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12:20 AM

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tchrist

@hichris123 $links = [ $s =~ /nofollow(?: noreferrer)?">([^<]*)(?=<\/a>)/g ] although of course that's only going to work on constrained input sets.

All the heavy syntax for simple things is almost Javalike.

hichris123

@tchrist Hello Perl... ;)

tchrist

Which needs no special stuff to handle Unicode patterns, Unicode inputs, or /\backslashe\s/ in its regexes. :)

$list = [ $string =~ /match(.*?)bits/g ] is certainly a lot easier to understand. Well, assuming you use a text editor.

But if a language doesn't start out with patterns as first-class citizens, tossing into some mere string library, then all kinds of things become awkward to terrible. For example, patterns getting compiled at compile time by the compiler so for syntax errors you get compiler errors at compile time just as you would with any other syntax error. Instead, you won't learn about it till runtime, at best.

On the other hand, trivial things like swapping out one regex library for another become much harder when the compiler understands regex syntax.

user202362

1:33 AM

perl is pretty cool with regex handling ... although many other languages are good with regex handling as well nowadays, it wasn't the case some 15 years ago

user202362

1:57 AM

facebook has friends, twitter has followers, linkedin has connections ... so you are different thing on different social networks

user202362

2:10 AM

But ... if you are true to yourself, a superior 1337 tr011 is a superior 1337 tr011 anywhere on the internet. You are no longer bound by sites, by domains, by even all internet corporations combined. You are you! You defy time, (internet) space and continuously to be the true self regardless of others. Nothing modifies you, nothing is capable of changing you. You are the ultimate monument, the light tower of internet.

DroidDev

8:43 AM

2 hours later...

great! I have read almost all of what-ifs in xkcd and last message here was posted 2 hours ago

Derpy

> The magic of friendship doesn't just exist in Equestria. It's everywhere. You can seek it out, or you can forever be alone. The choice is yours.

Forever immutable, forever alone.

Doesn't seem very good

Derpy

9:28 AM

Wasn't Stack about content and not users? - So, now we upvote name-calling? Nice to know.

Bart

9:52 AM

"now" being 2009?

Derpy

@Bart Now being "it is still there and no one cares"

Bart

So you flagged it, I assume?

Derpy

Nope, I retired from flagging bad contents. I have multiple rude flags declined over the last months - and after the first one I started to double check for opinions with people I know outside Stack. Since it clearly seems that I (and my friends) are aiming at a too-high level.... I decided that I will stay out of it save for the most blatant cases.

Bart

You do realize that a couple of years from now, someone will come in and tell us "it is still there and on one cares", right?

user202362

10:07 AM

what if ... horses have hay fever?

Bart

Some horses do

user202362

How do they survive? I could not stop sneezing while outside just now ...

Bart

Medication. Sometimes it's due to specific plants, so you could avoid those.

Derpy

@Bart Actually, I realize that probably pointing that post out was a bad choice in the first place. The way I posted it, one may think I care for it to be deleted. In reality, I was just reinforcing my personal opinion - "Too much discussion, too little acting" with a side note of "my vision doesn't match staff one so I won't make them lose time anymore"

anyway, totally unrelated.

Bart

@Derpy don't overthink it. It's fine to point out

And I think it's a rather pointless post, so I've flagged it myself

Let's see

hichris123

10:45 AM

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hichris123

11:03 AM

!!/reboot

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Goodbye, cruel world

tripleee

11:14 AM

@hichris123 I'm afraid I'll need you to do that again, pretty please

sorry for the mess I made /-:

nvm, ferrybig fixed it

hichris123

@tripleee You can do that too you know...

user315433

11:41 AM

After its proposal was predictably closed on Area 51, Physics Problem Solving Site was created outside of SE.

tripleee

@hichris123 I can? oh boy! thanks, I thought it was an admin-only privilege

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12:00 PM

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Derpy

@Telkitty no horses here, just ponies. Candy colored ponies.

user202362

user202362

unicorn! not ...

Derpy

thanks, @Telkitty. That fish face managed to remember me about that videogame called Seaman. Something I would prefer to avoid. -_-

user202362

don't judge a fish by its face

user202362

12:12 PM

it's a very superficial thing to do

user202362

will you still be in love with unicorn after seeing this:

user202362

user315433

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A: Rotate label control in vb.net form

natezilla knows. seek him out in the mountain spring during the harshest snow of nex

user315433

What's more interesting is that the question has 6300 views but 0 votes, 0 comments and 0 answers -- and is 6.5 years old.

Derpy

@Telkitty sorry, couldn't find the the one I had in mind right now, so you will have to go with this one instead.

anyway, totally unrelated. About the add feed to room option.

Am I correct to say that either you have the feed posted as messages in the room (which will cause a lot of "noise")

or you have notifications that once dismissed you can never open again?

Derpy

1:45 PM

Aug 5 at 11:56, by Derpy

(I have the felling that most of the room users have just fallen down like Spike in the above image)

Derpy

2:02 PM

boredom.

We shalt try the "ritual of Bart summoning"

> zzzzZZZzzzZZzZzzZzz

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5:17 PM

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Shadow Wizard

5:48 PM

@Derpy don't you mean @Bart Summoning?

@zaq heh, looks like the views are the sole thing saving that question from Roomba...

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