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12:10 AM
@forest there's no official chat API
 
@JourneymanGeek How often does it change in a backwards incompatible way?
 
thankfully, not often
sobotics.org is a good starting point IMO
 
@b_jonas There's a link directly to it in the top of the achievements inbox. Has been there for a while.
 
 
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1:28 AM
Wow, morning....
 
SUCH MORNING!
MUCH WAKEFULNESS!
WOW!
 
Wow... that's... too much caps :P
 
Wow, so many wow's...
I'm glad that this last morning was clear, at least for some time...
 
@Catija just wait for the sound to travel to the netherlands, and Tink complains about being woken up ;p
16 hours ago, by Tinkeringbell
@JourneymanGeek AAAAAH! NO SHOUTING!
 
1:43 AM
HAHAHA.
... I ... just did something that is weird.
 
I was texting my mom (Messages) on my work computer, which has that fancy touchbar thing instead of F keys... and I wrote half of a long word I didn't want to try to spell... and used the word suggestion to finish it ...
I'm not generally a fan of the touchbar other than for unlocking the computer... but I'm disturbed that I actually used it.
 
@Catija SE provided you a work machine?
I'll stick to true touchscreens
 
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog actually I'm half certain that stuff's documented
 
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog That's pretty standard... I would think?
 
1:47 AM
though IDK if CMs have a desktop option - but apparently SE employees either get a mac or a dell XPS 15 of the current gen
 
Yeah, 'cause I was wondering why they gave you a Mac, while the whole dev stack runs Windows
 
but apparently you can request anything sensible within reason
 
I'm not a dev.
 
(also, the dev desktops are sweeeeeeet)
 
Tim posted his work setup on facebook one time... also apple-based.
 
1:49 AM
> We no longer use MacBook Pros due to the Touch Bar debacle (several of our developers and sysadmins gave the Touch Bar a try...and sent it back).
 
But CMs can still get it if they want?
 
@Catija If I ever get hired by SE - I'd probably prefer a desktop config simply cause its so much easier to keep track of stuff with multimonitor configs ;p
 
I just hate Apple's insistence to not equip any of their Mac products with touchscreens.
 
I think there's a few levels... the base level default is an Air... CMs are considered sort of partial devs for various reasons, so we get upgraded to MBPs... but if we don't want Apple products, we can request an equivalent Windows machine... presumably Linux but I didn't really ask.
 
Also their use of the outdated 16:10 aspect ratio; most manufacturers have moved to 16:9
 
1:51 AM
@Catija ^^^ windows ;p
I don't think anyone but SRE touches linux - and that's for the HA stuff
 
The full devs I guess get what's in that link ...
 
@Catija I think their laptop builds are basically the same options y'all get
(also this is something I love/hate about SE. its open, but dang those builds are sweet ;p)
also, <3 the 600T - little surprised that's still the default (its an older design with some quirks) but its a dream to work in.
 
I'm not a huge fan of touchscreens for bigger things. I love my magic trackpad.
 
My razer blade stealth has a touchscreen
Its useful for one thing.
 
And I'll take the larger vertical space of a 16/10.
 
1:55 AM
Red. Freehand. Circles.
 
I don't really like trackpads. Would prefer either a touchscreen or a traditional mouse
 
You can do the same thing with a trackpad.
 
not as easy.
 
For me it is... but when I took my digital animation class I had to get used to not drawing on the surface where the image is created... I used a Cintiq for some of the stuff but I couldn't always get one, so I had to get used to both.
 
@Catija It seems Microsoft went 3:2 in the Surface Studio
 
1:57 AM
hah I guess
 
Did you ever see my final project?
 
Also, least in the real VFX world, the really nice tablets, with the built in displays were super rare
we kinda standardised on the normal wacoms?
 
@Catija What is it?
 
@Catija nope?
 
Let me see if I can find it... it's on youtube.
 
1:58 AM
(I miss that job :( )
 
@Catija Is it on the same channel as one video you linked once of Bennett?
 
Maybe?
 
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog boundaries!
 
It's tied to the email address you have.
 
Would it be bad if I made a bot to star and unstar messages in chats so that there is always an even number of stars on the messages in the starboards?
 
1:58 AM
I don't actually remember.
 
Its not necessarily obvious whether folks want you mentioning things like that
@10Replies yes.
 
@10Replies It'd probably run out of stars pretty quickly.
 
@JourneymanGeek Doesn't it stress you when there are an odd number of stars?
 
