[12:53:39] < joshc_> Mrozek: you strike me as the type of person that will come to work one day and maul your coworkers down with an machine gun
[12:54:21] < neonmeate> i've picked up on that vibe, too
I wasn't worried about that. People take this stuff pretty seriously though. If IT notices it and forwards it to the cops, you could be in for an unpleasant visit even though you're just joking.
Oh; my work cares incredibly little about...well, everything. But attention cops possibly reading this transcript: I'm not going to maul anyone, regardless of the SO election outcome
Awarding badges manually rather than automatically through an algorithm is going to be prone to chaos, confusion, and a bureaucratic nightmare for the site maintainers. Currently the only such badge is "Hacker", which is being reserved for exceptional circumstances and still has not yet been awa...
[This must have been mentioned before but I’m unable to find it.]
After you post a message in chat, it takes a few seconds (3?) before you can post again. You can submit the message but it will be retained and you need to wait for the amount of time, and click on a link to re-send it.
I get the...
I would very much like to be able to ask my question properly, but I do not know how to be "clearer" like @Hank Hoterman told me I should be.
Kindly, could you direct me to a place for beginner questions?
Thank you again and for your time. :)
I am all for relaxing it, but not to the point that you can type 1 word per line like that. I'm for relaxing it because it catches me typing natural sentences sometimes.
@Trufa If you seriously think that an important part of the chat experience is annoying everybody else by posting one word at a time, it's useless to expand. If you're joking, I don't have to expand :)
@balpha ok, Im joking and exaggerating to make a point, but I do think it works against the flow of the conversation (main point of a CHAT room) and should be seriously relaxed.
The only time I hit the rate limit is if I post something and then post a link immediately afterwards because I want to onebox it; you should really not be hitting it in normal conversation
@Trufa I don't think we should relax those rules just for the hell of it. I think they serve a very good purpose. The only time I hit the chatrate limiter is when I want to respond to a number of people very quickly. But my points will hold, so I can count to five and hit <Ctrl><space>
@Trufa a) I hit it frequently. but am patient. b) how often do you hit it? on what server/room? c) are you trying to post very short bits or what? It takes more than three or four seconds to type most sentences.
@drachenstern I am a very impatient person, I'll admit, but I hit it quite often, specially when I'm not completely satisfied with what I wrote but don't feel it should be edited
As the iOS developer in the agency that I work in I've been asked if I know of any iOS development courses that other developers can attend, or tutors that we can get in to teach for a day or two.
Does anyone know of any good courses or tutors in or near London?
The only person I know of is Ara...
Argh, I need more than three votes for the SO mod election. Oddly, I'm less happy now than I would've been with only one vote, because my first choice is far ahead of my second through fifth, who are all muddled together.
@ChrisJesterYoung I'm aware, but I want to use them now that I have them. Not because I feel obligated to use all the buttons; there are two people running who I'd rather not see win, so any votes for people other than those two should help somewhat.
@Fosco I'm happy to go on record saying that I cast my highest-weighted vote for Michael Mrozek. I'd rather not mention the other two, in part because I'm afraid people will think I was actively against them. Actually, I think any of the 10 candidates would be fine, I just thought those two were least good.
My top vote was for Tim Post, because he's a #stackoverflow semi-regular. :-P (There are no #stackoverflow full-time-regulars that have made it through the primary, no least because most #stackoverflow regulars don't actually want to be a mod in the first place.) My other two votes are for old-timers. :-)
Do OEM disks usually ask for a key? I was under the impression that it asked on other OEM hardware. This is strange. It didn't ask, but it's an HP disk on Dell hardware!
@Moshe not normally, but they also have other side-effects that might be weird. My advice? Check for a torrent of that ISO and verify with the appropriate confirmed MD5
@PopularDemand now that I am back to the digest for SO's town hall, I am available to chat again. So whenever you're available I am ready to hear whatever it was you were going to say
@RebeccaChernoff Out of curiosity, given that Gaming currently has three pro tem mods, how did there end up only being two permanent mod positions available? There's some metric that decides that three was one too many, or? :P
The system should calculate a moderatorness score for each person, and keep running 1-winner elections until the sum of the moderatorness of all winners is over a given threshold (the "Grace Note line")
A diamond will be attached to everything you say, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?
I don't care personally, but I was about to move on
if you want an answer included in the digest (if you care) let me know
@badp I honestly prefer the reddit style, where you look like a normal user most of the time and you click a button to say "and now I'm speaking as a mod". I don't post answers much anyone these days (as I said, I must prefer editing and other maintenance stuff), so I don't think it'll be a big deal; if I were going to be posting answers a lot, I honestly would probably make a sockpuppet for it :)
@MichaelMrozek I expect you'll take advantage of this opportunity to make "Michael Mrozek: Popular Demand Is On His Side" buttons or similar campaign materials.
@PopularDemand I closed all browser windows except Pandora and disabled all existing permissions for my browser on my outgoing firewall, so it asked me to connect to anywhere. I then very selectivly allowed rules that had .pandora.com in the name and were clearly things I wanted, like audio-blah.pandora.com or autocomplete.pandora.com and denied anything related to ads like doubleclick :-)
@MichaelMrozek I expect you to be notified when the super-secret Stack Overflow mod personal backup Internet is delivered to your house/cave/castle/space station.
@Zypher Hear hear. Oh right, I remember now. I removed the delimiters when I removed decimal places. To quote my friend who taught himself Japanese: "There are no Yen pennies."
Although, after googling for Yen images, I think he may be wrong.
ok, I'm being overly picky - there's a slippery slope somewhere that goes downhill very quickly into a quagmire of dodgyness... just don't go asking for license keys. It upsets folks.
Seriously, I was sure that couldn't possibly be a correct spelling. I kept imagining someone holding up a "De" in one hand and a small fence in the other. :)
@RebeccaChernoff I realized the other day that some of the smilies that I type on MSN are in the ...@RebeccaChernoff-approved direction on account of them being icon-ified into something completely different if I type them the right way...I personally claim conspiracy.
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I want to extend a giant thank you to Rebecca for organizing all these Town Hall sessions. I think they were a huge success and I really hope everyone benefitted from them!
In order to make the Stack Overflow Town Hall easier to read, I have tried my best to produce a digest version containing o...
I would very much like to be able to ask my question properly, but I do not know how to be "clearer" like @Hank Hoterman told me I should be.
Kindly, could you direct me to a place for beginner questions?
Thank you again and for your time. :)
As the iOS developer in the agency that I work in I've been asked if I know of any iOS development courses that other developers can attend, or tutors that we can get in to teach for a day or two.
Does anyone know of any good courses or tutors in or near London?
The only person I know of is Ara...
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