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> Warning: Blinking text is frowned upon by several accessibility standards. The <blink> element itself is non-standard and deprecated!
 
At least it works on Internet Explorer, I think.
Oh, but DD blocks IE usage.
 
\o/
 
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Q: <blink> tag in Internet Explorer

picnic4uNeither the <blink> tag nor the text-decoration:blink; style in css are supported in Internet Explorer. Is there any technique available for making blinking text in IE?

 
@KevinBrown ewww, jquery in answer
 
user259867
12:09 AM
Half of those answers shouldn't be there
 
Half of the entire site should be burned.
 
Just half?
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat you got a draft already?
 
It's a pretty bold statement, I know. Considering how rare it is to find a helpful post, you'd expect the matrix to be higher.
 
user259867
@Braiam No, I haven't.
 
user259867
12:16 AM
I did not have any feature request in mind, it's just a support question asking about a detail of a new feature.
 
user259867
@Doorknob slipped from first to the second place on Vi and Vim. Overall it seems the site is doing well.
 
user259867
12:32 AM
Out of the 36 users on that page (1st by rep), 14 have more rep on Vi and Vim than on Stack Overflow.
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat I was pretty busy today. Might be able to catch up later :P
 
user259867
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I just vertically centered content in a <div>
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user259867
Burn the witch! ... err, warlock? Not sure about proper usage.
 
user259867
closed now, roomba-able.
 
user259867
12:49 AM
@Braiam Posted now
 
1:09 AM
here, solution is x^2 + 2x + 1
 
x ^ 2 + 0 * 2x + 1 is a pass. LOL
Never mind, it was caching.
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user273376
 
user259867
@SabreTooth gone
 
user273376
woot!
 
user273376
hey! 80 flags!
 
7617
 
... well that was bizarre
I touched my touchpad, and GNOME crashed
and now my touchpad doesn't work O_o
 
user273376
1:32 AM
well, i have only been a member for 21 days
 
user273376
blame global warming
 
user273376
deputy flag...woot!
 
gZ!!
 
Your flagging rate jumps once you enter the queues and then drops at 3k, or at least it did for me
 
pretty cool xkcd.com/1122
 
user273376
1:37 AM
i am a loooooooooooooong way off being able to enter the queues... (only 206 rep)
 
@Doorknob Alt + F2 then "r"
 
@Braiam No, my screen literally changed into a black screen with a flashing cursor
I had to Ctrl+Alt+1 and then sudo service lightdm restart
 
user259867
@SabreTooth I am at 416! Soooo going to triage everyone soon.
 
You don't have 20k yet? Slackers. :P
 
@Doorknob :|
 
1:40 AM
@Doorknob oh, I presumed only the shell crashed... in that case it could be lightdm/xorg that crashed and not gnome
 
Perhaps
 
@Doorknob I will when... I find nothing else to do :/
 
user259867
@Doorknob My max(siteRep) > your max(siteRep) :p
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat My sum(siteRep) > your sum(siteRep) :P
 
in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Feb 4 at 14:37, by Bob
@ThatBrazilianGuy Chrome is the new IE.
cc @hichris123
 
Hey, Chrome works so...
 
user259867
@Braiam Missing context "It has a big enough market share now that people feel comfortable developing webapps that only work in it."
 
user259867
Blame lazy developers.
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat hey, this is "The Tavern"! Of course is w/o context
in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Feb 4 at 14:47, by That Brazilian Guy
I just changed the user agent for Chrome Win 36 and WhatsApp web is working fine.
 
user259867
1:53 AM
So it's not even technical limitation, they just did not feel like testing other browsers.
 
Can you really compare that issue to how people used to target IE though?
 
Side note: You can't use MS Dynamics CRM on Linux, it always detects it as a phone for some reason
 
no one ever says the?
 
