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12:13 AM
Is the racist downvotes thing the same issue as last time?
 
Yup, the same guy.
Looks like a troll to me.
 
 
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5:23 AM
The bad part about having three jobs in one year is taxes.
 
5:34 AM
@jadarnel27 - hi
 
Howdy, mamdouh.
 
I have a question and i'm not sure If it should be asked here..
but, I need to access the data of php question on SO. for data mining purpose, can I?
and if yes, how??
 
I believe there are some general guidelines for crawling SO on Meta, but the preferred method would be to use the API.
 
You can either grab the API, or grab the dump
 
@TimYiJiang - the dump??
where from?
 
5:38 AM
@mamdouhalramadan Here is the documentation for the API.
But yeah, @TimYiJiang is onto something with the data dump. If you're consuming a lot of the data, you might want to use that.
 
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Q: Where is Stack Overflow's public data dump?

flybywireI see a lot of talk around here regarding the Stack Overflow public data dump. Where is it? How can I play with it? Return to FAQ index

 
thank you guys. but one more question. how often do you update the dump?
and does it contain all the Q&A in SO?
 
It does, yes, so it's rather big
 
just 589MB not that big actually. I though it might goes in TB's
If I have technical questions about the dump DB, where can I ask about them?
 
On Meta. There's a tag for it, search it first
@mamdouhalramadan That's because it's compressed. It should come out to several GB after unzipping it
Remember that it's all text - there's no blobs in there
 
5:48 AM
@mamdouhalramadan Most of your questions are probably answered in this post: Database schema documentation for the public data dump and Data Explorer
 
@TimYiJiang - great, thnx guys :)
@jadarnel27 - thank you :)
 
No probz.
My grandpa asked me how much money I make the other day. Who does that? Old people are weird.
 
@jadarnel27 ONE MEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLION DOLLARS
 
Hahaha
Yes, that's what I should have told him.
Instead, I just told him that if he asked me an impertinent question like that again, that I'd hide his insulin.
Which made the rest of Christmas morning really uncomfortable, for some reason.
 
 
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7:56 AM
Runtime error? RUNTIME ERROR!?
 
I got one earlier today too... random
 
UNACCEPTABLE
Seriously though, where's the usual error page? YSOD don't usually happen
 
 
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11:55 AM
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A: Intermittent site failure?

Nick CraverWindows 2008 R2 server clustering on top of which SQL 2012 Always on Availability groups are built is buggy as hell. We're tracking down the YSOD cause now and attempting to fix before doing the next patch round. To add to the fun, we've had memory and/or a processor memory controller fail in a...

 
@TimStone Sounds like Nick might be a DF player. He has an interesting definition of !!FUN!!
Strangely enough, the question Mystical is referring to didn't get that many hits
43k within one day (though the question has been around for two now) appears to be around 1% of the visits per day SO gets
 
 
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1:35 PM
@TimYiJiang I'm also rather confused by those numbers, since the compressed August data dump is 7.68 GB for the whole network, of which 6.12 of that is Stack Overflow :P
 
@TimStone - Can you help out with this?
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Q: I want to switch from C# to c++/qt is it a good decision?

austin powersDue to Microsoft's unusual decisions about future of .net and more specifically since Microsoft environment is more like working with limited number technologies and tools offers by Microsoft specially in developing winforms(I don't want to use WPF) In other side I am totally familiar with jav...

OP doesn't seem to get what I am trying to say.
 
is not the Tim you're looking for, cc: @TimPost
 
Whoops.
Sorry @TimStone
 
Not a problem, no one had confused us yet this week, so it was expected to happen at some point. ;)
 
And its only Monday.
 
1:45 PM
It is indeed Monday, ugh.
 
2:06 PM
5
Q: All mods are equal, but some mods are more equal

LukeAll mods are equal, right? Except for Kiamlaluno. Real funny... Bug found here. I'm using Chrome 23.0.1271.97

The wheel of blame gave me the dev team
No joke
 
 
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4:43 PM
Can someone get me the link to a recently deleted question on SO that starts "What are the valuable lessons of history in programming and"?
 
@balpha, Thanks a bunch.
I sure wish the deleters would slow down in their quest for SO (and Meta) purity.
 
 
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7:03 PM
The SO websockets (live updates) seem to be failing for me right now. Anyone else having problems with that?
 
