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18:00

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PHP/MYSQL SHOW USERNAME by Shizzzzzzzz on pt.stackoverflow.com

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@TGMCians: I used to be the #1 active participant on MSO, but not any longer. The daily dose of posts about declined naa flags bore me. The same names discuss the same things over n over again. My opinion remains unchanged by those chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89?m=2679450#2679450

now I like MSE :)

Jason C

I just noticed that the left most tab on the top questions page of all the sites says "active", except on SO, where it says "interesting". Why is that? (Just out of curiosity)

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Jan Dvorak should get a special yearling hat for wearing last year's winterbash hat for a year

Jan Dvorak

yay!

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If Jan Dvorak changes his hat this year, I won't be able to recognize his avatar. The winterbash owl hat has become synonymous with him.

user259867

18:06

@JasonC You don't get out much, SE-wise? Stack Overflow Homepage Changes

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Thanks! Not in 2010 I didn't.

jadarnel27

@JasonC Ha, I have seen that one! It's a good one =)

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How many posts have you read on SE @Rafflesiaarnoldii? You are like an encylopedia of all SE posts.

user259867

AFAIK, other sites did not ask for this tab to be added, except for Math, and it was declined there.

user259867

More than I should, obviously.

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Infinite Recursion

18:08

Yes, obviously :)

Jason C

^

user259867

> [2010] Quite the sea of red unanswered questions, which seems to meet our goal of giving questions which haven’t yet gotten a good answer, more time on the homepage to get one.

user259867

> [2014] Our current homepage algorithm was actively highlighting unanswered questions. We did this on purpose, but that was a long time ago. The effect of that system is that unanswerable questions stay on the homepage, because the average and good ones get answered almost immediately. So it makes Stack Overflow look like a site full of bad, unanswered questions.

Infinite Recursion

No wonder, your profile page is full of Shog quotes and an Anna Lear quote. Nice collection of quotes.

Bart

@jadarnel27 we need your support: feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/…

Jason C

18:17

To add to what you are saying about this situation being a serious emergency studies have been done on private pilots in IMC. A pilot with no IFR training in IMC conditions survives less than 3 minutes on average. — usernumber 2 days ago

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no yellow :(

Jason C

^ :O That's terrifying. I wonder where the source for that study is.

Bart

@InfiniteRecursion docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Color-yellow.html

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> Yellow. RGBA is (1, 0.92, 0.016, 1), but the color is nice to look at!

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Jason C

Lol.

Infinite Recursion

18:21

Seriously, who wrote that documentation? :/

jadarnel27

@Bart Amazing. I think I will sign up just to vote on that.

Jason C

18:34

I just got a weird chat hiccup, was that just me?

nicael

19:01

Jon Skeet's uncapped rep :)

user259867

19:13

@nicael The query mentions meta, so I tried running it on meta.SO, too.

user259867

> Warning: Null value is eliminated by an aggregate or other SET operation.
(1 row(s) affected)

user259867

Any idea why?

Lynn Crumbling

@nicael That query doesn't take into account ~~questions~~ answers that Jon has downvoted on. (-1 for each that has not been deleted)

Vogel612's Shadow

@LynnCrumbling WHEN VoteTypeId = 3 THEN -2 -- Downvote.

aren't question downvotes free?

user259867

That's the downvotes he received, not gave.

Vogel612's Shadow

19:16

ohh nvm,,...

Lynn Crumbling

@Vogel612'sShadow That's answers of his that have been downvoted.

Vogel612's Shadow

yea I just realized..

well that's since voting is confidential ;)

Lynn Crumbling

@Vogel612'sShadow and yeah, I revised that from q's to a's -- sorry; my fault.

@Vogel612'sShadow Right, I doubt you'd be able to see that result from SEDE.

Vogel612's Shadow

... It's really late as ... here, better get going..

::poof::

Lynn Crumbling

waves

@nicael The query also doesn't take into account bounties that the user paid out...

It's reporting me as 5302; that's my current rep plus every bounty I've offered.

nicael

19:24

@Raffl @Lyn maybe something wrong, but its not mine and I understand nothing in sql :D there are another versions also...

Jason C

@LynnCrumbling You could subtract downvotes directly to get a lower bound, he's cast 2907 downvotes total on questions and answers, so at most he's lost 2907 rep there (if all were cast on non-deleted answers).

Lynn Crumbling

@JasonC Yep, that works. Is there a way to query bounties?

Jason C

@LynnCrumbling Not that I know of but similar idea; he's offered 100 bounty points total, ever.

Lynn Crumbling

Yeah, so worse case, the uncapped is ~3k off.

Which is... what... 4 magnitudes lower than total uncapped.

Jason C

Given a user's (possibly not unique) display name and a site, what's the quickest path to get to that user's profile on that site?

user259867

19:37

Search site/users for that name.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PHP/MYSQL SHOW USERNAME by Shizzzzzzzz on pt.stackoverflow.com

bjb568

@JasonC Happens to me sometimes.

