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Haha

Another dollar in the swear jar.

12:21 AM

What's wrong with swearing?

I do agree that going easy on beginners/young-people/idiots/low-reps is bad.

I was just playing along with Cupcake's comment.

Then I was just commenting on Cupcake's comment.

12:46 AM

How'd this get to +1? stackoverflow.com/a/24176489/2888561

1:33 AM

@3ventic debian, why?

@3ventic Mac OS X

3ventic

You're all late

and I forgot to say that earlier

So what was the question for?

Off-topic?

Yup. Recommendation.

1:45 AM

@Jamal could be about "tools related to programing" but I will err on the safe side and use unclear

I went with Super User on this one.

@Shog9 communication via the Internet is overrated

2:30 AM

OFFENSIVE stackoverflow.com/a/24836154

Also: stackoverflow.com/a/24836121

user163250

2:46 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236784/…

Don't mind if I do. burp

3:07 AM

\o

o/

@bjb568 Just out of curiosity what's wrong with that? (I suck at web layouts, but just wondering.)

Actually nevermind; I should probably just go learn how the flex stuff works.

"Don't rely too much on automatic calculation done by the browser." Wut? Y?

Oh that part. I guess that is a weird statement isn't it.

"Look at the method I have created" Looks like crap. Not responsive. Doesn't work for arbitrary divs.

"Considering you have not given margin, padding and border" Quite obvious, since it's not in the question

"2 items in a row, the flex-basis is given from 50% - 34%" I think I can compute basic arithmetic myself. It would be more helpful if you told us wth flex-basis is.

3:20 AM

Interesting game review.

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@bjb568 Heh; well, "Looks like crap. Not responsive." sums up about every web site I've ever had to make. Web programming will never make sense to me.

That's why you don't work for idiots.

@animuson It's true. Skyrim also makes for awkward family moments.

@bjb568 Heh

@animuson The first comment is also... er, interesting

That "Lindons" guy has some serious issues to work out...

3:30 AM

Goasts - A ghost goat.

@bjb568 Or ghost toast.

Wtf was I just watching with a ghost toaster. Maybe it was a comic.

Dammit, "ghost toaster" has some serious google pollution

Pfft, you use google?

NO. NO OF COURSE I DON'T. ...

Duck duck go. Use it!

Oh, yeah. Maybe I should make that switch, actually.

I've only used it a couple of times but I remember it not letting me down.

3:36 AM

@bjb568 is that real?

@VotetoClose No. It's internet.

Well; it's my default search engine now, let's see how it goes.

Quick give me something to find! I can't think of anything to search for under pressure.

Oh wait yes I can

@bjb568 Why?

Sweet, I know how to pee blue now.

@JasonC Ducks. Birds. Kittens. Meta. Unicorns. Unicoins. User Experience Stack Exchange. For loops.

@JasonC ?!

@Doorknob It's better.

3:39 AM

@bjb568 Flagged as not an answer. :P

@bjb568 cre.ations.net/creation/body-mod---turn-your-pee-blue

@JasonC adds to bookmarks

Woo hoo, Duck Duck Go success!

@bjb568 It's actually quite fascinating that you chose the sequence meta => unicorns => unicoins => user experience stack exchange. I'm sure it means something, I have no idea what.

user163250

I see we appear to be talking about ducks.

user163250

...and Skyrim.

user163250

3:48 AM

I'm trying to get advanced-search made into a synonym for search on MSO, anyone want to help vote?

user163250

meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/search/synonyms

not enough score...

user163250

I guess I'll go post it up in a question then.

Too low-usage to work naturally.

@bjb568 that's what she said

3:49 AM

@Cupcake And, on the topic of Skyrim, masturbation guilt!

Wait

Sorry, the children, I know.

Andy

http://stackoverflow.com/q/24836533/189134
"Development porpoises"

@JasonC I like how people think it's abuse/stupid/dumb/etc to like have a gorilla/tiger/turtle/etc for a pet for a couple/few years since they were a baby, and then put them out in the wild to make for themselves.. because obviously they will likely die. Yet, humans think that they have to hide almost everything from their kids, make them believe in fairy tales, lie to them constantly, and then the parent's somehow think that once they turn 18 that they can go make it on their own.

user163250

@Andy quick, somebody photoshop that.

user163250

Thanks Google.

