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user202362

00:00

~~sha~~ @Shog9 where is my 'SO Pet troll' t-shirt?

Qantas 94 Heavy

-2

Q: JavaScript function to get all integers separated by spaces inside a textbox

On my webpage I instruct the user to "enter in the text box any number of integers in the range 0 through 127, separated by spaces." I want a JavaScript function that puts all such integers in an array. So let's pretend that I already have the inner text stored in a string str. The prototype will...

javascript

Best bit:

> I know I could make that function from scratch myself, but I'm feeling lazy and was hoping a StackOverflow guru could bail me out by providing a 1-line Regex solution like you guys always do haha

2

See? That's honestly what they expect us to do

Doorknob

^ close it RIGHT NOW quick!

Qantas 94 Heavy

00:15

@Doorknob: already got close on it, new answer ;\

Doorknob

kill it, kill it with FIRE

Qantas 94 Heavy

delv-pls ^

Louis

00:43

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/3905794/…

Jason C

01:01

Whoa mobile chat. Cool. Is there a way to see starred messages on mobile?

@Shog9 I thought your double "where do I ask" was a typo, not a joke.

Shog9

01:27

@JasonC heh, no.

@telkitty.exe I'm wearing it.

Doorknob

@Shog9 How does a disembodied head wear a shirt? O_o

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/23073019/2581872

Shog9

@Doorknob tied around my scalp, soaked in an an unidentified liquid, of course. How do you wear shirts?

Doorknob

@Shog9 ...what? That doesn't even make any sense. Everybody knows that you have to use distilled unicorn tears for shirt-wrapping.

Preferrably tears of joy, so as to avoid unicorn abuse.

Shog9

I don't associate with unicorns. Perhaps that's why I can't identify this liquid.

Doorknob

01:35

Ah, okay.

hichris123

@Shog9 Don't you usually put sites into beta on Tuesdays?

hichris123

01:51

0

Q: I don't want to look at my reputation on A51, but the topbar makes me!

Whenever I click on my profile picture on the main site, I get directed to my reputation page on Area 51. Can someone please tell the topbar that I don't care about my Area 51 rep, and that I care more about the proposals I'm committed to?

area51-meta bug

Doorknob

random topic change

0

Q: What if I don't have an online or easily accessible reference?

I have a question about something I'm skeptical about, and being a SE user, I naturally immediately checked the Help Center and FAQ. I found this FAQ post, and I'd like a bit of clarification for my specific case. My question is about a sign I found in a museum. Now, this already seems dangerous...

discussion asking-questions off-topic

:P

hichris123

... you didn't search hard enough. WHAT DID YOU TRY? Check Google Street View, etc. — hichris123 54 secs ago

Doorknob

lol

hichris123

^ Sorry, couldn't resist @Doorknob. :P

@Doorknob What is it, even?

Doorknob

@hichris123 What is what?

hichris123

01:59

At this time the @StackExchange core team is having the Git vs. Mercurial discussion. If you don't see us again, assume there was blood.

Tweeted by balpha on April 14, 2014 at 8:33 PM

@Doorknob What are you skeptical of?

Doorknob

@hichris123 A device that claimed to be "reading brain waves"

user202362

@Shog9 Can we both be pet trolls? ... no need to be threatened, SO has many people, there are enough attention for us both @_@

user202362

Beside that shirt fits me better than it fits you :'(

Shog9

No doubt. I'm just wearing it because I can

I have it and you don't

Also, I'm making pigs inna blanket

with pizza dough

and fontina cheese

Doorknob

I have just figured out that removing the word "various" before the word "reasons" makes something sound a lot less official.

> Sometimes, the foo will bar for reasons.

> The foo cannot bar because of reasons.

:D

user202362

02:14

don't eat greens much?

user202362

It doesn't explain why I don't get a 'SO pet troll' t-shirt, surely they would have produced a dozen or more?

user202362

you know, you should anticipate more pet trolls - kind of probability thing ...

user202362

02:27

@Shog9 have you heard about Malthusian Theory of troll Population on Websites?

user202362

user202362

short in short, on a website that gains regulars, trolls will increase exponentially

user202362

03:20

Why do I have this feeling that Stackoverflow ... or SE ... or both is like a large bag full of cats - not even your elitest trolls can provide any temporary alleviation from all these ... battle aftermaths

Jason C

03:39

@telkitty.exe I agree 100% that SO is like a large bag of cats, although I have no idea what that means or how trolls are related to bagged cats. But cats are awesome, so we're good.

