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Young lady pointing at her young man’s newly revealed penis of non-brutal size. “And just who do you think you’re going to please with that thing?”

Young man: “Me.”

SmokeDetector

3:09 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: CS:GO SRCDS and iptables (firewall) by Idolw Szutrab on superuser.com

tchrist

Why would somebody pay not just good money but a ruinous tax for something they can grow in their back yard or greenhouse?

yellowantphil

maybe they don’t like getting visits from the feds

my font has a wholly inadequate glyph for U+1F60B FACE SAVOURING DELICIOUS FOOD → 😋

tchrist

@yellowantphil Trust me: that isn’t going to happen.

Jason C

All I see in this tab is a wall of text and the word "penis".

yellowantphil

@tchrist I have no aspirations of that sort anyway

@JasonC I can add more unicode spam if you want

tchrist

3:13 PM

My next-door neighbor has a couple of dozen non-psychoactive hemp plants he’s breeding for research purposes. He keeps his permit handy because his wife is nervous. However, he’s a respected, published researcher and I don’t think it is going to happen. Still, it is amusing to live next door to a pot jungle.

Jason C

Yes, mine is quite disappointing as well.

yellowantphil

@JasonC it looks like a goofball. I was hoping for something closer to the Taster of Taster’s Choice

tchrist

@JasonC Kinda jumps out at you do, doesn’t it?

Jason C

@tchrist Yeah. Good thing it wasn't brutally sized.

tchrist

What’s the emoji for MEMBRUM VIRILE, anyway?

Jason C

3:15 PM

I barely dodged it as is.

yellowantphil

@tchrist 🍆

tchrist

Et voilà.

Jason C

@tchrist I dunno, I my friend already spent significant time yesterday drawing penises in the box at shapecatcher.com with no good results.

2

yellowantphil

complex.com/pop-culture/2013/05/10-emojis-to-send-while-sexting/…

the authorities have spoken. Although they think that emoji == Apple’s glyphs

tchrist

Jason C

3:18 PM

@yellowantphil Slow page load, twitchy animated header, next.

yellowantphil

@JasonC you already got the highlight anyway

Jason C

Dammit, starwall context fail:

:(

tchrist

The starboard never lies.

As any sailor can tell you: the starboard is always right.

Jason C

Help! I need an adult!

yellowantphil

wrong chat room

Unihedron

3:31 PM

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/249839/…

so much fun

yellowantphil

@Unihedron what do you do with its results?

Unihedron

hold on

Try it again now. It now comes with the name of the review type. Go to http://stackoverflow.com/review/{low-quality-posts/suggested-edits/close/reopen‌}]/{reviewTaskId} depending on the type and you get to see which reviewers failed audits where your post was in the ticket.

2

yellowantphil

looks like I was a review audit

Unihedron

stackoverflow.com/review/close/6291572

Roombatron5000 passed an audit of my post!

stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/6311500

This user didn't.

yellowantphil

it shows someone else’s suggested edit on my post in that query

Unihedron

3:42 PM

It also shows tag wikis where you hold a majority of content over.

yellowantphil

so tag wikis that I wrote?

Unihedron

Which, by definition, is indeed your post because that's how tags works as CW posts, I guess.

Yep.

yellowantphil

I think fortran-common-block doesn’t get much traffic

I have a lot more suggested edits than what the query shows

tchrist

@Unihedron \R is much better than \N.

Unihedron

@tchrist What's \R?

yellowantphil

3:44 PM

oh, it only shows other people’s suggested edits and my tag wikis

Unihedron

It's already covered by The Reference. I made those three constructs because they weren't covered already.

268

A: Reference - What does this regex mean?

The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ If you want to truly learn regular expressions, then read Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" from beginning to end (3rd edition, on Amazon) Quantifiers Zero-or-more: *:greedy, [*?:reluctant] [Link needed], *+:possessive, Greedy v r...

At last, an interesting regex question after flowing in the stream of crap for weeks!

