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Undo

12:15 AM

I must go on another mSE-close-queue-filling rampage.

hichris123

@Undo or help me with my quest to give Doorknob tons of comment flags. :D

Undo

out :(

that userscript makes that so easy

Except it eats all my meta close votes :(

cv-pls-opinion-based: stackoverflow.com/q/413820/1849664

user2284570

Sorry for insisting but, just a question, why my post didn't went to the review queue after the first edits on On-Hold? meta.stackoverflow.com/q/254374/2284570

michaelb958

@user2284570 Possibilities: 1 It did, and is still there. 2 It did, and was left closed. 3 It hasn't yet; give it time. 4 It didn't, for some arcane reason. My money's on 1 or 2.

animuson

12:34 AM

It looks like a hurricane outside right now.

bjb568

Looks like sun from my end.

animuson

Stupid rain keeps cutting off my cable. This is a new episode of Family Guy! Come on!

user2284570

@michaelb958 I immediately went on the review page and the reopen queue length was 0.

animuson

@user2284570 It did. It was invalidated because it was reopened outside of review: meta.stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/238

jadarnel27

12:53 AM

Regardless, I don't think you would see your own posts in the review queue, right?

bjb568

Probably not.

animuson

I know queues like First Answers and others don't, for obvious reasons, but I'm not 100% sure if that restriction carries over to the Close/Reopen queues where you can close or reopen your own question.

Flash Flood Warning? Good thing I live at the top of a hill.

Undo

You should ride your bike to the bottom of the hill for more excitement.

Braiam

@animuson you don't

Undo

... are you telling @animuson where he lives?

Braiam

1:05 AM

I don't see this one in the queue, for example askubuntu.com/q/464080/169736

animuson

@Undo I don't know how to ride a bike.

Undo

Then learn!

Hurricanes are a great time to learn to ride a bike.

Braiam

@animuson now that is surprising

Undo

also, bikes are cheap transportation

animuson

shrugs Not something I ever cared about learning.

michaelb958

1:07 AM

Why ride a bike when you can ride a unicorn?

3

@user2284570 If you want to set a default value for a parameter (that is, a value that's used if none is entered), the syntax you're after is ##parameter?default##. For example, ##MinScore:int?25##.

hichris123

1:29 AM

42

Q: You can't see the question owner's special color

When the owner of a question comments on their question or an answer to their question or self-answers their question, they get a special color for the box around their username. The problem is, you can't see the box: Can you please make this not white on white?

sigh ^ FIX NOW. PLZ?

jadarnel27

2:06 AM

Why is the CV queue plummeting?

I know they stopped fuzzying the other day.

But it was going up after that.

michaelb958

@jadarnel27 Decay. Questions get aged out after a bit of nothing happening, or something like that.

jadarnel27

@michaelb958 Ah, right!

You're a smart guy, @michaelb958.

animuson

Chicken tacos sound really good right now.

Not just tacos, though... chicken tacos.

Undo

-4

A: Downloading the Tower Bridge Defence project for Unity 4.3

;poop efeef fe e fef e f ef efef ef ef efe ef e f poopopopopopop

jadarnel27

@animuson That does sound fantastic.

Undo

2:17 AM

... uh wut?

grrr @jadarnel27 you horrible message splitter person!

jadarnel27

Calm down, @Undo. @animuson is sending us all chicken tacos.

Undo

whoa really?

I want three, @animuson

michaelb958

@Undo Ah gosh darn it, I loaded the page and clicked "flag" and it had disappeared in the intervening two seconds.

Undo

rofl, wow

animuson

All you have to do is pay $19.95 P&H!

Undo

2:19 AM

:(

In that case, I want 5000. Assuming the P&H is flat and you can put multiple in a box.

animuson

Nope, it's $9.95 P&H for each additional item.

Undo

Aw crap

-2

A: How to Sign in to SIP SERVER with Username and Password

Pls.. enter it Pls.. enter it Pls.. enter it

^ Uh..........

bjb568

michaelb958

@Undo Given the account name I'm casting a spam fl-Not again you FFITW clods!

animuson

@bjb568 I can't eat the shell but otherwise DAMN YOU! drools

michaelb958

2:21 AM

(account name: Auto call 09362976253)

Undo

@animuson ^ Destroy plz?