You get that feeling because meow.

Ben Collins

@hichris123 reports of our bloodlust are greatly exaggerated

michaelb958

03:58

This is what I wake up to in #stackoverflow developer chat…it’s a good place to work http://t.co/zMuJcSWkKF

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on March 31, 2014 at 1:37 PM

hichris123

@balpha blood is an awful revision system; it has very little information from parent commits and next to no metadata. How about tattoos?

Tweeted by badp on April 14, 2014 at 11:22 PM in reply to balpha

rofl

Tyler Carter

@michaelb958 Interesting. I like your search method

@michaelb958 And I thank you for clearing my good name :)

michaelb958

@TylerCarter It's like a lifehack, only it's a chathack.

(I have used the word "lifehack". Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy.)

michaelb958

04:21

I just upvoted the Split All The Metas announcement to +100. @TimPost is now obligated to respond to my comment on my answer to said. :P

Tyler Carter

04:47

Who's waiting for the red moon tonight?

user202362

05:46

<-

user202362

cloudy day though ...

user202362

saw at least 3 lunar eclipse in the past 5 years

user202362

I am an astrophysics fan >_<

user202362

I <3<3<3 astrophysics

TGMCians

06:20

Hey Good Morning !

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Q: How to see questions of specific tag with no upvoted answers

Hello I just want to see android tag questions with no upvoted answers. For this I clicked on UnAnswered tab then it show me all types of questions C/C++/JS/Android. Here I want to filter only android but this is not working http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes Here When I c...

bug stackoverflow tags unanswered-questions

devnull

06:57

This user thinks that asking for code on SO is ok:

@devnull I mean, can you show me how I would do it. By the way, the on-topic page does not say that questions asking for code are off-topic. — mrfishie 3 mins ago

Could somebody please educate him?

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/110173/la-creme-is-skin-care

devnull

Asking for code: stackoverflow.com/questions/23076231/… -- VTC please.

Jan Dvorak

@devnull actually, the correct close vote reason in that case is "too broad"

but I'm not sure this specific question is too broad

devnull

And what about this comment: stackoverflow.com/questions/23076231/…

Jan Dvorak

the answer isn't as big as you might have been afraid.

devnull

07:11

No, I wasn't afraid of the answer being big. It's about the attitude.

If one is asking for code despite being pointed to a similar question that contains code, then what?

Amal Murali

When exactly should you use multiple answers (except for poll type questions)?

Jan Dvorak

@devnull then maybe insist on closing as a duplicate if it is, perhaps answer with reference if it isn't. You can still downvote for any reason you want.

asking for code is fine, but 1) the code must be reasonably scoped. "How do I open a file" is fine, "pls gimme teh codes that implement this spec" is too broad. 2) it's often unclear what is the asker's level of knowledge and 3) they're not always useful, downvote at will.

Amal Murali

Context: stackoverflow.com/questions/23075314

Jan Dvorak

voted "unclear" because I think it's underspecced, but when specs come, we will want the asker to tell us where exactly he is stuck.

Amal Murali

I intitially answered the question with an answer, but after the UPDATE, added another, as I think they're two distinct answers. But after reading Jeff's answer here, I'm not sure if it was the correct thing to do.

michaelb958

07:24

No answers => no answers can be upvoted => no upvoted answers. Problem? — michaelb958 1 min ago

Qantas 94 Heavy

07:42

0

A: Why Do Rails Tests Run as www.example.com

This is probably a duplicate answer for this, also on SO: How do I change the default "www.example.com" domain for testing in rails?

Whaddya do with these answers?

michaelb958

@Qantas94Heavy I'd suggest flagging for a moderator; I think they have delete-powers over them, since they have special shiny diamonds and all.

Qantas 94 Heavy

ok, done

Jan Dvorak

flagged as NAA

rene

08:02

entered the wrong room...

good morning...

Bart

good morning

ProgramFOX

good morning

SPArchaeologist

good morning

can anyone spare a minute?

(I am not asking for vote or anything)

Bart

59 .... 58

SPArchaeologist

3

Q: How should "bad" language be handled?

I was just reviewing some edits when I came across an edit where a user with 97 Rep wanted to edit a answer by a user with 12k+Rep. Just by that I was thinking well this should be good.... So looking at the edit and the description I saw "language is not proper offensive word used". Looking at ...

discussion stackoverflow review edits suggested-edits

can anyone comment on WHY the edit shouldn't have been accepted?

seems to be the most voted behavior.

