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6:01 AM

ok, that's midnight

I'll see some of you in the AM ... Tim, pretend to get some sleep. @RebeccaChernoff do so if you're not still too excited about your new job ;) ... ciao ya'll .. @TylerChacha good luck on finding that shovel tonight ;)

Tim Stone

G'night

Tyler Chacha

6:14 AM

@YiJiang I have Train stations ... How do I tell the trains to get the ore?

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha You have two stations, right? One which supplies and one that accepts

You need to pop open the orders panel, the one with the arrow

Tyler Chacha

Yes, I have one at a mine and one at a refinery

Yi Jiang

Pop open the order panel with the button that looks like '->' then press go to, click the station, then the other one, and press start

Tyler Chacha

Both panels say :Accepts Nothing

err

the one by the mine ways waiting nothing, accepts nothing

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha Eh... the one at the refinery is too far from it

Tyler Chacha

6:17 AM

You mean at the mines

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha The mine should say waiting nothing, since it won't start supplying until the first train visits

Tyler Chacha

The refinery has 'Accepts: Coal'

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha Good enough, have you given the train it's orders?

Tyler Chacha

I have it Go to Mines (Full load any cargo) and Go to Refinery

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha Okay, sounds about right. Click on the bottom bar, then the train will start

Tyler Chacha

6:19 AM

Ok

it goes back and forth

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha Between?

Tyler Chacha

But the mine still says '0% transported"

Between the two stations

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha Wait till the end of the month, and check that the train is picking up the cargo

Tyler Chacha

right now it says all 5 cars are empty

and it just left the mine

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha The very first run will always be empty

Tyler Chacha

6:21 AM

ah, k

so we will see what it does now

Yi Jiang

You can fast forward it a bit

Tyler Chacha

second run., stil empty

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha Okay, is there any cargo at the mine station?

Tyler Chacha

I'm not sure. It still says nothing is waiting

Yi Jiang

Maybe you'd want to read the tutorial on the Wiki instead: wiki.openttd.org/Tutorial/Trains

Tyler Chacha

6:25 AM

I did exactly that..

George Marian

@YiJiang I was just wondering about something like that.

Tyler Chacha

Both stations are right next to each other..

Followed everything exactly

Yi Jiang

Erm... I'm not sure. Maybe drop a screenshot here?

Tyler Chacha

sec

Yi Jiang

@TylerChacha That's an Iron ore mine, which you've connected to a power station

Tyler Chacha

6:30 AM

Somethings wrong, because after around a year of sitting at the station it is still at 0%

Yi Jiang

You're looking for a coal mine

Tyler Chacha

hmm

Yi Jiang

^ This is a coal mine

George Marian

@TylerChacha The right most button on the main bar will let you get info on any tile. It's a great way to figure WTF things are.

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian Right clicking on any button will give you a tooltip

George Marian

6:36 AM

@YiJiang Good to know, I was wondering why there weren't any tooltips.

Tyler Chacha

there we go..

Tim Stone

So many places to put in timesheet information, argh.

George Marian

@TimStone I so dislike time tracking.

Tim Stone

I don't mind it for the actual programming stuff...

But this administrative stuff is making me pull my hair out.

We have to break up meetings and stuff and assign time accordingly, and it's hard to keep track of it all.

George Marian

@TimStone Wait. You have to subdivide time spent in meetings?

Tim Stone

6:42 AM

Yeah

George Marian

Oh, man...

Tim Stone

I just copy whatever everyone else puts. :P

George Marian

lol

Tim Stone

I'm only interested in how long the programming takes, heh.

So let them decide how to divide up the rest, I figure.

George Marian

That seems like more trouble that it's worth.

Tim Stone

6:48 AM

If it helps them, I guess it's all good. Also, to be fair, our meetings tend to go on huge tangents...so I guess they're more like separate meetings.

Greg Hewgill

sounds like you just need some better meeting discipline

Tim Stone

Perhaps...There is a lot to cover though.

