Tavern on the Meta

That one's for me, but they're all wrong on my end.

3:16 AM

@AstroCB You're comparing your Meta numbers against your SO profile

You have 143 answers and 19 questions on MSO

@TimStone Oh.

I'll figure out why that link is wrong though, sec

Then you're right about the link.

@JasonC lol

I skipped that process by dropping out of my senior year of high school and getting a job. ;D

I suppose that’s less expensive!

3:18 AM

@minitech Quite the inverse, actually.

Haha. Yeah... I only lasted two years in college. I ended up with an internship freshman year that turned into my dream job.

@AlexisKing Oh, the whole “basic human needs” thing?

@minitech hmm?

I might do that with DD.

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Of course no ads, so GIVE ME TEH MONEHZ!

@AlexisKing Food, lodging, etc.

Anonymous

3:19 AM

School is hard.

@minitech Oh, I just meant that getting a job was the opposite of expensive. :p

I actually somewhat regret not graduating though, although I'm not sure why.

@JeremyBanks agree

(Now, admittedly, this dropping-out business might not have been by choice... mumbles something about depression and a suicide attempt)

@AlexisKing Oh. I was saying that getting a job was less expensive.

3:20 AM

@JasonC meh, how much calc did you do?

*whistles*

animuson

I dropped out after one year and now I work at Stack Exchange.

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Anonymous

Stay in school because it'll make it a lot easier to get a visa if you ever want to work abroad.

@animuson doin' it right

@animuson yay you!

3:20 AM

@AlexisKing Congratulations on recovering

@bjb568 In real life? A decent amount actually, but I was more heavy on the linear algebra.

Ah, ok. No PhD, but nobody likes a douche phd anyway.

@minitech Thanks! I'm still not exactly 100%, but I'm better. :)

I took two years of calc in high school, anyway.

@AstroCB Link should be fixed, sorry.

Only 2?

3:22 AM

@bjb568 Haha, part of my first job entailed helping said douches get their PhDs, then taking the IP. I'm sure they thought it was a good deal at the time. evil cackle

@bjb568 I wasn't aware many people took more than two years of calculus in high school. o.O

I'll take 3! Or maybe more if I do some over the summer.

Anonymous

I got the job I wanted after dropping out, but getting the visa so I could actually start the job took annoying amounts of time and money.

@bjb568 Pre-calculus doesn't, doesn't count.

I took half a year of calculus!

3:23 AM

@TimStone No problem; thanks.

There’s only one course at my school

@AlexisKing I KNOW

@minitech You win! You didn't waste your time. ;)

@JeremyBanks Shouldn’t you get her permission first?

@bjb568 I'm honestly curious what those three years are, then.

3:23 AM

@AlexisKing It wasn’t a waste of time! It was a lot of fun.

@tchrist Ba dum, bum.

It helped prepare me for the math competition I can’t go to.

@minitech I'm kidding, I loved calculus.

Anonymous

@tchrist o.O

@AlexisKing BC exam this year, multivariable next year, then probably stats, then something else as dual enrollment

3:24 AM

Pistols at dawn?

@bjb568 That's neat. I only took single-variable because I took statistics.

user259867

@bjb568 stats isn't calculus.

@JeremyBanks (Work a broad)

Anonymous

@JasonC Oh. Ha. =V

@pizza hence 3 not 4

user259867

3:25 AM

I don't know how high schools manage to stretch a semester's material into a year; with more class time per week, too.

@bjb568 I would've taken a third year, but... y'know, I didn't take my senior year of HS. :/

@pizza Very dully. :(

Ah.

@bjb568 Which courses?

LOOK UP

I get the feeling that my calculus is… less… than everyone else’s

We didn’t do multivariable anything

3:26 AM

@bjb568 Oh – didn't get that far.

user259867

Addition to mod questionnaire: how much calculus have you learned?

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^

^^

@pizza It's very important for moderation.

post it!

3:28 AM

@pizza Learned? Or retained?

So what sort of other fun things is everyone working on this instant

homework

and devdoodle.net

@minitech I'm about to give you guys tons of comment flags from data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/297140/…. Also, writing documentation for a project I just finished.

Anonymous

@minitech Lately, several of us have been ███████████████████████████ -- what a riot!

yeah, that

3:29 AM

@JasonC “fun things” “writing documentation”

@minitech It's true. My life has reached the point where documentation is the fun part.

Sounds like a great life.

I want to be Jason C when I grow up!

Well, it's better than waiting around in an airport for delayed flights, which was my weekend.

ay, the weather, yeah, that

Anonymous

I'm working on convincing my team at work to direct all of our customer support questions to Stack Overflow, to reduce costs.

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3:31 AM

Nope. Not weather. The runway construction at JFK, causing average delays of 5-6 hours at departure airports all around the country.

Way more annoying than weather.

@bjb568 Is this built in Node?

Yes!

@bjb568 Without Express?

@JasonC they couldn't plan that out? O_o

@minitech Yes!

