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JamesENL

12:41 AM

@JonEricson Why do your parents have grave stones in their backyard? Are they living like Mortimer and Bella Goth?

user202362

only if we could have cemeteries in Antarctica, crystal coffin, crystal tomb stone in ice

user202362

and no ~~dear~~ deer visiting

canon

@Shog9 linkrot prevention rotted... :/

Jon Ericson

@JamesENL Their house is located on the behind a cemetery. We can't actually see the headstones from the house, however.

JamesENL

Oh I see

That makes more sense

Now I want to go back and play the original Sims

user202362

1:03 AM

Microsoft headquarter in Australia is located 150 meters away from a big cemetery, but then again, Oracle & Honeywell are kind of next door too.

user202362

they are putting a lot of new high rise residential buildings near the cemetery too because of a recently built train station

user315433

2:06 AM

I pressed backspace half-way through filling out a long form, when the textbox didn't have focus... and nothing happened. Thank you, Chrome!

user315433

Why aren't comments that consist of nothing but "@user thank you" or "You're welcome" one-flag deletable? I'd say they have less value than nagging to accept answers.

Jon Ericson

2:34 AM

@zaq The "accept this answer" comments have negative value because they make the place a little less friendly. The polite niceties do the opposite. Both are quickly obsolete, however.

user315433

Yes, I think a year-old "you're welcome" holds exactly 0 value. Or a month old. Or a week.

user315433

My research indicates that among the non-very-large sites, Magento and TeX lead in accept-answer-plz category.

user315433

While DIY goes the opposite way, with comments telling answerers that it's rude to ask for question acceptance.

user315433

3:04 AM

According to developers.google.com/products Google still doesn't have any products with names beginning with X or Z...

Jon Ericson

Good thing they bought YouTube. . .

user315433

3:18 AM

J is also poorly represented, given it's the top first letter of SO tags. Only one product, j2objc, and it's not that popular: under 100 questions, most of them answered by the project lead.

user202362

X (company)

X, an American semi-secret research-and-development facility founded by Google in January 2010 as Google X, operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. X has its headquarters about a half mile from Google's corporate headquarters, the Googleplex, in Mountain View, California. Work at X is overseen by entrepreneur scientist Astro Teller, as CEO and "Captain of Moonshots". The lab started with the development of Google's self-driving car. On 2 October 2015, after the complete restructuring of Google into Alphabet, the company was renamed to X. == Projects == While X projects are often referred to as...

user202362

in the history of man kind, nothing significant is known to be developed by secret societies of any kind

user202362

so maybe secret societies do exist, but that's kind of irrelevant when we look the bigger picture

user202362

Secret societies are lot like someone else silent smelly fart, someone knows about it, many suspect it, but in the long run it really makes little difference

user202362

3:43 AM

that's not saying that they don't produce anything of significance at all, but when they do, they are probably like 'look at me, me did this, all me' and a part of them become no secretive

user202362

user315433

4:45 AM

Reached 60,000 helpful flags network-wide. Still a long way to catch up with @Andy who has 109,728 network-wide...

user315433

Andy's site-by-site helpful flag counts:

user315433

107715 flags on Stack Overflow
515 flags on Hardware Recommendations
319 flags on Drupal Answers
271 flags on Meta Stack Exchange
216 flags on Super User
165 flags on Ask Ubuntu

user315433

5:42 AM

@xkcdBot never posted Monday comic, maybe it has a little backlog to deal with?

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