Greg Hewgill

I once worked at a place where we had these huge meetings with the whole dev team for every new thing we were doing

Tim Stone

Ouch, that seems a bit unnecessary

Greg Hewgill

well, we were developing version 2.0, so everybody wanted to make sure we didn't have the limitations of 1.0, plus have all the features everybody ever wanted

classic "second system" syndrome

Tim Stone

6:59 AM

Ah ha. :P

Tim Stone

7:52 AM

@Benjol Ah, beat me to the link by a few seconds :P

Benjol

@TimStone, I knew it was there somewhere because I've already gone to try and request the feature several times :)

Tim Stone

Do you at least have the userscript to tide you over, if you use a userscript-friendly browser? :)

Benjol

@TimStone, not yet, I admit. I've got the chat userscript loaded, never got round to trying the other one yet. Guess I should. (Thinks: Does working on userscripts fast-track you for valued associate status?)

Tim Stone

Nah, I think @RebeccaChernoff is just good like that, heheh ;)

I was just curious, since I added auto-complete to it and no one has complained about any issues yet (which I'm sure there are plenty, especially since it doesn't alias accented characters to their non-accepted equivalents), heh.

up votes @MarcGravell for his prompt response, not his blame-taking (just so we're clear :P)

Marc Gravell

8:21 AM

what did I do now?

Tim Stone

Well, you deleted the answer now. ;)

Marc Gravell

ah, yes. When I went to fix it I was like "huh? this should only show questions!"

Tim Stone

I was just clarifying that the up vote was for your going to fix it, and not for the fact that it was your fault. :p

Marc Gravell

view the repo - Jarrod fixed it 7 hours ago

Tim Stone

Heheh

Oh, by the way...the whole "desktop notification of mentions in another room" bit isn't too kind to those of us with multiple tabs open. I found a way to quash it and set a timeout on the notifications with the userscript though, so it's all good for the moment.

Though I'd also imagine that my having a tab for each room isn't the intended usage either >_>

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Q: Inconsistent handling of not-encoded URL in preview

In the preview, the link below is displayed correctly (but is incomplete). After posting, it does not work any more. The brackets need to be encoded. [Link][1] This is related to Hyperlink is shown incorrectly in SO post. My question is: Why is this incorrect URL handled different by the previ...

George Marian

8:34 AM

@TimStone It has to be very prevalent.

Tim Stone

I think this actually is a bug in the server-side markdown parser.

* Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);
* followed by a colon;
* followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);
* followed by the URL for the link;
* optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed in double or single quotes, or enclosed in parentheses.

It never says that there has to be a space after the link before the parenthesis-enclosed title.

goes off to look at that code now

Marc Gravell

@TimStone Yes, I've seen that - I need to fix it; note that it is turn-off-and-on-able now, though

Tim Stone

Yeah, nice addition :)

Actually caught me off guard too, because I thought my script wasn't working, heh. Turned out I had to enable the notifications.

Benjol

@I'm missing a chapter, what's the desktop notification thing?

Tim Stone

Chat now has built-in notification support for @-mentions.

Benjol

8:39 AM

uh, didn't it already? with the turquoise circle and the * ?

Tim Stone

I'm not sure how they look in non-notification API supporting browsers (some HTML toast it looked like maybe?), but in Chrome you get notification toasts on your primary desktop.

@Benjol You get a little thingadongdong with the message.

If you @-notify me I'll grab a screenshot

Benjol

@TimStone, I'm on firefox, so probably explains why I don't see any difference

really must get round to giving chrome some serious time. I like my forecast fox too much :)

Tim Stone

(with Chrome)

Benjol

And windows7?

I'm firefox on xp (here)...

Tim Stone

You have to enable it in the sidebar first, using the "enable desktop notification" link.

Benjol

8:41 AM

me goes there...

Tim Stone

It'll work with Chrome on any OS, I believe.

Benjol

leaving in firefox...

Marc Gravell

@TimStone I added a user-preference to persist that option; it needs to be enabled once by the user

(previously it was automatic: if the browser let you show it, it got shown)

Tim Stone

Yeah

Benjol

No good, I just get aspx errors in chrome for some reason :(

Marc Gravell

8:44 AM

what errors?

Benjol

Server Error in '/' Application.

Tim Stone

I hadn't noticed until I went to add in the auto-timeout, presumably because I didn't reload chat until then. :P

Marc Gravell

@Benjol huh? now I'm confuddled

checking error log

Benjol

@MarcGravell, well we've got proxy here blocking stuff, so possibly browser is sending you funny stuff

either that or it's the effect of trying to log in to chat from two different browsers?

