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4:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Exoplanet Names 2):

I'm going to drive this Netherlands joke so far into the ground they'll have to build levees around it to keep the sea out.

Braiam

@xkcdBot just me or the image looks... odd

rene

@xkcdBot ... it has Netherlands VI so I'm happy now..

user259867

Since when is Randall going about Netherlands? It started in some What If?

user259867

Yes, it began with What If 53, published on July 9, 2013.

bjb568

4:23 PM

@Braiam looks odd to me

Compare A:

B:

Braiam

mm... maybe the xkcd was messed up?

bummi

I've difficulties to see how this answers the question: english.stackexchange.com/a/262103/30774

user259867

just trolling, I suppose

bjb568

But why is explainxkcd smoothened right?

user259867

4:39 PM

@bjb568 Look it up on explainexplainxkcd

user259867

Seriously: they grabbed the image when it appeared, and later something was done to the xkcd version, intentionally or not.

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Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector tpu-

@SmokeDetector tpu- as well

user259867

I think it might be intentional, to give the table "old scanned document" look.

user259867

Since the comic is about adding more stuff to an old table.

user259867

4:42 PM

But I was wrong... and xkcd version is back to normal now: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exoplanet_names_2.png

user259867

Matthew, you pretty much nailed it. I too do not believe the button is well-suited to generating useful traffic. After suggestions of building a better landing page experience were nixed, I asked to remove the button completely. It was said the button brings in too much traffic... but I don't think any of that traffic is terribly useful. Deep linking into this site from a "discuss this patent" link (without any further context) simply leads to virtually all of those "questions" being closed. It's a bad end-user (and community) experience for all. It's unfortunate, but that's where we're at. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 24 mins ago

user259867

That explains something about Patents. Instead of being a very slow, but normal, beta, it's just a constant stream of people not realizing where they are, and leaving after their question is closed.

hichris123

Or not even knowing where they were... or not even caring.

Braiam

both, they don't care where they drop their content, just to solve their issue

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hichris123

4:57 PM

Bit early for spam.

user259867

We're moving toward 24/7 spam cycle.

hichris123

On another note... @NormalHuman -- Chrome is going to switch over to new Date("1970-01-01") and Date.parse("1970-01-01") defaulting to the local timezone if no timezone was specified.

Braiam

spam regexes shoudn't ignore code blocks or quotes

hichris123

Watch for it in M46.

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hichris123

5:00 PM

@Braiam It probably didn't, the blockquote probably wasn't in the body summary.

user259867

@SmokeDetector naa

rene

@NormalHuman The Netherlands cross the new land bridge into North America. I very much like the idea...

Braiam

@rene I wonder if that would lower the shipping costs/waiting time

rene

we would have to rethink shipping as it has no use anymore...

user259867

> Today on Stack Roulette I met Sam and Andrew. Sam used to work at Maker Bot and 3D printed a giant Walter White lego! pic.twitter.com/x9P5EeLGxe -- David Haney at 7:23 AM - 24 Jul 2015 via Twitter

user259867

5:10 PM

Is Stack Roulette a thing that connects a Stack employee to another, randomly chosen one?

Braiam

@NormalHuman probably

kind of like the wheel of blame, just that is for employees use

user259867

Hmm, what if they made such a thing for users?

user259867

> You are chatting with Your Common Sense

Andy

@NormalHuman That is a huge bulletin board on that back wall. I want one.

Braiam

I think that's just plywood

jadarnel27

5:14 PM

@NormalHuman Rough luck.

hichris123

@NormalHuman Yeah, didn't balpha make that?

No, that was a different thing.

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hichris123

Mar 30 at 15:28, by Woodface

> Coffee Roulette: paired with random employee for remote coffee

user259867

Hi Sam!; Hi Andrew!

hichris123

5:33 PM

@3ventic I now know after breaking yet another test262 test for Chrome -- test262's website is still on the ES5.1 test, and engines are implementing ES6 features, possibly breaking the test in the meantime. (although there is an updated ES6 version... not sure why that's not the website. github.com/tc39/test262)

Braiam

@hichris123 I'm sure that it's a bug:

> test262 is not yet complete. It is still undergoing active development. Some portions of the ES5 specification have very complete test coverage while other portions of the specification have only partial test coverage. Some tests may be invalid or may yield false positive or false negative results. A perfect passing score on test262 does not guarantee that a JavaScript implementation perfectly supports ES5.

hichris123

@Braiam You mean that it's not the ES6 version? I think they just haven't updated it yet.

