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12:00 PM
 
.... now VS has decided that debug won't work anymore.
nice.
very nice
 
@SPArchaeologist Doesn't matter. Just post on SO, they are used to people that don't debug ;)
 
@SPArchaeologist NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
That is not an answer for this site. — Patrick Hofman 14 secs ago
 
<- A duck, NOT a pony!
 
12:10 PM
@PatrickHofman it is SharePoint. The problem isn't the code. Is the host eldritch abomination that Moss is.
Debugger.Launch is begin ignored.
 
@SPArchaeologist Another reason not to use it...
 
@Dronehinge Mark Booth is back, yay! :D
 
@InfiniteRecursion For future Colts and Mares that's reading this
 
12:22 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Unbalanced Cassandra replicas storage by Gal Goffer on stackoverflow.com
 
12:53 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: import long number from csv into access by YHTAN on stackoverflow.com
 
A 2k user has never flagged anything: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/296346/… omg..
no I never done this, how to do this. — Ajay2707 33 mins ago
 
@JonasCz actually.. reached he 2k with usingh a grammar likety than one?
 
@JonasCz Helpful flag count is pubic now, you know: stackoverflow.com/users/2024469/ajay2707?tab=topactivity
 
tavern squad.... FIRE!
2
 
@JonasCz Not that uncommon. There was a meta post a few weeks ago by a 100K+ user that had less than 50 flags in their 5 year account history.
 
1:04 PM
25 views and 15 downvotes. Wow. stackoverflow.com/questions/30709839/…
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected: 1-844-373-7880 @@ Avast Tech Support Phone Number, Technical support numberTechnical Support Phone Number by Mariya Clark on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@Andy well, we should make people more aware of the fact that they can and should flag, then.
 
@Andy do user with more than 20k exist?... wait... you where talking about SO, right.
 
I'm not disagreeing, but there are multiple ways to utilize the site. Some people aren't interested in the moderation aspect and only want to answer (or ask) questions.
@SPArchaeologist Yeah, it was on MSO. There are 100K+ users on other sites though.
 
@Andy I know. It was a joke about SharePoint SE. Have a look at that site and laugh (or cry)
Top user: 26k
 
1:08 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PL011 UART WITH FIFO ENABLE WITH RASPBERRY PI by nitin30 on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com
 
No great question/answer badges ever awarded. Only 19 good questions and 32 good answers.
 
@SPArchaeologist you don't know whenever to laugh or cry?
how about just sigh?
 
@Braiam 34 mortarboard. No epic. No legendary.
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@Mooseman Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected: Support > 1-800-231-8174**&&&& Canon printer Customer Service phone number Canon printer contact number Canon printer helpline by CaneMax on meta.stackexchange.com
 
1:16 PM
@SmokeDetector gone
 
1:27 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: jersey 2.0 :: for cdi injection, is beans.xml mandatory? by Vikram Alva on stackoverflow.com
 
@SmokeDetector I was living under a rock! I need to update my jerseys to the new version
 
> If [the ability to vote] didn't exist, we'd be building a diamond mine just like the rest of the internet: a few gems in a bunch of dirt. - Mooseman
The server should never send data that you do not want the user to see. End of story. — Mooseman 6 secs ago
 
> I know tags like these should be filtered at the the server-side
... so ... screw that?
 
^ Windows in a nutshell
 
1:37 PM
> Together we shall uncover physics hidden treasures
:D
 
@Unihedron Use XP forever.
 
> Linux is weird. Their commands don't make any sense to those uninitiated and they even put a period at the beginning of a sentence.
 
mumble....
I was thinking...
since Smokey is an unicorn after all....
 
shouldn't he include a feature to report posts that contains references to MLP or general unicorn culture to me here so that I can stal track those users?
 
1:47 PM
Quick Survey: What are the most useful list questions you've seen on any Stack Exchange site?
 
