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7:02 PM
I can't find any decent book cataloging software that's free... so I might have to end up making it myself. sigh
 
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@cybermonkey Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
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@cybermonkey Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
one more time, getting screenshots..
@SmokeDetector tp
 
7:05 PM
@cybermonkey Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
user259867
Cryptography will be the 3rd site to hold mod election while in beta.
 
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Q: Automatically dismiss a chat message on clicking the notification

cybermonkeyWhen I receive a reply/tag on chat, the 'notification bubble' must be clicked in order to dismiss the message: I have desktop notifications enabled, but however clicking the notification to go to the chat message does not dismiss it (from both within the same tab/window, and from other browser...

 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Can I find out why an aircraft squawked an emergency code (7x00)? by Timbo on aviation.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
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7:23 PM
@Hosch250 Huh. I blocked feeds a while ago and have never seen any popups or anything since. I just assumed it was related. But maybe there's some other unrelated variable. Oh well.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Authentication problem using connectify by Priyam Surai on android.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector ignore- but new NAA
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7:39 PM
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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: How can we help students who are very anxious about math? by Allen Seay on matheducators.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
> I find myself missing someone named Taryn, and someone named Juan, and they haven't even started yet. I am fortunate to work with brilliance -- Tim Post at 11:30 AM - 4 Jun 2015 via Twitter
 
user259867
I know Taryn = bluefeet, but who is Juan?
 
user259867
> Just left the office. This chapter has closed. On to new exciting things. -- Bluefeet at 11:45 AM - 4 Jun 2015 via Twitter
 
user259867
7:44 PM
I guess Juan is the new CM who will oversee SO in Spanish
 
user259867
checks sp.stackoverflow.com aww, still in Memphis
 
@HomegrownTomato I thought her name was bluefeet. :P
 
user259867
Sometimes these are pretty long; I'd like to open near the flag dialog. So far, the best I found is this link format: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/257614#link-post-257614 e.g., meta.stackexchange.com/q/257614#link-post-257614
 
7:49 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@LynnCrumbling Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
user259867
Unfortunately, then I get no part of the post shown...
 
8:12 PM
Huh, HTTP/2 disallows gzip. tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540#section-9.2.1
When HTTP/2 becomes widely adopted, I hope things will get easier.
 
8:25 PM
That was also the promise of SOAP...
 
@rene How much was SOAP actually used though?
 
in a lot of B2B interfaces
 
Tibco, Websphere, IBM that kind of players
MS BizTalk
 
8:32 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: FIND AN INNER PRODUCT by Tom Builder on math.stackexchange.com
 
ProTip: If you're tired of reading all the terrible English on SO, go to ru.SO and turn on Chrome's page translation thing. The English is literally better.
 
@rene that sounds... great horrible.
 
yeah, that is correct
 
It does disclose...
downvote?
 
8:36 PM
@hichris123 it disallows TLS compression since the underlying HTTP is already compressed
 
@Braiam right.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector edited
 
@rene + close I guess.
 
seeing the comments...
a spam flag will do, I get mellow these days
 
user259867
8:39 PM
I spam-flagged. Since there is a 100 rep penalty built-in, I conclude that spam flags are not restricted to the situations in which the account would be destroyed.
 
Spam flags never destroy accounts
 
several spam flags on an account should rise an auto flag
 
user259867
I know.
 
If a user's first post is community spam-flag nuked, it should raise an autoflag.
Actually, any time anything is community nuked it should raise an autoflag, dismissed when someone destroys the user.
 
user259867
In other news, NE election has 4 candidates now... while Blender is down to 3 (from 5 they had earlier).
 
8:43 PM
@Undo should != does
sadly.
 
I try to go through deleted posts every morning, hoping to catch them.
 
user259867
Has anyone here won the lottery to get the new moving vote buttons on SO?
 
what?
 
user259867
Another term for A/B testing - will roll it out to half of registered users to see how it affects their voting behavior. — Jarrod Dixon ♦ 2 hours ago
 
anyone using Firefox on XFCE to verify something?
 
