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@Qantas94Heavy Yeah, that is

Qantas 94 Heavy

oops wrong one

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4490071

Q: Difference between MsiInstallProduct and Installer.InstallProduct?

can this be considered scrapping?

newdavesite.com/part10/view/4759667

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What's the difference between these two? MsiInstallProduct and Installer.InstallProduct. From what I've read, the only difference is that the first returns an int that will dictate if the installation succeeded or not. I am currently using DTF (WiX) to call Installer.InstallProduct. The problem...

I don't see any attribution or mentioning of the Creative commons license

Alex

@SPArchaeologist am i the only one getting filipino cupid adverts on that link?

ad-blocker and such, so it could be. I'm behind a pretty tall wall right now.

That would only add to the idea of reporting that scammer

Alex

10:19 AM

@SPArchaeologist i'm quite certain that site is violating the license

no attribution and no license

is there a list of sites that repackage stack exchange content? in the same way that site does?

Q: Updated procedure for reporting SCRAPERs

Yep there is a meta post here

Already sent a mail to the staff as per Pops indication

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Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC-BY-SA license. For my fellow non-lawyers, that license basically means: Anyone can use any Stack Exchange posts at any time...

discussion seo attribution copycat-sites screen-scraping

@Pops You should receive the mail soon. The owls have been freed some minute ago, give them time to reach Stack Keep.

@SPArchaeologist Also nice to see how they spell replys. A high-quality scraper indeed...

10:34 AM

@rene Is there such a creature as a high-quality scraper?

They come in all shapes and sizes, one even better than the other...

@rene They should scrap Jeff answer about the pluralization bug. ^_^

Someday, I will have to go down to my local foam-cutting shop and get a giant S. Maybe an angle bracket too.

@SPArchaeologist ha, maybe SE could setup a honeypot to achieve just that

11:19 AM

I have completed 256 close vote reviews on Meta.

@michaelb958 That deserves a cookie.

Q: Build a live video/audio streaming website with live chat? Laravel or MEAN stack?

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I'm about to build a website, using either Laravel+AngularJS or a MEAN stack (other choices are not an option). The website must have a live audio/video streaming and a live chat. Which framework would be best to build a live audio/video streaming, and at the same time have a live chat? Are the...

laravel video-streaming audio-streaming mean livechat

11:39 AM

I left a comment, I try to be nice to new users...

Whoahahahaha...

deleted... I was just going to suggest to see if it could fit on SR...

11:59 AM

Morning.

Morning.

Morning.

Morning.

Why can one post only 6 questions a day?

Why 6, not 5 or 7?

him again?

12:02 PM

Because 24 / 6 produces a full number unlike 24 / 5 or 24 / 7

jadarnel27

@devnull I imagine the dev team ran some numbers, and made the decision based on that.

DroidDev

@JanDvorak this time he has a name

@3ventic That didn't occur to me.

because 6 is the first number that starts with a giant S

I wish the number was 1 or 2. This user has been flooding the site with questions.

12:09 PM

The number can be 0 or 6...

@devnull but some appear to be fine, what's wrong with this one for example?

@ShadowWizard I was referring to the recent three.

I voted to close this as a duplicate of a later question.

@devnull which are the same... if he don't get how the system works just downvote and he'll get Q-banned

Doorknob

I'm not sure why I wouldn't downvote an incorrect answer — Doorknob 7 secs ago

12:21 PM

@Doorknob you shouldn't downvote an incorrect answer if it's useful nevertheless.

SPAM ux.stackexchange.com/questions/55156/how-to-earn-money-online

ggeeeeeh. Win 8 cannot be used to manage a win 2008 r2 hyper-v instance? .....

@JanDvorak Huh?

@Stijn these can occur, can't they?

How can an answer both be useful and wrong?

You'd forgive some technical inaccuracies in an explanation if the "rough sketch" is correct.

12:25 PM

This is not a social site!

@rene Wrong. Meta.so isn't a social site. Chat.meta.so is.