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1060020/…

Undo

Sent that pls enter it one to GFSE

ɥʇǝS

3:14 AM

@bjb568 Awww man.. You make my dinner look like dirt :(

bjb568

@ɥʇǝS Was it dirt?

ɥʇǝS

No. Eggs and a muffin.

bjb568

Oh. Same thing, basically.

ɥʇǝS

Essentially.

Undo

4:11 AM

Something's bad when I can answer a question in a language I've never seen before just by looking at the error message you post.

michaelb958

@Undo Syntax error at line 666

Braiam

@michaelb958 I knew it! There's something evil in SO

jmac

4:49 AM

@michaelb958 don't you know that the use of goto statements is discouraged, especially with the label hell?

Jan Dvorak

5:15 AM

@jmac not exactly. It's the goto, not the destination, that is offensive to a programmer.

michaelb958

5:51 AM

> Ethical programmers don't write void destroyBaghdad(). They write void DestroyCity(string cityToDestroy).

Imran Ali Khan

6:20 AM

hi

Shadow Wizard

6:51 AM

hi

Jan Dvorak

7:01 AM

hi

Shadow of the Shadow

hi

Jan Dvorak

Finally the morning train has arrived at the mile hi club.

2

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak smartest thing I've heard today ;)

3ventic

7:23 AM

The first thing I've heard today

Shadow Wizard

Of course, me too :D

3ventic

7:40 AM

5

Q: Post doesn't move up after clicking '(less)' in suggested edits review

When reviewing suggested edits, if you click the (more) link, the post moves down to make space for the editor and reviewer stats, however, if you click (less) to close the stats, the post doesn't move back up. Before clicking (more): After clicking (more) then clicking (less): I...

bug review suggested-edits

I've seen that reported before, but I just can't find it..

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic me too, maybe it didn't get any upvotes so got auto deleted

PeterJ

Hi all. If anyone that can do direct edits on SO is in the mood this question needs the answer in the question moved to the OPs "answer". I tried to do it with a suggested edit but it got rejected.

0

A: Java - JFreechart - get value when a point on line chart is clicked

Check my solution in the first post.

Shadow Wizard

I'll do it, @Peter

PeterJ

@ShadowWizard, thanks

Shadow Wizard

status-completed

Bart

8:11 AM

@Undo Ooh, competing answer I see. Glad that was deleted, otherwise I would have been screwed.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart oh my, noticed this just now. But why was it spam or offensive? Just pointless crap, literally this time! ;)

Bart

8:25 AM

My answer, or the deleted one @ShadowWizard?

I guess a lot of people "abuse" spam flags like that. It's nonsense -> spam

I should edit that question into something more generic ... it's valid, but doesn't read like it.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart even if you will try hard, your answers won't be crappy so... the deleted one :)

spam

user2284570

8:43 AM

Hello I have a basic question : who have access to flag queue?

Stijn

@user2284570 ♦ Moderators

I think

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn yup

user2284570

@Stijn And inside it, are there possibilities like choosing the oldest/newest flag?

and/or something like user with the highest reputation?

(which have flags of course)

Bart

I don't think there's any sorting in there any more @user2284570

There used to be a thing called flag weight, but that's gone even behind the scenes.

afaik

Shadow Wizard

From what I heard, the moderators flag queue is like our review process, they get one item at a time and can choose to handle it or skip it.

Might be wrong though. Any mods around to verify? :)

user2284570

8:48 AM

Then I know it's not in real time, but for peoples who are interested :

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/193616/…

PeterJ

@user2284570, if you're talking about flagging a question as off-topic etc that's handled a different way.

user2284570

@PeterJ No that's different here. I'm not talking about that : meta.stackoverflow.com/q/254374/2284570

After all, there are lot of other flag reason : SPAM; hate speech... And this queue should also contain flagged answers. (I think)

PeterJ

@user2284570, flagging a question because it's a tool recommendation is the same thing. That one doesn't need a diamond mod, it goes into a close vote queue where 3k users can vote on it. It's just the queue is huge so they can hang around for ages even if your flag is valid.

Sorry think I misunderstood, you're talking about answers. In that case from memory VLQ can be community deleted from a queue, and 6 spam/offensive flags by different users will automatically delete it even though it doesn't go in a queue for non-mods.

user2284570

@PeterJ My knew query should contain both flagged question and answers. I never used the word "closed" or "hunt" in this. I just created it for statistic purposes. I don't think it would be efficient for targeting questions as many lines can be closed quickly in one week.