Bart

08:12

Because the edit addresses only the issue in a single answer and not the problem as a whole. It doesn't solve the problem, it only creates more confusion. Admittedly that is largely caused by the editor.

SPArchaeologist

if the editor actually fixed all the posts, you still would have reviewed them one by one

3ventic's Shadow

...without knowing about the rest of them

michaelb958

Also, the terminology is kinda necessary to understand what's going on in the question. Either leave it self-explanatory, or add something like /* Fake expletives for demonstration */ (as the mod who previously edited the question did).

SPArchaeologist

so he can review THAT edit as an item and then fix the whole

Bart

Myeah, true

3ventic's Shadow

08:14

unless you already declined one or checked the post (but let's face it, robo-reviewers already accepted it by then)

SPArchaeologist

so you can't understand the question if he asked why "replace("orange", "apple") didn't work instead?

Bart

Sure you can. But if that is not the context you're dealing with as the OP, it's not all that difficult to see why the question was asked the way it was asked.

michaelb958

@SPArchaeologist Hypothetical commenter: "Why the heck are you doing all those useless random replacements?"

3ventic's Shadow

I see the suggested edit as helpful even for the fact that it brought up an issue with the question and answers that can be solved with a quick edit. Even if he didn't fix all of the posts, it takes a minute max from one of the reviewers to finish the job.

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 Because the question said "I am trying to implement a profanity filter system"? IMHO you don't need the list of profanity to understand the question scope

@michaelb958 anyway, fell free to comment on my answer in the post above and even to downvote it if you disagree. I am looking for user opinion, so if you explain you view any comment is welcome.

@3ventic'sShadow That was what I were thinking.

michaelb958

08:30

@SPArchaeologist Fair enough, I guess. I'm just a militant don't-fix-what-ain't-broke kind of person, who furthermore doesn't see what's broke (as van Rossum said, "we're all adults here" - or at least, as responsible as adults).

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 the point is that "we're all adults here" is just one way of viewing it. As far as I know, not anybody out there may think the same, and some readers may want to avoid reading that. That is why I think it was correct to remove that: even if it don't offend me, it may offend others.

michaelb958

08:46

@SPArchaeologist To be honest, I don't have a problem with that either. If you want to fix it, fix it; if you don't, don't. If you do fix it, fix it all and fix it properly. That's my view, anyway.

SPArchaeologist

08:59

@michaelb958 We agree on the "fix it all" part.

In the meantime a dupe question was found. I am somehow alleviated. Seem the old question agree on the "fix it" standard.

Thanks everyone for the point of view share.

Alula Errorpone

We're all adults here!

Bart

@AlulaErrorpone hahahahaha .... adults ..... good one.

Louis

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23074837/…

rene

Can I unlock my vote on an answer by making an edit myself?

Louis

@rene I believe you can, but I've not done it myself.

michaelb958

09:13

Ah dammit, I had a great answer drafted to meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/229529/…, and it's closed one minute before I'm done drafting it.

Amal Murali

@rene: yes, you can. I've done it before.

SPArchaeologist

Just noticed. Jon Skeet has reached 666k rep!

rene

Ok, tnx...

TGMCians

done @Louis , last vote please do off-topic

michaelb958

Never mind, devtools for the win.

rene

09:14

@SPArchaeologist He was called the devil for that in a now deleted meta post...

Louis

At some point I noticed I had exactly 666 rep on Meta. I have a screenshot of it somewhere.

Amal Murali

This edit was rolled back. The OP's reasoning:

rene

@Louis @AmalMurali yep, worked, tnx!

Amal Murali

> I rolled back because of too few changes (and grammar.. well, it's vague).
No sense in this. Because: 1. You've broken my traditional question style. 2. You've put your code style while I prefer to leave mine. Correcting format may be "many letters", but "little sense"

What do you think?

Bart

link?

Louis

09:18

@TGMCians I'm the one who did opinion-based on that because the guy was asking which is best between two (and not "give me a list of the whole universe of possible choices"), but I'm not going to dispute the off-topic votes.