8:45 PM
@HomegrownTomato nope
@Braiam nope
 
user259867
me neither
 
I'm not on it, apparently
Oh wait, yeah I am
Seeing it on SO
 
user259867
Yes, it's only on SO.
 
I like
 
and meta has a hardware tag, wtf?
 
user259867
8:48 PM
Sure, because people keep asking about SE hardware.
 
nope, I'm not
@HomegrownTomato they are actually asking where in SE ask about hardware...
 
9:06 PM
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Q: Automatically dismiss a chat message on clicking the notification

cybermonkeyWhen I receive a reply/tag on chat, the 'notification bubble' must be clicked in order to dismiss the message: I have desktop notifications enabled, but however clicking the notification to go to the chat message does not dismiss it (from both within the same tab/window, and from other browser...

 
user259867
@TravisJ We don't currently do as good of a job as I'd like when it comes to analyzing stuff as we block it. I've been opposed to regex blocks because they're so easy to get around. Learning more, on the other hand .. I have some ideas. — Tim Post ♦ 2 hours ago
 
Speaking of spam... we never got our spam dump.
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Q: Would anyone care for some processed meat-like substance with a gelatinous glaze?

Tim PostSomething sort of magic happened a short time ago, sometimes a graph is worth a thousand flags: That's right, around March 28, the spam protection layer blocked about 20,000 spam attempts, mostly in the form of suggested edits, while users didn't see much of an increase in what they had to fl...

 
voted
 
9:30 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Replacing mapfragment by a different fragment by Vugi on stackoverflow.com
 
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@SmokeDetector wall-o-text.
@SmokeDetector Matched on "As you can see i have some buttons and shits over my map"
Is that a typo? If so, what word did they mean?
Or is it just not pluralized correctly?
 
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Yay! Marshal!
 
user259867
Could you reduce this to a [mcve]? — Braiam 7 mins ago
 
user259867
9:39 PM
Yeah... that's not a magic word. :(
 
@HomegrownTomato [FEATURE-REQUEST]
Ha
OP wants to add more content (to the question).
Well, all i can add is the fragment manager (in selectItem) commits and the framelayout(id: frame_container) ,which i thought would replace the previous children(and contents) , actually displays the new content over the map..which shouldn't happen....thanks for the fast reply — Vugi 48 secs ago
 
user259867
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Q: Add magic link for MCVE

T.J. CrowderPerhaps [help/mcve] (which would link to /help/mcve on sites that have it), it comes up a lot on SO. Ideally the autotext would be "MCVE" so a sample usage would be: It's not clear from your question quite where the problem might be, can you create an [mcve]? which would render as (on SO): ...

 
user259867
Stack Exchange is a great place. Everything you could possibly want has already been requested.
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:)
Well, except a "Make Coffee" button with a callback to my local coffee machine.
HTML8 Perhaps?
 
9:47 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, phone number detected: ???/////// 1-855-709-2847”/////////Brother printer technical support number by dhvaj gujar on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
And @spammers I need sleep so please stop posting spam for another 8 hours...
 
Night rene!
Don't let the spammers bite!
Newsflash: even Shog asked bad NPR questions:
Sep 2 '10 at 21:57, by Shog9
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Q: What time of day do you prefer to shower?

Shog9Well, I'm sure we all know the stereotype: as a programmer, you sit near-motionless at a desk for 23 hours a day, covered in cheetos dust and bed sores, until exhaustion overtakes you and you fall to the floor and briefly sleep (wherein "sleep" consists of convulsing while sweating out Mountain D...

