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user315433

12:13 AM

Wait a sec... You already know about the 100K swag - we emailed you months ago! Back in April! April 1st! oh... Yeah, so, should probably tell you, that wasn't fake. — Shog9 ♦ 4 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

12:37 AM

lol

I was under the impression swag thresholds for SO were higher

not that I am ever likely to hit 100k on SO

bwDraco

I seriously need to write more answers.

Even at 32k.

Journeyman Geek

12:53 AM

@bwDraco less find answers, and more "find questions that interest you"

With meta its "Find questions that matter to you"

bwDraco

Yeah.

I should actively search the tag pages.

Journeyman Geek

I mean, if its just about reputation, you can do a Harry

bwDraco

1:07 AM

Not necessarily :P

user315433

1:28 AM

@JourneymanGeek Or better yet, do a crazy Ivan

Journeyman Geek

@Michelle HarryMC is our #1 user. He mainly goes for bounties... he's a bit infamous for that

user315433

> 1,011 Earned bounties for 71,475 reputation

user315433

impressive

Journeyman Geek

yup

rene

4:38 AM

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redhand

6:08 AM

1 hour later...

redhand

6:22 AM

f*** still I am moving my mouse to the left top when going to chat

Derpy

7:30 AM

.... does anyone get the meaning of the codes at the end of this post?

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A: What does this code getQueryStringParameter do?

It extracts one named parameter from the QueryString (URL) http://domainname.com/page.aspx?parameter1=xxx&parameter2=yyy var value=getQueryStringParameter('parameter1'); It is used in many examples and most of the time not necessary (and bloats your code) because SharePoint has multiple imple...

> Note: QS['parameter'] is the same as QS.parameter

--> J1 J5 iJS iDOC <--

is this user adopting some alternate post tagging system for sake of searching? Could actually be an interesting idea, but it does add some noise.

redhand

QS is an object.

like

QS = {
 'parameter1' : 'value',
 ......
}

So QS['parameter1] == QS.parameter1

Derpy

@redhand nope, I mean the tag like codes at the end of the answer

the line

> J1 J5 iJS iDOC

some are actual links to custom searches on the site.

seems he is trying to provide some sort of "related links" in the answer

redhand

yes. He may want to OP to search moar related questions

Elias

or probably some kind of versioning? Like, "this answer applies to J1, J5, iJS, and iDOC"

redhand

Shall we close a question as no repro if the OP is not responding in comments instead keep comment I tried it's not working bro ?

Derpy

7:38 AM

@Elias that was an idea... but in that case what even is iJs? I can't think of anything matching that acronym, both in a general web development context or in a SharePoint specific one.

redhand

all of the answers in the search results are made by the same person.

Looks like a code to get to his answers

like you can add ABC DEF at the end of one answer

Then DEF GHI at the end of other answer and DEF should link to the search term

so those who read click that link will be navigated to his other answers and thereby he can get more upvotes

redhand

8:42 AM

earth's going to end?

eastcoastdaily.com/2017/09/20/…

Elias

Yes, so please ~~give~~ donate your money to me

redhand

9:23 AM

random ping @ShaWizDowArd

DroidDev

11:02 AM

star troll visiting room: chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/19132/…

this is happening for like 10th time in a short while, in that room

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

11:59 AM

random @red pong

user315433

12:23 PM

> No precipitation throughout the week, with temperatures bottoming out at 77°F on Friday.

user315433

I like it when darksky.net summarizes the week ahead like that. :D

Elias

> Light rain throughout the week, with temperatures peaking at 34°C on Saturday.

We're on dry season though... please rain more.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Happy New Year!!! @Oded @AlonEitan

Elias

Tomorrow (in my timezone) is Islamic New Year too...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

American Indian Rain Dance

►

@Elias really???? whoa, didn't know they're in same time.

New Jewish year starts in about four hours.

(year 5778)

Elias

12:31 PM

Tomorrow is also 4 1/2 hours left for 1439 AH.

I don't observe it though :)

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

So anyway, Happy New Year! @Elias @Fawad @M.A.R.

@Elias 1439? You start to count since Muhammad was born?

