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12:00 AM

@JasonC Best I could get for 3k.

user259867

@animuson It seems that "too localized" was a reaction of some people to OP's behavior (which included blanking out the question twice). I don't see anything majorly wrong with it in the current form. It could be reopened as is. The OP was last seen in 2010, so his behavior should not weigh down on the question now.

Jason C

@Frank Lol I'm just being a dick, I didn't mean to like, actually make you feel bad...

I didn't even look at the picture.

cVplZ

@Bart I like Jason. I just hate his animated gif attacks.

Jason C

@cVplZ Don't tempt me.

Frank

@JasonC uh... some internet person make me feel bad? You don't know me at all.

Jason C

12:02 AM

@Frank I'M TRYING TO BE NICE. LEAVE ME ALONE.

Also your truck is total crap.

cVplZ

@Frank damn, you could fit some nice tree trunks back there, I like your truck

Frank

Ha!

@cVplZ better before the edit...

Jason C

^

It had a bit of a "that's what she said" vibe before the edit.

Frank

@JasonC Thanks, but I think my truck is TOTALLY METAL! (as you sometimes put it) - not...

Jason C

OH WAIT!

That's right!

I forgot about that conversation.

Frank

12:06 AM

@JasonC Which may be for the better...

Jason C

GARDENÖR COMETH

Aw man then you can roll up in the truck and take your rake out of the back

But instead of raking leaves you can rake SOULS

Frank

@JasonC A scythe, more like. (is the grim reaper)

Jason C

GARDENÖR: LAWN OF THE DEAD

I just got kind of a funny image of the grim reaper working in a wheat field for half minimum wage.

Frank

@JasonC Haha! I feel sorry for the guy...

I'll go offer him some Dr. Pepper.

Oh wait... that's me!

Arrgh.

Jason C

I know, right. Boiling shoe leather for his kids dinner.

Frank

12:11 AM

finds another line of work

Jason C

You know what would be awesome

Frank

ya

Jason C

A killer truck, that craves the blood of deer running across the street

Like at night it goes out deer hunting

Frank

Exactly what I actually do would be awesome for me.

Jason C

Nobody can figure out why every morning there's some blood stains on the driveway and hints of fur around the grill.

OH MAN and like

Frank

12:14 AM

like this one?

Jason C

One night some random teenagers break into the truck and are making out

Oh sweet!

Haha actually this reminds me, hold on lemme dig it up...

Frank

@JasonC and I DON'T find them, right?

Jason C

@Frank Oh yeah sorry I got sidetracked. No the truck does its thing and they freak the fuck out and are never seen again.

Or like

Some bits of their clothes are found in the front grill in the morning

But anyways; digging up this comic, its kinda old school internet comics

web.archive.org/web/20080916082327/http://www.redmeat.com/…

@Frank ^ That may not be worth the hype but finding it was satisfying.

1999 webcomic style.

Frank

Ha!

That's kinda disturbing.

Jason C

12:31 AM

That whole series was kinda disturbing. They actually still make new ones but they're missing some of the magic.

Hobo Sapiens

Off-topic stackoverflow.com/q/25766922/1864610

Jason C

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/250470/… kinda fun. Tweak the score limits and raise the question weight to find some other good ones.

Doorknob

1:27 AM

Oh dear, there's two of us. — Mike Miller 19 hours ago

heh

bjb568

1:39 AM

@Doorknob TWSS?

bjb568

1:56 AM

32

A: The moderators have decided to have a little yuletide fun, join us will you?

TTTO: I Had a Little Dreidel I had a little question, But it was slightly flawed. And when the mean mods closed it, They said it was "Too Broad". [Chorus] Oh question question question They closed you, oh, so fast I thought I really liked this site But the liking didn't last I had a...

Jason C

@bjb568 These are great. meta.stackexchange.com/a/158625/230261 made me laugh out loud among the others for some reason.

