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Undo the Snowman

6:08 PM

What have I done?:

$ sudo htop
-bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Input/output error

Pops

@UndotheSnowman Yes, but... which t-shirt?

That'll teach you to participate in contests without reading the full rules or prize list....

Undo the Snowman

@Pops ROFL

qwertynl

@Pops Wait... I had a choice?

Undo the Snowman

hopes Tim gets to my box before Pops

RyanCarlson

I know everyone loves to downvote and close my questions, so I'll help you guys by linking to my new question:

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Q: Is "How to..." a good title?

I see a lot of titles that start with "How to..." Personally, I think that is a bad title, but in A: How do I write a good title?, How to UPSERT in Oracle (update or insert into a table)? is listed in the "Some Good Examples" section. "how to..." is not necessarily always bad gramma...

Happy downvoting!

3ventic

6:15 PM

I don't do downvoting

I link posts requiring it to people who do it often.

RyanCarlson

7 views and 3 downvotes!

new record!

3ventic

@RyanCarlson wouldn't that be a bit like the time when they banned "problem" from titles?

RyanCarlson

@3ventic probably

RyanCarlson

6:29 PM

@qwertynl Congrats on getting 1,000 reputation!

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson Thanks :-)

Anyone else agree here?

RyanCarlson

@qwertynl sorry, no

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson :-(

RyanCarlson

Checkmarks have been on SO forever

Removing them would be sacrilege.

qwertynl

Things are meant to be changed :-)

I am just suggested to change them to look like a bounty

RyanCarlson

6:38 PM

@qwertynl some things are meant to be changed

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson :-P

Amal Murali

@qwertynl you meant pseudo?

qwertynl

@AmalMurali no?

Undo the Snowman

-1

A: What will happen to the hats when Winterbash is over?

The hats will be done. Gone. Finished. Never to return again. Thrown down a black hole. The hat code rolled back. No 2013 hats to ever be seen again. Ever. Even if you really really want them. The 2013 hat table will be DROPed. The 2013 hat data will never return. Although many like hats, they ar...

Someone downvoted my hat regex paredy!

;(

sigh I must have missed the memo.

That stopped being funny in 2009... no need to keep milking a dry cow. — yoda 57 secs ago

RyanCarlson

@UndotheSnowman 3 upvotes and 3 downvotes

wow

Undo the Snowman

6:44 PM

Whoever is playing animation with the voting arrows, stopit!

RyanCarlson

lol

hichris123

@Undo Now +3.

RyanCarlson

*+2

*+3

wow

Undo the Snowman

I'm going to have to sick a CM on you guys :P

RyanCarlson

0 to 4 score in ~1 second

Undo the Snowman

6:47 PM

please halp dey iz making me mad with teh votes!

RyanCarlson

new record

hichris123

@Undo Do you want me to do the animation with the voting arrows for you?

It makes life much better.

Undo the Snowman

sigh

RyanCarlson

I'll do it too!

Undo the Snowman

You guys are making my top bar go insane.

RyanCarlson

6:48 PM

lel

hichris123

@Undo Sorry. Post a bug report for it.

Undo the Snowman

prays for vote lock to take effect

RyanCarlson

I just saw it go from -2 to 4

within half a second

hichris123

Back to 3.

Undo the Snowman

My top-bar rep indicator is going crazy.

hichris123

6:50 PM

@Undo Video or it didn't happen.

Undo the Snowman

I don't know how :P

But I think you all know it happened, you're the ones doing it.

hichris123

But...

RyanCarlson

@UndotheSnowman Use JQuery!

qwertynl

@UndotheSnowman That's what she said.

hichris123

@Undo Picture then.

Undo the Snowman

6:52 PM

Pictures don't animate :P

hichris123

Make a GIF.

RyanCarlson

@UndotheSnowman They do if you use jQuery.

Undo the Snowman

Meh, not worth it.

qwertynl

@UndotheSnowman You don't live in Hogwarts?

2

3ventic

Conclusion: Hogwarts is using jQuery.

