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bjb568

12:02 AM

The problem is that they're doing htmlspecialchars before putting it in the DB.

user315433

Oh, it's &. I thought they do it to discourage people from writing "this&that" instead of "this and that".

Alexis King

12:28 AM

You give people who make college application software far too much credit.

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user315433

1:42 AM

The italic in "answer the question" message is too subtle. Shog's proposal had bold in its place; I think his version was better.

user315433

Except for "don't use answers in place of comments!" part, no need to to talk about comments and how one needs 50 rep to post them. That only results in "I'd need 50 rep to comment, but I don't have them, so posting as an answer".

user315433

Some sites, like Android Enthusiasts get a lot of mobile traffic and a lot of non-answers. Well, at least they were warned... except no, the mobile site doesn't have that warning at all.

user202362

2:02 AM

SE stalk people who blogs about stackoverflow often?

user202362

2:18 AM

bjb568

3:20 AM

2016 Apple Valley Quarters Harrison RP v Lake Highland AA

►

I can't even.

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user315433

5:23 AM

Nonsense. You obliterated the record so that you wouldn't have to respond to my claim of your being a bully. This site has resources which one can only dream of, so the "cleanup" which you used to obliterate what came previously was a privilege which you abused in order to maintain your stance as a judge. — EM Fields 9 hours ago

user315433

Interesting. What are those resources, some treasure hidden in TL?

user202362

your dedication is amazing ...

user315433

Ah, metas. Random noise, gut reactions, and random gut noise reactions.

user315433

6:16 AM

I never drink rum & coke, but... Special occasion. Cheers!

Tweeted by shog9 on November 27, 2016 at 3:15 AM

user315433

Two parts rum, one part coke, one part twitter.

user315433

> Apparently, this user prefers to keep a bottle of rum about them.

user315433

Would have been a better profile placeholder. Some random variations..

user202362

7:15 AM

3:15am, which time zone?

user202362

Also as someone who has a kind heart, I worry about posters who tend to post emotional outbursts late at night ... sure, your drinking habit is nobody's business. But posting after had quite a bit alcohol isn't really a wise idea ...

user202362

9:15 AM

user202362

😥

user202362

Why r u so mean 2 me , kitteh iz sad ... :'(

rene

Are you talking to us? Who needs to be slapped?

user202362

Supernatural magic is lagging my SE chats loading again ...

rene

We'll send the cleaning crew through the network pipes to remove the clutter

user202362

9:25 AM

Tor & tablet are fine , macbook & PC (windows) takes forever to load ...

rene

How are you ping times/traceroute figures?

@Telkitty my tracert

first 4 hops are in the ISP network

user202362

Meta.stackexchange.com is loading for me ... Just the chats ...

rene

9:42 AM

Does it help if you switch to the mobile theme?

user202362

Chats load on everything that SE doesn't expect that I would be using ...

user202362

For example, devices that I have not been using much in the past 12 months

user202362

I AM BULLIED AGAIN!!! ~roar~

user202362

9:59 AM

@rene chat doesn't load on the phone that I use the most but loads on an older iPhone & new tablet

user202362

~cries~ I am just a sweet meek little kitteh

user202362

Oo I get it - you just want me to spam this chat ... NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!

user202362

going for a power walk!!

rene

@Telkitty yeah, that is all we wanted, relax ...

rene

10:55 AM

delv-pls lazy homework meta.stackexchange.com/questions/287422/… @Bart @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

11:19 AM

hehe, taking screenshot with actual camera. Hilarious.

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user202362

12:57 PM

We're enabling display ads on select Stack Exchange sites

user202362

is a statement not a question ...

rene

Yes, right. Are you the close voter of that statement?

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user315433

3:55 PM

Is it just me, or did link insertion (Ctrl+L) got a lot slower when Documentation was added?

bjb568

It's all a tangled mess of jQuery.

user315433

Clearly not just me; the window opens immediately on other sites, as it used to do.

user315433

Wife asking why I'm coming to bed at 4am: "Porn or video games"? Me: "Linux". Even worse.