Fail: meta.stackexchange.com/a/187136/230261

Jason C

2:53 AM

/me sees question titled "Creating a Program.", knows it will be a good one.

user259867

@JasonC For morbidly curious (and having 10K on SO) I can recommend the bottom of this list

Jason C

Oh man, good times.

Do soft deleted posts stick around indefinitely?

hichris123

3:14 AM

@JasonC yep

user259867

Yes, forever. It takes developer action to remove a post from the database. In the history of SE there may have been a couple of such actions: "programming on a boat" is the notorious example. But, such excision is more or less routine for revisions containing sensitive information (that is, PostHistory table gets modified, not Posts).

hichris123

^

Jason C

stackoverflow.com/questions/25659566/… + it's duplicate; epic

user259867

neither hichris nor me have 10K on SO, so...

Doorknob

keyboardfire.com/cgi-bin/se-del-post-view.cgi?id=1

^ something like that

Yeah, that's the right link. Logs into my account to view deleted posts on SO. :P

user259867

3:18 AM

Ooh, nice. Hopefully not too many people know about it, or SE might become unhappy.

user259867

Luckily, nobody from SE is ever in this room.

Andrew T.

I vaguely remember that "nobody cares" post before it's deleted

user259867

Heh, another round of meta.math drama

user259867

0

Q: User with multiple accounts abuse of votes

I believe the user Potato=Rafflesia Arnoldii and this is an abuse, since there total votes per day sometimes exceeds the maximum across the two accounts. Rafflesia arnoldii has 11000 downvotes, and Potato has 10600 upvotes. What you will find is, potato was extremely active on meta, up until the...

Andrew T.

3:33 AM

I remember you said that there was a troll(?) that created and used your previous usernames?

Infinite Recursion

@Rafflesiaarnoldii The one thing I like about MSO is the fact that no one encourages calling out users by name. I have seen this practice of calling out names on meta.ELU as well. If this was on MSO, I would have edited out the username mentioned in the post by now. They should raise a mod flag for investigation, if they suspect a user is abusing via multiple accounts. This is not good.

> the man-of-many names

user259867

@AndrewT. That's a harmless joke by someone who names new low-activity accounts after mine. Imitation is a form of flattery. This post is about a different thing.

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I wouldn't make an appearance there if I were you. Just flag it and move on. I've already flagged for comment cleanup, and separately for closure. The OP is pretty uh... I don't know what the word is.

user259867

Yeah, I wasn't going to participate there. This isn't the first (or even second) thread about me.

Jason C

Pretentious, maybe.

bjb568

3:48 AM

I don't understand why teachers assign huge amounts of work at the beginning of each quarter then almost nothing toward the end… My midterms always look like something stupid got slaughtered but my finals are respectable…

user259867

@bjb568 What's the topic du jour in calc?

Jason C

Lol, "like something stupid got slaughtered"?

Hilarious mental images ensue.

Infinite Recursion

> "The Internet Explorer team is excited to announce that web-development support is moving to Stack Overflow."

bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii What's a du jour?

Jason C

bjb568

3:51 AM

@InfiniteRecursion Wat

Infinite Recursion

@bjb568 social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/…

Andrew T.

@InfiniteRecursion OH NO.

bjb568

@InfiniteRecursion they stupid

n need slaughter

user259867

Will it be like facebook.SO without a subdomain?

bjb568

I suppose the IE section is already crap. Now the garbage from the MSDN forums is going to, uh... overflow on to SO, even more than it already has. No thanks. — Qix 7 mins ago

Infinite Recursion

3:54 AM

feature-request Please increase our cv-per-day limit to deal with this recent development

2

Feature request: Block questions and hell ban askers posting with the [internet-explorer] tag :P — bjb568 49 secs ago

bjb568

@InfiniteRecursion If it gets raised to at least 80, I'll make a bot to effectively lower the CV threshold to 4!

