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The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
2:01 PM
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Undo
Undo
>:(
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
Even the message history doesn't tell the secret :-(
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
in Sandbox, Mar 24 at 5:15, by michaelb958
‍
 
3ventic
3ventic
‮
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
@3ventic: What's that????
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
2:03 PM
@3ventic ...???
 
3ventic
3ventic
lol
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
in Sandbox, 16 mins ago, by The Guy with The Hat
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Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
■■■
 
3ventic
3ventic
Star it and you'll know what it is
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@TheGuywithTheHat I did it first. So there.
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
2:04 PM
@3ventic lol
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Great @3ventic you borked the starboard
 
3ventic
3ventic
np
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@3ventic Oh man that messes up the message controls.
 
rene
rene
 
3ventic
3ventic
@michaelb958 what message controls?
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
2:06 PM
On the other hand, the stars look like they're next to my message, so I'm happy.
@3ventic The flag, star, reply buttons that appear on hover. They appear too far up, and don't stay there long enough for you to mouse over and click them.
 
3ventic
3ventic
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
Plus the message has a really darn small cursor hitbox.
 
3ventic
3ventic
Looks pretty normal to me
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Yup, I see what @3ventic see. What browser, @michaelb958?
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
⁣
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
2:10 PM
hey everyone !
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
Hi
 
rene
rene
Hi
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
That's what I see, too.
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@tgm hi!
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
2:13 PM
\o
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
@TGMCians What's that?
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
\o/
yaaaaay!
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
wait
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
\o/
` | `
`/`
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:14 PM
/\
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
see there
got ?
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
Wow! code formatting is weird on chat 
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The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
\
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
What's weird about that?
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
hum
 
3ventic
3ventic
2:16 PM
chat uses the same markdown as comments for the most part
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@programfox no, not that
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
0
Q: Old [M]SO Favicon

michaelb958 About April 3, 2014. The favicon for Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow is changed. Much whining ensues. This script changes them back. License The MIT License Download Userscript Platform Runs on any browser that jQuery supports (which is quite a few). Contact It's just me, @mi...

script icons
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
@TheGuywithTheHat did you see link urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%5Co
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
Try this: `
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
`
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
2:17 PM
@TGMCians Oh, yes. thanks.
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@BlueIce `
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
`
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
Darn it, wait
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
`` ` ``
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
Well @TheGuywithTheHat
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:17 PM
lol hold on
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
yes
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@BlueIce That's not even hard, man. You are not worthy of induction into The Society of the Blank Message.
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
It need
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
@TheGuywithTheHat No, you need to use a backslash: `
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
`
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:18 PM
Try a backtick, followed by a forward slash followed by a backslash followed by a backtick
It comes out like this: `/`
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
`/`
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
weird, huh?
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
The backslash escapes the `
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
yup
 
3ventic
3ventic
`/\`
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:19 PM
` /\ `
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@BlueIce Those who know not the difference between a forward slash and a backslash deserve to administrate Active Directory servers forever.
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
\/
`/`
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
\/
`/`
@ProgramFOX This is kind of silly, because backticks should really have precedence
 
Stijn
Stijn
@michaelb958 my hero!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@michaelb958 nice!
> > > can we nest quotes?
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
2:23 PM
Why @BlueIce? If someone writes `code``code`, then if backticks would have precedence, how would SE know whether it should be rendered as code code or as code``code?
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
Easiest Stack Apps rep I ever "earned".
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
code``code
@ProgramFOX Lol, there is your answer
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
code``code
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
But codecode`
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
@3ventic What's the name of that character?
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:24 PM
code``code
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
@BlueIce Lol
I should have added a space between my two backticks.
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@ProgramFox Lol only one middle backtick is funny
codecode`
code code
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@ShadowWizard But we are having a discussion about formatting :)
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@TheGuywithTheHat You're probably after U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE.
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:27 PM
See! Discussion! Discussion!
 