@bjb568 Good. Express has terrible query string parsing >=(

3:32 AM

:D

@bjb568 You clearly have never been to JFK.

There's simple enough querystring modules.

(Throwing user input into arbitrary structures is my idea of fun!)

@JasonC I've heard about it.

@minitech s/input/

Everybody watch out, @minitech is encouraging @bjb's vanilla js rampage.

3:33 AM

aww, used all my stars today already

@AlexisKing What?? What about my vanilla JS rampage

@minitech Quiet, you, you're being a bad influence on this young kitty. >:|

Down with jQuery and Backbone and Bootstrap and Ember and Angular and CoffeeScript and the internet and computers and electricity

Haha I just realized what your poster was @bjb.

Anonymous

3:34 AM

@minitech You had me until "and".

Which reminds me... I have some photoshopping to do.

:D

… and user-agent sniffing. I am suddenly disappointed, @bjb568 =(

Mar 30 at 3:57, by Alexis King

@bjb568 Are you manually using string concatenation to generate your webpages? o.O

@minitech That's just an insult message for IE users.

3:36 AM

I mean, what is this

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mobile') == -1) mainContentEl.style.minHeight = Math.max(0, innerHeight - (footerOff ? -4 : footer) - mainContentEl.getBoundingClientRect().top + document.body.getBoundingClientRect().top - (innerWidth < 1500 ? 6 : 12) - mainBottomPad) + 'px';

Media queries!! Media query it all the way

Already asked q on SO.

Not possible.

Maybe you shouldn’t be doing it then!

… what is it doing

JS is required for the body to expand so footer is on the bottom

I guess I might be able to hack thru it with table layout, but no.

Oh, no, that’s not necessary

Let me see if I can remember how to do that

I can give you access to the repo.

3:37 AM

you do it like this

display: flex;

:)

@bjb568 Sure, why not

@AlexisKing <3

@AlexisKing Me likes, but gah those browser incompatibilities.

@bjb568 Flexbox is pretty well-supported now.

hm… may start using

Y ME INTERNET PING TIME SO LAGG

SUCH UGGG

NO LIKEY ISP

@minitech What's your github username? minitech?

@bjb568 It is!

3:40 AM

k

Don’t tell me you have the GitHub education pack…?

@minitech no, they denied me

27 mins ago, by pizza

Congrats to @HoboSapiens who is now #5 in downvotes on SO, overtaking Peter Mortensen.

@bjb568 … they do that? Why?

"I want it" "It looks like yer not qualified"

3:41 AM

Did they say why you weren’t qualified?

"why? what? I should be…" "no reply button"

Just got pinged for this, although I have no idea when it was posted. It seems I'm famous, or infamous, or notorious...or something

user259867

@HoboSapiens It says "27 mins ago" in your quote.

user259867

When you're out of a room, pings arrive in 15-20 minutes.

@pizza So it does, but the transcript said 3:30am, or thereabouts.

3:43 AM

@HoboSapiens UTC time. I don't really know why the transcripts don't adjust for local time.

@AlexisKing UTC would make sense, since it's 3:44pm, UTC+12 here

It would help if the time gave the timezone, at least.

A: Can *too* upvote comments under an election nomination

Tab indentation? Can I be your friend @bjb568

user259867

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Voting for comments has been disabled during the primary phase for now. We want to make sure that we are at consistent when it comes to elections.

@bjb568 Y TE QUIERE LA INTERRED

@minitech YES

@tchrist AND I WANT interred? wat

3:49 AM

And the Internet loves thee.

I'm helping with your Spanish. :-)

Y ME ... reads like Spanish.

Well, I have to write this letter for tomorrow

o/

o/

A lazy half note.

There you go @bjb

ugly code tho

user259867

3:59 AM

Somehow people don't mind using Soviet symbols for a lark... doing the same with Nazi symbols is generally frowned upon, though.

@pizza I laugh at swastikas, too.

@bjb568 Yeah it's from some google thing, I was looking for something with no whitespace.

The transparency annoys me, but I couldn't come up with a good way to compose all the parts. That's why I don't do graphic design.

user259867

Ask at Graphic Design?

"PLZ HELP, URGENT. hOW CAN I MAKE THIS BETTER: [IMG]. TY IN ADVANCE PLEASE USE MY EMAIL FOR REPLIES"

user259867

Is this feature new? Seen in the sidebar on front page.

SmokeDetector

4:03 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Bad keyword in body: Buddha, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Mahavir, Sai Baba - Vishnu avatars? by user3750229 on hinduism.stackexchange.com

@pizza What, frequented tags?

user259867

@TimStone Yes, that...

user259867

@SmokeDetector Not sure which one you meant... so many there.

It's been around for a while, though it only appears under certain circumstances on sites where you don't have other tag preferences set.

user259867

Hm. This was a byproduct of me farming rep by suggested edits in order to vote in their election.

user259867

4:05 AM

Apparently, posts about Photoshop were the ones with the most typos.