I've been having problems today too, but I blamed my flaky internet connection.
 
I was too, but then I connected from a different place and the problem persists. I didn't realize it would make such a difference to use the site without that feature!
 
Maybe you're too young to remember, but there should be an F5 key somewhere on your keyboard, give it a try.
 
Haha, I do remember, the problem is my fingers are starting to hurt. The main problem is, I'm missing comments when they come in in a fast pace.
 
@bfavaretto: Yup, I have to keep refreshing.
It seems to have abated a little now.
I think we switched and/or got a CSS update.
The blue text in the top bar is lighter now, after a brief moment of no CSS at all.
scratch that, websockets are still not playing ball.
 
7:19 PM
So I guess we'll get a js update soon, too. Or it's something on the servers.
 
Same problem here.
 
They are simply not connecting.
perhaps something to do with the upgrades?
We are aware of errors being seen, an unfortunate side-effect of some upgrades. We'll try and keep the outages to a minimum tonight.
16 hours ago though.
Dinner time; hopefully things will be better later on.
 
I am only seeing a single failed request on page load.
 
It works for me. Are you behind some crazy proxy?
 
Nope. Home network.
Fails on:
Which I can get directly on the browser.
 
7:28 PM
oh, I meant the socket problem
 
Well, I can't tell - how can I tell if they are erroring? I know that I am not seeing updates without refreshing.
 
There's some intermittent connectivity issue, it seems.
 
hmm yeah, I see a few 503 in the logs
I'm going to blame it on the DC move for now, but we'll keep an eye on it
 
I can see intermittent problems - several requests pending. The successful ones are 5 and 17 seconds (!)
 
 
1 hour later…
8:53 PM
Shalom all
 
Salam
 
Snowing today and the block boiler for the shared heating and all hot water broke this morning.
 
@Oded oy... so what are you doing?
 
No showers ;) But we do have our own central heating. There is only one small shared radiator in the house, so it's not a huge problem on the heat side of things.
 
8:57 PM
@Oded oy... I am sorry.
did it stop snowing at least?
 
The cold water is killing me though (cleaning dishes, showers etc...).
There is a bunch of guys at the basement now, clearing out... asbestos. Which is why the plumbers can't go in and fix the boiler.
 
Yeah. Living in an old building is... fun. The lift with an inner grate... That if not closed means the lift won't move...
 
It's cool. Couldn't give the kids a bath though. And the boiler should be back on tomorrow, so it turns out to be mostly a short lived inconvenience.
 
9:03 PM
@Oded lol oy. a teapot? :-P
 
Would love one. Thanks for offering ;)
 
It is, however, somewhat surreal to see a bunch of burly guys walking in and out of the basement in hazmat suites. And having a trailer with "Decontamination Unit" pasted on the site parked outside.
 
@Oded lol
Well at least twill be over soon, no? @Oded
 
Twill. I do wonder what the neighbours are thinking :)
 
9:08 PM
@Oded RUN AWAY!!! THEY HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED!!!
 
Well... I can only imagine what someone walking past might be thinking...
 
1 min ago, by amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
@Oded RUN AWAY!!! THEY HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED!!!
^_^
 
hehe
 
@Oded did u see the blog I started last week?
 
The javascript one?
 
I always though fibonacci was a good example of recursion, but lacked real world impetus.
 
@Oded hence I added my last example :-)
 
And when it comes to recursion in interviews, my favourite line (after cracking a recursive question) is to say "but of course, every recursive algorithm can be written using a stack based solution".
 
@Oded baah. but they are not always as efficient
 
Yeah. Though the tradeoffs between recursion and a simple stack/loop I think are not always well understood.
Dunno. It is easier to blow the stack with recursion :)
 
9:16 PM
:-P
I LIEK DESTROYING THE JS STAK!
 
Glad you don't blog like you chat
 
lol what do you mean?
 
Oh, nothing (spelling, cough, cough)
Gee. Someone with the username Dragon Warrior. Makes me feel old :(
 
I did that on porpoise ^_^ @Oded
 
And I strike out again with my sense of humor.
 
9:24 PM
Wow my internet is going sloooow...
 
Your shark is missing its lasers.
 
@Oded that is a porpoise :-P
twas part of my joke, but it came in late haha
 
As you may have guessed, I did that on porpoise myself. Possibly jumped the shark.
waiting for the room to empty, users fleeing in horror.
 

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