@JanDvorak If it's a minor detail then yeah, I wouldn't downvote but comment instead. I don't consider that to be wrong answers, hence my confusion about what you said :)

@JanDvorak It is? So I'm social now?

Whenever your comment starts with "technically", what follows is not grounds for downvoting ;-)

Doorknob

wait, we have a vocabulary tag? O_o

12:31 PM

~~Synonym candiate for terminology?~~ Seems to be used for a range of topics.

@Doorknob now we do

@Stijn Well, an answer that presents a method to attain result X may be wrong in that the method does not actually produce result X but is useful in that once you've tried the method you have learned that this method is not useful to attain result X. So it can be both wrong and useful.

But this is not the kind of usefulness I'm looking for in an answer.

That's the problem with code obfuscation, it makes code harder to read ;-P — Álvaro G. Vicario 3 hours ago

:-D

12:56 PM

@Doorknob Quick! propose a merge with the dictionary tag!

2:09 PM

Talking about giant S, that's what I have in mind:

2:21 PM

hey all !

@TGMCians howdy

Well, thank you

.. how are you doing ?

Meh. Butthurt over a badly received feature-request. It'll blow over, I guess.

@ShadowWizard did you draw that yourself?

Stijn , I see

2:40 PM

@Stijn yup, the "S" is typed but the eye, nose and teeth are all drawn by hand.

Oh, and the font size is of course 666.

Today and yesterday in review, first was audit and I passed \o/

3:15 PM

Or you could have used all this time to ask a decent question on SO. — Bart 1 min ago

Good one @Bart. :P

@balpha meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/226139/… and meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/214397/… seem to be fixed but they didn't get a status-completed

3:47 PM

So, I'm out of comment flags. Can someone get this one for me?

Go to hell, you degrasing my reputation.... Why is it good for you? ... And you can find the solution right above... — user3341586 16 mins ago

I seem to have angered someone

ProgramFOX

Flagged.

thank you

> Invalid commit message, please fix the following issues:

Followed by blank lines.

Anyone knows why git blocks this commit message? Fix and test for issue #244, test for issue #521.

@Stijn do issues #244 and #521 exist in the tracker?

Q: Can Stack Overflow change the password criteria?

@JanDvorak Yes. I've found the cause, First line (subject) must indicate the component, apparently SourceTree dropped that part of the output.

Seems to be a commit hook specific to that repo.

Joshua

4:04 PM

This now makes the second time that I've been directly affected by refusal to fix something where the current behavior is obviously absurd.

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Why the crazy password requirements? It a Q&A site, and I have to conform to arbitrarily chosen password complexity criteria. With a 22 random lowercase characters (entropy 119 bits), the create account page asks me to: Just adding uppercase characters to the mix does not satisfy the requirem...

feature-request status-declined usability security stackexchange-openid

What do you want me to do, start writing down passwords?

@Andy I understand that comment you quoted from that irate user that reputation can be "degrassed" (assuming a missing "s"). Which implies that reputation can also be "grassed", I guess. It puts everything in a new light.

4:31 PM

@Andy My "rude or offensive" flag on that was declined...

jadarnel27

I find that flag gets declined unless the comment is really obviously someone being abusive to another person. Like, "Shut up and die you moron." or something similar.

Usually "not constructive" is alright.

Wait.... "Go to hell" is not rude???

@Louis I took it as rude.

@Louis Of course not! Why would "Go to hell" be rude?

</sarcasm>

Comment flags follow the same pattern as spam/offensive flags on posts. Too many and it's deleted automatically, so it might be useful to share to get it handled quicker.

4:38 PM

@3ventic I think it just need three flags

Yeah, I think "too many" is "3" for comments.

@Andy Yeah, I understood how you took it. I was puzzling over why an offensive flag would be declined in this case, in light of jadarnel27's comment about flags in general.

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/22833417/frontend-testing

I sort of want to ask "Does the faa have rules against aiming boomerangs at rockets?" on aviation.SE.

Bother.

