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12:01 AM

while (Pops.Alive && (!Undo.HasSpammerStats || !hichris.HasSpammerStats)) { RequestForSpammerStats++; }

animuson

being evil

"is probably the most well-known one for this" [needs citation]. This site is not for linking random products - please explain it more thoroughly. — animuson 30 secs ago

Undo

Prediction: softwarerecs never gets anywhere close to public beta.

Anna Lear

> "hichris" is undefined

Undo

Awww

while (CommunityManagers.Pops.Alive && (!Users.Undo.HasSpammerStats || !Users.hichris123.HasSpammerStats)) { RequestForSpammerStats++; }

@AnnaLear ^ Better?

Anna Lear

yes.

Undo

12:04 AM

Good

Pops

@AnnaLear you're such a dev.

Anna Lear

@Pops surprise!

hichris123

@AnnaLear I'm... undefined? hides

animuson

sets out to steal her old position

hichris123

@Pops probably purged me from the database already...

Pops

12:05 AM

@animuson What? You already did!

animuson

No, I stole Will's old position.

Totally different.

Pops

SO mods are fungib- uh, unique and super-valued.

hichris123

@Pops Don't forget, you did want to be one.

Undo

points to Pops' wonderful mSO record

animuson

Shhhhh. Don't point things out like that. He'll make you... disappear...

jmac

12:08 AM

3 hours ago, by 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

whistles

jmac

^ hichris, I don't think you know what 'literally' means...

hichris123

@animuson He tried to. And failed. :P

Jan 24 at 21:57, by Pops

@hichris123 Sorry. Right now I'm investigating the fact that a very high proportion of accounts named "hichris123" are involved in spam and may need to be destroyed.

@jmac Erm... scratches head...

Undo

ha!

jmac

@hichris123 I think you were looking for figurative. While you may literally get rid of non-figurative crap, I sure hope that you're not doing it on SO. And if you call your bathroom antics Stack Overflow on your own time, I'd rather not know about it.

Undo

12:11 AM

chuckles

looks for XKCD

The chemistry experiment had me figuratively -- and then shortly thereafter literally -- glued to my seat.

hichris123

Okay then... :P

Doorknob of Snow

definitely not completely random at all.

jmac

@Undo I hope hichris doesn't do that.

@DoorknobofSnow I was reading through the transcript, understood hichris' comment about the ♦, and then saw what he really said.

animuson

@Undo That comic is literally the bomb.

jmac

I hate markdown

Undo

12:15 AM

Yeah.

jmac

@animuson It literally cracked me up.

Undo

ewww

hichris123

@jmac ^ My flag history, for your literal reading pleasure. :P

jmac

@hichris123 My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

hichris123

@jmac :P Love the NAA flags?

jmac

12:19 AM

@hichris123 The resolution was too small and I gave up even trying to read it. Could you give me an executive summary instead? For instance, "I cast 42 NAA flags today."

hichris123

@Undo 14 million rows in the SO posts table so far...

Undo

wow

jmac

I will then congratulate you on your achievement and present you a literal ★ for your bravery in the face of non-answers.

hichris123

@jmac I'm on a laptop, sorry... :P Um... tons of NAA flags and 2 close flags? And one other flag.

jmac

@hichris123 That will earn you a ♭ and perhaps a ♫ for good behavior.

hichris123

12:25 AM

@jmac Yay?

17 million rows now...

Undo

I feel terrible for gaining rep on softwarerecs :P

animuson

I'm mostly just voicing opinions.

0

A: Tags for free software and free software?

I think we should get rid of all mentions of "free software," in the sense where it is being referred to as pricing. The concept of saying "preferably free" is completely useless in all cases. We're trying to make these questions as un-localized as possible, and any software that fits the criter...

hichris123

@Undo You're participating in it? goes to create account

Undo

@hichris123 Kinda sorta.

When easy questions pop up I can't resist answering them

0

Q: What is the most accurate Open Source Java decompiler?

A Java decompiler turns a .class file back into a .java file. While decompiled code is not perfect (no comments, sometimes obfuscated names), it can be useful during hacking competitions, or to liberate your data locked by proprietary software, or to satisfy curiosity. There are a few Open Sourc...

Doorknob of Snow

I posted a question :P

0

Q: What software should I use for creating maps made up of polygons?