@PeterJ Are you sure you went on the link? That's a different query. It is not the same one as yesterday.

By the way, Does anyone know how do I write the query description?

Shadow Wizard

9:11 AM

@user2284570 when composing a query, there is "edit description" link:

Same when editing existing query

@Oded did you change your avatar?? I can swear it was different not long ago! :)

Oded

@ShadowWizard yeah. Needed a higher rez one for the new profile page ;)

Jan Dvorak

how was this flagged as spam/offensive?

Amal Murali

Hm, it was a review audit no?

PeterJ

@Oded, looks much better now, I'd always assumed the last one was a police mugshot

Jan Dvorak

@AmalMurali It should have been deleted, but not as spam/offensive

Oded

9:21 AM

@PeterJ uh. Thanks?

Jan Dvorak

> Comment: readability fxd

Amal Murali

@JanDvorak Maybe the original flag was low quality?

Jan Dvorak

@AmalMurali wouldn't have caused the post to get hidden

by itself, that is

Stijn

@Oded and @PeterJ sitting in a tree

Amal Murali

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Oded

9:28 AM

As if I would ever do that with a blue gravatar!

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak probably a single flag by robo spam-flagger

I suggested to not cause it to hide the post like this, but it was gracefully declined by our very @Oded here ;)

oh, oops. Not declined, Shog was actually against the idea not Oded.

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Q: Spam masking is over greedy - please do it only if post received at least 3 spam flags

Recently there was a change causing the contents of any deleted post that received even one single spam/offensive flag to be hidden, along with all actions. Super-ubber-lock. Final death. We can't flag it and need to go to the revisions to find who posted it. While it's good and welcome for actu...

feature-request deleted-answers spam

@Oded can moderators decline specific flag while approving others on the same post? In such case the moderator approving the spam flag on the above post was totally wrong.

Oded

@ShadowWizard I don't think so - though there are plans in that direction.

user2284570

Just a question about the data explorer. In SQL how to do an inner join when 2 columns are common to three tables, and each of those columns is common with only 2 tables?

Oded

You do two joins if you have 3 tables. Not sure what you are looking for - can you be more specific, @user2284570?

user2284570

from posts
INNER JOIN PendingFlags on PendingFlags.PostId = Posts.Id
LEFT OUTER JOIN FlagTypes on FlagTypes.Id = PendingFlags.Id

You can see the syntax incorrect...

Oded

9:39 AM

LEFT OUTER JOIN FlagTypes on FlagTypes.Id = PendingFlags.FlagTypeId

One error ^^^ Joining on the wrong field. Also - you need a "SELECT *" to begin with

user2284570

@Oded of course, this is not my whole query

Oded

Can only comment on what I see ;)

Do you have a link to the query (should be on the sidebar, under Revisions)

user2284570

My problem is PendingFlags.PostId is common to Posts.Id but doen't exist FlagTypes,
and
FlagTypes.Id is common to PendingFlags.Id but doesn't exist in Posts.

The three tables are linked, but not with a single common column.
I don't know how to do a *JOIN* in that case.

Amal Murali

Just give a link to your query :)

user2284570

@AmalMurali I can't, you can save only queries which have a correct syntax.

Oded

9:48 AM

Why would FlagTypes have a actual FlagId???

Amal Murali

@user2284570 you can't comment out the part which doesn't work?

Oded

Change your LEFT JOIN to what I posted.

user2284570

Sorry :

select
TOP ##Limit:int?38369##
Posts.Id as [Post Link], -- Question title.
Count(PendingFlags.PostId) as [Number of pending flags], -- Number of pending flags per questions.
Posts.OwnerUserId as [User Link], -- Let click on the colum to see if the same user ask off-topic questions often.
Reputation as [User Reputation], -- Interesting to see that such questions are sometimes asked by high rep users.
Posts.Score as [Votes], -- Interesting to see that some questions have more than 100 upvotes.
Posts.AnswerCount as [Number of Answers], -- I thought we shouldn't answer on off-topic post.

Bart

So it has come to this ...

Shadow Wizard

To what?

Bart

9:56 AM

You disappoint me @ShadowWizard ... xkcd.com/1022

Oded

@user2284570 - I ensured capitalization of Posts and that the WHERE clause actually used Posts.ClosedDate instead of just ClosedDate. data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/193646/250532

Oh. And the correct outer join to FlagTypes

Shadow Wizard

@Bart ohh, guess I'm still not familiar with the Bartish as much as I though :(

And as usual, Oded for the rescue!

