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12:01 AM
First time I've seen a site migration comment by an employee
Perhaps this question would be better suited to Code Review? — Benjamin Hodgson ♦ 21 mins ago
 
user202362
morning
 
12:20 AM
hi @tel
 
1:02 AM
hi
 
1:33 AM
The use of "cosmopolitan" in this question hurts my head. — Won't 7 hours ago
hmm, grammar question... maybe our resident pedant linguist (@tchrist) could take a look? meta.stackexchange.com/q/281491/289717
 
Five score is a hundred.
 
user315433
It sounds naturally if you think in game terms. "Requires 15 mana" or "requires 10 dexterity".
 
I imagine that people aren't sure what "a score" even means here.
 
1:50 AM
so a little bit earlier, Jon posted a dev link in the docs room, and being childish, I wanted to squeeze the foot of the toy in the box for the billionth time, and found this little gem: if you click the stack exchange menu here it duplicates the footer image and redirects you
The normal stack blog runs on Jekyll (a markdown platform) whereas the Stack Status blog runs on Tumblr, so I'm assuming Tumblr posts don't support markdown (or code blocks) — Quill 26 mins ago
 
triggered
 
ooh, I squeezed the foot again. so dev.se looks normal, but meta.dev.se looks like main site Ask Different, however the favicon is MSE
12pm and I haven't done any work today <_<
 
@Quill That means you're succeeding at work
 
that means MongoDB is slowly sapping my life force
 
I've caught a Tangela and that remains my most sufficient accomplishment this morning
Oh and written a private method
that doesn't have any code in it yet
 
2:05 AM
I suppose it's only 10 for you so you get a bit more slack
 
yeah
 
user315433
> Hoping tomorrow is a busy day for Stack Overflow. -- Nick Craver at 7:09 PM - 20 Jul 2016
 
user315433
Sounds ominous.
 
user315433
Docs going public?
 
user315433
Meanwhile, on a far-away meta...
 
user315433
2:14 AM
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Q: Is this site about Software Engineering, or what?

Shog9I've been pondering these proposed changes to the site's name and scope for the past few weeks. This was, you'll recall, instigated by Ana's response to Rachel's proposal for a new name for this site.. Why are we changing anything again? The purpose of that name-change request was explicitly t...

 
in Documentation Public Beta on Stack Overflow Chat, 59 mins ago, by Jon Ericson
Oh. Well, you'll all see what I'm talking about soon. ;-)
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs heh, +1 for a Melania Trump joke
 
user315433
The "full site" link in the mobile version doesn't have cursor: pointer.
 
You'll get loads of speculation and conjecture over on quora.com (which is ok and often fun). It's not in line with SE's goals though — Pëkka 4 hours ago
 
user315433
Docs introduction is big. The first time a new source of reputation will be added. I'd be happier if it was capped, as in "rep derived from Docs" <= "rep derived from Q&A".
 
user315433
Although on Q&A one can also win a lottery sometimes.
 
2:26 AM
even currently there's a whole lot of menial editing going on
but there's no 'trivial edit' rejection option
here, have a +2 for adding a comma
 
user315433
Hey, they might have spent their morning doing that.
 
speaking of edits, HTML comments still count toward 6 chars: stackoverflow.com/posts/38385694/revisions
 
user315433
Wouldn't need them if fixed "havering trouble" and cut the apology at the end.
 
that was just a demonstration for a conversation about it I was in
 
3:11 AM
-3
A: Advocate languages to golf in

thepiercingarrowBrainfuck because its fun. Its easy to learn (only 8 commands) and its Turing complete, so its very flexible.

can we have a tag for every meta
 
3:43 AM
Just hit my 500th FP review on CR... yay /smallclap
Off-topic on Meta? Never mind that, just ask it on Main!
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Q: Design the PPCG 404 page!

Dr Green Eggs and Iron ManOn Stackoverflow, if you click on an invalid link, you will be redirected to a 404 page with this polyglot: # define v putchar # define print(x) main(){v(4+v(v(52)-4));return 0;}/* #>+++++++4+[>++++++<-]>++++.----.++++.*/ print(202*2);exit(); #define/*>.@*/exit() (Originally written by Mark ...

