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Flyk

6:00 PM

so many really silly people on the road tonight

Bart

... you're chatting while driving?

^ this

no, I'm home already

oh

I was going to chat while driving

Bart

6:01 PM

Tsk tsk tsk

Flyk

but I logged out of my account while testing linking IDs to an account a few weeks back and haven't got around to logging back into chat.mso on my phone

and that was just far too much effort

Undo

heh

Flyk

also, not tsk tsk tsk

ProgramFOX

Should edits that just add a link to a JSFiddle be approved or not?

Flyk

my phone has voice to text

it works well

Undo

6:02 PM

@ProgramFOX Give an example

ProgramFOX

@Undo stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3976668

Undo

@ProgramFOX I don't know. Maybe raise it on Meta?

It adds to the post, but it's also rather major.

But it does make it better.

But maybe we shouldn't be encouraging people to go through and robo-edit that in.

Bart

No, I wouldn't want to see jsFiddle sprees

Undo

I wouldn't either.

ProgramFOX

0

Today I saw a suggested edit that just added a JSFiddle to the question. I didn't know whether we have have to approve or reject them, so I asked it in chat. Undo replied that I could ask it on Meta, so that's what I do now. Do we have to approve or reject suggested edits that only add a JSFiddle...

GnomeSlice

6:11 PM

@AnnaLear soundcloud.com/rick-shithouse/synthetix-fm-ultimix-2013

Bart

"Hey, hey, Shit House" "No no, it's pronounced Shee-Toose"

GnomeSlice

Yeah, guy has a strange name.

animuson

very angry that it's snowing

Undo

very angry that it's not snowing

Bart

Go outside and shake your fist in anger. That helps.

Undo

6:15 PM

Oh @animuson you're free from the comment flags for a while ;)

Bart

Nice though @GnomeSlice

GnomeSlice

Some really good stuff in that mix. It's like 2 hours long though.

animuson

Can I borrow Tim Stone for that? "Hey snow... get off my lawn!"

GnomeSlice

Also there's a track from Big Steel Wheels in there.

Undo

@animuson So why are you angry at the snow again?

:confused:

animuson

6:16 PM

Because it means I can't drive to Lincoln tonight. :(

Unless of course I want to risk my life. But I don't.

Undo

@animuson Y U want to drive to Lincoln?

animuson

That's where the guy I'm dating lives.

Bart

Damn you snow!!

Anna Lear

how far of a drive is it?

animuson

About 40 miles.

Undo

6:22 PM

wow

Tim Post

@Flyk Just checking, did you have a treeless ride home?

Undo

no response

:P

Oh, @TimPost, thanks for the swagz!

animuson

thinks they could improve the swag with tracking numbers

Tim Post

@Undo You got it?

Undo

@TimPost Yup.

Tim Post

6:28 PM

"Honey, when are you taking the tree down?" - NEVAR. I AM LORD OF ALL SWAG AND IT'S ALWAYS CHRISTMAS. MUHAHAHAHHAHA

4

Step 1 - get hired. Step 2 - Ensure the current swag lord goes to the dev team. Step 3 - Profit. FINALLY, ALL THE SWAG I EVER WANTED!

animuson

Suggestion: You need some Stack Exchange wrapping paper. Imagine the looks on their faces!

Undo

Undo's swagz

18 hours ago, 10 minutes total – 39 messages, 5 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 15 secs ago by Undo

Tim Stone

Q: What's in this box?

Undo

Whoa, I can reply to messages in the future!

Tim Stone

Hmm, I don't think I have a Stack Exchange USB drive...it's probably filled with unicorn viruses anyway, so I suppose that's for the best.

animuson

6:31 PM

When you plug it in, a unicorn starts galloping back and forth on your screen.

Undo

@TimStone Nope. First thing I did was ls -a it. Nothing on it :D

3ventic

Replying to future messages is the best

Sometimes

Undo

idea.

Bart

Don't worry @3ventic I found it.

Now where did I leave my keys?

3ventic

What did you find?

GnomeSlice

6:34 PM

Today's listening

is some funky retro stuff

animuson

7:03 PM

Man I really need to stretch.

Manishearth

@animuson OK, maybe you are a true cat after all

animuson

Haha

amazon.com/dp/B002X1970I

$15.40 to $100,000,000,000,000 conversion rate? Wow...

Pops

7:26 PM

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

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Manishearth

7:49 PM

Ideas for a programmingy tshirt plz!