Lunch time, I put too much pepper on the mashed potatoes.

user2284570

@Oded Sorry I was just stupid : there are several flags per questions : I can't show their reason

I can only show they highest used close vote Type

Oded

Well, not with that group by, no.

user2284570

imagine a serie of numbers : {13 13 13 12 12 12 13 11 11 12 13 10 12 12 11 10 12} which would aplly to ony one line. How i can print the number which is the most present in th serie (12 in the current example)?

This is a similar case of this one: stackoverflow.com/q/2581795/2284570

Excepting I want to do this for each lines

Amal Murali

10:16 AM

Are you trying to do this with SQL?

user2284570

@AmalMurali data.stackexchange.com is SQL...

Amal Murali

@user2284570 I know that - I didn't know if you were asking help with a different language, so I just wanted to confirm.

user2284570

@AmalMurali I'm counting the number of flags per question and I also want to print the most used type of flag in an another column (the most frequent value of PendingFlags.FlagTypeId for each question).

@Oded : any ideas?

durron597

10:34 AM

hi room

Bart

o/

Amal Murali

\o

durron597

So I came across an old post on stackoverflow that was clearly off topic but is also too old to migrate. Which got me thinking about lots of old, garbage posts with no historical significance that still clutter SO

I started to write a MSE post about it when the related questions popped up this:

15

Q: How to get attention required to close old posts?

For various reasons and in various ways, I sometimes wander around looking for old questions to close. (Think of me as the night janitor.) For example, a related question might come up in the list on the right that happens to be a duplicate of a current post that is also a duplicate. I can go to ...

discussion status-completed vote-to-close 10k-tools old-questions

But I only have 7600 rep on SO

So I can't actually see what's been done, as far as the status-completed tag in that question

Shadow Wizard

@durron597 in my opinion there's no point to hunt them down. Let it be, nobody will get hurt from the buried trash

durron597

Well, it's more if I happen to come across them for one reason or another

I could vote to close, but why? That just clutters the close vote queue. I don't want to waste a moderator's time

Bart

10:39 AM

@durron597 I think that has just been status-completed because we have review queues now. If you vote to close them, they will get pushed into the queue for others to do the same (or not).

You don't waste the time of moderators with voting to close

durron597

@Bart Oddly, I flagged the question that started me thinking to migrate (before I read about why we don't migrate old questions)

and the moderator declined me, but did nothing with the question

6

Q: Adding host name to /etc/hosts in Linux

Question: Is there an easy way to add DHCP issued IP address and Hostname of a linux machine in /etc/hosts at System startup automatically? Background: My Linux machine has a hostname in /etc/hostname and it won't resolve to anything when I ping. I manually added my hostname and ip address in /e...

linux networking ubuntu

Bart

Ah, but you don't need to flag it.

durron597

Well, I know that now

I mostly came in here to ask "do people with 10k rep have the ability to close these questions without adding ancient posts to the close queue"

Bart

Nope

durron597

@Bart weird. I wonder why that question was marked status-completed then

Bart

10:43 AM

I guess because the gist of the proposal has been taken care off with the review queues.

durron597

@Bart Oh apparently there is a 10k tools "recent close votes"

Bart

Ah yeah, true

Never really look at those on MSE

durron597

@Bart meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123455/…

3ventic

rarely worth looking at in my experience

durron597

It seems like that is the question I should be looking at?

Bart

10:50 AM

Only for the deletions @3ventic :)

durron597

Though there seems to be disagreement over whether we should be wasting moderator's time with such flags or not

3ventic

Yeah, I check the recent (un)delete votes and recently (un)deleted on a regular basis

durron597

Are closed questions less likely to show up in search?

and/or do they get less relevance naturally?

Meh. Seems like I'm spending a lot of energy on a problem that doesn't exist. Thanks for your help everyone.

Shadow Wizard

11:30 AM

Someone is in real panic

-1

A: Better HTTPS support for Stack Exchange sites

The Issues with the NSA I say that this is now a requirement with more and more information from leaks with Edward Snowden. Thing's are not getting better in that aspect, it seems like the more information comes out, the more it is getting worse. An example of this is the NSA wanting to infect ...