 
4:26 AM
I need to get downvote privileges on PPCG... that's both a terrible challenge and has terrible solutions.
Although I guess the former is the cause of the latter...
 
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@hichris123 I know, right?
 
:/ PPCG seems to have gone from somewhat interesting challenges to teenagers trying to rep farm... (that might be a little harsh but it seems to be true)
 
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sd k
 
4:53 AM
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@hichris123 there's a lot of new (young) regulars in chat, and given chattiquette was only just instated....
 
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sd 3k
sd k
 
5:13 AM
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sd k
 
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sd k
 
5:58 AM
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1 hour later…
@Quill I wonder, is it published on sites like reddit already? (e.g. "Look! The post that broke Stack Overflow!")
 
probably
 
heh, let's see...
 
there's probably some hackernews post complaining about the stack choices
> "let's all blame .NET!"
 
user202362
7:05 AM
busy today, missed the whole episode
 
Episode of what? What TV show?
@Quill I never liked regular expressions, in any language. Now I like them even less.
Better have more lines of code, but at least you won't bring your server down.
 
> Stack Exchange was down
Wasn't it just SO?
 
@Shog what's going on with the flood of off topic programming posts on MSE? Has the inbox message returned?
(it's like 5 in half hour, probably more I missed)
 
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@Quill not sure, forgot to check while it was going on.
 
user202362
7:10 AM
would star for awaking 5h0g in the middle of the night
 
@Telkitty justice never sleeps
 
user202362
@ShadowWizard outage :p
 
@Telkitty cool! Sounds like a good drama! Who are the actors?
 
user202362
@Quill I can't quite imagine what he looks like dressing like the statue of liberty
 
you need better hobbies @Telkitty
 
7:12 AM
status-eating-cookie
 
user202362
no I don't. my imagination is free and entertaining for me
 
@Telkitty you see pokemons too?
 
user202362
I don't care about pokemons
 
@ShadowWizard hihihi. Actually, at the moment, I haven't even really tried the actual game.
 
7:20 AM
@Derpy whaaaaat? Blasphemy! :D
@Derpy you wait for PonyGo game?
 
@ShadowWizard The closest thing to that is a Pokémon hack called Ponymon, but sadly it is one of those "forever in beta" project
 
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8:36 AM
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9:56 AM
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Kevin Montrose on July 21, 2016
Today - thanks to our amazing community beta testers - we're shipping our [biggest expansion to Stack Overflow][1] since it first launched: Documentation.
 
10:31 AM
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user202362
@Quill 7 users ...
 
2 users, 7 badges
holy shit the chatroom exploded
 
@Quill bug, already fixed (just pre-bug data still lying around)
 
I figured it was getting fixed, I hope there's not too many bug requests for you guys later on ;-)
 
user202362
I wish I could hit a bug that randomly gives me a bunch of upvotes ...
 
10:54 AM
holy shit that's bigger than town hall
The blog post says there's 100 shirts to give away, and Jon said there was 253 users contributing to docs before release, which is about 1 in 2.5 chance of getting a shirt, at the moment (post-release) it's at 295. I'll be curious as to see what the number's at after the four months are up
 
user202362
You & your craving for swag :p
 
I don't have a craving for swag
I just think it's an interesting incentive considering the population of Stack Overflow
Considering the amount of suggested edits that get put through SO in a day, and now there's a ripe and new field to cash in on editing rep, I'm sure everyone's charging at it full speed
 
user202362
Lol
 
user202362
 
who wants to play guess how long before the first chat flag from the docs room?
 
user202362
11:01 AM
Here, take a look at this possum :p
 
in all seriousness, it's probably a good time to consider cashing in on some sweet meta upvotes, I could always use the rep... oh wait
I don't know join us in chat was the best idea
 
11:21 AM
Good, got a star in the documentation chat. My job there is done.
 
