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Anonymous

02:13

Each time I go to http://s.tk/so-fa (or similar URLs) I am seemingly randomly redirected to either to either http://stackoverflow.com/# or http://stackexchange.com/so-fa.

Anonymous

(Firefox caches the 301 redirect, Chrome and Safari don't.)

CC Inc

I get stackexchange.com/so-fa

Hmm

Tim Yi Jiang

I thought it's suppose to be so-faq, but that won't work

Anonymous

02:40

See http://s.tk/meta-foo. I think it occurs for any s.tk redirect followed by - and something or nothing more.

jadarnel27

04:21

sigh

Brown?

Moshe

Hullo folks.

Mistu4u

04:50

A question on stackexchange network is posted here. http://meta.movies.stackexchange.com/questions/843/is-jeff-the-first-one-to-implement-the-scheme-used-in-stackexchange
If anybody has good answer, you can post there.

Tim Yi Jiang

@Mistu4u 

317

Q: Stack Overflow clones

Listed here are clones of the Stack Exchange sites model.

Mistu4u

@TimYiJiang, that means anybody can use this scheme?

Tim Yi Jiang

Of course. You can't prevent others from stealing your ideas.

1 hour later…

Moshe

06:06

I'm unsure how to phrase this as a question, but I have 3 MySQL tables and I want to select from 2 of them based on the results of a select of the third one. JOIN?

jadarnel27

Sub-queries!

Moshe

Um?

I'm using PHP and PDO. Help!

jadarnel27

Haha, I don't know what PDO is. But it sounds like sub queries would do the trick for what you're describing.

Moshe

PDO is a library that does queries.

jadarnel27

The basic idea is that you can nest queries within queries using parentheses.

Moshe

06:19

@jadarnel27 Ah, I see.

Well, here's the thing.

Table 1 is users.

Table 2 is courses

Table 3 lists which courses are followed by which users.

Tim Yi Jiang

06:54

Join the three tables together. Table 3 is your intermediate table here, so join all three of them together, and you should be able to get what you need

7 hours later…

Tim Stone

14:22

@jadarnel27 Beige

jadarnel27

14:38

Tim Stone

Indeed. Only partially brown, I'm afraid.

jadarnel27

14:49

I guess it's close enough, visually.

But it's not nearly as fun to say.

Tim Stone

Man, I really need to get myself in gear.

I've been fairly unproductive these last few weeks.

Tim Yi Jiang

#824D07 is a good brown

Tim Stone

Tim Yi Jiang

ThiefMaster

hm.. hard to choose between those two colorschemes - toilet contents vs neon-bright eye cancer

Tim Stone

14:54

@TimYiJiang Look at all those classic gravatars!

Additional kudos to @MarcGravell and I for staying consistent.

mootinator

15:12

Heigh ho neighbor.

jadarnel27

15:24

@TimStone I can relate, I've been having some trouble with that as well.

Tim Stone

I keep hopping back and forth between things and as a result I haven't accomplished much.

I really need to wrap up the Data Explorer MySQL port so I can be done with that.

jadarnel27

Similarly, I have too many things to do, and it makes me not feel like doing any of them.

That would probably be helpful. Eliminating some things from the to-do list would be helpful for me as well.

Tim Stone

shakes fist at todo list

jadarnel27

@TimYiJiang Agreed, that's an excellent brown.

todo list is nonplussed

1 hour later…

Fosco

16:29

Well that was .. intense. A 4.5 hour interview process with 5 interviewers.

Traveled from PA to CA and back again; I was in CA for less than 24 hours and ate at Carl's Jr 3 times!

mootinator

16:59

Dan Brown is a bit of an overrated Brown.

jadarnel27

Not all browns are created equal.

@Fosco How do you think it went?

Fosco

17:30

I think it went really well.. but they have incredibly high standards. Should find out within a day or two. It's an awesome team that I would love to join.

Oded

18:18

Good luck @Fosco

Fosco

Thanks @Oded

Oded

I recently went through a similar process. 6 1 hour interviews... Almost all technical.

Though they were spread over 2 months and were remote. Yay Skype/Google hangouts

Fosco

Wow.. Well I'm up to 6.5 hours then, counting 2 phone interviews that were an hour each a month ago..

Oded

Hope it goes as well for you as it did for me ;)

mootinator

18:38

Very subtle :P

My eyes are broken. Must take break.

Fosco

18:49

O... M... G... They want to talk, next Monday!! :D :D

mootinator

Congrats @Fosco, and you too @Oded!

Fosco

.... now it's Today!.. holy crap this stuff moves fast.

Shog9

What?! Monday is Today already? Dammit, I still had stuff planned for Wednesday!

Fosco

@Shog9 :)

mootinator

This job must be on internet time.

In which case you already missed your meeting for today, because it's tomorrow already D:

Pffft. January 15? That's so this morning.

Oded

19:01

Thanks @mootinator and congrats @Fosco :)

Fosco

I'll be sure to update the Tavern after the call today. Thanks :)

Tim Stone

20:01

I know that I sure want to be Application Developer Designation Number 100005431.

mootinator

Where do I sign up?

Tim Stone

Bonus points for it being a position in Jersey.

Oded

@TimStone - That's a negative 100005431, though I am not sure how I would feel about 100005432.

1 hour later…

Oded

21:06

-1

Q: Complete IDE for developing Websites and Web Applications? Preference to debugger and code suggestions

Note: English is my second language, and I'm noticing this with certain words (premise or assumption? Sounds the same to me semantically, it probably isn't). I'm trying to be quite precise, but I can't be precise to the extent that a real native could. This is a broad question. Since I realize t...

debugging web-applications ide development-environment code-completion

New one on me. A shopping question and answer by the OP.

Pekka

21:31

@Oded well, written in good faith though. He apparently realized while writing the question that there's "good" stuff in the "related" box

Oded

Sure, but still, a shopping question that should be closed and deleted.

Pekka

@Oded true, true.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

22:03

Hi hi all

Is it possible for me to find my 1st chat message in the transcript easily?

Daniel Fischer

@Oded Closed by the Tavern. I'm not sure if that's a good thing.

mootinator

22:25

ponders whether he really needs to have 9 credit cards with a $0 balance.

Fosco

Update: They are making a formal offer shortly via email. They all enjoyed chatting with me and think I'd be a great fit. Holy ****.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Fosco awesome ^_^

Lance Roberts

I think people should be able to write questions about what to use, but they need to be very specific. Of course, you have a batch of people who think that specific questions are localized, but that's another issue.

Shog9

Bad: I want an IDE for Java

Good: I want a Hello Kitty branded IDE for Java

Lance Roberts

...that meows when I get an error.

Fosco

22:38

lol

Shog9

The funny thing about shopping questions is, Jeff wrote up like half a blog post on how to ask them right... and it's almost never referenced.

Fosco

who wrote the other half?

Shog9

blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/…

Fosco

Ah.. That's a really good post.

Lance Roberts

lots of good comments on that one, there needs to be slack for people looking for the right software tools. (Not saying the question Oded referenced above was worth keeping, but I didn't take the time to read the whole thing).

Oded

22:55

@DanielFischer - In this case, I think it is a good thing.

@Fosco - Excellent. Glad they all liked you :)

Daniel Fischer

@Oded That it's closed undoubtedly is. That it was closed only by Tavern dwellers may not be. I don't know.

Lance Roberts

Programmers is what originally was envisioned to handle software tool recommendations (among other things); that was one of the disappointments in it's repurposing; that now it's hard to ask those questions.

mootinator

Now it's a mere training ground for those Nazi sympathizing moderators.

Which reminds me, I haven't visited my room lately.

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