TGMCians

last vote here cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23074837/…

Amal Murali

@Bart: Click on the "edit" link :P But since you're lazy, here you go: stackoverflow.com/q/23078532/1438393

TGMCians

lol

@Louis I see, np

Amal Murali

@TGMCians: boom. Closed :)

TGMCians

thnx

Louis

09:21

thanks for the close votes

TGMCians

one vote here but please vote carefully cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23076258/…

SPArchaeologist

@rene so my idea of photoshopping his photo with some flame and two horns is already old... sigh.

Amal Murali

/me looks at @Bart curiously

Louis

Here's another one that needs closing. The OP has just kept adding examples to the question making things unclear rather than clarifying them. cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23075027/node-js-json-formatting

Bart

09:51

Sorry @3ventic'sShadow, I'll stop pinging you as part of the comments below your answer.

3ventic's Shadow

:o 10 notifications

I'll read them later

Amal Murali

@Bart: Maybe I should open a new MSO question about it?

3ventic's Shadow

Need to finish school first.

Amal Murali

(sorry about the highlights)

3ventic's Shadow

I don't really mind notification spam when I'm not actively browsing

Jan Dvorak

10:00

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/23080450/…

TGMCians

@JanDvorak yeah JAIPUR where I live

Amal Murali

lol

rene

@TGMCians Are you going to let us know if the warez has the quality as advertised?

Amal Murali

4

Q: Is this rollback justified?

I recently made an edit to this question. But it was rolled back a few seconds later. I tried to improve the grammar, rephrased some of the sentences and updated the formatting to make the code more readable. But when I asked in the comments about the rollback, this was the reply made by the OP: ...

discussion edits specific-question rollbacks

lol @rene

In case you didn't know Indian warez are usually of better quality :)

Jan Dvorak

10:19

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/23080865/…

michaelb958

screenshot-please meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/229549/… (why was that even deleted?)

TGMCians

@rene no

michaelb958

Oh hi @AmalMurali, about ^ that question... Why exactly did you delete it?

Amal Murali

@michaelb958: Because I didn't want to offend the guy who posted the question.

Also, I got my answer already.

michaelb958

@AmalMurali I politely disagree, and request undeletion. Discussions on Meta usually stick around past the point where they're answered. Also, I don't think it's worth worrying about the OP being offended by your question (which I thought was quite well [read: impartially]-written); what good is a place of discussion if nothing even remotely controversial can be discussed?

Amal Murali

10:28

I don't feel it's worth a discussion. Maybe the question can be edited to generalize the issue?

rene

@AmalMurali If it matters I support @michaelb958 in this. I would be interested in the answer on your question

Amal Murali

Hmm. You can't edit your queston after it's been deleted?

Louis

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/23074185/django-zinnia-blog

And I believe once the "should I use something else" question is removed, it becomes too broad... so not salvageable without substantial editing.

rene

@TGMCians I was not being serious, I hope I didn't offend you?

Amal Murali

Me too, ^

But I'm an Indian anyway, and that didn't offend me. :P

rene

10:38

I have to be careful, I'm Dutch

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Louis

Good thing I put on my Dutch-proof armor this morning.

:P

rene

you better be prepared...

Amal Murali

@michaelb958: Can you suggest a better title for the question?

michaelb958

@AmalMurali Does it need one? I think it's fine with its current title.

Amal Murali

I undeleted it.

Qantas 94 Heavy

10:43

2

A: Using one probability set to generate another

This essentially duplicate question maps a set of size 5 to a set of size 7 whereas you are mapping to a set of size 8, but the concepts remain identical.

Should this type of stuff be flagged or not?

Amal Murali

Why? I don't see a reason to.

michaelb958

@AmalMurali "this essentially duplicate question" - it's a VTC-as-duplicate masquerading as an answer.

Amal Murali

@michaelb958: And you're saying it should be flagged as?

"not an answer", I presume?

michaelb958

@AmalMurali It's perilously close to being a link-only answer (by some definitions, it is) - NAA, probably.

Amal Murali

It's essentially an attempt at answering the question.

Linking to another question doesn't make it "NAA". I wouldn't flag it.

And the flag will probably get declined as well (probably...)

rene

10:48

wasn't that answer posted before close as duplicate existed?

