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4:09 AM
@jcole and the fun begins.
 
@Moshe in regards to?
 
Physics class tomorrow!
@Jcole College of course.
 
Yatta!
And a decent class to start off with too
 
I had the choice between that or geology. Decided to take something more challenging for a change.
I'm off to sleep, have a good one.
 
you're going to hate taking physics before Cal3, but you'll appreciate Cal3 all the more
also, they keep pressuring you to take core classes sooner, and there's no reason for it
except you don't know yet, because you haven't done it yet
 
4:14 AM
:-)
 
If you're taking Cal1 or something this semester, I would encourage Diff Eq and or something set- or logic- heavy next semester
it'll kill your brain, but you'll appreciate it
then get into systems of equations, and Cal2 at the same time
then when you take Cal3, omg the rest suddenly just explodes with making sense.
Also, finally understanding what atomic particle orbits really are
 
4:28 AM
@Shog9 I'd argue it's not entirely completed, since you can't actually use the search box for that (legitimately, anyway) :P
status-quasi-completed
 
@TimStone how old is this conversation, or are you carrying over a meta post auto-magically?
 
The latter. I was going to add context, but...lazy.
 
I'm just kinda proud i figured it out mid-ask
 
Bonus points if you can figure out why my numbers are wrong, but only in this one particular instance...
 
4:43 AM
The answer is on line ... 417
 
5:14 AM
@TimStone Yeah; but it'll save me a bit of time next time I go looking for it.
 
Fair enough
Jeff had asked Nick to see about disabling the parser bug that lets you use the search box to perform that or'ed query, but I don't think anything came of it.
 
5:47 AM
Ok, given this encrpytion algo:
foreach (char in string) encrypted += NumberToString(ascii(char))
how does one decrypt that, I'm sure I've seen a function somewhere that does that for me
yay legacy systems >.<
 
Of the many possible solutions for a given output, how would you know which was correct anyway?
@TimStone -_-
 
6:05 AM
I have a set of lookups for testing with
the input is constrained to [a-zA-Z0-9]
 
Apparently the problem was in my included libraries, lamesauce.
 
well, ostensibly
 
I see
 
6:19 AM
check out my awesome VBA skillz
Private Function EncryptString(s As String) As String
    EncryptPassword = ""
    Dim c As Integer
    c = Len(s)
    Do While c > 0
      EncryptPassword = EncryptPassword + Str(Asc(Mid(s, c, 1))) 'Get the current letter from the string and convert it to ascii then write that number explicitly.
      c = c - 1
    Loop
End Function

Public Function DecryptString(s As String) As String
    DecryptPassword = ""
    Dim c As Integer
    Dim r() As String
    Dim t As String
    Dim u As String
    Dim p As String
There, moderately better, but not really
 
 
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11:34 AM
So the current Firefox beta has this fairly painful bug where every few hours the memory usage would suddenly swell until the system runs out of memory and hangs
 
12:02 PM
Hahahah
 
Is that you? :P
 
While I do enjoy a good flight simulator, I haven't quite had time for 30 years of experience, nor would I use the word "poppycock"...so not likely. But it does have a certain sense of rage that reminds me of me. :P
 
It's RPS, so I guess you've got a doppelganger from across the pond
 
 
2 hours later…
1:51 PM
hey, if possible, can someone correct this edit? stackoverflow.com/posts/12142916/revisions i submitted an edit 2 seconds after Cody edited it and it undoes his work. I personally think his edit is better. Can someone just copy his edit over mine? (Do note that I have an additional edit on the typo on the title). Thanks.
And btw, @bart and @timyi, that person was suspended network-wide. Thanks for your guidance.
 
@jokerdino You mean our "juvenile delinquent"? ;) Good. Glad to see that resolved.
 
@Bart Yessir. :)
 
2:10 PM
@jokerdino Done.
 
20 minutes to class. Calendar all synced up and ready to go.
 