I wish I had multiple clipboards

Anyways, I want to ask that because xkcd.com/1350/#p:1623d2d0-ba92-11e3-8003-002590d77bdd

5:01 PM

done CV Louis

jadarnel27

@Louis My mistake, I actually didn't notice that the comment started with "go to hell." I agree that's offensive. I got caught up in the whole "degrased" thing.

@TGMCians Thanks.

@jadarnel27 I see!

5:13 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/22844445/…

Flyk

5:32 PM

@SPArchaeologist hi

user314104

6:18 PM

Hi meta

I was looking for a question-answer pair for a well-defined question.

I found the answer to my question as an answer to another question, but the other question isn't asking what I'm asking.

If I ask my own question (to make it easier to find), should I answer it myself, or should I wait for someone else to answer?

Q: Etiquette for answering your own question

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Often you have a question, you can't find the answer on stack overflow so you google (or think a bit more). Having found the answer you'd like to keep a record so you can find it again later. Before Stack Overflow I would write a blog post so I could google for it later. Jeff and Joel I think sp...

discussion answers etiquette

HostileFork

6:42 PM

@user314104 Answer it. But mirror it on your own blog. Love a site as much as you may, times they change. Number of my friends are getting all kinds of hits on their personal sites when they shift from talking about their opinions of the day and to "I got this error message and here was the solution"

I think writing a blog and linking it is okay, and I got in that debate with this one, to where someone went and manually pasted my answer because my blog was down that day

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A: C/C++ function definitions without assembly

You're of course right that the rubber has to meet the road at some point. But there's a lot of layers to go through before you can find that place! It sounds like you have some preconceptions based on the DOS days, and that's not too relevant anymore. There've been some good general points ma...

And okay, so my site was down, and they went to the internet archive and edited it to put the full answer in instead of a link

GnomeSlice

6:55 PM

Today's Listening

+ soundcloud.com/maf464/mafland

Evan Carroll

Guess who just become a CORE NODE.JS developer?

With the most significant patch in the history of Node.js?

@EvanCarroll Batman?

Evan Carroll

Close... the great Evan "The Great" Carroll!

github.com/joyent/node/commit/95dbb6b

user314104

@HostileFork @3ventic - thanks!

I wasn't sure 'cause, y'know, there is an answer on S.O.

It just happens to be answering the wrong question. :^)

GnomeSlice

7:16 PM

@EvanCarroll Is that good?

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/2567012/…

7:41 PM

@EvanCarroll so if I start using node.js and encounter a bug in the platform itself, you're to blame? GReat! D:

Evan Carroll

@ShadowWizard sure, just email me at team@stackoverflow.com

Jeff will make sure it gets to the right person.

Wow... I was talking with some smart but semi-normal kids at my school, and they knew what 2048 was!

Jeroen Vannevel

My facebook is getting spammed with it and I saw people with it in school

I'm glad SO kept me in the loop

Shouldn't we consider making an exception for Pekka's handbags? They are absolutely gorgeous! — Andrew Barber ♦ 1 hour ago

rofl

8:21 PM

@ThiefMaster Want to delete some comments?

ThiefMaster

nope, kind of busy right now

@ThiefMaster k, do you want me to give you the query and you can do it when you want, or what?

ThiefMaster

sure why not, if i remember it :p

opens SEDE

@ThiefMaster data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/174761/… - all but maybe the last 10 or 20.

9:15 PM

@EvanCarroll but it's more likely there will be world peace than you will work for Stack Exchange, isn't it? ;)

A: Why did the stack overflow icon (favicon) change?

9:59 PM

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After 4 years, I finally updated the favicon to resemble a full Stack Overflow logo because we have the technology now.

Yep, we now have the technology to make crap favicons.

Adam Arold

Hi.

So what technology are you referring to?

@michaelb958 ... pretty much. :P

animuson

10:29 PM

Eeeek! SO and Meta SO changed to the ugly favicons? :(

@animuson As I said 4-6 messages ago...

animuson

The one for chat still looks like a pixelated mess too. :(

Doorknob

generic grunt of complaint

Not major enough to warrant anything more