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Tim Stone

12:11 AM

@MichaelMrozek I'm about to demand a do-over.

yawns Hooray nap, apparently..

drachenstern

I leave for 4 hours and there were only 30 new messages?

Heh

nebukadnezzar

whoops

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Well, I was barely here, so I've decided it was understandable.

drachenstern

Also, hello again Walmart :/

nebukadnezzar

er.. Hi. nevermind me please. :D

radp

12:20 AM

@nebukadnezzar HI @NEBUKADNEZZAR

drachenstern

@TimStone same here ;)

Hi @neb

radp

STARES AT @NEBUKADNEZZAR INTERESTED

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nebukadnezzar

Hi @rapd & drachenstern!

radp

Your gravatar looks suspiciously similar to @TimStone's.

calls the sockpuppet police

who?

12:21 AM

Eh, not really. :P

I have an account at launchpad, signed with my pubkey... I doubt i'm any related to him :P

radp

See? Practically the same!

...as far as identicons go.

nebukadnezzar

haha, i guess so

drachenstern

12:24 AM

@neb You'll have to excuse my mobile safari ness ;) ... @radp They do look similar

nebukadnezzar

it's cool

drachenstern

Gone again

drachenstern

12:42 AM

Somebody please explain bulbs on left side of Wally world and lamps on right side ...

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Exercise.

drachenstern

Bah, I don't want exercise, I'm shopping at WM ;)

Tim Stone

I know, but they want to support a healthier America, so they've tricked you ;)

drachenstern

Well what sucks is I went to the bulbs thinking the lights would be there to start with :/

Tim Stone

Ah, yeah...I'm honestly not even sure where lamps are in ours, heh.

drachenstern

12:54 AM

By the "furniture" ;)

Tim Stone

I see, then indeed on the other side of the store from the light bulbs in hardware :P

drachenstern

Sadly

Tim Stone

Which is by the garden center and, inexplicably, cosmetics (in my case).

radp

1:08 AM

if (0 != strncmp(instructions.next, "", MAX_PATH_LEN));
    return -1;

I hate myself.

Tim Stone

Heh :P

Yi Jiang

Unfortunately for TIM, the Asiastar engine which came out in a few years after that was a pretty good improvement, so I automatically set all TIMs to upgrade to that. Sorry @TimStone :P

Tim Stone

It's OK, that just makes me classic. :P

radp

yay, I got this one string function right after a mere 5 hours!

Tim Stone

\o/

radp

1:16 AM

and I didn't even do any actual string fiddling.

/o\

nite people

Tim Stone

G'night

Rebecca Chernoff

Nite @radp

Tim Stone

Damn brain and its refusing to work properly. :(

Moshe

1:46 AM

Hi

I just hit 3K on SO, yay!

Tim Stone

@Pekka shakes fist Don't make me have to start going to ServerFault to answer mod_rewrite questions! ;)

Moshe

@TimStone [self.brain reloadData]; (objective-C)

Tim Stone

I'm not sure that Objective-C is the key to making a brain function correctly. :P

Moshe

Oh, it is.

Objective-C is the key to making the brain function properly.

It's been quite a day.

I used up all my votes, courtesy of @drachenstern and the funny comments thread. I also had my best SO answer ever. Oh, and new glasses.

Tim Stone

Adam Wenocur awoke from an extremely vivid dream, entirely in Objective-C.
    Tim Stone That must have been the most terrible square bracket-filled nightmare ever.

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Moshe

1:52 AM

Now to finish the app that's due on Tuesday.

@TimStone - Haha.

square brackets are awesome!

There's a wooden puzzle made up of them.

Tim Stone

Ah, yeah.

Moshe

Square Brackets ftw!

I have one of those on my desk right next to me. Got it from a roommate in school who was cleaning up and leaving.

I couldn't figure it out. My little bro took about 20 seconds to figure it out.

Granted, it's a little smaller than the one pictured here, but still.

Tim Stone

Heh :P

Moshe

@TimStone - It gets better. I dropped it and one of the brackets cracked. He glued it together, but moved the edge in a bit so I almost couldn't fix it.

But yea, he did beat me there.

nebukadnezzar

is it some kind of a puzzle?

Moshe

1:58 AM

@nebukadnezzar - yea

It's made up of wooden brackets an you have to put it together so it forms the above shape.

Gotta run, ttyl

nebukadnezzar

2:11 AM

ah, cool :-)

drachenstern

2:28 AM

flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637

Moshe

Back

@drachenstern - Hi

Nice

drachenstern

hello

so for dinner I decided I needed corndogs, chili, cheese and the remainder of the (still) sparking wine for dinner.