What could I use for creating maps with polygon-shaped sections? Here's an example of what I'm talking about: This software should be able to create and edit these polygon maps. Ideally, they could be exported in a convenient format, such as SVG, but all I need is that I can drag the points o...

vector graphics

Undo

12:40 AM

sigh I don't know what should be closed and what shouldn't be. This is a bad sign.

animuson

I don't really use much any software that doesn't already come with Windows, so there's not much I can answer.

hichris123

101

User 152. :P

Undo

yay!

I'm user 46

Doorknob of Snow

I is 143

hichris123

I'm going to be one of the first few on AI and Arduino.

Speaking of, @Pops when is AI launching?

Pops

12:42 AM

All I know is "soon." I thought it was going to be today, but apparently Software Recs won that race.

Undo

@hichris123 Most likely tomorrow. Maybe next week.

hichris123

@Pops Well then. Plz launch it after 3 PM EST. Then I can log in and be one of the first users. :P

Undo

@hichris123 Give me your creds and I'll do it for you :P

Pops

I'm going to go ahead and say "okay" to score points with you, even though I have absolutely no control over the situation.

hichris123

@Pops Such a people pleaser.

@Undo Um... OAuth creds? Maybe. Regular? No.

Undo

12:45 AM

Heh, I was hoping you would say no

hichris123

Why?

Undo

If you had said yes, I would have had to turn you in to the Sec.SE people and have them berate you into reversing your decision :P

animuson

Btw, what determines whether you can join a private beta? I'm 100% sure I did not commit to that proposal.

hichris123

@animuson You can click on the A51 link no matter what.

Undo

@animuson You can use the A51 link to do it now. Even if you're unregisterified.

Doorknob of Snow

12:46 AM

@animuson I can invite you. ;)

hichris123

@Undo Erm, I'll just give you an OAuth key that expires after 1 day. :P

Undo

heh

hichris123

17:58:20	LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE 'F:/Downloads/stackexchange/stackoverflow/stackoverflowPosts.xml'  INTO TABLE soposts	18066980 row(s) affected, 64 warning(s):
Records: 18066980  Deleted: 0  Skipped: 0  Warnings: 78943426	6569.873 sec

@Undo ^

Undo

wow

hichris123

Yep.

It actually works!

19:51:27	Select * From soposts Limit 100	100 row(s) returned	0.500 sec / 0.062 sec

jmac

12:52 AM

While in general I like this answer could a mod (perhaps @animuson?) fix this line: "users with various versions of Microsoft Outlook and its special handling of Internet mail --(as in "Special Olympics")--"

hichris123

@animuson I can run your <kbd> query locally now. :P

jmac

That "(as in "Special Olympics")" really isn't required, is it? It could be safely culled, and I don't think it would detract from the answer in general.

I'd do it, but the answer is locked.

animuson

@jmac Done

jmac

Thanks! You have made SO a more tolerant place.

Undo

Current status: watching the softwarerecs (yeesh, they need a better name) front page and donating suggested edits to posts in need.

hichris123

12:58 AM

My first VTC! :P

Undo

@hichris123 Where?

hichris123

@Undo softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/168/…

Undo

clicks in vain at the spot where the 10k tools link should be

Ah, good.

hichris123

Heh, me wants that link. :P

> got a question about the site itself? meta.softwarerecs is the place to talk about things like what questions are appropriate, what tags we should use, etc.

I know that! I'm at 2k on another site...

Undo

It's a thingy that's on every private beta

hichris123

1:02 AM

Yeah... but it clutters my screen!

186

Arduino

Proposed Q&A site for developers of open-source hardware and software that is compatible with Arduino

Currently in commitment.

^ 14 more committers! (done with 100 200 rep users!)

Undo

@hichris123 $("#system-message").remove();

hichris123

@Undo Userscript time! :P

Undo

:P

NOOOO!!! A question on a per-site meta with a grammar error and I can do absolutely nothing about it!

hichris123

@Undo So are per-site meta's locked down for under 2k users in terms of editing?

Undo

@hichris123 Yep. You can't even suggest edits on a per-site meta if you're... underprivileged.

hichris123

1:08 AM

Like me. :P

On every per site meta.

jmac

@hichris123 Beta site metas have no privilege milestones and they don't tally rep either.

