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3:15 AM

@PopularDemand :o

4:18 AM

@PopularDemand Already stumped it :)

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A: Formatting Sandbox

Use jQuery

4:29 AM

Be amused at what's going on here.

Anonymous

:P

Anonymous

4:42 AM

@TimManishEarth Those castles take irritatingly long to build.

@TimSiteisaForum No they don't :)

I have treeks up my sleeve

Anonymous

Ah-ha.

namely document.body.contentEditable=true

then just realign them

with spaces and whatnot

Anonymous

hmm

Anonymous

That is a good idea.

4:44 AM

and finally, use Chrome inspector and copy the source (I have to strip <p>s sometimes)

Anonymous

oh well, almost done now. :P

@TimSiteisaForum Oh, you're making one?

where where?

Anonymous

@TimManishEarth I'll link it, I'll be done in a minute.

Anonymous

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A: Formatting Sandbox

lhello--and--welcome lto-banks-sand-castle l ...

Y'all saw that exchange in the C room?

4:51 AM

@TimSiteisaForum Aah :)

@Moshe Yep

I'm doing HW and quoting spolsky. They know C, but not Joel.

Hah.

Gigili

Any computer scientist here?

@Gigili Amateur programmer here

@Gigili You're in the wrong room

Computer Science

General discussion for cs.stackexchange.com

Gigili

Thanks.

Theoretical Computer Science

Theory Cafe

^^rather devoid of activity

Gigili

5:00 AM

Seems more like a ghost room than anything ...

Thank you anyway.

They got a fancy exclamation point icon. :o

Also that

Anonymous

Haha

(deleting in a moment)

How many of you feel that the first vote on a borderline good-bad question determines all the rest of the votes?

Anonymous

It feels like it usually does.

Anonymous

5:07 AM

Depends on the community, some vary in bandwagonishness. (Or at least it feels like that. It's hard to tell how much is imagined; I've never tracked it.)

5:47 AM

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Proofreading

Proposed Q&A site for just as there is a code review site where expert programmers are asked about concrete programming snippets, there could be a proofreading site where expert writers are asked about writing snippets and forms (poems, metaphors, analogies, tech writing)

Currently in definition.

Does this guy realize that Code Review has been in beta for 477 days? o.o

13 years is the valid age for create account on stackoverflow site?

@Tim Good night.

@Dharmendra Yep. COPPA

Actually dunno about 13. >13, yes

Hmm ok

prawcha, Nonthaburi, Thailand

49 4

I seen one of user has 13 yrs age

@TimManishEarth: It's 13+. Everything in their guidelines says for children under the age of thirteen.

5:50 AM

@animuson Alright.. I know that COPPA and the rest of the legislation is 13+ inclusive, didn't know about SO

Their website is excessively plain and boring.

Then what about 13 yrs?

@Dharmendra Yes, its fine

Are you talking about yourself?

No no. I am 24 yrs old. :)

Alright

5:52 AM

I was about to say I'm 20 then I remembered that I'm 21. :(

Since there are lots of people who use false ages to bypass online restrictions, just though I'd ask. If you were under 13, SO would be in trouble

not much, though (dunno the finer points of coppa)

Q: How do I use Stack Exchange if I'm under 13 years old?

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I was just reading the Terms of Service, and noticed something: Subscriber certifies to Stack Overflow that if Subscriber is an individual (i.e., not a corporate entity), Subscriber is at least 13 years of age. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to or on...

discussion faq-proposed legal terms-of-service age

Its possible to use stack exchange if user is a child

@Dharmendra Use, yes. You can still post, I think. But you can't hold an account

ANd of course, nothing stops you from reading it

Benjol

@Shog9 I believe it's SmartFilter. Appears to be working again now, but I don't know if that's because SmartFilter updated their database, or the sysadmin here introduced an exception (I never got an answer back from the helpdesk).

Yes of-course

Benjol

5:56 AM

@Shog9, FWIW, it looks like web sockets are blocked too, but I imagine that's a protocol thing.

Shog9

@Benjol Smart Filter jibes with this report:

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A: WYSIWYG editor missing

So this was a false positive by McAfee (that filtered down to workplace proxies and filters), we pinged them with the relevant info and got it removed from their malicious list. Here's that email response: Hello Mr. Craver, Thank you for bringing this error to our attention. The ...

What exactly is this proposal even proposing?

You ask people to help you write lyrics?

I think...

Benjol

@Shog9, good stuff. Now I've got to find out where the websockets are blocking...

6:36 AM

Two gold badges in one day! w0000t!

(and I'm getting Fanatic on Phy.SE if I log in tomorrow ^.^)

Wooo I got both my Reversal badges on meta on the same day. Total surprise.

@animuson I had two more posts lined up for reversal (+19 and +17 i think), but they both got their questions deleted as not-constructive :O

Have a Good Answer badge :P

?