Undo

@Manishearth Hmm?

Give us some context.

animuson

print "This is the coolest t-shirt you've ever seen"

Manishearth

@Undo college coding club needs to desig a tee for themselves

On the back we're putting the name (well, the abbreviation) of the club in a github contributions punchcard

On the front ...

Undo

ahh...

Manishearth

I'm thinking of putting (♥ I Coding) on the front

Undo

7:50 PM

Too standard.

Manishearth

@Undo you didn't get the joke. The parentheses are important

think lisp

Undo

ah

animuson

It made me think of Scheme.

Undo

I'd like to see a tshirt made sometime with the caption One. Single. Semicolon. D;

Manishearth

@animuson =lisp

animuson

7:57 PM

> Are you confirming that you want to delete your account?

No, I typed "Please delete my account." for shits and giggles.

2

Undo

One good thing about Quora: They are really good at deleting accounts upon request.

SO sticker successfully applied to laptop.

Manishearth

@Undo apply next one on forehead

animuson

I have so many stickers I don't know what to do with them.

Undo

@animuson I have a list for you.

Anna Lear

@animuson you'd be surprised...

animuson

8:06 PM

@Undo My TI-84 doesn't work though because I'm too lazy to replace the battery.

Undo

@animuson I use my TI-84 a lot. But it's probably bored of doing simple math :P

animuson

Mine is sitting up on top of a very tall bookshelf collecting dust.

The Arqade election ended! waits impatiently for results

Undo

Oooh

They're polishing the new diamonds now.

Manishearth

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 13 mins ago, by Tim Stone

> Winners are LessPop_MoreFizz, fredley, and Ashley Nunn.

Undo

Official?

animuson

8:14 PM

I don't even remember who I voted for.

Manishearth

yes

animuson

It was posted by Tim Stone, obviously is official...

Undo

heh

Does Tim have the vote data?

Manishearth

@Undo the vote data is out

you can check it yourself

Undo

@Manishearth too much work. Me wants to see the election page populated with winners.

There it is.

hichris123

8:49 PM

@Shog9 With this whole comment flagging thing, I have two ideas/questions/whatever. 1: Can we bother you or other CM team members to delete comments? 2: How can we make this more effective?

@Shog9 Also, another idea: just let us delete comments on any site in SE or give us diamonds. :P

Bart

What flavour would you like @hichris123?

hichris123

@Bart Erm... the moderator flavor? :P

Bart

That's not a flavour. Unless "bitter disappointment" is a flavour

hichris123

Why not? I want that flavour then. I request it! :P

Shog9

@hichris123 You can, but I'm not going to promise that I'll actually do it ;-)

I'm going to be much more open to this if you hand me a list of comment IDs AND document the process by which you accumulated them.

hichris123

9:00 PM

@Shog9 Would user-verified work?

Shog9

@hichris123 that's not a process, that's just a promise

qwertynl

-10

Q: I need to hire a PHP developer

Need a programmer for a php automated website. Please contact me only if you are expert in programming Budget is $500K

javascript php website

LOL

hichris123

@Shog9 What do you mean?

qwertynl

Hi

3ventic

I'm surprised no one pointed out careers before shog

qwertynl

9:02 PM

@3ventic lol dunno if it was needed. The OP clearly did not know where he was :-P

3ventic

He knew what he wanted and had a clear budget. Whether he was being realistic about his goals is another question

Shog9

It's the difference between,
- You should delete comment *NNNNNNN* because it's bad. TRUST ME!
and
- You should delete comment *NNNNNNN* because it's a reply to a removed comment and adds nothing but confusion to the thread.

@3ventic guessing Careers doesn't pay for the rest of the commenters' beer budget

3ventic

Weeeell, that's probably the reason.

Undo

@Shog9 Makes sense.

hichris123

@Shog9 Hmm, so say we do like a batch of comments like "These are unnessecary plz-accept comments and follow up comments" and "These comments are to be deleted because they are obsolete by refering to edits to the post and things that have been edited in." Would that work?

And they would be hand-verified.

Undo

9:09 PM

@Shog9 I think I/we have a plan.

animuson

Do you also have a man and a Panama Canal?

Undo

Nope.

hichris123

@animuson Why are you trying to have palandromes? (how do you spell that?)

rene

LOL

qwertynl

@animuson Panama you say?

