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user202362
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JamesENL
JamesENL
00:33
Morning
user202362
yo
Alexis King
Alexis King
00:54
@tchrist A coworker and I just spent five minutes puzzling over the lovely but rather impenetrable word “incybernation” in the man page to pstruct. You wouldn’t happen to remember what was going through your head 25 years ago, would you?
JamesENL
JamesENL
Did urban dictionary exist 25 years ago?
user202362
lag wasn't so much so of a problem 25 years ago ... ever 56k was relatively fast back then
user315433
UD seems to get it right on this one: like incarnation but in cyber form instead of in flesh.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Non-English link in answer: A movie about Interstellar warfare by SerdarBey on movies.stackexchange.com
user315433
Spam, and so is movies.stackexchange.com/q/64077
user315433
01:12
Today, SO passed the mark of 33,333,333 posts.
tchrist
tchrist
@AlexisKing Certainly. Read incarnation for programs.
user315433
Why not "incyberation"? "n" looks like a leftover letter.
Alexis King
Alexis King
@tchrist Wonderful.
bjb568
bjb568
01:36
Well, the exam was easy.
user315433
Did you look at the data, @Thomas? It's not a list of questions you've viewed; it's essentially a set of weights attached to tags. It's derived from access logs, but it doesn't actually contain that data. — Shog9 ♦ 4 hours ago
user315433 
"QuestionViews": [34143626, 32996451, 34242784, 26857796, 32397236, 32079039, 38861085, 1540030, 29347686, 24636822, 29581617, 386341, 32951986, 35491836, 15409606, 35998552, 35629014, 33864444, 33419676, .... and many many more
user315433
Was in my prediction data before I purged it.
user315433
This does kind of look like a list of questions.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Retrieving my google contacts by Tella on android.stackexchange.com
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Chinese character in title, bad keyword with email in body, messaging number in body, mostly non-Latin body, mostly non-Latin title: 办理安大略理工大学(本科/硕士)学历认证UOIT学位证成绩单「微信171922772」使馆认证University of Ontario Insititute by shouzheng0206 on drupal.stackexchange.com
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title: priorlakewaterski.org/download-tubemate-youtube-downloader-windows-pc-mac/ by harilleerman on apple.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body: Download Videos From Youtube And Enjoy by hurtralph on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: reviverxtry.com/apex-plump/ by user70032 on drupal.stackexchange.com
user315433
04:32
> Stack Exchange isn't going anywhere, and neither is this Facebook page. facebook.com/stackexchange/posts/941483762560257
user315433
Yeah, right. Silent since March and is getting encrusted in spam.
tchrist
tchrist
@zaq Because I wanted the -n- left over from the meatier incarnation to recall that word.
It was 25 years ago. That person is no more. I am merely his ghost, his echo in eternity.
user315433
Maybe I haven't been to Iceland because I'm busy dealing with YOUR crummy code.
user202362
Why would stackexchange go anywhere ... it's not like a tornado is going to hit it anytime soon ...
user315433
25 years ago, hmm. As a teenager, was vaguely worried about the home-country-dissolving stuff, but not much. Possibly, was better at programming than now.
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04:41
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: trexmusclesite.com/apex-plump/ by jorsrdlersn on security.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Legendary Beard Even if you already know that your month-to-month earnings? by JessicaPontel on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com
tchrist
tchrist
@zaq It's an interesting hypothesis to explore.
user315433
Impossible to compare, given the difference of platforms and languages.
user315433
16 KB of memory and Assembler back then.
Andy
Andy
@zaq It does look that way.
@Shog9, My prediction data has a field named QuestionViews and a list of 33,944 question ids. — Andy 3 mins ago
bjb568
bjb568
@tchrist yo como el carne
tchrist
tchrist
04:45
@zaq It's easier to remember such small memories.
@bjb568 Tú, como la carne dicha, vas comiéndote la leche hasta que la tragues sin escupirla.
bjb568
bjb568
Sí.
Noche.
tchrist
tchrist
No flirting in this chato.
user202362
25 years ago, my dad was a lecturer in a university, he taught me how to play computer games ... I remember 8 inch floppy disks & command line OS back then. HE WAS A COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LECTURER & HE DIDN'T TEACH ME HOW TO PROGRAMMING!!!
user315433
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Q: how to programming for gamecenter by Flash And ActionScript 3

ewfwefewfewfhow to programming for Apple GameCenter by Flash ?

flash ios game-center
Shog9
Shog9
@Telkitty sounds like a pretty decent fella.
tchrist
tchrist
05:00
@zaq How come that has immunity to roomba?
user315433
I downvoted the answer a minute ago
tchrist
tchrist
Thanks!
user202362
@tchrist Smokey, you look hot in that blue outfit, guess what colour is my bra keyboard
Shog9
Shog9
@Telkitty heh. Run a trace route on the chat server next time it happeneds.
user202362
@Shog9 using what tool?
Shog9
Shog9
05:08
What OS?
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body, email in body: Extension got 50 days but we want to take the other 40 also by Msrthie on travel.stackexchange.com
user202362
macOS or windows
user315433
Are questions that seek the admiration of the readers permissible? by Luna on meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
user315433
Um, maybe. Don't see many of these on SO.
