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animuson

00:24

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40625/extreme-sport - Hahaha poor English makes for comedic question titles... "How to avoid the accident ?"

Anonymous

00:46

Q: Do moderators have jobs?

How do moderators make money? Seems like you'd have to spend a ton of time on SO or get lucky on those "answers that keep on giving" to become a moderator (you know what I mean, that one question that gets like 450 upvotes even though it's a really boring simple answer). So, if they are spendin...

Tim Yi Jiang

@TimSiteisaForum Oooo, Friday already?

Anonymous

@TimYiJiang checks schedule

Anonymous

Well, he missed Happy Hour.

Tim ManishEarth

01:34

Got Fanatic on Physics! Now I have three badges there (everyone else has 2 ^.^)

Anonymous

@TimManishEarth Haha, congrats. Think you can maintain the lead? :P

Tim ManishEarth

@TimSiteisaForum Maybe. I can get Copy Editor if I get back to my cleanup of a particular tag

Knowing our community, I think that's it

All vote-related badges are out

Anonymous

Ahh... right.

Tim ManishEarth

THough Populist seems possible

Anonymous

I recommend tactical use of bounties. >_>

Tim ManishEarth

01:37

For?

Not enough active users to get votes

Anonymous

Populist. Find an answer of yours that has the right 2:1 ratio vs. an accepted answer, then use bounties to draw attention until...

Anonymous

heh. maybe these aren't that transferable.

Anonymous

It worked for me for ~~two~~ three Populists on SO.

Tim ManishEarth

I meant publicist :p

Anonymous

Ah, ha. That's probably doable, with some luck.

Tim ManishEarth

01:40

Populist is possible, but getting 10 upvotes anywhere is hard

Forget >10

Anonymous

Right...

Tim ManishEarth

Marshal is also possible, but itll take a long time

We have a well behaved community

Elections are run yearly, as needed. Since all three moderators are active here, and y'all are by and large well-behaved, there's really no need for more. @Ron. Oh, and candidates must nominate themselves. — Shog9 May 8 at 16:17

Anonymous

Ah, I was going to remark that if you were going for Marshal you'd probably make Mod before you had a chance, but...

Anonymous

I guess it'll be impossible for that reason instead.

Tim ManishEarth

not much flag-worthy stuff... Though I guess all closable questions ought to be flagges since only I and Qmechanic are the non mods who CV

Oh, qmechanic has Marshal

Wait he doesn't

shrug

animuson

02:27

"REFURBISHED WITH 12 MONTHS 3 MONKEYS WARRANTY" - What exactly does that mean? o.o

Tim Yi Jiang

03:06

Q: http://twitter.com/#!/steveodonald/status/200929176633622528

I just saw an interesting tweet by @steveodonald: Funny js fact: ["70","81","11"].map(parseInt) == [70, NaN, 3] Testing it in the node console and Opera: It's true! Can anyone explain which strange rule here applies? > ["70","81","11"].map(parseInt) [ 70, NaN, 3 ] But: > ["70","8...

javascript

Nominating for the least useful question title of the year award

Tim ManishEarth

03:38

/seconded

/also feels happy that he was able to spot the flaw

Timootinator

03:56

/embarrassed that he didn't immediately know where the second parameter to the closure was coming from.

Timootinator

04:23

~~phoo~~

Tim ManishEarth

04:59

This is why I hate Indian politics: m.timesofindia.com/india/…

Gajendra K Chauhan

05:11

HI all

Lucifer

Tim ManishEarth

'ello

Lucifer

Hello Manish, you online 24 X 7 ?

Tim ManishEarth

05:28

Nope

Lucifer

but i saw you on line all the time , even in early morning

are you in india or outside india ?

Tim ManishEarth

India

Student, on vacation

animuson

@TimPost Hmmm, that would make sense, but it had 8 (or so) followers. I wish I knew the real reason it was completely deleted.

Tim ManishEarth

Even when not on vacation , I intersperse SE with studies.. So it appears that im always online

Lucifer

Good to hear that

which technology you work with ?

animuson

05:38

He's a physics nerd. Smart.