3ventic
3ventic
@TheGuywithTheHat I'm not sure
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@ShadowWizard My hero! Now we're even. :P
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
;)
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@ShadowWizard There aren't any people in the sandbox.... just lots of sand. Boring.
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
:)
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
2:28 PM
:))
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
:)))
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
:))))
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
:)))))
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
:))))))
 
Braiam
Braiam
:)))))))
 
Stijn
Stijn
2:34 PM
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@Stijn Damnit!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
lol
So much better than morning trains
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
vrooom
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
Evening!
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
No. morning! :)
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
2:36 PM
(Just had to prevent that from starting. You're welcome @ShadowWizard.)
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@Stijn :(
@hichris hi chris!
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
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Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
@TheGuywithTheHat That... is lovely :)))
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@TheGuywithTheHat Now that is approvable. Barely.
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
2:38 PM
@michaelb958 Just barely!?
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
@TheGuywithTheHat As you may have worked out, I don't like morning trains much.
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
@michaelb958 But it's not a morning train, it's a morning train
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
@ShadowWizard Sorry I can't , I can if you can give some of your reputation :P
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@TGMCians 2423? Hmm... five bounties and we're done!
 
Braiam
Braiam
@ShadowWizard same reason as above, but in my case only 2
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
2:41 PM
The starboard is literally full of punctuation right now.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Braiam yup ;)
@michaelb958 yeah, no worry it will wear itself off soon when Bart will be back with full force. :D
 
Blue Ice
Blue Ice
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TGMCians
TGMCians
@ShadowWizard oh .. that would take time,, trying very slowly
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
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Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
ERROR: too much ASCII ART. ABORT.
 
michaelb958
michaelb958
2:47 PM
...I'm just going to try to sleep now.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@michaelb958 sweet dreams about morning trains and ASCII arts! :D
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
For better ascii art viewing, paste this into you javascript console: $('.full').css('line-height', '12px');
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
There's probably a better way to change the line height, but who cares :)
 
hichris123
hichris123
Hi @BlueIce!
 
Undo
Undo
3:00 PM
hi @hichris123!
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
\o @hichris123
 
hichris123
hichris123
Hi!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
ɥᴉ¡
ⓣⓗⓐⓣ'ⓢ ⓒⓞⓞⓛ ⓞⓡ ⓝⓞⓣ?
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@ShadowWizard not really. Hard to read and quickly wears out.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
yeah, what I thought too @Jan :(
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
3:07 PM
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
@JanDvorak Yes.
 
hichris123
hichris123
What happened to that spam?
I want to flag some spam. :(
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@hichris123 even Baba need to sleep
And looks like he's the only spammer capable of bypassing SE defenses
 
hichris123
hichris123
goes to secretly post spam
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Tip: get hold of a big botnet ;)
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:18 PM
Better hope Tim Post doesn't come in the room right now. :P
 
Braiam
Braiam
@hichris123 he is around D:
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
:D
 
hichris123
hichris123
... oops. :P
 
Braiam
Braiam
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
You have to wait for few minutes to answer the next question when you have low reputation I don't know exact reputation . right ?
but how that OP managed to do so ?
or this rule is applicable for SO ?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
3:28 PM
@TGMCians yeah, it's per site rate limiting
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
hmm
so it seems no restriction such as on superuser
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
I can't tell whether this is a troll or not: superuser.com/questions/738745/…
I cant tell if this is legit, or a troll... — Keltari 51 secs ago
lol
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:47 PM
I installed this app that lets me see girls. It says it doesn't need a credit card and is free is why I got it. — jOE 33 secs ago
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
but I have downloaded hardware before.. :/ — jOE 12 mins ago
Huh?
 
The Guy with The Hat
The Guy with The Hat
@ProgramFOX So have I. It's really easy!
 
Braiam
Braiam
 
rene
rene
4:06 PM
@hichris123 That poor user: due to the downvotes he get q-banned and due to what hid did to his moms laptop he is grounded
3
 
Jason C
Jason C
0
Q: how to give working sharing option to grid view images in fullscreen

skulldeath420I could really need some help i´m going crazy i can´t find the solution. I made an app like that one: http://www.androidhive.info/2012/02/android-gridview-layout-tutorial/ It´s working fine BUT What i would like to do is to share the picture what is in fullscreen with whatsapp for example. The...

java android image gridview share
And possibly others.
Er, maybe my list is wrong. I don't know why this is so confusing. There's so many...
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
 
hichris123
hichris123
4:23 PM
@rene sad
 
rene
rene
Indeed...
 
hichris123
hichris123
Can some CM nuke those accounts ^^?
 