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

9:14 PM

@animuson ;-)

ok ill go back to non-existence :-)

Bart

wait ... I'm confused

qwertynl

@Bart And why is that?

Bart

Maybe @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA could explain that to you @qwertynl

qwertynl

@Bart Ummm He and I are one and the same.

Bart

... d'uh

qwertynl

9:20 PM

@Bart So i still confuzzled @ your comment

Bart

hence the "confusion" ... sigh ... I'll leave ;)

hichris123

@qwertynl = Neal = @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA

qwertynl

@hichris123 No. Use ==. Using = assigns the variables as each other.

Unless that is what you meant to do.

hichris123

@qwertynl Erm... life != code. :P

qwertynl

@hichris123 Yes. Yes it is.

hichris123

9:22 PM

Are you sure?

qwertynl

@hichris123 Si.

hichris123

:P

Shog9

@hichris123 Just explain the process you used to verify them as well, and that would suffice.

hichris123

@Shog9 I like you giving us diamonds better... :P

Shog9

@hichris123 there's a process for that - you have to be able to convince folks on a site that you'll do a good job with it. So, start by convincing me.

hichris123

9:33 PM

@Shog9 Erm... if I convince you will you give me a diamond on all sites? ;)

Shog9

@hichris123 no, but you'll be slightly better equipped to convince the folks on those sites to elect you ;-P

hichris123

@Shog9 1. I love getting rid of crap (literally, if you want to have fun look at my flag history, it has tons of deleted NAA's. :P). 2. I love getting rid of these comments (you don't have to do work). 3. I participate on Meta. 4. I like to close bad questions and 5. givemetehdiamondz.

Undo

6. I think he can handle it

rene

The whole point of obsolete comments to be removed is the copy-cat behavior they cuase on the casual passer-by

If you see pointless comments you assume it is okay to do

hichris123

Reminds me... I may need help in finding NAA's from my search. :P

Undo

9:42 PM

@TimPost Those three pens you sent me are the best pens I have ever used.

hichris123

Three more NAA flags cast...

Jan Dvorak

should this be flagged as spam?

stackoverflow.com/questions/9343822/…...

Undo

@JanDvorak I don't think so.

hichris123

@JanDvorak Yes, one other exact copy-paste answer by the same user.

Jan Dvorak

@Undo he posted the same answer to two different questions

Undo

9:47 PM

@JanDvorak Oh, then maybe.

hichris123

This one:

Undo

Custom flag, methinks.

hichris123

0

A: Are there any free api for IP 2 Location?

I found this Australian website that provide a free IP Geo location through web service http://www.oneurl.com.au/IP-GeoLoc.asmx?WSDL but you will need to register to get access as they require email and password to be sent

Undo

yeah. spammy spam

Jan Dvorak

the questions need nuking themselves

animuson

9:48 PM

Mrow.

hichris123

Hiya @animuson. How's the flag queue?

Oh @Shog9 7: I love other flags! :P

Jan Dvorak

@animuson thanks for your help

Doorknob of Snow

Mwaaaa

animuson

@hichris123 Saddening

Doorknob of Snow

(llama noise)

hichris123

9:49 PM

I cast one flag before he deleted it. :P

@animuson What's it at now?

animuson

300

hichris123

@Doorknob Can you reenable your bot in Sandbox?

Doorknob of Snow

@hichris123 ok

hichris123

@Doorknob Where's your bot? I think I killed it...

Doorknob of Snow

wat O_O

animuson

9:53 PM

This question appears to be off-topic because it is blatantly off-topic. — animuson 18 secs ago

Undo

wow

Bart

What is this "goggle" he wants to beat?

Undo

I dunno.

Jan Dvorak

@Bart he sat on his goggles, and now he wants to punish the remaining half.

Bart

/me types "why don't you look up your arse?" as genuine advice based on @JanDvorak's comment

@animuson any reason for that post to still be around?

hichris123

10:01 PM

I would contact goggle directly. But you can't via this site. — Bart 7 mins ago

@Bart Poor goggle.

Bart

Would have made more sense, to call a search engine goggle.

Jan Dvorak

@Bart I can smell an opportunity for a domain registrator troll

Bart

We should register as "Mark Zuckerberg" and supply this Baba phone number

rene

LOL

Jan Dvorak

@Bart probably a bad idea if Baba is paid by phone calls, not by subsequent consultations.