Tim ManishEarth

None

As a personal hobby, javascript/jquery and php

Physics is also a personal hobby :p

Lucifer

Good

Tim Yi Jiang

-1

Q: ...Compiz Closing

I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It's a really good environment; except for one Problem...: Compiz keeps closing on it's own. How do I remedy that? I also wonder why this sight keeps telling me that my question doesn't meet quality standards. Shouldn't I be the one saying that abou...

compiz

I think the quality filter is working perfectly

Tim ManishEarth

This sight doesn't like me :p

animuson

@TimManishEarth: Trying to collect downvotes?

Tim ManishEarth

05:53

Maybe. Sort of lost it there

There's a shiny LINK for gods sake. You click it and get taken to "What can I do when I get ...". The BIG TITLE clearly explains that this is the place to go. You READ the post. What's so hard?

I think the issue is that the post is on meta. They could transclude the post to a different page and everything would be fine

Got to go, ttyl

animuson

Any way you look at it, that message was really not appropriate.

Tim Yi Jiang

06:36

Can we silently murder the improvements tag

Or have a mod synonym it to feature-request

Tim Stone

06:57

@TimYiJiang Man, I'm a little ashamed I didn't notice that tag before to edit it out. I know I've read some of those questions.

Tim Yi Jiang

@Shog9 Can you set up the synonym?

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Tim ManishEarth

08:45

@anim I know.. And I apologize for that.. I later felt like deleting it, but it was already deleted :/ .

abatishchev

09:29

Q: Leave only one tag from two: [networking] vs [network-programming]

Currently on SO we have two very similar tags: networking (7677) network-programming (2639) Both are network and network programming related, have similar wiki entries. Don't we want to merge them and make synonyms?

support stackoverflow tags tag-synonyms synonym-request

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Szabolcs

10:58

Is there a complete list of language hints that are supported for highlighting? I'm not sure how up to date this is.

3 hours later…

Lix

13:53

Hi all sorry I'm late for my shift again... CV's all topped up - lay it on me... ;)

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Tim Yi Jiang

16:37

@Szabolcs Should be up to date

Lix

just got down voted by john skeet on meta... ouch...

Tim Yi Jiang

@Lix What? How can you still be alive? What means did you use to survive a Jon Skeet downvote?

Lix

@timY - a pinch of unicorn dust and a dash of nonchalance...

should do the trick :P

There were however some irreversible adverse side effects from the downvote. Prior to the incident, my meta rep was a very pretty 4,444... Now its 4,442... (silent weep ;)

1 hour later…

Tim Yi Jiang

18:04

A: Write the shortest program that generates the most compiler warnings and errors

GCC, score 2200 / 36 ≈ 4.5 × 1058 #include __FILE__ #include __FILE__ I have not actually finished compiling this code, but based on testing and simple mathematics, it should produce a total of 2200 #include nested too deeply errors. Of course, the program is trivially extensible...

Is that... ten to the power of 58?

Anonymous

18:56

@Szabolcs Poking into the prettify source, it looks like there are some that aren't included. lang-cv as an alias for lang-py, lang-vbs as an alias for lang-vb, lang-coffee is now available... It's not too readable so I'm not going to find all of them, but at any rate that list isn't complete.

Shog9

19:54

Argh. Sent the wrong email to the wrong person. Again. I am far too easily distracted.

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Popular Demand

21:15

@Shog9 Speaking of e-mail, I tried to send you something yesterday at shog@stackoverflow, and got a "recipient unavailable" message.

Shog9

@PopularDemand Weird. Just sent myself a message (from a different Google account) and it went through in maybe 2 seconds.

Popular Demand

Oh, looks like this is a problem with Hotmail; I'm trying to send with Hotmail via Gmail and they think I'm a bot.

... and I don't remember the password I used at Hotmail.

Shog9

Good ol' HoTMaiL

Tim Stone

21:42

Meh, almost 5:45 and I've yet to do anything useful today. sighs

Popular Demand

Good job?

Tim Stone

Hardly. I have such a huge backlog at the moment.

Hmm, maybe I can convince myself to take care of some of this Data Explorer stuff today.

Popular Demand

I look forward to the day when I have free time for side projects again.

Tim Stone

Sometimes I debate whether or not I have as much free time as I think I do, but I don't back down on commitments (even if they're just commitments to myself), so I've got to juggle it all somehow. :P

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Tim Stone

23:59

> The author (this is a rather small group)

Depends on how many personalities they have.

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