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7:01 PM

!xkcd find this is a test

Nothing, I guess.

user259867

Blog - Stack Exchange: Introducing Beyond Coding: Free professional skills training for emerging devs in NYC

Bethany Marzewski on May 05, 2015

Today, we’re excited to announce that online registration is now open for Beyond Coding, a free new summer program designed to equip emerging computer programmers in New York City with professional skills needed to help them succeed in their first job working with code. The program, slated to launch June 11, is part of our collaboration with New York City’s Tech Talent Pipeline initiative to support the growth of the city’s tech ecosystem. And we’re thrilled to be taking part, along with some other top-notch New York startups: Crest CC, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Tumblr, and Trello. …

AstroCB

!xkcd find chess

xkcdBot

We once tried playing blindfold chess on the Aerosmith ride at Disney World.

user259867

@Jaydles but again, that presumes other companies will hire more entry level talent, which other companies can consume downstream (after they get experience). The weak link in the chain is immediately obvious - the problem isn't entry level developer positions, it's senior positions. Adding 500k slightly educated coders to the NYC hiring environment won't help the problem at all. — enderland 13 mins ago

AstroCB

@Jaydles you don't have to read much of Stack Exchange though to pick up the "most software developers are [unqualified, terrible, bad, worthless, negative additions, etc]" vibe from the current pool of talent. Simply graduating more people who want money/easy jobs doesn't fill the need for talent. — enderland 1 min ago

SmokeDetector

7:18 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected: are you an asshole? by albusseverus potter on scifi.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector tpu Self-removed

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

bummi

spam webapps.stackexchange.com/a/76757/45867

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@2mkgz Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Error when trying to compare two coordinates to get a result? by gacl on stackoverflow.com

user259867

7:45 PM

Yeah, the blog post... it tends to be irritating to hear (usually from government-related sources) about immense, critical shortages of workers in the area in which you struggle to get a job.

user259867

Usually accompanied by "we need to teach more Scratch at schools, or else we're doomed" ... or: get more students to major in math, etc.

bjb568

> shortage of workers

snorts

user259867

It's fine that SE are trying something, but plastering the network with an ad for NYC-localized gimmick is too much fanfare.

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hichris123

There's a shortage of programmers... to create crappy websites/apps.

bjb568

Outsourced googling to SO -_-

ASCIIThenANSI

7:51 PM

@bjb568 I can't wait until someone outsources SO itself. 'How do I write a question asking to fix this error?'

Roombatron5000

> shortage of people that will work for scraps, this isn't a problem in China, why should it be in the US : outraged CEO's and execs say

user259867

@hichris123 blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/02/…

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bjb568

@Roombatron5000 Great newspaper headline.

hichris123

@2mkgz I quite agree.

bjb568

TEH KITTEH AGREEZ TOO

Sam

7:53 PM

@2mkgz I wish I could UV that.

Roombatron5000

@2mkgz or lets build 200 million dollar college stadiums and fitness centers so students will want to learn!

bjb568

No. — bjb568 8 secs ago

waffles?

ASCIIThenANSI

@bjb568 Oh, sorry. My breakfast fell on my computer.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp edited

bjb568

> Recap: …

SmokeDetector

7:58 PM

@2mkgz Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

bjb568

Why does it recap what it just said?

Notably while omitting vital details?

Roombatron5000

> We’ll cover professional networking, technical communication skills, the best way to prepare for a technical interview, and what happens next: how to continue learning programming skills beyond the classroom.

geeze, 10 weeks for learning how to suck up to the right people and tell them what they want to hear

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i like the technical communication skills part

Lynn Crumbling

@bjb568 @hichris123 Hat trick on Skeptics o/ \o

hichris123

heh

bjb568

> Many users are concerned about advertising privacy and 3rd-party tracking. Most web browsers are set by default to protect your privacy unless you opt for tracking yourself. For example, Internet Explorer automatically enables its “Do Not Track” option and Google Chrome blocks any 3rd-party cookies by default. All browsers have clear settings regarding your privacy that allow you to view ads without compromising your identity.

- phys.org/help/adblock

lolwut?

hichris123

8:11 PM

Hrm, so... this is a website for a "Beyond Coding" course... and you didn't even optimize your website?

bjb568

yuk

5k so rep btw now.

wat

It's making 2 XHRs every second!

hichris123

I know, right?

... what's the request even for?

bjb568

IDK

hichris123

Well, at least their SSL stuff is okay...

bjb568

I get a 2s FOUC on my inferior internet.

hichris123

8:16 PM

It's the image.

logos/stackoverflow-white.png - no SVG?

bjb568

49 / 100 on Google Pagespeed.