3

A: Matching a^n b^n c^n for n > 0 with PCRE

Qtax trick (The mighty self-referencing capturing group) ^(?:a(?=a*(\1?+b)b*(\2?+c)))+\1\2$ This solution is also named "The Qtax trick" because it uses the same technique as from "vertical" regex matching in an ASCII "image" by Qtax. The problem in question burns down to a need to assert ...

Night!

ProgramFOX

Night!

Unihedron

Thanks!

tchrist

@Unihedron \R is (?>\r\n|\v).

yellowantphil

@tchrist your regular expressions never look anything like the regexes I’ve used

tchrist

3:49 PM

So it is a nonbacktracking CRLF grapheme or a code point with the vertical white space property.

Unihedron

@tchrist (?:\r\n|\n|\r|\f|\x0b|\x85|\x{2028}|\x{2029})???

tchrist

@yellowantphil That’s because I’m good at it. And modest.

@Unihedron No, actually.

yellowantphil

@tchrist where do you get all those crazy things?

tchrist

What flags?

Unihedron

But \v is [^\n\cK\f\r\x85\x{2028}\x{2029}].

tchrist

3:51 PM

Kind of.

yellowantphil

I’m going to go clean my kitchen. No regexes in there 🏃

tchrist

"\r\n" does not match "\R\R".

Unihedron

So it makes no sense for \R to be \r\n|\v, except... oh wait...

Atomic group??

tchrist

Yes.

Unihedron

That's a real game-changer.

tchrist

3:51 PM

My point.

Unihedron

Oh no.

tchrist

You are not allowed to split up CRLF grapheme like that.

Unihedron

I do agree - \R is much better :(

tchrist

Tolja. :)

Unihedron

walks quietly to sleep after knowing that \N isn't actually the best construct

tchrist

3:58 PM

You see, "\r\n" is an extended grapheme cluster, and those are always atomic.

tchrist% perl -E 'say "\r\n" =~ /\A\X\z/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
PASS
tchrist% perl -E 'say "\r\n" =~ /\A\R\z/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
PASS
tchrist% perl -E 'say "\r\n" =~ /\A\v\v\z/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
PASS
tchrist% perl -E 'say "\r\n" =~ /\A\R\R\z/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
FAIL

yellowantphil

@tchrist what \something matched a Unicode grapheme?

rene

@Unihedron with the review link direct in the query: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/306395/…

Roombatron5000

w3schools got a redesign!

tchrist

@yellowantphil \X matches an extended grapheme cluster.

Unihedron

^^ @rene is such a helpful person

tchrist

4:01 PM

Atomically.

rene

@Roombatron5000 If they used their own guidance you would expect it to break on a couple of browsers

yellowantphil

@tchrist that isn’t on the reference

tchrist

@yellowantphil So? I’m right.

yellowantphil

when did I say you were wrong?

tchrist

You have to read tr18 closely.

But it’s there.

yellowantphil

4:02 PM

I had been hoping somebody would have fixed that SO answer by now

tchrist

The grapheme matchers \R and \X have to be atomic or they simply won’t work.

The exact definitions are painful to read for anybody unlike me and mine, but the simple truth is just that.

tchrist% perl -E 'say "e\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}" =~ /^\X$/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
PASS
tchrist% perl -E 'say "e\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}" =~ /^\X.$/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
FAIL

You can’t backtrack into the middle of a grapheme.

yellowantphil

I can’t backtrack at all. I only write stuff like <[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(E[+-])?[0-9]+>, except that one probably doesn’t work at all

tchrist

What is that supposed to match, or fail to match?

yellowantphil

23.235E+03

if it were fixed and had backslashes in appropriate places

tchrist

It fails on .23e1

Twice.

yellowantphil

4:07 PM

c'est la vie

that’s really weird notation... I don’t think I’d want to match that one

tchrist

You meant to write /^([+-]?)(?=\d|\.\d)\d*(\.\d*)?([Ee]([+-]?\d+))?$/ I know.

yellowantphil

I didn’t want the ^ and $

just words < >

actually I didn’t want anything you just wrote

tchrist

Define word.

yellowantphil

@tchrist something resembling vim WORDs

tchrist

Would you prefer something that’s maintainable?

@yellowantphil Define word.

