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12:02 AM
yesterday, by Roombatron5000
Will probably get our first mod from India in under 24 hours
I should really stop making predictions..
With that said, I bet there will be another SO election before the end of 2015
 
cky
@Roombatron5000 Prepare to lose the bet, of course.
 
user259867
I'll make a safer prediction: the current Gamification site will live up to the memory of its predecessor.
 
user259867
 
There was an interesting sci-fi space story on the PARCC test today, but I'm ashamed I can't remember the title.
 
@pizza Two rounds... wow.
 
12:10 AM
Oh and @bjb568 the first ELA unit is all multiple-choice but theres like 7 passages
 
user259867
Out of the top 5 RPG users by rep, four are now moderators (two of them newly elected).
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@hichris123 Blacklisted user.
 
@SmokeDetector gone
 
12:24 AM
Congrats @cky! (becoming supermod Employee!)
5
 
not on star wall @inf ...
 
@Roombatron5000 It happened like a month ago.
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Q: The Curious Case Of The Missing Chris Jester-Young, Welcome Martin Büttner!

Tim PostYou arrived to the site today and noticed that something was different; something was gone and something new was in its place, but somewhat out of place, like on the wrong side of the room. You'd had hangovers like this previously but you couldn't recall chasing any absynthe the night before, all...

> You earned a new privilege!
... all I did was get an association bonus months ago.
 
user259867
Yes, enjoy being told about editing CW posts on each of 130+ sites.
 
It's great. I'm learning about the same privilege over and over again!
 
12:32 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, email in answer: Is it possible to obtain a Master's degree without Bachelor's degree? by Ruslan Zhussipbayev on academia.stackexchange.com
 
I already posted it, @Smokey. You're a bit lazy today.
 
@SantaClaus Sounds boring.
 
12:48 AM
@bjb568 Very much so. As with the last test, the passages you get vary depending on which of the 15 test forms you get...
 
But what about the 32-bit adder?
 
Lol did he just copypaste an entire homework problem into a question?
 
Actually, from the title it sounded like an EE question to me :P
 
@SantaClaus 15 forms? Geez. Do people cheat or something?
 
12:49 AM
@Dustin People do that. :/
 
I wish I could run for moderator of the tag and nothing else.
 
They'd waste time preparing to cheat?
 
@hichris123 I think this is the most egregious example I've personally seen
 
Gone! Thanks, all.
 
@Dustin Yeah...
 
12:51 AM
As a fun side-effect, the mob downvoting brought this user back down to 1 reputation. :P
 
came across that one in the cv queue a few minutes ago
 
@hichris123 Nuked!
 
@hichris123 inb4 it gets reposted to SO as is
 
@Dustin really. Interesting... it only had two close votes before yours.
I forget how the CV queue decides what to show to users.
 
12:54 AM
@hichris123 why is that interesting? I don't think the cv queue sorts by 4 votes anymore.. that was only a very temporary thing.. not sure how it decides what to show now
 
I am confused too, when I went to it it said I'd already vtc'd it.
 
@Roombatron5000 I'm not sure how it sorts anymore. At random?
 
But I had been filtering by asp.net since that's the next tag we're tryna burn
 
user259867
@Roombatron5000 done
 
@Roombatron5000 I threw some extras in there for good measure. :p
 
thanks
 
I like to think of it as a triage point of view. Simple awarding them without "confirming" the intentions will cause these kinds of exploiting/low quality posts. I like to think that an approach where you take into account the voting on the question and the quality control (i.e. flags raised) to eventually automate a system to "award" said rewards. — Darren 6 mins ago
ML quality score with voting, flagging, body, etc. taken into account, coming right up!
 
Hey! There haven't been enough Lifehacks jokes lately. Where's @Frank been?!
 
pokes @frank
 
Took me an hour and a half to get to work today
 
1:07 AM
gr8, m8
 
@hichris123 Whacked.
New mission: come up with a unique word to describe each question being closed.
The usual "nuked" and "burninated" are getting too played-out.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: What exactly is a "Light Novel"? by xxragexx on anime.stackexchange.com
 
Wow. "How can I add numbers with jQuery" much?
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Q: Iterate JSON array with maps using jquery

user3746601Below is the JSON array i am receiving from the dynamo DB and i need to iterate the same display the results in a table. where M is Map with more than one values. Can any one help me with the Jquery and HTML part of it. { "Item": { "Subscriptions": { "M": {} }, ...

