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12:46 AM

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I just tried setting up Eclipse on my Windows 7 install and it blew up horribly.

Anyone on call to provide support?

Eh..

1:18 AM

Well, eclipse extracts, but, it refuses to install the Android Developer Tools.

Did you install the SDK first?

@TimStone Yes, I did.

Should I try that again?

I dunno, why isn't it installing the ADT? It should tell you what the problem was.

Also, I installed Eclipse 3.7, the Java 7 JDK. Perhaps I should give 3.5 a go.

Well, it said something about a bunch of dependencies.

I think it couldn't find something.

Just not sure what, or where to point it, or I'd do so.

What are the dependencies?

1:27 AM

I don't recall at the moment.

I do remember a version 12.something, which was the latest version of one of the Android downloads.

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7:12 AM

Does anybody have a link to @YiJiang's election dashboard thingadongdong

@badπ se.awio.com/election.html

@TimStone Thanks

Aye. He was having some issues being able to update it the other day, not sure if he resolved them or not.

Hrm, downloading the page doesn't seem to get me a working copy of it.

Weird, I thought it was entirely client-side?

Oh. It is. Chrome saved the page keeping references to all the plugins I have running.

That's retarded.

Removing that fixed the page.

...mostly

Now to make it load page 2.

GET uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=iddqd&medal=gold 404 (Not Found)
GET uvshock.co.uk/badges/… 404 (Not Found)

er... er... er...

Morning, Yi.

It seems like one'd have to edit passthru.php to make the thing not load results from /election/1

oh well.

Back to begging @YiJiang to update the thing then!

Yi Jiang

8:01 AM

@bad Well, like I said I can't seem to ftp into it now

@YiJiang Oh, I guess I didn't receive that memo then.

No chances of getting it back up and running via Dropbox only?

Yi Jiang

The thing still works, you'll have to wait for the new election to start for it not to load information from the old one

I think

Okay.

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Yi Jiang

10:37 AM

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12:33 PM

Good Morning you Saints of the Overflow.

2 hours later…

2:39 PM

Congratulations @balpha! :)

thanks!

Sathya

congrats @balpha!

I'll join jjnguy in the confusion

What are we congratulating balpha for?

ohhh I see now.

Felicitations.

2:58 PM

Grazie

3:44 PM

That does answer the question I guess.

But Congrats @balpha

Congrats @balpha for whatever it is!! Way to go!! :D

Merci and thanks

Anonymous

What is "it", anyway? >>

Trying to figure out on its profile... but can't see for now

@SathyaBhat @balpha is getting MARRIED! around the same time as DevDays, no less.

Tweeted by AarthiD on August 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM in reply to SathyaBhat

3:49 PM

Ohhh!

Anonymous

Oh. I can see how that would warrant mass-congrats. Congrats!

wow! That's great :D

@balpha You don't get married AT the DevDays, do you?

Eat more Twisters

4:05 PM

@Mvy now you spoiled the surprise!

Does this mean that the Hackathon is really an opportunity for cake?

4:21 PM

Pekka quit changin ur names

@TimStone, if so, the Hackathon is a lie.

George Marian

lol

hmmm

I think @Moshe needs to eat more sushi.

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6:16 PM

I'm approaching 10k asymptotically

Every time I get close to it, a deletion punts me back.

6:27 PM

/me downvotes ;)

6:51 PM

Barackalypse now.. lol.. <3 Drudge..

Ahahaha curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2011/08/08/…

> Having Standard & Poor's downgrade the creditworthiness of the U.S., and warn the country about further downgrades, is a little like having the Catholic Church lecture Scout leaders on the proper behavior toward boys.

hah!!

7:26 PM

@badπ On meta or SO?

@Moshe Meta.

I'm nearing 10K on SO.

I just can't find questions I can answer on SO.

Python questions seem all about using weird 3rd party stuff

@badπ Yea, I know the feeling.

Walked into a local video game/repair place for the first time in many months.

Guy recognized me.

Looks like Joel's on G+, but not Jeff.

7:55 PM

Dell credit, you evil temptress... how dare you raise my credit limit!

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8:57 PM

damnit, I need help groupbrain

What do I call the type of code in C# where I can take the attached object as the first parameter.

void public static MyStringMethod(this string param1) ... Extensions?

Yes. That's it. Thank you groupbrain.

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10:20 PM

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mmyers

10:45 PM

My Optimus T arrived.

Is there a "vanilla" firmware that I can install?

11:11 PM

The one off the source repos should be what you want

You were aware that Android had an open hackable base, right?

@jcolebrand Yes, I am.

I'm looking to unlock this phone, currently locked to T-Mobile.

Any ideas?

On unlocking it?

Contact someone who does sim unlocks

@jcolebrand Suggestions?

What do those cost?

TMobile?

Why do they cost? :-)

11:13 PM

I have no clue

You are probably in a better place to find out the answer to "how much" where you are than I am here

Also the "why" when you found out the how much and the where

Why have you not hooked up with a local hackerspace?

I am quite certain there are 20 or 30 of those in that city.

ignore the long term connotations of blackhats as well

Don't know, good question.

Go find some hardware junkies man. Get out of the libraries and out of your bedroom

I need ice.