-1
A: What office equipment can I use to safely observe a solar eclipse?

panonskiRemember the floppy discs? We dug one out from our storage, opened it up and looked through the film sheet. Alternatively, a friend of mine took a lighter and a glass cup mat. He placed the glass mat above the lighter to get some soot onto it and watched it through the mat.

 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Quickbooks online tech support phone number USA by japi dumni on meta.stackexchange.com
 
nothing more useful of someone suggesting alternatives like a piece of blackened glass, or the film sheet from a floppy disk
 
@SPArchaeologist "Both solutions have worked twice for us. Now we're blind. Good times ..."
 
@Andy define useful
 
@ShadowWizard The C++ one, for one. Anything that has passed the criteria here
 
@Bart at least now I know why that pair of eyeglasses appear to have no lens...
 
18
Q: Reach out to PayPal about outsourcing their support to Stack Overflow

JongwareBased on this question, I feel it's not made sufficiently clear by PayPal to its users that Stack Overflow is not the correct platform to ask their non-technical questions on. The link to Stack Overflow is on PayPal's sub-site https://developer.paypal.com/developer/support, where the "Developer ...

 
2:17 PM
..... I hate when a 10k+ user edit a engrish post and just fixes formatting, leaving the rest of the post just as unreadable as it was before
 
@SPArchaeologist I hate it when a post has formatting/content problems, and a 10k+ user simply removes the 'thanks' at the end of the question without fixing the formatting issues.
 
@SPArchaeologist "there, now the turd has some polish. A job well done"
 
@Bart Ever seen that old anime called Dr. Slump from the same author of Dragonball?
 
any progress on this?
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Q: Kill the [player]

cybermonkeyA question was asked today that contained multiple errors that needed to be fixed via an edit. I went forth with the editing, but noticed that the question was tagged with player, looking into the tag there's a clear need for it to be removed: It's ambiguous- What type of player? Audio player?...

 
@SPArchaeologist nope
 
2:21 PM
@Bart too bad. There is a scene in that anime that would go perfectly with your message (which I totally agree with, by the way)
 
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Q: Add 'this is my first post' (and several other phrases) to the question content filter

cybermonkeyIt's well-known on Stack Overflow (and perhaps all of Stack Exchange) that the first line of every question/answer is checked using regular expression against a list of unallowed words & phrases. Simple words such as 'Hello' and 'Hi' are disallowed, but lately I've noticed a few (new) questions...

 
@cybermonkey Can we also add "Im new to the SharePoint"?
 
@SPArchaeologist I'll look it up :)
 
2:38 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: When you visit the market or search the Internet by Latonya Ansari on meta.stackexchange.com
 
hmm.... is Jeff hair trademarked?
 
@SmokeDetector tpu- yay last spam flag
 
@shadow yes but the trademark only applies to horror
 
@PeterJ hmm... so using it as avatar is legit?
I don't really care, but if it's not legit then... well, it should be changed :)
 
@shadow, mmm, not sure "I am a vb.net coder" on the profile might push it into the horror category
 
2:43 PM
:D
 
@PeterJ lol, I never assumed that user was trying to impersonate, just use what might be trademarked picture
(also note his MSE avatar is different)
 
@ShadowWizard You don't have permissions yet? I'll fix that :)
 
@Shadow, not sure if a trademark would apply (if it has one) but copyright might for sure. No idea really, there's probably a reason lawyers get paid more than they're worth...
 
@ShadowWizard Logo image © 1993 Steven C. McConnell
 
@ProgramFOX nope. sob
@PeterJ haha, honestly I can't tell the difference. blush
 
@Bart so it means if one want to use it as avatar, he/she/it should ask permission from Steven C. McConnell?
 
@ShadowWizard yep. Pretty much.
 
@Bart and if one fails to do so, what's the punishment?
 
Up to the copyright holder to enforce.
 
!!/rev?
 
2:52 PM
And even then in this case there is probably no punishment. There's no gain (commercial or otherwise) for this user.
 