@10Replies no
 
1:59 AM
Just me I guess
 
You could, alternatelively, create a userscript that did ;p
 
@10Replies When there's only one, there's no number
 
it would be less annoying, and still sort out the problem
 
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog even worse!
 
2:04 AM
@10Replies I can see what you mean...
 
@Catija That looks like it took a long time to make...did you draw every single frame or did you make use of tweens?
 
Flash and I didn't get along for tweening, so I did it all one at a time. I reused the walking each time, though, so less work then.
 
Since they'll be discontinuing the Flash Player very soon, Adobe's renamed Flash Professional to Animator
 
Anyway, I had fun with it. I traced stuff because I can't draw to save my life. :D
 
I used ActionScript
 
2:15 AM
@Catija lots of people can't lol
which is doubly frustrating when you're in your 20s and all your friends seem to be talented artistic types
 
It's triply frustrating when you're surrounded by a bunch of people who are better artists than you are and they're ~8 years younger. :/
 
Ah I guess
 
It wasn't as bad as it could have been, though... it was Film students, not art students ;)
 
ah quite
and even in the arty side of things, there's a suprising amount of drudge work
 
2:32 AM
Yeah.
 
 
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3:41 AM
@Catija Say, have you ever worked with true motion picture film?
 
 
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4:56 AM
@JourneymanGeek done... And thanks :/ you were so loud it travelled round the world several times, it woke me up at 4, 5 and 6 AM.
 
@Tinkeringbell I blame echos.
 
@JourneymanGeek I blame you for starting the echos then
 
5:47 AM
@Tinkeringbell maybe... and possibly standing waves,
 
 
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6:56 AM
...Windows XP?
Poor soul
 
10. Years. of. Stack. Overflow!
 
And 20 years of google it seems. Lots of milestones ;)
 
7:17 AM
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog Yes, mods can refresh a user's profile.
Ugh I'm exhausted and I have a ton to do today
I got ten hours of sleep in the past two days. That's not enough.
 
My recent sleeps were full of dreams nightmares though... sometimes related to SE chat or comments...
 
7:43 AM
@JourneymanGeek It's weird to think that google already existed for 7 years before I even heard of it ;)
 
Whoa, I dont even have 500 rep and I already got a gold badge
 
it's also possible for 1 rep to get the gold Fanatic badge :)
 
@Unitato Nice! There's a few you can get I think... Fanatic, and the one for voting.
 
or Marshall for those spam buster
 
Yeah, I got the electorate
Probably because I love reading past discussions and voting on them
 
7:50 AM
600 questions or more, that's a lot :)
 
There's 87,528 questions on MSE right now ;)
voting on 600 of them isn't that much, given how many there are to vote on
 
@Catija Ah, I see. I didn't notice that. Ok, that solves that.
 
8:05 AM
and I thought I was a grumpy user, but apparently I downvoted 1186 and upvoted 1064 times on Anime.SE...
oh, I was grumpier on SO and Android.SE...
 
8:20 AM
morning.
New episode of the mobile development environment creation hell.
starting to think that the "Windows 10 1803" azure VM template is corrupted....
seem android studio just won't install on a freshly created using that template machine
As (not) expected, the just created machine has a lot of pending updates...
will try to update and see if the error resolves itself
 
Working under NDAs is annoying. Sometimes you create something you're so happy about, you just want to show it to everyone :D
 
oooh, go ahead and talk, surely no one here is a developer. No fear someone would steal your idea :P
 
Haha, that's not what I'm worried about. I'd be surprised if you have the tech to replicate it.
 
also...... relevant
Midas (; Greek: Μίδας) is the name of at least three members of the royal house of Phrygia. The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. This came to be called the golden touch, or the Midas touch. The Phrygian city Midaeum was presumably named after this Midas, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausanias founded Ancyra. According to Aristotle, legend held that Midas died of starvation as a result of his "vain prayer" for the gold touch. The legends told about this Midas and his father Gordias...
you could try the same trick the barber used...
Just consider it didn't went very well for him.
 
brb, digging hole
 
8:34 AM
anyway... nope.
android studio just jet stuck in an endless "your account isn't privileged" cycle
 
Looks like UAC is screwing you over?
 
@Bart tried every possible configuration, even disabled uac just for test
no luck
 
:/
 
I am currently asking a coworker to test the same installer on another VM created from the same template
(Windows 10 pro, 1803 update)
if the installer fails even for him, we know something is broken in the installer.
Which may be the case - the android studio site seems to indicate that the current version was released in september.
so, it is very possible the version I tested and installed a week ago isn't the same I downloaded now....
 