I'd be interested to see chat usage stats relative to docs release, I wonder if @Shog's willing
 
You've got to throw food at him or try a trade to make sure he's willing ... or maybe I'm confusing him with Minecraft. Dunno.
 
user202362
poor thing, getting insomnia from all those pings in the middle of the night
 
oh hey, what's the thoughts on adding badges for committing to topic proposals? CC @JonEricson
 
user202362
@Bart sh not d in front of og
 
user202362
11:28 AM
you are definitely thinking about a different ... err ... specie
 
user202362
Oh dear, someone wants to wake up more people
 
user202362
Additionally, villagers must be "willing" in order to breed. After mating, they will no longer be willing, and must be made willing again.
...
Villagers can also become willing by having either 3 bread, 12 carrots, 12 potatoes, or 12 beetroots in one stack in their inventory.
 
user202362
willing to breed for 3 bread or 12 carrots, best game ever!
 
user202362
3 bread to make sure he's willing, wtf @bart what r u implying?? devious bart
 
11:36 AM
@Telkitty I'm not implying anything. Blame @Quill. He was wondering if Shog's willing.
 
user202362
yep, trying to shrug off the responsibility by giving out misleading information
 
Not at all @Telkitty, in fact I ... LOOK OVER THERE ... runs away
Ooh, there's a Unity3D documentation tag ... I might spend some time on that this weekend.
 
REJECT ALL OF TEH TINGS
 
/me checks if smiting stick also works for documentation
 
11:55 AM
heh, the flower and I think alike
 
@rene that's an impostor
I'll contact my lawyers
 
he had glasses, he was definitely impersonating you
 
See, the evidence is right there "he had glass", whereas I am glasses.
Either a terrible impostor, or perhaps it's Bart themed cosplay. Who knows.
 
There are better Bart Clones
 
12:03 PM
@ShadowWizard "better" ...
 
@Bart OK, here is the perfect Bart Clone: stackoverflow.com/users/488657/bart
:D
 
It's like looking at myself
 
12:23 PM
Now if you want a really good impostor, look no further stackoverflow.com/users/366904/cody-gray
 
user202362
I have seen a picture with a very familiar wall, just couldn't recall where I have seen the wall or something similar to it. Talking about subconscious memory ...
 
Is it the wonderwall?
 
We really need a trivial edits decline option: stackoverflow.com/documentation/javascript/drafts/8882
 
user202362
the great wall of Jerusalem
 
12:30 PM
well I already got review maxed
 
12:47 PM
oh my god I just had to manually remove all the sidebar users to close the list
 
user202362
Quill, I mean ... will you stop stalking?
 
user202362
>_<
 
it was my question.... lol
 
@Telkitty what about it? It's not really great as in big, just maybe really sacred to some religions.
@Bart lol, you're brothers.
 
@Quill But I still getting rep for "something" I did there, so if i'll edit any example i'll immediately start "enjoy" free rep? I'm referring to what the OP wrote: ff I go through right now and edit every topic, there's a good chance I could have a Jon Skeet (rep cap everyday) style reputation gain.Alon Eitan 33 secs ago
I don't think this user understands.... I am the OP.... dun dun dun
 
1:16 PM
@Quill well, the OP background for comment authors on MSO is reallllllly bright, I can't even see it, so it's hard to tell you're the OP. (unless of course someone actually read your name and compare to the name in the question's user card.)
 
I just accidentally disabled flux, ouch my eyes ;-;
 
flux?
 
@Quill Oh, sorry - Great post :) — Alon Eitan 1 min ago
@ShadowWizard justgetflux.com
it makes the screen look pretty
 
It also put more color into avatars?
!!/status
!!/alive?
!!/tea
 
!!/timeofdeath
 
1:20 PM
hmm... @hichris123 @ᴡᴏʀᴅs Smokey is dead, any idea what happened?
 
"blipped" means off and on again.... looks like it's only down. :/
 
LOL my phone's front page is filled with notifications
 
GOLD BADGE!!
:D:D:D
My third...
 
