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12:34 AM

#firstsevenjobs of SO employees, part 2

Greg Bray: KMart (Blue Light Special), Computer Tech, Call Center (ISP/PC), University Help Desk, IT Manager, Software Engineer (GE/3M), SRE

Haney: Flyer delivery boy, Snow shoveller, Movie theatre ticket ripper, GAP floor sales, ALDO shoe sales, Seafood cook, Machine shop

Mark Henderson: Retail (rubber), Retail (PCs), Call Center (Cisco), Call Center (Software Support), Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineer

user315433

I think Haney wins.

Quill

1:07 AM

. youtube.com/watch?v=drIWW4hXV34

user315433

Oneboxing has its drawbacks but at least indicates the content for those who prefer to look before leaping....

Quill

I don't really link much from YouTube that isn't a music video

It'd be a useful browser extension to be able to right click a link and look up the page title without opening it

user315433

I use a little bookmarklet for generating []() links that grabs either the selected text on the page or its <h1> element (and also shortens the link when it's used on an SE post)...

Quill

Ah, I was wondering where that one was located, I'd been meaning to ask you about it for a while

user315433

They are all on a page called stackmarklets

bjb568

1:25 AM

@redredwine teh kitteh: Founder/Lead Dev at DevDoodle, Ambassador of all the Vanilla at Aquaforces…

Quill

on the subject of jobs, i'm applying for some listed on so jobs today

bjb568

Yay Quill!

user315433

<-- Three jobs so far: 1) Mathematician 2) Mathematician 3) Mathematician. (I.e., has never done anything useful in my life.)

Quill

meh, define useful

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bjb568

@Quill ¬Mathematician

Quill

wat

bjb568

:p

Quill

2:28 AM

There's a bit of self-importance in assuming this needs a meta post. — red red wine 11 hours ago

yeah.....

user315433

2:40 AM

NAAs breed NAAs: stackoverflow.com/a/38810270

user315433

@Quill "intensely contemplating things that exist only in one's imagination" is probably not that.

Quill

Perhaps. I suppose philosophy and mathematics aren't always about making a direct contribution to something, sure, they can be translated into real world things, but sometimes it's just about contributing to the knowledge banks of those who can / will

Domino effects are still useful

Quill

3:30 AM

One of the users in the PPCG chatroom is working on a Data Explorer for Chat: ppcg.starmaninnovations.com/SsOJpOHGMv

tchrist

4:32 AM

@Magisch Utter bollocks.

Magisch

@tchrist I never claimed they killed him

tchrist

This is fortune-teller and palm-reader levels of sheer nonsense.

Magisch

Meh

considering the american political spectrum, I'd be highly surprised if it wasn't the case that both candidates in any given election have people killed that get dangerous to them

tchrist

From a thousand miles away the glint and dare I say glare from your tinfoiled head is trivially espied.

Go read the entire Snopes article.

Magisch

4:50 AM

I get the whole thing with a larger circle of aquaintances

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rene

8:52 AM

sd k

Portal

There's Thierno M. SOW on SE... and then, there's this blog post responding to his "theorems"

> he is, most likely, a disturbed individual.

:/

rene

yeah ...

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9:44 AM

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rene

sd 2k

Quill

10:39 AM

medium.com/friendship-dot-js/…

Bart

11:18 AM

Wow. @Bart incredibly illogical of you and arrogant of you, — TheBlackBenzKid 3 hours ago

:D Now that's something to find in your inbox

Quill

that's rude.

Bart

Meh, I'll survive

Fun thing is, most of my comments and the answer there I don't really agree with 100%. It was fun to write an opposing opinion at the time.

rene

11:36 AM

Oh ... well ... eeeehhh .... I wrote that based on your comments ... and now you tell me they are a lie ....

Bart

Haha, nah, I still find some sense in it, but not as strongly as I've worded some of the content in the other question.

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rene

12:50 PM

Accurate naming of variables: bmpHaystack and bmpNeedle

Insane

1:23 PM

Is it ok to cross post something that could require a technical answer from a site-specific meta that hasn't been answered?