Qantas 94 Heavy

Not sure, maybe

@AmalMurali But don't you think if you removed the link, it'd be like seeing this:

> There's a book that talks about mapping a set of size 5 to a set of size 7 whereas you are mapping to a set of size 8, but the concepts remain identical.

err, whatever

too much work

TGMCians

@rene Not at all, I am today busy at work . working on android app

rene

OK

:-)

TGMCians

:)

Amal Murali

@michaelb958: I thought you wanted to answer?

rene

11:17

human google engine

Just a bunch of links is not an answer. Can't you cherry pick from those links and edit your answer to have something that is worth keeping? — rene 32 secs ago

devnull

Can somebody help me understand why should one get reputation for suggesting edit to the same post multiple times?

rene

That is something that amazed me as well

Tim Post

We understand that our users often have multiple personalities, all of which deserve at least a chance, you insensitive clods.

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devnull

I suggested an edit at time t, it's approved (yes, robos exist). I get +2. I suggest another trivial edit within a couple of minutes to the same post. Robos approve yet again. +2 more. Rejoice!

@TimPost I see. Earthlings like me fail to realize that. Thanks for enlightening.

Bart

@TimPost We agree

devnull

11:23

How do you explain this particular multiple personality?

One who always suggests an edit within a couple of minutes.

08:05 and then 08:08 for one post. 04:21 and 04:22 for another post, and so on...

Not that it hurts me seeing someone get reputation, but it probably increases the number of needless edits to a post.

Alula Errorpone

11:39

@devnull I quite often edit a given post several times. Why not just limit users to +2 per post, rather than per edit?

Stijn

@devnull stackoverflow.com/users/3275134/irfan?tab=reputation

that's a lot of rep from edits :)

Bart

11:56

Max 1000 of it though

rene

@devnull are you in a good mood?

Louis

12:09

cv-pls-lacks-information-for-diagnosis stackoverflow.com/questions/23080132/…

Comments on this question went unanswered. I believe the question will be answerable once the OP edits, and I'll be happy to reopen then. It has already attracted an answer that does not do anything to fix the problem reported (and the author of the answer does not seem to be getting the message).

rene

12:36

Anyone seen this bug before meta.stackoverflow.com/a/229578/158100

I can't imagine that it is a duplicate somewhere...

Doorknob

Making progress on my deleted question viewer keyboardfire.com/cgi-bin/perltest.cgi?id=140270

@hichris123 ^

Stijn

@Doorknob Scraping posts through your account?

Doorknob

Yes

Doorknob

13:01

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/23084502/1223693

> but Safary and Mozilla yes.

lol

SPArchaeologist

seems indutny cracked the cloudflare chalenge

wonder how many small companies/banks still don't even know of the heartbleed bug

Bart

Heartbleed?

michaelb958

@Doorknob It doesn't show more than five comments per post, and elides a few heavily upvoted answers as "red-flag-deleted" - and the revision history links don't work. I want my money back.

Doorknob

@michaelb958 Heh, try keyboardfire.com/cgi-bin/perltest.cgi?id=140270 now. It only shows vote count and the post text now, and I'm working on adding comments. But I have to go now.

SPArchaeologist

13:22

@Bart Yep. Seem one of the team members of node.js proved it makes possible to steal ssl keys.

(actually seems that one more user was capable of replicating the attack after the first one)

Bart

ooh, had of course heard about Heartbleed, but not about that part.

Nasty stuff

SPArchaeologist

Just cracked @CloudFlare ’s challenge: https://www.cloudflarechallenge.com/heartbleed . I wonder when they’ll update the page.

Tweeted by indutny on April 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM

user202362

my, my ...

jadarnel27

Are you still there, server? It's me, Margaret.

4

Bart

Yeah, saw that one @jadarnel27. How brilliant is it that you can so simply explain something in 6 pictures that many blogs and websites don't achieve.

jadarnel27

13:35

I know, I was super impressed by that.

Qantas 94 Heavy

4

Q: How to return errors?

If an error was to occur within a PHP function with a return type of String, what would be the best practice for returning it? As far as I can seen the options are Return null This is easy to test for, but means it returns mixed data types Return false This matches PHP standards for some fu...

php code-quality

Do you guys think this is primarily opinion based?

Bart

I'd go for not. It's pretty well contained, and the answers don't really indicate any opinion problems either.

@telkitty.exe Is there any particular reason for the screenshots in your Meta question? It is confusing several users, with close votes now coming in. Perhaps address that issue.

Richard Tingle

13:52

@telkitty.exe Converting them from images to links doesn't really help with explaining what they are for

user202362

lol, really started as a serious question, after 3rd downvotes, I thought since it does not get treated seriously I might as get a bit fun out of it :p

Bart

Oh come on. Don't do your usual "Ooh my, I don't get the responses I like, so I'm going to pretend to be trolling" again. That's just childish.