@Sha ^
 
@SmokeDetector fpu
 
@ShadowWizard Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
yay!
happy dance
@Bart well, such avatar might give him more attention... :)
 
2:56 PM
Does anyone here use Sourcetree?
Is there a way to actually make it show progress of a commit instead of the percentages that show only after it has finished?
 
I found a singular ant on my laptop (@Unihedron)
 
Kill it!! It is scouting the area.
 
@Doorknob that is the Scout Ant
 
:D
 
@Bart I did :p
 
2:58 PM
@Doorknob wrong move. Now you triggered a tantrum spiral. The Ant HQ will send more ants to find the missing scout
you should have take a single sugar cube, put it outside the house, put the ant near the sugar and let them be distracted by it
 
[ AntDetector ] Ant on laptop: Ant McAnterson by Ant HQ on ants.stackexchange.com
 
@SPArchaeologist achievement get: nice try, troll
 
user259867
@ShadowWizard Not by Jeff, since the image is not his. See the bottom of blog.codinghorror.com/about-me
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Excel 2010 merge cells same data by Matthew on superuser.com
 
@HomegrownTomato yeah, @Bart already pointed it out :)
 
3:01 PM
@JanDvorak I know Celestia. I have had that one for years.
 
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Q: How can I remove ants from my laptop keyboard?

UnihedronThere are ants in my laptop keyboard again. It's happened before and ended up killing my productivity occasionally as the little critters suddenly show up from within the gaps of the keyboard. I had to bring it over to my uncle and he got rid of the ants, somehow, but I forgot to ask how he did i...

 
@Doorknob Ok! Do not panic, and remember not to kill it. The best move is to let it wander away.
 
@SPArchaeologist you can add what you suggested as answer there ^^
 
@jan see? @uni agrees to.
 
You can't tell me what to do! :P
 
3:02 PM
Dead ant is an angry ant
 
@Doorknob There's one last way to prevent an ant swarm riot in case you've killed it already.
Prepare the dead ants' body on the floor. The ant leader will bury it.
 
@Doorknob Good idea! Working on it.
@HomegrownTomato It's not because I worked most on Smokey lately, that I have to fix everything :P But I'm happy to work on it :)
 
3:24 PM
@Unihedron won't that risk of spawning a zombie antman if a lighting strikes it during a rainstorm?
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
ha! :P
 
@HoboSapiens @ProgramFOX @Unihedron Can you take a look at those two cv's from me 30 minutes ago?
 
new word learned from last spam mail: oftenstimes
 
@LynnCrumbling done and done
 
meaning is the same of just "often" but with added characters for good sake.
 
3:34 PM
I despise crap following me around as I scroll. If you intent is to guarantee that I NEVER vote on an answer again because I've added the div with the vote arrows to my content blocker (ABP: It's not just for ads!) and thus never see the vote buttons again this is a brillant idea. Otherwise, not so much. As for other 3rd party ways to make it go away suggested above; not going to happen. Creating an ABP rule to remove the offensive div would require less work than Googling "What is a user script"; and I'll take the path of least resistance 100 times out of 100. — Dan Neely 11 mins ago
gg se design team
someone actually blocked the vote icons
LOL
my answer will hit 200 pretty soon
 
@Unihedron Not if I can come up with plan B. Post a meta question lamenting that that question should be made community wiki since only users chosen for the test can post good answers and get upvoted!
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
@SPArchaeologist It actually doesn't matter because out of the +2000 score, ~1500 of it goes to waste due to rep cap.
 
@Unihedron Add some claims that users actually sent unicoins/bacon to Shog for begin chosen in the test, call for some skeptics user with some "it is a conspiracy" references and ye are all done for!
 
3:39 PM
...
that's ott
 
@Moosebot restart
 
user280395
@Mooseman One death and respawn coming right up!
 
user280395
Moosebot has been activated.
 
@Unihedron .... you know, I am really wondering if there is someone outside there that would actually vote on that. A claim that the tester where chosen to have increased visibility and votes thru that question. And I fear I know the answer, someone would.
 
@Moosebot pizza
 
user280395
3:42 PM
 
All functionality has been restored in Moosebot 2.0!
 