8:58 AM
My time to rant about programming and work :P I just asked the scrum master to up my workload a little, and he promised I'd be doing work on other parts of the codebase/application as well if the part I'm working on doesn't require enough fixing and developing to keep me entertained. BUT at the same time I got an e-mail from a project manager that's pretty vague, but seems to imply they want me on another team, working only on that small part of the codebase that I'm working on now :(
I sure hope that's not going to happen, it would make work very boring.
 
I guess I'll join the trend then... : We need better UI/UX designer :(
 
@Tinkeringbell don't let that linger though
 
@Bart I'm on it ;) E-mailing and calling people as we speak (okay, not really, but I called a few managers on my companies side and mailed the managing part on client side for clarification).
 
@Tinkeringbell good :)
 
If this is really pushed through, I'm going back to Java developing
 
9:05 AM
Oh man, don't think I've touched Java since uni ...
 
I 'grew up with it' :P
 
Oh you young innocent child
 
Technically, I'm still an archaeologist with a few certificates that allow me to program ;)
@Bart Well, I needed the job? :P
 
Sounds reasonable :D
 
I don't regret switching... although if I could, I would take Thursdays off and start volunteering at the local archives again.
 
9:57 AM
@Bart - just tried on a newly created Azure VM on a different subscription, same template.
The android studio installer fails with the same error
I hate Windows.
 
:( That kind of nonsense is always so frustratingly time consuming
 
10:10 AM
@Bart I think they must have done some security changes to the default permission set that get assigned to the admin user when the VM gets created
 
@forest see my answer here
depending on which toolstack you want to implement stuff I can offer moar guidance.
@Tinkeringbell with a prioritized backlog (and maybe an open space with technical debt issue) a team nor teammembers should ever run out of work. Or is this yet another "SINO" project?
 
the funny thing is that so far only the android studio installer is impacted.
 
@Derpy maybe run it in a backward compatibility setting? tell it to run as if it is on Win7
 
I guess I live up to my ancient title of "the Bug Magnet"
@rene to be fair, it could be easier to create the VM using another Win 10 template and then update to the 1803 April release
 
10:27 AM
Yeah, that can work as well
My screenshots cause health problems ...
awaits mod message for being a health risk on SO
I'm not going to offer to flag the comment as no longer needed but that is an acceptable flag. The question on main got undeleted so the comment served its goal.
 
10:42 AM
SINO? There is a backlog, and it is prioritized. Problem mainly is that I only have experience with a single part of the codebase yet, and that that part sometimes has to wait on other developers to do major changes before I can make the changes required on my side.

I could technically start working on the next big item on the backlog, but it will require some other senior dev to explain stuff to me and we need to 'plan' that time.
Also, it's a bit weird, but they assign stories to specific people based on 'area of expertise' before a sprint is even planned or started :/
 
huh
 
It's a completely different way of working then what I'm used to.
@Somewhat My thoughts too. There's also no standard code reviewing in the process :/
I'm special in that sense :P I get sub-tasks saying 'review by a senior dev'
 
Maybe SE doesn't expect numbering more than 100, and certainly not 21717...
 
@Somewhat That's a really nice short and succinct meta post :P
 
@Tinkeringbell it is a Scrum In Name Only project... run from it. Nothing good will come out of it.
 
10:58 AM
@rene It is working though ;)
Or at least it does seem to be, and they're not unwilling to change.
We now have Gitlab, they're using the branching strategy I proposed... They're working on automated builds and deployments, and on getting a good OTAP street.
Maybe the cherry picking is the only flaw ;) It's not like there's no preparation for 'under the bus' scenarios... Everyone knows a bit about everything, but it's easier to have developers focus on their stuff if you have a first product to deliver in three weeks ;)
I'd like to not run.
 
Okay. Cherry picking is a serious flaw that needs to be addressed.
If you don't want to run, taking the next train is also fine ;)
 
11:18 AM
@rene :P It may be, but I'm picking battles here ;) I'd first like to be able to not have to manually copy-paste configuration between development and test servers (and/or have the build break because it runs the unit tests in a different way than the development server does).
Eventually, this will be a perfect scrum project. I didn't get those certificates for nothing!
You know, I don't even think my SIG certificates even mention cherry picking as a problem...
 