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Ah, thanks. I kept skipping past the "Users" button, duh.

I need to hunt down these other Jason C's. Unacceptable.

user259867

Or you could rename yourself as The Real Jason C.

Lynn Crumbling

20:03

Would the Real Jason C. please stand up?

Jason C

> Something unexpected went wrong while running your query. Don't worry, blame is already being assigned.

:(

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/249352/… There are 3828 Alex's.

Also, for user names shared by 50 or more users, Quentin's have the highest average rep at ~6400, and a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75ae (?) has the lowest at 4.

Which begs the question, why are there 125 users with the display name a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75ae...? o.O

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Andy

Good question. Google is unhelpful. Almost all of the results point back to SE user profiles. Those that aren't are user profile on various technology forums.

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Q: Linking / creating account on other sites adds 2 "recent names" to your profile?

I was browsing around some of the other Stack Exchange sites I use and noticed that most of the ones I recently joined have two names listed under the recent names on my profile: a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75ae Anonymous Why would these be added? It's currently showing these two addition...

gunr2171

20:21

> // some random string so obnoxious people will complain about it

user259867

"so obnoxious, people will complain about it" vs "so, obnoxious people will complain about it"

gunr2171

that is a good point, the comma placement really changes the meaning

Jason C

@Andy Just found that as well while I was typing a question about it on meta. That's kinda funny.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Or "so, obnoxious people, will, complain about it"

Commanding all obnoxious people and Will to complain about it.

gunr2171

so, obnoxious, people, will, complain, about, it,

Jason C

// Here is the dummy user name as well as a list of 7 words I like. ^

jadarnel27

20:42

Everyone panic!

Jason C

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jadarnel27

Well done.

Jason C

I'm sitting here on my couch staring at that and cracking up, lol.

Sam

LOL

hichris123

... I open this tab and absolutely nothing productive seems to have happened since I last opened it. ;)

At least from the past 5 messages.

Jason C

20:55

feature-request New mse 404 page graphic please ^

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hichris123

@JasonC Closed as a duplicate of:

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Q: Error page image is dull

I see the waffles etc. didn't survive the migration. The current image is the default for beta sites. Is there a better image in the works to replace the somewhat bland '404' and 'oops'?

feature-request design error-message

user259867

Why we don't have a comments:n search parameter? I wanted to search for questions with no answers OR comments...

Pops

21:28

@JasonC Best idea to come out of the Tavern in insert time period, here.

Jason C

@hichris123 ^ And you said nothing productive happened. Ha!

Jason C

21:59

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I guess you could do a sede query for it, not as convenient though

Pops

@TimStone you around?

Tim Stone

Aye

Jason C

Is there a way to make the little "ms" timer thing on sede go away? On narrower screens it gets in the way of the query editor.

Tim Stone

The miniprofiler? No, but I've considered making a change to how it profiles that operation.

Jan Dvorak

A userscript should be able to do the trick

Tim Stone

22:07

I never really considered it overlapping the editor though, so I'll make a note of that

Jason C

Oh. Oh wait! I just learned how to write user scripts.

@JanDvorak Hell yeah! I feel so empowered!

Jan Dvorak

@JasonC next goal: make MSO look decent

Jason C

@JanDvorak Lol aww; I like the new one! But that comment action script has been working wonders.

Which reminds me, I should go familiarize myself with forEach.

Tim Stone

I see how it is, @Pops summoning me and then leaving me hanging. For shame!

Pops

@TimStone I pinged you elsewhere; did you not get it?

Tim Stone

22:13

Hmm seems not?

Pops

I mean, obviously not, because you posted that other message about you being left hanging.

That was a stupid question.

I, uh, just wanted to prove that there was such a thing.

Tim Stone

lol

Pops

Nothing in your notifications inbox?

Tim Stone

Nope

Braiam

@Pops it takes at least 15 mins for a unread message in chat reach the global inbox

Tim Stone

22:15

I assume he superpinged me, in which case it'd come right away I think

Frank

This is going well.

Tim Stone

But I must not have access to see the message or something?

Pops

Yep.

Jason C

@JanDvorak for-of vs forEach... is it just a style preference? It looks like for-of was introduced later, is it a compatibility choice maybe?

Pops

I'll just e-mail you.

Tim Stone

22:15

Okay!

Jan Dvorak

@JasonC I've never used for-of

forEach is ES5, for-of is ES6

Jason C

22:32

learns that HTMLCollections don't have forEach :(

It was so slick looking too.

Jan Dvorak

[].forEach.call(coll, func)

Jason C

Yeah, I saw that, but at that point I kind of like the way a plain loop looks.