@Mooseman what does Moosebot do, other than posting gifs?
@SmokeDetector tpu-
@SmokeDetector gone
 
@cybermonkey Not too much at the moment. Working on automatic cv's, spam flags, etc.
@Moosebot unicornify @cybermonkey
 
user280395
 
@cybermonkey not only gif! here are also jpg and png!
 
3:45 PM
^^
 
@Mooseman be careful with that, we all know what happened the last time someone tried to make an auto-cv, edit-bot, etc, bot
 
@Mooseman I already told ye. The unicornify service is old. You should recreate it with actual mlp flash puppets.
 
@cybermonkey Definitely no auto-edits. Auto-cv will be cv-pls requests from whitelisted users that already have 3-4 cv's. And auto-flag will be tpu'd reports that have a score of -3 or lower. (Or something like that)
 
@Mooseman Will it also close your account if I ask it to do so? :P
 
@SPArchaeologist Link?
@ProgramFOX I... can't do that. :p
 
3:49 PM
@Mooseman for what?
 
@SPArchaeologist mlp flash puppets
Moosebot is always willing to take FR's.
 
user259867
@ProgramFOX That's how it goes: those who do more, get asked to do even more.
 
user280395
Moosebot has been activated.
 
@Moosebot fr
 
user280395
@Mooseman Feature requests always welcome! :D
 
3:51 PM
@Mooseman aaaaahhhhh.... ok understood. I don't have them on hand now, but you can find plenty of them on DeviantArt - just look for flash mlp puppets or flash mpl bases.
I actually had that idea for a long time now... a pony gravatar service.
but first I should find some host.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: JNI load library in android by zero cool on stackoverflow.com
 
@SPArchaeologist If you do that, Moosebot will support.
@Moosebot wake @cybermonkey
 
user280395
> Let me go test the strobe lights directly over where @cybermonkey is sleeping...
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
4:00 PM
Today's xkcd comic (Words for Pets):
 
@Moosebot xkcd 1535
 
user280395
 
@Moosebot xkcd random
 
user280395
 
user259867
Support time begins.
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
All praise @HomegrownTomato, Holy Prophet of Spam.
 
@Mooseman does moosebot listen to anyone?
@Moosebot xkcd random
 
user280395
 
hm, you might want to create an 'authorized users' list ;-)
otherwise anyone could spam the chat wth @Moosebot xkcd random
like this
 
@cybermonkey For some commands (e.g., xkcd, kill, etc.), yes. Some respond differently based on privileges (See salute) and some are only for owners, e.g., restart.
 
4:08 PM
@Moosebot xkcd random
 
user280395
 
delete only works for privileged users, as well.
 
@Mooseman better privilege levels than Smokey then
 
@cybermonkey I guess. 3 + anonymous.
 
tpu-
@SmokeDetector delete
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector gone
 
:3549003 tpu-
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How does Aizen's sword work? by Stars Indisturies on anime.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
@SmokeDetector delete
 
!!/rev?
 
Privileged SmokeDetector users: you can now use sd tp, sd tpu, sd fp and sd fpu (with or without silent mode) as shortcuts to perform the given action on the latest report of SmokeDetector. (The other shortcut commands will follow later, but they are more difficult to implement)
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cc @Doorknob @hichris123 @Undo
also with an error message in case it cannot do something:
 
sd fp
 
@ProgramFOX I don't have any reports posted after latest reboot.
 
@LynnCrumbling "SmokeDetector"
 
4:19 PM
oooooooooooooooo
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: JNI load library in android by zero cool on stackoverflow.com
 
@cybermonkey Oh, right.
 
@SmokeDetector What did this match on? dumb?
 
@cybermonkey fixed
 
4:21 PM
@ProgramFOX thanks :-). now I actually know what sd does.
cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/30703889/… (one more cv needed)
@ProgramFOX Useful, so we don't have to reply to the specific report now to action it?
 
indeed
 
@ProgramFOX excellent
 
And I tested it, so it should work :P
 
this Linux distro is sexy:
 
@cybermonkey fork of ubuntu?
 