2:33 PM
@PopularDemand Thanks. Bye now
 
@TimYiJiang Yeah, it's called "Windows"
 
2:49 PM
@Xaade har har, this comment means you've been doing any sort of development for less than five years, you still run Linux (something Fedora based I imagine) and you probably still laugh at poorly executed fart jokes
 
3:05 PM
So...tractor trailer almost killed me on the way into work this morning, that was fun...
 
Hey all
Wow.... someone just rage quit as manager of my Doctor Who Google+ Page
never thought that would happen....
 
3:27 PM
@jcolebrand That's an felonious abuse of the word "encrypt".
Whoops.
I can't go two minutes without being Canadian sometimes.
 
Lix
Hi all! Haven't been very active here recently... but I though I'd share this with you. I got to 10K last night on SO and when I got home from work today I found this in the fridge -
user image
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That's awesome! :D And, congratulations on 10k :)
 
Lix
^_^ The rep is edible! haha... Thanks @timS :)
 
cheer
 
Lix
all credit goes to my amazing girlfriend <3
 
3:41 PM
I suppose I should get to work. :/
 
Lix
@moo - want a slice of 10Kake to take with?
 
@Lix Of course.
It will motivate me to get past my 6k slump.
 
@Lix that's so awesome
mind if I tweet that photo?
-- I would settle for just retweeting you, but apparently you aren't on the twittaz :)
 
@mootinator sometimes when you're cross-translating from C# to VBA, you keep the method names the same so that you can look up the intent later.
 
@jcolebrand Thank you for staying on topic.
 
3:54 PM
@mootinator well, this is excuses ;-)
 
Lix
@bal - no problem :) Tweet away
 
So Stack Overflow user http://stackoverflow.com/users/558021/lix reached 10k reputation yesterday, and look what his girlfriend made him: http://i.stack.imgur.com/VIaj8.jpg
 
Lix
^_^
 
Jin
@Lix she's a keeper.
 
Lix
@jin - no doubt! Just wait till she starts studying CS this year at uni... The whole package :P
 
Jin
4:02 PM
@Lix she's... 18?
 
@balpha That passes the likely(wife) test with flying colors.
 
Lix
@jin - 23... you mind...tis leaning into the gutter :P
 
Jin
@Lix i keed! grats. i wish my wife made me cakes..
 
Does she at least make you bacon?
 
Jin
@TimStone that, she does.
 
4:04 PM
Jealous.
 
Jin
she brings bacon to bed. that's show she wakes me up on the weekends. bacon 'n coffee in bed. best thing ever
 
Just because she has to commute 1.5 hours every day, and I don't she thinks it's my job to make bacon.
PFFFFFFFFFT.
 
We're, uh, already over our limit for the second month in a row
 
@jcolebrand erm, you wanted your phone number public? (:
 
@RebeccaChernoff no phone at my house. Without the extension pin you can't do anything when you call them
It's literally just for DSL
and if you want to screw around with my phones at the DSLAM you'll just end up making my internet faster, so I challenge all comers
But yes, to answer your question @RebeccaChernoff, I knew that was there. Weighed risk.
 
4:11 PM
And if there were a real phone, it would probably be listed somewhere on the internet.
 
just checking shrugs
 
You call @jcolebrand at your own peril anyway
Also, look, it's @RebeccaChernoff! I took a slight break from Data Explorer to give you a chance to catch up and to play games do other programming, but I was planning to start working on some new stuff if there hasn't been any major issues yet that I'd want to address first (or if you haven't gotten very far, in which case :P)
 
still poking around - I was sick a couple days last week ): I'll poke you later today probably
 
Oh, that's not cool. :(
Alright, I'll be here (or there).
 
@RebeccaChernoff oh I'm appreciative, I think I didn't say that.
 
4:26 PM
lol, that wasn't an indication I was upset or anything...
 
hello
 
@Lix getting lots of replies like this, but this one is a celebrity :)
@balpha @codinghorror He needs to marry that girl.
 