3:58 AM

@JasonC Well... parenting.stackexchange.com/a/10479

user163250

@bjb568 awkward.

2

About time to run. Bed time, anyway.

Q: Can [meta-tag:advanced-search] be made a synonym for [meta-tag-search]?

@VotetoClose That's why I'm going to teach my kids to never wash their hands after they go to the bathroom.

user163250

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I noticed that we have two different meta tags for "search" questions: search advanced-search These are analogous to the same meta tags (or just tags?) on Meta Stack Exchange. Can [advanced-search] be made into a synonym for [search]? I see no reason why we need both. "Advanced search" quest...

user163250

-1 already. That was fast.

4:05 AM

@Cupcake sorry, misclick

user163250

@VotetoClose sounds like you need one of these:

user163250

@Cupcake I love that you gave proper credit to the cupcake creator.

user163250

@JasonC hey, it's all CC after all.

waits for spam flags

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user163250

4:10 AM

:P

user163250

Okay, you got me, it was all a (not so clever?) way for me to promote my cupcake business.

user163250

Don't shoot plz.

If I photoshop it can I redistribute it under Cup Cake Share Alike terms?

Sorry. :(

user163250

@JasonC the terms require you to upvote all my posts. So yes.

Ha

4:14 AM

I don't know why I never synonymized those on MSE.

user202362

only did 3 out of 9 hours of walk today ... a small subset of the group is training for oxfam and didn't want us to drag them down :'(

user163250

@animuson there's a synonym proposal, did you just do that?: meta.stackexchange.com/tags/search/synonyms

@Cupcake meta.stackexchange.com/tags/… ;)

user163250

@animuson ah, right.

There's a massive wall of my name on that site too.

user163250

4:17 AM

@animuson so can a single moderator unilaterally create synonyms, or do people still have to vote on the proposal?

A: What's the longest interval between an answer being posted and accepted?

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I finally made a DSE(Data Stack Exchange) query: longest time to accept answer, for a user I have 9 answers accepted 4 years laters after writing said answer.

We have the option to create/vote on it like a normal user or just unilaterally make them ourselves.

Depends which UI we go through.

^ Now that's dedication.

user163250

@JasonC wtf?

user163250

It's all covered by VonC.

4:19 AM

@Cupcake He's been manning that post for 4 years.

Talk about a useless question.

Someone could easily just unaccept then accept an answer and destroy those stats.

@animuson Does unaccepting remove the original AcceptedByOriginator vote?

Well the system doesn't create new events for when votes get reversed, it marks those votes as "deleted"

I doubt those would show up in the data dumps.

@animuson Yeah I don't see anything that could indicate a vote that has been deleted.

@AnnaLear global login system? Why not just do a location.reload() , instead of making the user click on "click here" to refresh the page? Wouldn't a global login make it too easy for people to get fanatic badge on every site? At least, if you just use location.reload() instead of / or after display "user you are logged in, click to refresh the page" , then they still have to actually go to the site that day.

Tim Stone

4:26 AM

Fastest accept is much more interesting. I think I've got one at 2 or 3 seconds.

So we just need to find Eggs McLaren and get him to twiddle the checkbox on stackoverflow.com/questions/4/… real quick.

@TimStone yea, but sock puppet accounts don't count

Q: Can [advanced-search] be made a synonym for [search]?

@TimStone Or lowest accept time per word in the answer (initial rev)

user163250

4:41 AM

Did you know that posts containing pictures of delicious cupcakes receive 20% more upvotes than posts that don't?

user163250

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I noticed that MSE has two tags for search: search advanced-search Can [advanced-search] be made into a synonym for [search]? I see no reason why we need both. "Advanced search" questions are just plain search questions. Pretty please, with a cherry on top? Boston cream cupcake by Joy.

support tags meta synonym-request

user163250

That's a fact. It's science!

I don't vote for gluten-containing items.

user163250

@animuson would you vote for kittens?

Baby hippos

4:45 AM

My friend thought it was weird that with my obsession with cats, I am also allergic to cats.

user163250

I'm trying to get a cat right now, but the website is slow.