Sure, but my experience sits in the way here. I can't help that, sorry ;)
 
@rene Heh... we all have that sometimes ;) I don't have much experience yet, so I'm not yet stuck to 'this is how I want it' :P
 
11:43 AM
Yeah, I'm that grumpy old guy
 
Every project needs one ;)
 
 
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1:56 PM
Jay Hanlon on September 27, 2018

Ten years ago, a lot was happening. Barack Obama and John McCain were running for U.S. president. Lehman Brothers’ collapse triggered a global financial crisis. The second iPhone came out – with 3G speeds, y’all! Tweens everywhere were deciding if they were on Team Jacob or Team Edward. Kanye West convinced everyone that what sunglasses had been lacking were venetian blinds.

And on September 15, 2008, Stack Overflow’s public beta went live.

Stack Overflow’s home page in 2008

Since then, 9.3 million users have provided 25 million answers to 16 million questions. Every 5.1 seconds, someone ta …

 
@Feeds I'd say happy birthday, but stack overflow wasn't exactly 'born'.
 
@Feeds Happy builtday!
still no comments on that blog post...
 
2:13 PM
There's also a pretty page for it: stackoverflow.com/anniversary
 
That looks similar to the content of the email :)
 
... I didn't get an email. :/
 
wow, that GIF is... huge...
@Somewhat oh, not yet featured on SE sites...
 
I'm kinda surprised the comments are even unlocked.
 
2:40 PM
@Catija maybe Jay assumes the best of people.
 
I don't think Jay actually posts the blog post, just writes it. :P
 
@Catija no swag.
 
Yet.
The 10th anniversary shirt is really cool.
 
shirt..... I wanted the Ladycorn plush.
 
and... the backpack... hint hint
 
2:44 PM
I don't know if we'd do backpacks... we have them for staff but I'm not sure if they're staff exclusives or not.
Plus, they'd be heavier to ship and less compact.
 
@Catija where do I go to judge that for myself?
 
when you wear it
 
@Tinkeringbell I don't think we've posted it publicly yet... so you get to be in suspense until then. ;)
 
because... EVERYBODY GETS THE SWAG!
(huh, what is this "shout" virus?)
 
@Somewhat Millions of swag packets? That's a logistical nightmare!
@Catija Aaagh! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Now I won't be able to sleep tonight :(
 
2:51 PM
^ We. Want. This.
 
@Somewhat ONLY IN THE MORNINGS!
 
@Derpy Heh! I already saw that little one, it's cute. I've threatened in another room to just crochet one for myself if couldn't get one ;)
 
I'd assume she's a stock unicorn with a little shirt?
 
48
A: New swag for Stack Overflow's 10th birthday: wear-ables or desk-ables?

Monica CellioPlush unicorns! People on meta have asked for the Stackicorn in the past, have even expressed willingness to pay for it if only you'd make them. Bonus: in the future you might be able to print different "shirts" (say, for different sites) or add other decorations.

just to say... currently second most upvoted answer.
make it first we must.
 
@Derpy can't help there anymore ;)
 
3:04 PM
@Tinkeringbell you could start by treating those who haven't voted for the plush yet. ^_^
 
🦄
 
@Derpy treating or threatening? I'm all for the second. It's cheaper :P
 
for example, the dog hiding in the corner there. My Pinkie sense tells me he tried to ask for a bone instead.
 
I'm sure dogs like plushies too, to chew on and rip them apart ;)
 
@Derpy woof?
Actually I asked for patches ;)
 
3:11 PM
mumble.....
totally unrelated....
The upcoming MM11 game made me realize that we haven't got a good Atomboy game since Omega Factor ;_;
 
@Derpy I've actually been gaming the past week too, for the first time in a very long time :) it stood out so much that even my brother commented on it when he saw me online on steam ;)
Both those games don't really ring a bell though :/
 
@Tinkeringbell ^ you see the spinning blue robot in the avatar picture?
That is the MM from MM11
which would be "MegaMan 11"
 
Ohh! So I do know a little about that :)
 
@Derpy you haven't told the secret to make it spin though...
 
It contains a little blue character :P
 
3:26 PM
(and if you are wondering about the "spinning" part, know that JNat avatar is actually animated. Even if mere humans can't see that)
 
@Derpy I did know that! People are often telling others about it ;)
 
You mean... other than me?
 
@Derpy Yep! :)
 
I think I am the only one who mentions it.
 
( ゚д゚)
 
3:27 PM
In here maybe, but I'm sure someone else also told me somewhere
 
that said, there are very few animated avatars around.
 
As long as it doesn't really show that much, I think most people just won't bother
 
Back to the original argument, maybe they could try to convince Funko into making a Skeet Funko Pop figure.
 