3
Q: Get the top users per day

JayPIs it possible to get the top users per day or per period (month,year,week)? I know it's possible to get the top answerers per tag, but what I want is the top user per day. API to get the top user per period? Also is it possible to get the questions answered by the user for the given period? I...

any suggestions??
 
Lix
4:47 PM
@bal - now I feel like I should have taken a better picture :P Maybe fixed those sweets on the edges :P
 
Jin
@Lix you should submit it to reddit for sweet sweet karma too!
 
5:33 PM
\o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\
 
@Jin no fair stealing my tweets!
@jzy @balpha hell he should submit it to reddit as well, for rep, I mean Karma.
 
Jin
@jcolebrand i'll make up for it... by sending you your mod cards :)
ps. they've been ordered already, you should get them any day now
 
Pretty sure he already got them
 
Jin
oh alrighty then.
DBA mod cards right?
 
...so, need to find another way to make up for the blatant larceny
 
Jin
5:42 PM
well, i can only say i'm sorry...
 
@Jin YATTA! Those are awesome btw. I love 'em
@Shog9 I think he did, by sending me my mod cards ;-)
 
@jcolebrand That only serves to indicate that his theft was pre-meditated
Like unexpected flowers from a spouse, the gift should have been a warning that another shoe was soon to fall.
 
Jin
@Shog9 sounds like you're speaking from experience...
 
Hmm, speaking of swag...
 
lol
 
5:43 PM
Did the Gaming swag ever go out?
 
That reminds me, need to grab some flowers 'fore I skip town...
 
Jin
@TimStone they're going out this week. I just checked with the warehouse last week. the mousepad took longer than they expected
 
hahahahhaha
 
Lix
@jin @jco - You guys are welcome to post it!
 
@Lix nah man, I don't need the rep karma
 
5:44 PM
@Jin Ah, great. Just wanted to make sure that my mailperson hadn't absconded with my package or anything
 
Jin
@TimStone i'm curious how the stickers will turn out. this is the first time i'm making "transparent" stickers
 
I was surprised to get the email actually, since I hadn't seen the meta post about extending the number of top users page.
 
Jin
@TimStone really? lauren posted that
 
Well I notice things in my inbox a bit more quickly than I read Gaming's meta :P
 
whoa whoa whoa, gaming has a meta?
 
5:49 PM
I'd buy a mousepad if I had room on my desk for a mousepad o.o
 
HALLO EVERYONE
 
@EvanCarroll You aren't in New Orleans are you?
 
Nope.
Isn't it funny though that the Democrats thought God hated the RNC; when in fact he was just heading over to New Orleans again!
God is one big fucking comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
that's what I always say anyway.
 
Well, I figure he only destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah once, he doesn't have much reason to do it twice.
Also I love how the most hurricanes in the US primarily impact the Bible Belt
which is also the region where the most notorious slavery was (oh, that's really Biblical, but not so much Christian)
 
Well Paul had other things to write about in his letters.
Like his own guilt.
He didn't have the time to mess around with insignificant issues likes slavery and human subjugation.
Though he probably should have dropped a little warning in there about Jeff Atwood.
 
6:06 PM
@balpha: ping
 
Paul, the guy writing to other churches in the area to set an example, not all of who's letters are included in the NT, who was not Christ. I love how all Biblical scholars of the Christian faith want to put full stock in Paul, and act like his word is the one to base the religion on. I just don't get it.
@EvanCarroll that wasn't in the last book?
 
Well, in fairness he did start The Only Holy Church of Oneness and Trueness.
^ One of the best Facebook Pages ever.
 
I like the conversation about cakes and bacon better than this one...
 
Create a channel called, "Cakes and Bacon".
Problem solved.
 
@balpha pffft, what has bacon ever done ... oh crap, I almost questioned Bacon. Whatever was I thinking.
 
6:16 PM
Bacon is horrible.
 
@EvanCarroll you're getting awful close to a room boot ;-)
 
Why is that, because I disagree with your tastes?
Sorry, I don't pick up on sarcasm here on SE that well. People do often get booted because of nothing more than a difference in opinion.
 
