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12:00 AM

Oh, I see. Well, if I happen to come across anyone that may be your puppet while I'm endlessly scanning, I'll let you know.

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Undo

0

A: Create warning in chat when @pinging someone who is not generally active at that time

I'm not sure if we really need a warning, just a way to show that they probably aren't awake (since it'll probably be only power users using this anyway). For users that we have enough information on to make this (insanely creepy) prediction on, how about this? This image has been... slightly ...

I wonder if I could userscript this...

Sam

Well done Pham, you've got some stars.

Pham

wonders why I'm talking to myself

lostsock

@Undo Userscript would be better. I don't like that feature request. It's too nsa'ish and can easily be solved by users understanding that just b.c someone is techinically in the room, doesn't mean they are actually there, or just by remembering to leave the room/log out.

3ventic

I don't really see a problem in pinging people while they're away...

lostsock

12:10 AM

@3ventic right. Plus even if they pinged someone that is not really there.. doesn't mean that someone else in the room couldn't answer it for them

lol 10k+ stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/5851061

Undo

$("img.user-gravatar32").filter(function() { return this.title.match( new RegExp("<username>".chunk(1).join('\\s*'))); }).parent().parent().attr("id").replace("present-user-","")

That's just to get a user's chat id from their name :P

oh and you need function:

String.prototype.chunk = function(n) {
    var ret = [];
    for(var i=0, len=this.length; i < len; i += n) {
       ret.push(this.substr(i, n))
    }
    return ret
};

$.get("http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/thumbs/" + $("img.user-gravatar32").filter(function() { return this.title.match( new RegExp($("#tabcomplete li:first-child").html().chunk(1).join('\\s*'))); }).parent().parent().attr("id").replace("present-user-","") + "?showUsage=true", function(data){
  $("#tabcomplete li:first-child").prepend(data.usage)
});

^ Run that in your console with an autocomplete thing to get an (ugly) activity graph above it

... now it won't work.

Sam

12:29 AM

Here's a little something for anyone out there that likes classical (piano) music.

Braiam

cool mountainwarehouse.com/charity/entries/…

Undo

... not perfect, but it does work

String.prototype.chunk = function(n) {
    var ret = [];
    for(var i=0, len=this.length; i < len; i += n) {
       ret.push(this.substr(i, n))
    }
    return ret
};
$.get("/users/thumbs/" + $("img.user-gravatar32").filter(function() { return this.title.match( new RegExp($("#tabcomplete li:first-child").html().chunk(1).join('\\s*'))); }).parent().parent().attr("id").replace("present-user-","") + "?showUsage=true", function(data){
  $("#tabcomplete li:first-child").prepend(data.usage)
});

^ The full thing

Sam

Well, I'm off guys, see you all in a couple of weeks.

lostsock

12:46 AM

Later @Sam! Have a good time!

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls pls-send-teh-codez stackoverflow.com/q/26027756/656243

and, might as well dv the (multi)link-only answer that just showed up to accompany it: stackoverflow.com/a/26027953/656243

3ventic

done = true
if done != true {
}

Developer troubles ^

Braiam

@3ventic err... JS?

3ventic

Go I assume (might be pseudo code)

AstroCB

1:05 AM

What is the icon for Stack Snippets on M.SE supposed to be?

Braiam

seems to be the flat screen like icon

3ventic

Braiam

oh, btw, your icon is just wrong....

AstroCB

Braiam

Ctrl+M also triggers the thingy

3ventic

1:07 AM

Pff.. keyboard shortcuts are for lazy people.

AstroCB

meta.stackexchange.com/content/balsamiq/…

3ventic

Braiam

/me is a lazy one

AstroCB

@3ventic Same, which is odd; that's what's in the code, but I'm getting that weird gradient thing.

3ventic

shouldiblamecaching.com

AstroCB

1:18 AM

Everyone has a bot now.

I need an editing bot.

3ventic

I have IRC bots

AstroCB

Something like "CBAstro."

Or "BCortsA."

Hmm...an editing bot would actually work; I could just hand it my editing userscript and let it loose on the realtime page. The only problem is that they'd all be suggested edits (although maybe that's a good thing) and I still haven't figured out how to distinguish between i as an iterator in code and as an English pronoun.

Other Test.

Jan Dvorak

1:37 AM

@AstroCB you'd be suggest-banned soon

AstroCB

@JanDvorak True.

Maybe I can use this feed instead.

Jan Dvorak

And I believe it's a good thing.

@AstroCB are you going to fix broken formatting and crappy grammar? No? Just capitalise I's? GTFO, lazy-ass rep-hunter

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Maybe; there are about 20 rules that it uses to fix posts, so most of the ones from the VLQ should be substantial enough.

Andrew T.

dead-link hunter bot might be useful, but there's VLQRQ already

hichris123

jQuery.com was hacked?

@AndrewT. we've been thinking about a bot like that.

There was supposed to be a dead-link review queue, but that idea died out (this would be in /review)

Jan Dvorak

1:41 AM

@AstroCB does it include a code formatter?

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Unfortunately, no. It just does grammar.

Jan Dvorak

too minor

hichris123

@JanDvorak Use your own account.

AstroCB

Also some punctuation and usage stuff.

My favorite one replaces mysite.domain with example.domain for old posts because it's not allowed anymore.

Actually, I like auto-removing "Thanks in advance" better.

