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Frank

12:00 AM

@SmokeDetector ot for being statistical analysis?

hichris123

ahahaha np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/…

user259867

@AnnaLear Jeff Atwood was great, but Anna Lear fixes bugs backwards and in high heels...

user259867

@Frank OT for being a homework dump. We don't like those at Math. For some value of "we".

user259867

12:15 AM

And although I approved your suggested edit, there's a good chance you'll lose that +2 when the question gets the axe.

hichris123

@Frank Last seen 6 days ago. stackexchange.com/users/3572172/infinite-recursion?tab=accounts

AstroCB

Are you kidding me?

How is this a legit audit?

stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/5936154

Braiam

@hichris123 explain to me how that ^ got so many upvotes and 0 downvotes, specially when the first comment is "put your code"?

AstroCB

^ I just got banned for that also, which makes me question the audit system again; why exactly is it that I get banned for failing two audits within a month when I've passed at least 25 or so in between?

Braiam

@AstroCB meta Q to the rescue!

AFAICK, it should be an average of failed vs passed

AstroCB

12:27 AM

@Braiam I don't like complaining about audits on Meta; it seems unnecessary.

Braiam

@AstroCB not about the audit itself, but that you got banned with a ~20/2 audits passed/failed

it shouldn't work like that, I read it somewhere... maybe Shog did...

broke something

AstroCB

@Braiam It always seems to work like that...

hichris123

@Braiam Because Google. People have the same problem, then upvote...

Frank

@CareBear Don't care about the +2, was just editing because of the all caps, and weird formattig caused by $ signs.

@CareBear Don't you guys have a bad homework question c-v reason?

Nice fact about Gardening and Landscaping: We have only once gotten a homework question.

What does a deleted question look like to those who don't have the rep to view it?

hichris123

@Frank 404.

Frank

12:42 AM

@hichris123 Ah.

Braiam

@hichris123 Blow up Google. Arrest the People. Ignore the problem!

AstroCB

Any mods want to unban me?

user259867

@Frank We do and it has been applied to this one.

Anna Lear

1:02 AM

@CareBear Oh hell no. Haven't worn heels in years and don't plan to start. ;)

Frank

@CareBear Ah. It doesn't specifically mention homework, which is cool - less like some other sites... The same thing every time gets boring.

user259867

1:19 AM

Another nice fact about Gardening: the most participating user is...

Frank

vlq gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/14307/…

user259867

Hm. Does not qualify as spam, and since you probably already voted / flagged vlq, one needs 3000rep on GL to do anything about it.

Frank

naa gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/5175/…

@CareBear You can flag it too, unless you have less than 15 rep :)

user259867

I could, but multiple flags are no better than one, unless they are spam/offensive.

Frank

That's the second stupid question that user has posted on GL today, and he has rep on arqade.

@CareBear I posted those links so they will get picked up by Zephyr in the Low Quality Posts HQ. Sometimes a dev finds it and gets it before the gardening mods do (they're a little slow at times)

@CareBear You will eventually get a silver badge :)

hichris123

1:29 AM

@CareBear math.stackexchange.com/questions/961629/…

bjb568

… I think it's fart. — bjb568 8 secs ago

user259867

Yes, noted and voted. Thanks. It's off the front page already (-6).

Frank

@hichris123 Same guy as the dumb GL question poster.

hichris123

flag-plz homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/13019/…

ɥʇǝS

cls-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240632/c-homework-question

bjb568

1:38 AM

silvrfück, New York

1.2k 3 17

Is this ok?

ɥʇǝS

I'd rather not have to read it every time I see one of their contributions.

Frank

@ɥʇǝS cv-plz will get picked up by Zephyr.

@bjb568 IMO, no.

ɥʇǝS

@Frank oh cool. Lets see.

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240632/c-homework-question

hm, yep. Niceee.

lostsock

2:02 AM

@bjb568 what's wrong with silver fork?

@AnnaLear Oh noes! I would not want to be a bug on that list! :<

Frank

@lostsock is here! Hide!

hides

lostsock

@Frank I am here and stinkier than ever

Frank

I ab holdig by dose id hidig.

bjb568

@lostsock Fork?