Should we calm him down or let him keep being afraid of Agent Smith coming to his doorstep at night?

Bart

Oh, him again.

Shadow Wizard

Again? He's new in MSE

Oded

With a deleted "make SE HTTPS everywhere for everyone. Now".

Bart

I don't recall where, but I voted to close/delete something from him a couple of days ago.

Shadow Wizard

@Oded can you please take a look in this answer and verify if it's correct or not? There is some inconsistency with bounties refund as discussed in comments here. Thanks!

Oded

11:44 AM

Yeah, that looks right. Reading the user deletion code shows that the actions for starting and awarding bounties get transferred to Community on deletion. If there is only a bounty start, normal bounty rules apply (ie. will get refunded if not awarded). // @Sha @Martjin

Shadow Wizard

@Oded thanks!

Martijn Pieters

11:59 AM

@Oded: tsk tsk, I'd expect someone with a Dutch surname to be able to spell the ij digraph correctly! :-P

Oded

@Martijn My mom is Dutch, the name isn't (or if it is, it came through Brazil and Poland unscathed) ;)

Martijn Pieters

It then most probably came via Surinam (ex Dutch colony in South America). :-)

Stijn

@Martijn do you also often have people spell your name as Martijin? I've lost count of the times I've been called Stijin...

Martijn Pieters

@Stijn All the time.

As for the pronunciations...

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters how you know Oded's surname? ;)

Martijn Pieters

12:03 PM

Okay, Coster with a C is not wholly dutch.

Stijn

@ShadowWizard odedcoster.com/blog :)

Martijn Pieters

@ShadowWizard See his user profile..

Shadow Wizard

lol

Anyway....

Coster

Coster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818), French painter * Charles Coster (1837-1888), American soldier and public official * Charles De Coster (1827-1879), Belgian novelist * Dirk Coster (1889–1950), Dutch physicist * Elizabeth Coster, New Zealand swimmer * Francis Coster (1532-1619), Flemish Jesuit theologian * Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370-c. 1440), Dutch printer * Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (born 1970), Danish actor * Nicolas Coster (born 1934), British-born American actor * Salomon Coster (c. 1620-1659), clockmaker * Stan Coster (...

only two dutch

Martijn Pieters

As opposed to

Koster (surname)

Koster is the Dutch word for sexton or verger, derived from the Latin custos. Koster is a common surname in the Netherlands, ranking 45th in 2007 (15,898 people). People with the surname "Koster" or "De Koster" include: * Adam de Koster (also spelled de Coster) (1586–1643), Flemish painter * Adrie Koster (b. 1954), Dutch footballer * Bo Koster, US rock musician * Chava Koster, Dutch female rabbi * Chris Koster (b. 1964), American politician from the state of Missouri * Chris Koster, Canadian singer-songwriter * Cornelis H. A. Koster (1943–2013), Dutch computer scientist * Daphne Koster (b....

Shadow Wizard

ohhh, trying to be smart! Let's see...

Martijn Pieters

12:05 PM

See surnamedb.com/Surname/Coster

Shadow Wizard

well nothing right now but changing one letter changes everything many times :)

Martijn Pieters

In Dutch, the C and K are pronounced the same in this case, so you see the variation crop up a lot.

And the Belgian in the Coster surname list can be considered Dutch as well; they speak Dutch in the northern half of Belgium. Or Flemish, as they call the local variation. So that makes 4 names in that list (the theologian is from Mechelen, a Belgian town).

Oded

@MartijnPieters - some of the family does spell it with a K

Shadow Wizard

OK, but Oded's origin is neither of those. :D

@Oded what about Hebrew? With a ק I guess?

Oded

@ShadowWizard - who knows. Our people travel, as you nkow ;)

Martijn Pieters

12:10 PM

Nope, but I remembered he is half-Dutch. The fact that I misremembered what parent is neither here nor there. :-P

Oded

Aye - קוסטר @Sha

Shadow Wizard

@Oded Cool, that's what I thought. כוסטר might be considered offensive, lol!

Oded

Ha!

Shadow Wizard

My surname is much less complicated

Bart

Wizard. Simple.

Shadow Wizard

12:13 PM

@Bart so true ;)

Oded

^^^ ?