Undo

@jmac They take your rep from the parent site and mirror the privs you have on the parent site.

jmac

@Undo Is that how it works? If so, you need 1000 rep for beta sites

Undo

@jmac Yup. Private betas have editing set at 500, IIRC.

hichris123

Select *
From soposts
Where PostTypeId = 1 AND ClosedDate IS NULL AND Body LIKE '%recommend a tool%'
Limit 100

Yay! :P

animuson

1:13 AM

Also note, no per-site-metas have privileges listed in the help center. It's always a blank list.

hichris123

@animuson I'll flag some questions for you to close. :P

@Undo Any queries to be run? :P

Undo

@hichris123 Nope.

hichris123

1:30 AM

I was told that we were going to get 6-8 inches of snow recently (we're getting more than that. :P). People didn't understand why I was laughing...

hichris123

1:43 AM

@Undo meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/56/… - 2c's in recommendations! Fixy plz? I can't edit. :(

Undo

@hichris123 Done ;)

Can't believe I missed that :P

hichris123

And 2 m's @Undo. ;)

Undo

Aaack

hichris123

Software Recommendations

Undo

there

hichris123

1:45 AM

@Undo Lowercase m now, it should be uppercase! :P

Undo

I just copied the name from the URL

hichris123

Lazy.

@Undo ^ ;)

Undo

NOOOOOO!

There.

Oooh @hichris123 this is your first time with VTC privs isn't it?

Are they fun?

hichris123

@Undo Yeah. And yeah. :P

Undo

:P

hichris123

1:52 AM

I'm going to try to answer questions now on SO... so I can get VTC on SO. :P

Undo

yay!

hichris123

Mm, I'm at 2290... almost a third of the way there. :P

Undo

yay!

jmac

I'm at 2973. I have been so close yet so far for so long.

hichris123

@jmac Just answer a question!

jmac

1:55 AM

7.7k on meta.so, over 10k on The Workplace, but I just don't know enough on SO proper.

hichris123

I'm laughing right now... everyone's tweeting to my school for them to cancel. :P

Undo

rofl

hichris123

> please stop being that school

rofl

jmac

All of my answers are in google-visualization, but my activity attracted asgallant who knows it far far better than me

@hichris123 There was an issue at University of Chicago where the students started tweeting offensive stuff at the school admins for not cancelling. So keep it classy, okay?

hichris123

> if you don't give us at least a two hour delay I will cry

@jmac I'm not doing that... can't really help it if others are. :P They're not tweeting offensive stuff though, just really weird and random stuff.

jmac

1:59 AM

I used to be the top user in google-visualization, but I have been dwarfed by the mighty gallant

hichris123

> Gonna make some popcorn and read all the tweets

Yum, popcorn.

gets popcorn

@jmac I'm more of a Java person, but I dabble in PHP, MySQL, and Python.

jmac

I am not a programmer. That's my issue. If I were a programmer, I'm sure I could answer something.

Undo

Does anyone here know of an mSO post suggesting that question titles should themselves be questions? I can't find it.

Shog9

@jmac The whole point of being a programmer is answering things. Especially if you don't actually know the answer. Especially if no one has any right to actually know the answer.

hichris123

@Undo Um.. what?

Undo

2:04 AM

@hichris123 I swear I read it sometime. It suggested that the best titles are questions.

Shog9

31

Q: Would the Stack Exchange network be better if titles contained complete, grammatical questions?

We have had quite a few discussions here in the past of whether titles should be phrased as complete questions. For example: Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll) What's in a Title (line)? How can we get more people to make their title a question? Our guidance is a li...

discussion stackexchange title

jmac

@Undo It would seem to me they are discouraged

Undo

@Shog9 Ah, thanks!

Shog9

@jmac that FAQ sucks ass

hichris123

> Give him a ring that needs to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom if need-be.

Dec 18 '13 at 3:09, by jmac

:1687338 Three Tims for the Elven-devs in the Tavern,
Seven for the Moderation-overlords in their halls of 01100010011010010111010001110011,
Nine for New Users doomed to downvotes,
One for the Jeff Atwood on his dark throne
In the Land of Horror where the Coding lies.
One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them,
One Tim to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Horror where the Coders lie.

jmac

2:05 AM

@Shog9 That's why my first answer on SO was to my own question.

@Shog9 Is that a subtle hint that we should all improve it?

Shog9

Although strictly-speaking, there is some science to back it up

@jmac Read the article I just linked to first, and then try to draw some conclusions.

jmac

@Shog9 In the process. I'll stick it in my mental queue.

hichris123

@Undo Found a problem in Cinder...

