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8:22 PM
I WIN THE INTERNETS!
 
Anyone here know unix?
I was trying to swap the filenames of two files, so I named the first one temp.
And then weird things started happening.
 
I blame Apple.
 
It was on a remote unix server.
 
Apple. I blame them.
 
@Moshe wadya do?
 
8:28 PM
Writing unix.se question
 
@Moshe I assure you it should be an apple.se question.
 
@Moshe I want to help. what did u do?
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Writing a question.
 
Anyone here ever use BrainLeg?
 
@Moshe Oy.... I want to help u...
@PopularDemand I sometime use my Brain to control my Leg. Why?
:-P
 
8:34 PM
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Q: Is "temp" a reserved system name?

MosheI was doing HW on a remote server, and I realized that I had my header and cpp files swapped. So, I wanted to change the names. I began by renaming my header file 'temp'. Then, weird things started happening. First, header file, named "temp", disappeared. The old header, named someFile.cpp, beca...

 
@Moshe Why were u naming things temp? what were u trying?
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Q: Who killed Eliza?

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM AIn a previous post I let the SE world know of Eliza: I just stumbled upon Eliza (then tripped and fell) But where did she go? I see that the room was silently frozen by a mod a month ago. Who killed Eliza? What has befallen her?

 
oh, another byte went through the tubes?
 
@balpha Why was my original question not killed off then?
 
NOT THE TUBES! THE PRECIOUS TUBES!!
 
I see no reason for that to be closed.
 
8:46 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Do you see any reason why you can't just... ask balpha, considering he's pretty much always here?
Remember what I said the other day about keeping the noise down on MSO?
 
@Shog9 Do you see any reason why I should? it is a legit MSO question. no noise whatsoever intended.
See my other posts in my profile.
 
No, an Eliza-bot running in a meta chatroom isn't a core function or even really an auxiliary feature of SE.
 
Why was I allowed to ask this: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/114271/155556 3 months ago? it is along the same vain. I want to know where the chatbot went...
 
the answer to that question was "it's somebody's spare time project"
seriously, stop making noise
 
8:49 PM
I have asked you several times before
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Fair enough... closed
 
If I was making noise people would be voting me Down
and if they do I will delete the post
 
Are you new to MSO?
 
@Shog9 No. again. See my profile.
 
8:50 PM
That was rhetorical ;-P
 
See my 1st post from waaaaaaaaaay back in April:
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Q: Should others downvote my posts for "grammatical" reasons?

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM ASomeone decided to start downvoting my answers due to them being too bulletin boardlike (not good grammar and capitalization) Is there a way to report those users? And if so, what can i do about it? edit Here is one example

I have learned from then.
 
I could post waffle recipes all day long and still end up with positive scores. MSO is... funny that way.
 
raises brow
 
y'know what gets down-voted? Legit support questions from folks who don't know enough to read the docs.
 
@Shog9 Thats why i was upset when meta.stackoverflow.com/q/89138/155556 got -21
 
8:51 PM
@Shog9 Yeah, that bothers me greatly. :/
 
Meh. It doesn't bother me greatly. We're generally good about pointing them to the docs first.
 
Love the new blog.
 
@animuson it is good
 
It's true for most cases, but people tend to pile on the down votes over simple misunderstandings by the OP.
I just don't see the point, really.
 
Or from mods.... :-\
 
8:54 PM
Does that mean they'll be removing those tags and questions?
 
Blogs don't onebox?
lame
 
yea. thats on even more sites then they reported
 
8:56 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Anyway, @aman... What I'm trying to get across to you here is that it's trivial to post something that won't get slammed on MSO - just don't sound dumb. So congrats on figuring that out - now you need to learn how to make the most of what you post: there's this whole chat system for fun and games, and usually it can all just stay here - including discussion about chat.
 
@animuson it's broken at the moment
 
@animuson See the bug report.
 
If you have something you need the larger community to weigh in on, or a technical issue that needs to be documented, or a serious feature request... Then take it to Meta.
 
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Q: Stack Exchange / Overflow blog messages don't onebox

slhckThere was a new blog post on the Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow blog today, but the Blog bot's message didn't onebox anymore: In fact, blog.stackoverflow.com links don't seem to onebox at all, whereas others do (e.g. from the Super User community blog).

