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4:03 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started (@Undo)

Undo

Maybe it'll work now. Maybe.

Unihedron

hia @SmokeDetector

DroidDev

enable desktop notification > click settings on pop-up > change position to upper right corner

now, everytime you get a notification, pop-up will slide from lower right corner to upper right corner

I am on linux 13.04

Santa Claus

@SmokeDetector HI THERE

iStimple

@SmokeDetector why does your icon take so long to load?

rene

4:07 PM

@Braiam Thanks, I selected softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/7087/927

hi!

:O IT SPOKE

>.>

@SmokeDetector that is not what we expect

Unihedron

A speech to last; a speech to prosper; Tell us the word of wisdom, a word of truth!

SmokeDetector

4:08 PM

[ Wisdom ] Shog is always watching you

9

Braiam

@rene there you go :)

Unihedron

I'm enlightened

Braiam

another happy client

Unihedron

I'll walk away slowly...

SmokeDetector

[ Greed ] I demand a cookie

iStimple

4:10 PM

4

SmokeDetector

Hi from a command line

rene

It is confirmed. The SmokeDetector is sock of Shog9, as is Bart, rene, iStimple, Braiam, Unihedron, DroidDev, Shadow Wizard, Undo, Jan Dvorak, Jamal, Santa Claus...etc etc etc

Undo

wonders who Undo Jan Dvorak is

rene

fixed

Bart

Don't deny your lovechild @Undo

Unihedron

4:12 PM

Theory: The Internet is essentially me, you, and the guy who spams a lot.

Andy

@Undo No, he was saying that he's going to undo Jan Dvorak. Poor Jan.

Unihedron

It's all fake!!!one!

rene

@Braiam SR is not all crap...

Undo

@rene Is that a... compliment?

rene

@Undo Yes!

Undo

4:14 PM

yay!

Braiam

@Undo if it's you should send flowers... the man eater kind ;)

DroidDev

@rene wait.... but....

@Braiam wowz

o/

\o

4:15 PM

\o

\o

I BREAK TEH CHAIN!

I BREAK TEH UNDO!

I BREAK TEH UNDO!

ow

4:16 PM

ow

rene

wo

Unihedron

wo

gravity madness

SmokeDetector

4:28 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SUPER ASCII STRING CONVRTOR on stackoverflow.com

Jamal

@SmokeDetector gimmetehcodez

TGMCians

close vote ^^

Unihedron

Hi @SantaBot

Jamal

And it was just posted on CR. Nuked on sight.

Unihedron

lol

CR mod hurai

Jamal

4:31 PM

I'm gonna need some popcorn for this.

Braiam

@Jamal s/site/sight/ ?

Unihedron

Anyone want to try for a reversal badge?

Bart

Meta or non-meta @Unihedron. On meta they are too easy.

Jamal

Does it require work?

Santa Claus

@Unihedron I have no idea what you are talking about. (winks)

rene

4:33 PM

Is this fishy?

duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/25283952/super-ascii-string-checker and stackoverflow.com/questions/25288549/super-ascii-checker and on google a lot more hits... — rene 1 min ago

All by different accounts...same question

Bart

@rene I guess a new school year has started ...

Is it September already?

rene

Nearly...

And besides elves Santa has a bot now: stackoverflow.com/users/3938285/santabot?tab=activity

TGMCians

does anyone know here good website for web templates ? sorry for off-topic question..please don't vote here :)

rene

2 hours ago, by Braiam

@rene Software Recommendations

:)

For a particular cms?

TGMCians

yes

rene

4:43 PM

Or just anything goes?

TGMCians

anything you can suggest

Braiam

@TGMCians if you want a specific template with characteristics you can ask in SoftRecs, as it stand I wouldn't ask your question

rene

@TGMCians cssdsgn.com

TGMCians

Braiam : ok I don't want to ask such question there .... anyway thanks :)

Braiam

36 Lines of code per method is high?

TGMCians

4:46 PM

@rene seems good. thanks rene :)

rene

@Braiam if it doesn fit on the screen it is too big

@TGMCians cssheaven.com/category/css-designs

Braiam

4:58 PM

@rene we saw how those measures don't actually help :(

bjb568

@Braiam It's fine.

user163250

I ran out of flags on posts plagiarizing other content.

user163250

Do you guys want to help me flag about 25 more plagiarized answers?

user163250

Here's the list so far: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/217313/…

user163250

I've flagged the following posts so far:

user163250

5:09 PM

1. Posts 1-23.

bjb568

You should include post scores and dates in the query.

user163250

2. Posts 27, 37, 40.

bjb568

And content length.

user163250

@bjb568 why would it matter?

bjb568

@Cupcake Because.

user163250

5:12 PM

@bjb568 um, don't start going through this guy's profile to start downvoting and closing stuff.

bjb568

@Cupcake Which guy?

user163250

Just flag the posts that I haven't flagged yet.

user163250

@bjb568 nm.

bjb568

Yes, I know.