Bart

10:09 PM

Bah who cares, they won't make it for much longer if what I am creating goes live. — user3272820 2 mins ago

brilliant

hichris123

> This question was voluntarily removed by its author

Bart

Ooh, then he received a "peer pressure" badge? Could use that as part of this start-up capital.

rene

If that user is nuked can I have his badge?

hichris123

10:24 PM

@rene If you become that user, sure. :P

Jan Dvorak

@rene you don't want PP

rene

A badge is a badge

Jan Dvorak

PP = "I have previously posted a cr@p answer and I didn't realise my mistake until it got a third downvote"

animuson

No one wants peepee. That's gross.

I like how you half-censored crap, like that's some sort of word people who aren't offended by everything in general actually get offended about.

rene

I almost flagged that crap for moderator attention

Doorknob of Snow

10:30 PM

'cr'+'ap'

animuson

Don't half spell at me!

Flyk

@TimPost much better, thanks, no trees, couple of people trying to turn into my lane without looking but that's pretty normal for this city

The Wobbuffet

11:12 PM

0

Q: What's wrong with DataExplorer?

I was testing my app, and it didn't seem to load the csv requested from https://data.stackexchange.com/, so I tried visiting the site myself. It wouldn't load. I tried again. It's not loading. What's wrong with it? Are they updating the site? Does this usually happen?

discussion bug data-explorer page-load

@TimStone ^

hichris123

You mean @TimStone

The Wobbuffet

Yeah :P

hichris123

> Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to data.stackexchange.com

status-reproduced

The Wobbuffet

I wonder if it ran out of bandwidth?

Braiam

@TimStone SEDE no longer fills automagically my user id when I'm logged in...

Tim Stone

11:25 PM

Yes

This is momentarily intentional, but will be resolved soon.

Braiam

ok

hichris123

@TimStone What happened with SEDE?

Tim Stone

I have no idea.

hichris123

+1 good answer. :P

@TimPost But it's not always-christmas-in-iceland

Undo

I want my inline tag editing on SO!

hichris123

11:42 PM

I want to close questions on SO!

Undo

I sometimes wish I could hand my 3k powers to @hichris for a while.

hichris123

Or Jon Skeet give me bounties...

Doorknob of Snow

Hey, Software Recommendations is in private beta!

hichris123

looks for questions to answer

jmac

Is there a CM lurking? Do I need to ping first and ask questions later?

Doorknob of Snow

11:46 PM

Undo

@jmac You can ping and ask a question at the same time if you want

jmac

@Undo Wise-guy. Yes. I could do that. But I want to know if one is lurking so I can do it the organic old-fashioned way.

Undo

oh

Well, @Pops likes to be pinged. Right @Pops? @Pops am I right?

jmac

(I really would love it if there were a CM super-ping that worked a-la @@CM)

hichris123

Yep, @Pops loves to be in the Tavern.

Undo

11:47 PM

I bet the CMs wouldn't :P

Pops

hic thash why'm ALWAYS heeeeeeere! hic

jmac

@Undo Which is kind of funny, because when I need them, I just pop in here and ping them, which is the equivalent or something.

hichris123

@Pops Almost an @ ping for me. :P

Pops

Actually I'm here because it's been a long day. What's up?

jmac

(the previous message would have been far cooler had I said it 1 minute earlier and substituted pop for @pop)

@Pops The community in The Workplace demands an audience on this question

(s/demands/requests if it better suits you)

hichris123

11:50 PM

@jmac for mod!

@Chad agree that electing more mods would help... and that we have good candidates for elections. :) That's a very good point you made in the question: "can we get an extra mod or 2 to help handle the volume that we have?" — gnat 3 hours ago

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/21565982/…

jmac

I hear that ♦ are very heavy.

And I hear a horrible rumor that ♦ don't get paid for their toil.

hichris123

@jmac I asked Shog to give me a diamond on every site. You can see what turned of that. :P

jmac

If elected mod, I promise to fairly increase my salary on a regular basis such that I am satisfied with it

Pops

@jmac Question noticed. I'll pass it along.

hichris123

2 hours ago, by Shog9

@hichris123 there's a process for that - you have to be able to convince folks on a site that you'll do a good job with it. So, start by convincing me.

jmac

11:53 PM

@Pops Thanks. We really could use at least the extra mod slot due to the volume if nothing else. We have a lot of growth and our mods seem to be having trouble keeping up as they used to months ago when we were smaller.

hichris123

@Pops asks for spammer stats

Undo's swagz

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