?
 
all these username changes are starting to get to me
 
lol?
Just go uni
 
@Uni will always be @Uni
Though it can also apply for @UniDoggy
 
:D
 
Hey now, this is a place where I escape from work. No Unity3D in here pls
 
1:35 PM
@Quill he's not the first.. and not the worst... total name change is worse and more confusing
 
D:
 
@Bart use your smiting stick! :D
 
Looks at documentation and starts writing Invoke A Method
Is already proprosed
Eh do finding a field
 
calls Destroy on @Unity3D
 
You need to be root
 
1:37 PM
@Quill Seems sensible. It'd be a bit like Taxonomist, for better or worse. Maybe suggest it on meta?
 
will do
how does that work
 
Woah anyone can approve pending stuff in documentation??
I just clicked accept
Grabs sock
 
how do you get Mortarboard for Meta lol
 
If there was reputation on meta, you would have earned 200.
 
^
 
1:50 PM
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Q: Should I really have been awarded mortarboard on a Per-site meta?

The Unhandled ExceptionThe Ask Ubuntu Town hall digest caused me to win the Mortarboard badge, yey! But wait. [Mortarboard] Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time Per-site metas don't have any reputation... I am confused :-) I know why I got the badge. Should I have? Let me rephrase. Is this behavior ...

 
Tens of "Docs topic request" notifications~ Thankfully they aren't sent to SE app
 
-1 : For overtaking The Skeet I need this feature .... — rene 27 mins ago
jokes on all these docs beta people, while they've been busy with docs I've been answering all their questions
@nicael Quill is special. — Shadow Wizard 45 mins ago
aww thanks Shadow
 
 
that's more accurate
!!/alive
@Quill Kinda sorta
I'm smokey btw
 
user202362
2:08 PM
reading a 34 page PDF document on electricity connection
 
lol go to bed
 
user202362
of course you would, wouldn't you ...
 
Learns new stuff reading documentation
@Telkitty Well now I'm messing with electricity so yeah
 
user202362
it's a binding contract between me & Ausgrid, even though I would not be surprised that most people do not read it before signing
 
2:16 PM
Oh, docs is here.
 
They linked the chatroom to the public beta page and now it's a mess
it even broke the mod flag formatting
 
wondering about DocsDoodle
4
 
The interface layout is horrible and unintuitive. It looks like the front end was given little thot.
 
user202362
bjbkitty> hiss hiss
 
user202362
:p
 
2:18 PM
@Portal based on the github issues, it looks like bjb needs more hands on board
I should start fulfulling my promises and send some PRs
 
More paws certainly help.
 
@Quill :D
 
I'm nearly about to public deploy a project I've been working on for a few weeks, so I should be clear after that
 
Regarding meta posts?
 
maybe <_<
 
2:21 PM
Oh, ha, they screwed up the rep system on Docs.
@Quill Same here with the internship.
 
2:35 PM
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A: Bugs / Design issues on the Stack Overflow Research / Learn More page

Jon ChanInvestigated a few things: We've updated the fields here to be more consistent with dashes where the dropdowns are. We're okay with the cutoff on the dropdown for how many developers since it becomes visible upon click. We'll also look into making the favicon consistent across both sites, but h...

Work outside docs continues
The non-docs dev teams must be having a laugh (or beer) right now
 
bing
 
duckduckgo
Did I say anything about blindly copying, @Servy? Look, we just went through this a few days ago - you argued for hours because you didn't read the first sentence of my answer. If you're concerned about something, fine, let's talk it out... But I'm not gonna sit here and spoon feed your angst again today. Calm down and read first, please. The goal here is example-focused documentation - not undocumented examples. — Shog9 ♦ 1 hour ago
that makes me want to make the owowowowow noise
 
2:59 PM
bang
 
user202362
@Quill AND YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOU ARE NOT STALKING!!
 
user202362
caps lock
 
I'm not stalking shog
I'm just really lonely /s
Nah, docs beta chat is moving too fast, especially when I still had review quotas
 
user202362
Zzz Zzz land time
 
I kept the JS topic nice and low in the single digits, but now it's at 88 suggested edits
it's 1am here, probably time for Zzz myself, but there's too much drama
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user315433
3:14 PM
If you have always wanted to get Stack Overflow reputation, but haven't gotten around to it, jump in now. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/07/introducing-stack-overflow-documentation-beta/
 
user315433
That's the spirit. Wield power on Q&A side without doing or learning anything about it.
 
hey @JonEricson, I know you guys are busy, but some CM feedback on this would be awesome: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/328491/…
I'll even sweeten the deal by saying you're the reliable one
 
@Quill I've seen it. But I'm not going to answer or comment today.
 
okay, it's understandably a clusterfuck of conflict between groups 1 and 3, so makes sense
 
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Just like the SO beta.
 
user315433
3:28 PM
Yes, suggesting this is a good time to take a break from it.
 
