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user202362

00:00

~~sha~~ @Shog9 where is my 'SO Pet troll' t-shirt?

Qantas 94 Heavy

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Q: JavaScript function to get all integers separated by spaces inside a textbox

On my webpage I instruct the user to "enter in the text box any number of integers in the range 0 through 127, separated by spaces." I want a JavaScript function that puts all such integers in an array. So let's pretend that I already have the inner text stored in a string str. The prototype will...

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> I know I could make that function from scratch myself, but I'm feeling lazy and was hoping a StackOverflow guru could bail me out by providing a 1-line Regex solution like you guys always do haha

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See? That's honestly what they expect us to do

Doorknob

^ close it RIGHT NOW quick!

Qantas 94 Heavy

00:15

@Doorknob: already got close on it, new answer ;\

Doorknob

kill it, kill it with FIRE

Qantas 94 Heavy

delv-pls ^

Louis

00:43

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/3905794/…

Jason C

01:01

Whoa mobile chat. Cool. Is there a way to see starred messages on mobile?

@Shog9 I thought your double "where do I ask" was a typo, not a joke.

Shog9

01:27

@JasonC heh, no.

@telkitty.exe I'm wearing it.

Doorknob

@Shog9 How does a disembodied head wear a shirt? O_o

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/23073019/2581872

Shog9

@Doorknob tied around my scalp, soaked in an an unidentified liquid, of course. How do you wear shirts?

Doorknob

@Shog9 ...what? That doesn't even make any sense. Everybody knows that you have to use distilled unicorn tears for shirt-wrapping.

Preferrably tears of joy, so as to avoid unicorn abuse.

Shog9

I don't associate with unicorns. Perhaps that's why I can't identify this liquid.

Doorknob

01:35

Ah, okay.

hichris123

@Shog9 Don't you usually put sites into beta on Tuesdays?

hichris123

01:51

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Q: I don't want to look at my reputation on A51, but the topbar makes me!

Whenever I click on my profile picture on the main site, I get directed to my reputation page on Area 51. Can someone please tell the topbar that I don't care about my Area 51 rep, and that I care more about the proposals I'm committed to?

area51-meta bug

Doorknob

random topic change

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Q: What if I don't have an online or easily accessible reference?

I have a question about something I'm skeptical about, and being a SE user, I naturally immediately checked the Help Center and FAQ. I found this FAQ post, and I'd like a bit of clarification for my specific case. My question is about a sign I found in a museum. Now, this already seems dangerous...

discussion asking-questions off-topic

:P

hichris123

... you didn't search hard enough. WHAT DID YOU TRY? Check Google Street View, etc. — hichris123 54 secs ago

Doorknob

lol

hichris123

^ Sorry, couldn't resist @Doorknob. :P

@Doorknob What is it, even?

Doorknob

@hichris123 What is what?

hichris123

01:59

At this time the @StackExchange core team is having the Git vs. Mercurial discussion. If you don't see us again, assume there was blood.

Tweeted by balpha on April 14, 2014 at 8:33 PM

@Doorknob What are you skeptical of?

Doorknob

@hichris123 A device that claimed to be "reading brain waves"

user202362

@Shog9 Can we both be pet trolls? ... no need to be threatened, SO has many people, there are enough attention for us both @_@

user202362

Beside that shirt fits me better than it fits you :'(

Shog9

No doubt. I'm just wearing it because I can

I have it and you don't

Also, I'm making pigs inna blanket

with pizza dough

and fontina cheese

Doorknob

I have just figured out that removing the word "various" before the word "reasons" makes something sound a lot less official.

> Sometimes, the foo will bar for reasons.

> The foo cannot bar because of reasons.

:D

user202362

02:14

don't eat greens much?

user202362

It doesn't explain why I don't get a 'SO pet troll' t-shirt, surely they would have produced a dozen or more?

user202362

you know, you should anticipate more pet trolls - kind of probability thing ...

user202362

02:27

@Shog9 have you heard about Malthusian Theory of troll Population on Websites?

user202362

user202362

short in short, on a website that gains regulars, trolls will increase exponentially

user202362

03:20

Why do I have this feeling that Stackoverflow ... or SE ... or both is like a large bag full of cats - not even your elitest trolls can provide any temporary alleviation from all these ... battle aftermaths

Jason C

03:39

@telkitty.exe I agree 100% that SO is like a large bag of cats, although I have no idea what that means or how trolls are related to bagged cats. But cats are awesome, so we're good.

You get that feeling because meow.

Ben Collins

@hichris123 reports of our bloodlust are greatly exaggerated

michaelb958

03:58

This is what I wake up to in #stackoverflow developer chat…it’s a good place to work http://t.co/zMuJcSWkKF

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on March 31, 2014 at 1:37 PM

hichris123

@balpha blood is an awful revision system; it has very little information from parent commits and next to no metadata. How about tattoos?

Tweeted by badp on April 14, 2014 at 11:22 PM in reply to balpha

rofl

Tyler Carter

@michaelb958 Interesting. I like your search method

@michaelb958 And I thank you for clearing my good name :)

michaelb958

@TylerCarter It's like a lifehack, only it's a chathack.

(I have used the word "lifehack". Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy.)

michaelb958

04:21

I just upvoted the Split All The Metas announcement to +100. @TimPost is now obligated to respond to my comment on my answer to said. :P

Tyler Carter

04:47

Who's waiting for the red moon tonight?

user202362

05:46

<-

user202362

cloudy day though ...

user202362

saw at least 3 lunar eclipse in the past 5 years

user202362

I am an astrophysics fan >_<

user202362

I <3<3<3 astrophysics

TGMCians

06:20

Hey Good Morning !