No one seems to know what happened here

Quill

Meh, if you've asked it on Meta.Gaming, then there's not really any reason to ask it elsewhere

It's not like your edit is super-duper-earth-stopping urgent

Insane

Meta.SE attracts people who actually know how stack exchange works, though.

And no, but that doesn't really matter

Guess I'll just leave it to rot ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Quill

My guess is that the author hit the wrong button:

As far as I recall, if you Reject and Edit, the box gets wiped clean, precluding that possibility. I'm not too sure how the edits happened but I highly doubt that it was done with negative intent -- much more likely that some aspect of the UI isn't intuitive enough in this regard, particularly since two instances happened in such a short time, both with new users. I understand you're frustrated, but please try to assume good faith! — Schism Aug 3 at 0:18

They hit "Reject and Edit" and then probably clicked done

Insane

Did you read the comment?

"precluding that possibility" <-- they didn't hit reject and edit

If they hit reject and edit then it would have shown here

Quill

Yeah.

Basically the author made an identical edit to yours (meaning they copied it). Hitting Reject and Edit does wipe the text, and approval would approve the queue. The question is how they managed to non-manually copy the edit reason

Insane

1:32 PM

The only idea I can think of is they saw the suggested edit, copied the content and the suggested summary, edited their own post which then auto-rejected mine. But it happened to someone else by another user within a day.. which is why I think it's a technical thing no one on Gaming.SE would know

Quill

The Devs and CMs read per site metas, so they might see it later

it's still pretty early in the US

Insane

Yeah

user315433

1:47 PM

@Quill Reject and Edit leaves a different reason for rejection than "This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit."

user315433

Could be some sort of race condition where the OP's action on the proposed edit was taken as an independent edit instead of approval.

user315433

I.e., a bug

user315433

@Insane If you think it's technical, tag the post as [bug] so that it will be seen by employees looking for bugs to fix.

Insane

2:05 PM

@redredwine I'll do that

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Jason C

3:23 PM

@redredwine Are you a math professor / teacher?

Every math major I knew from college became a math teacher. They're kinda like viruses.

Magisch

@redredwine So you fling numbers for a living?

bjb568

Hey, maths ain't just numbers.

Jason C

3:51 PM

Jason C

4:05 PM

2 days ago, by TIPS

But the tyranny will make you like onions.

Lol. I misinterpreted that out of context as making me be like an onion. I like my interpretation better.

user315433

4:30 PM

Like an onion, peeled for the very first time...

Magisch

What kind of sorcery is this you made an onion comparison sexually suggestive and inappropiate

Jason C

4:44 PM

And so 80's.

When your pot boils, next to mine

user315433

6:06 PM

Time for part 3 of #firstsevenjobs?
Nick Craver: Grocer, Hospital SRE, Doctor SRE, Programmer (co-op then contractor), Clinical research programmer, Dev/SRE/DBA (Stack Overflow)
Jay Hanlon: Paperboy, File Clerk, Blockbuster Video, Abercrombie (before they were models), Bookstore Clerk, Waiter (at EBAs), The Gap
George Beech: Gas station attendant, IT Intern, IT technician, Sysadmin (promoted 2 Sr. Sysadmin), Sysadmin/SRE

user315433

FR: Jaydles modeling A&F

Magisch

6:55 PM

@redredwine What were your first 7 jobs?

besides mathemathician

Portal

Mathemagician

2

TIPS

8:09 PM

Breaks the silence

user315433

9:26 PM

So... after I get flag_options on an answer, is it safe to assume that items[2] is the "not an answer" option? Options get listed in the order of appearance in the menu, but some of them may be absent (like VLQ on positively scored posts).

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11:17 PM

→ 4 messages moved to Sandbox

Quill

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Q: Is stack overflow on-topic for Code Review?

We routinely allow questions where the code works correctly for small inputs but fails to scale to larger inputs. The time-limit-exceeded and memory-optimization tags are often applied to such questions. What if the problem is that the stack sometimes overflows? That seems to be the premise of t...

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