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ajax333221

12:04 AM

lets all browse for some videos of vampichoco (pretty funny character from Invader Zim)

mmm I couldn't find any vid on english, stupid youtube keeps giving me results from MX

Undo

12:32 AM

Oooh! 100 more comments flags!

dives into queue

animuson

Nooooo 357 flags? I was enjoying that big fat zero...

Undo

adds more flags

animuson

Fun fact: "Not constructive" comment flags are about the most likely thing to get declined, because a) the person doesn't provide any context for why it's not constructive and I don't care enough to investigate it over a stupid comment flag; or b) the person just is too thick-headed to take the advice given in the comment to heart.

Undo

@animuson Are comment flags grouped by post, or are they displayed individually?

animuson

They are grouped by post.

Undo

12:38 AM

Good.

animuson

I hate going through the not constructive comment flags because I just spend all my time thinking "Ok, why isn't this constructive?"

Undo

@animuson We need subcategories on the comment flags :P

animuson

We do have them.

Undo

Oooh! I could help you go through those!

:P

jadarnel27

Awww. I just submitted some "not constructive" comment flags earlier.

I haven't checked to see how they were handled though.

jmac

1:08 AM

@Undo My first job over a decade ago had three employees who used dvorak on shared workstations. I carried around a notecard in my wallet with instructions on how to remap dvorak to qwerty with all the keys mapped wrong. It looked like gobbledygook, but it did the job. I ended up distributing them to half my office.

(I believe it was o.yqtxmal ',.pyf which is setxkbmap qwerty using the devil's keyboard layout)

Undo

lol

In truth, the moderatores doth haveth themselves some tasks to completeth:

animuson

2:03 AM

@Undo Pending comment flags? What pending comment flags?

jmac

2:14 AM

Do you know how hard it is to write a haiku in Japanese?

English is so generous with syllables! Japanese is 1 letter = 1 syllable

(this has been your useless fact for the day)

ajax333221

2:58 AM

I am reading "Tower of God" manga, and that is our second useless fact for the day :D

Undo

4:11 AM

I wish I could get flags back once they've been marked helpful ;)

animuson

4:38 AM

Gahhhhh#$%@&#$%@&#$%@&#$%@&#$%@&#$%@&#$%@&!!!!!! I just used hand sanitizer and forgot I had an open cut on my hand!

jmac

4:49 AM

@animuson I believe you have a spelling error there. %*&(@&*(%^#(*%*@$@*$^*&!!!!!! should be #$%@&#$%@&#$%@&!!! or the like. You are seriously lacking number signs! Someone may think you aren't really in pain.

animuson

Better? ;P

jmac

5:14 AM

Much.

(doesn't it hurt less now that you've properly cursed?)

michaelb958

@animuson "Ouch, I've just misjudged whether to use my hand sanitizer and my hand is in serious pain. Better go use it lots to tell the Tavern exactly how painful it is."

animuson

What? Seriously? I just sat there and went through 20 "too many comments" flags and the queue only dropped by one? mumbles mindlessly

animuson

5:57 AM

Well knocked down the queue from 357 to 45. Good night!

probably Pekka

6:18 AM

That's impressive.

ajax333221

and I compressed this javascript to the limits:

x=(y+(z?1:-1));
x=(y+((z*2)-1));
x=(y-1+(z*2));

x=y+(z?1:-1);
x=y+(2*z-1);
x=y-1+2*z;

the first 3 are manually edited, the last 3 are the same 3 but after running it on a JS minimizer

Johannes Kuhn

7:39 AM

I try dvorak now.

Dennis Meng

7:55 AM

@JohannesKuhn how's that going?

Johannes Kuhn

hard

Dennis Meng

i'd imagine

<-- very much a "point and peck" typer

Johannes Kuhn

but I'll learn it.

Dennis Meng

that's the spirit :)

Johannes Kuhn

I've read that you need 1 year to reach the same efficience.

Dennis Meng

8:11 AM

would not surprise me at all

Johannes Kuhn

but I'm already learning where the keys are

q

just remember that the vokals are on the left

jmac

8:37 AM

Don't do it! You will annoy anyone who ever has to use your keyboard!

It isn't worth it! Think of the children!

