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ircmaxell

3:07 AM

Yay, just purchased airfair to Rome in April!

mootinator

woo

ircmaxell

$254 round trip. Not too bad...

George Marian

Not bad at all.

drachenstern

Nice

Dan Grossman

github.com/lsemel/jquery-placekitten

ircmaxell

3:09 AM

Well, from London to Rome, so not a transatlantic

mootinator

I purchased airfare for my wife to Ottawa in April.

George Marian

It's costing more for me to fly from Seattle to San Jose. Granted, that ticket was purchased less than 1 week before the trip.

@ircmaxell Oh, well. It's still a good price.

mootinator

Yup, a WHOLE WEEK of sitting in a dark room alone surfing the internet.

ircmaxell

The cheapest distant flight I purchased was $450 newark to Sao Paolo Brazil

George Marian

I get to visit Phoenix, sorta.

ircmaxell

3:12 AM

lol

sorta?

George Marian

@ircmaxell Two hour layover.

ircmaxell

Ahh, I had a few of them

the perfect time, not too short, not too long

George Marian

I had to chose between direct flights and avoiding the cost of a taxi ride. :)

mootinator

@GeorgeMarian I had a client offer me a stay at her vacation home in Phoenix.

George Marian

Not to mention the logistics of getting to the airport.

ircmaxell

3:13 AM

San Jose airport sucked the last time I was there

mootinator

It seemed like a generous offer until I got the price list, anyhow ;)

George Marian

@mootinator lol

@ircmaxell Yup, I shouldn't have to rush between airplanes, nor worry about falling asleep. :)

ircmaxell

yup

Pearsonartphoto

Anyone in here know what a skybox is?

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Q: How to warp textures so a skybox looks like sky?

Hi! I just checked over all the stack overflow sites.. This seems like the best place to ask this question, but PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. I'm a programmer with very little artistic skills, and I'm trying to make, you guessed it, a skybox. I have the textures for all 6 sides of the box, ho...

graphic-design

George Marian

@Pearsonartphoto It's the area around a 3D scene/environment.

Pearsonartphoto

3:19 AM

Hmmm. I'm guessing this should go to the game dev SE site?

George Marian

@Pearsonartphoto Probably.

Dan Grossman

George Marian

The basic solution comes down to blending, I believe.

Dan Grossman

Epic skybox

drachenstern

That is rather epic

George Marian

3:21 AM

Or, w/e it's called when you make a texture that can be repeated w/o seams.

Dan Grossman

Literally, of course

Pearsonartphoto

Well, just moved it to game dev, hopefully they'll be helpful.

Dan Grossman

Unreal Tournament => EPIC Games studio

George Marian

lol

Tyler Chacha

So the problem with pinned tabs on Google Chrome is that they just aren't preserved well

Right now, Chrome only saves the pins on the last window you exit

so if you have 3 windows open, you pin a tab on Window A, close A then B then C, and reopen chrome, you have no pinned tabs

Honestly, pinned tabs need to be automatically added to every window available

and they all should be linked

Dan Grossman

3:25 AM

status-by-design

George Marian

That's lovely. Kinda how I had to close FF while it wasn't maximized, for it to remember which monitor is was on.

Tyler Chacha

That way it isn't like you are opening a new page for each window..

But all 3 windows are sharing the same tab

Dan Grossman

status-too-many-windows

Chrome is just the test ground for ChromeOS, where there is only one window. You're failing to use it correctly!

George Marian

heh

drachenstern

@TylerChacha that would actually be kinda nice

Tyler Chacha

3:29 AM

@drachenstern See, I'm not just rambling about some random, off-the-wall, pin-headed, dimwitted, un-intelligent, drunken-headed idea.

Dan Grossman

You're drunk?

drachenstern

@TylerChacha or we could both be :p

Dan Grossman

Tyler Chacha

No.. I'm not drunk..

Dan Grossman

There is...no...minimize!

George Marian

3:30 AM

grumble I like how the Ubuntu devs were quick to patch BIND, but vlc is still several revs behind. (Yes, I know...BIND, servers, big issue. But, vlc has some serious security issues as well.)

