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1:35 AM

Pre-approved credit card offer mail carriers accept Discover. You can't live in a home without it

Moshe

3:33 AM

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At least someone is going in for Chinvember

mootinator

^_^

animuson

5:52 AM

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A: Improving a suggested edit that has been approved in the meantime leads to a dead end

Normally when you're editing and someone else makes an edit to the same post, you get a nice orange box saying the post was already edited, and it makes you refresh the post to see the updated version (if your edit isn't "more substantial"). When reviewing, often crappy, suggested edits and opti...

Shaquin Trifonoff

7:26 AM

Which room should I go to to request for old rooms to be deleted?

(my old rooms, of course)

ThiefMaster

8:05 AM

mod-flag it. or just paste the link to the room in here since i'm active anyway

Shaquin Trifonoff

8:31 AM

Thanks :)

These are the rooms:

chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/15438

chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/16847

chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/15432

ThiefMaster

done

Shaquin Trifonoff

Thanks :D

gnat

10:46 AM

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Q: What desert should I bring to my girlfriends family thanksgiving dinner?

I want to bring a dessert because dessert is usually the highest point in the whole course of eating. I would like to bring something that they most-likely wont already have, but something not too exotic that they wouldn't like. Also, it should be reasonably priced and a good quantity, but I'm wi...

holidays

"The sahara, or maybe the gobi. These are big enough to impress even the most Fokker like parents, but for exotic, I'd go for the antarctic desert." (from comments)

Martijn Pieters

11:04 AM

I am so staying away from meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/156198/… now.

Nightfirecat

11:23 AM

Yeah, that comment thread looks like a beast.

Martijn Pieters

Classic help vampire, not wading in there. All the more power to Bart for engaging him, no need to interfere with that.

Nightfirecat

In other news, I noticed my question regarding Jon Skeet's ridiculous number of badges has 5 times the number of views of any other new question on Meta right now.

feels accomplished

jadarnel27

1:36 PM

Feeling accomplished about achieving things on Meta is probably not a direction you want to take your life.

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=)

jadarnel27

2:10 PM

"Click 'like' if you believe in the separation of church and state. Keep scrolling if you're un-American."

o_0

Popular Demand

3:17 PM

Did Yannis semi-ragequit MSO after yesterday?

Martijn Pieters

What, you mean his black avatar?

Popular Demand

And name change, yeah.

Moshe

@random rolls eyes

Martijn Pieters

I was wondering what was going on with that; did he take the 'be nice' thread that personally?

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

3:31 PM

Hey all ^_^

anyone wanna use ebates?

Im trying to get $25

Popular Demand

Pops-Perturbing Pedantic Problem of the Day: the use of "How are you?" to mean "I'm only saying hello, and I do not actually care how you are. If you provide an answer to the greeting which I phrased as a question, I will think you're crazy."

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@PopularDemand ehhh that too

Tim Stone

@PopularDemand People say that to me when I'm passing by in the hall a lot, where clearly they aren't expecting a response, so I find that rather annoying as well.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

"Hey watsup?"...."good"

thats not even an answer haha

mootinator

Whattup Bra?

(Please don't talk to me brother, I'm busy walking down the hall.)

Popular Demand

3:37 PM

As for that question yesterday... I dunno what to say, the whole thing was a train wreck from the start, and then new people kept... driving new trains into the accident site? That metaphor could maybe use some work.

mootinator

It was like a train wreck.

Across a highway.

That happened to have a lot of black ice on it.

And really thick fog.

Also, some nearby volcanic ash caused a few jumbo jets to get involved.

Then the Titanic came along...

What's with Fogbugz not letting me track future time. >:(

Nightfirecat

3:57 PM

@jadarnel27 I'll take my victories where I can get them.

Popular Demand

6:15 PM

Harwell computer

The Harwell computer, later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH), or the Harwell Dekatron Computer, was an early British relay-based computer. From 2009 to 2012, it was restored at the National Museum of Computing, where it is described as "the oldest original functioning electronic stored program computer in the world". The museum hopes to use the computer's visual, dekatron-based memory to teach schoolchildren about computers. Construction and use at Harwell The computer was built and used at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harw...

Tim Stone

7:57 PM

Hmm, my discussion score has surpassed my data-explorer score. Unacceptable! Someone crack the whip until I get all those feature requests finished.

mootinator

crack crack

Tim Stone

:O

Andrew Barber

crack Owwww, my chin!!

mootinator

8:38 PM

Is it just me that would rather have code mean what it says than be short?

Popular Demand

Feb 28 '11 at 21:09, by Popular Demand

> We have a strict policy of no more than three characters for variable names (for performance reasons)

According to me, balpha said that, but I can't find the original anymore.

mootinator

Heh..

FWIW, I was puzzled this accepted answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/13385820/…

> Wow, that's a really simple kludge!

Wes

makes sense but not at first read

btw are questions normally merged if the answers are the same but the question isn't

mootinator

@Wes ?

Popular Demand

@Wes No. Merging is pretty rare, and is generally used only for exact duplicates -- like, down-to-the-letter duplicates -- or when one of the questions doesn't have answers yet.

Wes

8:49 PM

meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5412/possibly-bad-mergequestion was before the other question then merged into the other question whos title was edited to be more or less the same as my question but different content. When I asked about it on meta the question was further modified (at least it made sense afterwards)

Its not bothering me much but I feel it was wrong.

@mootinator Was talking first about your accepted answer question

mootinator

@Wes Ok.

Wes

@TimStone What If someone writes a feature request to crack a whip until you implement feature requests?

mootinator

Oooh, circular dependency.

Popular Demand

That would be meta, and has no place here.

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Wes

@PopularDemand huh

jadarnel27

8:59 PM

That was not my most level headed moment.