Undo

yeah, there are lots of problems in Cinder

hichris123

There's a spam button there...

Undo

2:10 AM

Yeah.

;(

jmac

@hichris123 How did you find that?

hichris123

@jmac I starred it. :P Show all 9779 -> Starred by me -> scroll down a little. :P

jmac

Ah.

hichris123

Ooh, now school is closed! :P

Undo

2

Q: Become a temporary moderator for the beta

How do you become a temporary moderator for the beta? Deep engagement in the community's development is required for all temporary moderator candidates. All potential candidates must: Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation. Show an interest in thei...

discussion moderation

^ Isn't it too early for this?

hichris123

2:16 AM

@Undo Yeah... it's not even out of private beta!

Undo

Ideally it's usually two-three days into private beta.

hichris123

Really? Huh.

Undo

Yup

jmac

@Shog9 Their methodology doesn't look ideal actually. They used average (rather than median) meaning that major outliers have a much larger impact. They used score to do the analysis, which (presumably) increases with the age of the question (meaning that older questions will generally have more score regardless of quality). It is an interesting start, but the conclusions should probably be revisited with a better method.

(I'd love to do analysis like that if I had the benefit of actually understanding SQL well enough to understand those query samples)

Shog9

@jmac excellent points

@jmac I would actually recommend NOT using SQL for this

It's convenient, but... It encourages things that are easy in SQL (like AVG()) rather than accurate (like... Damned if I can remember the syntax for pulling a median)

Manishearth

2:20 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: Has a prototype been built to demonstrate the claims made by WO 2001053721 A1?

jmac

@Manishearth Not spam.

@Shog9 I see. Medians are just so much better for this sort of work. I assumed it was easily accessible through SQL using MEDIAN() or something. That works in Excel at any rate, which QED is superior to SQL.

The Wobbuffet

Hi

Shog9

@jmac ha! Ha ha ha. No.

17

A: Function to Calculate Median in Sql Server

My original quick answer was: select max(my_column) as [my_column], quartile from (select my_column, ntile(4) over (order by my_column) as [quartile] from my_table) i --where quartile = 2 group by quartile This will give you the median and interquartile range in one fell swoop. ...

The Wobbuffet

Does anyone know how to get how much flags the user has available through the Stack Exchange API?

@hichris123 ^

hichris123

Rant much?

-8

Q: Stackoverflow Users: MUCH more likely to downvote than upvote?

Do you see it? If so: Why do you think this is? UPDATE: The downvotes have begun, as can be expected of this community.

discussion stackoverflow

Undo

2:24 AM

@TheWobbuffet The same number as they would through the normal web interface.

jmac

@Shog9 You can laugh all you want Shog, but Excel serves its purpose very well. I've done quite a bit of analysis for The Workplace (and even meta.so) using my Excel skills.

hichris123

@Undo Erm, I think he means out of the amount you can cast per day.

Shog9

@jmac I was laughing at the notion that SQL had an easy MEDIAN() function.

Excel actually is better suited for this.

The Wobbuffet

@Undo But what URL would I use for the GET request? Does it say in the docs?

Shog9

As much as I do hate it.

jmac

2:26 AM

I don't get the Excel hate. It is accessible and very easy to tweak without having to shift languages or multiple tools. Get stuff in CSV, use excel, ???, profit.

Undo

@TheWobbuffet You might want to get acquainted with recent policy changes around comment flagging in SE, too.

jmac

@hichris123 Why did nobody just make the query in data.se showing that he is so completely and ridiculously off with that statement?

hichris123

Which means we just switch to NAA flagging and VLQ flagging @Undo. ;)

Undo

heh, yeah

hichris123

@jmac Cause deletion is so much easier. :P

jmac

2:27 AM

@Shog9 On a tangential note, has SE ever considered making dashboards showing SE stats of various types kind of like the elections page that one of the Tims made but for 'site health' stats of some kind?

The Wobbuffet

@Undo What policy changes? Also, can you answer my question?

jmac

10 hours ago, by Shog9

I support better comment moderation. I welcome all efforts to define and develop better tooling for this purpose. But it must be a collaborative effort, done with respect for the community and those entrusted with the task of moderating it. Y'all shot yourself in the foot yesterday by not doing that, and that stinks - so you're gonna learn from it, or at least serve as a useful example for the next person to try.