(jk)

Infinite Recursion

@bjb568 :D

Doorknob

Dear @jonathansampson: Please don't dump your garbage on us. Sincerely, a member of #stackoverflow. https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/8ba70824-dba2-4425-bc75-247c2c29bde1/ie-web-development-support-moving-to-stack-overflow?forum=iewebdevelopment

Tweeted by KeyboardFire on November 25, 2014 at 3:56 AM

4

Infinite Recursion

expects cv-queue to rapidly grow in the coming weeks

user259867

SO is too big. Navigation is slow. SEDE times out. Split all the things. ie.stackexchange.com

user259867

3:59 AM

@bjb568 "du jour" \approx "of the day"

Infinite Recursion

Brad closed and reopened this post, I am confused

bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii AB morning was a calculator test over "chapter 3", derivatives. BC afternoon was a powerpoint on alternating series and approximating infinite summations.

user259867

Those are neat. The alternating series that converge -- but don't converge absolutely -- are tricky. One can change their sum by rearranging the terms. (Not obvious)

animuson

@InfiniteRecursion To clear the close votes off of it.

Jason C

@InfiniteRecursion He did it just to clear the CVs.

I'm going to give shog about another week before I call him out on leaving that "just for testing" filter around.

Infinite Recursion

4:03 AM

@animuson Ok

@JasonC Are +1/-1 comments really worth the volume of discussion you have been having with Shog about this?

Jason C

@InfiniteRecursion It's not just that; it's everything else already mentioned in the comment discussions on that post.

user259867

@InfiniteRecursion Depends on if you see the volume of discussion as cost or benefit. :)

Andrew T.

In the end, some just moved +1/-1 to the end of the post, which doesn't really solve the issue?

Infinite Recursion

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I see it as cost.

Jason C

Also I don't mind uh... voluminous (?) discussions.

user259867

4:05 AM

^ my point.

Jason C

Oh yeah, that's totally the right word!

> 3. Of great volume, or bulk; large.

Don't worry, I know about the crappy wiktionary one-boxing.

Infinite Recursion

Interesting. For me, it's relative. If something is worth discussing, I discuss. I think everybody's time is too precious, and they shouldn't spend it on trivial stuff. But that's just me :)

Jason C

THIS CONVERSATION OCCUPIES MUCH SPACE.

@InfiniteRecursion Yeah but trivial is in the eye of the beholder.

bjb568

Quarter GPA will be best case 3.75 and worst case 3.25… Ugh, I hope the tests aren't hard.

Infinite Recursion

@JasonC True.

Jason C

4:09 AM

3.25 is not a bad worst case.

bjb568

@JasonC YES IT IS

Jason C

Heh, I finished off my freshman year with a 3.95, and plummeted to like a 1.1 by the end of sophomore year.

bjb568

…

Jason C

Then I got kicked out, came back, dropped out, had my freshman year internship turn into my dream job, and said fuck it and did cool stuff for 7 years.

bjb568

Actually, the stupid calculator on the webernet may not be weighting properly, causing it to be reported lower.

@JasonC What's your dream job?

user259867

4:11 AM

@JasonC You mean freshman year of college, or HS?

Jason C

College

bjb568

Oh.

Jason C

That company was/is a medical robotics R&D company in Pittsburgh.

bjb568

Oooh. Sounds fun.

Me likey robots and not dying

Jason C

It was great. The only reason I still don't work there is because I wanted to get out of Pittsburgh, so I moved to NYC. Now I do mostly freelance work for tech artists and occasionally a security systems or random job.

bjb568

4:13 AM

Oooh. Sounds fun.

Jason C

It's cool, I get to travel a lot and do some fun stuff, but I miss the pure R&D badly. When I get out of NYC I want to either get back into medical tech, or defense research.

The work I have now is making my brain soft.

bjb568

What do you recommend I do?

Jason C

Wtf kind of question is that?

user259867

Don't drop out of HS.

Jason C

^ For starters.

Infinite Recursion

4:15 AM

^^

bjb568

Uh… ok. Not dropping out.