Anna Lear

Fun fact: "my post was downvoted" != "my post isn't taken seriously"

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user202362

at least we got more views for the question so when the same issue arises, people are aware of it

Richard Tingle

@telkitty.exe You know the Q ban on meta is relaxed but not removed. A few downvotes here and there aren't going to hurt you. Multiple questions heading for the deck are

user202362

13:55

meta splits tomorrow - theoretically, so ...

Bart

@telkitty.exe yet with a bit more care your question and my answer could have formed a good pair. Now, with the mess you made out of it, your question might be dismissed and the answer glanced over.

3ventic's Shadow

MSE split hype!

user202362

don't worry, once meta is split, I will be less motivated to post questions on meta here

Richard Tingle

@telkitty.exe Your first revision actually seems ok. It could probably do with a specific example. It went downhill from there though

Bart

That isn't any of my concern. Your current question is. You wanted to seriously address something, so please do so @telkitty.exe.

user202362

14:00

@AnnaLear anything > 10 or < -10 it will be taken seriously, but nothing in between unfortunately - it is not as black & white as that, but you get what I meant ...

Anna Lear

Weird way to look at it, but that's between you and your god.

(Disclaimer: I don't know what post we're talking about. Mostly ignoring meta while I'm on vacation.)

user202362

<3

Richard Tingle

@AnnaLear Stalking, bullying and downvoting on Stack overflow related sites. p.s. meta is a vacation!

Bart

Don't drag her into there @RichardTingle. That is not how you vacation

michaelb958

@RichardTingle Don't burden holidaying employees with downvoted Meta questions, you insensitive clod.

Anna Lear

14:02

I'm sitting at the airport, with 1.5 hours to go till boarding time. It's all good.

3ventic's Shadow

Going somewhere warm?

Anna Lear

Technically? It's snowing here in Toronto and I'm heading back to NYC that is supposed to be sunny.

3ventic's Shadow

Close enough

Lix

If you spend too much time "vacationing" in meta, going back to the "real world" becomes harder and harder...

3ventic's Shadow

It's quite warm here

Anna Lear

14:04

@Lix tell me about it... next thing you know, meta becomes your job and it's just all downhill from there.

Lix

twitter.com/lixroz/status/389350768349700096/photo/1/large

user202362

but soon meta will be spliting & you will have many jobs

Richard Tingle

@Bart That is definately true imgur.com/cticqox ahem

3ventic's Shadow

My meta rep is way higher than SO rep..

Bart

Pfff @richard i.sstatic.net/gpwts.png

michaelb958

14:06

@3ventic'sShadow You and me both.

3ventic's Shadow

When I got 200 rep on SO, I found out about the other SE sites

I found Arqade and since then...

> visited 273 days, 270 consecutive

I dedicate to things quite easily...

michaelb958

There are days that I'm just a lazy bastard :-) — rene 3 mins ago

Bart

Oooh "dedicate" .... I've got to remember that

michaelb958

It's really quite odd hearing a flower calling itself a bastard.

Bart

"No, I'm not wasting my life, I'm just really dedicated"

3ventic's Shadow

14:08

@Bart That doesn't sound good..

michaelb958

@Bart Exactly how the hell did you post right in the one-second gap between those messages?!!

3ventic's Shadow

Haha

It all comes down to your point of view, really.

Bart

@michaelb958 Look behind you and wave to me

rene

Are you making fun of me?

3ventic's Shadow

I spend most of my days watching over a few servers and on IRC, Twitch and Youtube

michaelb958

14:09

@rene No, it was just a little disconcerting trying to reconcile the fuzzy flower picture with the verbiage.

It's like how I haven't been able to take @SPArchaeologist quite as seriously since they changed their profile picture to that disturbingly cute ...thing.

rene

Hah, Wooble declared it a pluralization bug...

Qantas 94 Heavy

Seriously, more than 10000 people viewed this and not one bothered to close/flag as duplicate?

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A: How to select debug/release mode in Xcode4?

It's in the new "scheme" things - same question How can I build for release/distribution on the XCode 4.3 ?

Stijn

@Qantas I flagged it as NAA too.

SPArchaeologist

14:27

@michaelb958 that "thing" is Derpy. Also know as "the pony who showed how hypocrite censoring can be".

anyway. It was an april fool switch, I should change it when I have the time. Only problem.... you may get Dracula from LoS2 or you may get Dashie....