But GTG now, you can get somebody else to flag.

user163250

K, laters.

user163250

5:15 PM

Can someone flag this for plagiarism please, this is one of the worst ones: stackoverflow.com/a/20673582/456814

user163250

Original: stackoverflow.com/a/15074016/456814

user163250

I actually caught one plagiarizer plagiarizing off of another plagiarizer.

user163250

Actually, I just found about 17 answers that all plagiarize off of this one, either fully or partially: stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

That's just really sad.

user163250

I need more flags :P

BoltClock's a Unicorn

5:23 PM

@Cupcake I ran into exactly that a few months back. It was quite surreal

You have people competing for rep. And then you have people competing for stolen content...

user163250

@BoltClock'saUnicorn oh, hey, while you're here, I misflagged something, do you have time to take a look?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@Cupcake uhhhh hang on

@Cupcake Which one?

user163250

I flagged this saying that Bill deleted the wrong answer, but they're actually both plagiarized stackoverflow.com/a/20746291/456814

user163250

This is the original: stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@Cupcake :)

user163250

5:28 PM

Shoot, I was just about to start flagging more stuff, but I'm actually out of flags for the day :P

user163250

@BoltClock'saUnicorn thanks for taking care of that.

Braiam

@Cupcake you wasted 100 flags?

user163250

@Braiam no, not wasted.

user163250

I used them for great prosperity!

user163250

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/4467857/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

5:38 PM

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/6247873/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/7339567/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/7925639/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

Jan Dvorak

WAT? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238044/…

user163250

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/11360876/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/13024668/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

5:43 PM

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/14679481/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

user163250

plagiarism stackoverflow.com/a/15780207/456814, original stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/456814

Braiam

5:55 PM

> Free Download!! click the “Buy” button

DAFUQ?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

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Q: Convert CSV in Codeigniter on Mozilla Firefork

I have tried some code to make html covert to .xls (Excel). header("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.xls"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); It works fine on Chrome, but i got problem on Mozilla firefox, when i do...

Jan Dvorak

6:10 PM

Mozilla Firefork. TIL about a new browser

rene

I got 5 upvotes on this answer while the question is only viewed 40 times. Do I need to be prepared for the votes being reversed due to some voting ring activity?

Jan Dvorak

no.

You never have to be prepared for a reversal

rene

It is weird though. I only get an upvote now and then on some answers but these seem to come in in a much higher rate

Jan Dvorak

reddit?

Braiam

@rene checks the question tags the c# guys tend to upvote more often than others users

rene

6:19 PM

Oh, is that true?

Didn't notice that before

Braiam

stackoverflow.com/posts/25122799/timeline

rene

@Braiam I can find answers from me that are better researched but didn't receive so many upvotes in a couple of days... but I'll stop worry-ing

:)

I assume this is too broad: stackoverflow.com/questions/25244567/…

has a bounty on it though...

Braiam

6:38 PM

@rene don't worry, my two most upvoted answers (+100) are a 4 lines long answer and one copy-n-paste from somewhere with instructions about doing something

bjb568

seriously dafuq. — Won't 3 mins ago

bluefeet

@rene fixed

rene

@bluefeet tnx

Braiam

> First of all, those tags are often misapplied, and by often I mean almost always

heh

bjb568

cv stackoverflow.com/q/25293750/2371861

TGMCians

6:47 PM

done

bjb568

robo-editor stackoverflow.com/users/415864/landroni?tab=reputation

Braiam

@bjb568 adding "robust" wut?

bjb568

in Please don't approve minor or invalid edits on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by bjb568

This user has been suggesting minor edits. 1 2 3. Please do not approve them.

Sending invites… the rate limit is annoying.

-1 for circumventing the requirement for code with jsfiddles. — bjb568 17 secs ago

^ cv

TGMCians

mod there!

Jan Dvorak

someone's trying to fix it

bjb568

7:17 PM

Please don't approve minor or invalid…

It's a party!

I invited like 20 robos.

iStimple

@bjb568 oh wow, glad i declined your invitation then :p

bjb568

@iStimple You were a robo.

So stahp!

rene

As always I didn't get an invite

iStimple

thinking about flagging bjb's room as hate speech

2

bjb568

@rene You are a good reviewer.

rene

7:22 PM

Why do all the bad guys get the attention then?

11

Q: flagging a chatroom which has no technical discussion (2)

Since my comment yesterday to an answer by Jeff to the question with the very same title seems to have gone unnoticed, I feel the need to post this officially. According to Jeff's answer, that room was closed because "there appears to be zero programming discussion in it." Note that the room's ...

support chat

Jamal

flirting? wow — Pëkka Jul 10 '12 at 11:58

bjb568

LPT: Side A is across from angle a. Side B is across from angle b. Etc.