Jason C

I think, if I have to give some life advice, I'd say to make sure you always leave yourself some time on the side to pursue things you are personally interested in, and pursue them fully. Because you never know what you might uncover or where that will take you.

bjb568

… K

Jason C

Well you know, like DevDoodle for instance.

bjb568

Yeah.

:D

Infinite Recursion

4:23 AM

cv-pls rec-book stackoverflow.com/q/12445242/2982225

bjb568

I feel like recommendation questions should be easily filterable.

Jason C

stackoverflow.com/questions/27118341/… gonna be a rough transition.

bjb568

Anyone want to run an analysis of word sequences or something for closed rec-books?

Jason C

I actually side with the OP on that one; even though the question classically is off-topic, I think he was misled, and I think many others will be too.

bjb568

@JasonC gone

Jason C

4:25 AM

user259867

Kind of strange that this is not a new user asking it. He knew what SO is. Did he expect SO to suddenly acquire knowledge of MSFT internal decisions?

bjb568

I think there should be a message shown to people coming from MS warning them if MS won't do it.

Infinite Recursion

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/q/26961713/2982225

user259867

@InfiniteRecursion DVed; it will be roomba'd in 9 days anyway.

Infinite Recursion

thanks

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27050560/2982225

Andrew T.

4:31 AM

...at least we will have a Unicorn Face emoji

Infinite Recursion

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/26690103/2982225

Jason C

I think "hotdog" and "unicorn face" can be combined into a single Unicode character.

Or just "hotdog face".

GIS time.

2

Google delivers, again.

user259867

Ugh. Meanwhile, @Frank is hard to work on topic challenges. Reporting the outcome of the most recent one:

user259867

Jason C

Man

The topic challenges are such a great idea though.

user259867

4:41 AM

Let's have one on SO. Topic of the week: Internet Explorer.

4

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/137899/…

Jason C

I don't think we're going to need a special challenge for that one.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii YES!!! That's what I'm talkin about!

"Why is it and how is it helpful?" almost sounds like a normal SO question title.

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/137900/does-it-very-works

user259867

"Does It very Works?" is also an SO-like title.

Braiam

stackedit.io is slow :(

is funny @Shog9 that people still trip the "WHYT" block... is like, they never learned

Jason C

4:50 AM

Does it very works? VERY YES

bjb568

VERY NO!

Night!

Jason C

Later

user259867

Drupal spam gone

Jason C

@SmokeDetector falseu

SmokeDetector

@JasonC Registered as false positive, added title to Bayesian doctype 'good', whitelisted user.

user259867

5:05 AM

I followed Social Conventions although it's hard to imagine it working on SE platform. But if there is Workplace...

user259867

Then again, I think Workplace = Western Workplace in practice.

Jason C

I am open-minded about it and not fully confident that it can work.

But it might; like Workplace, as you say, or some of the other "slightly different" SE sites.

Whether it works or not is really going to depend on getting intelligent participants to give high quality answers, more so than on some of the other sites I think. And to curate the questions well, so it doesn't degenerate into, like "HOW TO ASK A GIRL OUT??"

Unihedron

5:18 AM

@Rafflesiaarnoldii There's also Personal Productivity.SE...

@Rafflesiaarnoldii O-o

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/27118282/3622940

hichris123

6:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 64.3199: Weight lose supplement on meta.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 tpu

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244113/…

Andrew T.

> car robbery

user259867

No it's not! At least not a real one.

Jan Dvorak

gone

Andy

6:34 AM

What if the input is brown? — thefourtheye 5 mins ago

2

Jason C

Hopefully the output will not also be brown.

Jason C

6:54 AM

Lol ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=shit

You can find many helpful resources there, such as a "message board about shit", and the "average life expectancy of shit".

DroidDev

Lol Saw Kok shit

somebody was really funny those days

Jason C

Yeah, and Wah-la-He Such Shit

DroidDev

ROFL

Jason C

That link Andy posted is kind of pissing me off because the op screwed up "the quick brown fox". I hate that.