Anna Lear
Anna Lear
4:54 PM
@hichris123 done
 
Jason C
Jason C
-3
Q: Image in WPF control does not show up in Actions Pane

user3111311I have a WPF user control that is inserted inside an Actions Pane, in a Excel Workbook project. For some reason the image is properly displayed in the WPF user control, but it is not shown at all in the Actions Pane. I found this strange thing. If the image is specified with absolute path then ...

wpf excel vsto
CV belongs on superuser (I think) or insufficient information (if not).
 
rene
rene
5:13 PM
@JasonC I doubt it. Excel is always cornercase but as the OP is claiming somehting is working or not with WPF involved the OP either has a build a com-component or is using VSTO or worse: both.
2
 
Braiam
Braiam
ok, this is funny xkcd.com/1350
 
Jason C
Jason C
@rene True, good point.
 
rene
rene
I CV with not enough information to diagnose
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Braiam Crap, do I do DFS, or BFS in multiple browser tabs.
I hate making choices!
 
hichris123
hichris123
@JasonC ?
 
Braiam
Braiam
5:17 PM
@JasonC the linux guy in me, wants to slap you around with a stinky trout
 
Jason C
Jason C
Haha
 
rene
rene
@JasonC Left a comment with a debugging hint
 
Louis
Louis
Well, I guess were getting our daily "I will teach you how to run SO" lesson right now.
Over on Meta.
 
Jason C
Jason C
@rene Word. You're so friendly!
@Louis WTH, that guy just posted.
 
Anna Lear
Anna Lear
@Louis where?
 
Louis
Louis
5:26 PM
-7
Q: Primarily Opinion Based - Wording

Jsh562 Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. I propose that the words "or specific expertise" be removed. after several enc...

feature-request rules
 
rene
rene
The question on SO that sparked all this was maybe a better candidate for programmers.se or dba.se if the OP added details about which part of the storage structure made him jump to his conclusion.
Do we need tags per hosting provider on SO like site5 which is created by a 10K-er on this question
 
hichris123
hichris123
5:44 PM
@rene That answer your question? :P
 
rene
rene
I was just looking at this
fine edit, tnx
 
Braiam
Braiam
@rene oh god...
there are 1k
 
rene
rene
Yeah...you would almost create a tag so you can clearly mark those questions...oh wait...
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Louis You know, I actually see where that guy is coming from because I thought the same thing about that specific wording as soon as he posted his original question (before this proposal). At the same time, it was more of "oh, I can see why he misinterpreted it, but come on, it's pretty clear to most other people...".
I tried to put a constructive answer there but it ended up just being vague rambling. We'll see how long it lasts.
2 hours ago, by rene
@hichris123 That poor user: due to the downvotes he get q-banned and due to what hid did to his moms laptop he is grounded
^ @BlueIce OMG so sad... :'''(
 
Braiam
Braiam
 
Jason C
Jason C
5:56 PM
I swear I already saw a [godaddy] blacklist request
 
Braiam
Braiam
@JasonC I swear I included that link on my question :(
 
Jason C
Jason C
Ah you edited as soon as I added a link. @Braiam
 
Louis
Louis
@JasonC I don't get even the milder parts of his proposal but then there's this "any or all types of questions related to sciences or fields that have not yet been COMPLETELY discovered and defined should be banned".
@JasonC And I see you asked Robert what pickles are best. Dijkstra's "Pickles Considered Harmful" paper is the definitive work on the topic of pickles and whether programmers should use them. (No link at the moment.)
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Louis Yeah he's being dumb about it.
Haha
 
Braiam
Braiam
@JasonC nope
 
Jason C
Jason C
6:01 PM
@Braiam Ah I spaced out and didn't see your link. (<- does that work)
Whoa
@3ventic I don't know what character you typed there but, right-to-left for the win.
 
3ventic
3ventic
it was ‮
:p
 
Jason C
Jason C
@3ventic 202E :P
 
rene
rene
6:29 PM
as duplicate please, quickly...
tnx
 
user2284570
user2284570
@JasonC Ok, It seems it is closed now. GRRR! When I think the title of the tag related to this is "exact-duplicate".
 