@Shog9 I do. And ive tried going to chat for other ones, but when I try, noone is here.
...
 
I think @TimStone did that intentionally so he'd have something to do...
 
@animuson I have no meddling powers to utilise for that. :P
 
But really, one of the big advantages of this chat system over, say, IRC is that it doesn't have to be totally real-time. You can... leave a message.
 
@Shog9 not really fast responses over there...
 
You can also find out if what you're posting is a duplicate before you post it...
 
8:59 PM
meta one usually gets a pretty fast picture.
 
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA What do you need a fast response on?
 
@Shog9 What if Eliza is hurt or missing? We can't wait around all day
 
@MichaelMrozek ^_^
 
@MichaelMrozek She was askin' for it...
 
Why do you think she was askin' for it... ?
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9:03 PM
SHE LIVES! I always knew there was something familiar about that Mrozek...
 
Proper oy.
 
I mean...er...How does that make you feel?
 
lol
Here come the downvotes.
 
9:05 PM
I think the dog is annoyed at me for leaving her outside all day.
 
@mootinator How does that make you feel?
 
Negative. Very negative. NO.
 
You are being a bit negative.
 
It's because my despecialized editions of the Star Wars trilogy are taking 5 weeks to download.
 
Does that suggest anything else which belongs to you?
 
9:08 PM
wonders if 11 questions on MSO in 2.5 days is some kind of record.
 
No, it doesn't belong to me. I'm blatantly ripping them off.
 
Is that the real reason?
 
Anonymous
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Q: Coming soon: meta.stackoverflow and meta.stackexchange

Jeff AtwoodHistorically this site, meta.stackoverflow, has been the place to ask questions about not just Stack Overflow, but the functioning of the entire Stack Exchange (2.0) network, including Area 51 and stackexchange.com. (Yes, there was a meta.stackexchange, but that dealt with the old legacy Stack E...

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> Your meta reps will generally be unaffected
Whew, I can rest easy now.
 
rrrg so close!
 
Anonymous
9:11 PM
Exciting!
 
@JeremyBanks YES!
 
Tell me more about that.
 
Yowza.
 
@TimStone "... except insofar as we delete for spring cleaning, or move site-specific things to meta.so"
 
@TimStone That means at most 75% of it will go away as questions are migrated to meta.so
 
9:13 PM
So it'll be unaffected, except for the massive loss when they kill all the SO-specific posts
 
Drat.
 
I don't typically answer SO-specific posts, or non-serious posts, so. :P
 
Hmm. Most of my rep is from non-serious posts.
It's been nice knowing you all.
I probably won't be able to access chat soon.
 
It's OK, I'll bounty you ;)
But more realistically, I imagine with that change this chat will move to the network-wide domain anyway. @balpha?
...Oh no, that means we'll have those horrifically red notification highlights. :o
 
And it will be swarming with diamonds. Eeeeek!
I can't get nearly as much star-trolling done with @jcolebrand running around de-starring everything.
 
9:22 PM
@mootinator What's worse is that he can abuse his message-editing powers there since he's a DBA mod. Where is the justice?!
 
I'm just going to have to console myself by banging my head on a desk.
That might have more to do with the "code I wrote in a rush 2 years ago" I have to maintain.
 
9:40 PM
One more reopen vote ^_^
 
delete now... delete later. delete now... delete later...
 
@Shog9 Oy... if the community reopens it you will just delete it?
What does that say for all mods?
:-P
 
;-P
 
I hope it reopens; I'm itching to cast a "too localized" vote
 
@MichaelMrozek Oy :-P so mean to me.
 
9:44 PM
> I've just cast my very first vote to reopen on a stack exchange site! – Andrew Barber 14m ago
Look what you've done, you've stolen his innocence!
 
So far today I've downvoted @aman on two completely unrelated sites. Can you post something on Reddit so I can get the trifecta?
 
@mmyers whats the other site? ycomb?
@mmyers I am not on reddit :-P
 
Yes, somebody posted a request for reopening a Meta question, which is miles off topic for HN.
 
digg? slashdot? boingboing?
 