Infinite Recursion

7:45 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/q/244114/245167

^gone

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/137913/…

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, @DroidDev has cast the 6th spam flag - spammer will hunt him down now! :D

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard I wish :D

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev he will strike you with giant boobs, you really want it? :P

cVplZ

@JasonC who starred this!!?!

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard hahaha, I would not say that here :P

Jan Dvorak

7:55 AM

nope

cVplZ

:2700660 lol, jk

Infinite Recursion

Thanks @cVplZ, for reminding me.

Jan Dvorak

@cVplZ ?

Jason C

@cVplZ Somebody awesome, I'd imagine.

Shadow Wizard

ninja edits, ninja deletion.... it's full with ninjas here!

DroidDev

7:57 AM

@ShadowWizard guess who ninjafied it :P

cVplZ

14 hours ago, by jadarnel27

Jan is a reasonable person-with-a-bird-cartoon-on-his-face, and I would appreciate it if you all would cease your libelous chatter about him.

Jason C

Oh I held off on a full on gif attack @cVplZ, but there's one I was saving for you. One moment.

Shadow Wizard

@cVplZ but.... what is "libelous"? Too lazy to Google. :D

Jason C

Lol actually, nevermind. I can't post this in good conscience.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC too NSFW, even for you?

cVplZ

7:58 AM

@ShadowWizard "containing a libel"

Shadow Wizard

@cVplZ and... what is a "libel"?

Jason C

@ShadowWizard Lol I don't think it's NSFW, it's just kind of goofy

cVplZ

@ShadowWizard an untrue statement damaging someones reputation

Infinite Recursion

> defamatory, denigratory, vilifying, disparaging, derogatory, aspersive, calumnious, calumniatory, slanderous, false, untrue, misrepresentative, traducing, maligning, insulting, scurrilous, slurring, smearing;

Jan Dvorak

Wow. So many new words

Shadow Wizard

7:59 AM

@JasonC this goofy?

Jason C

Oh fine

cVplZ

@InfiniteRecursion wasn't doing any of that. Not sure if jardarnel was kidding or not

Infinite Recursion

It's ok @cVplZ, I ignored the person now to be safe :)

Shadow Wizard

@InfiniteRecursion smearing? really? never imagined that word got other meanings! LOL

Jan Dvorak

Ping me when you're done posting lame sexual animated gif jokes

Jason C

8:01 AM

Lol see

@ShadowWizard ^ And now you know.

DroidDev

@JasonC hahaha, you know the appropriate place for these :P

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yup. crawling back to the warm Den

Infinite Recursion

@JasonC I was about to flag it

Jason C

@JanDvorak Blame ShadowWizard for encouraging it. I totally had good initial judgment.

Lol...

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC I agree, I'm to blame for that one ;)

Jason C

8:02 AM

Tell Jan it's safe now, lol.

Shadow Wizard

Sensitivity level here is about 99/100

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard ....and in Den?

Jason C

TASTELESS, that's the word I was looking for. Not goofy.

Infinite Recursion

nope, 101/100

DroidDev

I was wondering if we are sensitive at all... :/

Jan Dvorak

8:04 AM

shines a flashlight on DroidDev

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev depends. When @SPArchaeologist is around it's about 50/100 when he's away it's 1/100 :D

DroidDev

Ewww....please, turn it off :P

@ShadowWizard ya, he is sensitive about pink, but we changed him a bit yesterday :D

Jason C

I'm about -100/100, I don't think you guys appreciate how much self restraint I show in here. Give me some credit.

Jan Dvorak

Sensitive to light: check

Shadow Wizard

credit given ^

Infinite Recursion

8:08 AM

1 unicoin

Jason C

Cha ching

Infinite Recursion

Turn off what @DroidDev?

Shadow Wizard

7 mins ago, by Jan Dvorak

shines a flashlight on DroidDev

Infinite Recursion

Ohh..

ignoring :)

DroidDev

@InfiniteRecursion Ignoring what?