Andy

@AstroCB I would suggest not. Pham hasn't fulled learned anything yet

There are a lot of false positives

AstroCB

1:48 AM

@Andy It's still better than the realtime feed, though.

hichris123

-6

A: Data Multiplexing

You are a huge cucumber. You need to learn when not to be a cucumber. See in this code if (player. is cl) { vexia is here Now, if you don't want the help thats fine

For posterity.

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB too many false negative

AstroCB

Here's an example of what it does.

^ All I did was indent the code. It even writes the edit summary for me.

I still check it every time because I don't trust it.

If I actually had an edit bot, I would take out ~5 rules that don't always work as expected, but for the most part, it does everything that I would do manually to the post.

Jan Dvorak

fine then

hichris123

This has nothing to do with the question about circuit logic. — Andrew T. 4 mins ago

@AndrewT. of course it does! :P

Jan Dvorak

1:57 AM

@hichris123 can't see; DNS br0ken again

hichris123

@JanDvorak It's this:

9 mins ago, by hichris123

-6

A: Data Multiplexing

You are a huge cucumber. You need to learn when not to be a cucumber. See in this code if (player. is cl) { vexia is here Now, if you don't want the help thats fine

Jan Dvorak

In which case it has nothing to do with a question about circuit logic

Frank

I've been so active on GL, someone has suggesting to make a site-change movement on meta - to 'Gardening & J. Musser'. :P

Braiam

wut? meta.stackoverflow.com/q/272118/792066

AstroCB

/(^|\s|$)i(\s|,|\.|!|\?|;|\/|$|'|$)/gm

hichris123

2:01 AM

@Frank Would cucumbers be on-topic at G&L?

:P

AstroCB

How can I make that check to make sure that there are not 4+ spaces at the beginning of the line?

It's messy already; I need a RegEx aficionado.

Frank

@hichris123 Absolutely. See all the questions tagged cucumbers. (also notice that I answered the 4 most recent ones :)

Why, havin' trouble?

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB for starters, I'd use character classes here

AstroCB

@JanDvorak When I wrote this, I had never used RegEx before.

Jan Dvorak

time to clean up?

AstroCB

2:05 AM

Indeed.

hichris123

17 mins ago, by hichris123

-6

A: Data Multiplexing

You are a huge cucumber. You need to learn when not to be a cucumber. See in this code if (player. is cl) { vexia is here Now, if you don't want the help thats fine

Frank

@hichris123 Here's the most recent cucumber question, where I was called 'simply amazing'.

OOps, posted the answer link instead of the question link.

bjb568

My sleep schedule is so screwed up. Just slept from 15:30 to 21:30...

hichris123

Morning.

;P

bjb568

:P

Frank

2:18 AM

You're two hours ahead of me.

but

;P

bjb568

I normally do 8 hours school, 8 hours (school)work, 6 hours (school:P)sleep. Switched the last two today.

Andy

@bjb568 Two hours of "personal time" then?

Frank

@bjb568 That's a lot of school to the day. When I was in school, I did the minimum, and went home to work in the garden.

bjb568

@Andy Yes (insert disapproval face now)

@Frank The problem is the minimum is huge here.

Frank

@bjb568 So you aren't enjoying it? that would stink.

bjb568

2:24 AM

@Frank I'm enjoying some of it. Perhaps most. But not the damned impossible essay (x2)!

Frank

@bjb568 Oh, essays are the worst.

But if it's challenging, you can make it fun.

bjb568

… how?

Frank

@bjb568 How what? Random how?

bjb568

@Frank How'o make it fun?

Ugh. There needs to be an english word that means "iwaanabuticantfigureouthowsoimaskingu"

There! A new contraction!

Andy

What's the essay about?

Frank

2:36 AM

^^

bjb568

One about an object which is important to me (there really aren't any), one about how Bach helped with the enlightenment (did he really? The require print source doesn't say, internet does).

Frank

@bjb568 Well... that's tough.

About the object that is important to you, you could make quite a hilarious story if you wanted.

bjb568

I could bend the rules and write crap that the teacher wants. But uuuugh.

Andy

@Frank Agreed. If you have nothing that is important, select a random object and tell a story.

bjb568

Another horrible thing is the map quizzes. I'm horrible with geography. I spent 2 hours trying to memorize some physical blob called Europe. Got an F.

Frank

2:40 AM

@bjb568 Do your best, and leave it at that. I find it very good for one to occasionally do things one does not want to do. :)

@bjb568 And F stands for...

bjb568

Agh, fine. At least I don't have to write it on a dead tree.

@Frank Failure.

Andy

@Frank Fabulous.

Frank

@bjb568 Or something else

Wow! What the failure!

bjb568

Huh… todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/02/e-f-grading-scale

> The other four grades are more or less considered “passing”

Srsly?

A D?

Not so fortunate here…

Well, so far: Calculus I have a 95 (A) which is remarkable since I'm a freshman. Bio 93 (A) which is remarkable since I had no idea about any of the things we were doing (before starting, now I do, the teacher is great) and am in the advanced (AA) class. The only other A is choir…

Frank

@bjb568 You sing?

bjb568

2:51 AM

Yeap.

Frank

I love biology. There is a biology stack exchange.

bjb568

Me too. Bio is great!

Frank

You'll find me there by sorting rep by month and going to the end of the last page.

Braiam