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5:22 PM

@awoodland Okay, laugh at me if you must, but... what?

I'm not sure if you think it's awesome that he has a rudimentary Tower of Hanoi or that he has a game in his profile or that he embedded dynamic content in an about box or what.

@PopularDemand It's a clever hack. Sticking dynamic content in a space where usually only static content is possible

Ah, I never tried doing anything dynamic in that space. I guess my next question is "how'd he do that?"

@PopularDemand The image source for the three images is a PHP file. Looks like that PHP script is using logic based off the URL of the requesting page (notice that the images are wrapped in hyperlinks that add a "?1" or "?2" to his user profile link).

5:48 PM

Ah, yeah, I see it now. /1 for the first peg, /2 for the second, /3 for the third, and I guess it checks the incoming location to see what that game's current state is.

I have to admit, building a WAR file sounds pretty exciting.

WAR?

@PopularDemand It would check a session cookie to get the current state, the incoming location would be for grabbing the current request. *I'm feeling pedantic today"

Ah, that makes way more sense.

I noticed a bug where my browser obviously loaded some of the images before the one which triggers a state change.

Needs to be more multithreading proof.

@jadarnel27 Web ARchive

6:03 PM

Web application ARchive is the full form. (I, too, can be pedantic!)

What is it good for?

Military-grade web apps that puny civilian JARs and EARs can't handle, I'd have to assume.

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@PopularDemand The answer we were looking for was "absolutely nothing".

HUNH!

But that was good too

6:13 PM

Remember that time FB lost 33% of it's value in under a week? I lolled.

this facebook IPO is doing a damn good job of convincing me they're not a company I want processing my data anymore

Facebook has value?

Apparently someone thinks so.

Perhaps they were simply dazzled by the hypno-hoodie.

May 18 at 17:39, by awoodland

how on earth is facebook possibly worth that much money?

So I assume you all shorted FB and are now rich?

6:19 PM

@mmyers Is it possible to short an IPO? I hadn't even considered that awesome idea.

It did hit $42 on Friday.

Or something like that.

Ah. Oh well. Next time I'm 100% certain something is overvalued then =)

My stocks and shares account doesn't let me short and only trades in UK shares

My trading account only has a few hundred $ in it right now. I probably don't have the margin to be making min. $3800 shorts.

I think you have to know the right people to be able to short sell

6:23 PM

excuses

@awoodland My discount brokerage account has that ability.

I could have taken my dog in for surgery with that $1254 richer I'd be right now.

And all that.

(Which is to say $1065 after taxes)

7:08 PM

AGGRAVATE ALL THE BEES!

I really need to remember to stick to the sidewalk when returning from lunch.

I really need to remember to go for lunch

It's not for everybody. But it's something I like to do.

7:44 PM

I don't get lunch often, but when I do, I...

...make sure it's kosher?

...make sure it's a free lunch?

...get lunch for the whole company?

can't deal with the suspense.

moot's having a meltdown.

Mmm... meltdowns...

8:00 PM

> †The recent changes to the way old posts are deleted, thanks to the reputation huggers and whiners, has made reputation more of a joke and there certainly is invisible rep padding. This was a bad precedent and shouldn't be used to justify future shadow rep arguments.

I like this guy =)

@Timjadarnel27 Wait 'til you have an answer with 100+ upvotes to a question facing deletion.

(But, I have to admit, I agree.)

JohnMcG is onto something on that post. Upvotes shouldn't always be worth ten rep; that makes downvoters too easy to track. Instead, they should be worth between 5 and 15 rep each, determined at the time of the vote based on a normal distribution. The average upvote would still be worth ten rep, so who could complain?

I, I always lose when gambling.

@mmyers Are those like tuna melts?

@PopularDemand Do I want to ask?

8:10 PM

@DanielFischer I imagine I would be much more invested in the issue if that were the case. I guess that's why so many people got upset; you can't help but be proud of something like that, so losing would be sort of disheartening.

