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12:14 AM

Stéphane still has a diamond, but the search for his replacement is on: stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/87771/…

user315433

> We have offices in New York, London and Denver, so if you’re in (or want to relocate to) one of those cities you can, and our offices are awesome.

user315433

If you're in, you can [do something unspecified]. Being "in" is important.

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user315433

1:33 AM

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user315433

Coffee went into public beta two years ago, back when having such a site seemed like a good idea to some.

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Journeyman Geek

._.

HOMELAND.Y U DO THIS!

bjb568

1:54 AM

user202362

2:07 AM

being 'in' is important, coz wifi can't cover 100km distance

user202362

2:37 AM

the more things you possess, the more things you have to maintain, why is life so hard ...

user202362

3:25 AM

@Shog9 is that by id or by name?

Shog9

Both

Jason C

chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/… no doubt thanks entirely to Joel's post on MSO. What would we do without him?

Next time maybe he can wait a few days like a sane person.

user202362

err ... it can't be both unless people who change names often don't get pinged much - people like M.A.R. & normalhuman change names every 6 months

user202362

so far as I am aware of, id doesn't change whenever you change your displayed name

user315433

Any truth to the rumor that a screenshot of Joel's post will be a part of the new top bar?

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Shog9

3:36 AM

Only for Jason.

Jason C

@Shog9 Hey, so I'm reconsidering my position on applying for a job at SE (once my freelance clears up again), because it would just be so perfectly convenient. In your honest opinion, do you feel Joel's post caused any political-related tension in the workplace? I seriously don't want to be an outcast for leaning a little to the right.

Lol oh god.

Shog9

@JasonC political tension, not much.

Jason C

removed distraction

reinstated non-distraction

Cool

Shog9

"wake up from a nap on a Saturday to a shit storm tension", yeah

Jason C

@bluefeet What do you think?

Ha, well, that's the fun kind of tension.

user315433

3:39 AM

One SE employee I could reliably recognize as conservative was Ben Collins... left a long time ago. Probably had reasons unrelated to politics, though.

Jason C

PS:

In case anybody was afraid to ask...

Shog9

4:08 AM

@JasonC ok, done with supper, here's the longer answer:

There are, as you might have gathered, a lot of folks working here who don't much care for trump. Arguably that's what led to the post; there's a certain expectation internally that if something big's going down, someone should say something.

But as far as tension resulting from the post, I'd say the biggest internal conflict was simply, "ok, what do we do next?"

(Which I'm sure you already gathered if you read more than one of our follow-up posts)

user202362

Jan 29 at 12:45, by Telkitty

But consider millions of women around the world march in record-breaking protest against Donald Trump dwarfing inauguration crowd. What has been done was too little, what will be done is too late

user202362

actually, I am not really worrying about trump as US president anymore, like every other US presidents, he only chooses to bully the little guys

user202362

no need to worry about WW III 4 now

Jason C

@Shog9 Yeah... I don't know. I guess I just feel like politics have no place in the workplace, period. I mean, I disagree with the premise that what was going down was "big". I just don't want to be surrounded by people whining about whatever all the time. If I want that I can go to the local coffee shop, or watch youtube.com/watch?v=1-JdsBXkHs8.

It's this American react-first, ask-questions-later thing, it just gets me.

And if I'm sitting down in the break room and 6 people are talking about how much they hate Trump or whatever, what do I do? Do I participate and disagree? Or do I cut myself out of the conversation and sit there in silence, not getting to chit-chat with coworkers during a break? Or do I go somewhere else? That's the tension I'd want to avoid.

Shog9

@JasonC yeah, well, I work several thousand miles away from the break room you're referring to, so I can't really say whether that's likely or not.

I do know they got a pretty nice coffee machine.

so... There's your trade-off.

Jason C

4:19 AM

Lol, the funny part is, now I'm seriously like "Oh... realllly.... hmmm"

Shog9

Personally, I think that sort of thing is unavoidable. You just gotta set your own limits for how engaged you're gonna get in those conversations.

I mean, I had a co-worker once who'd go off on a rant about Clinton at the drop of a hat. And y'know, we could talk about that. But when he got into the stuff he heard on Art Bell the night before... That's when I'd roll my eyes and just move on to something else.

user202362

@JasonC Java people are meek </trollololo>

user202362

we C++ people are much tougher

Jason C

4:34 AM

@Telkitty I am a c++ person. That's why I avoid taking about it on the internet, lol.

comp.lang.c++ trauma left permanent scars.

@Shog9 Yeah. That's good advice.

Anyways thanks for your insight on that.

Journeyman Geek

5:17 AM

@JasonC I thought anyone who used usenet probably had some deep scars ;p

Ironically I missed most of that, probably cause of the odd way singapore got internet

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DroidDev

5:45 AM

pokes @Sha in eye

Shadow Wizard

6:51 AM

@DroidDev ouch

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Jason C

7:08 AM

@JourneymanGeek Oh you didn't miss it. It's still going strong.