@Frank it doesn't allow you to search by meaningless words like "the" alone
 
1:58 AM
I'm thinking that the search engine strips out "the"
if you type "the user" you will find everything with "user"
 
2:14 AM
@FamousBlueRaincoat the thing isn't even interactive
 
2:33 AM
 
these two accounts must be the same person, one two, right?
both member for 1 year 9 months. both same profile pic, both do javascript
@bjb568 y not do account merge?
 
user259867
I think he already did some...
 
user259867
Jul 31 '14 at 1:19, by bjb568
@AnnaLear http://stackoverflow.com/users/3893796/bjb568 Merge this with the other one
 
2:52 AM
@bluet it should
 
@Frank common practice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words
 
user259867
> behold its awe-inspiring deletedness!
 
user259867
Is that even a word?
 
Uh oh
My touchpad isn't working, which means I may have to reboot
But that would ruin my beautiful 159 day uptime :(
 
@Doorknob just kill xorg
 
3:07 AM
@Braiam So would that be sudo service lightdm restart? (on Ubuntu)
I tried that, and it didn't work.
 
@Doorknob no, stop
I hope he knows he should use start
 
upstart*
 
no... start
start/stop/restart/status
 
Which make up upstart, no? upstart.ubuntu.com
 
no, I'm referring to the different options service has
 
3:19 AM
ah
I assumed you were talking about the commands, which are normally recommended instead of service for Ubuntu
 
service is just a handler for the init
 
@Braiam Heh, I just had to go try on uncomfortable fancy clothes for my parents for a second
Okay, trying stop...
didn't work :(
 
time to get a new touchpad
 
It's built-in to my laptop
 
Time to get a new laptop
 
3:23 AM
But... but... :(
 
you mean soldered to your mobo?
 
It looks like this
llama@llama:~$ synclient
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
... oh
Is that... a problem?
 
could be... lsmod | grep syn
or dmesg | grep syn
 
Only results are ppp_async
 
⎷test
 
3:33 AM
meh
 
4:22 AM
hallo?
@bluet :P
 
user259867
Quiet... The spammers appear to be exhausted after their email support onslaught.
 
Smokey's been dead for a while.
!!/alive?
 
Um... Where's Pham?
I'll power him...
But first I need to boot my Windows laptop, because for some reason not to be reasoned, it only runs on Windows.
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat Quieter on DD.
 
@bjb568 I was going to publish a new webpage with a tiny gadget, but decided not to just so it remains silent.
Silence is virtue.
 
A gadget?
That sounds almost as exciting as a widget!
 
inb4 widgets are not exciting
 
Widget factory!
 
 
1 hour later…
6:16 AM
Feature request shameless plug!
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Q: Help me make myself a better moderator—give me statistics about my own close vote accuracy!

Alexis KingIn a recent answer on Meta Stack Overflow, Shog9 made the following note: Accuracy is all over the map too. Some of our most prolific close voters routinely toss votes at questions that don't get closed in a timely manner - or at all. I realized something—I don't actually have any idea what...

 
6:38 AM
Night!
 
user259867
> in the past 90 days, only 160 voters have hit the cap even once, and only one person on Stack Overflow has used 100% of their close votes every. single. day. Lookin' at you, bluet.
 
user259867
I somehow missed this bit of stats until now. Congratulations (?), @bluet
 
6:55 AM
@FamousBlueRaincoat aw thanks, i think :/ Kinda depressing stats..
you need to get 3k @fam
 
user259867
@bluet Unlikely. SO isn't my priority, you know. I'm not even using my downvotes much... takes time away from Math business.
 
I used to use up my close votes every day, then meh.
Priority and projects happened.
Is this worthy of keeping around? stackoverflow.com/q/14366405/3622940
Probably a dupe of another question. I don't do objective C, so review is appreciated. stackoverflow.com/q/14048595/3622940
 
user202362
7:42 AM
 
user202362
like ... lol
 
user259867
 
user259867
Speaking to SE sales rep costs $5,000 per minute!?
 
If I earn at a 2% rate of that I'd be rich by tomorrow.
 
user202362
7:59 AM
area code 212 ... sales office in manhattan as I thought
 
user259867
Good detective work, @chmod
 
user202362
11:48 AM
4 hours ... 4 hours!!!
 
user202362
no post, no message, no reply, nothing!
 
s-s-s-silence breaker!!!
 
user202362
:D
 
It must be the weekend?
 
user202362
Sunday night here ... had a rather slacking weekend with very little achieved
 
12:18 PM
@Braiam interesting... Could use that in all cars. When a speedcamera flashes your car dies...
 