Ah

Thanks :)

I remember when I got my first gold (Unsung Hero on Physics).. The little yellow dot kept catching my eye and making the site feel wierd :P

@animuson Your package has been recieved ;-)

(Faster than I thought--some badges take forever.. Guess the query isn't too expensive)

6:54 AM

Yeah those badges usually get awarded within 15 minutes.

@TimManishEarth That was my first gold badge on SO. I remember I got both of them at the same time, I believe when they first created the badge. I was confused because at the time I was still somewhat unfamiliar with the badge system and didn't understand what the text for the badge meant.

Was just like... oh cool a gold badge.

7:32 AM

Awww, when was my Area51 proposal deleted?

They didn't even notify me or anything.

7:43 AM

@animuson Which one?

They never notify on deleted stuff

Is there a 50-questions-a-month limit on MSO?

8:03 AM

meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/131966/revisions Popular Demand dictated that it should be closed, but The Establishment did not agree. Isn't that the case with all governments?

9:30 AM

I just discovered something new:

for(i in window){

if(i=="location"){
continue
}
window[i]="";

}

Disables all JS ^.^

(Must be an easier way to do it)

Wait, it doesn't :/

@animuson I think that happens during some kind of automated process. Area 51 is designed to require very little moderation. Proposals that languish (IIRC) are automatically closed after some time, and then ultimately deleted after an additional amount of time. I believe this is done so that a fizzled out proposal doesn't block a newer effort that might be focused in a way that it actually gets traction.

An e-mail notifying you of that would be rather chilling and non actionable, imho .. but I can see why you'd want to be pinged when that happens.

$ ssh -vT git@github.com
OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
debug1: Connecting to github.com [207.97.227.239] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 207.97.227.239 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Bad file number

I am not able to test the setting of my github

Hmmm .. is port 22 filtered on your end ? Perhaps at work behind a paranoid firewall?

9:45 AM

I am on a proxy server

Fix IP and port

Seems to be breaking where proxying SSH

Connection refusing due to port 22

I don't know how to handle this

That's annoying, a local ISP here shut port 22 just like they do port 25 .. and they have tons of wifi hotspots so you never know when you're stuck with them. I just use https

How I fix this issue?

Well, you have to make sure your local machine is sending traffic on port 22 to your proxy server, perhaps listening on a port like 1234

or , just use https

You'll just have to put in your password when you push

clone your repo via git clone https://your-repo-url .. and then when you type 'git push' it will ask for your github password

if you can reach https://github.com, you'll be able to push fine over https.

9:52 AM

Okay let me try.

Thanks

@TimPost Is there any way to use port other than the 22?

That should work for you. Just remember, if you add remotes, use the https:// URL.

Well, yes. You'd have to set up a SSH server listening on a non-blocked port as a proxy

I don't think Github runs SSH on a non standard port to get around the issue of ISP's blocking port 22 due to brute force attacks (similar to SMTP) . but they might.

or ... just use https, so much simpler

okay.

So irritating. I hate it when ISPs do stuff like that.

10:12 AM

@TimPost Thanks I had done the cloning using the https:// URL.

It's working now?

I cloning successfully using https://

:) Typing your password when pushing is a minor inconvenience, but no less convenient than using a pass phrase protected key. Still, shutting port 22 is a bad idea on the ISP level. Lots of people manage servers and stuff remotely, that really creates a problem for them.

@TimPost If you use an ssh-agent to manage the pass phrase it's a per login thing though rather than per commit

@awoodland True .. I'm one of those exceptionally lazy people that actually does more work to avoid less :)

10:55 AM

@TimPost Me too!

11:23 AM

how does this starring at a post worK?

does that mean to get this star as "interesting"?

@ShegitBrahm Well, favoriting is so that you can come back to it

(or are you talking about chat?)

because I wrote already messages but no badge was thrown round me

Other than that (and some badges), favoriting has no effect on the question, unlike votes which can give it more attention.

@ShegitBrahm ?? What are you exactly talking about?

oh, yes, talking about chat

Aah

That just means that it goes to the right side of the screen

Like so

11:26 AM

Favourites in SO I realized

Take a look, I'm undoing it soon

ah, okay, I got it

:-D

Its for importantish messages

or something you feel that everyone should reed

(on the Tavern, it's just funny stuff that gets starred)

yes, importance is quite - relativ in chat

Additionally, room owners can pin posts

See this: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3229/the-periodic-table

11:28 AM

is there automatic deletiong or will it just go down by time`?

this I read

in the starred list, there are two different stars

It just goes down

room owners can clear them

I see my mistake in translating

pinned posts do not go down--the room owners have to clear them

Don't star all my messages

thank you very much

Unstar them

11:29 AM

k, I will unstar you

:)

somehow I thought "to stare" was meant, but it was more like favouriting

11:43 AM

bye

Anonymous

12:45 PM

@TimManishEarth The pins expire after two weeks, actually. :)

Truth.