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC oh the heyday of it

"You have 7 seconds left for editing" 0_0

qwer

7:24 AM

Nuu... somehow I've been logged off from all SE

Jason C

Hax

user202362

Jason C

Damn. It's been 11 years since Steve Irwin died? Wtf happened to the last decade. That did not seem like 11 years ago. That's terrifying.

user202362

You are getting old, that's what happens. To be fair, we all are ...

user202362

there are many choices we can make in our lives, but there is only 1 exit

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11:34 AM

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Bart

1:10 PM

user315433

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1:26 PM

@qwer User blacklisted (46011 on bitcoin.stackexchange.com).

qwer

just in case...

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Journeyman Geek

1:48 PM

heh. This place is a lot quieter than I expected

qwer

It's Friday after all

Shadow Wizard

But we are not in Iceland

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user202362

Sat morning 4 me ... not is that the point

user202362

how do you know the various tricks you play on my screen actually work?

Shadow Wizard

1:54 PM

@Telkitty why aren't you in bed then??

user202362

going to soon

user202362

waiting for my hair to dry

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty tricks? Screen?

user202362

a section of my screen blanks for a sec at times

Shadow Wizard

user202362

1:56 PM

you know, as a 1337 tr011, I always get special treatments

Shadow Wizard

Here you go @Tel ^

user202362

summer here, I my drying my hair in front of air cond

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty just a bad pixel

qwer

GPU dies

user202362

1/3 of screen

qwer

1:57 PM

Low memory

(oh, my lousy internet...)

user202362

the problem with hackers, is that they can never show their true identity under sunlight, very frustrating if they are also attention hookers

user202362

the pride you get when you show the world how great ... or crappy the thing you have made - as a grey/black hat hacker, it is the pleasure that you will never get not matter how 1337 your creation really is ...

user202362

Bart

2:12 PM

using rain.simplynoise.com to drown out the office noise. It works great, but I do occasionally look outside expecting it to rain

bluefeet

2:48 PM

@JasonC I personally think that blue is the best color ever.

Bart

SO CM meeting: "So @bluefeet, what do you think" "... huh ... oh, blue" "Hah ... we hadn't thought of that. Good point. Interesting. Well, that settles it then" "But boss, that didn't answer the ..." "YOU HEARD HER. SHE SAID BLUE!!"

qwer

Wait, blue is the new brown?

Bart

With the absence of @jadarnel27, brown has faded into beige ...

Oded

bluwn

Derpy

@bluefeet yellow pony best pony.

user315433

2:59 PM

3Blue1Brown is a great YouTube channel...

qwer

^ flag as spam :P

but yes I agree, I might subscribe to that channel after knowing from Vsauce

Bart

Common Unity, gimme modern C# plz!!!

Bart

4:19 PM

First is already gone?

hehe

Oded

Um. SorryNotSorry

Bart

shakes fist

xkcdBot

5:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Stardew Valley):

I have accidentally watered virtually every person and object in Pelican Town.

user315433

Stardew Valley again? Suggests that 1790 was about Randall himself... and indeed, the recent comics were uninspired.

user315433

OTOH the what-if series may be coming back to life, there's a new post Coast-to-Coast Coasting.

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Shadow Wizard

7:33 PM

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user280395

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Shadow Wizard

(removed)

Andy

(removed)

user280395

(removed)

Shadow Wizard

(reMoved)

Andy

7:35 PM

(moved again)

Shadow Wizard

bleh you broke the train :P

Andy

No, I re-moved it

Shadow Wizard

You can re-move a broken train

It's like animating dead people

@Moosebot brown

user280395

Andy

Shadow Wizard

7:38 PM

lol

@Andy just curious, why didn't you use the chance to upload something new when Gravatar broke? ;)

Andy

I did. I uploaded my old image, because the new pink one looks stupid.

That and I've come to identify as a green blob of shapes

Shadow Wizard

@Andy heh, that's what I meant... hard to remember "green blob of shapes". ;)

e.g. see @Bart - he's glasses.

@rene is a flower. etc. ;)

Quick glasses!

How you saw the ping so fast @Bart if you weren't in the room??

Bart

I'm glasses

Andy

I suppose I haven't really thought about what I want to be when I grow up into a real avatar.

Shadow Wizard

@Andy oh my. Well, something green. And with shapes. hmm..

Found something for you!

Bart

7:48 PM

@Andy you'll figure it out. I used to be a blue shape

Shadow Wizard

@Andy ^^

@Bart really?? When?

Bart

A long long time ago

Shadow Wizard

I don't think I ever used identicon...

