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user259867

Theoretical Computer Science public beta began 5 years ago today. A question from their early days, which is admittedly broad, but more things are acceptable early on... Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science?

user259867

1:09 AM

user259867

^ small success, but the praise from Blackboard counts for something...

Braiam

@NormalHuman why?

user259867

@Braiam Why it's a success? Because I was tired of polishing it...

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@SmokeDetector ignore-

CRABOLO

1:24 AM

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user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- black magic

bjb568

1:43 AM

@NormalHuman Hooray!

I hate teachers who don't give out syllabi.

durron597

Anyone here with pull request privs on smokey?

Braiam

the giant spider has

user259867

@durron597 merged & pulled

durron597

@NormalHuman thanks. Do you have to restart also?

user259867

meanwhile, discovered a peculiarity of chat: can't send the same message twice.

user259867

1:54 AM

The pull command restarts it automatically

durron597

@NormalHuman Ah, did not know that. Thanks

user259867

Example message

user259867

Trying to post exactly the same message again fails. (typing "Example message", hitting enter -> nothing posts)

user259867

I suppose it's by design but is kind of annoying when you sent !!/pull too soon and then have to repeat it...

durron597

I think that's supposed to be a stability thing on the server side?

make sure you don't double post on a net hiccup or something

Braiam

1:59 AM

yet sometimes it fails...

Santa Claus

2:14 AM

@NormalHuman Do I win?

user259867

@SantaClaus No... I checked, your unread count is 5 (from my upvote).

user259867

And you quickly clicked the dropdown to see it. :)

Santa Claus

@NormalHuman Obviously I clicked the dropdown before you checked.

Clearing out my 400,000.

user259867

I'm sure you were hallucinating about 420,000. New nav can have that effect.

Santa Claus

@NormalHuman Nah, it must've been caching.

durron597

2:33 AM

@SantaClaus 420000 is nowhere near jon skeet.

bjb568

I pushed out a huge minor update to DD, hopefully it doesn't break

Santa Claus

@durron597 Jon Skeet can melt steel beams

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: What's the secret to making good turkish bread? (pide) by tim on cooking.stackexchange.com

durron597

In SOCVR, we are trying to clean up questions on this topic to make them all point to a canonical answer but we don't have 5 people in the room right now. Can we get some reopen votes?

Braiam

@durron597 why not just downvote Q and A and let roomba do its job?

durron597

2:45 AM

@Braiam Because that question has 5000 views, SEO.

Braiam

@durron597 I would say bad SEO data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/73917/…

people don't even leave feedback

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Braiam

also, duplicates with answers don't redirect

durron597

@Braiam Because that's a crappy version of the question

But a big duplicate banner would help.

Braiam

nah, let people find the right question instead removing the bad ones of the way

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2:49 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: What does ''case of fuck arounds" mean? by Grammar Addict on english.stackexchange.com

Braiam

I do that, all the time

Braiam

3:02 AM

> I've spent the past 3 years of my life answering barely-legible complaints from the very folks posting the worst questions on Stack Overflow, and lemme just tell you: none of them think their questions are all that bad.

I remember seeing that discussion way back... how could I miss that comment?

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3:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: What does this vulgar expression mean? by Grammar Addict on english.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore-

user259867

3:28 AM

I like this one better,

user259867

Niceness is orthogonal to quality, @kapa. The problem is one of volume - so wasting effort on indiscriminate fly-swatting is as much a part of the problem as wasting effort on indiscriminate hand-holding. The most efficient way to discourage someone asking bad questions is to just ignore them: don't fix their post, don't leave comments, don't close or answer - downvote it so that fewer people see it, and focus your efforts on questions that can be of use to others. — Shog9 ♦ Jun 4 '14 at 15:19

bjb568

4:01 AM

The real problem is neither fly-swatting nor hand holding. The problem is that on our table is a pile of dead animals and we have consciously decided to not set up fly zappers.

Braiam

I got an idea while reading, maybe a dialog box saying "You are almost finished to post your question, click okey to delete it all and start again" would be helpful ;) — Braiam 1 hour ago

user259867

If there was a pile of dead animals on my table.... setting up fly zappers wouldn't be my first idea.

bjb568

Yes, we have two problems:
1. HUGE broken windows!
2. Not enough mod tools to keep new crap away
3. Inability to push shift-enter

Honestly, archiving everything and starting anew doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.

santiago

archiving everything? on SO or over the entire network?

durron597

This user is posting a lot of links to a weird website: stackoverflow.com/users/5256257/amit-panchal

This is the weird link I have NOT CLICKED IT YET, BE CAREFUL

His answers seem... sort of relevant...

Braiam

4:13 AM

@durron597 virustotal.com/en/url/…

durron597

@Braiam That's a good site, I'll use it in the future

santiago

@bjb568 do you mean for the entire network?

durron597

I'm actually running ubuntu here, so I don't even have a windows virus scanner here lol (wasn't worried about my own comp getting infected)

Braiam

once I figured that it was a +200MB file, lazyness kicked in...

user259867

I think the answer is legit. He is telling the OP to install a particular version of CR. The OP doesn't have to use his .exe (I wouldn't). Generally, this is no more dangerous than downloading from a random site.

durron597

4:17 AM

Still, a good answer with a virus in it is just insidious, not wanted behavior

user259867

Now if many of his answers are very similar, then that may be a problem.

durron597

Half his answers have that link.

but not all

In the last two hours.

Braiam

mm... may be adware?

you know, the one bundled with the thing you want

durron597

@Braiam Could be.

santiago

@bjb568 well that would be like throwing out the baby with the bathwater (a terrible idea)

user259867

4:19 AM

Google CRforVS_13_0_5.exe

user259867

That URL is what everybody seems to post, including on SO in the past: stackoverflow.com/a/21603440

user259867

It's a direct download link from SAP: scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

durron597

Aw man, I got tricked because I google crystal reports for visual studio and got the sap website

I guess businessobjects is just a hosting provider for large files.

user259867

Seems so.

durron597

alright, thanks for the help, take care

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4:24 AM

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bjb568

@santiago Nah, just Math and SO

@santiago Maybe a way to unarchive the better of things

santiago

@bjb568 that's a relief... on sites like Chem.SE for example there is a lot of great content

bjb568

certainly

santiago

@bjb568 don't know about Maths, but I can see your point for a significant proportion of SO

bjb568

> Outlines are for skewl, and you make them after the fact.

- CGPGrey

outlines are useless

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4:51 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: OPE ON SYNONYM BASED RANKED KEYWORD SEARCH by jshri on crypto.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector Eh, not sure it's worth editing.

user259867

> don't fix their post, don't leave comments, don't close or answer - downvote it

user259867

status-completed

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: A new conjecture on Number Theory by Neelabh on mathoverflow.net

user259867

@SmokeDetector Crank post won't live long on MO.

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5:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: What's the secret to making good turkish bread? (pide) by tim on cooking.stackexchange.com

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@SmokeDetector edited

maveň

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/32163386/1761003

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/32163319/1761003

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/32163155/1761003

bjb568

Night!

maveň

@bjb568 cya!

> Together, we've built a place where every 12 seconds a developer posts an answer that helps fellow coders.

#SOreadytohelp After Google, the best thing happened for programmers is SO :D

Tweeted by syedqarib on August 23, 2015 at 5:28 AM

@NormalHuman :D yeah! we are :P

welcome purple circle :D @eski

eski

5:44 AM

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sd 2tpu-

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

His girlfriend advantages from his powerful WHAT exactly?

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@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I wish they'd stop running their Markov chains and used Horse_ebooks tweets as titles instead.

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