What a joke.

hichris123

@bjb568 Er... the XHRs are for style.less & base.less... er...????

bjb568

yeah…

JonasCz

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/30037880/…

user259867

The username...

ASCIIThenANSI

8:21 PM

@2mkgz It seems legit.

bjb568

Blog comments are broken.

I know because I tried to post a flamey comment :p

Wait, it must have censored my comment since the other one got thru.

There's no way to delete a comment?

screw this, too much effort to flame.

Roombatron5000

blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/05/…

@bjb568 it was fixed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255985/…

hichris123

8:40 PM

Cmon, who broke the network this time?

10

Shog9. Of course.

Roombatron5000

> Stack Exchange is currently offline, we'll be back shortly!

:/

^

But SO works.

Boo

Skeptics is gone.

JonasCz

8:41 PM

I love the error message :-)

nicael

which one exactly?

bjb568

Yay, I posted my flamey comment.

ASCIIThenANSI

AAAAAA! Code Golf, Super User, and Arqade are all down for maintenance!

nicael

Looks like everything's off-line except SO?

Doorknob

Eeek!

bjb568

8:43 PM

aaaaaaaaa

Roombatron5000

at least we still have the tavern

ASCIIThenANSI

Even Meta! What's going on?

nicael

apocalypses!

JonasCz

Error message is so cool !

Doorknob

I like Server Fault's offline page.

bjb568

8:44 PM

stackoverflow req timeout. fixed now apparently

nicael

Doorknob

MSO's is obviously the best, though

hichris123

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bjb568

SO is taking a long time to load now.

nicael

^^

Roombatron5000

8:46 PM

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Doorknob

Strange, no StackStatus tweet.

-_-

lol

:D

Why did it go down?

Was it something I said?

Doorknob

8:46 PM

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

bjb568

THEY'RE INVESTIGATING

nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

JonasCz

Meta one :-)

ASCIIThenANSI

@Doorknob What issue?

rene

This hurts productivity

bjb568

8:47 PM

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Doorknob

@ASCIIThenANSI A network-wide one.

Feeds

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

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ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Doorknob

@Feeds Oh thanks.

nicael

Oh, why MSO's logo looks so compressed? Horrible bug.

ASCIIThenANSI

8:48 PM

Let the trolling begin.

@Feeds YOU DON'T SAY?

Rainbolt

@nicael Go post the bug on meta

ASCIIThenANSI

@Rainbolt Wait a minute...

nicael

@Rainbolt find me one :D

Rainbolt

@nicael theverge.com/forums/meta

JonasCz

It's so sloow..

Doorknob

8:49 PM

There's an ad on that page that takes up 2/3 of my screen.

bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

nicael

16 secs ago, by bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Rainbolt

What happens when you hit the right wall?

nicael

bug, I guess.

Rainbolt

You still have 3-4 inches to go on my monitor

47 secs ago, by nicael

16 secs ago, by bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

nicael

8:51 PM

8 secs ago, by Rainbolt

47 secs ago, by nicael

16 secs ago, by bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

bjb568

10 secs ago, by nicael

8 secs ago, by Rainbolt

47 secs ago, by nicael

16 secs ago, by bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

nicael

just now, by bjb568

10 secs ago, by nicael

8 secs ago, by Rainbolt

47 secs ago, by nicael

16 secs ago, by bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Doorknob

Alright I'm gonna start flagging you if you don't stop

nicael

58 secs ago, by Rainbolt

You still have 3-4 inches to go on my monitor

Rainbolt

We are so close to the right side :(

bjb568

8:51 PM

Hey, it's a team relationship-building activity.

Rainbolt

Oh duh, I can just create a room

Doorknob

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Formatting Sandbox

bjb568

46 secs ago, by nicael

just now, by bjb568

10 secs ago, by nicael

8 secs ago, by Rainbolt

47 secs ago, by nicael

16 secs ago, by bjb568

1 min ago, by ASCIIThenANSI

14 secs ago, by bjb568

43 secs ago, by nicael

11 secs ago, by Doorknob

45 secs ago, by Roombatron5000

We are investigating a network-wide issue now.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM

gunr2171

@Rainbolt call it the "Boom Room"

bjb568

This is a bug anyway

ASCIIThenANSI

8:53 PM

@nicael I think I found the issue.

bjb568

(will delete next message)

nicael

BUG

bjb568

and there you go!

Rainbolt

Dang I missed it. But I'm testing it anyway

bjb568

Sandbox

Formatting Sandbox

it's there now

Rainbolt

8:55 PM

<- satisfied

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gunr2171

There's 2 stars that are satisfied?

nicael

Oh, MSE is still offline...

bjb568

9:13 PM

SE is still down.