 
Should the code textbox in DD's learn section have monospace font?
 
@bjb568 It should have a script font, and be right to left.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Sentience vs. consciousness vs. awareness by Pictometry on philosophy.stackexchange.com
 
@JasonC no
 
Lol
 
@bjb568 hai
@AlexisKing hai
 
1:31 AM
@Frank hai
 
@Frank hai
 
been a bit...
 
@SmokeDetector fp ??. Not black magic...
 
@hichris123 Registered answer as false positive.
 
user259867
@hichris123 Someone imported bs detector into Smokey.
 
1:36 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, repeating characters in answer: What section of an airplane offers the smoothest ride? by joe on travel.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector greattttttttt answer joe!
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@James Blacklisted user.
 
@JasonC Nice answer on SU. :)
 
@JeremyBanks
> You said yesterday that you wouldn't run because you didn't think you'd make a good moderator. Do you feel differently today? – Michael Myers♦ Apr 9 at 2:32
 
1:50 AM
@AstroCB changes mind again and steps down in a week
Shortest term served in SE history. ;P
 
@AstroCB
does it work to ping with no message?
 
@yellowantphil Yes.
 
Oh right the 30 day roomba doesn't run today. :P
 
one of the roombas roombs every day
 
We're still an hour shy of 9pm's nine-day wonder.
 
2:04 AM
so I still have an hour to downvote everything in sight, and watch it get deleted
but I am feeling clement today
 
minecraft has Urukhais?
 
@yellowantphil It does now
:)
tthat's my account
 
Anonymous
@AstroCB Feeling differently today. Ask again in 24 hours.
 
Anonymous
:P
 
2:06 AM
all I know about minecraft is that I felt a little seasick watching my cousin play, and you can implement computers in it somehow
@JeremyBanks this is why I still have concerns
 
@yellowantphil haha!
 
@yellowantphil SEDE will point the way.
 
@tchrist I like this search: closed:1 duplicate:0 locked:0 votes:1..1 answers:0
 
accepted:0
 
but what about unaccepted answers with score > 1? I can’t search that without SEDE
 
Anonymous
2:08 AM
Other users and moderators are very reasonable to have concerns, and I look forward to reassuring them and living up to the trust the community has placed in me.
 
It can have answers just not accepted
 
Anonymous
:)
 
@tchrist not answers at ≥ 2, pretty sure
I can downvote an answer once to drop it to zero
 
@tchrist Oh right DST. :(
 
2:09 AM
@JeremyBanks or cry Havok! and let slip the dogs of moderation? something like that
 
@yellowantphil is:a accepted:no score:1
 
@yellowantphil So long as we can batten everthing down to the noughtical or subnoughtical zone, it all goes down with the ship.
 
@hichris123 how could I do is:q and is:a in one search string though?
 
@yellowantphil s/loose/slip/
 
2:11 AM
@yellowantphil Oh, I see what you mean.
 
I tried SEDE once and it scared me off
quoth Jeremy Banks:
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity
 
Just ask @rene for help.
 
is rene a SEDE genius?
 
yes
 
Anonymous
2:14 AM
@yellowantphil I'm not familiar enough with Shakespeare to be familiar with the context of that verse, so I'll just nod, yes, I am fancy like those words.
 
I wanted a way to find questions that have no comments, but I was too weak to figure it out
 
In English, the dogs of war is a phrase from Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war". In a literal reading, "dogs" are the familiar animals; "havoc" is a military order permitting the seizure of spoil after a victory and "let slip" is to release from the leash. Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch's Lives and the concept of the war dog appears in that work, in the section devoted to the Greek warrior Aratus. Apart from the literal meaning, a parallel can be drawn with the prologue...
 
@JeremyBanks fancy in an evil genius sort of way
 
Anonymous
Yes, that.
 
@JeremyBanks honestly though, I got that phrase from rock music. they just happened to get it from Shakespeare
 
2:15 AM
Havocking havockers havaqueen.
Awful curs.
 
@JanDvorak Not quite. Reposed to SU as-is.
3 mins ago, by SmokeDetector
 
That's a dupe. Everbody knows all you have to do is use lemon juice under UV light.
 
umm @tchrist am I right in thinking that my second quote is evil-geniusish? “spy my shadow in the sun,” etc.
 