A melt sandwich (also known in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom as a toasted cheese sandwich or, toastie) is a type of sandwich consisting of bread, some sort of filling, and a layer of cheese, sometimes grated. The sandwich is then grilled or fried until the cheese is melted. It may be served as an open face sandwich or a closed face one. One common filling is tuna, with mayonnaise; the result would then be a tuna melt sandwich. Other popular choices are ham, roast beef, chicken, turkey, or a hamburger patty, which is known as a patty melt. It is the filling that establish...

Ah, that might be good for lunch, actually.

@Timjadarnel27 Yes, I suppose it would hurt.

@PopularDemand Beef > tuna, but otherwise yes

Indeed. The tuna melt has just always stuck in my mind because it was the most reviled item on my elementary school's lunch menu.

@PopularDemand I think this guy might actually be onto something. I didn't know that "removed" record showed up to other people viewing your profile.

8:16 PM

Hmm, still some domino -> lotus-notes suggestions in the queue. Does anybody know whether that's correct or should be rejected?

@jadarnel27 Yeah, I think that's a bug.

@jadarnel27: I didn't think it was possible to see that event because it qualifies as a "removal" event which only shows up when you have the checkbox selected, which you cannot do on other user's profiles.

Exactly what I was thinking @animuson and @PopularDemand. A bug indeed.

Although, if it were hidden, there would be a discrepancy between the sum on the user's profile rep tab and his display rep, which would be pretty convincing to anyone who was obsessively tracking things. I still question whether it's worth putting effort into this massive edge case of hyper-vigilant downvote watchers at all, though. Seems like we could all be doing more important things.

Like arguing which side to open the eggs?

8:24 PM

@PopularDemand: What about all that reputation users get from deleted posts that qualified for keep-the-reputation? I don't believe any of those entries show up publicly.

@PopularDemand I fully agree with this.

I think Jeff Atwood's EL&U profile was like that...

But tbh that image in that answer looks a bit faked. The text does not line up with the rest of the line, the link text looks darker and bolder than it should be, and there's a freaking white box around it.

@animuson I think that faking was intentional. The question title was changed on purpose after taking the screen shot.

Normal faking doesn't replace it with another title. Normal faking just blurs out the text that is confidential so that you can tell that it's confidential.

@animuson Have you read the faked question title?

8:35 PM

@PopularDemand There's a far larger hole anyway. :P

Nope I can honestly say I never did.

I only saw the question mark at the end and assumed it was a real title. Misleading!

@DanielFischer Funnily enough, that wouldn't be an unreasonable question title on Meta =)

True, especially on Fridays.

@jadarnel27: Let's create it, and tie it into Justin Bieber as well, somehow...

Justin Bieber is coming here OMG squeeeee.

8:38 PM

@animuson A fantastic idea.

9:09 PM

Woohoo, I found a bug finally.

Yours or somebody else's?

Ooohhh is it the Goliath Spider?

@DanielFischer Somebody elses.

I've been writing mostly futile automated tests and discovered the <label for=""> have the wrong for attribute in a lot of cases. yawn

Ah, then it's not only sweet success, but with Schadenfreude on top. Congrats.

Lol: i.imgur.com/eSprT.jpg

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10:16 PM

I really need to code with a font and/or resolution where I can see the difference between () and {}

Ha.

Maybe this testing isn't futile at all.

Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me punched. The great thing about this douchebag deadman switch is that I will never dare trigger it.

Randall hates social networking mashup sites and Ayn Rand. Clearly some sort of automaton.

11:06 PM

So this is Minecraft in real life.

11:51 PM

Ten minutes until I can vtc again. Boy, I never thought I'd find out how a Cold Turkey feels by close-vote-withdrawal.

I'm waiting for delete votes myself. :P

Waiting is one thing. I've burned my close votes today at 2:14 AM GMT, that's torture.

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