Jason C
Jason C
@user2284570 Why are you telling me this?
 
user2284570
user2284570
Sorry I din't think to it before (still yesterday for me in mind). :/
 
Jason C
Jason C
Yes but I don't even remember talking about that question with you. Am I misremembering, or are you thinking of the wrong person?
 
user2284570
user2284570
No. Remember the cryptographicly secure manual :D
 
Jason C
Jason C
6:45 PM
Oh! Ha. I thought you were referring to meta.stackoverflow.com/q/228615/242800, which you linked to.
 
user2284570
user2284570
Yes: And you wrote: *"I just read your last comment, haha.
I'm actually really torn between loving gibberish and not wanting to take this too far."*
 
qwertynl
qwertynl
Hi
 
Undo
Undo
7:09 PM
&rlm; test
test &rlm;
&#8207; test
test &#8207;
can't make it work :(
 
hichris123
hichris123
Huh @Undo?
 
Jason C
Jason C
‮@Undo: You can find them in charmap.
If you're on Windows that is.
 
Undo
Undo
HOW YOU DO THAT, @JasonC?
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol
 
Undo
Undo
I can't make the UTF8 char work :(
 
Laszlo Papp
Laszlo Papp
7:15 PM
-7
A: C++ variable not influencing outcome

AlbjenowMoin, you should put the second quesstion into the first if block... Greez Albjenow

 
Jason C
Jason C
‮‭‮‮‮@Undo‮‭ Use your favorite character map tool; search for the character, copy and paste.
 
Undo
Undo
test &#8207;
&#8207; test
grrrr
 
Stijn
Stijn
When I invite someone to a chat room via their chat profile, they'll get a notification, right?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
0
Q: How can I share a single app_data MDF between two projects in Visual Studio efficiently?

jcolebrandHow can I share a single MDF between two projects in Visual Studio efficiently? I know I can install it to the local db store, but I prefer to keep the MDF as part of a test package for sharing to the other devs until we get past initial greenfield on this solution. I've got a Windows Service t...

asp.net-mvc-4 windows-services visual-studio-2013 appdata
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Stijn yeah
after a while
anyone wants to close this? Check last comment
 
Laszlo Papp
Laszlo Papp
7:33 PM
-3
Q: C++ vectors and matrixes

user3508119I have to fill a n times m matrix with integers using vectors, the problem is that i never used vectors.Could you explain me how to do this properly? An example would be: 0 10 5 6 8 1 2 3 5 6 9 9 9 9 9

c++ vector matrix
 
hichris123
hichris123
¿-ï89?é @odnU
 
Undo
Undo
:(
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
oy vey, children and your sudden fascination with LTR and RTL unicode characters
Eternal September and there are no school marms to educate children anymore
 
Undo
Undo
:P
 
Stijn
Stijn
I have the feeling stackoverflow.com/questions/22921413/… is off-topic but I don't know which reason to pick. It's basically asking how to disassemble a dll-like file.
Any ideas?
 
Undo
Undo
7:38 PM
he has the start of an SR question there if he fleshes it out.
 
Jeroen Vannevel
Jeroen Vannevel
I'd leave it open
 
Stijn
Stijn
OK, I guess my feeling was off :)
 
hichris123
hichris123
Hmm, how can I convert a string like updated at 3:29:48 PM EDT on 4/7/2014 into a PHP date()?
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@hichris123 what is the PHP date format?
 
Jason C
Jason C
7:44 PM
@Undo You can use HTML escape sequences, if you enjoy constant failure. Bahaha points and laughs
 
hichris123
hichris123
@JanDvorak What do you mean?
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Stijn Tool / library / off-site resource?
@hichris123 The algorithm at stackoverflow.com/questions/3053580/… is a good quick hack.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@JanDvorak what part of php.net/manual/en/function.date.php is not answering your question?
 
hichris123
hichris123
@JasonC That one looks good.
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@jcolebrand the part that tries to explain why I didn't care to look up the doc :-)
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
7:51 PM
It was literally less effort to goto google, type 'php date format' and click the link than all the effort you expounded asking in this room
 