Elias

@ShaWizDowArd I think so? I'm not a Muslim ._.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Elias ohh... thought you are. So how you know about the Islamic New Year?

Elias

It's a national holiday in my country

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

14% muslims, nice

Oded

12:37 PM

@ShaWizDowArd שנה טובה ומתוקה

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Oded שנת שלום ואחווה

buh... so sticky. :D

Oded

@ShaWizDowArd sometimes it happens at around the same time. The Muslim and Jewish calendars are both lunar calendars, but the Muslim one doesn't have any corrections for the solar cycle (Jewish one has leap years - the extra Adar). This means that the different Muslim holy days move around the seasons (including the harvest festivals - they can happen in spring, but usually, not).

M.A.R.

@ShaWizDowArd where?

@Oded Yeah. Sometimes there's a festival in Jalali calendar that happens to be the same day as a supersad day in Hijri calendar, so we end up laughing while shedding tears

@ShaWizDowArd We usually keep track of the Jalali new year, but not the Hijri new year, because well, there's nothing special about the Hijri new year

No celebrations, no festivals, no nothing

M.A.R.

12:54 PM

Probably less than 10 percent of Iranians noticed the new year.

I wasn't gonna but you told me

Bart

... wait ... c# allows for spaces inbetween the object and member when accessing that member?

Yeah, seems like it. Never knew that ...

redhand

1:13 PM

even JS allows it

var a = {
 b : 'c'
}
a . b; // c

Bart

JS allows anything, except that it doesn't do what you think it does. At least that's my limited experience with JS :D

redhand

it'll trim the space

Bart

Yeah, just surprised me.

redhand

@Bart actually JS is the future. Angular, React and Vue in web dev, Ionic, React native in mobile app, Node in Server side and Electron for desktop app

Bart

Get out!

redhand

1:17 PM

NO

Bart

I will have none of that JS rubbish.

redhand

the future of C#, .NET, Java, C, C++ etc will end within 10 years

@Bart I have industry experience in Angular

will start a project on Ionic near future

Bart

If I had a dime for every time someone predicted the end of any of those languages you mentioned, I would have a fortune by now.

Elias

Relax, the world ends sooner though

redhand

@Elias NASA predicted it

:6351027 eastcoastdaily.com/2017/09/20/…

actually the news is in malayalam. Translate it

Elias

1:26 PM

Search on SO will be degraded for a moment...

SNAFU

Search performance of Stack Overflow will be degraded a bit this morning as we use the backup search cluster during our elastic upgrade.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on September 20, 2017 at 1:25 PM

user315433

1:51 PM

Whitespace between object and property name helps when you have a chain of methods applied: obj.method(foo).another(bar).onemore(baz)... can be multiline and indented to align.

redhand

2:03 PM

timepass reading

unbelievable-world.com/2017/09/20/…

rene

2:39 PM

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Feeds

redhand

new ME

sh*t dp doesn't updating

yes

Bart

2:55 PM

Hey now ... glasses are reserved for me and my sockpuppets

redhand

requesting root access to @Bart's sock repository

Bart

denied

@Michelle makes some sense, though I shudder at the thought of such chains.

redhand

restore previous approved token id from cache and accessing with root privilege

removing @Bart from admin list and taking full control

now glasses are reserved for me O_O

Bart

invoking smiting stick

rene

Jay! \o/ ... popcorn

redhand

3:04 PM

smiting stick is already ate by Kenny

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

3:29 PM

@M.A.R. Singapore

@Oded huh. Thanks! admiring Oded's wisdom

rene

3:48 PM

@Bart it allows for fluent interfaces, no?

Bart

@rene yup. I'm not a big fan of those. But then again, they don't necessarily apply to our scenarios anyway.

In any case, I was just surprised to see something along the lines of entity .entityID in our code without complaints.

rene

If you are really chaining operations on an instance it might be beneficial but as a replacement for property setters it is just poo ...

user315433

A typical example from what I deal with (Google Apps Script):

user315433

 chart = chart.modify()
     .addRange(range)
     .setOption('title', 'Updated!')
     .setOption('animation.duration', 500)
     .setPosition(2,2,0,0)
     .build();

user315433

I suppose they could have used a dictionary of parameters for all these things, but... that's not how they roll.

user315433

4:20 PM

SO twitter account is suspended. ;o

user315433

> Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?

canon

Guys, it's time to talk about sunsetting the new topbar.

