okay, but 200 is not.
If the mods aren't biting and you consider it sufficiently important, I would suggest doing it anyway.
 
9:03 PM
@mootinator eh. i just flagged the mods
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Q: Hmmmmm what happened to my about me?

NealI just looked at my profile page on SO here: http://stackoverflow.com/users/561731/neal I noticed that my usual about me is there: I AM HERE G+: https://plus.google.com/114132678747122742656/posts Baseball anyone? http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/K3wCM/embedded/result/ Ok great. Bu...

hmmmm
 

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