Andy

I'm not sure what that is. We'll call it a Hershey Kiss Pea, and not option A :)

Shadow Wizard

Though my gravatar pic is really outdated now

@Andy fair enough, but glad you're considering a change! :D

Bart

7:58 PM

Aug 8 '12 at 13:41, by Bart

@jadarnel27 I had a standard Gravatar before. No image. but I have decided to come out as the hipster that I am. ;)

rene

@ShadowWizard your flower has arrived

Bart

Get a room you two

rene

Oh, grumpy Bart is still around. \o

Bart

o/

rene

In other news: it is snowing here, 2 or 3 cm is the forecast

Let's see if I manage to stay awake for happy hour this time

I just finished dinner so my schedule is already a bit shifted

bjb568

8:17 PM

The hour of happiness approaches.

rene

Thankfully it is just an hour. I can continue to rant after that

bjb568

Thank FSM for that.

Bart

Hail Finite State Machine

Jason C

8:37 PM

@bluefeet I'm going to change my username to redfeet.

@Bart Hail factory service manuals

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Jon Ericson

Red-footed booby

The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. As suggested by the name, adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings. They are found widely in the tropics, and breed colonially in coastal regions, especially islands. == DescriptionEdit == The red-footed booby is the smallest member of the booby and gannet family at about 70 cm (28 in) in length and with a wingspan of up to 1 m (3.3 ft). The average weight of 490 adults from Christmas Island was 837 g (1.845...

I didn't think that Google search would turn up exactly what I was hoping for.

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Jason C

@JonEricson Oh man. @bluefeet it is so on.

rene

looks like a duck to me ...

Jon Ericson

@rene How specist of you. Not all waterfowl look the same!

On second thought, that should be specieist. It also applies to people who discriminate against certain coins.

rene

you call me anything you're comfortable with

Bart

8:51 PM

don't tempt me

rene

I didn't say anyone can ...

Bart

Fair enough

Shadow Wizard

9:09 PM

@Bart so before 2012... maybe in 1992?

@rene good! Now the party can begin! :P

@Bart don't you mean a Den? ;)

Bart

If that is what you kids call it these days, go ahead

Shadow Wizard

@rene why is it called "Happy Hour"? What's happy about it?

Bart

And it won't have been 1992, but 2010 could have been. I think that's when I created my current account.

rene

@ShadowWizard the beer is free

Shadow Wizard

@JonEricson Google got everything. Even things you didn't think can exist. ;)

@Bart don't become innocent, you were there... :D

Bart

9:12 PM

Never on purpose

Shadow Wizard

@Bart oh, you didn't use Gravatar before that?

@rene but sometimes people drink beer and are still sad

Bart

@ShadowWizard I think I had some default identicon before my current gravatar

Shadow Wizard

@Bart yeah yeah, keep telling that to yourself...

rene

@ShadowWizard yeah, needs more beer then

Shadow Wizard

@rene oh, then you get drunk... and drunk people can't be sad. :D

bluefeet

9:17 PM

@JasonC I do not object to that change

I always welcome more colored feet to fold

hichris123

9:50 PM

@Shog9 "They produced very few false-positives on the sites" "There's just one problem with doing this: they also produced very few positives." Am I reading this wrong or should one of those be true positives? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/199418/…

Shog9

@hichris123 edit it

hichris123

@Shog9 I'm not sure what the intent was... I think the first one was supposed to be true? Not sure.

Shog9

@hichris123 yes

hichris123

ok.

Jason C

edit ur face

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Shog9

10:06 PM

NO, U

Aaron Hall

10:34 PM

I just submitted an access request for i.stack.imgur.com and chat.stackoverflow.com with the most strongly worded reasoning I could. They have 10 days to get back to me. :)

gets the entirety of StackOverflow whitelisted for his whole firm

except gaming... don't see them approving that one...

If I succeed, I hope you guys don't mind. I mean, they might not be all that great, but they're paid programmers...

Thousands of them...

qwer

10:56 PM

Happy hour!? I should have been sleeping right now...

Oded

So... GitHub.

rene

I don't mind hypothetical meta-questions but I am practical. Why was my comment asking for an example removed? Looks like we are cherry picking?

@Oded works for me ...

Oded

:P

rene

OK, I'll have a hot choco with rum.

Let's have that party now

user202362

Aaron Hall

11:47 PM

Happy time!

Shog9

happpy happy happy

joy joy joy

Aaron Hall

@rene I just looked at it and cleaned it up a little more - the obsolescent and too chatty (silly) comments. Flag more comments if you think they're out of place.

I don't like to be aggressive with meta comments though...

@Shog9 oh ren!

Shog9

:)

rene

@AaronHall OK, thanks and I agree on not being to aggressive on meta.

I flagged one dangling comment and asked Tiny to remove his.

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