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5:50 PM

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Shokhet

6:28 PM

Yay! meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/13/yearling?userid=266359

user259867

6:43 PM

Happy birthday!

Shokhet

:)

That was my first MSE yearling, and my third (I think) network-wide

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Modifying website source code to bypass survey by anthonylanman on superuser.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector naa

SmokeDetector

7:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Phloridzin, a question about this by ines on chemistry.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector OT, most likely

Lynn Crumbling

7:28 PM

Attempted an edit, anyway.

I'm betting it won't matter.

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7:47 PM

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Kevin Brown

7:58 PM

@SmokeDetector tpu-

Lynn Crumbling

@KevinBrown Interesting that they tagged it samba

@SmokeDetector gone

Shokhet

That one actually disappeared very quickly

(one spam flag was mine :)

Lynn Crumbling

For askubuntu.. yeah, it did.

user259867

Final round of InfoSec election has begun. All the primary round did was to eliminate Romeo.

Kevin Brown

I get the feeling that a lot of them think that running for the position is a joke

user259867

8:04 PM

I upvoted 5 in the primary round, which is still a good pool to pick from (considering 1 gets elected).

Shokhet

8:14 PM

Am I right, here?

Let me get this straight. You don't know what a "Professional Society" is, and you're asking is SO is one? I'm sorry, but I'll have to vote to close as unclear, as the question is pretty much unanswerable (at least until you pick a well-defined definition) — Shokhet 2 mins ago

wait:

....so you do have a definition you'd like to use? — Shokhet 7 secs ago

Question edited, close vote retracted. — Shokhet 12 secs ago

Never mind....

@Shokhet and answered

Braiam

@hichris123 No, I mean that maybe IE having higher scores in test262 is due the test itself being buggy/flawed

> desire for clothes is motivated by a simple warning flag - "Nudity will attract substantial amounts of unwanted attention"

user259867

If you want the posts created between 6 and 8 days ago, the query is not created:6d..8d, it's created:8d..6d Which makes sense in one way but is still odd.

user259867

I don't find anything wrong with an interval [-8,-6] but when there is no minus sign...

bjb568

8:32 PM

@Braiam … context?

user259867

feature-request A context bot for Braiam.

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Shokhet

I don't think that allowing each answerer their own definition of "professional society" is okay, because how are you (and us, those who vote on the answers) supposed to know if a specific answer has answered the question? — Shokhet 14 mins ago

@Shokhet Yeah! You are right. But I am also looking for some other views! Just in case anyone else had a different view to a professional society during their college, because the definition isn't mine anyway, but somehow fits. — user007 9 mins ago

....should I roll back that question to revision 2?

bjb568

First 8865, failed 90 on mobile safari

Then test262 froze

Braiam

the fuck? nationalreview.com/article/421516/stop-internet-streaming-tax

@NormalHuman I think the idea was today()-days

also, older..newer

@bjb568 HQL

terminator question

user259867

Yes, it makes sense since it's just a substitution: "8d" gets replaced by 2015-07-16. Still goes against the idea of "created 6-8 days ago". Maybe it's the language that should be fixed.

user259867

8:45 PM

"Created between -8 and -6 days from now".

Braiam

I think is more like "Created between today-minus-8-days and today-minus-6-days"

btw, any taverner lives in chicago?

user259867

To the best of my stalking ability, no; but I don't know everyone's location.

user259867

Arabic Language might survive after all, but it's really close. In 10 days, they created 55 non-closed questions with score >=0. In the reputation league, the top user beats the runner-up by the factor of 3.6.

bjb568

@Braiam wot

Braiam

@NormalHuman I think they would move within a few days

@bjb568 darn, HNQ

bjb568

8:59 PM

Health news questionnaire?