Marc Gravell

error log is clean

Benjol

8:46 AM

weird

Marc Gravell

if you happen to have any more info on that I'd love to see it

Benjol

@MarcGravell, I can connect to meta, but any chat.meta link gives me the 'yellow screen of death'

Marc Gravell

so... how are you here now?

Benjol

with firefox

Marc Gravell

are you a zombie?

ah

George Marian

8:48 AM

Someone ping me.

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian 'Ello

Benjol

@GeorgeMarian, why? :)

Marc Gravell

@GeorgeMarian and a reply

Benjol

@MarcGravell, I'll just check that proxy settings are same on both browsers (for starters)

George Marian

Sweet, I wanted to checkout the desktop notifcations.

I may just start using Chrome for chat again.

Tim Stone

8:48 AM

:)

That's what I'm doing right now, heheh.

Firefox and it's 1.5 GB of RAM... shakes head

Marc Gravell

I wonder if I can/should do something like Chromed Bird does so the toast only lasts a while - thoughts?

George Marian

It would also make it easier to distinguish the windows when I end up w/ soooo man windows that the titles just show elipses. lol

@MarcGravell Yah, that would be good. Ideally, with a configurable time.

Tim Stone

@MarcGravell I went to these lengths to force that to happen, so my answer (and the answer of everyone else in here who uses Chrome and has the notifications enabled) is a resounding "Yes!" ;)

George Marian

Oh, goodness. I sure need to dust my humindor.

Tim Stone

Though honestly I feel like it's just a huge fault of the notification API that there's not an optional parameter for the timeout :/

Marc Gravell

8:52 AM

what do we reckon... 30 seconds? after that just use the blue disk?

George Marian

Yah, that should probably work well.

Tim Stone

I have it at 8 there, but as a compromise 15 might be comfortable. I generally only want to see the toast if I'm doing something else on my main screen and not looking at chat. Otherwise, I'll just come back and check the notifications using the disk later.

Marc Gravell

(switches csproj)

@TimStone I'm hedging that at some point one other browser will have toast, so I've wrapped it - there'll be a timeout option on my wrapper ;p

notifier.desktop({ title: title, text: text, icon: icon, timeout: 15000 });

Benjol

@MarcGravell, FWIW, I can get to chat.SO and chat.SE

Marc Gravell

but chat.meta is #fail... odd; very odd

Tim Stone

8:58 AM

@MarcGravell I'd imagine so, toast is delicious. Heheh, that's because you write awesome code, not whatever the notification API is suppose to be. ;)

Marc Gravell

any chance of a http dump? (obviously redact cookies) - I should be able to tell if it is some middle infrastructure...

Benjol

Could it be the fact that I'm already connected via FFx? I could try connecting to the other chats in ffx as well, if you think that's even worth trying

Marc Gravell

@Benjol no; every client is independent

we don't do per-user state; that leads to things like messages that only get delivered to one client

Benjol

@MarcGravell, urhm, I'll try :)

Tim Stone

@Benjol I've been connected from three devices simultaneously, so it should be cool. >_> isn't a chat addict or anything

Yi Jiang

9:00 AM

I think Firefox 4 might be getting it too

See: dougt.org/wordpress/2010/06/desktop-notifications and bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573588

Tim Stone

Ah, nifty.

Marc Gravell

dammit! made the mistake of editing the combined script rather than the individual file. Guess what my build script did to my change?

Tim Stone

Ouch.

Marc Gravell

having self-vanishing toast also makes the duplication issue less severe

worth fixing, but less urgent

Tim Stone

It's more motivation for people to use our userscript, so that's fine by me. ;)

But yeah, definitely. Before it was horrible, I had to clear 30+ notifications...

Marc Gravell

9:03 AM

(deliberate in chat) hg commit -m "Toast: now you see it, now you don't"

Tim Stone

:D

Marc Gravell

No, Kiln, I don't want to update at this point! thx for asking me. Again.

Yi Jiang

I feel slightly stupid, but why do you guys keep calling the notifications 'toasts'?