@rene I believe the problem is that the pi doesn't have proper casing
cars are proper cases
 
@Braiam the R4 of my parents was held together with newspaper and resin...
 
1:17 PM
Hiya!
!!/alive?
:/
I'll start up my own copy.
 
Sam
Afternoon!
 
*Afternoon! :P
 
Night!
Um... Time Zone Tor!
 
Sam
@ProgramFOX Eh, is that the time already?! :O
 
@Sam 14:18 here
 
Sam
1:19 PM
looks at clock Oh, yeah: 13:19
 
21:19 :(
 
!!/alive?
 
@ProgramFOX Watching this endless list of new questions never gets boring
 
I'm bored...
 
Sam
Nice to meet you bored.
@Unihedro How'd your early morning coding session go? ;)
 
1:21 PM
not bad
but not too good either
 
Sam
Oh?
 
'T was productive, but not exceptionally interesting, so. :p
 
Sam
... just a normal day at the office then.
 
Yes, that is. :D
 
1:32 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: I am unable to install wxPython on linux by crossboy007 on unix.stackexchange.com
 
@FOX9000 fp
No idea why it caught that post.
argh, reply commands don't yet work on my bot
@FOX9000 fp
 
@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
fixed
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HELP ME WITH THIS! ITS IS SERIOUS! by anonymous.dubai on stats.stackexchange.com
 
@FOX9000 Smells like spam to fill in a poll. Certainly off-topic.
 
Sam
1:43 PM
Yeah, spam.
 
@FOX9000 tpu
 
@rene Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CORK VS. FLOORMUFFLER by John Follis on diy.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
@FOX9000 gone
 
@FOX9000 just how many "need help" "help me" titles has stats.se... the horror
 
user259867
@FOX9000 fpu
 
1:48 PM
@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
user259867
@Braiam Cross Validated has 317 questions with "help" in title. Mathematics has 5014.
 
Low Quality Q?: Can you sell programs made with python?, by Andrew Rodebaugh, on programmers.stackexchange.com.
 
2:05 PM
@FamousBlueRaincoat math.se has valid reasons to use help in titles, since how else you can ask "help my 4 mah homewok for tomorow, pls"?
 
user259867
There is homework in statistics courses too... although it also tends to be posted on Mathematics. As does elementary computer science homework.
 
math.se should be renamed to wedohw.se
 
Sam
^ Already has 1 CV in under 30 secs.
 
2:15 PM
I know this has a dupe somewhere that has to do with unicode stackoverflow.com/questions/28394693/…
 
user259867
@FOX9000 This is SPAM
 
user259867
@Sam I honestly tried to improve it, but could not: if the code is formatted, submission blocked because "your post is mostly code; add details". Oh well.
 
Sam
o_o
That's new.
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat Yes, it also misspells "sign in" as "sing in".
 
2:32 PM
@FOX9000 still alive
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Best Astrologer Indian astrologer in canada +91 9649422772 by rocky bhargav on webapps.stackexchange.com
 
@FOX9000 tpu
 
@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
... my bot died
 
Maybe it WAG-ed to much?
 
2:41 PM
No, that one is still alive.
!!/alive?
 
@ProgramFOX Of course
 
okay, rebooted
lemme check...
@FOX9000 tpu
 
@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
@Bart assume this gets reopened is it answerable in its current state?
 
Okay, I was afraid it died after tpu'ing. But that's not the case.
 
2:46 PM
I must be sleeping...that question has already two answers... :(
 
@rene sort of. I mean, I did answer it. But well ... let's not at all use me as a measure of anything.
 
The problem is that the OP is comparing apples and oranges IMHO
 
Sure, but that's answerable. That's not "go take it somewhere else".
 
@Bart Hmm, OK, are the downvotes warranted?
 
2:50 PM
Meh. I wouldn't downvote it. It seems like a genuine support question. The user is trying to understand the network.
@Unihedro :D
 
!!/alive?
 