I think SE is down more than DD.

rene

Don't think, measure....

bjb568

What if my script that checks if my other script is borked borks?

rene

Create a third script?

bjb568

Borkeyscripts all the way down!

Yay, se.com lag is gone, now error is very snappy!

durron597

Update: We're making progress but we're still down. Next update in 30 minutes.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 9:17 PM

Doorknob

9:19 PM

That sounds... good and bad.

hichris123

in before 24-hour outage.

rene

Maybe they have to get to the DC to switch something on that they switched off remotely...I did that once...

JonasCz

Even the error pages are borked now :-0

rene

I think that is called progress

hichris123

#WorkinOnUrProblemz #stackoverflow http://t.co/eGQrpX05Qh

Tweeted by JasonPunyon on May 5, 2015 at 9:17 PM

Feeds

9:23 PM

Update: We're making progress but we're still down. Next update in 30 minutes.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 9:17 PM

hichris123

Everyone's so intense.

durron597

Hm, they told us the url

cybermonkey

I like how SE chat and SO are online, just proves we're the best ;).

Shadow Wizard

OK, who borked SE?

cybermonkey

also:

@AlexanderChrisS yeah, we can fail over to “different failure” all INSTANT-like. Working hard to get back up asap!

Tweeted by StackExchange on May 5, 2015 at 9:15 PM in reply to AlexanderChrisS

Shadow Wizard

9:29 PM

oh, dupe

cybermonkey

They messed it up, that's what, and the failover cluster isn't also working, so likely a network error.

Shadow Wizard

@rene did you try to delete Community by any chance? ;)

cybermonkey

Perhaps they DoS'ed themselves again...

rene

@ShadowWizard not only tried....

Shadow Wizard

:P

just don't delete Feeds account, or else chat will go down as well... :D

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durron597

9:42 PM

Why is SO up but Meta SO is down?

Matt Giltaji

@durron597 i would guess a separate hosting setup

durron597

See, this is what happens when we give new people diamonds.

Feeds

Update: No significant news. Still working on the issue. Next update in 30 minutes.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 9:46 PM

user259867

No news is bad news.

rene

Thankfully it is only one issue....

user259867

9:59 PM

Meanwhile, the Community Team has an unexpected day off.

user259867

Well, they would if SO was down too.

user259867

Most SE sites are up, except meta.SE and meta.SO (it seems)

Matt Giltaji

woot

@2mkgz guess they don't want any bugs reported yet

Feeds

We are coming online now. Details to follow.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 10:03 PM

user259867

Feeds

10:17 PM

Update: Sites are coming back up! More details soon.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 10:11 PM

user259867

Back to offline or read-only.

user259867

The network for the new Stack Exchange DR site. Don't ask why it's on the floor, it's a sore subject. http://t.co/2LfVSVAdAk

Tweeted by shanemadden on May 5, 2015 at 10:20 PM

Feeds

Update: Scratch that. More problems. Next update in 30 minutes.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 10:22 PM

user259867

Does "DR" stand for "disaster recovery"? How fitting.

user259867

So this is what they're setting up in Denver... so that in case of nuclear war, the humanity's knowledge of jQuery would not perish.

tchrist

10:24 PM

NORAD

Conspicuous Compiler

Why's it on the floor?

user259867

@ConspicuousCompiler It's a sore subject.

tchrist

Sorry is he who asks.

Conspicuous Compiler

Ok, I'm sorry, but I still want to know.

tchrist

checks security clearances

Sorry, 60 inches isn’t enough, sir.

And they’re off to StackYoYoFlow.

ASCIIThenANSI

10:49 PM

Looks like the sites are back up.

Feeds

Update: We're back up. Hopefully this time for realz!

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 10:49 PM

We have some cleanup work to do. Plus we'll be writing up a postmortem report. Thanks for your patience, folks!

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 5, 2015 at 10:51 PM

tchrist

That is not dead which can æternal lie. . . .

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@2mkgz Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

user259867

Smokey is alive...

Conspicuous Compiler

11:00 PM

Is SmokeDetector's code in a place where pull requests can be filed against it? It has a fair number of false positives from mailing list URLs with email addresses in them.

ɥʇǝS

@ConspicuousCompiler github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector

Conspicuous Compiler

@ɥʇǝS Thank you!

ɥʇǝS

@ConspicuousCompiler np.

hichris123

"fixing typos in the outage notes doc because it's literally the only way i can be remotely useful"

Tweeted by hairboat on May 5, 2015 at 10:34 PM

0

A: Why would he do this to me?

why would he do this to me...why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tchrist

11:21 PM

VLQ. NAA. RUDE.

Shog9

11:41 PM

all three, just to be sure

hichris123

I need a sock then...

@SmokeDetector fp Smokey, you need more muscles.

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

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