Marc Gravell

Toast (computing)

In software engineering, a toast is a small, informational window displayed by certain kinds of software, especially instant messaging clients such as AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, XFire(with the latest update) and Trillian. Toasts notify users of various kinds of events, such as reception of new e-mail, a change in a peer's availability, or a change in network connectivity. A Google employee, formerly a Microsoft Employee, is credited with coining the term during the development of MSN Messenger, since Messenger's small notification windows slide upward into view, like...

Tim Stone

> The Desktop Notifications API allows script to request a small toast to appear on the desktop of the user.

George Marian

9:05 AM

Probably, 'cause they pop-up, like toast... =/

Tim Stone

I had a rant the other day about how calling it a toast was silly, but apparently the Chromium developers disagree. :P

Marc Gravell

build server reports success

Feeds

test @Marc

Benjol

@MarcGravell, I'm sorry, I'm sitting here looking at WireShark's zillion options and absolutely no idea how to filter out the bits that might be useful to you :(

Marc Gravell

Nor me; every time I try wireshark I give up and go back to Fiddler. Fiddler hugs me.

Benjol

9:11 AM

@MarcGravell, ok, fiddler it is..

Marc Gravell

(wonders how many of you checked for my cookies...)

of course, Tim and Abby could get back my cookies in under 2 minutes

Yi Jiang

Tim Stone

@MarcGravell We know you know better ;)

Marc Gravell

chat tycoon

Tim Stone

Wow, Marc has a ton of valuables :P

Marc Gravell

9:17 AM

raid!

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Backlog, actually, after the plane that was running the very lucrative route crashed on takeoff from that airport

Tim Stone

Oh, whoops.

Marc Gravell

a crash? must have been hardware related...

Yi Jiang

That is the busiest airport I have, actually, so we're going to see a lot of planes crashing at Marc Gravell Airport

Marc Gravell

status-norepro

Yi Jiang

9:19 AM

@MarcGravell Well, one happened at Jeff Atwood a few hours ago, so...

3 hours ago, by Yi Jiang

Benjol

@MarcGravell, ok, I've got.. something, what would you like? ;)

Tim Stone

@MarcGravell Can you clear my star from @YiJiang's post at the top of the list over there? That sentence is still hilarious, but it does come across as a little inappropriate and I feel bad having it pinned up there. :p

Marc Gravell

@YiJiang Got any room left on the grid for Nick et al?

done

George Marian

@YiJiang I forsee this game, in all its pixelated glory, taking up a lot of my free time.

Tim Stone

Thanks

@GeorgeMarian I'm resisting the temptation to start. I only have one more method to write, argh!

Marc Gravell

9:23 AM

@Benjol For the 501, the response pane (bottom right), Raw tab, after clicking the yellow button to remove compression (if there), and removing any cookie sets/

Tim Stone

But right now I'm investigating Markdown for some reason. :P

George Marian

@TimStone hehe

Benjol

@MarcGravell, looks like I'm getting a 302, of all things...

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:18:43 GMT
Content-Length: 139
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive
Age: 0

<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
<h2>Object moved to <a href="/error?aspxerrorpath=/">here</a>.</h2>
</body></html>

Marc Gravell

hmmm...

Benjol

proxy cache?

Marc Gravell

9:25 AM

oddd

let me manually check the servers

I have you

investigating

"The null value cannot be assigned to a member with type System.DateTime which is a non-nullable value type."

stop being null, @Benjol ;p

kidding

Tim Stone

I blame an iPhone alarm not going off to wake the server up so it could let poor @Benjol in.

Benjol

@MarcGravell Good stuff

Marc Gravell

nearly built...

right; try now

Benjol

hehehe, I's in :)

Thanks @Marc, now where's the toaster? :)

Tim Stone

9:50 AM

@Benjol Toast!

Benjol

@TimStone, sorry, had to reboot my machine, I missed that one :(

Tim Stone

@Benjol No problem :)

Benjol

no joy, I guess I have to enable something in chrome? (Sorry, definitely not a power user)

Tim Stone

You'll need to click the link below the star list on the right if you haven't yet, and then there should be a notification asking you to grant the site permission to display notifications if it hasn't been granted already.

Benjol

haha, I see, that link kind of didn't stand out for me, you know?

done

more toast please ;)

Marc Gravell

9:59 AM

@Benjol pop!