Because you insult bacon.
 
Oh, we're dressing up the room now? I have a hat I'd like to see it in.
 
@EvanCarroll it was a tease. I didn't think it was going to be taken seriously
 
6:19 PM
Bacon is shit though.
 
Bacon is delicious
 
@jcolebrand respected members do get banned for disagreement. Even I was banned a few times.
You know what is good about bacon?
 
I'll only eat bacon plain. Keep it off my burger. -.-
 
Nothing.
 
My burger is unhealthy enough without the bacon.
 
6:19 PM
I bake mine in the oven, 400F, flipped every 15 minutes, for between 30 and 45 minutes (thickness, etc)
 
Bacon is awesome because bacon.
 
@EvanCarroll you're conflating issues. I would kick you if you did something egregious, and would let the SE team know. I am a mod on the SE network. However, when it comes to the Tavern, you would have to be pretty damned egregious.
 
Eh... I'm sure I'd get banned from the Tavern. Just invite Jeff.
 
Nah, I doubt that you would get banned for just hanging out.
You haven't been rebanned from meta lately.
 
I'm still banned...
 
6:23 PM
Then how are you on chat?
 
I'm sure we can fix that...
 
as you said, they're seperate.
 
Eh, I thought they were still joined where ban on site = ban on chat (at least for so and metaso)
 
I think he's just question banned.
 
@balpha know anything about that?
 
6:24 PM
My ban is a lower level. You can't reverse it.
I have a perma ban in the MSO software itself.
It looks something like this,
 
You're going to tell me that your ban is hard-coded? That sounds too conspiracy-y to me.
 
if ( user.is_hated_by_jeff ) { user.still_banned } # Code stops democracy DO NOT REMOVE -- J. Atwood
 
And I suppose that all the downvotes scattered through all your questions and answers were manually entered by Jeff as well? Or does that not have anything to do with it?
 
Some of them, probably.
 
@jcolebrand this sounds about right
3 mins ago, by Evan Carroll
if ( user.is_hated_by_jeff ) { user.still_banned } # Code stops democracy DO NOT REMOVE -- J. Atwood
seriously though, Evan has managed to cross even the extremly high question ban threshold on meta
 
6:30 PM
And I did it with positive EXP, as I was gaining more EXP, and as I was already "temp banned".
Leave with negative 400 exp, come back with positive 800 EXP.
QUESTION BANNED
I've raised this question too, all of my questions and answers about this get censored.
 
@balpha: that security issue that I found a few years ago. I'm thinking of writing a blog post about it (detailing the story, and how I managed to exploit it by accident). Can you forsee any issue with me doing that?
 
No, you don't need to filter your story through SE. Just write about it.
The free exchange of information is always a good thing.
 
@ircmaxell No, that should be fine. Stack Overflow was already handling that correctly; we just weren't considering it when building chat.
 
it was a SE compromise. I'm playing nice (I know I don't have to, just playing good community)...
Cool, Just wanted to run it by quickly. Thanks!
 
Think about the people interested in knowing, and not the cartel interested in concealing.
 
6:35 PM
@EvanCarroll: It wasn't about concealing. More about paying respect where it's due...
 
@ircmaxell chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/info/361/hmm-ooops is the room, in case you can find something for your notes there
 
awesome! Thanks!
 
@Shog9 @Jin I can see your premeditation knows no bounds. Witness this (takes a moment to post, etc)
(stupid phone calls interrupt as well)
afk
 
Jin
@jcolebrand nice. now i get to steal more of your intellectual property.
 
6:55 PM
@jcolebrand This photo is clearly faked. There's no way that signature says "Joel Spolsky," or even "J S."
Also: four pinned items?
 
I'm a bit confused why my message is pinned. :P
 
@TimStone It's complicated.
 
@TimStone It's the most deserving of the four, as it provides an important and useful warning to new visitors regarding the hazardous environment in which they find themselves. My post, and the other two, are merely humorous.
 