Dan Grossman

BIND issue = the world melts. VLC issue = your porn stutters?

George Marian

Yah, pretty much. lol Though my concern are the security issues. :P

Tyler Chacha

George Marian

Nice.

Dan Grossman

Alt: "Wow, that's less tan $200 per ... uh ... that's a good deal!"

George Marian

3:34 AM

Oh, hey. Alt text shows up in the onebox.

drachenstern

@GeorgeMarian only cos it's taken account of on xkcd specifically

George Marian

@drachenstern Right, I just never noticed that before. I dunno if it has worked that way since initial implementation. (There's certainly a good chance that it does.)

drachenstern

@GeorgeMarian prob ... I've never paid attn either

George Marian

Dang it. Pepsi just doesn't go so well with a cigar, but they were out of ginger ale.

Moshe

@drach I discovered a logic error in Nippon.

drachenstern

3:40 AM

@Moshe eh?

Tim Stone

It's March tomorrow. That's...not good.

Moshe

The current release can't "find" Sushizushi

drachenstern

@Moshe eh?

Moshe

Nor does Sushizushi fluctuate.

drachenstern

I get crazy fluctuations

Moshe

3:41 AM

Now it will

drachenstern

I've taken some screenshots. I get from 40k to 16mil prices on sushizushi

granted that's on the .5 release that you put on testing

Moshe

"Prices rise" event.

No I mean the "prices rise" "prices fall" and "found some " events didn't effect Sushizushi. I thought I was preventing of range errors.

I was wrong.

Rebecca Chernoff

@Moshe, not really sure there's a point in me forking - all I did is take out the toString you told me to. (;

I'm back to flitting round the network testing.

Shog9

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Q: Tips on playing with wah-wah for beginners

I love the sound of a guitar played through wah wah as much as the next guy, but I have some problems picking that skill up. I would love if anyone can either give me some tips on how to start using the pedal properly or refer me to a book, dvd, article that shows exercises, especially on funky l...

effects wah-wah funk

Rebecca Chernoff

I think "all css" should be renamed, and personally I'd like to see it on the prefs page instead, but not sure how we're integrating so that's your call.

Zypher

3:46 AM

mm wah wah those things are fun

drachenstern

@Moshe they do tho if I understand what you're telling me, just not as often

Moshe

@drach they fluctuate but not with the events (which multiply/divide the price by insane amounts and then alert you)

drachenstern

but they do :\

George Marian

@RebeccaChernoff How about: Clean CSS or Clean Styles or Simple CSS or Simple Styles? (A few ideas that just came to mind.)

drachenstern

just not often

Moshe

3:49 AM

@rebecca I agree on both counts. The label is easy, i need to look into the prefs page bit

Instant Noodle Soup with a Spork FTW! http://yfrog.com/hszj8zrmj

Tweeted by bermaniastudios on March 1, 2011 at 3:46 AM

@drach You've seen sushizushi get bought up by the Americans?

drachenstern

Yes, and I didn't screenshot it, I don't think ... looking now

I did

Moshe

Hang on. In the App Store release or the beta?

drachenstern

working on an imgur for you

the beta I said

George Marian

@Moshe Heh. I haven't had Ramen Noodles as soup in very long time. These days I cook the noodles, dump the water and add 1/2 packet of "flavor" & some shredded cheese.

drachenstern

9 mins ago, by drachenstern

granted that's on the .5 release that you put on testing

Moshe

3:52 AM

I was talking about the app store build.

@George nice.

drachenstern

@Moshe oh yeah I knew it was broken there, figured you knew and wanted to test it before releasing

also made for a more difficult game on the current-release version

Rebecca Chernoff

Is the signature pushed into the sidebar here? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/81080/…

Moshe

@rebecca no clue i am on iOS.

drachenstern

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Oh, you know what, do you have a lot of stuff in the link list to the left of that?

Moshe

3:53 AM

Whoa!

Tim Stone

@drachenstern lmao

A wee bit expensive :P

Moshe

Well double whoa! Score and price of sushizushi

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone dammit.

drachenstern

@Moshe score was rather low

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff :)

drachenstern

3:55 AM

Moshe

Yah. That is a bit off. Im not sure why. I did mess with the margins a teensy bit. Hrm...

