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3:18 PM

Last podcast was pretty good. I give 8.5/12 stars.

macrumors.com/2016/07/11/lenovo-yoga-macbook-iguy-ad

Wow this ad is awful. From a casual viewing without context, it wouldn't really look like a Lenovo ad. It doesn't really focus on any of the reasons why I'd want their laptop.

If its being viewed by the average dumb drunk half-asleep American on TV, it'd probably subconsciously improve their perception of Apple.

The drawbacks of Apple that its supposed to be highlighting are put so vaguely and so incomprehensibly that they don't really register.

Supposedly they were comparing two similar products, but no specific features of either of them were talked about for more than a second — a parenthetical "oh, it has a touchscreen" was they most I got out it.

Utterly awful. Whoever made that ad should reevaluate their life and go to law school or something to learn how to deliver a message.

@Quill What did I miss?

q_q Darn you classes

For a second there I thought you said "Darn you glasses" and I thought, "what did I do?"

@bjb568 it was, but there was no site milestones.

I actually tweeted that back at joel spolsky

@TIPS draaaamaaaa

I posted two drama meta posts above and there was some on Code Review

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Q: Deleted post notification masks vote count, could it be replaced?

When a post got deleted, there is a div masking on the vote count as depicted below: To see the last state of the vote count, I remove the overlaying div from the developer console (F12). Could it be placed a little more to the little below?

feature-request

This one of them?

no

@bjb568 I have that old Mac Pro he shows when he says "it just works"

Hello there @ChanceHeath

3:32 PM

@Quill Hey there

Are you a new developer?

having to go. Later

Oh my.

I'm a PM on Enterprise at Stack. Actually just swung by to answer the Enterprise question from earlier

@InfiniteRecursion the best way to get more info on Enterprise would be to email enterprise-sales@stackoverflow.com - from there we can get the conversation rolling and send out more info to help you out!

Is this drama-related @Quill?

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Q: Is 2nd Monitor too strict with which conversations are deemed okay?

Quite a while ago, an incident occurred in The 2nd Monitor where some users continued a loud conversation whilst 'site business' (a user asking about site scope) was happening. When they were told to pause their conversation, or at least slow it down, they didn't take much notice. The moderator ...

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3:37 PM

it's got my pretty face on it, so yeah ;P

The correct usage is "beautiful".

also I'm making something that's gonna make drama a lot easier to enjoy

Pfft, even if the drama was big, I wouldn't notice something coming from that bureaucratic chat.

hopefully after I get pitchforked out of main chat I'll have more time for answering SO questions so hichris can stop teasing me about my review queue access

. . . so I can then tease you about access to 10k tools.

Or beaker swag.

Infinite Recursion

3:44 PM

@ChanceHeath Thanks Chance. I will do that.

@TIPS the beakers do look pretty awesome

@bjb568 that's horrible. he's clearly not fanboy material

Alright guys, you do know there's no actual candy mountain, right?

thechapolympiad.com

@AaronHall wait ... what? Well, that's my life shattered right there

4:02 PM

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 35 secs ago, by Robert Harvey

That, and I was curious about Candy Mountain.

@Bart don't worry he's lying.

I don't understand this joke.....

user image

oh I see, you guys were collaborating this candy mountain conspiracy to confuse me

That was what's called a "setup"

4:04 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/a/274743, spam?

If you get the allusion, you provide the response. That's how we know we're cool.

@AaronHall aaaaaand another user added to my ignore list

@Quill how come I'm in your ignore list and you still talk to me?

@TIPS when did I say that you're in my ignore list? you'd be in my favourites list

Oh, I should try harder

A smiley so I make sure people see me joking

Another awkward message about the smiley and the joke

Trying to change the topic

Failing

Trying again

Calls @Bart for help

4:08 PM

"Smites r Us, how can I help you?"

"halp me it's urgent pls here's my code: "

@AaronHall oh I remember this video

obscure internet references are obscure

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: If I edit old posts to improve SEO, will Google re-index them? by David Gayson on webmasters.stackexchange.com …

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5:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Is my 16x2 LCD display broken? by Clifford on electronics.stackexchange.com …

@AaronHall sure there is. I live there. No actual candy, but the cigarette trees are AWESOME.

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user315433

6:44 PM

Why do people answer questions on Stack Overflow? - by Jon Ericson

user315433

> Millions of programmers (probably close to all of us) use Stack Overflow

user315433

all of 'us"?

@Bookend All of people on SO.

user315433

> At some point, it feels less like you are helping out and more like you are enabling a bad habit.

@Bookend You're enabling the bad habit of quoting the more interesting parts of something when I didn't even click on it.

user315433

6:59 PM

> Send feedback by creating a GitHub issue.

user315433

^ the best part

ಠ_ಠ

user315433

I feel a category is missing. Some people place value on learning, $L. Answering interesting questions pays in $L in return for $T.

user315433

This is independent of "helping out"; the OP can be eaten by a raptor after clicking "post" for all I care.

user315433

The questions where I know the answer right away aren't that interesting.

user315433

7:37 PM

Something broke in the "edit profile and copy to all sites" workflow. The text gets copied all right; I see it when going to "edit profile" on another site. But the rendered profile page stays the same, for days. Someone over-optimized.

user315433

8:02 PM

0

A: How to make slideshows work on mobile devices browsers?

I'm Being hacked. Why would a hacker need that

user315433

An excellent question, though somewhat opinion-based.

8:27 PM

I KNEW IT WAS OSCILLATION DUDE! I also think this is a small change for a decent use case, so +1. Also, for oscillation. — Won't 4 hours ago

busted...

8:47 PM

@ShadowWizard hah, oscillation man is back

@Bart yup, big time!

So based on Shog9's response I can use the Contact Us page for questions about my dead mom?

I mean: there is no dead mom link ...

@rene what response?

I really like that JonH character ...

@ShadowWizard here

we're having fun

@rene tons of fun... poor Shog...

8:58 PM

I guess JonH ran out of bugs for /Jobs so he now switched his attention to /contact ;)

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 15 mins ago, by trichoplax

If anyone hasn't wasted their required amount of time today, over on Code Review there is an argument about the correct use of LOLCODE

It's absurd, but a good kind of absurd

@rene yup. I remember some "quarrels" on MSE as well with that guy. :/

9:41 PM

@rene you can ask there why I am so much faster than you.

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10:42 PM

I didn't know hiring Security Analysts was alright on SO jobs

Security Analyst

HackerOne

cissposcpegwapt

HackerOne is looking for security-minded, customer-service oriented individuals to help lead up the newly formed…

Posted on Stack Overflow Careers on July 13, 2016

user315433

FR: when a user enters "Please help" in the answer box, deliver a mild electric shock.

user315433

Or, failing that, a pop-up message about the difference between questions and answers.

@Bookend Or, a user uses the PHP tag

11:12 PM

burn baby burn meta.stackexchange.com/users/334624/global-telecom-testing

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