Jason C
Jason C
@jcolebrand It was hichris123's question, not Jan's.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
whoops
sorry @JanDvorak
let's try that agian
 
hichris123
hichris123
rofl
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@hichris123 what part of "let me try typing anything at all into php and see what breaks" was hard
because PHP has the most forgiving language features I've ever seen
 
hichris123
hichris123
7:53 PM
@jcolebrand The fact that I don't have the string yet? :P
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
I'm willing to bet, without guessing, that date('updated at 3:29:48 PM EDT on 4/7/2014') gives you something usable. And if it doesn't, and you're writing a scraper, you just write a regex to scrape the crap you want
 
Jason C
Jason C
What part of "what part of whatever was hard" was hard?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
I mean, we're asking hypotheticals and not trying
I might as well close my eyes and wish for a million dollars
 
hichris123
hichris123
@jcolebrand Too much effort. ;)
 
balpha
balpha
@jcolebrand that's like saying arsenic is forgiving because it doesn't care what kind of organism you are in order to kill you
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
7:55 PM
@balpha at least you would take a stab at throwing it into date and see what date did with it
or writing a valid regex parser that knows what to look for in the scraped data
or basically any of 17 thousand other methods
 
Jason C
Jason C
Orrrrrrrr... hichris123's question was already quickly answered about 10 minutes ago, and now we're done.
 
Undo
Undo
0
Q: Timestamps in the Community Bulletin look out of place

UndoFirst: Congrats on graduating! I love the new design (kudos to the designers) overall. However, this has been bugging me: Notice how 'tomorrow' is ever so slightly smaller than 'ends'? It turns out that it's specified to 11 point font, while the 'ends' is in 12 pt font. Can we please do this?

bug design
Minor design bugs FTW!
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@Undo rejecting as too mi... oh, wait, that's not an edit :-)
 
Undo
Undo
;)
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Undo Perhaps they should change it to ‮‭‮‮‮‮"ends tomorrow"
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
7:59 PM
@JasonC not sure, but "ends yesterday" seems more readable ;-)
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol
I think the Hot Network Questions list should exclusively show questions from aviation.se. Every time I read a question there I find some awesome answer to a question I had no idea I had.
 
hichris123
hichris123
@Undo Can we please do this should be can we please fix this.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
hey @balpha since you poked your head in
and since @TimStone is being ignoring people mode
whaddayaknow about VS and app_data?
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@JasonC I've seen the same for rpg.se and even other sites
2
Q: If Saturn or Jupiter were in Earth's orbit, would any of their moons be habitable for humans?

James JenkinsThe majority of exoplanets found so far are comparable in size to Jupiter or Saturn. Which, as we know, are problematic for human habitation. But their moons have a lot of potential. Some of these large exoplanets are in the Goldilocks zone. Given what we know about the moons of Jupiter & Satu...

solar-system jupiter exoplanet saturn goldilocks-zone
 
Jason C
Jason C
@jcolebrand You can put it in SQL Server's common data directory, e.g. stackoverflow.com/questions/10959397/…
 
TGMCians
TGMCians
8:04 PM
cya
 
Jason C
Jason C
@JanDvorak Nice!
 
balpha
balpha
@jcolebrand not much, never used it
@JasonC like this aviation question?
99
Q: How do I lick a plane?

JutschgeA friend of mine told me that I would get an Achievement if I managed to lick the plane that's flying around in the world but, he won't tell me how to get close to it. I tried many different things. Jumping on trampolines won't get me high enough, and the only thing that looks high enough is the...

achievements goat-simulator
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@balpha WAT
 
Jason C
Jason C
@balpha Lol I saw that one actually. I want to collect all Arqade titles into a fortune script.
 
hichris123
hichris123
This question appears to be off-topic because it belongs on Aviation SE, which deals with plane-licking. — Jamal Apr 3 at 17:24
 
Jason C
Jason C
8:08 PM
Haha, best migration request ever. ^
 
hichris123
hichris123
It's not just Aviation SE. Code golf: In as few characters as possible, lick a plane. Code review: Is my plane licking good enough? StackOverflow: I liked a plane, but didn't get the lick-a-plane achievement. What am I missing? Programmers: Is licking a plane an antipattern? Workplace: My boss circulated a memo restating the company policy against plane-licking. Should I quit now, or in two weeks? DIY: Not a hand plane? … etc — kojiro 2 days ago
rofl
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@JasonC rejected - should be migrated to biology.se, which is an appropriate site to ask about goats
@hichris123 Music: I licked a plane and I liked it
 
Jason C
Jason C
@kojiro MSO: I asked how to lick a plane but it was closed as opinion-based. No wonder nobody likes SO! You all suck! — Jason C 27 secs ago
Can we add "This answer contains a link to w3schools.com" as an explicit answer flag?
 