Shadow Wizard

8:12 AM

ohh

she's ignoring Jan, obviously

^^

Oh!

*-*

I am not gonna ask reasons and get into that... I like to stay away from fights....

Until they are not physical ;)

Infinite Recursion

15 mins ago, by Infinite Recursion

It's ok @cVplZ, I ignored the person now to be safe :)

Shadow Wizard

8:15 AM

@DroidDev yup, and talking about sensitivity, Inf's level when it comes to talking about her is 1000/100

Infinite Recursion

rofl

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard Lol, I think she'll flag every single message in Den then :P

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev well, if she will decide to "formally" join the Den I'm willing to restrain myself. Can't say for others though ;)

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard Well..we all did. There is now a regular female visitor there and its going all good :)

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev yeah, but so far she didn't really show any signs of sensitivity. Or has she?

Infinite Recursion

8:25 AM

Thanks @ShadowWizard, but the tavern is better suited for my sensitivity level ;)

Shadow Wizard

She just seems to ignore the "not nice" words ;)

@InfiniteRecursion I know and totally understand :)

anyway, the Den is now full with stuff Jan won't like, lol

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard No signs, because there was nothing in particular that much sensitive. We also changed previous awesomest, coolest and epicest quote of the day ;)

Infinite Recursion

You changed it for her? Nice :)

Shadow Wizard

@InfiniteRecursion no, it was due to @SPArchaeologist request

he has... well, it's complicated :D

Infinite Recursion

I am confused. You are right...complicated.

Shadow Wizard

8:31 AM

@InfiniteRecursion he's sensitive for certain words, especially one starting with "b" ;)

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard and for certain color too, especially pink :P

Infinite Recursion

o_O

DroidDev

Yay! he is finally here :D

I am turning him into a ninja now :D

Shadow Wizard

O_o

SPArchaeologist

the search feature works very well

I assume the Sugarcube is inside the Den

@ShadowWizard actually, you asked first

in Shadow's Den, Nov 13 at 14:50, by Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev yup. By the way if @SPArchaeologist can come with a funny boobless quote I might consider this, to make it more fair. :D

DroidDev

8:38 AM

@SPArchaeologist well, current one isn't funny at all :P

@SPArchaeologist no, I posted in in Den too, to tell @Sha about it

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist lol!

DroidDev

hah! I pinged three users in message above

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist true, and like I said there you totally deserve to have a say in the Den. :)

SPArchaeologist

@DroidDev aaah, so it was a quote.

DroidDev

@SPArchaeologist guess so... :/

SPArchaeologist

8:40 AM

@DroidDev It is Poe. Wasn't mean to be funny.

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev by the way, my assumption above about MM's sensitivity proved true, she replied to a "dirty" word :D

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard but we shouldn't be pushing her. I don't think its good

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev true, but she can just say if something bothers her :)

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard I don't think she will

Shadow Wizard

Inf can teach her a lesson about it..... :D

Hobo Sapiens

8:43 AM

Off-topic stackoverflow.com/q/26909574/1864610

cVplZ

@ShadowWizard @inf has only lived in clean clear water ponds, green luscious grass areas, and slept in cribs made for a princess.. thus she is sensitive to dirty things

Infinite Recursion

In your company, she will eventually learn to be vocal ;)

cVplZ

Sep 12 at 3:52, by lostsock

Infinite Recursion

^ my crib <3

Shadow Wizard

@cVplZ ohh, this explains a lot

Infinite Recursion

8:48 AM

BTW, I am not the sensitive one. The one who completely changed his behaviour, stopped reporting spam, is sensitive. I avoid causing further damage, because apparently, I am the reason behind the change.

Shadow Wizard

(removed)

DroidDev

(removed)

Jan Dvorak

I thought you didn't want me to keep reporting?

2

DroidDev

:/

Jan Dvorak

Oh well. Time to fix my canary...

Sorry :-/