Manishearth

[ SmokeDetector ] All caps title: COERCIVITY OF BILINEAR FORM

hichris123

If only! In the past month, folks on Stack Overflow have cast 1,230,392 up-votes... And a paltry 143,646 down-votes. — Shog9 1 min ago

Shog9

@jmac Some of those do exist. What were you thinking, specifically?

The Wobbuffet

2:29 AM

@jmac So... what does it all mean in Summary that has to do with what I'm doing?

Undo

@TheWobbuffet We found out that SE doesn't really want people mass-flagging comments, and we're being steered more toward handing SE lists of comments.

jmac

@Shog9 I would love to see things like questions per tag for top tags (see popularity of languages), close rates, upvote/downvote rates, those sorts of stats. I'd be more specific, but I'd have to collect my thoughts and would probably just end up writing it instead

The Wobbuffet

@Undo So... you're removing comment flagging from your Charcoal app?

Undo

@TheWobbuffet Yeah.

We're currently reconsidering just about everything.

The Wobbuffet

@Undo By Golly! Do they not want mass answer flagging, either?

Undo

2:31 AM

@TheWobbuffet It's the mass part of mass comment flagging that isn't acceptable anymore. Answers are still fine ;)

Of course, we haven't mass flagged answers yet :P

hichris123

slowly raises hand

The Wobbuffet

@Undo So maybe it would be fine if I only let the user flag up to 10 comments a day?

Undo

@hichris123 Not with a tool, I mean ;)

@TheWobbuffet I don't know, to be honest.

jmac

@Undo I don't think that's the point at all Undo. The point was that there was mass-flagging without enough community involvement before the flood which was the actual reason. If answers are mass-flagged, and that causes an issue with community members, it'll probably end up with the same result.

Shog9

I dislike it for three reasons:
1. It's old enough that certain UI conventions are still based around the idea of very, very limited system resources, which is odd and confusing. Yes, I'm talking about you, *clipboard ops*.
2. For several years, I had to support a very large, complicated spreadsheet in which was implemented an extensive amount of business logic. And by "support", I mean "integrate into a much, much larger application in a way that didn't break in subtle ways that cost the company money and/or resulted in the destruction of property". Yes, that meant hundreds of automated te…

Undo

2:32 AM

I think we want to gravitate toward making big lists.

Shog9

@jmac stackoverflow.com/tags/java/topusers ?

jmac

@Shog9 I'd love for you to visit my office sometime. Seeing how the Japanese use Excel will give you nightmares for a lifetime.

The Wobbuffet

@Undo I don't care, let them ban my Charcoal app if they want.

Undo

sigh

ok

Shog9

@jmac If I ever visit Japan, I'll make a point of it. And bring whiskey.

jmac

2:34 AM

@Shog9 I meant the top tags all on one graph. I can toss together a data.se query, but my ideal image would be a google-visualization dashboard that is interactive and allows you to see a subset of data and kind of 'drill down' in to it to get a better idea about what is trending on the site in general, as well as what's happening in tags you care about.

@Shog9 We can visit the Yamazaki Distillery if you'd like.

Shog9

The Japanese make whiskey? Excellent!

The Wobbuffet

@Undo So where do you think I would go about getting the amount of flags a user has?

Undo

@TheWobbuffet I don't know, TBH

jmac

@Shog9 Of course! Haven't you seen Lost in Translation?

(their whiskey is actually pretty good from what I can tell. I'm a beer person myself)

Shog9

Yes, but I was rather drunk at the time. And also very bored. The two may have been related in some form.

The Wobbuffet

2:37 AM

@hichris123 @Undo We need queries to find bad questions and answers

jmac

Probably. The movie was awful. But the whiskey commercial is a real thing.

Shog9

I'll have to see if I can find it

The Wobbuffet

@hichris123 @Undo I edited yours' to be newest and more accurate flagging data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/165168/…

jmac

The Yamazaki (from said distillery) is probably available outside Japan.

hichris123

@Shog9 [status-bydesign-plz]

0

Q: No privileges in meta help

I was looking at the help pages and noticed that the privileges section is blank. Should we add something here?

discussion

Undo

2:39 AM

status-pretty-plz

Shog9

@hichris123 1) not a bug report 2) what is he even talking about?

jmac

The Japanese actually drink a lot more whiskey than you probably think. And they have by far and away the best bartenders on the planet.