Rebecca Chernoff

There are too many links that I want displayed there!

uninstalls the copy userscript

drachenstern

@Moshe I don't think I'm updated past the other day

Moshe

I think I messed with the margin on the wider left column but it's strange because only the signature is squished.

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Yeah, we'll have to see what we can do about that, because even with just SE Modifications, on your own questions (or if you're a mod/dev) I guess there's just too much there if someone edits.

Rebecca Chernoff

3:57 AM

though even timeline and history don't fit

the font is larger in @Moshe's style

drachenstern

@Moshe I think you'll like this one more ;)

Moshe

@drac me neither. I got busy with the iPad UI and then the minimal themescript.

The font is larger?

I thought it was smaller?

Rebecca Chernoff

Moshe

@drach I made cart expansions a bit more common. Apparently too common.

Tim Stone

Well, at least that explains that.

Rebecca Chernoff

3:58 AM

drachenstern

nah, notice how many days are left

Moshe

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drachenstern

I rarely get 400 room on my cart

I just thought it was awesome that I had managed to get 400+ sushizushi and had to get a screengrab of that

you may understand now why I have over 800mil score ;)

George Marian

@Moshe BTW, thousands separators are your friends. :P I'm just sayin...

Moshe

@drachenstern Indeed. It's a new achievement. Which is not programmed in your beta, sadly.

drachenstern

4:01 AM

@Moshe what is?

Moshe

@George so many strings (to format), so little time (to render)

@drach Manifest Destiny, expand Cart to over 300 items.

@drach have you gotten over the bank/CU placement?

drachenstern

@Moshe I still think it sucks, but that's just me ... haven't come up with a better way unless you make it another button up top somehow

Moshe

Night folks. I got to get in early.

drachenstern

or slightly decrease the overall height of each lineitem

@Moshe night

Moshe

Perhaps, I'll look into it.

I've made the bar transparent.

Well see if that's better transparent black. Matches the top.

closes safari mobile

drachenstern

4:07 AM

surprised nobody else in here has mentioned how pathetic it is that I have such uselessly high scores in his game :p

Tim Stone

I'm busy freaking out over the date. :P

mootinator

@drachenstern hax

Tim Stone

@mootinator Definitely

drachenstern

@mootinator not

@TimStone huh?

Tim Stone

Perhaps even a 1337 hax

drachenstern

4:08 AM

@TimStone nah, just boredom ... given long enough, I'll get over a billion

Tim Stone

@drachenstern I didn't realize that it was already March.

mootinator

I just watched a movie I bought 3 months ago, and then found out they posted it to youtube earlier today.

drachenstern

@TimStone yes :(

mootinator

shakes fists.

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Good on account of my birthday, but before that there's this wall of stuff that needs to be done. types faster Heh

George Marian

4:09 AM

@mootinator Oh, man. That sucks.

drachenstern

h3h3

Tim Stone

@mootinator That sucks.

Rebecca Chernoff

Hmm @Moshe I don't think your font size is bigger, I think just the font itself. What font are you using?

George Marian

@TimStone You forget that February only has 28 days? ;)

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian Since I work from home and don't do much lately, and on account of my terrible sleep schedule, my days pretty much just blend together. I rarely know what day it is for certain. :P

mootinator

4:11 AM

Noooo, the RRSP deadline has passed.

Tim Stone

Read: I'm a mess, shh ;)

George Marian

@TimStone Yeah, I've been there. It's not fun when you need to sync up w/ the rest of the world.

BTW, have you seen a doctor about your sleep issues?

mootinator

The project I was supposed to do in a timeline of 6 months has only been worked on for 1 week in the last 3.

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian Nah, I think I know what's at the root of that, but I do need to make an appointment with the doctor. It's just at the end of my to-do list, so I'm trying to clear out everything before that first, heh.

George Marian

@TimStone Anything to avoid going to the doctor? ;)

Tim Stone

4:13 AM

@mootinator Because you were forced to work on other stuff, or just 'cause? :P

George Marian

That said, having some idea what is the root cause is a good start.