Yeah, I was kind of worried it was some shameful universal truth.
 
7:28 PM
@PopularDemand I thought that myself
@Jin Ahem, I believe it was your lateness on my mod cards that countered that :p
@PopularDemand hey, you're pinned. :p
I was contemplating pinning ten starred messages, just to eff with the system a little. Decided against that.
 
Wow. That's been there for over a week. I can see how important I am to you. Dang.
 
Hullo.
 
hi
 
 
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8:38 PM
Grrr, I'm so confused o.o
I keep getting NULL when running scandir() yet the PHP docs say it'ssupposed to return false on failure, otherwise an array.
Where is NULL coming from!?
 
an array of nothing?
I have no idea, I'm not a PHP dev
 
Show me teh codez
 
if (!empty($path)) $path .= '/'; $old = scandir("{$ani->i->root}/source.old/{$path}", SCANDIR_SORT_NONE); die(var_dump($old)); ($path ends up being /home/animuson/animuson-src/source.old/)
No matter what path I actually type in, I always get a big fat NULL for the output, even invalid directories o.o
Oh pfft
Should learn to read the changelog
 
 
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10:13 PM
41
A: Offer an XMPP method for chat

The Unhandled ExceptionUPDATE 2012-08-27: I wasn't able to keep up with this project and it stagnated... with multiple people interested I migrated the project to GitHub. However, in the 1+ years this project wasn't updated, it no longer works :-( as it stands, sending messages through XMPP works still, but receiving ...

 
What I have to have my own XMPP server? Lame
 
@animuson Openfire is free :-)
Or you can use sechat.sitepalette.com
it's running there... but it's broken :-(
I need help making it compatible with @balpha 's new chat system
It's probably a simple fix
As a test… this message is being sent from an XMPP client!
 
10:43 PM
shakes his fist at silently failing code.
Does writing an IRC client in java 10 years ago qualify me as a chat hacker?
 
Stack Exchange Chat hackers :-)
Really I just need to know how the chat gets new messages now. I could figure it out, but my own damn work keeps getting in the way!
shakes fist at real work
How are you @mootinator? Haven't chatted with you in a while!
 
@TheUnhandledException I'm marvelloustastic.
Real work is also annoying me at the moment.
 
It tends to do that to everyone!
I suspect if real work was more fun or better paying it would be less annoying :-)
 
hey hey
 
Good day sir
 
10:57 PM
so, took placement exams today
placed into the highest english and precalc. will retake the math portion to place into calc (because I know I can)
and i still have no answer to my account unassociation question >:(
 
@Purmou Link me?
 
7
Q: Can an account be manually unassociated?

PurmouI looked at similar questions and wanted to post a more specific one. If I wanted one of my accounts on the network to no longer be associated to my global account, could an administrator do it manually? I mean, even if they could, would they? It's a matter of professionalism. I don't want one ...

there's a bounty, so have at it :P
 
The answer is yes. Please stand by
0
A: Can an account be manually unassociated?

The Unhandled ExceptionI'm 99% sure this can be done as follows: Create a new account on the site in question using either a username or a different OpenID from your existing account. Log in to your existing account (the one you want disassociated from your other accounts) Find one of your own questions or answers an...

 
Lol, read the question's comments.
@jmort253 Merges are network-wide now, that is not possible — Mad Scientist Aug 7 at 8:32
 
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
 
11:07 PM
@moot what's up?
 
though I'm not sure who's right in this case
 
I keep getting distracted from what I'm actually supposed to be doing.
Then finding another workday has ended.
 
@Purmou Your best bet is to bribe a dev then :-)
If merges are network wide than no, mods can't help
 
exactly, i was hoping a dev could pop in =/
hrm...part of me just feels stupid for making that account if i knew i didn't want it associated anyways.
i mean, making that account with the same email address.
 