Shog9
Shog9
Traceroute or tracert then, @Telkitty
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05:24
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body, repeated URL at end of long post: womenshealthclaimed.com/neurocyclin/ by cenocozoce on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Most aren't, as a matter of fact by Gelhardtz on apple.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: musclegainfast.com/legendary-beard/ by heather007 on drupal.stackexchange.com
user202362
05:46
Not cool to call da kitteh in holding a empty food bowl, kz ... just sayin ... @shog
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05:59
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Jogging peut vous obtenir environ 100 by Ourch1955 on apple.stackexchange.com
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects? by Sonendra Pal on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Selenium and non technical team members by Sonendra Pal on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Cognishield A considerable 2011 by taarenaal on hinduism.stackexchange.com
qwer
qwer
07:48
15 DV for an off-topic question that's not about programming on MSE. 3 times than the usual OT on MSE.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@qwer OT?
qwer
qwer
Off-Topic
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
oh. Well, only four here...
qwer
qwer
(Oh, it's been a long time I've heard this... chat notification sound!)
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@qwer huh? This sound? ;)
Is @Qwerp-Derp your sock?
qwer
qwer
07:53
nope, not yet ;p
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, link following arrow in body: You will be amazed with the most convenient way by brainfmathws on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Magento 2 Luma theme menu/navigation by xitzone odesk on magento.stackexchange.com
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08:23
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: As we expand ancient, dermis and connective by ajirbrivaxer on superuser.com
Qwerp-Derp
Qwerp-Derp
08:35
Wait what @ShadowWizard
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
lol, well two @Qwer is just weird.... :D
Derpy
Derpy
@zaq my dreams are much much much much more weird than that, trust me
@ShadowWizard those are the bad ones. Most of the licensed ones are.
Hasbro's ones usually are the worst ones.
the only well made licensed plushies are the ones from 4DE
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Derpy why bad?
Qwerp-Derp
Qwerp-Derp
I think I've successfully accidentally fused two peoples' names of the Tavern
Derpy
Derpy
@ShadowWizard well, when I said "bad" I mean from a collector viewpoint. Obviously a kid wouldn't be so picky.
Anyway, the pink one in the picture should be Pinkie Pie, while the two blue ones are both Rainbow Dash.
qwer
qwer
08:50
FUSION!
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Derpy
Derpy
Google a picture from the show, see if those seems "show accurate" to you
then, google a picture of a 4DE plush.
You will see what I mean....
@qwer does this mean that @Qwerp-Derp is what you get if we were to perform the Gattai technique?
Qwerp-Derp
Qwerp-Derp
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That is Qwerp-Derp
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
09:17
Pointy hair
Derpy
Derpy
09:41
@ShadowWizard it's Dragon Ball. It has to have pointy hairs
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Derpy why?
Derpy
Derpy
@ShadowWizard most DB characters have :P
unless they fall in the "no hair at all" category
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Derpy huh! Guess you're right... so weird.
Derpy
Derpy
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShonenHair
here, have fun
As a disclaimer, it is a tv tropes link
use care.
People are know to disappear in the labyrinth of links that thing is
you start from one page....
you tell yourself "oh, nice, let's see what they say about this...
and then they will find you a year late, still standing at your pc...
or, to be more precise, they will find your skeleton. Not eating/sleeping/drinking for a year isn't exactly healthy.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
:)
@Derpy what about this hair style? How is it called?
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Derpy
Derpy
09:55
@ShadowWizard tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DelinquentHair
unless you actually mean if the hairstyle has a name, in which case I don't really know :P
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Derpy lol, though this one fits better... ;)
Derpy
Derpy
@ShadowWizard yep, but that is about the whole "persona". I was just talking about the hairs :P
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Wonder what's @Telkitty hair style..... :P
user202362
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Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:12
:P
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10:33
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Can I use wordpress for a non-blog site? by OSSMedia Ltd on wordpress.stackexchange.com
Derpy
Derpy
11:00
now that I notice it, the guy in the photo seems like the standard punk you would see in an episode of Fist of the North Star.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: How human male move their erect penis without touching it? by Hoan on biology.stackexchange.com
Derpy
Derpy
11:20
@InfiniteRecursion Quak quack (trad: hi, Infinite)
Infinite Recursion
Infinite Recursion
@Derpy Quack Quack :D
Bart
Bart
o/ @InfiniteRecursion
rene
rene
The Duck is back
Derpy
Derpy
@rene the duck has hat
well, not yet, hopefully soon
Infinite Recursion
Infinite Recursion
\o
Magisch
Magisch
11:39
Hi there
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: how to promate B2B Fashion Jewellery Portal by user12049 on startups.stackexchange.com
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Hiya
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user315433
12:43
Such a nice spammer:
user315433
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A: define a loop which returns different possibilities

venugopalSee More Intersting Functions Released in latest version functions Take care of your parents, family members , friends.. Some times they also very important than this regular functions.