Frank

2:24 AM

Hmm, can't do fractions in chat.

hichris123

@Frank Well, if you have the mathjax chat extention & you use mathjax, you can.

user259867

Link to the MathJax-in-chat bookmarklet

Frank

@hichris123 I mean like '5½"' for 'five and one half inches' That's not MathJax.

hichris123

oh, using HTML, yeah, you can't do that.

Frank

@hichris123 I wonder why they don't want that.

AstroCB

2:30 AM

@Frank You can't do any HTML in here, if I'm <strong>not</strong> mistaken.

Frank

@AstroCB Yeah, and I wonder why not.

Seems like it would be useful.

user259867

But if you copy-paste it from somewhere where it renders... 5½

user259867

(somewhere being the preview of an answer on SE)

Frank

cv-pls dupe meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240621/…

Doorknob

2:57 AM

-3

Q: Da ya guuys know wut the deriviterve of burp is?

Da ya guuys know wut the deriviterve of burp is? You peps are relly cuul! Tank you guuy for all ya help.

google-plus

^ Flag as offensive / abusive please

Anna Lear

@Doorknob Handled.

Frank

@AnnaLear That user has posted two junk questions on GL today, as well as on some other sites.

Anna Lear

Yeah, he's on a network-wide suspension now.

Frank

@AnnaLear K, good to know.

@Anna I remember a couple of questions you posted on GL some time ago. :) You get more votes than average.

Anna Lear

@Frank And here I thought I asked decent questions... :)

bjb568

3:03 AM

Yay! Done with all my homework 2 hours late for the recommended 9 hours of sleep except for a research project which I project will take 10 hours…

AstroCB

@bjb568 Let me guess: you were given this research project a month ago.

Doorknob

> project which I project

That took a strangely long time for me to process.

Frank

@AnnaLear You did. I upvoted them long ago. :)

bjb568

@AstroCB Well… yeah.

But the teacher makes it really hard until you go to class like with 2 days left which explains everything and makes it easier (humanly possible).

I have my excuses.

:P

Frank

MUWAHAHAHA

bjb568

3:08 AM

My graded thesis statement was returned 2 days ago, I realized that I had no idea what to actually write about. 2 days to basically write the whole thing. Of course I need to do research too since my previous research has nowhere near enough info.

2 days = my weekend with DevDoodle bug fixing

Frank

3:23 AM

Silence will fall.

Andy

3:35 AM

cv-pls pob stackoverflow.com/questions/26228171/…

@Frank Pssh, we beat the silence

Frank

@Andy Woot!

Anyone here know Doctor who?

Andy

Yes

More so new who though. I don't know Classic Who as well

Frank

You think it's good?

@Andy The classic ones are worse than the first star wars. You aren'y missing much.

Andy

I'm on the fence about Capaldi still, but I think it's still because he's new. I'm always that way when the Doctor gets a new face.

I do like it in general though, yes

Frank

@Andy Capaldi is awesome!

Except he has really long teeth.

Andy

3:39 AM

He has gotten better through the season. I really liked him in the last two - Caretaker and the one on the moon

He's becoming more Doctor and less "Let's let Clara run the show"

Frank

You watched the Robin Hood one? That's my favorite so far this season.

Anna Lear

I have only seen the first couple episodes of Capaldi and he's alright... I've grown to really hate Smith.

But honestly, the real blame lies with Steven Moffat who needs to put whatever he's smoking down and bring back some real companions and none of this mystical IMPOSSIBLE stuff.

Frank

@AnnaLear Smith had issues, but he was mostly ok. His style was tiring after a bit.

Andy

@AnnaLear Smith was very bipolar in how he played it. It was tiring to keep up with him going from childish to serious and back again

Anna Lear

Steven Moffat era Doctor Who, the summary: elli-vanelli.tumblr.com/post/66910529542/…

Andy

3:41 AM

Ha!

Frank

@AnnaLear I like Moffat, he's also the brains behing Sherlock, which I love also.