11:13 PM
Yeah you're out of luck
> I believe we can separate an account, but you then need to maintain a completely different set of credentials so that they don't get merged together again. Whether this is a bug or a feature is debatable, but the whole "network profile" thing is currently by design.
Quote Anna Lear
And yes, she said "Account merges are network wide"
 
grr
i still want to access the site and my questions/answers
so deleting the account is out of the question, really
 
> I'd go with "contact the team, create a new account, ask to disassociate specific posts from your old account and reassociate with the new". Mods can't do this, by the way.
You should bribe Shog9 :-)
 
would he do it? :P
 
If you ask nicely maybe
He's really busy though, so it's iffy
 
He's probably already looking over your shoulder
 
11:15 PM
No that's @RebeccaChernoff
 
Nah, that one belongs to the Shog because he uses it for his location on Meta :)
 
oh haha forgot that :-)
@RebeccaChernoff is in ur garbage disposal, clogging ur tubes
 
@theun Hullo!
 
@Mos Hi there
 
How's it going?
Still crazy busy on your end of the network of tubes?
 
11:19 PM
Have you ever noticed how real Josh and fake Josh are never in the room at the same time?
 
@Moshe Extremly
On the plus side, they haven't taken away my shiny diamond yet!
 
Woot woot
 
Nice!
 
@mootinator I do not know what you're talking about! :-)
I clearly label all my sockpuppets
 
I started school today.
 
11:21 PM
dude
i never knew .name existed
as a domain extension, i mean
 
@Purmou It does
And it works great
 
I just remembered I started making peas on Friday.
 
i think .me sounds better though, no?
 
Except nobody know what the hell I mean when I say my email address verbally...
 
They were still in the microwave, but considerably more bacteria covered than I left them.
 
11:23 PM
@mootinator to cooking.SE!
"How can I remember that I have things cooking?"
 
lol
 
"How to save peas that were in the microwave over the weekend?"
 
"Compost them and grow new ones, then cook those"
@Purmou I am guessing you want your Christianity account disassociated?
Regardless of which one, change your email address. This gets you a new gravatar
 
@TheUnhandledException haha! yup
 
Ratchet & Clank tomorrow!!! Cannot wait... where's my Click remote?
 
11:25 PM
@TheUnhandledException I did that but it changed my network account's avatar too :(
 
Getting a different gravatar will mean that most people think you're a different user
 
@animuson YES
 
@Purmou You're doing it wrong then :-)
My gravatar and name is different on MSO than anywhere else
and most of the mods forget that I am this "Unhandled Exception" character
 
well...it's still my third highest rep account and will be at the top of the account list
 
@Purmou just change your email address, and on one site only. Don't copy to other sites
@Purmou This is my top highest account and nobody ever notices, LOL. I think people don't check that list
It's not exactly what you want, but like I said, it's a start
 
11:27 PM
k, done
let me see the effects of it elsewhere
 
Yeah, you're good now. Only SE elite who care to investigate will know now :-)
All credit for this goes to @PopularDemand
 
hm
that's weird
on stackexchange.com, the header says "Arbiter"
but my profile says Purmou
:P
 
Change another account
 
Hmmm, is it weird to refer to your code as "sexy"?
 
@animuson it's very common
 
11:30 PM
hell no
i say that all the time
 
lol good :P
 
@animuson Note that it being a common practice and/or @Purmou doing it does not necessarily mean it's not weird...
 
My code was sexy.
 
Anonymous
@purmou I have a bug report re: the inconsistentency between se.com profile and header; it is indeed weird. (Can't find link now because on phone.)
 
Then I started duct-taping things to it.
That's where it starts.
 
11:34 PM
my code was sexy. then i started using jQuery.
AND IT'S STILL SEXY.
 
Anonymous
Sexy starts with duct tape?
 
No sexy starts with leather.
Then some client is all like "I wanted studs"
So you duct tape some studs on.
Then it's no longer sexy.
 
Anonymous
Haha
 
Where are all the Meta questions??
There's not even noobs asking about question bans or spambots...
 
11:42 PM
@animuson Impossibru!
 
yeah, i just fell asleep at the keyboard
time for a power nap!
 

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