Rigorously.

yellowantphil

4:10 PM

no thanks

tchrist

Then you cannot match it.

yellowantphil

\< and \>

tchrist

One last time.

yellowantphil

that’s as wordy as I want it

tchrist

Then you cannot match it.

yellowantphil

4:11 PM

I don’t need approval

tchrist

No, but you probably need success.

yellowantphil

it works fine. I’ve highlighted stuff in vim using something like what I wrote already

tchrist

Vim doesn’t use proper patterns.

Not without plugins.

$real_rx = qr{ (   # start $1 to hold entire pattern
    ( [+-]? )                  # optional leading sign, captured into $2
    (                          # start $3
        (?=                    # look ahead for what next char *will* be
            [0123456789]       #    EITHER:  an ASCII digit
          | [.]                #    OR ELSE: a dot
        )                      # end look ahead
        (                      # start $4
           [0123456789]{1,3}       # 1-3 ASCII digits to start the number

There you go. No anchors. Supply at will.

yellowantphil

vim patterns are all I need. it’s pretty much the only time I type anything that looks regexish

tchrist

Personally, I prefer actual grammars.

$real_rx = qr{
  (?<real_number>
    # optional leading sign
    (?<real_number_sign> [+-]? )
    (?<pre_exponent_part>
        (?=                         # look ahead for what next char *will* be
            [0123456789]            #    EITHER:  an ASCII digit
          | [.]                     #    OR ELSE: a dot
        )                           # end look ahead
        (?<pre_decimal_point>
            [0123456789]{1,3}       # 1-3 ASCII digits to start the number
            (?:                     # then optionally followed by

yellowantphil

4:13 PM

to each his own

tchrist

Grammars are nice because they are self-documenting.

([+-]?)(?=\d|\.\d)\d*(\.\d*)?([Ee]([+-]?\d+))? is not self-documenting.

In fact, ([+-]?)(?=\d|\.\d)\d*(\.\d*)?([Ee]([+-]?\d+))? is some sort of punishment to those who come after you.

Which they can do because of how you embedded your social security number in the pattern steganographically.

user259867

4:27 PM

SPAM patents.stackexchange.com/questions/12745/…

user259867

SPAM patents.stackexchange.com/questions/12744/…

ProgramFOX

!!/addblu patents.stackexchange.com/users/14020/kujyrftgukhij-ykgyku

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX User blacklisted (14020 on patents.stackexchange.com).

Hobo Sapiens

4:38 PM

cv-pls OT stackoverflow.com/questions/29862598/…

SmokeDetector

4:49 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: GeoDjango: Only numeric values of degree units are allowed on geographic DWithin queries by odieatla on gis.stackexchange.com

Roombatron5000

!!/ycs?

@undo could we have countdown till ycs freedomz?

looks like he's been active on ru.SO stackexchange.com/users/107389/your-common-sense?tab=activity , does he speak russian?

tchrist

Not counting spam, about how many pieces of mail do you receive daily to one digit of precision?

Braiam

@Roombatron5000 apparently, yes

tchrist

like 8 or 80 or 800 or 8000.

user259867

@Roombatron5000 He's a native speaker of Russian.

Braiam

4:55 PM

for some reason firefox decided to eat all my cookies :(

needs a secure jar

Roombatron5000

@tchrist online mail or postal service mail?

tchrist

@Roombatron5000 What’s postal service? :)

Normal mail, yes.

Not post.

Braiam

electronic mail, right?

tchrist

As it were.

Not paper mail.

Mail you read with a program.

Looking for a digit followed by zero or more zeroes.

Roombatron5000

20

tchrist

4:59 PM

Nice.

Commendable even.

Others?

differs 10 - 40

10 regular emails

~40 weekly

Wow.

when you going to tell us the correct answer?

tchrist

5:03 PM

I’ve just discovered that for reasons mysterious and immaterial, I am behind by about 7000 pieces of mail from over the last six weeks. Should I even try to read anything?

hichris123

yes.

Read all of them.

Bit by bit.

Piece by piece.

Roombatron5000

it'd be rude to not reply to each one

tchrist

I am considering feigning a lightning strike.