Baby hippos look so delicious even their mothers will eat them

user163250

SPAM stackoverflow.com/a/24836770

user163250

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236790/646-206-exams-meta

user163250

4:48 AM

@Jamal the one right above it too.

Yep

That was fast! Spammer destroyed.

user163250

Meh.

user163250

16 minutes.

user163250

Too long.

And protected. :D

user163250

4:49 AM

I like my spam cooked fast.

user163250

2 minutes or less.

This isn't Burger King.

Q: FILLING AN ARRAY WITH ELEMENTS WHICH HAVE MULTIPLE DATA TYPES

We can't have it our way?

user163250

I miss @ManishBot.

user163250

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I want to put elements in an array like a[0] =AP 7 or GP 93 where first part is a string and then a space and then an integer. how do i make such an array

string

4:52 AM

Neighborhood Update: All five of the young kids (and their parents) involved in destroying the fresh cement road are required to appear in court so the judge can decide how to split up the fixing costs between them.

This user has probably triggered a dupe answer flag just now.

user163250

@Jamal there are still dupe answer flags?

@animuson Rookies

user163250

I haven't seen those around since they got rid of the old 10k review queue.

@Cupcake I don't know.

4:53 AM

They still exist, yes.

Anna Lear

@VoteToClose ... the badges are the least of our problems with global login. A far more interesting issue is what to do with visiting sites people don't have profiles on, among others. Just force-refreshing the page isn't a solution at all.

Also, fun fact: simply hitting the home page isn't enough for the Fanatic badge anyway.

I've never actually seen a fun fact.

At least not when they're advertised as being fun. Never live up to the hype.

Your lower arm is the same length as your foot, if neither has been amputated

FUN FACT: You need a 13mm spanner to tighten an M8 bolt.

@random Weird. And I'm more flexible than I thought.

Fun fact: 111111111 * 111111111 = 12345678987654321

5:08 AM

Panama time

user163250

Fun fact: "If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee."

No one cares about coffee. :P

Why not heat the coffee instead of the cup?

@animuson Mind = Blown

How about hot chocolate?

How much yelling do I have to do for that?

5:10 AM

Is it Sexual Chocolate?

Fun fact: There is a part of your body that only exists if you are doing something.

user163250

@JasonC Lap time

2

user163250

@JasonC what's that?

An elephant's penis weighs 56 pounds.

user163250

5:18 AM

almost +1 for graphic violence in the title ;-) — Thilo Oct 19 '10 at 5:59

user163250

Apparently that comment keeps getting chatty flags declined.

user163250

Jamal and I can't figure out why.

user163250

Is it not, in fact, too chatty?

@Cupcake Is it on PCG?

Nope

user163250

PCG?

5:19 AM

Haha, that is a great title.

user163250

stackoverflow.com/revisions/3965676/1

user163250

That was the original.

user163250

I chose functionality over fun.

Shog9

@JasonC fun fact: you can also use a small crescent wrench

@Cupcake codegolf.stackexchange.com = pcg

balpha

5:20 AM

git guillotine --release

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@Shog9 Hey that is fun!

@Cupcake I almost want to roll back your title edit

user202362

5:33 AM

Have this fattie coming for food 3 times a day (took the pic a minute ago) ... expectantly looking in your direction, singing softly ...

3

user202362

What am I looking at

An upside-down bird.

Oh, that's better. That was blowing my mind.

user202362

I really hate it when birds drop dead lizard/worm at your door to get the meat fillets from your hand ...

5:36 AM

When people leave the room I keep thinking there's something crawling on my monitor

@chmod711telkitty You don't eat those?

user202362

Generally ignore them when they have something in their mouth while looking in & that happens every now and then

user202362

eat what, the bird, meat fillets or dead lizard/worms?

On average how many upside down birds ask you for food every day?

user202362

a few of them, 3-4 times when I am at home all day

... Do you live in a cartoon?

user202362

5:40 AM

I have a kitchen, does that count?

I have a kitchen too but I don't have a bird fan club!

