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Tim Stone

12:06 AM

Uh oh, is Cole causing trouble again?

Also, where's this free coffee and cake I've heard word of?

So...a few thousand more people visited the election page, but fewer voted. Hmm.

Tim Yi Jiang

@TimStone I imagine boxes of shiny badges left at SE HQ with nobody for them to give out to

Tim Stone

Well, on a positive note, it seems unlikely that moving the notice to the Community Bulletin hurt participation...but I am left wondering if people didn't necessarily notice the transition from primary to final election to cast their "real" votes.

I guess it would be nice to see how many people voted for a candidate during the primaries who ended up in the final ten and then did or didn't follow through with an election vote.

jcolebrand

12:23 AM

@Aarthi WHAT? what did I do?

lol @ millionth chat message

well how was I supposed to know?

Tim Stone

We'll just have to go back in time to correct things.

jcolebrand

I can't here, no blue

I swore it said "Stack Exchange is the greatest network ever. Propaganda is amazing and fun."

Tim Yi Jiang

@jcolebrand Stack Exchange Scripts. Use them.

jcolebrand

@TimYiJiang it tells me what the next will be? >.> I think !not

Tim Yi Jiang

@jcolebrand Pffft. It can do all that and cure cancer!

jcolebrand

12:30 AM

@TimYiJiang damn, and I have cancer! (no, I don't :-( I'm sorry)

Tim Stone

@TimYiJiang Well, they don't tell you that people are talking seekrets in hidden rooms :P

...But they should o_o

Tim Yi Jiang

We'll just stare at them until they do o_o

Tim Stone

A perfect plan

Tim Yi Jiang

1:33 AM

Just to update: OP has answered his own question copying the content of the answer by skullpatrol. OP has accepted his own answer and used (presumably) another account of him to grant himself a bounty. I do agree, that at the current state the OP looks as a usual question on MSE - so that is not a reason to close the question. However, the situation evolves in a strange way. — Ilya Jun 3 at 17:34

Huh, off-site comments do not onebox

Anyway, that is some weirdness going on there

Rebecca Chernoff

(:

Tim Yi Jiang

I feel slightly disturbed by that smile

Rebecca Chernoff

I made your comment onebox!

Tim Yi Jiang

Oh, so that's what happened. I was editing it at the same time, so I thought it was my edit that went through :P

Rebecca Chernoff

what were you editing? (:

animuson

1:38 AM

sets the last piece of his cake on the table then dives underneath it

Tim Yi Jiang

The same comment. I was trying to use /ob, but the thing turned out to be too long and the system rejected it

Rebecca Chernoff

it was the newly added querystring that bodged it. chat regex doesn't handle that.

animuson

In short terms: she poked it with her pointy stick.

Rebecca Chernoff

yeah, that.

jcolebrand

@TimYiJiang @RebeccaChernoff reckon you can do better than this in IE8-9/Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari: jsfiddle.net/wxXSv/14 without using images?

Trying to make sure if I've covered all the bases

Tim Yi Jiang

1:48 AM

You want to recreate that style with CSS gradients?

jcolebrand

I thought I mostly did?

Tim Yi Jiang

Oh, I see. You want improvements, right

jcolebrand

I'm using the gradients for highlight, and not the entirety of the situation

I want to know if it can be done better than I have done here, yes please

animuson

The border on that circle looks horrible in Chrome o.o

jcolebrand

Notice I've got an IE8 specific hack >.>

because of the white?

Feel free to specify a better fiddle my good sir

animuson

1:50 AM

I'm just complaining about Chrome's terrible rendering of the border

jcolebrand

or my horrible declaration of it?

Tim Yi Jiang

It's neat. Reminds me of something I posted on SO a long time ago

jcolebrand

yeah?

shame I didn't find yours then :p

Tim Yi Jiang

It's not the same. I created a jQuery UI plugin to emulate a UI component: jsfiddle.net/RDkBL/7

It's a slider and button combined. If you double click on the button it slides, which is not terribly intuitive

animuson

3:00 AM

You've earned the "stackoverflow" badge. See your profile.

Mwuahahahaha

Tim Yi Jiang

@animuson Mr. Stack Overflow!

animuson

I also passed 100 for suggested-edits but apparently I only have 13 answers in that tag. :(

jadarnel27

3:15 AM

The hardcore way to eat ramen noodles: 1. Boil water 2. Eat block of ramen 3. Drink boiled water 4. Snort flavored powder 5. Fuck Bitches.

Tweeted by FillWerrell on October 25, 2011 at 9:48 PM

lolz.

animuson

Futurama season premier is tomorrow! Woop woop woop woop woop woop woop

jadarnel27

I have to try that Ramen thing sometime before I die (probably right before I die, given the mechanics of it).