I mean, if it had been important, someone would have stopped by or at least call me, right?

hichris123

Hrm, does that mean we should all send @tchrist an email now?

tchrist

I used to get 65,000 attempted deliveries per day until I fobbed it off to my ISP to run interference against.

Now it is only a few hundred, all real.

But if you miss 6 or 7 weeks, you never want to touch the computer again.

SmokeDetector

5:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How do I unlock 200cc mode? by Kandou Erik on gaming.stackexchange.com

hichris123

@tchrist Mostly about your books?

tchrist

No.

hichris123

@SmokeDetector ignore, needs editing though

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

tchrist

Mostly about many mailing lists I'm on. Perl. Unicode. Various local-to-Boulder gaming groups or hiking groups or hacking groups or beer-drinking groups.

Actual personal mail from friends probably only a score or so.

A day.

I feel like such a turd for not answering them.

hichris123

5:08 PM

ah, gotcha.

@tchrist Just filter through them.

I can't type.

tchrist

Remember I said I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting the SE password reset mail?

Now I know why. :(

I have have missed discussions on groundbreaking new emoji.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How can I tell which hive specific registry keys belong to? by imkira3 on superuser.com

tchrist

So now all of a sudden people will start sending me mail with emoji for Superman and Batman and Spiderman and Captain America and the Silver Surfer and I will have no idea what they’re talking about.

Braiam

@tchrist are you sure that you didn't join some Marvel mailing list?

tchrist

Yes: they wouldn’t send me Superman and Batman if I had done that.

Okay, I’m going to keep 2k and pitch 5k.

Then I will put the From and Subject for each of the 2k in a file one per line, sort, see whether I care.

I nearly got sent to the firing squad for missing the HOA mail though. Couldn’t figure out what she was talking about.

fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DELIVERBY

yellowantphil

5:20 PM

@tchrist you have an HOA? 😲

tchrist

Deliver baby, oh boy!

Bah, I’ve run out of connections. Must intercept before people get bounces.

I had two machines in a deadly embrace and didn’t realize it.

Certain things still trickled through because of a very high-priority special white list, so I never noticed everybody else had gone away.

Andrew T.

5:47 PM

test Super User

hmm, the [su] magic link isn't working on post body (but working on comment)

hichris123

Magic links only work in chat and comments, not posts sadly.

tchrist

Okay, now the phone calls are coming because I ran out of processes. Damn.

If I had just left it all there, I’d’ve been blissfully ignorant.

hichris123

phone calls?

AstroCB

6:02 PM

Stack Overflow

Stack Exchange

Meta Stack Exchange

Undo

@Roombatron5000 no

tchrist

6:15 PM

@hichris123 Yes, because of bounced mailer messages with “Out of processes” bounces.

Just friends worried that my house had burned down or that I was being held prisoner by terrorists. Something like that.

Braiam

cv-pls no repro stackoverflow.com/q/13076052/792066

hichris123

@tchrist ah lol

tchrist

@hichris123 I believe there are several reasons why it is set up that way.

I guess I should have known I shouldn’t’ve forked off a dozen parallel Perl spiders rooting around for cat videos on Youtube for every incoming piece of flotsam and jetsam that hits my inbox and then mailing it back to them.

Alexis King

content will be different, HTML strcuture will be somewhat different too. but your answer is vague pony boy, stay gold — Manzar -MM 9 hours ago

What does this comment even mean?

hichris123

@AlexisKing The last part is from the Outsiders.

tchrist

6:20 PM

Yup.

hichris123

The Outsiders (novel)

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs (pronounced by the author as /soʊˈʃəz/, short for Socials), who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never stated in the book. A film adaptation was produced in 1983, and a little-known short-liv...

tchrist

I was gonna say that.

Alexis King

Aha.

hichris123

Beat 'ya to it. :P

tchrist

I was looking for cat videos.

> Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Ah these cultural touchstones. What would we be without them?

Probably asking in Tavern.

ProgramFOX

6:29 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29866735/…

tchrist

What the world. Needs now. Is . . . eMOARji.

bjb568

How Logical Are You? (Psychology of Reasoning)

►

This was great until they showed the misleading picture or "evolution".