I think it was classy ;)

Moshe

You were redundant, read the last sentence and tell me just how much wine was the "remainder" of it. :P

drachenstern

> Ok fine Oracle, I will upgrade my effing Java client that I never seem to use, on the off chance I need it ...

I believe there was still about half a 750 but I wasn't measuring before or after ;)

and I didn't drink it from a flute, merely a regular dinner glass

Moshe

@drachenstern - or on the off chance that you want it to stop nagging you.

drachenstern

2:31 AM

@Moshe I believe you are highly perceptive ;)

Moshe

I know. We once got into a fight about that. :D

drachenstern

I don't recall it being a fight so much as a disagreement ;) :p

Moshe

To do a transparent screen, just disassemble the display assembly.

@drachenstern - Yea, ok. Fair enough.

Why go through the hassle of photoshop when you can actually have a transparent screen?

drachenstern

Because transparent aluminum doesn't exist yet?

Moshe

No, Liquid crystal panels are transparent

Remove the aluminum.

my favorite, with the iPod a close second: flickr.com/photos/w00kie/11033741/in/set-180637

Eh, so much for "so far", it was the last one.

Ever completely disassembled a laptop?

drachenstern

2:35 AM

I guess you don't know what transparent aluminum is then?

Or have I got the wrong moniker?

Moshe

I don't, sorry. Please explain.

drachenstern

No I had the right reference:

List of Star Trek materials

This is a list of fictional materials from the science fiction universe of Star Trek. Like other aspects of stories in the franchise, some were recurring plot elements from one episode or series to another. Metals for starship construction The fictional metals duranium and tritanium were referred to in many episodes as extremely hard alloys used in starship hulls. Transparent aluminum Star Trek technical manuals indicate that transparent aluminum is used in various fittings in starships, including exterior ship portals and windows. It was notably mentioned in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: ...

Moshe

Ah, star trek.

Tim Stone

Hmm... shakes fist at Jin

Have to be very cautious about what I play here.. :P

Ah, there we go...

drachenstern

Sorry, been working on this:

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A: How to make for loops in Java increase by increments other than 1

Since nobody else has actually tackled Could someone please explain this to me? I believe I will: j++ is shorthand, it's not an actual operation (ok it really IS, but bear with me for the explanation) j++ is really equal to the operation j = j + 1; except it's not a macro or something that does...

@TimStone that's OK, rchern is kicking my arse 300:150

Tim Stone

2:49 AM

@drachenstern I saw that question earlier and raised a brow, heh.

I think she's beating me by one point right now, argh. :P

drachenstern

@TimStone user has like 12 rep, figure they're a very new programmer, thought I would help

I'm just curious if you guys think it was mostly right or totally overkill?

remembering that the OP has 12 rep

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Yeah, I figured it was something like that. I also see where the confusion is, glancing at the question. As for your answer, I'll look at that after I finish work (it involves a bit more reading :P)

drachenstern

I think I'm right in my assumption of HSer: shakenearth.com/2009/12/rants-about-school

@TimStone Mine always do involve more reading ;)

"TheTeenGeek.com"

whoa, wait a second!

nebukadnezzar

<rant>I wonder what makes people think MSO is a good place for constant, pointless argumentations... :-( </rant>

drachenstern

> Shaken Earth | The View of the World from a 14 year old

I wish I was that fortunate at 14 to have a computer to program in a real IDE with a real language :S

Instead I had BASIC on something less powerful than an alarm clock :|

Tim Stone

2:53 AM

@nebukadnezzar ...Heh. :P Anything in particular?

I was a little more fortunate than that in my time ;)

drachenstern

You were a little more fortunate than BASIC at 14 or a little more fortunate than a processor less powerful than an alarm clock?

I think modern alarm clocks are pretty powerful :S

Tim Stone

The first part. Although I guess the second part also.

Heh, this is true. :P

nebukadnezzar

@TimStone yeah, if you must ask meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73697/…

it totally went out of control right after the first post

I guess I'll rather not post anything tagged as 'discussion' on MSO so soon anymore :P :P

Tim Stone

Hmm..

nebukadnezzar

(and I kinda sorta agree with @thrillscience, but that's just my very humble opinion)

drachenstern

2:59 AM

@TimStone what were you using at 14 then? I probably could've pushed for something with C but I had no technical resources at all till I was about 17 so hadn't known really. Plus it wasn't till I was 16 that I ever got to "log in to the www"

well @nebukadnezzar to be fair What are the main reasons for a question being voted down? is usually regarded as a crap question on MSO ... :|

Tim Stone

Ah, that might give away my age. ;)

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