ManishEarth wants more waffles

3:48 AM

1

Mushroom Foraging

Proposed Q&A site for anyone considering eating foraged mushrooms: includes mushroom experts, enthusiasts who know only their favourite mushrooms, and casual foragers who are hoping for a meal and know they need absolute positive identification to be sure of edibility.

Currently in definition.

Shog9

5:07 AM

@animuson Now you have to read the stackoverflow tag wiki.

animuson

Bahahahaha omg how have I never read that!?

Shog9

@animuson Because you weren't a proper stackoverflow expert until today.

Tim Yi Jiang

If I hadn't checked its history I would've assumed random wrote that

Anonymous

stackoverflow

animuson

@TimYiJiang Oh, I assumed Shog wrote it simply because he told me to go read it. :P

animuson

7:25 AM

Why on Earth was my "too localized" flag declined on this post: stackoverflow.com/questions/11111915/…

o.o It's clearly too localized...

Tim Yi Jiang

1:41 PM

> Welcome our new community moderators – all the livelong day

Livelong day? :P

According to Wikipedia Livelong is a plant

Why not the Livelongandprosper day?

jadarnel27

Haha, I thought that was funny. "We've been working on the flag queue, all the livelong day!"

@TimYiJiang It made me think of this American folk song: "I've been working on the railroad". But I don't know if that's the reference they were going for.

Tim Yi Jiang

2:06 PM

You could probably do something with the StackExchange Data Explorer — Richard J. Ross III 1 min ago

This guy is suggesting we find how many visitors are there to SO from the data explorer :P

I wonder how long will my query take :D

SELECT SUM(ViewCount) FROM Posts

> Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

Ahahahaha

jadarnel27

lol

That's awesome.

Tim Yi Jiang

Not surprising, but I was expecting the query to timeout first

Hmm, does anybody know how I can make this into a longint or something like that? I'm not particularly good with SQL

jadarnel27

In SQL, bigint would be what you want.

Tim Yi Jiang

Yes, but what's the syntax for changing the datatype of the SUM column?

AakashM

select sum(cast(viewcount as bigint)) from posts

is 2228859594

jadarnel27

2:16 PM

Yeah. What that person said ^

Tim Yi Jiang

Thanks

That's two billion, wow

Wolfram|Alpha tells me that's 0.34 of all people alive on the planet today

jadarnel27

Wowsers - that's a lot of views. Also, sorry for being spectacularly unhelpful. I haven't had my coffee today =P

Tim Yi Jiang

3:25 PM

Something odd's going on with chat notifications

I keep receiving inbox messages about replies which I already dismissed in chat

Tim Stone

I had that problem a few weeks ago (briefly)

jcolebrand

@TimYiJiang I had that issue too the other day, haven't seen it since, do you have multiple windows open on the same server?

Tim Yi Jiang

No

mootinator

4:13 PM

@TimYiJiang But 0.34 of the posts are from Jon Skeet?

mootinator

6:01 PM

pokes 'is head in to the room to discuss lunch.

So, I'm going to eat, like, soon or something.

jadarnel27

Hey. Take that trash to Seasoned Advice.

mootinator

promptly disappears.

thinks "Cooking.SE doesn't like me. Something about wanting to chop onions with power tools."

briefly considers asking Seasoned Advice "Is it safe to eat KFC from Saturday the following Wednesday?" but quickly comes to the conclusion that it will be closed as either "duplicate" or "too localized"

Lix

are u in love ? — Ricardo Arruda 3 mins ago

Isn't there a relationships.se out there?

close enough...

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Relationships

Proposed Q&A site for people seeking answers to questions about dating, long term relationships, love, marriage or other commitments, and everything else typically considered a "relationship". (Intended to encompass the Love and Dating sites and extend them.)

Currently in commitment.

mootinator

also decides that if his question weren't closed, the most highly upvoted answer would somehow involve some sort of uppity "Safe, yes. A good idea? No. Mind you it wouldn't have been a good idea on Saturday either."

jadarnel27

I'm enjoying reading @mootinator's internal monologue here. It's like watching Scrubs, but it doesn't make me want to die.

mootinator

6:17 PM

thinks it's probably safer to post "Should I eat KFC from Saturday before running a marathon on Tuesday?" to F&N, because that would make it totally on topic and relevant.

decides that given that he's already eaten said KFC it's probably best to just vlog the color/consistency of his excrement over the next 36 hours, and create a tremendously unpopular self-answered question linking to said vlog.

jadarnel27

o.o

jadarnel27

6:52 PM

Down with accept rate!

(I'd be surprised if that's not a dupe)

mootinator

7:37 PM

(It's an exact duplicate. But somehow a lot more appealing?) meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/119333/…

Whew I voted on several meta posts. I'm exhausted.

jadarnel27

Perhaps it's not more appealing, it's just that attitudes about accept rate have gone steadily downhill since then.

Juicy Scripter

@jadarnel27 probably this!

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