Philosophical Truth or Dare

►

lol

tchrist

6:47 PM

@bjb568 Please stop watching Madonna.

bjb568

Who's that?

tchrist

That woman who keeps crying over spilt milk.

bjb568

huh…

Infinite Recursion

7:22 PM

BJB doesn't watch Madonna, he watches the milk.

bjb568

yum

tchrist

@InfiniteRecursion That explains . . . things.

@hichris123 No mail so far from anybody I don’t know. Your plan appears to be working.

@InfiniteRecursion Someday he will have to be taught that shaving a milk mustache is different from shaving a real one. But today is not that day.

Infinite Recursion

:)

Jason C

Why doesn't anybody ever have a milk beard?

tchrist

@JasonC “He said with a grin, as he wiped off his chin, . . .”

Jason C

7:30 PM

I stand corrected:

Milk Beard

►

Brb, booting into Windows so I can make an animated gif of the dancing milk cup. Because I have work to do today.

yellowantphil

@JasonC what, you can’t do that in Linux?

Jason C

@yellowantphil I'd have to do research. Effort = bad. I already have a screen grabby thing on Windows.

yellowantphil

✓

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: I.T.E. Power Supply by Robb on superuser.com

Braiam

cv-pls no repro stackoverflow.com/q/13045735/792066

Sue

7:36 PM

Baby milk beard...

yellowantphil

a goatee :-o

Sue

Technically yes!

Cat disguised as a milk beard!

yellowantphil

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29854716/… unless you want to do someone’s homework assignment

Jason C

Sue

Dancing milk!

Jason C

7:44 PM

@bjb568 I know you like to watch it. ^

yellowantphil

that milk needs a mustache

Jason C

Yeah it does.

Sue

@bjb568 I love your Duck Duck Goose profile- very creative:)

Jason C

Wait, what? i.snag.gy/Fz13n.jpg There's animated jpegs?

bjb568

@Sue wat

yellowantphil

7:46 PM

@JasonC 😲

bjb568

@JasonC :D

Jason C

What is this sorcery?

yellowantphil

it’s a gif

with a jpg extension

file Fz13n.jpg
Fz13n.jpg: GIF image data, version 89a, 209 x 226

Braiam

@JasonC mime reports that it's a gif

Sue

@bjb568 I chose to view your profile from here and this came up duckduckgo.com

Jason C

7:47 PM

Yeah, I just opened it in a hex editor too. Snag.gy just got confused I guess.

Dancing milk has massive arms compared to its legs.

bjb568

@Sue I see no geese

Alexis King

I really like DDG, but I still use Google because the search quality is just better. :/

I tried using DDG for a while as my default search engine, and I'd try the same queries in both it and Google, and the latter was much more effective at finding what I was looking for in my trials.

yellowantphil

if DDG doesn’t have what I want, I must not have needed it

I’ve been 99% DDG for years

Sue

@bjb568 Screenshot coming...

Alexis King

Google's crawler picks up more, I've found. For example, I just tried searching both engines with the query "racket multicast" and what I was looking for was Google's second search result. I don't even see that page anywhere in DDG.

yellowantphil

7:55 PM

🐦 🐦 🏃

@Sue that says Duck Duck Go, not Duck Duck Goose

and I think the thing with a bowtie is a duck

Sue

@yellowantphil Ah, I stand corrected. Or I would if I was standing.

yellowantphil

@Sue you sit corrected. unless you’re reclining

Sue

@yellowantphil I sit corrected with a cat reclining on my lap.

bjb568

@Sue no geese

yellowantphil

@Sue my cat tried to sit on my lap last night, but he took me by surprise and ran away when I was startled

Sue

8:01 PM

@bjb568 Sadly, no.

yellowantphil

some crazy animal just flies out of nowhere and lands on your leg

Sue

@yellowantphil One of mine does that all the time!

SmokeDetector

8:12 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How can I mass delete photos off my camera roll (iOS7) by user123492 on apple.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@2mkgz Blacklisted user.

user259867

What's a convenient shorthand for "inappropriate"?

yellowantphil

!ok ?

user259867

Something that one can understand without being told of the shorthand in advance....