Stijn

Are answers like this one flag candidates? "How do I foo in bar?" "I don't know, but here's how to foo in baz."

3ventic's Shadow

Questionable

Qantas 94 Heavy

@Stijn: err, not sure.

Bart

Downvotable

3ventic's Shadow

For sure

Qantas 94 Heavy

14:34

Defo -1 for not actually answering the question though

Bart

Don't see much point in flagging.

Qantas 94 Heavy

Especially with 15 upvotes and nearly 50k views, I'd say so

3ventic's Shadow

It's kind of like "How do I read new lines as they're being added to a file in Windows?" => "I don't know how it's done in Windows but in Linux you can use tail -f"

Lix

Folks I'm trying to find an image I saw a while on meta (I think)...It jokingly shows the difference between MSO and SO... MSO is shown as a party with drinks, balloons and people having a good time and SO is shown as masses of people all groping and pushing and trying to get to the front of the line... Any one remember it?

Jason C

@Stijn It's usually not polite to foo in bars.

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Richard Tingle

14:37

Was it in the drawing competition?

rene

@Stijn I would only provide such an answer if no other answer is given. I this case downvoting is the thing to do. I would not flag it....

Lix

@RichardTingle - no. It was just two photos next to each other with captions MSO and SO

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 Also, wait untill @AlulaErrorpone reads that comment...

Lix

@RichardTingle found it

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Alula Errorpone

@michaelb958 But ponies aren't just cute

@michaelb958 They're smart too

michaelb958

14:46

@AlulaErrorpone Yeah, but... I just find it hard to take my conversational opponent seriously when they're a pony. (No offense intended.)

Alula Errorpone

@michaelb958 Wouldnt you say the same for a jet? :P

michaelb958

@AlulaErrorpone Jets aren't disturbingly cute.

Jason C

SPArchaeologist

@AlulaErrorpone now now.... I suppose you can find at least one jets repainted to be pony-approved...

Alula Errorpone

lol @JasonC

Qantas 94 Heavy

15:06

Is it just me, or do you feel depressed every time you see a crap question answered with tons of upvotes?

Lix

YES

I mean no... it's not only you :P

Qantas 94 Heavy

oh

michaelb958

@JasonC For the record, that's a prop, not a jet.

Jason C

@Qantas94Heavy I think if an inappropriately upvoted question is enough to depress you, you've probably got a pretty good life, lol.

Qantas 94 Heavy

lol im only kidding

:P

I've got many more sad things to see

Richard Tingle

15:09

@JasonC Or a horrifingly bleak one

Jason C

@RichardTingle Lol

@michaelb958 How about these:

Although if you look at them closely, they're arguably gliders...

Qantas 94 Heavy

No, they're unicorn killers under the disguise of Fisher-Price toys.

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Jason C

@Qantas94Heavy Thank you for permanently changing my perception of Fisher-Price. I had no idea this epic battle was even happening. Nothing will ever be the same.

Qantas 94 Heavy

@JasonC: note the subliminal advertising set to undermine the unicorn spirit pointing to malformed stars.

Jason C

:O

SPArchaeologist

15:17

@Qantas94Heavy then suppose I missed nothing worth viewing...

Louis

16:17

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/23084951/…

abatishchev

16:51

tfs1.interop.msftlabs.com/tfs

rene

That page can't be displayed...

@abatishchev we need credentials to access that...

jadarnel27

17:16

I had just had a wisdom tooth removed. What an odd feeling.

abatishchev

oops

funny

posted not I actually intended to do :)

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Q: Merge [virtual-method] into [virtual-functions]

Tag virtual-method (122) looks to me identical to virtual-functions (441). They both have similar wikis: A virtual method is a method whose behavior can be overridden within an inheriting class by a function with the same signature. and In object-oriented programming, a virtual functi...

support stackoverflow tags retag-request synonym-request

Louis

@jadarnel27 Now your wisdom is toothless.

abatishchev

i.sstatic.net/vtTIu.jpg this is 5!

jadarnel27

@Louis Well, there's still one =) The dentist seemed to think that it will never rear it's head.

So, to be slightly more accurate, my wisdom is shy.

Louis

@jadarnel27 Right, I assumed. In my defense, my wisdom is quite toothless. Hmm.... I'm not sure that's a defense.

jadarnel27

17:24

It doesn't have to be a good defense to be a defense, so I think your wording is safe.

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