@yellowantphil dunno
 
I’ll just say “probably”
should I call the chips I just ate no-salt-added–sweet-potato chips? with an en dash in there so that I am not talking about potatoes that are no-salt-added-sweet
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: NMEA AIS generator by a deleted user on codereview.stackexchange.com
 
cky
@Roombatron5000 Thanks! Like @hichris123 said, I've been here for about a month now. :-P
 
@SmokeDetector ignore, comment on the code
 
@AndrewT. Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
2:34 AM
@James Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
user259867
@hichris123 It matched "(Improve )?Brain Power". Which, incidentally, is a redundant regex, it's equivalent to "Brain Power".
 
dis game is da one I play (although this noob vid isnt mine) xD youtube.com/watch?v=IJdGTcnNK4Q
and I have over 200 wins
 
@yellowantphil Here's the basic query on SEDE. The data was last updated on 19th though.
 
@AndrewT. cool, thanks. I’ll see if I can edit that a bit
 
@user147263 ... new username.
 
user259867
Bill's answer to election results post ought to have more upvotes.
 
@hichris123 all closed
 
user259867
Plot twist prediction: Bill's new career is a data scientist; he's going to get hired by SE and separate the chaff from the wheat on SO even more efficiently.
 
I don’t suppose there’s a tool that turns search strings into SEDE queries
closed:1 duplicate:0 locked:0 seems tricky to do in SEDE... that PostHistory table mocks me
 
3:02 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SUMPRODUCT FUNCTION by David on superuser.com
 
3:13 AM
@yellowantphil an image of the face the PostHistory table is doing: >:P
 
@Braiam yup D: ☺
 
> Please don’t say that all of you had nothing to do, and therefore thought of going to the Abyss of Death for a stroll. I think none of us will believe that.
nice place to go for a stroll isn't it?
 
I work there
 
user259867
> StackExchange.com - as many US visitors as the New York Times. Without even counting stackoverflow.com . quantcast.com/top-sites -- Joel Spolsky at 6:39 PM - 21 Apr 2015 via Twitter
 
user259867
But there's no "Network rank" anymore on Quantcast; something to include all SE sites.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: REGEX NÃO PEGA O VALUE DO INPUT by Lucas Casterlamar on pt.stackoverflow.com
 
who ate pizza?
 
Night!
 
Me. I was hungry.
in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 mins ago, by Jan Dvorak
First blood!!! <insert evil wingdings here> \o/
in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, 11 mins ago, by Unihedro
I have given "no indication of what language or environment I'm working in". This is not the first time I've been challenged, within the same few hours, by someone or another who thinks they're doing the stackoverflow community a favor by vetting a question, when the individual clearly has no familiarity with what is being challenged. If you knew anything about Google Spreadsheets you would be aware of what I'm talking about, if not then you should have no say in the matter. — Sirudol 48 mins ago
 
3:47 AM
JK, no way I'm going to fall asleep, working on powerpoint.
So I'm doing V-2 rockets in WW2, so should my thesis be "this is an example of how war can be hugely beneficial to advancing technology that has non-war applications"?
 
sure?
 
ok
 
you probably know more about that than I do, but it sounds good to me
 
yay
 
“but teacher, some guy on the internet said it sounded good to him!”
 
3:49 AM
@yellowantphil Haha, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Neither does anyone else.
 
rockets do seem like a good example of something developed in war and later used for cool stuff like going to the moon
 
very kewl
 
and then going to war with the moon
2
 
yes, that part
WW3 or WW4, do you think?
I guess it would be MW.
 
WW3 could be any day now, and we don’t have a moon base yet, so I'm going to say WW4
solar system war 1?
 
3:51 AM
@yellowantphil wait, would we be alive after ww4?
 
wait, no, Einstein (?) said WW4 would be sticks and clubs
we’ll be lucky to survive WW3
Mutually Assured Destruction
 
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), started the vault to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during...
There is hope left for the plants.
 
I always thought that quote was kind of dumb.
It's pretty hard to fight a world war with sticks :|
2
 
and scorpions and cockroaches
 
3:55 AM
@meagar Maybe really huge sticks
 
There're cockroaches in my apartment. We're moving out.
 
intercontinental ballistic sticks?
 
@JasonC r/nocontext
 
@bjb568 how many?
 