5

hichris123

6:53 PM

@qwertynl What's with the spaces?

qwertynl

@hichris123 ‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉

Sorry I was testing something

‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉

Amal Murali

@qwertynl: lol, someone just edited that. :P

qwertynl

@Krampus You don't use Linux I assume? — qwertynl 1 min ago

RyanCarlson

@hichris123 ¯\_(⊙︿⊙)_/¯

Decision time: Continue having fun on SO and MSO
or
Attempt to learn Java from an online course made by someone who appears to be a worse programmer than me?

qwertynl

Option 3.

RyanCarlson

7:05 PM

@qwertynl I like option 4 better

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson What was it?

RyanCarlson

Eat cake

qwertynl

No.

NO CAPES!

RyanCarlson

So you're saying I should take option 3 and eat ice cream instead?

qwertynl

NO CAPES!

2

What is so hard to understand?

RyanCarlson

7:09 PM

@qwertynl LOL

qwertynl

Do you understand yet!?

RyanCarlson

NO

qwertynl

No. Friggin. Capes.

PERIOD

RyanCarlson

instagram-ps.5thvillage.com/u/edfromkrypton

cbkask.tumblr.com/post/61704840094/pan-pizza-no-capes-yes-capes

ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Y U NO CAPES

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@qwertynl btw, I said "cake", not "cape"

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson No. You said Cape. I know what I heard.

RyanCarlson

7:22 PM

16 mins ago, by RyanCarlson

Eat cake

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson Yes. Cape.

RyanCarlson

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qwertynl

Cape > Cake.

RyanCarlson

@qwertynl So then yes capes?

ThiefMaster

Really? A flag? That's not a dick. Unless you have a square dick.

RyanCarlson

7:24 PM

@ThiefMaster ????????????????

ThiefMaster

@RyanCarlson someone flagged that message

RyanCarlson

@ThiefMaster Ah

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson No. Capes.

RyanCarlson

but... cape > cake?

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson Yes.

RyanCarlson

7:25 PM

so then cake < cape < yes

ultra-no cake?

qwertynl

@RyanCarlson No. Cape > Cake. But Capes < Cake

No. Capes.

Seth

You SOers need to get Community a hat. It probably feels left out.

RyanCarlson

Ahhhh

animuson

@ThiefMaster Don't make fun of the geometrically challenged!

RyanCarlson

ಠ_ಠ

@Seth stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community#winter-bash

It has 16 hats

Chacha102

7:39 PM

Hello

qwertynl

Hello

Chacha102

I'm surprised this place is still around..

Which is cool

qwertynl

@Chacha102 Hey! Are you calling us fat?

Chacha102

@qwertynl Yes

qwertynl

Ok.

Chacha102

7:41 PM

441k messages. You guys have been busy

Undo the Snowman

@animuson Yeah, why can't our Community have a hat?

qwertynl

@Chacha102 When were you last here?

Chacha102

@qwertynl 2012ish?

qwertynl

@Chacha102 Fun!

How have you been since then @Chacha102 ?

Chacha102

I mean, I was really active in 2010, and then dropped out

Good

I started working with a WordPress company

AppThemes

qwertynl

7:44 PM

Cool :-D

Chacha102

And have been doing the college thing

So that's been fun

Its funny because I think most of the people that hung out in here became moderators

Pop, rchern, etc

animuson

<--

Chacha102

To be fair, I don't remember you

But, congratz

I'm glad this community is getting bigger

Undo the Snowman

Hehe

Chacha102

Fills a good place

animuson

7:48 PM

:o Blasphemy!

Undo the Snowman

Poor animuson.

rene

8:02 PM

Is this answer also correct if a tag already has an excerpt and a wiki?

animuson

@rene For Stack Overflow, yes. There are some sites out there, I believe, that do not destroy tags if they have wikis. I think that only applies to tags that would be destroyed for only having one use, though.

qwertynl

You are allowed to answer your own question on the Stack Exchange. I am not claiming any authority. — qwertynl 5 secs ago

RRRRG!