What kind of bird is that anyways?

user202362

Butcherbird

Butcherbirds are magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus. They are native to Australasia. The Australian magpie has recently been placed in the same genus, and this new taxonomy has been supported by recent phylogenetic analyses. Together with three species of currawong and two species of Peltops, butcherbirds and the Australian magpie form the subfamily Cracticinae in the family Cracticidae. Butcherbirds are large songbirds, being between in length. Their colour ranges from black-and-white to mostly black with added grey plumage, depending on the species. They have a large, straight ...

user202362

well ... a different colour obviously ...

user202362

very beautiful songs

Whoa! Incidentally I've been trying to figure out what these birds I saw in Germany were, turns out they're magpies.

5:46 AM

@animuson they could hold a lemonade sale on the sidewalk... oh wait, that's illegal

Black & white ones. We don't have them here (New York)

Shog9

magpies are awesome. They chase squirrels.

Oh sweet.

They looked cool; such a sharp contrast between the black and white.

Whoa! This one's got a pretty baller body kit:

that is a good looking bird right there ^

user202362

I used to love Australian magpies, those little bastards occasionally wait in front of your door - opens the door & greeted by a magpie.

user202362

5:59 AM

That is until I got some pet chickens - the magpies just bullied the heck out of my chooks

user202362

The chickens even started hiding when they heard magpie singing

spam stackoverflow.com/questions/24837299/what-is-financial-modeling

@chmod711telkitty That's crazy. How did you make it stop?

user202362

I bought the chickens young, then they all turned into roosters ... can't keep roosters in residential area here, they were given away/sold etc so no problems now

user202362

6:15 AM

Caught dirty magpies bullying the chooks a couple of times, then when I opened the door, they pretended they were foraging in the front yard!

@chmod711telkitty Lol they kinda sound like douchebags.

8:06 AM

morning!

morning!

user163250

8:35 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236799/…

That's gone...

user163250

9:05 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236801/…

9:26 AM

:( I constantly arrive too late...

It is pretty un-cool right now...

@rene I'm leaving now. Now it's up to you to deliver the killing blows.

Ok, I'll start the spam script... tnx

user163250

9:58 AM

cv-pls needs code stackoverflow.com/questions/23736407/…

@GnomeSlice Do you happen to know something about upmix matrix ratios? If you do can you ping that guy?

@Cupcake voted...

10:56 AM

Whoa; I just noticed the "new" (well who knows) "this code does not work" close vote description. Nice.

where? i don't see anything new

@JasonC You should close vote more regularly...

@VotetoClose on stackoverflow. close => off-topic => "questions seeking debugging help". by new i mean within the last 4 months; i haven't been doing much on so lately.

oh, yea, that's like 3 years old in internet time

Q: Should we have a more specific close reason for vague debugging questions?

in SO Close Vote Reviewers on Stack Overflow Chat, Jun 6 at 21:00, by rene

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For several months now, we've had a close reason (actually an off-topic reason, but no matter) for poorly-asked debugging questions: This question appears to be off-topic because it lacks sufficient information to diagnose the problem. Describe your problem in more detail or include a minimal...

discussion featured close-reasons

11:11 AM

i really miss abusing "lacks sufficient understanding of the problem being solved" or whatever that was.

i.e. "poster is an idiot"

@JasonC abuse was why the close reason was removed

@JanDvorak lies. constant abuse and misuse is a terrible reason to remove a close reason.

a close reason along the lines "unclear what you don't know" would be nice, though.

plain "unclear" and "too broad" are a bit too broad and unclear

or "face palm"

11:27 AM

@VotetoClose i'm still boggled by secretion => roaches

I don't know? slime => secretion?

incidentally, "boggled, by secretion" sounds like the worst cologne ever

ah i see your point. => filth => etc.

GnomeSlice

11:48 AM

@rene Not a clue, sorry.

I don't know anything about anything

Today's Listening | Chiptune / Dance

@GnomeSlice :)

12:32 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/18437205/792066

TGMCians

12:57 PM

Closed

\o

@Braiam Should not we move that question to Ubuntu site ?

ThiefMaster

Why would you move a generic linux question to the ubuntu site?

Unix & Linux would probably be a better place

TGMCians

Err yeah you are right

ThiefMaster

Anyway, it's too old for migration

@TGMCians what Thief said, twice

TGMCians

Hmm

user202362

1:03 PM

1:37 PM

SPAM webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/65542/…

Hit it!

@rene How did they come up with sorting, of all tags they could choose? O_o

Let me explain that... do you have an hour?