IDK, lots.
 
3:55 AM
Any non-zero number is too many :|
 
While logging into SE chat, I got No referer was present - this may be due to a browser setting at http://chat.stackexchange.com/login/global-fallback. Should I try again?
 
tmtc, or tmt bother tc
 
I had at most two cockroaches in my apartment at once... I think. None here though
 
@meagar! Can I steal democratically request for your new mod powers to close a question? :P
 
3:56 AM
You can certainly ask :p
 
26 mins ago, by Alexis King
http://stackoverflow.com/q/29786574/465378 MVCE
 
meagar is a celebrity now
 
(whether it happens is another thing)
 
^^ needs 3 more votes still
 

Closevotes

Post questions you want closed here with the same syntax as ex...
 
3:57 AM
or one meagar vote?
 
@meagar There are more for you ^^
 
@meagar, you're the only person among the three elected who has public activity since time due elected, nice :p
 
Jeremy came by to gloat earlier
 
I saw
 
maybe meagar can ban Jeremy
 
3:58 AM
Give it time, they might be frantically searching on Meta
 
I've counted three non-meagars since I've asked for close votes, and it's still sitting at two. >:|
 
can’t blame me... I’m unworthy to close-vote
 
@AlexisKing I am completely ignorant of scheme
 
But you're all content to amuse yourselves with a hypothetical discussion about maybe closing the question.
 
Is the code in question not a MCVE?
 
3:59 AM
@meagar It's not even relevant.
 
I don’t see anything obviously wrong with it, without understanding anything in it
 
@meagar It is at best unclear, at worst completely meaningless.
 
brb
 
Done
 
"It seems like str is undefined whenever I'm trying to get the car of it" is baffling.
 
4:00 AM
... Everybody gets one
 
yay
 
Yay thanks @meagar!
 
@AlexisKing sounds like Lisp. Is a string a list of chars?
 
3 hours ago, by Alexis King
I wish I could run for moderator of the tag and nothing else.
@JanDvorak No, not in Scheme.
 
I was reading the code and had no idea what the hell it was attempting to do
 
4:01 AM
I know what car is.
 
I guess that's less because scheme and more because insane code
 
@meagar It's not that odd if you're familiar with scheme, but it's not the pinnacle of beautiful code, either.
Plus, the current answer to that question is outright wrong, haha.
It pointed out maybe the one correct thing about the OP's code.
SO never ceases to amaze.
 
and amuse.
 
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Q: How to create infinite loop in jQuery

user2089597right now I am creating a slider, this slider has "Next Button" only. what I want to ask is that, how can make my slider infinite? right now when I clicked "Next Button" it will show the next slide but when I reach the last slide and click the "Next Button" the slides won't go back to its first i...

 
@AstroCB Use the jQuery infinite recursion plugin.
 
4:04 AM
should I learn jQuery?
I know 1999-vintage JavaScript
 
@yellowantphil Then your knowledge is still rather outdated, but jQuery isn't as necessary as it used to be. :p
 
@yellowantphil jQuery.shouldI("learn").yesOr("no").hide().show().explode();
 
It might actually be better to write ES6 code than ES5 at this point.
 
@yellowantphil no
 
sounds like a no for jQuery
 
4:11 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: What it was about naan whether what they thought by kumar kali on askubuntu.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector That's so 17 minutes ago.
 
smoke detector caught something from 2013 earlier
 
> The V-2 Rocket is an example of how war can incentivize the advancement of technologies that have non-war uses as the scientific breakthroughs made in its development revolutionized our understanding of rockets and made possible the space race that followed World War 2.
Is it too long?
 
maybe put in a comma somewhere
it’s not all that long
 
Ok
Can't find a place for a comma.
 
4:13 AM
ignore me then
the sentence makes sense to me, and I’m tired, sooooooo it’s great?
 
WHOA THERE COWBOY
 
@yellowantphil yes!
A+ for me
 
bjb graduates with an honorary PhD in rockets
 
@bjb568 Why not just, "The V-2 Rocket demonstrated how war can incentivize technological progress that extends beyond wartime applications, as the breakthroughs made during its development revolutionized our understanding of rocketry and enabled the space race in the period following World War 2."
I think that's more readable.
 
4:15 AM
Morning!
 
@bjb568 You do need a comma before "as", though. It's used as a coordinating conjunction.
The second clause is independent.
 