Stijn
Stijn
Basically you guys are telling all of us FU, you're not smart enough for us. I will henceforth make EVERY effort to avoid SO altogether. All you Sheldon Coopers can then just smart each other off. — user3023464 2 mins ago
I have to admit, I chuckled
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@JasonC comment, maybe downvote, maybe edit
 
Louis
Louis
8:23 PM
Oops that formatting did not work the way I was expecting....
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol @Stijn
Oh man, here's a bummer
Stackoverflow is second only to Google in terms of directing people to w3schools, according to Alexa (alexa.com/siteinfo/w3schools.com)
 
Louis
Louis
" I will henceforth make EVERY effort to avoid SO altogether." We've got a bit of an underachiever here. How about "I will henceforth devote all my energies to building a site that will bury SO INTO TEH GROUND! My site will be AWESOME and be THE site for Q&A."
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Louis We should refer him to the indian hacker team.
 
Louis
Louis
Hmm... never mind, we're talking about a guy who can't do a google search...
I'm not familiar with the indian hacker team. Spammers?
 
Jason C
Jason C
Or whatever they're called.
 
Braiam
Braiam
8:31 PM
in Ask Ubuntu General Room on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 5 mins ago, by hbdgaf
@Braiam If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Dijkstra
 
Jason C
Jason C
Yeah
 
Braiam
Braiam
really?
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Braiam Where is that "really?" directed? Sorry, I made a mess out of the conversations here.
 
Braiam
Braiam
@JasonC you always made a mess out conversations everywhere ¬_¬
 
Jason C
Jason C
(✖╭╮✖)
 
Braiam
Braiam
8:34 PM
btw, there's a meta 10ker? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/228663
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Braiam Google's cache bit.ly/1lGpfBw if you really want to see it.
He was bored and spamming this morning, or last night or yesterday, or something, I can't remember.
 
Braiam
Braiam
Google's so slow removing it, or we were slow removing it?
 
Jason C
Jason C
I dunno, SO search results appear on Google immediately, and the cache was created within 2 minutes of the post.
I wonder if that whole thing yesterday was triggered by animuson's anti-voting-ring quest. Perhaps he had some accounts involved in that and was sad about it.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@JasonC hey did you happen to READ MY QUESTION?
 
Jason C
Jason C
@jcolebrand I glanced at it. Guess my cursory search wasn't helpful. That's all the effort I was willing to put in. Be patient, you only asked it a few hours ago. :)
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
8:53 PM
@JasonC a) most posts get answers within minutes or languish, b) balpha is one of the first people I would listen to on something like this, c) I described the question so much better than your answer even pretended that it was obvious you didn't bother the minimum amount of effort, thus it was a non-answer, thus it was useless.
And even at that point, I knew Balpha was unlikely to have seen the question in the first place
 
Jason C
Jason C
@jcolebrand Which is precisely why I posted it in chat and not as an answer. You are not entitled to my effort. You're a mod on DBA you should know how this works. In any case, what I was about to type just now is, is it perhaps possible to specify a full / relative path to your data source?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@JasonC yeah, I don't want to give a full path, and the relative seems sketchy
I keep my code on z:\
most of my other devs keep theirs on c:\
 
Jason C
Jason C
Can you reference environment variables from the connection string, perhaps?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
I'm not ready to commit to it being a dedicated database and because of the way I utilize fluentmigrator it gets rebuilt everytime you start the app
@JasonC very possibly, which is sort of what I was thinking of doing. dropping it into the solution level and giving up on App_Data
 
Jason C
Jason C
Yeah; that's all I can think of too, but disclaimer: My experience with VS development is limited, I haven't done any Windows-specific stuff in a very long time.
I'll let you know if I come across something, though. Always good to file VS tips away for future reference anyways.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
8:59 PM
@JasonC especially arbitrary stuff like app_data in connection strings
I should just force anyone working on it to have a local db installed
 
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