Eeeeeek 4 hour old spam

that's ^^^^ gone now

yep, a person in TL nuked it

1:45 PM

super powers...

I mean, it was the 6th spam flag

Power to the people!

Interesting... I've accidentally copied a directory into a directory I meant to merge it with. Windows didn't mess up when I moved the directory up one level (mv sketchup/plugins/plugins sketchup/plugins)

You are on Win7 or up....

... Windows has mv?

1:51 PM

Win7

@Doorknob move

@Doorknob yes.

@Doorknob is a symbolic to move.exe

Ah, ok, I thought that was only a Linux thing

@JanDvorak The samething would have failed on winxp/2k3 (as in no merge) if I recall correctly

1:53 PM

@rene error message?

Warning? Overwrite (yes/no)

that's fine

> Are you sure you want to merge the directory?

Yeah that is added

2:05 PM

it's kinda weird that the openOffice installer spends ages computing if it can fit on the harddrive, then installs quite fast afterwards.

/me gives up waiting until it computes if it can fit

That might be a feature of Windows Installer

@JanDvorak FileCosting

2:26 PM

BROWN

2:38 PM

@chmod711telkitty ignore what you have seen, just take it to be a coincidence and nothing more

"Thank you for reviewing 20 low quality posts today; come back in 9 hours to continue reviewing." Waaaaaa, I want more reviews... It took me less than 10 minutes to do 20 since the wave of link-only came in.

2:56 PM

@bjb568 I voted to delete a link-only Jon Skeet answer...

Q: Single Spacing within a DIV or SPAN - Yes it's incorrect CSS but

O.O

-4

Upfront: Please no lectures about how I should be using proper CSS and stylesheets. I routinely have to copy and paste formatted text into one of those content windows similar to the tool we use here to enter a question. The problem is that it double spaces everything. If I am copying from a ...

html css

^ WTH is wrong with that guy?

@bjb568 he doesn't like to be lectured. must have strict parents

Huh.

Why are there down votes here (on both the question and my answer)? stackoverflow.com/q/23284429/2888561

@bjb568 it's a gimme-a-code type of question. These aren't very popular.

Is hidden really a boolean attribute on <div>s? — minitech ♦ May 31 at 1:22

That triggers it. Diamond questioning the answer...

3:06 PM

@rene well, it isn't, I believe.

Lemme check MDN, then I'll throw in another downvote

He admit later that it is cool... so.... what is true?

@JanDvorak stackoverflow.com/?tab=month

@Jan Why'd you add another comment? I already linked that page.

@bjb568 have you? Where?

@bjb568 and Jan's comment has an upvote, but not yours, LMAOLOLROFL

Oh. "yup" is clickable. Totally missed that.

3:21 PM

It's blue. Vs black...

It's dark blue and not underlined.

It's #07c, lighter than pure #00f.

The link is visited for me...

Oh boy, an UX fight...

3:40 PM

#4a6b82 is grayish blue. Not dark blue. And definitely contrasting.

I can spend a whole day on an css and at the end of the day it looks worse

4:25 PM

I finally got around to asking that MVC question.

@rene or, you know, just leave it like that d:

4:53 PM

"Stop user opening links in a new tab"... just no

Bart

@Braiam I'd simply format their harddrives

@Braiam the whole thread gets even worse

user163250

@rene gracias

@JasonC viva la Internet!

@jadarnel27 well, i gave it the old college try.

5:09 PM

@JasonC Thanks =) Turns out, I'm just an idiot.

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@jadarnel27 whoa! "Sorry my random links didn't help. You're probably just an idiot." was totally going to be my next, polite, constructive response!

The HTML was exactly how I expected it to be from the beginning. My issues stemmed from 1. it not being valid HTML (form tag between table and tr tags), and 2. the Chrome inspector trying to fix my busted markup by immediately closing the form in the inspector view (going to "View Page Source" reveals the markup I expected).

I didn't realize the Chrome Dev Tools would lie to me. My world is shaken.

@JasonC Haha, that would have been totally appropriate =P

That is probably copied from the IE Dev Tools

@jadarnel27 Huh; that's actually kind of disconcerting

I guess it just wants its fancy little tree thing to work.

@JasonC Me writing bad markup, or the Chrome dev tools thing?

Ah. =)