Thought: Faster pruning on dropping users from the sidebar might make docs chat a little easier?
 
Or make it gallery.
 
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Because next week all SO reputation thresholds treble.
 
I can't believe TIPS is missing all this drama
 
3:49 PM
Drama? The documentation stuff?
 
yes
 
Drocumentation.
 
 
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5:04 PM
hi
 
5:17 PM
O/
 
@AaronHall, I appreciate the changes you made, but I still don't think it goes far enough. If we are going to make this example documentation better than what already exists, I want to see more. As an example why is the string r g b changed to attributes that you can access later with red.r? That almost looks like magic, if you don't know what's going on.
Fortunately, I do, but I'm also not a huge fan of the code block copying I'm seeing in a lot of the python examples. Your explanation that was added at least fixed that.
 
@Andy ok, I updated, I also put new sections in classes (Multiple Inheritance and Descriptors and dotted lookups).
 
6:07 PM
Can anyone explain the allocation of rep on documentation? I got +10 on one thing, and +2 on a couple other things. How does that work?
naughty naughty
 
6:34 PM
This documentation thing is a godsend
It will get me rep for just doing what I normally do: Pendanticly correct grammar spelling and punctuation and formatting :D
 
@Magisch good for you.
Hey, do some Python reviews when you get a chance, eh?
 
@AaronHall I'll only be able to do the nontechnical ones
 
I can't judge veracity of code changes a lot, so I'll only do the grammar-spelling-formatting-formulating ones
 
6:46 PM
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true positive, there ^^^^
I still don't get the rep - +5 now?
Is there a plain statement of how rep works on documentation anywhere?
 
(But there's a change coming. And surely more after that.)
 
7:27 PM
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Q: Addressing Documentation #RepGateApocalypse

Adam LearWith Documentation going into public beta earlier today, folks have raised a number of concerns over the reputation thresholds. I'd like to take a moment to address those in one place. We are adjusting the thresholds First and foremost - we are adjusting the rep rewards as we speak. This is a b...

it was the wrong tab <_<
 
7:51 PM
last day of work at this company and I'm gonna show up with 3 hours sleep lol
I'll bet my colleague will say something stupid like 'Have you noticed this documentation thing?', no, of course not, I totally don't care about SO in the slightest, I just didn't know this shirt was SO's logo, I thought they were pizza boxes
 
8:11 PM
:D
Don't dare to ping ...
@Quill You're not getting any sleep then?
 
I can't sleep right now @rene, somebody is wrong on the internet
 
Yes, let's correct that first ... where is my Doc hammer?
 
Can anyone familiar with databases tell me how quick this import is for a DBMS?
 
Um... no.
 
8:27 PM
@Quill how quick should it be?
 
depends on the rows, the computer and the engine
 
@Quill about 50m rows
 
I don't know the answer for any of the cases, but I'm just saying asking general questions won't get you much help
"Status INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER", @NathanOliver — Shog9 ♦ 3 hours ago
ooh the rare and elusive
 
9:06 PM
> Announcing Stack Overflow Documentation
I was in the beta, I think I knew about it...
 
you missed all the fun
 
9:40 PM
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@hichris123 knew about it before it was cool. Such a documentation hipster
 
10:15 PM
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hateoverflow.com

Proposed Q&A site for haters, misanthrops

Closed before being launched.

LOL
 
sounds like someone really hated that proposal.
 
haha, they would be the Hate Mods
 
11:04 PM
The docs room is like boss mode town hall, it's significantly harder to control users that don't actually care about rules
even my polite suggestions to chill out are lost in the flow of review reqs and banter
 
@Quill It's not so bad. I just need to compile a list of canned responses. ;-)
 
at this point, an FAQ list of meta questions wouldn't be bad either
 

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