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/22431/graphic-design-2015-election

:D

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/3026326/a-mathematical-problem something

user259867

That room is sad. They have one good candidate. End of story.

yah

its urgent ! its urgent ! — Code0987 Dec 13 '10 at 13:49

4:12 AM

urgent isn't a flag keyword?

@JasonC unclear

No, but its should be.

@tchrist What, have a problem with its unapostrophe'd form? ;)

Andrew T.

Its annoying not to see it's apostrophe.

Careful, lest you unwittingly bring down the righteous wrath of the Apostrophic Jihad upon your heads!

Or was it riotous rats? I can never remember.

4:18 AM

@pizza Aww.

At least I didn't get banned.

@tchrist What'ever.

Just what you'd expect of a C student.

Burn.

^ reposted what Seth said since I couldn't upvote — Roombatron5000 34 secs ago

Nice @Roombatron5000

Morning!

4:25 AM

Yo

Morning!

Yo

Need 1 cv. stackoverflow.com/q/3026326/1160282

Andrew T.

Aww shuck, I just realized I left "i"s on that edit D:

lol i seen your edit thought you already voted. :P

4:31 AM

@inf I think Martijn does great job and may end up voting for him, but I'm long ways away from making any final decisions yet. I've seen many other tavern dwellers nominated already, does maybe your pin give an unfair advantage?

user259867

SPAM ru.stackoverflow.com/a/414033

user259867

Also the question is spam seed.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: dailyLimitExceededUnreg error with google blogger API by ddesai on stackoverflow.com

AHHH WHICH ONE IS THE FLAG BUTTON

^^ same question.

user259867

4:36 AM

@JasonC The one on the right, тревога

@SmokeDetector isn't that an answer though? that the problem was he just wasn't including the api key? so adding the api key solved it for him?

I got it; I managed to login. Spam is the second from the bottom on both questions and answers, right?

> Though I'm in 10th grade

That spot is already taken

user259867

@Roombatron5000 Ask slugster, it wasn't Smokey editing.

> @BoltClock I'd definitely second that. The rep-drive is slowly fading and that's what I'd do next. I just decided to throw my name in the nomination because I had never done it before. My vote would go Martjin Pieters :) – Amit Joki 51 secs ago

user259867

4:36 AM

(I agree, btw)

@Roombatron5000 then it should be off-topic for problem can no longer ?

I wonder if he realizes that with his high rep, he's shoving people out of the election.

Probably not.

@bjb Do you want to respond, or should I?

You can

any meta complaint yet?

user259867

SPAM freelancing.stackexchange.com/a/3069

user259867

SPAM freelancing.stackexchange.com/q/3068 seed

user259867

4:39 AM

From April 3, I might add.

:O

@bjb568 It's 00:39; I might as well write one.

@SilentKiller not sure

user259867

Nobody else is up for flagging spam+seed on ru.SO? :( The spam is in English.

i'm done with spam. just not sure about seed to be flagged or not.

user259867

4:42 AM

blacklist candidate unlimitedclans.com

user259867

@SilentKiller Eh... the author of that question also posted freelancing spam I linked above.

is this borked for anyone else right now elections.stackexchange.com/#stackoverflow

@pizza question nuked.

Jon Ericson

@pizza But the UI is in Russian.

> @AmitJoki I can understand wanting to throw your name in, but it's important to consider that only 30 candidates can move on to the primary phase of the election. If the number of nominees goes over this threshold (which, at this rate, it probably will), only the top 30 candidates by reputation will move on.

> Considering your high rep, you could be pushing possibly more qualified candidates out of the election by deciding to move on, so while it's entirely your decision, you should be serious about running if you're going to fill a spot. – AstroCB just now

@bjb568 There – I hope that wasn't too harsh.

user259867

4:45 AM

@JonEricson I gave translation above: flag = тревога

@AstroCB was fine

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/29483824/1160282

> Reticulating Splines

any meta complaint of pushing of lowreps yet?

user259867

spam gone \o/

4:47 AM

@bjb568 Will write.

k

user259867

SPAM superuser.com/questions/898601/how-to-get-slim-and-sexy-body

@pizza gone

@bjb568 Now that it's fixed, I feel more comfortable sharing it: greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9045-election-comment-voting

> If you feel at any point, my participation is causing some one worth more, then just feel free to ping me, and I'll think of withdrawing. I am a passive reader at Meta and know the SO's spirit, how it should be. Yes, I may not be active at Meta, but I'm more active on the actual site which is to be moderated. Anyway if you feel at the last minute that any one more worthy will be missing out because of me, just ping me and I'd withdraw my nomination. – Amit Joki 5 mins ago

@bjb

He sounds sincere enough.

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/154198/… and there's another one there, still alive

4:54 AM

I'll write that Meta post now, though.

k

I can now approve tag wiki edits on MSE. I don't know if I can handle this responsibility. I should probably withdraw my nomination.