@Unihedro Of course
 
thinks Smoke the hamster has eaten SmokeDetector
 
Plot twist: Smoke the hamster is SmokeDetector
 
:O
 
2:55 PM
@Unihedro Together with Undo's server? That hamster must have been hungry...
 
user259867
Gone
 
user259867
3:26 PM
First time I nuked spam from airport check-in line, btw.
 
lol
 
done
 
user259867
(on Programmers)
 
In Python you get the indention wrong, in C++/C#/Java the {, } and ; beyond that everything is equal...
 
Sue
4:05 PM
@FamousBlueRaincoat Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to educate me.
 
4:26 PM
@FamousBlueRaincoat you better don't say that you have "nukes"
 
user259867
lol. Yeah, if I had the habit of muttering to self "I'm so going to nuke this thing RIGHT NOW".
 
And flag the answer while you're at it.
Hey, welcome to Stack Overflow and thanks for the answer! Unfortunately, the question you're answering appears to be off-topic, and standards has changed since then. Please take a tour. — Unihedro 16 mins ago
@Unihedro That's where automated comments get you; he's not exactly new here.
 
in The SO Tavern (Free Snacks) on Stack Overflow Chat, 11 mins ago, by Unihedro
@ProgramFOX I agree. I have two tincan comments on answering OT questions, one for new users and one for educational purposes, which is far longer. The user clearly does not learn (duh), so I opt'd for the first. At least no TL;DRing.
 
Ah
 
I don't think the right close reason was used there.
> Questions about general computing hardware and software are off-topic for Stack Overflow unless they directly involve tools used primarily for programming.
Which this one did.
I'm not sure that there's a better place on the network to ask that question (except maybe Ask Different, but I doubt it).
 
4:53 PM
@Unihedro what ... the actual ... frick?
 
Morning!
 
Morning!
 
Mor...wait a minute ...
Evening!
 
Anti-evening! Morning!
 
Sam
Moftereving!
 
5:01 PM
@AstroCB Yeah, I agree; voted to reopen.
 
@hichris123 Wait, but you also voted to close?
 
@ProgramFOX I voted to close, but it was for a different reason than stated, and I think that reason was, despite an initial glance, resolved by the answer, so I voted to reopen as well.
 
@ProgramFOX Yes... it's kinda the same for Google Play developer console things... I really am not sure if they're off-topic. It has to do with something necessary for a developer to use, and it wouldn't require the answer of "contact Apple Support".
 
This room will be frozen after another day:

 Stack Overflow Super Bowl Party

The unofficial official Stack Overflow Super Bowl Party chat r...
 
 
1 hour later…
6:20 PM
^^ Somebody else talk! lol
 
6:38 PM
Just unfreeze it when there is another important handegg event.
 
6:55 PM
Since when does the post (or wiki) editor insert hyphenation automatically?
I'm using Google Chrome 40.0.2214.94 m.
 
... it doesn't?
 
Are you using a userscript of some sort?
 
status-norepro
 
@Werner Looks like CSS hyphens: auto
 
Hmm, search doesn't work on SO?
Ah, getting an "offline" message now for search.
 
6:58 PM
No StackStatus message.
 
@KevinBrown Just a guess, or reproducable?
 
@Werner It looks just like it, though I have no idea why it would be enabled css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hyphenate
 
@KevinBrown I just updated my Chrome and it seems to be gone. Don't know what set it in the first place.
 
7:24 PM
wat, my history teacher is weird, he gave me a grade for something I didn't turn in yet…
siiiigh
Looking at my grades makes me depressed. It shows all the things I failed at and all the things I need to go complain about.
Excused absence -> 20 0s
 
"Please capitalize your sentences, and a single exclamation mark will suffice"
 
I think she has exclamation mark diarrhea.
 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!‌​!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and a barf.
 
P.s. don't take any of my advice where it concerns teachers.
 
um… ok…
 
7:30 PM
"P.s. don't take any of my advice" - @Bart
 
That's probably a safe bet
 
Hmm... Bart says that it's a safe bet, but you should not take his advice, so is it a safe bet or not?
:P
 
The only way to find out is to test it ...
 
I have a some water in a bottle. Should I drink it, or throw it all over me?
 
Dump it on your keyboard.
 
7:33 PM
I have a pair of glasses. What should I do with them?
 