Wes

Am I missing something?

Popular Demand

Poor attempt at humor. Don't mind me.

mootinator

@jadarnel27 You shouldn't waste your daily votes downvoting moderators, there's no point.

Tim Stone

@PopularDemand reference (10k only)

Popular Demand

All hail Tim Stone!

Tim Stone

9:09 PM

I have the ~~power~~ data!

Popular Demand

To explain why Tim is awesome (and to maximize my own embarassment), I should point out for you under-10kers that balpha's comment was left under a question I asked and then self-deleted once flag weight changes made it obsolete.

We have a strict policy of no more than three characters for variable names (for performance reasons), so it's definitely not like in your example. — balpha Feb 28 '11 at 19:40

For further reference, here is my example to which balpha referred:

if(flagWeight > 500)
    flagWeightToUseForDisplayAndCalculationPurposes = 500;

Commander @Keen! You haven't aged a day!

mootinator

The real variable names: ucn and wfl.

Tim Stone

They stand for "unusually clear name" and "well-formed label", clearly.

Popular Demand

Not "Used-for-Calculation Number" and "Weight (FLag)"?

Tim Stone

If the variable name isn't an acronym for a statement indicating the correctness of having chose said name, then people might doubt that you put enough thought into picking your identifiers.

mootinator

9:19 PM

@PopularDemand I think you win this round.

23 mins ago, by Popular Demand

That would be meta, and has no place here.

Tim Stone

Well played.

jadarnel27

My inappropriate comment defending Popular Demand's honor was deleted.

Same-time brothers gotta stand by each other, though.

Popular Demand

What? Then it's like it never happened! Appreciation for your actions RETRACTED

jadarnel27

Darn it! That appreciation was the only thing getting me through the rest of this day…

Tim Stone

9:35 PM

I'm willing to appreciate your doing the rest of my work, if you want to give that a go.

jadarnel27

Nice!

Alright, I'm on it. You can go ahead and head home, Tim.

mootinator

:O I need a same time brother.

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 Already there, which makes it even better!

jadarnel27

@mootinator Wrong room ;-)

Popular Demand

@TimStone I forsee that this is going to go so well that you'll be getting a phone call telling you you never have to go to the office again.

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mootinator

9:40 PM

Jeff fixed the tag I whined about. Bounties do work.

Tim Stone

There are days when I look forward to that call. I mean uh...something positive!

jadarnel27

Extended vacation \o/

mootinator

45% pay cut, 100% work cut (not available in all jurisdictions) \o/

Tim Stone

Any vacation! \o/

Popular Demand

Even vacation of a conviction of someone who stole your car due to a procedural technicality?

Tim Stone

9:47 PM

I uh...wha?

Popular Demand

vacation, n: an act or instance of vacating

vacate, v: to render inoperative; deprive of validity; void; annul: to vacate a legal judgment.

Tim Stone

Oh, there we go, my brain was finally able to parse the sentence correctly.

Not...sure what my issue was there. Carry on.

animuson

10:06 PM

@TimStone: I so submitted my close vote at like the exact same time as you. I saw you answered it too and I like flew back to the question thinking "Tim Stone is gonna vote to close I must beat him!!!!"

I failed :(

Tim Stone

>:D

It actually took me a few seconds to remember I had answered such a question.

But I did and was able to user:me the search. :P

animuson

That's how I found it.

user:me comment links

Tim Stone

Aw, he deleted it. Now how will we farm necro-reps?

[comments] link user:me, hah

animuson

Mine uses fewer characters :P

Tim Stone

I was handicapping myself for the love of the sport, naturally.

animuson

10:10 PM

thinks Shog should check the log to see what the timestamps are for our two close votes

Just out of curiosity ::)

mootinator

thinks Shog's time would be better spent sharpening a pointy stick.

Tim Stone

If only we could see votes on deleted posts in the votes tab.

Shog9

@animuson Tim beat you by 2 seconds.

animuson

This is how I felt when I submitted my close vote and saw the comment by Tim Stone pop up: i.stack.imgur.com/Ve6aN.jpg

mootinator

@Shog9 Whew. I was just worried they were going to be the same and we'd have to hear about them being same-time close-vote brothers.

Tim Stone

10:16 PM

FGITW answers are for suckers, I've got voting reflexes like an expert marksman.

Shog9

@mootinator Impossible. ani isn't even a Tim!

animuson

It's true, I never changed my name to Tim Animuson when that was the "thing."

mootinator

I'll accept that non sequitur as an actual answer.

Tim Stone

I think I have the fastest accept on the network, even. Most people would be ashamed, but I'm too cool for that (or something).

@animuson Did you change into rchern when everyone was a Rebecca?

animuson

I don't remember that one. I think that was before I was on chat or something.

Tim Stone

10:19 PM

Oh, possibly. n00b.

animuson

Oh, I thought everyone should know, I bought Justin Bieber wrapping paper for the holidays. ^_^

@jadarnel27 I do like One Direction. :P

mootinator

@animuson So if we do Meta Secret Santa this year it won't be very secret who you gave to then.

Shog9

@mootinator Why would his gift to Bieber affect the secrecy of his gift to anyone else?

animuson

I was planning on wrapping all my gifts with it, since my parents are not only making me go buy all the stuff I want on Black Friday because they don't want to do it, but also wrap the stuff myself.

Shog9

Also... Wrapping paper is a crappy gift. Just sayin', @ani

mootinator

10:29 PM

chuckle

animuson

I bought my dad some Mitt Romney toilet paper. waits for chat to crash

mootinator

4 hours later...

NEVER AGAIN @animuson!

Shog9

@animuson I'd worry more about the toilet paper failing at a crucial moment. Best not shake hands with your dad for a while.