There would have been something semantically nice looking about e.g. document.querySelectorAll('.comment-actions').forEach(modifyCommentAction);

hichris123

22:51

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 59.7094: Need some tips as to how to solve this problem :) on physics.stackexchange.com

user259867

Interesting: activity tab of user network profile shows comments on deleted posts. Caching?

user259867

hichris123

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Lemme guess: Shog's profile?

user259867

Too easy.

hichris123

Yup. Especially the y'all gives it away.

user259867

22:58

The video link isn't clickable in the image, so...

user259867

►

Lynn Crumbling

@hichris123 What site was he referring to?

Oh. ServerFault.

Jason C

Lol, jeez. I wonder what that original conversation was.

Actually, no, I don't.

user259867

Oh, I see: these are moderator nominations, this is why there is no link.

user259867

> A vote for me is a vote to put my cruelty and viciousness to work for the site, against the horde of stupidity that threatens it.

hichris123

23:03

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Oh, it's that guy...

Jason C

Lol

hichris123

> Wow, you're all crazy. I for one do not endorse Hopelessnoob as a mod for reasons that @Shog9 has mentioned. I put this nomination in the same bucket as Evan Carrols'.

Jason C

I know nothing of the people at SF but just judging by the tone of the comments in that conversation alone it looks like shog might have got that one right, at least for the people in that convo. Those comments are crazy defensive...

hichris123

@JasonC superuser.com/election/3#post-744362

Jason C

Lol

It's like that guy watched a bad movie about a politician or something and decided to try it out.

He needs to finish all his posts with "KILL WHITEY!"

user202362

23:16

I can't zoom in on the chat on my iPhone, can I?

Andy

> I have contributed to most (or, at least some) of the corporately owned StackExchange sites

I am so glad he hasn't found some sites

Jason C

I actually really like his higher voted answers on SF.

Frank

In the moderators tab when looking at users, how does the system sort them into the order they are listed?

user259867

Alphabetically by display name.

Jason C

It's alphabetical.

Displayed in rows, reading order. Read across, not down.

Frank

23:29

Thanks - If I become a mod, I should change my name to AAAAHHHG!

I'll be at the top.

Jason C

We've got 0x7fffffff on SO.

Just change your name to !

Frank

How would it sort names with no letters in them?

Vogel612's Shadow

What do you mean? No letters?

user259867

By ASCII codes or some such thing (I don't know how it handles Unicode).

user259867

There is a network-wide alphabetical list of mods, 0x7fffffff leads it too.

bjb568

23:35

I have decided the most evil number is 83.

user259867

That's a B, not so evil.

bjb568

^ wierd

@Rafflesiaarnoldii A B?

user259867

Yes. On a typical grading scale, 80-82 is B-, 83-87 is B. I mean college, don't know about K-12.

bjb568

Oh.

Well, 83 is a number I can only get by failing my good classes. I always tend to not get 83 on doing good in my bad classes.

hichris123

@bjb568 s/wierd/weird

bjb568

23:39

weieieieieieierd

Jason C

B is for bacon

user259867

^ bjb getting less than 83 in English

hichris123

probably.

Jason C

Just remember: i before e except after c, in weird, and in a random set of words.

bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I got an 83 average actually last quarter.

… not this quarter

Last quarter we didn't really do much of anything.

Jason C

23:43

Huh

bjb568

ceird wierd

birdz

Jason C

Exactly

wierd to the bierd

hichris123

@bjb568 Let me guess: you misspelled through too much? (thru?)

bjb568

@hichris123 Actually, so far there hasn't been a complaint.

Jason C

Why was 192.168.l.l in my browser history...

hichris123

23:45

@bjb568 I complained.

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@JasonC You mistyped 192.168.1.1?

bjb568

1o1

Jason C

@hichris123 Not my style of typo

Lol, it's very mysterious

bjb568

Hm… an email bounced thru to my inbox (using dropbox mailbox) about koding hackathon…

user259867

Is anyone bothered by the fact that the username links on SO so clearly show whose profile you visited?

bjb568

Me.

user259867

23:51

This is not the behavior of other sites I frequent: the color difference there is hardly noticeable.

user259867

The current mSO design takes it to the next level.

hichris123

@bjb568 It looks pretty cool. I applied a little while ago.

bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii And DD makes no distinction at all.

user259867

Way to go, DD!

bjb568

Yay! I do CSSes!

user259867

23:54

I hate when I read something like '... tension among the BASE jumpers nearly led to wingsuit combat ...', and I get excited because 'wingsuit combat' is underlined, only to find that it's just separate links to the 'wingsuit' and 'combat' articles.

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bjb568

Not… going… to… click… on… last… link…

Koding sign-in is stupid. I have have to disable popup blocking for it to do its githubbing.

So for Markdown-HTML, I have support for lists with any kind of word character. Like a., B., III., 4), - AA… The problem is Anyway. (ordered list)is also matched… What should I allow?

user259867

First step is to propose markdown.stackexchange site

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