@AlexisKing It's less specific. It didn't "demonstrate", there were examples before it. The "progress" didn't extend beyond, the use did.
@AlexisKing ok
I dunno about "enabled" instead of "made possible"… it just doesn't feel right.
 
@bjb568 If you have a problem with "demonstrated" you could use "demonstrates". I disagree with your other points, but those are mostly subjective.
I don't think "demonstrates" in any way implies it was the first of its kind.
 
@meagar @MartijnPieters @JeremyBanks Many Congratulations
 
Isn't enabled more like allowed it rather than making something unfathomable before possible?
 
4:18 AM
@bjb568 "enabled" and "made possible" are almost precise synonyms
 
they tingle in my ears differently
 
I think "enabled" is less wordy and is clearer, but again, that's subjective.
 
@bjb568 and cats kittehs have very sensitive ears
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: How to use within the formula? by shirmatalky on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
@yellowantphil :D
thesaurus seems to agree that it's more of… those
DDG is so kewl
 
4:37 AM
Is DDG without G kewl too?
 
"What topics can I ask about here?" on the help center says: a practical, answerable problem that is unique to software development. You are not developing software, or more accurately, your question is not unique to software development, so it is outside of Stack Overflow scope. — Braiam 7 secs ago
> How do garbage collectors avoid stack overflow?
 
@Braiam They store everything in a heap
 
I seem to be winning the sidebar race tonight →
 
can’t Stack Exchange just ban all-caps titles?
 
4:47 AM
... or just hellban anyone whe uses them?
 
that's not be the solution to ban users.
 
let’s delete all questions everywhere
all problems will go away
 
What if we just require a high school diploma before you can ask a question?
 
goodbye bjb
 
4:51 AM
\o/
 
U WOT
WHAT IS DIS HERE
IZ SOMEBODY DISCRIMINATING AGAIN AGAINST THE POOR KIDZ?
Think of the children!
No, not that way.
Anyway, proud to have completed 7 slides (of 20) in my powerpoint. Is due friday.
 
aren’t half the mods teenagers?
or was that just half the people running for mod
I am so very old -_-
 
yes you are
 
require a high school diploma ?? not a valid rule
 
something tells me that rule won’t get much support
I’m still a teenager in hexadecimal, for a few months more
 
4:56 AM
lol ^
 
@yellowantphil i.e. you can't bring yourself to admit that you're really old
Night!
 
Night!
 
5:19 AM
gone
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: I like to commend them and Cayuga’s follow me at my look by sabinemayer on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: JSON from Servlet to Ajax to HTML - no error message by Percy on stackoverflow.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
drupal gone
 
I'm not even sure he actually knows what the utilitarianism school preach
 
6:01 AM
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Titanium dioxide room so on the boxes by ann coca on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
Can a link to vanskeys.com be legal?
blacklist candidate vanskeys.com
 
6:17 AM
So, I just flagged something as a duplicate (not close) and the question got closed. I have a gold badge. I thought I could still flag with a gold badge? Did I just misclick?? :/
 
don;t think so that there is any site on this topic under SE network
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: NLTK fails to find the Java executable by anu on stackoverflow.com
 
@InfiniteRecursion it is indeed more suitable on MSE
 
6:33 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: talk as she watched so I am other by oye chall on superuser.com
 
Is there an IRC bridge for SE chat? I found this, but the project hasn't been active in 5 years meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59760/irc-access-for-the-chat
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Testerect Body Earning Mysteries Analysis by julieroya9 on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
6:39 AM
hey guys, the last two smokey spams are still up
 
su -5/ meta -5
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website, repeating characters in body: Its fat shredding formula motivates the monoamine neurotransmitter level among men and women by Jenet Joany on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Week scandal at skinny by oiney hangi on superuser.com
 
@SmokeDetector gone
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@James Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
@SmokeDetector removed
@SmokeDetector delete
 
6:53 AM
su gone
 
@yellowantphil Yes, he is. Make @rene mod of SEDE!
 
@James 2 mins over to delete.
 
@SmokeDetector gone
@SilentKiller I was wondering why it wasn't going
 
Is it possible to message this user? stackoverflow.com/users/4554414 He/she does an abundance of tag edits, and is about to achieve a gold badge in irrelevant tags
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Push notification installation in server by Supercross on stackoverflow.com
 

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