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Q: How to see questions of specific tag with no upvoted answers

Hello I just want to see android tag questions with no upvoted answers. For this I clicked on UnAnswered tab then it show me all types of questions C/C++/JS/Android. Here I want to filter only android but this is not working http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes Here When I c...

bug stackoverflow tags unanswered-questions

devnull

06:57

This user thinks that asking for code on SO is ok:

@devnull I mean, can you show me how I would do it. By the way, the on-topic page does not say that questions asking for code are off-topic. — mrfishie 3 mins ago

Could somebody please educate him?

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/110173/la-creme-is-skin-care

devnull

Asking for code: stackoverflow.com/questions/23076231/… -- VTC please.

Jan Dvorak

@devnull actually, the correct close vote reason in that case is "too broad"

but I'm not sure this specific question is too broad

devnull

And what about this comment: stackoverflow.com/questions/23076231/…

Jan Dvorak

the answer isn't as big as you might have been afraid.

devnull

07:11

No, I wasn't afraid of the answer being big. It's about the attitude.

If one is asking for code despite being pointed to a similar question that contains code, then what?

Amal Murali

When exactly should you use multiple answers (except for poll type questions)?

Jan Dvorak

@devnull then maybe insist on closing as a duplicate if it is, perhaps answer with reference if it isn't. You can still downvote for any reason you want.

asking for code is fine, but 1) the code must be reasonably scoped. "How do I open a file" is fine, "pls gimme teh codes that implement this spec" is too broad. 2) it's often unclear what is the asker's level of knowledge and 3) they're not always useful, downvote at will.

Amal Murali

Context: stackoverflow.com/questions/23075314

Jan Dvorak

voted "unclear" because I think it's underspecced, but when specs come, we will want the asker to tell us where exactly he is stuck.

Amal Murali

I intitially answered the question with an answer, but after the UPDATE, added another, as I think they're two distinct answers. But after reading Jeff's answer here, I'm not sure if it was the correct thing to do.

michaelb958

07:24

No answers => no answers can be upvoted => no upvoted answers. Problem? — michaelb958 1 min ago

Qantas 94 Heavy

07:42

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A: Why Do Rails Tests Run as www.example.com

This is probably a duplicate answer for this, also on SO: How do I change the default "www.example.com" domain for testing in rails?

Whaddya do with these answers?

michaelb958

@Qantas94Heavy I'd suggest flagging for a moderator; I think they have delete-powers over them, since they have special shiny diamonds and all.

Qantas 94 Heavy

ok, done

Jan Dvorak

flagged as NAA

rene

08:02

entered the wrong room...

good morning...

Bart

good morning

ProgramFOX

good morning

SPArchaeologist

good morning

can anyone spare a minute?

(I am not asking for vote or anything)

Bart

59 .... 58

SPArchaeologist

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Q: How should "bad" language be handled?

I was just reviewing some edits when I came across an edit where a user with 97 Rep wanted to edit a answer by a user with 12k+Rep. Just by that I was thinking well this should be good.... So looking at the edit and the description I saw "language is not proper offensive word used". Looking at ...

discussion stackoverflow review edits suggested-edits

can anyone comment on WHY the edit shouldn't have been accepted?

seems to be the most voted behavior.

Bart

08:12

Because the edit addresses only the issue in a single answer and not the problem as a whole. It doesn't solve the problem, it only creates more confusion. Admittedly that is largely caused by the editor.

SPArchaeologist

if the editor actually fixed all the posts, you still would have reviewed them one by one

3ventic's Shadow

...without knowing about the rest of them

michaelb958

Also, the terminology is kinda necessary to understand what's going on in the question. Either leave it self-explanatory, or add something like /* Fake expletives for demonstration */ (as the mod who previously edited the question did).

SPArchaeologist

so he can review THAT edit as an item and then fix the whole

Bart

Myeah, true

3ventic's Shadow

08:14

unless you already declined one or checked the post (but let's face it, robo-reviewers already accepted it by then)

SPArchaeologist

so you can't understand the question if he asked why "replace("orange", "apple") didn't work instead?

Bart

Sure you can. But if that is not the context you're dealing with as the OP, it's not all that difficult to see why the question was asked the way it was asked.

michaelb958

@SPArchaeologist Hypothetical commenter: "Why the heck are you doing all those useless random replacements?"

3ventic's Shadow

I see the suggested edit as helpful even for the fact that it brought up an issue with the question and answers that can be solved with a quick edit. Even if he didn't fix all of the posts, it takes a minute max from one of the reviewers to finish the job.

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 Because the question said "I am trying to implement a profanity filter system"? IMHO you don't need the list of profanity to understand the question scope

@michaelb958 anyway, fell free to comment on my answer in the post above and even to downvote it if you disagree. I am looking for user opinion, so if you explain you view any comment is welcome.

@3ventic'sShadow That was what I were thinking.

michaelb958

08:30

@SPArchaeologist Fair enough, I guess. I'm just a militant don't-fix-what-ain't-broke kind of person, who furthermore doesn't see what's broke (as van Rossum said, "we're all adults here" - or at least, as responsible as adults).

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 the point is that "we're all adults here" is just one way of viewing it. As far as I know, not anybody out there may think the same, and some readers may want to avoid reading that. That is why I think it was correct to remove that: even if it don't offend me, it may offend others.

michaelb958

08:46

@SPArchaeologist To be honest, I don't have a problem with that either. If you want to fix it, fix it; if you don't, don't. If you do fix it, fix it all and fix it properly. That's my view, anyway.

SPArchaeologist

08:59

@michaelb958 We agree on the "fix it all" part.

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