Johannes Kuhn

8:54 AM

they should learn dvorak

Johannes Kuhn

9:42 AM

and: noone should touch my keyboard.

gnat

...am I proud of Programmers? you bet! — gnat 3 mins ago

Duncan

10:18 AM

Got to love such comments in an SO question (from the OP):

post some code guys — Tony Stark 3 mins ago

Duncan

10:28 AM

I just clicked on an English version of a Korean site and got this: kci.co.kr/eng

@YiJiang The Wheel of Blame needs to include "caching". Perhaps solely "caching". Nothing else is to blame.

Hiroto

2:08 PM

New wheel of blame link? jsfiddle.net/AYPpF/102/embedded/result

jadarnel27

3:18 PM

Buh-rown.

Oded

br-own

jadarnel27

Coffee is brown. Maybe that is why it's so good.

My doctor told me that I should drink more water, especially considering all the coffee I drink.

She was surprisingly unswayed by my "coffee is water" argument.

I thought the logic was pretty much unassailable.

Duncan

3:35 PM

She's clearly sold out to the tea lobbyists. Ditch that bitch.

Oded

8

A: I would like a mug please

Coffee, black and strong; OK, very nearly black - Like the new top bar

Coffee needs mug ^^^

Undo

3:53 PM

@AndrewBarber Lol :)

Your flag-fu is still weak. ;)] — Andrew Barber 1 min ago

flags more stuff

jadarnel27

4:20 PM

I think I am too late, and too uncreative, to be involved in that coffee mug competition.

Duncan

I tried something, but it was a bit abstract. And I kinda missed the whole coffee theme thing.

But it included the word brown, which I felt appropriate.

jadarnel27

Indeed, always appropriate.

Duncan

I went to an IT conference this week and, to my delight, discovered there was a full blown arms fair in the next hall and my badge got me access.

Sklivvz

5

Q: Mercurial fails to merge via command line

My mercurial installation refuses to merge via command line. Here's the output after I turn on verbose and debug. C:\src\StackOverflow>hg resolve --all --verbose --debug couldn't find merge tool codecompare_diff couldn't find merge tool codecompare_merge couldn't find merge tool bcompare couldn'...

^ if anyone has any idea...

Bart

4:42 PM

@jadarnel27 Just post "brown" as an answer. If they complain about a lack of syllables, you can always state that the majority of "brown"'s syllables are silent.

Sumurai8

@Sklivvz I do have ideas, but they are all unrelated to your question. Is that a problem?

Sklivvz

@Sumurai8 if you post them as answers, it might be a problem for the not-an-answer police

Undo

Did someone call the NAA district flag police?

Tim Post

Mug / T-shirt winners have been posted ;)

animuson

If it wasn't me, then I don't care.

And considering I didn't actually post an answer to the question, I think we all know.

Undo

4:56 PM

@Tim should the mug question be locked, so as to freeze its awesomeness as it is now and not let it deteriorate into something else?

animuson

> Well, no, I'm not really sorry.

They never are...

Tim Post

@Undo I'm debating ... flipped between locking and closing ... hmmmm

yeah what the heck, historical significance

Undo

Wait, Haiku contests aren't good, on topic questions?

This shakes my entire world.

animuson

Turn off the vibration mode on your chair.

Tim Stone

@Sklivvz Did you try with the --traceback flag too to see if it would spit out anything additional?

Undo

5:01 PM

@animuson Whew, that's better. Thanks! Now why does it all of the sudden feel like some amorphous monster is trying to eat my shoulderblades?

Tim Stone

@animuson But it was me.

Sklivvz

@TimStone didn't know it existed. I will try next merge

thanks!

Martijn Pieters

5:23 PM

Booh

@Undo: Your helpful flag count is (slightly) higher than mine, so don't let Animuson tell you off too much.

Oded

5:50 PM

b-r-o-w-n

Johannes Kuhn

6:01 PM

IIRC andrew had a helpful flagcount of over 9000

Undo

@Joh Yup - 9600ish.

Johannes Kuhn

over 9000 :P

Undo

@MartijnPieters ;)... I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to trade all these helpful flags in for - maybe an SE shirt? (Hopeful wishing)

Johannes Kuhn

I voted for andrew in the last election because of the insane number of helpful flags. Moderators get free swag I heard. So it COULD work @Undo

Undo

@Johann I dunno - I wouldn't mind modding SO, but I doubt I have enough rep to net enough votes. Maybe if I hit something like 15,000 flags or something... Or maybe the mods will just donate me a diamond to get me to quite flagging stuff.