Tweeted by captncraig on November 27, 2016 at 3:50 PM

user315433

4:12 PM

There are currently 72 graduated sites (not necessarily with design) and 89 betas.

user315433

Wonder if Stack Overflow en español will graduate before reaching 100 questions per day. Presently 76.9 QPD

user315433

The effect of "beta" label on a casual visitor to a site:

user315433

Dude, I've never even been to chess stackexchange. Looks like it's only in beta at the moment and filled with terri… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/802557786374610945

Tweeted by cats_poet on November 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM

hichris123

→ 25 messages moved to Chimney

user315433

Considered adding a TweetDeck column for "stack exchange" or "stack overflow", but the channels are jammed by bots.

user315433

4:22 PM

In case of SO, unofficial ones like HTMLAtSO

user315433

Formula 1 season ended 1.5 hours ago, and now I see F1 teams are present in SO Jobs listing too... stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/manor-racing

user315433

4:40 PM

Companies born from Unix commands finger - linkedin dir - yahoo w - twitter grep - google rsync - dropbox man - stack overflow cron - ifttt

Tweeted by ValaAfshar on July 8, 2016 at 5:01 PM

user315433

Okay, figured it out: include "stack exchange" but exclude "stackexchange"; same works for overflow. Bots linking to posts are gone.

Shog9

Q: Documentation made Hyperlink editor function slow

Since the introduction of Documentation, the standard Markdown editor dialog, Hyperlink, has changed, allowing to search for documentation links. However, this change made the dialog slow to load: it can take what feels like up to a second (and it's highly variable) for the link input field to ...

user315433

5:06 PM

I see, it does get slower with ad blocking. (Tim's spiel inspired me to install uBlock Origin.)

user315433

It's the combination of two things, block and Docs feature.

rene

5:19 PM

I'm exchanging comments here but the answer has an upvote as well. Is there something I miss that is of value in that answer and with that are my comments inappropriate?

user315433

5:38 PM

It'd bluntly put, but I share some of the sentiment, so +1.

user315433

The brown-nosing part in particular.

user315433

Your comments are fine, of course.

rene

6:16 PM

user315433

!!/report mathoverflow.net/a/255753

user315433

(Scrambled text from question)

bjb568

8:11 PM

UC app doesn't have rec letters o_0

I think it's just scored by a robot or something.

user315433

8:22 PM

Not a bad idea. They have the scores of applicants from past years, and know exactly what they did at the university (those that enrolled, of course). A classification problem.

user315433

At least it looks like a good idea until Cathy O'Neil runs some stats on how the model works for different demographic groups, and posts on her blog.

bjb568

@zaq idlewords.com/talks/deep_fried_data.htm

Tiny Giant

@Shog9 would you mind sitting in on a discussion currently taking place between myself, a moderator, and a few other users?

Shog9

8:40 PM

@TinyGiant making bread at the moment, but drop a link & I'll read while kneading

Tiny Giant

@Shog9 Beginning, live chat. Thank you.

hichris123

9:01 PM

Is meta good for anything besides some good popcorn reading nowadays?

And now that discussion has turned into misunderstanding misunderstandings.

user315433

It still works for support. rene answered my question about feed oneboxing that seriously had me stumped.

user315433

For anything else, not so much. The audience gradually self-selects until it's an echo chamber - or perhaps several interconnected chambers with permanent angry echo.

rene

@hichris123 yeah, I'm not sure why people can't stop when all bases are covered.

SmokeDetector

9:35 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: to verify an email address sent to me by james mcninch on ux.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

@SmokeDetector haha what

bjb568

9:49 PM

A: Dad always rushes me even when there is no rush

Nobody really cares that much about things being on time. For example, "the traffic gets worse every five minutes" is nonsense. The problem isn't that you are late. The problem is that he wants to be the centre of attention, or that he wants to control you. So if you are late, and he complains,...