 
@hichris123 Screenshot?
Why does @AnnaLear look like a zombie?
 
because of reasons
 
ok
reasons are best reason
 
user259867
10:06 PM
23 hours ago, by Homegrown Tomato
Um.... is Anna Lear sending a message with the new avatar? (I'm just not sure what it is)
 
@hichris123 even?? Clearly you are unfamiliar with my history on Programmers.
 
user259867
@hichris123 404
 
@Shog9 Ahhhh that takes me back to a simpler, more dramatic time.
 
dramatic, definitely
 
user259867
10:11 PM
The OP of the question is deleted, but has a gravatar. Ah, that's their custom anonymous image thing. cdn.sstatic.net/programmersmeta/img/sprites.png?v=f8db877021b2
 
Now for something creepy:
 
user259867
There's no creepiness that Ctrl-Shift-I and Del can't fix.
 
@Shog9 Clearly I wasn't here during the good ole' days of Programmers.
 
shame on you
Also, OLE was never good. It was, perhaps, better than the alternatives for a time.
 
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE, sometimes pronounced /oˈlɛj/) is a proprietary technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control Extension (OCX), a way to develop and use custom user interface elements. On a technical level, an OLE object is any object that implements the IOleObject interface, possibly along with a wide range of other interfaces, depending on the object's needs. == Overview == OLE allows an editing application to export part of a document to another editing application and then import it...
Mine oneboxes. Therefore, it is correct.
 
Interjection: ole
  1. An interjection used to stir up excitement.
Adjective: ole (not comparable)
  1. Eye dialect spelling of old.
Verb: ole
  1. Indicative present connegative form of olla.
  2. (minä) en ole / (me) emme ole
  3. Second-person singular imperative present form of olla.
  4. Ole!
  5. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of olla.
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not... quite.
But ole!
 
"eye dialect"?
Eye dialect is the use of nonstandard spelling for speech to draw attention to an ironically standard pronunciation. The term was coined by George P. Krapp to refer to the literary technique of using nonstandard spelling that implies a pronunciation of the given word that is actually standard, such as wimmin for women; the spelling indicates that the character's speech overall is dialectal, foreign, or uneducated. This form of nonstandard spelling differs from others in that a difference in spelling does not indicate a difference in pronunciation of a word. That is, it is dialect to the eye rather...
 
It's where your eyes dilate in order to compensate for accents.
 
@RSahu The fact the SE engine needs a pretty fast system to run- I know that the SO database server (only runs SQL Server 2012, I think) alone has 192GB RAM and 24 cores, and that doesn't even factor in the web server (SO has an entire database server all to itself, the other SE sites share the others). Would a business really be willing to splash out the money for the hardware & maintenance cost? Then we come to the licencing of the SE engine, which if the SE team wanted to, would cost a huge amount of money. — cybermonkey 2 mins ago
 
10:28 PM
Not to mention a full-time staff dedicated to maintaining it.
 
@Shog9 yep
 
In theory, you can license the SO engine (a very old version of it, at least). In practice, you're expected to pay a portion of someone's salary in advance as a not-too-subtle hint that you should probably just pay someone on-staff to customize an open source solution for your needs.
 
@HomegrownTomato command shift i… ^
damn it more PII
 
user259867
@bjb568 It was a plot to get you do this.
 
user259867
10:32 PM
Fun fact: SE about/team page now lists 208 people with 65 distinct job titles.
 
clearly needs more job titles
 
Of course we couldn't – FSM forbid – have multiple people doing the same thing now…
 
what, and be all redundant?
 
Yeah, then you'd start finding that a task needs only 42 people and there's 43 people working on it!
 
@Shog9 saw "eye rhymes" as the answer to an NYT crossword clue last week... the clue was "four-hour tour features?". good times.
 