Tim Stone

@Benjol With butter or jam? :P

Benjol

nice nice nice, I'm rolling in the stuff

@TimStone, Marmite, what else? :)

Tim Stone

Heheh

Benjol

@MarcGravell, so, do I get a 'found exotic bug' badge? Or a 'stupid user' badge? :)

Marc Gravell

In this case, I think the only badge on offer is "stupid developer" aka me

Benjol

10:09 AM

@MarcGravell, oh, ok, but you already had that, I guess :)

George Marian

A bridge to nowhere. :)

Tim Stone

Hah! I was just about to write that exact same message.

George Marian

:)

Great minds, and all that...

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian Happens a lot

On my 512x512 map, I think I can give you a dozen at least. The game's own road building algo isn't that good.

Although there's an option to use an 'improved' algo, it doesn't seem to do much

George Marian

heh

@YiJiang So, how often do you run the risk that by the time you've built something to take advantage of a subsidy, the resource has gone away?

Yi Jiang

10:17 AM

@GeorgeMarian I don't usually take subsidies - but you should be able to see a list of subsidies from one of the top bar menu

George Marian

@YiJiang I just built a railroad to take advantage of a subsidy and forest closed up shop soon just about when it came time for me to give orders to the trains. =/

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian Yeah, sucks when that happens

George Marian

Alright, judging by that last sentence, I think it's time for bed.

g'night folks

Tim Stone

G'night

Benjol

Night George

Yi Jiang

10:25 AM

Oh boy, it happened again

Tim Stone

Wow, Jeff is ruthless.

Apparently all plane crashes result in 100% fatalities. :P

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Also, the planes have 2 pilots - the plane reports 400 passenger capacity

Tim Stone

Apparently neither the pilot nor the copilot were very good at their jobs.

Greg Hewgill

I get the feeling you guys aren't talking about stack overflow

Yi Jiang

@TimStone They were just unlucky at the PRNG - 0.7% chance is the default here

That's what chacha looks like. Hmmm...

Tim Stone

10:32 AM

@GregHewgill Heheh

@YiJiang Ouch, that seems rather high

OK, my brain has turned to mush now. Think it's time to rest a bit before tackling the rest of this code..

Pekka

10:53 AM

Morning everyone

What's this showing Sim City screenshots all about?

Marc Gravell

Railroad tycoon, surely

Yi Jiang

@Pekka OpenTTD, actually. And I'm naming the in-game cities after chat regulars here

Marc Gravell

or transport tycoon

Yi Jiang

@MarcGravell Open source version of the classical, yes

Pekka

@YiJiang Ah, very nice!

Next up: Riots against the employment Policy in Umbrella Factory in @Marc Gravell

Suburban transport down in @Jin City

Yi Jiang

10:58 AM

@Pekka I haven't installed the Urban Monorail package yet, unfortunately

Yi Jiang

1:14 PM

I suppose it's inevitable that each of the dev team will have some plane crashing in their airports

Benjol

I've downloaded OpenTTD, but can't really get into it... too much scrolling around wondering what to do... Maybe I should RTFM :)

Yi Jiang

@Benjol Start with this: wiki.openttd.org/Tutorial/Buses Right click on any button for tooltip

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

@TylerChacha YEY! The old saying! Thanks :-)

marcog

"I should not change s[7] to s[6]. If we set s[6] as 'A' then we will get the desired output.."

"@user so you're saying you don't want the desired output? O_o"

LOL

1

A: Difference between strncpy and memcpy?

You need to add a null-terminator to the end of the string (also note you have the wrong index, as arrays start from index 0): char s[10] = "qwerty"; s[6] = 'A'; s[7] = 0;

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

LOL

Some people just don't get it :-)

@YiJiang your trains amuse me:
Rebecca Chernoff: Accepts: Passengers,Goods,Mail, Valuables
Tim Stone North: Accepts: Nothing

You trust @RebeccaChernoff with your valuables? =o

Erick Robertson

1:40 PM

-2

Q: Java regex problem

How to with regex in Java I split boolean expression ? I have for example a_1 & b_2 | (!c_3) nad I need to get in String [] ={"a_1","&","b_2","|","(","!","c_3",")"} Name od variables can contain alphanumeric characters and '_' . Help now ?

java

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

Oh geez, that needs a lot of cleanup

Erick Robertson

Sometimes, I just need to facepalm about clue level.