2

user315433

I wish they left topbar alone and just made Developer Jobs button float in the middle of the page, changing colors or whatnot, if it didn't get enough attention.

user315433

Then the rest of the network wouldn't have to have their topbar crammed to the right for no reason.

Magisch

I dislike the review changes in the new topbar

doesn't even show the numbers anymore

y u remove info from me

canon

4:31 PM

Because designers. Frustrated designers who want one design to satisfy every site on the network for every language it supports.

That's why we can't have text-accompanied icons in the topbar... because "review' is "DJKLASDJKASDFDJASKFJ DKFJDJFIQE" in Klingon, or something... and that would break the layout.

user315433

5:05 PM

Incoming: deep thoughts from Joel...

user315433

> "What if cars were designed by the same people who designed CSS?" - @spolsky, CEO of @StackOverflow #PluralsightLIVE -- Pluralsight at 9:51 AM - 20 Sep 2017

user315433

> "We created @StackOverflow to disrupt the world of showing how great of a developer you are." - @spolsky, CEO of @StackOverflow -- Pluralsight at 9:54 AM - 20 Sep 2017

user315433

I never knew that this is what Stack Overflow was for...

Elias

I'll start using that from now on meta...

user315433

6:21 PM

> @spolsky CEO at @StackOverflow speaking at #PluralsightLIVE “We are little vegetables floating in software soup”. @pluralsight pic.twitter.com/R3bXp0FCzJ -- Mike Baird at 9:58 AM - 20 Sep 2017

user315433

And perhaps more interestingly,

user315433

> @StackOverflow CEO announces new partnership with Pluralsight at #PluralsightLIVE pic.twitter.com/kXfJmXH98n -- dfletcher at 9:56 AM - 20 Sep 2017

user315433

What is this partnership? All I see is "free 60 day subscriptions to @pluralsight for new @StackOverflow users."

user315433

The URL pluralsight.stackoverflow.com is 404

user315433

I know that Kate Gregory's course Using Stack Overflow and Other Stack Exchange Sites is published through them, but that isn't a new thing.

user315433

6:29 PM

Maybe new users will be directed to that course by SO, now that it's free for them...

user202362

6:42 PM

Do I smell shameless self promotion? 😆😂

user202362

💖💝💕 shameless self promotors, unite!

user315433

Amazon fails at emailing again...

user315433

> We have learned of a potential issue regarding certain product(s) that our records indicate you purchased through the Amazon.com website:
KIND Nuts and Spices Bar, Dark Chocolate/Nuts/Sea Salt 12ct
For more details on what you should do, please contact KIND Customer service at 1.855.884.5463 or customerservice@kindsnacks.com.

user315433

That's it. Everybody who bought this popular brand/flavor should call the customer service. Yeah...

user315433

A few hours later (and how many calls/emails to KIND Nuts?) they came to their senses.

user315433

6:47 PM

> KIND Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt bars with Lot Codes BK16264A1 (Best Before Date 12/20/2017) and BK16308A1 (Best Before Date 2/3/2018) contain walnuts without proper allergen warnings. Only these Lot Codes are impacted.

user315433

6:58 PM

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Stack Exchange Top Nav Choices ( install ) ( GitHub ) Top Nav Choices changes the new Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow top navigation based on the preferences you set. The preferences are accessed on your normal Stack Exchange preferences page1. Default changed top navigation on Stack Overflo...

Elias

7:38 PM

fail icon

also, "the next Programmer.SE" coming soon?

6

Q: Defibrillating Health.SE

Several of us feel that we need to call a code on this site and assess viability. It's edging on unsustainable. UPDATE: The proposed solutions as written in this post are in flux, as the reshaping of Health.SE (now planned MedicalSciences.SE) is a fluid process. Please check the discussion in...