10:35 PM
brb writing complaint on meta about lack of CSS vote stickying
 
@Shog9 When I ran gameservers with my old server software, I only licensed the software out to three other servers. My software was pretty powerful, and due to how the server processed packets it even had an anti-DDoS function that was very effective. The problem with licencing is that the more people who have your software, the higher the risk of a leak.
 
meta.stackexchange.com/… what's this tag for?
 
user259867
Non-unique SE job titles:
Careers Sales 73
Developer 29
Team Lead, Careers Sales 12
Community Manager 9
Senior Product Designer 5
Ad Sales 4
Internal Support Engineer 4
Site Reliability Engineer 4
Office Manager 3
Recruiter 3
Strategic Account Manager 3
Campaign Manager 2
Engineering Manager 2
Marketing Coordinator 2
Regional Sales Director 2
Regional Sales Manager 2
 
Clearly, we need a lot more Senior Product Designers too.
 
user259867
But none of those non-senior ones.
 
user259867
10:37 PM
The page is not completely up to date: e.g., doesn't include the two Operation Specialists.
 
who wants a product designed by a young'un?
 
user259867
@bjb568 ^
 
It was pretty amusing at one time, when a rival server owner got annoyed I was taking all his players (in reality, players preferred my server as it was stable, had no cheaters [my anticheat software, naturally]), he got so annoyed that he tried to crash my server. My software ended up rebounding the packets so that he ended up DoS'ing himself..
 
@Shog9 DD users!
 
s/s/
@cybermonkey ha!
@bjb568 it's for questions about thingamabobs
 
10:40 PM
@Shog9 close your regex!
 
user259867
@bjb568 Of course, the link doesn't work for those without new nav (I signed up for testing initially, but then quit in disgust).
 
@Shog9 The funniest occasion was when this guy came into the server, and said 'I'm going to crash this server'. Five seconds later; 'xxx has been banned for: crashhack'. Wasn't even my software I was running at the time.
 
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Q: Sticky votes needs CSS position sticky

bjb568When scrolling, .vote.js-vote-sticky gets to be .is-stuck. But that's laggy because it's triggered by JS! :o It should have position: sticky. It's unacceptable to use a slower, inferior JS technique when there's a CSS alternative.

 
10:56 PM
@SmokeDetector fpu
 
@cybermonkey Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected: ~`~~!!!!!/////// “1-855-709-2847”}}}}}}}}} Canon printer driver support number by dhvaj gujar on meta.stackexchange.com
 
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@cybermonkey Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
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@KevinBrown Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLEASE HELP! URGENT MATH QUESTION by joe biden on math.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected, repeating characters in title: ((((((((((((“1-855-709-2847”)))))))))))))))Canon printer support toll free number by nitin kasana on meta.stackexchange.com
 
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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected: ~!@#$$%%^&* (((“1-855-709-2847”))””{{}{“”::Canon printer tech support Canon printer tech support number by nitin kasana on meta.stackexchange.com
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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: If I type in any commands, I get an error by Erik on gaming.stackexchange.com
 
11:31 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@KevinBrown Blacklisted user.
 
user259867
I finally got timestamp conversion right... which at the end was ridiculously simple, just telling Google Spreadsheet to format it as "H", no AM/PM garbage. This, plus Unique and CountIf, make for some nice charts.
 
user259867
 
user259867
Picked the "smooth curve" option to demonstrate the sad reality: positivity-preserving smooth interpolation is hard.
 
eww
take the logs or something?
it wouldn't like a 0, but maybe you can do f(x) = ln(x+1) then invert it after smoothing
 
user259867
11:38 PM
That's good thinking, but consider that the domain of inverse function will be the range of f, and interpolated values may dip below that.
 
user259867
For example: your f(x)=ln(x+1) has inverse g(y)=e^y - 1. If y is negative, g(y) is negative, and we're back to the problem.
 
meeeh
 
user259867
One can take square root, interpolate, and then square the result. But this is ugly too, because the curve will bounce up at some places, where the data is actually zero.
 
cube root?
It's all a mess.
 
user259867
That doesn't make things positive.
 
11:42 PM
take the secant or something?
Wait, the reversing function doesn't need to be the inverse…
 
user259867
Then you're not interpolating the data.
 
user259867
As I said, this is hard. No simple recipe that works universally well. People who need positive data in their computations (i.e., they model some physical quantity that can't be negative in principle) have to sweat over it to make their numerical method work.
 
11:55 PM
This is a pretty good explanation.
 

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