In a related note, I did not know that the chat faq existed until I had been using chat pretty regularly.

Also, the ~~strikethrough~~ formatting behavior is not mentioned anywhere in that faq.

Anonymous

@Timjadarnel27 Nice, now I feel better about my ignorance. :P

Tim Stone

@Timjadarnel27 That's because it's SEEKRET

@TimStone Hahaha. L337 skillz.

@timj - do tell... :P

I was looking how to do that the other day :P

Daniel Fischer

1:01 PM

~~What, this?~~

/nods head furiously

LOL

Daniel Fischer

hyphenhyphenhyphentexthyphenhyphenhyphen

~~you guys are the best :P~~

Tim Stone

@Timjadarnel27 I should get a "Stack Exchange - I'm in the FAQ" t-shirt for that, clearly.

I should also probably get ready for work...

Q: Is there an equivalent to .htaccess for .aspx sites?

1:04 PM

@TimStone Clearly =) Also, you are the first person I saw use that and explain it to someone.

So all chat FAQ related questions should be directed towards @TimStone.

Or I suppose @Tim would do if you really crave attention.

-1

I need to 301 redirect an old asp.net site to a new domain. Is this possible at the file level as with .htaccess or only through IIS?

asp.net iis

-strike one-

I feel like there is excessive rudeness going on this post.

<s>strike one</s>

I've already deleted one accept rate comment (there were three)

--strike--

?

1:08 PM

<del>strike one</del> ?

Normal GChat uses hyphens

~~thats what the chat sandbox is for :P~~

Not working -here- , is it?

<marquee>strike one</marquee> ?

~~aah~~

1:09 PM

This is how you use ---strikethrough---

<tim>Have you tried this?</tim>

~~I could get used to this~~

Seriously, this guy answered the question, then commented about the OPs accept rate, and then added "I might have dug out my solution for you, but I can't be bothered. Soz" to his answer.

@Lix that's the same as starring the message in terms of the attention it gets

@timm true true :P

1:14 PM

@timJ flagflagflag

@TimManishEarth Go for it. I'm sure it's pretty common, but that kind of rude behavior really gets on my nerves.

I wasn't extremely confident flagging was appropriate right there (so I just downvoted and commented), so I didn't. But I suppose it is.

I might have dug out a flag for that... but I can't be bothered ;)

Hahaha

Rude=flaglagflag

@lix you forgot the soz

I also had to Google "Soz", because I am Internet-slang illiterate for the most part.

1:17 PM

@timm - I'm ~~not~~ sorry :P

How many flags result in automatic-something-or-other?

@TimManishEarth only takes one flag to delete most accept nagging comments

@timm - I think a close as NC or OT give an auto-slap-on-the-wrist-down-vote...

spam and offensive get auto deleted after 8(?)

If you guys need any extra flags on SO, ask me if im online: I dont really use SO so my flags are full :)

@awood I mean the automatic one

Aah

1:19 PM

@Manishearth chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/227/posse-comitatus

@Timjadarnel27 got resolved :)

now I want to upvote that as a comment :P

@awoodland Well executed =)

I used to have a ~~perturbing pedantic problem~~ pet peeve about IMHO, but the people on English.SE set me straight.

Then I realized it was really just anything like that (FWIW, IANAL, etc) that was bothering me.

Then I decided that I need to calm down, and that other people are allowed to type however they want to =)

No they aren't! tries to edit your chat message Gah!

=D

Would one of your kind folks make a comment on one of my posts. So that I get a shiny red notification?

I'm trying to test something. FOR SCIENCE.

1:37 PM

Science be praised!

@TimRobHruska Does that mean that you are the lucky volunteer?

I volunteer

FOR SCIENCEEEE!

You're my hero.

Done

Nice, thank you!

1:43 PM

The red notification actually glows on some sites

Like Physics

So it appears that this feature request has been implemented in secret.

Aah

That was my issue as well

@TimManishEarth That's interesting.

Marc is doing stuff in SEKRIT!

I guess I could flag it asking for the [status-completed] tag.

Q: Supercollider realtime updates incomplete-ish

1:46 PM

Hey, id already requested it!

3

Alright, we have a nifty new feature for our Supercollider. It runs realtime updates and glows red automatically. Well, I keep lots of tabs open, so all the tabs get the glowing red thingy. Fine with me. But, if I read the inbox message from one tab, the glow is still visible in the others. And...

bug stackexchange-button live-refresh

Gotta test these new tools ... I think I'll try them out on @tim

Oh right I'd VTCd that as dupe

@TimManishEarth That's a month newer than the other post =)

@timP willing guinea pig

@timJ CV mine pls

@TimManishEarth I'm with you now, sorry. Slow sometimes. Close vote cast.

@TimPost Ooh, what new tools?