Why do people make me nuts...

jadarnel27

@animuson I actually don't remember you being around this room much when I started chatting in here. Which was like, the end of 2011-ish, I think.

rene

@animuson OK, thanks

qwertynl

Anyways, lkjhfgklihfgl;hgerp;olhter

:-)

Tim Stone

8:09 PM

@jadarnel27 Back in the day.

gets out cane

animuson

I don't remember when I started visiting here.

qwertynl

I have always been here. You just do not remember me :-)

How can I explain to someone that you are allowed to answer your own question?

jadarnel27

@TimStone Back in the day for you is a bit further back for you than it is for me ;-)

takes the cane and gives Tim a walker

2

@qwerty Just link them to the FAQ.

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 ...Get off my lawn

qwertynl

@jadarnel27 Can you help me? They seem to think that I think I am an "authority" but I never said such a thing...

Thanks @jadarnel27

jadarnel27

8:20 PM

No problem. I wouldn't worry about it beyond that. If they have a problem with your post, they can always post on Meta about it.

Seth

@RyanCarlson I meant it needs to wear one!

qwertynl

@jadarnel27 META RAGE!

That is true.

Pops

@jadarnel27 ... ouch.

Johannes Kuhn

Reject please: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3693681

and too late.

jadarnel27

8:36 PM

@Pops All in fun =P

Sir.

Have you been around even longer than Tim? Does that mean you need a wheelchair, and some hard candies to give out to new users?

Okay, I should probably be done with that joke.

Speaking of the old days.

I'm sad that Rebecca Chernoff stopped hanging out in here when she stopped working at SE.

qwertynl

@jadarnel27 :-(

jadarnel27

I hope the next step of her journey has been fun and successful and awesome.

qwertynl

I am sure it has

Pops

9:04 PM

@jadarnel27 Already taken care of, courtesy of Stack Exchange:

Dennis Meng

9:29 PM

can anyone point to the post that detailed adding the little orange rectangle in the toolbar for suggested edits?

i saw a post asking about it on the mathematics meta, figured i may as well link to it

animuson

68

Q: Bring back review numbers to the top bar

Though I never quite understood what those numbers were and they were quite ugly, they were the only reason I ever visited the reviews page. Can we have similar functionality back on the top bar please?

feature-request status-completed review flags top-bar

Chacha102

9:45 PM

Hola

RyanCarlson

@Chacha102 Hola?

Chacha102

@RyanCarlson It means Hello

RyanCarlson

I know

But this is an english site...

Chacha102

Is it?

RyanCarlson

Yes

Chacha102

9:47 PM

I thought that was

RyanCarlson

lol

Chacha102

Plus, most Americans are familiar enough with various languages that you can use their greetings

RyanCarlson

True

Chacha102

@jcolebrand There's a familiar face!

RyanCarlson

163

A: Is English required on Stack Overflow?

The Stack Overflow Trilogy has an official policy on non-English questions: It is not, nor has it ever been, our goal to be the one place in the world for all programming information in every possible human language. Direct question posters to native language resources. It is not th...

Dennis Meng

9:51 PM

@animuson Excellent. Thanks!

qwertynl

rrrrg Why does it take 2 weeks to read an EEG? :-(

Chacha102

@qwertynl Because there are 2 weeks worth of other EEGs to read

qwertynl

@Chacha102 but... computers.... :-\

I really just want to know what they found...

Chacha102

@qwertynl But... humans

qwertynl

@Chacha102 but.

Chacha102

10:04 PM

Humans stink. We should kill all of them

15

What are you getting an EEG for?

qwertynl

@Chacha102 I went to the hospital bc of a headache.

ThiefMaster

CANCER!

Chacha102

Must have been a pretty bad headache...

hichris123

@Chacha102 Have you had a bad day?

Chacha102

@hichris123 No, read above

hichris123

10:09 PM

@Chacha102 I still think you had a bad day... :)

Chacha102

I've had an unusually productive day

I got our company to move our manual onto Github

in Markdown

And there, I'll pin that message

hichris123

@Chacha102 And then you just randomly decided to come chat with us loonies?

Chacha102

Yes

I haven't been in here for awhile

I actually started this room 441,000 messages ago

hichris123

You started this room?

Chacha102

Yes

hichris123

10:11 PM

Wow.

Chacha102

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/89/2010/8/3

Anyway, how the rest of you guys doing?

Shadow Wizard

I'm fine thanks for asking! :D

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