Shadow Wizard

@Oded I see you're on a rampage in MSO, if you can take a look on this one it would be great, curious to know what happened there

8

Q: Negative deletion votes count

I have faced this strange issue: As you can see, I've got expiration alert (red box in the bottom) and confirmation dialog which indicates that I have -4 deletion votes count. I'm not sure how that happened and obviously it's a bug (well, I'm sure that I had remaining votes today, but eve...

bug vote-to-delete

DroidDev

do I have a surname on SO...??

(thinking while watching unicorns flying around)

Oded

@ShadowWizard yeah, was taking a peek. Looks like he managed more DVs than allotted. Something screwy with the accounting.

Martijn Pieters

@DroidDev fiverr.com/droiddev

Shadow Wizard

12:15 PM

@Oded maybe he's the famous hacker? :D

Martijn Pieters

Not directly, but I can find something with minimal clicks.

DroidDev

@MartijnPieters bulls eye

I never thought someone would even open that

Shadow Wizard

100 unicoins to the first who find my real surname! :P

Oded

@ShadowWizard done.

Stijn

@Oded No fair, you can see the Real Name field!

DroidDev

12:17 PM

booooo

Oded

He never said not to ;)

Shadow Wizard

@Oded how naive of me! OK, 100 unicoins to the first diamondless user who find the name and post it here ;)

Stijn

No luck so far, I did find this pic of yours

Bart

Burstein

2

DroidDev

I think this is the time, where my friendship with a diamond user might have been helpful.

but, I am an active user here, there should be special hints to the users who participate actively in that room.

(I want those unicoins)

Shadow Wizard

12:23 PM

@Bart 100 unicoins for you! Available in the nearest Shadow Wizard Bank of Unicoins

Bart

Yay!

Shadow Wizard

Use them wisely!

Oded

The question now is... how did @Bart do it ;)

Bart

I can upgrade my smitingstick

Check the access logs @Oded

google.com/search?q=yahav+developerbarn

^^ that's how

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard what is the current unicoin/cupcake exchange rate?

Shadow Wizard

12:26 PM

@Bart but how did you know my first name?

Bart

Check your profile

Stijn

@Bart Ah :)

Shadow Wizard

@Bart checked. The email is yahavbr so how did you know only "yahav" is the first name?

@SPArchaeologist 10 unicoins = 1 pink cupcake. 5 unicoins for any other color.

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard because BR is the newline after the name

Amal Murali

Can someone check this user's profile? He's been creating several userless chat rooms for off-topic chat.

Bart

12:29 PM

Heard the name Yahav before @ShadowWizard. And the "br" after it seemed out of place.

Why @AmalMurali?

Stijn

> This user has been automatically suspended for posting inappropriate content and cannot chat for 2 hours 43 minutes.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart good! So now another challenge... find why the "br" and not something like "bu". :D

Amal Murali

Yeah, many users in this room flagged messages posted by that user.

Martijn Pieters

@ShadowWizard I cottoned on that Yahav was your first name too. Not that bick a leap.

Bart

Not bick at all.

Martijn Pieters

12:31 PM

@ShadowWizard From Braverman

Amal Murali

@Bart Well, take a look at the list of rooms :-P

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters good! 100 unicoins for you too :)

Oded

Spending those unicoins as if they weren't money!

Bart

@AmalMurali the guy is lonely it seems. Ahhhwww

DroidDev

Oh, I lost this one. I'll see you next time guys.

Amal Murali

12:32 PM

What's the best thing to do in such cases?

Bart

Thanks for playing @DroidDev

Amal Murali

Is it possible to flag an entire room for mod attention?

DroidDev

I don't want to code anymore, so regardless of work pending, I am here

and I don't want to code, because

Bart

@AmalMurali Just flag anything he wrote.

Amal Murali

I want to post a similar meme for php but I'd rather not :-P

Bart

12:34 PM

A post or something.

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev eat some chocolate, you'll feel better ;-)

Bart

He doesn't have the Unicoins to pay for it @ShadowWizard

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard Just had a coffee

Bart

Ah @AmalMurali, don't bother. See the profile. stackoverflow.com/users/1458284/nick

Won't be here for long it seems.

DroidDev

@Bart oh, you just touched a nerve there

Shadow Wizard

12:36 PM

@DroidDev not enough, unless it got at least 3 spoons of sugar

Bart

Sugar in your coffee? Are you mad!?!

Shadow Wizard

Programmer need something sweet in his/her blood!