Oded

6:11 PM

Ask ChrisF, he has plenty

Undo

I still can't figure out how it's possible to keep track of that many sites.

@Oded and didn't he break something with diamond #5?

Like the system thought he was an employee?

Tim Post

@Undo Some ... assumptions ... were made quick-n-dirty like in order to tell if someone is an employee without the extra added effort of wiring chat into the account 'spine' that we have per user. Only employees would have diamonds on five or more sites .. we thought. Whoops.

Oded

That one ^^^

@Undo SO is the behemoth. Most other sites are a fraction of the size and really don't take a lot to monitor.

Bart

So you did the logical thing and unmodded ChrisF on one site?

Oded

Naw. Upped the arbitrary number and hoped he stops running for elections.

2

Tim Post

6:23 PM

@Bart Well, we thought of renaming him to Chris FUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuu, but then we bit the bullet and just doubled the assertion threshold.

So now, it's twice as broken, see? :)

Bart

So you've presented him with a challenge ...

Undo

It might be easier to just hire him. As a community manager. For every site.

2

Bart

@Undo probably not gonna happen. The guy is seriously annoying. Being all awesome and stuff, and then making all contributions CW so he doesn't get any rep from it. If they would try to hire him, he'd probably decline and do it for free anyway.

2

Undo

Lol

Goal: 10k flags by next election, just for the fun of it.

(when is the next one, anyway?)

Eventually they'll hit a communication problem with too many SO mods, right?

jadarnel27

Mod elections are reactive, not scheduled.

With the way animuson has been handling flags, there may never be another election =)

Bart

6:32 PM

Soon I'll have flags accepted as helpful that I didn't even submit yet.

jadarnel27

You already do!

Pops

Hi @Bart, I just noticed that your flagging activity stops abruptly on August 3, 2091. Will there be anything the team can help with?

2

Johannes Kuhn

Pay the gravedigger

Bart

6:48 PM

Dear @Pops, thank you for your concern. I went through an unforeseen cremation around that time, but will get back on the job ash soon as possible to urn more rep and badges.

3

jadarnel27

Hahahaha

That was awesome, @Bart.

Pops

@Bart Ah. We understand that things go down unexpectedly sometimes. It's good to hear that you'll remains on the job.

jadarnel27

7:18 PM

Shouldn't the /behavior Help Center page say "Do not use signatures, taglines, or greetings."?

Currently, "signature" is singular. Which seems odd.

But grammar is not my forte.

So maybe that's right.

Bart

Go and report that pluralization bug

jadarnel27

I better not. It's against my principles to report such a trivial "bug." Plus my fear of giant 'S' violence.

Undo

8:37 PM

Three hours, 23 minutes to a bunch more comment flags :D

Pops

9:06 PM

@jadarnel27 We actually still haven't hired a replacement Alphabetical Weapons Specialist, so you're safe. For now.

Undo

Employees are never poked with sharp sticks. - only sharp letters.

2

Sumurai8

9:27 PM

@Undo Virtual paper cut?

Undo

@Sumurai8 More violent than that, most likely.

Sumurai8

@Undo What can be more violent than a paper cut. You can kill someone with that, y'know.

jadarnel27

@Pops That is reassuring.

Undo

10:33 PM

MOST AWESOME THING:

12

Q: SO Close Votes Reviewers (Next Meetup on Monday, Nov 25th)

The next meetup is on: Monday, November 25th, 2013 @ 9:00pm UTC, 4:00pm EST, 1:00pm PST in this chat room. Yet another thread about close votes starting with the disclaimer, "Yet another thread about close votes." This thread is not about why the queue as large as it is. See @Shog9's latest...

discussion review chat vote-to-close chat-event

animuson

10:43 PM

If we're a moderator and can get in anyways, do we still need to sign up?

PS. The new Hunger Games movie was awesome.

Hiroto

The fun thing about working from home is that nobody is staring at the bottle of cider I have here, or complaining about me testing the ballmer peak theory.

jadarnel27

11:03 PM

@animuson I can't wait to see that!

ajax333221

anyone here is a guru in coding? I need to confirm these two are equal :D

if(!((x<9) && (y<=(8-x)))){...}
if((x>8) || (y>(8-x))){...}

note: the ! is NOT, the && is AND and the || is OR

or... I could put them on loops and see if they are the same... mmm that sounds easier

ajax333221

11:23 PM

yep, they are the same, thanks I couldn't have done without your help guys

jadarnel27