Braiam

8:16 PM

~ok?

yellowantphil

the shortest synonyms are “unfit,” “amiss,” “inapt," “inept”

some of those do not seem very synonymish though

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/29870102/792066

user259867

I thought it'd be nice to know which SE sites have moderation issues... an obvious example is Patents, then there is Android (580 first posts in review queue at the moment), ...

user259867

It seems Beer is also there...

Jan Dvorak

SO

user259867

8:18 PM

0

Q: Is beer good or bad?

I mean come on what are the thoughts about it? I was trying to make beer out of mud and it didn't taste good. What should I do?

3.2-beer

user259867

@JanDvorak Yeah, and that....

user259867

But ^^ wouldn't be on SO for 20 hours, I suppose.

yellowantphil

@2mkgz how little activity does a site need before it’s closed? Beer.SE is 0.4 questions per day

@2mkgz 👎

Sue

Did you people know there are 83 meta users who's only name is James?

Doorknob

Did you know that I am the only user on meta with a name that contains the substring "Doorknob" (aside from my sock)?

user259867

8:24 PM

@yellowantphil And that 0.4 is by virtue of that question. :/

user259867

Would be 0.0 otherwise.

yellowantphil

travel.SE has only one thing pending in its moderation queues

Sue

I'm trying to find the one who just helped me but the pix are too small on my iPad screen, so if the @James is the one who just answered my question is ever here, I thank you kindly:) If not, I'll thank whichever James you are, cuz I'm sure you're helpful too!

Doorknob

@2mkgz No it wouldn't. There were two questions yesterday, and one two days ago.

Sue

@2mkgz I feel kind of sad for Android. Is it short of experts, or just overflowing with questions?

bjb568

8:29 PM

it's just generally crappy

user259867

I think the main issue is that many questions are practically unanswerable without someone having a similar setup (device, OS, modifications) as the asker. Which isn't likely, given the variety of Android options out there, and weird things people do with their devices.

user259867

And the brevity of many questions, especially those posted from a mobile device, doesn't help.

user259867

Lastly, the XDA forums draw the potential audience away from SE.

Sue

@Oded When you come by... Thanks for your interest in my meta question. Do you want us to erase our comments? I asked Tim and he said just to erase the ones between him and me, but I'm happy to nuke the rest if you want.

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hichris123

8:34 PM

I answered an SO question, @2mkgz!

Sue

@2mkgz That makes sense. I think there's some crossover confusion with Webapps, but that's not a great site either.

user259867

shocked

hichris123

:P

user259867

@hichris123 If it didn't have "different ... than" I might even consider upvoting.

Braiam

@hichris123 gasp

hichris123

8:44 PM

@2mkgz ...?

user259867

If you consider "A is different than B" correct, I have no further comment.

hichris123

18

A: Which is correct: "__ is different from __" or "__ is different than __"?

If you look in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), you will find that different than, despite objections to its being “illogical” and “incorrect”, is in fact a very common and therefore standard usage in American English. TOTAL SPOKEN FICTION MAGAZINE NEWSPAP...

But I think it makes sense in this situation. "is quite different in Android Studio from it is in Eclipse" wouldn't make much sense.

user259867

"is quite different in Android Studio from what it is in Eclipse"

user259867

Yes, I know that a large amount of people write and say "different than".

hichris123

Yeah, I didn't realize that was an American-ism. It's just how I learned it, I guess.

tchrist

8:50 PM

@2mkgz So, how long have you believed that native speakers of non-Commonwealth English are full of it?

@hichris123 Yes, of course. It’s completely standard English in North America. It pisses the hell out of some people whose regional dialect does not use it.

They even made a TV series about this once.

Jason C

@hichris123 That was one of the most civil comment discussions I've ever seen. There should be some kind of badge for that.

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hichris123

wow. parenting.stackexchange.com/users/14001/quetzy?tab=topactivity

@JasonC "Participated in a comment discussion and didn't belittle or attack the other user(s)."

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