DroidDev

well, from the word programmer

Shadow Wizard

Same way that "no woman no cry", "no sugar no code". ;-)

DroidDev

this is taken from SO itself

Shadow Wizard

12:38 PM

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Q: What is your best programmer joke?

When I teach introductory computer science courses, I like to lighten the mood with some humor. Having a sense of fun about the material makes it less frustrating and more memorable, and it's even motivating if the joke requires some technical understanding to 'get it'! I'll start off with a cou...

language-agnostic

yeah

I bet many want to see this deleted

DroidDev

these questions are best time-pass I ever do, while at work

@ShadowWizard I had motichoor ke ladoo just after lunch

Shadow Wizard

@Bart Unicoins can be mined easily, cheap coffee cost only 1 unicoin ;)

Bart

Luckily my coffee here is free. And sugar-less.

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev yummy! I want one too! :(

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard I guess I found a way to earn some unicoins

Shadow Wizard

12:41 PM

@Bart and coming from a machine?!

Bart

Yep, but a good one. Not a vending machine

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard 5 unicoins for one, because, these contains silver leaves on top of them for extra flavour

Bart

Sure @DroidDev. That's what I'd say too when I could get the tinfoil off of them

DroidDev

@Bart you spoiled my plan of earning more unicoins from less expenditure on Ladoos.

Bart

rofl

Martijn Pieters

12:49 PM

lunch

But a challenge for @ShadowWizard and @Bart to keep them occupied:

100 unicoins for whomever finds my middle name..

Bart

Please tell me it's "Danger"

Oded

Jan

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev deal! 15 unicoins transferred to your account! (good thing we have permanent chat transcripts to act as archive ;))

Bart

The "let's just guess the most common name" approach @Oded?

Oded

Heh. The most common starting with J ;)

Shadow Wizard

12:55 PM

@Oded actually now going to ask Siemens something, brb

Bart

Hehe, yeah, still stuck at J though ...

Andy

@Bart It's a good guess. It's part of his email address.

Bart

I know. Got to that part.

Could still be Julia

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard three unicorns are designated with the task of delivering LADOOS to you. Please ping me when you receive them.

P.S. Don't forget to share.

Shadow Wizard

1:21 PM

@DroidDev question is what is their speed? Do they have proper license? ;)

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard do unicorns need license? I guess this scheme for earning unicoins might end up in customs(or some other) department.

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev give me a call! 1-800-wizard-wizard :P

@MartijnPieters still looking, but in the meanwhile can you explain what's the story behind this picture?

Martijn Pieters

Just playing around with a colleague that pointed a camera at me.

You'll be a while if you are going to guess at it.

Bart

Just to verify, you do have a middle name?

Martijn Pieters

I do have a middle name.

Bart

1:30 PM

Hehe, okay. Cause I would be evil enough to make you search for mine.

Martijn Pieters

My parents were not going to give me one, but then I was born on the birth date of my grandfather, who died when my father was 7.

So they changed their minds and gave me a middle name, my grandfathers first name.

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard Going home, it is 7:00 pm in gmt +5:30

will call you from there

user2284570

@AmalMurali Sorry for insisting but I've made things clearer :

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Martijn Pieters

And I checked, my middle name is listed online, but it'll be hard to follow the trail.

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters 500 unicoins if you bake me one of your cakes!

Martijn Pieters

1:33 PM

That's my wife's work, not mine. :-)

She made even more amazing ones..

Bart

Oooh

Amal Murali

@MartijnPieters Don't tempt me :-D

Bart

Gah, I hate MEL

I should just pick up Python instead

Andy

@user2284570 Does this get you closer to what you are looking for?

Martijn Pieters

1:50 PM

@ShadowWizard ah, actually, I did bake that one.

But you are not my better half; there are strict restrictions on whom I bake for ;-P

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters can't be your better half, but you know, I can always be "the other half" ;)

Anyway, need more unicoins to continue the hunt for your middle name!

Bart

Get a room you two

Shadow Wizard

Wizards Den

Place for all wizards to share spells, words, and having fun w...

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den, not room :D

Bart

:)

Martijn Pieters

Nah, I don't think so, Yahav. :-P

@ShadowWizard What, you spent all your own already?

Shadow Wizard

1:54 PM

@MartijnPieters yep, I'm broken. ;-(

Unirupted

Martijn Pieters

All you need is one additional keyword to search on, apart from my name..

Bart

"criminal record" .... no, that's two.

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