Ehh... What was the original argument that's related to Funko figures? :P
 
the swag?
also, relevant
Jan 12 '16 at 12:29, by Derpy
I am still thinking that SE should work with 4DE to be able to give out ponies plushes as swag options.
 
3:40 PM
Ohhh! Uh. I think one of the answers on that swag question tried to make the point that not everyone using SE is a programmer. But it's SO's 10th year, not SE's? So maybe a Skeet idol to worship isn't such a bad idea :P
@Derpy Ehhh. A good swag is something that's relevant to about everyone, I don't think many people are waiting for ponies ;)
 
@Tinkeringbell Said the one that is secretly working to replace the swag with a pack of crackers instead :P
 
@Derpy Duh! Crackers are the best!!
Although maybe not the best kind of medium of you want people to remember you/an event. Food will be eaten and that's it. People won't keep it forever...
 
3:56 PM
> To the gray, grumpy, grouchy user out there that starred the message claiming he/she doesn't want ponies.
We will hunt you.
We will track you.
And when we finally find you...

You will get an hug.
There is no escape. No Escape.
No one escapes the Pinkie. Some have tried, but in the end friendship & songs will get you.
 
@Derpy Yep! Specifically broken friendships and breakup songs! :P
 
 
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5:49 PM
evening
 
o/
 
6:08 PM
@Derpy got you a screenshot. With only one vote in difference it might change again, but the unicorn is now on top, as you wished :) i.stack.imgur.com/2YCmV.png#.png
 
 
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7:33 PM
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8:04 PM
hbd so
user image
3
 
8:15 PM
For a moment I thought it was the dunce cap
 
it should be
 
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog ?
That doesn't seem red-flaggable. Why are you reporting it?
Non-English content isn't R/A unless it directly translates to R/A flaggable content.
 
@Mithrandir Really long foreign language text questions are usually spam seeds, plus there were a few comments saying that it was a "rant".
 
It's a bit of a rant according to Google Translate, but I still don't see it as red-flaggable. Don't flag things as spam seeds just because they're not in English.
 
@Mithrandir If something's reported by Smokey it doesn't mean it is abusive, just potentially abusive.
 
There's a difference between something that trips the filters and reporting. Manually reporting something to Smokey means this is red flaggable and should have been caught.
 
8:45 PM
@Mithrandir If it were a rant, I would have abuse-flagged it no matter what the language.
 
Did you look at the translation, or are you red-flagging based on a single comment calling it a rant?
 
@Mithrandir I looked at the translation. It's a blatant rant.
 
@Mithrandir Io parlo l'Italiano: It's a rant...
(a funny one, but stiill: a rant)
 
I looked at the translation, I don't think it's red-flaggable.
 
No, don't add me to the language list for Italian: It's only my 7th or 8th language or so)
I dunno if it's just downvotable or flaggable...
it's definitely a rant.
I'm Italian and If I want to write in Italian, I will!
 
9:00 PM
I downvoted, didn't flag.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't do anything: it's a funny rant.
has -11 already so...
 
9:12 PM
The dropdown menu icon for the collapsed left sidebar looks a bit odd. I might have to replace it with a user-style if I keep finding it distracting.
 
adblock, replace nav links with g
 
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog That's not "really long" for a question.
 
 
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11:25 PM
@Catija I noticed that before you became a moderator on MSE, you were often the first one to vote to close blatantly off-topic questions. Out of curiosity, now that you're a mod, why are you not bindingly closing these questions?
Robert Cartaino bindingly closes them on occasion.
 
11:51 PM
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog looks like a valid meta answer to me
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog did that really need a ping at what I assume is an odd hour of the night?
 
@JourneymanGeek It's only 6:30 PM here in our timezone
Not an odd hour of the night.
 
In that case, could it have waited till cat was on and talking?
As a mod. Closehammers are heavy.
 
@JourneymanGeek She was on, showed up as the first user in the list when I came here.
@JourneymanGeek Robert Cartaino uses them on occasion, though.
 
You no longer have the luxury of having 4 other people checking your work
 
@JourneymanGeek It does not attempt to answer the question, which is "should question titles contain tags". Also, the question is tagged , which means that discussion answers aren't really acceptable in any case. Finally, it's tagged , so it should only contain the official community consensus, to avoid confounding people.
@JourneymanGeek ...even in cases where no one else has already voted to close.
That said, you've already been checked by n people if n people have already voted to close before you do.
 
11:58 PM
Robert uses his tools as he seems fit
 

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