9:47 PM
@mmyers lol oy
@mootinator no, no, and no.
 
4chan?
I'm running out of ideas here.
Twitter and Facebook need to implement downvoting.
 
nope
@mootinator i have fb
and google+
and twitter which i dont rly use
 
1000 people have -1d this user on Google Plus.
 
@mootinator :-P
U mean Google Minus :-P
 
@mootinator Then Facebook support could get all the "people should be forced to comment when they downvote" complaints, right?
 
If you don't have something nice to vote, don't vote it at all.
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I HAVE RETURNED
 
@TheUnhandledException WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
 
9:56 PM
@TheUnhandledException @jadarnel27, you have to leave now, our regular Josh is back.
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They told me in rehab that if I wanted to break my MSO addiction I couldn't come back to chat, EVER
 
@PopularDemand /ragequit
 
@jadarnel27 Well, I was gonna thank you for filling in, but now, forget it.
 
@jadarnel27 always nice to meet a fellow Josh
 
Ok, just kidding.
 
9:58 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA in reality they've been keeping me locked in the secret back room. @MichaelMrozek just let me out
 
@TheUnhandledException I was a bit confused when I first started coming in here. People kept talking about "Josh"
 
Accidentally, to be clear
 
@TheUnhandledException O RLY?
 
Which caused me to give away (unintentionally) what the "j" stands for in my username
 
@jadarnel27 Once upon a time this guy named "Josh" used to be the most active chatter on MSO...
 
10:00 PM
@PopularDemand Vanity star'ddd!
 
@jadarnel27 Bet you can't guess what the 'N' stands for in mine. :-P
 
(in kind of a self-deprecating way, ironically)
 
@MichaelMrozek What were you even doing on the third floor?
 
I was searching for rchern. She used to hang out in here, if you recall
 
I do not recall this. I think you're lying.
 
10:08 PM
^ All she does now is go idle on Skype
Which apparently is the only purpose of Skype Home, since it never tells me anything else. >_>
 
Well I came in here to discuss my views on the MSO -> MSE change, but, I need to go to a Meetup so, all I ended up doing was coming in here and making useless noise.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
Also, hi there Beckers ;-)
 
@RebeccaChernoff The little house trolls me, because I always think that something relevant has happened when it turns orange. But it's always LIES!
 
@TheUnhandledException That's anticlimactic, then. How can you not bring us gifts, or at least a story about the epic adventures you've had while you were away?
 
10:13 PM
@PopularDemand I was locked in the back room. It was cold and dark. @TimStone brought me water and food when he remembered to. There was no place to buy anyone gifts. Sorry!
 
But he found a diamond along his epic journey. Now he needs someone to throw it into the fires for him.
 
This is true
 
Holy carp, it has returned!
I'm a little behind.
Stupid extra day.
 
10:32 PM
If we didn't have an extra day, my deadline would be one day sooner. I'm willing to give it a pass.
 
It's stealing 9% of my raise for the year on account of existing. Assuming I can still do math.
 
@mootinator oy. that is true.
crap
stupid leap day...
Shoulda been on a weekend
then I would technically have to be paid for more hours.
 
lol
 
although...
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Q: Create comment-spawned chatrooms for the question, not for the users

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM AWhen you have too many comments on a question and/or answer the exchange comes up with some text asking if you want to move the discussion over to chat. When you do do that it creates a chat room for you and the other commentor. Would it not be better that in that situation it would create a ro...

Anyone?
^_^
 
you have upvotes on meta?
 
10:40 PM
@mootinator Haha I do. and alot of them :-P
 
And who is this @Neal person everyone keeps making comments toward on that post
 
@mootinator haha
Oy... u had to downvote now ddnt u?....
 
Wasn't me...
I blame Apple.
 
Fine, I'll prove it wasn't me.
THAT was me.
 
10:46 PM
@mootinator what was me?
Oy....
 
XD
Except I actually do agree.
Blargh.
 
@mootinator Blargh indeedly ^_^
 
11:10 PM
sneaks over to the corner and puts on Justin Bieber music
 
11:25 PM
Lol why not just set that banner to randomly choose some message related to the reputation recalc every page load? xP
 
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