Yeah, I don't think the OP's English is very good.

But one of the answerers actually gave me this advice: favor simplicity over common sense if possible

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

Check out what @marcog shared with us just above =b

Erick Robertson

It almost made milk come out of my nose.

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

ROFLOL

That's too funny

Yi Jiang

1:43 PM

Skynet will be built with sentient regexs

8 mins ago, 8 minutes total – 28 messages, 4 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 6 secs ago by Yi Jiang

Erick Robertson

Wow, that guy's a real piece of work too.

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

Bah, did you edit @ErickRobertson?

no, @marcog did

I was just saving!

marcog

@The It needed fixing!

badly

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

I know, I was just saving my fixed-up version when it told me you had posted yours ;-)

I shouldn't edit questions posted to chat, must be fast

marcog

oh, i see :/

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

1:49 PM

Your edits were great @marcog -- almost excatly the same as mine, save for the last line which I think she meant to be my way

"Name of variables" vs "Name and variables"

marcog

yeah, you're right

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

because she had "od", which I assume was a typo

Yi Jiang

Is it sad that I earned the copy editor badge before fanatic?

marcog

copy editor is the gold one?

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

I am mistaken again

@marcog Yeah

Yi Jiang

1:51 PM

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Ha! You actually setup a cron job to do that?

marcog

i only recently started really jumping in with the edits

Yi Jiang

(self confessed compulsive obsessive editor here)

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

@YiJiang I did. But I was mistaken, it only got me the Fanatic badge on MSO and SU

I love editing

I guess I'm crazy

Yi Jiang

That attribute doesn't generally mix well with the ridiculously low quality [css], [html] and [jquery] posts

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

But cleaning up a messy post like this one and seeing downvotes turn around makes me feel oddly satisfied somehow

Erick Robertson

1:53 PM

Editing is a great way of adding to the site.

Popular Demand

@YiJiang FWIW, I did, too. (On Meta, of course.)

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

Hey @PopularDemand, I haven't seen you lately! Happy new year to you

marcog

You know what would be useful: a way for a user who knows his english is poor to submit his question to a "edit me, then publish" queue.

or something like that

Popular Demand

Though I have been questioning my editing lately.

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

I like that idea @marcog

Popular Demand

1:54 PM

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Hello, you too!

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

Or maybe a tag, [please-edit]

Popular Demand

@marcog This has been suggested; searching.

marcog

You could also pass it through google translate to see if it picks up the post as english

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

HAHAHA

marcog

I have a feeling it would fail to detect a bad post as english

Yi Jiang

1:56 PM

@marcog I think post mostly made out of code will fail

Erick Robertson

@marcog I like this idea @marcog

marcog

@YiJiang you could strip code blocks before submitting to translate

Yi Jiang

@marcog Most new users don't know of the fraking {} button

marcog

which would serve an added purpose of making sure code is correctly formatted

@YiJiang hence send them to an edit-first queue

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

@YiJiang "Google has detected this to be written in the C++ language; would you like us to translate it to [English]?"

marcog

1:58 PM

i'm not sure how well it might work in practice

Popular Demand

-5

Q: fix-my-english-please tag

I suggest a (special?) tag every non-native English speaker may use to encourage native speakers to fix the spelling and grammar errors one made² ²) as long as it's relevant to understanding the questions meaning and does not consist of UK<->US conversion

feature-request spelling grammar non-english-speakers

Yi Jiang

@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Ha!

marcog

@PopularDemand lol, -5

Popular Demand

@marcog Well, that had to do with it being a meta-tag.

marcog

true, only read it after seeing the score

The NeedsMoarJquery Exception

1:59 PM

@PopularDemand Reading, pondering...

Popular Demand

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Q: I think we need a flag for non-English speakers

It would help everyone if we provided a mechanism that people could use to flag their post if english is language they are not comfortably fluent in. A lot of non-english speakers have to go to english forums for tech support and find it embarrassing to ask questions in broken speech. Worse, pe...

feature-request stackoverflow non-english-speakers

Skynet will be built with sentient regexs

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