SmokeDetector

7:45 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WHAT TO PURSUE? on meta.stackexchange.com

user163250

cv-plz duplicate stackoverflow.com/q/20696801/456814

user163250

So that one user who copied 40 answers...turns out he copied way more than that.

user163250

The other ones just weren't exact matches, which is why my query didn't pick them up.

bjb568

Wow.

rene

8:00 PM

This means some people take FIP very serious, so serious they become a fraudster?

iStimple

are SE users pro or anti turtles?

rene

ninja?

iStimple

no, just regular

Braiam

are turtles pro or anti unicorns?

rene

@iStimple I guess anti...where can I collect my prize?

iStimple

8:05 PM

@Braiam c'mon, trying to get answer to a serious question here

Braiam

@iStimple who told you I'm not serious here?

The Tavern is always* serious

5

rene

@BradLarson did you only reject this single edit or did you leave a message for the editor to improve?

iStimple

Turtles were like the cool / favorite thing among people back in the day it seemed. All the girls drew turtles, talked about turtles, etc , even guys did. But now a days, it seems like the cats and kittens have taken all the spotlight away from turtles.

bjb568

Turtles are meh.

stackoverflow.com/a/25146066/2371861 Not deleted. Flagged as "Should be a close as dup flag. Information in the answer is already provided in the link, so this answer is useless. – bjb568 17 hours ago helpful" …

bjb568

8:27 PM

Stack Overflow is not a code writing service. Write your code yourself. If you encounter a problem that you can't solve while writing it, you may ask a question. — bjb568 just now

user163250

@bjb568 too rude.

user163250

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

2

user163250

Just downvote and move on.

bjb568

What? Crap users should be driven away or drastically improve themselves.

###Question not enough info
Please include a minimal example that reproduces the problem, a clear problem statement, and any error messages or other information to help identify the problem. Without this information, it is hard to answer the question.

###Question info external
Please include all relevant information *in the question*. While outside resources can help answerers find the problem, please include as much information in the question itself because links can change and break.

###Debug question

^ There's my autos.

Undo

@bjb568 We aren't in the business of driving away users. That's called being mean.

Where we can be nice and educate, we absolutely should

bjb568

8:41 PM

@Undo What do you think downvoting and closing is for? Q-ban, primarily.

Undo

Uh no.

bjb568

@Undo If educating would make a difference. But if it's crap, I'm not going to bother.

Undo

Downvoting is to say this isn't high-quality. Close voting is to say that we don't accept this here.

Heck, most sites don't even have QBans enabled!

bjb568

I'm talking about downvoting and closing crap questions on SO.

AstroCB

The answer to so many questions:

Why don't you try it and see what happens? it'd probably take LESS time to whip up a test case and run it through your browser than it did for you to type this up and wait for an answer. — Marc B 1 min ago

cv-plz-dup stackoverflow.com/questions/25295721/…

original stackoverflow.com/questions/4505093/…

bjb568

8:51 PM

^ Ughughugh

AstroCB

@bjb568 Someone's after you.

Braiam

@bjb568 there you go, what you get for not being nice to the poor users :P

AstroCB

@bjb568 It's probably one of the people you "invited" to the robo chatroom.

bjb568

It's from yesterday…

AstroCB

9:54 PM

Is NAA a viable reason for delete votes?

Or can only mods handle that?

Shog9

what are you asking?

not-answers often attract delete votes

AstroCB

If an answer is an answer, but not necessarily to that question, would people vote to delete it?

The answer is "Here is an example (reduced for brevity) of what I have done in the past when animating background colour on hover.. hopefully you can try the same approach when animating colour instead." + code. It does not attempt to actually answer the question, but rather provides a code snippet that the author often uses for similar (used lightly) cases.

Shog9

@AstroCB sounds like the intention is to provide an answer to the question, albeit not in a form directly usable.

AstroCB

"Why isn't this code that animates text color working?" - "Well, I'm not sure, but here's some code that I use for animating background color."

Shog9

Contrast that with "Q: how do I animate color? A: here's how you convert an integer to an NSString"

@AstroCB assuming this is CSS, the difference is trivial

AstroCB

9:59 PM

JavaScript

Shog9

whatever

AstroCB

It would be, but his code takes an entirely different approach rather than solving his problem.

Shog9

@AstroCB if that's the code in your comment's revision history, then the change involves modifying "backgroundColor" to be "color"

AstroCB

@Shog9 Then why didn't the answerer do that?

Shog9

@AstroCB beats me. Does it matter? Is this the only answer on the question or something? There are tons of questions about text color animation on SO already...

AstroCB

10:11 PM

Nope.

Just wondering.

AstroCB

10:24 PM