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian No, just making an appointment is annoying since I'm on the phone all the damn time, I never know when I'm free.

mootinator

@TimStone Forced to work on other stuff, yes.

It had nothing to do with SO.

I'd be a 10k user by now if it did :P

Tim Stone

Hahah

Moshe

pokes back in

@Rebecca not sure, check the CSS file. Also, I you fork now, I can pull now and it gets fixed now. Otherwise it waits for another 15 hours or so.

drachenstern

4:23 AM

@Moshe gah!!!!!!!1

Moshe

@TimStone when in camp I was like that.

Rebecca Chernoff

@Moshe, I'm creating some issues on github.

Moshe

The last few days were just a blend in front of a computer editing a video.

@Rebecca ok.

drachenstern

anyboy know the short answer to this question? If I want to display an image as a dataURI I just read the byte[] and then base64 encode it back out as a string right?

Moshe

@drach what are you gaaaahhhh!!!!!'-ing about?

drachenstern

4:25 AM

@Moshe <whistle /> >.>

mootinator

I think he meant to say: "Nippon: Game of the Year Edition, coming soon to iPad" but it came out as gah!!!!!!!1

Moshe

Not sure. @drach I thought insanely high scores were encouraging. I think I am going to change that...

Rebecca Chernoff

@Moshe I figure that way it'll be easier to keep track and others/you can vet these as some of them venture into opinion territory.

drachenstern

@Moshe it's up to you

you'll have to flush the leaderboards soon if you do

mootinator

@Moshe I thought insanely high scores were typical of the genre.

Moshe

4:27 AM

@drach the beta leaderboards are not the public leaderboards.

@moot me too.

drachenstern

@Moshe I realize this.

Moshe

@drach I can just make a new one. "legacy scores" and "high scores".

mootinator

The goal of any good trading game should be to overflow a 64 bit int. Scratch unsigned, it's more fun if you use a signed one.

drachenstern

@mootinator I'll try my damndest

Tim Stone

@mootinator They didn't dream big enough

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mootinator

4:31 AM

@TimStone Hah.

Moshe

Dang!

Rebecca Chernoff

@Moshe, what browsers have you tested this in? Not just js code but the css also?

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff duh, he tested it in the one in his head

Rebecca Chernoff

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mootinator

It's 100% compatible with MosheKit based browsers.

Tim Stone

4:38 AM

@drachenstern Make the switch from Chromium to Cranium today?

drachenstern

@TimStone nice

George Marian

@TimStone Not too shabby. Apparently your brain do work good sleep without.

Rebecca Chernoff

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Tim Stone

@drachenstern As is this coffee, hoorah! go go work.

George Marian

@RebeccaChernoff Giving the 'oys' a break? ;)

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Tim Stone

4:40 AM

@GeorgeMarian Hah :P

Rebecca Chernoff

Hmm, I need to find a comment that contains a link to somewhere I haven't visited yet.

mootinator

like usask.ca

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff I probably linked to the mod_rewrite documentation in a comment somewhere, if that helps.

mootinator

I always use that when I need something I haven't visited.

Unless I've used it already, of course...

Tim Stone

People who use mod_rewrite don't seem to visit it, so I figured that it was also a safe bet for someone who doesn't. :P

Rebecca Chernoff

4:43 AM

hmm, k, looking

mootinator

I see your point.

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff stackoverflow.com/questions/3732156/…

(Or this one)

Rebecca Chernoff

did you put RewriteLog in code?

Tim Stone

Yeah, the second one is a plain link.

Rebecca Chernoff

yeah, that's good. thanks!

Tim Stone

4:44 AM

Sure thing

Moshe

Chrome for Mac.

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George Marian

British Airways IT found guilty of plotting terror attack - Encrypted emails aired after 9 month brute force crack

Rebecca Chernoff

github.com/MosheBerman/MinimalOverflow/issues/13 (:

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian That's crazy. It's amazing the kind of people who will fall into that line of thinking. :/

George Marian

nods

mootinator

4:50 AM

It's because the US doesn't require people to agree not to be terrorists in order to download browsers with 128 bit encryption anymore that it took nine months.

George Marian

lol

ircmaxell

lol