Accept them as your Lord and Saviour @hichris123
 
Hmm... ok.
 
user259867
7:46 PM
Browser zoom made glasses obsolete.
 
user259867
Everything I might want to see is in a browser window. And some things I don't want to see, too.
 
^^ offensive
 
> Hey <bjb568> this is <dude working in pitiful club>. I'm sorry for not helping with the Mission Possible work for Science Olympiad but I wasn't aware that I was assigned to that category. If you can get back to me with anything I could do to help that would be great. Thanks in advance.
> -<dude working in pitiful club>
Um… uh… I… didn't do any work…
adds thing to omnifocus app thing that I'm trying out
 
8:29 PM
Ok, I think I like omnifocus.
 
... doesn't load?
 
loads for me.
 
same here
 
Refresh did it for me
 
9:01 PM
Hello, I just wanted to ask, is there a way to "subscribe" to a question to get notifications like it's my own?
 
question feed button in bottom right.
 
user259867
@DJDavid98 That would be nice, but no, there is no way to get notified via SE about a question that's not yours. Except for placing bounty on it, does that way but only for the duration of the bounty.
 
user259867
@DJDavid98 I assume you know about "favorite" star; it does offer a way to track activity on a question, but you'd have to go looking for notifications in your user profile.
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat Well it has a bounty on by me, so if that makes me receive notifications I'm fine with that
And yes I do know about the favourite star but IMO it's useless
 
user259867
Okay, that does it. Both comments and answers to bountied question will notify you.
 
9:11 PM
all it does is bookmarks the answer
 
user259867
I'm imagining a userscript that tracks favorite activity and displays notification at the same place as built-in inbox... Hm.
 
user259867
But the activity on favorites is not available thru through the API... :(
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
I'll see if I can dig up an ancient, well-forgotten feature request that asks for this functionality
 
*thru
 
9:23 PM
@DJDavid98 there are RSS feeds for each question
 
20 mins ago, by bjb568
question feed button in bottom right.
@Braiam That's what I said!
 
user259867
@Braiam That's what he said!
 
user259867
I wonder if a userscript could use the RSS feed to imitate SE notifications... Hmm.
 
user259867
Nobody uses RSS readers anymore.
 
nope!
 
10:08 PM
@FamousBlueRaincoat I remember someone said they used feedly after google shut down reader
 
@FamousBlueRaincoat I'm sure you could do something with IFTTT.
You could certainly pipe it to an iOS/Android notification.
All of their notification code is minified; good luck to anyone who wants to figure out how to emulate it.
 
@AstroCB The dev server usually has the unminifed code.
 
@hichris123 You're right; I might take a whack at it later.
 
user259867
10:23 PM
I again entered LQ review only to get an audit as my first and last (20th) review item. This is just trolling on SE part.
 
10:35 PM
[^\w']([^aeiouy\s–\d]+|[^aeiou\s–\d]{4,}|(\w*?(.)\3\3\w*?)|(\w*?([bcdfghjklmnpqrtvwxz]{3,})\w*?)|(\w*?([jkqzxvbh]{2,})\w*?)|(\w*?([jkuzxvbh]{2,})\w*?)|(\w*?[afu][wz]\w*?))[^\w']
finds non-words
(reasonably accurately)
 
... why would you make a regex to do that?
 
For all involved earlier...
I'm locking this because the comments on the question and answer have not been anywhere near constructive. To be clear: this question is not on-topic here as it has nothing to do with programming. For everyone involved here: if a question is not on-topic, vote to close and move on. That doesn't magically make the answers inappropriate or flaggable and to be honest, I shouldn't have had to get involved here. — animuson ♦ 3 hours ago
 
@hichris123 To deweight words in a password entropy check
 
@bjb568 Uh... just get a dictionary of the most common words?
 
10:53 PM
Ok, where's a good list?
/usr/share/dict/words
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Q: A text file with a list of words

Jose VegaI am looking for a simple text file that contains all the words in a moderm dictionary. I play a game called scramble, and would like to create a program that takes an input of letters and will tell me what kind of words could be made out of the combination of letters. DNOC DCIA ELRJ IIOT Cir...

:D
 
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