4:26 PM
@Unihedron elementary.io
 
Oh, Elementary OS!
 
sd tpu
 
@Dronehinge Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
sd tpu
 
4:31 PM
@cybermonkey Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
hm
@ProgramFOX Smokey seems to be slightly faster.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
sd fp
 
@cybermonkey Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
sd tpu-
sd gone
 
4:35 PM
@cybermonkey That doesn't work.
 
@ProgramFOX Maybe something for you to add?
@SmokeDetector gone
can't see why not
 
It is a possible thing to add, but that requires some more modifications and will probably be done at the same time as 2tpu and such. This will require some refactoring.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Where Clause in Query to match Phonenumber by Claus Machholdt on salesforce.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Hotmail Tech Support Phone Number + I 8SS 867 S8 44 Toll Free? by Elizabeth Cooper on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@cybermonkey Looks a lot like OS X Yosemite.
 
sd tpu gone
 
@Dronehinge Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
user259867
Smokey is on its way to becoming a Turing-complete programming language.
2
 
sd tpu- gone
 
@cybermonkey I don't really like "sexy" and flashy so much. Ubuntu MATE is nice: ubuntu-mate.org
 
sd tpu
 
@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
5:04 PM
@ProgramFOX User is blacklisted. (295792 on meta.stackexchange.com).
 
nice
 
MSE is getting spam attacked.. Is this normal ?
 
@JonasCz Yeah... it's usually every day around this time.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector gone
 
5:11 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How can I set the caller ID with Google Hangout? by muhammed on webapps.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
It's 16-17 UTC, do you know where your support phone number is? i.stack.imgur.com/O5C7Z.png
 
@HomegrownTomato Yes!
^ see what I did there?
 
12
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 ] Bad keyword in body, phone number detected: Invalid openstack identity credentails in glance image-create by Vikram on askubuntu.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector VLQ
 
5:14 PM
This code from the OP should be in the question, and not as an answer. — cybermonkey 9 secs ago
sd tpu-
 
I've spent the last 4 hours intermittently wondering why my PC is running so slowly today. I just remembered that I enabled "power saver mode" while I was at the conference over the weekend. Rawr.
 
1
A: JavaScript replace newline escape sequence with newline

bjb568Don't abuse regex! If you are testing for single strings, test for single strings. Since JavaScript doesn't have a built in replaceAll method (yet) for strings, you can make your own: String.prototype.replaceAll = function(find, replace) { return this.split(find).join(replace); }; Then j...

Yay, it's in the positive now!
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector That's out of turn. Get in the line, muscle spam is at 5-9 UTC.
 
user259867
 
user259867
Uh... Let's change the subject. Here is where SE employees work:
New York, NY 89
London, UK 42
Denver, CO 38
Salt Lake City, UT 3
San Francisco, CA 2
Washington, DC 2
(32 other locations with 1 each)
 
user259867
Attempt at changing subject was unsuccessful. :(
 
5:35 PM
Hallo!
With two notbots, conversation can happens!
 
I need opinions: Should I learn Rails or Django?
 
@SmokeDetector gone
 
user259867
@michaelpri Meh, frameworks. I'd ask: do you want to use Ruby or Python? Frameworks are disposable.
 
@HomegrownTomato I currently use Python and I do like it, but I heard Rails is easy to learn
 
I'd say rails.
 
5:41 PM
@michaelpri but you need to learn ruby too
 
@bjb568 What'd you use to build DD?
 
Node.js
 
Oh, ok. I've thought about learn Node.js, but.... I'm not gonna yet
 
It's pretty easy, I like it.
 
I think I'm gonna go with Django for now because I already know Python, maybe I'll switch to Rails if its not working out
 
5:53 PM
Why don't you do both? It can be an eye-opener to see how things are solved in different frameworks/languages
 
I'll probably do that actually. Or I'll use Fortran ;)
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
@michaelpri If you need negative examples consider php
 

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