Braiam

¬_¬

No one ever just asks for one easily-queryable number. Always gotta be 7 different perspectives with weird little conditions that take ages to run. grumble grumble — Shog9 ♦ 2 days ago

> I figured this was enough, as the capybara's were now fleeing, and retired the KILL SQUAD 2 from active duty...but no, the dwarves had a blood lust! No matter the tasks I assigned they chased down each and every last capybara, slaughtering them without mercy. I gazed upon what I had created and thought to myself...
"I like this game."
(They all died of thirst and starvation shortly after)

Undo

9:20 PM

@bjb568 hot network questions

hichris123

@Braiam There's a few of those. But more are just because the ES6 standard contradicts with what ES5.1 says.

@Braiam Why?

Braiam

9:36 PM

@hichris123 nationalreview.com/article/421516/stop-internet-streaming-tax

hichris123

@Braiam Oh.

user259867

9:46 PM

There appears to be no tag for Sage CRM, so these poor souls end up in [sage] tag, which is for totally unrelated software.

user259867

Should I go create [sage-crm] tag? I have the rep for that, just asking to be sure.

user259867

That one is spelled with a space, unlike, say, CiviCRM.

user259867

Alright, done.

AstroCB

So, I'm just browsing Stack Overflow.

I hit refresh, and suddenly, I have the new nav.

Magic.

user259867

Evil magic

AstroCB

9:56 PM

> AJAX all the things! Navigation is now javascript-powered and we don't do postbacks if possible.

Interesting.

Braiam

> Flooding my current fortress is no longer an issue.
Just got murderized by a forgotten beast. A giant tapeworm with tiny bat wings you say? Doesn't sound too dangerous.
Except for the god damn fireballs...

AstroCB

1 hour ago, by Normal Human

feature-request A context bot for Braiam.

!xkcd find context bot

xkcdBot

If you read all vaguebooking/vaguetweeting with the assumption that they're saying everything they can without revealing classified military information, the internet gets way more exciting.

hichris123

Okay, I have the new nav. Let's see how long it takes for me to be disappointed.

user259867

Depends on the tags you are looking at, but generally 6-8 seconds.

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user259867

10:08 PM

@SmokeDetector fp- brain power

hichris123

I got distracted. Reset the timer.

It's better... but I still don't like it.

I miss the question summaries.

Braiam

still seeing the excerpts?

hichris123

Apparently popular questions are the only ones worth reading.

@Braiam Ohhhh that's a setting now.

sigh the thing they're missing is that the question page and homepage are two different things to people.

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hichris123

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A: Improving our navigation, the next iteration

I appreciate your attempt to improve navigation, but this interface is super confusing. I've been playing around with it for 10 minutes and I don't understand how it works. The primary navigation element appears to be "new / popular / need answers" — effectively three "tabs" — on the left. Why...

Okay, opting out of the new nav.

user259867

10:21 PM

11 minutes

hichris123

Ah, much better.

I'm not sure what's so confusing about the old nav system...?

user259867

People who don't format their code, but apply [tag: ] formatting to software name within the post... :/

user259867

Is there a SEDE query to locate posts with tags within text?

santiago

cv-pls nuke-from-orbit-please stackoverflow.com/q/31620413/4756884

user259867

Or to random words, like chart at every occurrence in the post.

Braiam

10:35 PM

maybe we should disable the [tag] formatting on main sites

user259867

> Scripting and Profiling Improvements to StackExchange.Redis kevinmontrose.com/2015/07/24/… … -- Kevin Montrose at 11:59 AM - 24 Jul 2015 via Twitter

user259867

Full search of SO in SEDE takes a while...

user259867

select top 100 Id as [Post Link] from Posts
where Body like '%post-tag%'
order by CreationDate desc

user259867

Timeout.

Braiam

Body searches take a while

user259867

11:37 PM

> We’ll provide good reasoning Monday for doing so, but please: don’t install .Net 4.6 on production this weekend. -- Nick Craver at 4:11 PM - 24 Jul 2015 via Twitter

user259867

Okay, I won't.

manetsus

11:48 PM

//help

user259867

11:58 PM

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