Manishearth

@jmac Jan's written the code to fix that, but I haven't gotten the time to plug the whitelisting magic into the system

hichris123

@Shog9 On per site metas the privs page is always blank...

Shog9

@jmac if that means they serve you a drink when you sit down, good on 'em

Undo

2:40 AM

@Shog9 He's unhappy because their per-site meta privs page is empty, methinks.

Shog9

@hichris123 ah, that page

jmac

@Shog9 The Germans are better at that. Dusseldorf beer halls -- tremendous places. But the Japanese make some of the best cocktails on the planet. Their bartenders are so detail-oriented that you get tremendous beverages.

One of my locals serves you a cucumber sandwich to go with your manhattan though.

@Manishearth Pity that. I love the spam alerts, I just wish it would allow me to tell you if it isn't spam. It doesn't seem to repeat the alerts like it used to though (which is good)

Manishearth

@jmac It doesn't repeat anymore, so no need to tell it that a post isn't spam because it won't care

Pinging me directly causes tweakings anyway :)

Undo

Someone added a connector thing! Eeeek!

Manishearth

No need for a built in bot function that notes "not spam"

hichris123

2:46 AM

Software Recommendations

General discussion for softwarerecs.stackexchange.com

2

@Manish ^ Come join us!

Manishearth

@hichris123 I asked q#3

@Undo it's not aligned! eeeeek!

Undo

I know. Someone shake a fist at something until it either goes away or we get used to it.

Shog9

@jmac that's cool. I do occasionally like a good manhattan.

animuson

3:08 AM

Heh, Software Recs is already looking like a crap fest.

The Wobbuffet

Charcoal is published now

In Google play, will take up to 24 hours to show

hichris123

@animuson Is that a good thing? :P

Manishearth

@TheWobbuffet What does the app do?

animuson

Browsing through some of the questions, I'm already seeing a very disturbing pattern of answers that barely consist of more than a link and a very vague description of the product. Some don't even include the name of the product.

The Wobbuffet

@animuson ikr, why do they even have the "too many possible answers" rule?

animuson

3:13 AM

Users are clearly not following the advice Tim Post outlined on Area 51.

The Wobbuffet

@Manishearth Finds comments to flag that you press a button to flag on every site (so far, answers adding later, still making the query)

animuson

More like a "here, have some reputation because you know how to type something into Google."

Manishearth

@TheWobbuffet K. Be aware of this

Doorknob of Snow

@animuson Nobody's flagging answers according to the guidelines -_-

@TheWobbuffet What @Manish said... mods are starting to get angry at comment-flagging scripts

animuson

Heh, I tend to get angry at other types of flags...

People who use a custom flag for duplicates rather than the canonical "it is a duplicate flag"

Manishearth

3:16 AM

"Plz halp"

animuson

People creating lists of all possible sites a question could go on as "this should be migrated"

People asking to delete their question simply because it's now been answered

Too chatty comment flags? For me, that's like taking a break to do something easy for a little bit.

hichris123

@animuson = plz-accept :P

Doorknob of Snow

woah, too many tabs is awesome :D

just downloaded it

hichris123

Did someone purge the comments here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/219685/…?

animuson

The OP deleted some of his comments.

hichris123

3:29 AM

Ah, okay. Apparently he realized that Shog isn't NARP (Not A Real Person). :P

animuson

3:39 AM

I want my swag. :( Bad USPS. Deliver things faster.

hichris123

@animuson I stole it. evil laugh

Manishearth

3:50 AM

@animuson So, it reached Israel before it reached NE?

animuson

What reached Israel?

Manishearth

ShadowWizard's package

animuson

PS I'm very glad I asked my parents what "snipe hunting" was because I didn't know and I certainly don't want to be abandoned in the middle of a cornfield.

@Manishearth Oh I don't know. Tim said he just shipped it Friday, so I can't say it's that surprising that it hadn't reached Omaha yet today.

If it were Fedex I'd probably have to wait another week or two.

Manishearth

<3 FedEx International

jmac

Japanese delivery service is awesome. I can order by 11pm from Amazon, and have it delivered to my door by 6pm the next day. For free.

Manishearth

3:55 AM

It's the flying droooones

jmac

It's the black cat, actually. Or usually at least.

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animuson

I heard somewhere that Amazon was considering jacking up the price of Amazon Prime to like $199/yr or something.

jmac

It's ￥3000 right now. They can't raise it!

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