Anna Lear

I love Sherlock, but I think he's turning DW into a real shitshow. And not in a fun way.

He's writing both shows the same in some ways, and it's now tiring. Also, he doesn't know first thing about writing interesting female characters (Clara! I hate such high hopes at the beginning.), and it's getting annoying how every companion now is mysterious and special and seriously where are these normal people that the Doctor happens to?

Jenny and Lady Vastra are great... but their relationship is portrayed in a fabulously straight white male kind of fashion and again... tiring. #strongfeelings :)

@AnnaLear DW?

@Frank Doctor Who

@AnnaLear Oh, duh

3:44 AM

@AnnaLear As much as I hear people say she was horrible, Martha Jones was just "normal", and I liked that

Donna Nobel was normal until the end too.

I liked both of those two

Anna Lear

@Andy She's not my favorite either (Donna holds that spot), but yeah. Exactly.

Frank

I like Clara.

Andy

I liked Donna too.

Anna Lear

The great thing about Doctor Who is that it's a show about elevating normal people to great heights, showing that everyone is important, and the good triumphs (sort of. eventually. often at great cost). We're losing that and that's sad.

Frank

@AnnaLear It's like real life when you live it properly.

Anna Lear

3:46 AM

Having said that... I need to catch up on Capaldi. :) I was so disappointed by the last series that I kind of stopped keeping up.

Andy

@Frank Clara is a plot device, unfortunately. She's the impossible girl. I'd hoped that she'd graduated from that with Capaldi but she's had one impossible moment already. While it was interesting, it was just plot.

Frank

I think Capaldi has potential. Right now, my favorite is still David Tennant.

Anna Lear

@Andy Yeah, she seems to have little function beyond exposition and playing deus ex machina. I had such hopes for her at the beginning, but she was never allowed to develop into anything but that.

@Frank +1. Although Eccleston is often underrated.

Nine was the sassiest (new) Doctor.

Andy

@AnnaLear I liked him

Frank

@Andy Well, you have to allow for some... You can always criticize anything into oblivion if you think too much.

Eccleston Was good because he was much less arrogant and self centered than other doctors have tended to be, but he stopped before he fully got into the role.

Anna Lear

3:52 AM

I don't know what happened between Eccleston and the show runners, but he's been weirdly disparaging of the show since he left. Some bad blood, must be.

Frank

@AnnaLear Didn't know that, I haven't been keeping up with him.

Anna Lear

I haven't either that much, but every time there's an interview or a chance to come back for a cameo, he's evasive as hell.

Frank

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/26228171/…

Andy

@AnnaLear He says he'll appear in the 100 year anniversary special. So, just 49 years to go

Anna Lear

Sweet. Here's hoping Moffat isn't writing that one, too. ;)

Frank

3:56 AM

status-closed

Andy

My fingers are crossed that he's not

Frank

#moffathaters

Anna Lear

#MoffatBelongsInSherlock

#BringBackRTD

;)

Frank

gtg, cya!

Andy

@AnnaLear Seconded

Anna Lear

3:59 AM

@Frank later

Frank

Matt Jones wrote the impossible planet and the satan pit, both of which I really liked, but cy'all later

Anna Lear

@Frank Those were good.

Andy

Ninth Doctor

The Ninth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Christopher Eccleston during the first series of the show's revival in 2005. Within the programme's narrative, the Doctor is a time travelling, humanoid alien from a race known as the Time Lords. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body but in doing so gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality. The production team's approach to the character and Eccleston's portrayal were highlighted as being i...

Hm, that didn't link to the right area

In the Casting section it mentions part of why he left

(Last paragraph of that section)

Anna Lear

Yeah.

I'm a bit conflicted about that. Not judging or anything, but... as a fan, I wish he'd put his differences aside for the 50th anniversary special to avoid doing a different casting.

I respect artistic integrity, but I also feel that if you take on something like the role of the Doctor, you also accept certain ... concessions that you're likely going to have to make for the sake of the franchise.

Andy

And it would have only been one episode more

I'm going to call it a night too.

Anna Lear

4:11 AM

See ya.

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