rene
rene
12:55
:)
user202362
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user202362
I just want to turn it off, permanently
Derpy
Derpy
@Telkitty that button is usually red, enclosed in a glass pane and features a big "do not push" sign underneath.
oh.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Ruby записать хеш в хеш by Maksim Chanturia on ru.stackoverflow.com
Derpy
Derpy
First.
user315433
13:09
So that blog post by Kevin Troy didn't have numbers... But they did release them to the press, for example programmez.com/actualites/…
user315433
4.7 million developers in EU, whatever that means.
Magisch
Magisch
huh: bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…
wrong link sry
Apparently identity-revealing zero day exploit in tor browser found
Stijn
Stijn
Isn't it a bit counter-productive to run Tor with JS enabled?
Magisch
Magisch
idk, I dont use tor
user315433
The press release is apparently timed to Joel's talk at Helsinki, which he gave a few hours back. Something about developers being important because they write software that we use every day.
user315433
13:15
Well, someone paves the roads were drive on every day, too.
user315433
That doesn't make me go OMG construction workers.
user202362
@Shog9 as useful as a discarded plastic bag ...
Derpy
Derpy
@Magisch wasn't that news month old?
user202362
I could not but noticing the positive correlation between the length of time an employee server at SE and amount of troll at heart that person possesses ... it begs the question, is Joel a troll at heart too?
Stijn
Stijn
@Derpy It's been known for a long time that there are exploits out there I think, but no details about them
Magisch
Magisch
13:19
Now someone just posted the exploit code
Including how to get it
Stijn
Stijn
@Telkitty Maybe I just misunderstand what you mean, but tracert is a command available in Windows :) tracert stackoverflow.com for example
Derpy
Derpy
@Stijn I remember an article about the makers of firefox/mozila arguing with some secret agency office about a bug they found on tor that allowed to identify tor users . The claim was that since the core was the same, the bug probably impacted firefox too.
user202362
@Stijn I used traceroute on mac
Stijn
Stijn
Ah, don't have a mac
Derpy
Derpy
so they were trying to ask the agency to make the exploit "public."
Magisch
Magisch
13:22
@Derpy The payload for this new exploit is exactly the payload identified to be used by the FBI in 2013
In their Dark Web STING operation
Derpy
Derpy
probably that was the article I saw.
user202362
Just saw a possum opened the lid to steal chicken feed
user202362
13:37
took a video of it
Derpy
Derpy
should start polishing the pitchforks.
I should still have some whetstone
#AlreadyKnowsThereWillBeNoUnicornHatYetAgain
user202362
setup equipment for better video
user202362
now waiting for the possum babe
rene
rene
Awaiting video up-link
user202362
last video was a bit ... too dark
user202362
13:47
@rene if I am able to take a good video, yes
user202362
not sure possum feels safe with the new setup
rene
rene
suggested for you:alibaba.com/product-detail/…
user202362
yep, totally throwing $400 into the drain so I can take a possum video
rene
rene
Glad I could help.
user202362
also that looks more suitable for cooking a possum than to shed light on one
rene
rene
13:53
I couldn't find one that would also require you to upgrade the electrical connection to your house ...
Magisch
Magisch
@Telkitty You see, flowers have bigger light needs
user202362
Now with the light on and food bowl in the centre, the possum isn't coming back, wtf ... if you don't come back soon, there will be not chicken feed 4 u tonight!
user202362
@Magisch unless we are talking about possum jerky ... you need a lot of power to dry the meat
Stijn
Stijn
@Telkitty all you need to do is put it on youtube, wait for it to go viral, and rake in the cash
user202362
probably the possum had too much chicken feed and isn't coming back tonight ...
Stijn
Stijn
14:03
:D
user202362
:D
user202362
yeah I wish ... :p
user202362
Anyways, the possum constantly gets leftover fruits, it's not allowed to eat chicken feed, although chicken feed are constantly stolen by magpies, piegons, doves and lately, myanh birds
user202362
those birds are fed leftover bread and rice, they are not allowed to eat chicken feed either
user202362
wildlife thieves ...
user202362
14:13
and butcher birds get meat occasionally
user202362
magpies love meat too, but there are a gang of baby magpies & they are master chicken feed thieves
user315433
Spot on. From .@spolsky from Stack Overflow: "Nobody is a good enough human being to decide what to show on Faceboo… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803957638128107520
Tweeted by GregBufithis on November 30, 2016 at 1:43 PM
user315433
Hm. How about Stack Overflow front page, then?
user315433
Isn't that determined by Triage (human reviewers)?
Shog9
Shog9
15:11
in aggregate, sorta
lotta rnd and luck involved too
user315433
15:30
But no Vowpal Wabbit anymore?
user315433
From back at the beginning of SEQP1, it seemed that human Triage would only deal with cases deemed borderline by an algorithm.
user315433
It practice, it seems to have all questions by new users, perhaps minus those that are immediately upvoted.
user315433
An idea: a Gmail filter to immediately delete all messages with subject "zaq, blah blah" and "blah blah, zaq\W?".
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Magento 2.1.1 Checkout page is blank after login by Pierre FAY on magento.stackexchange.com
qwer
qwer
15:46
Bring mobile app's feed to web version :)
user315433
15:56
Looks like chatrooms don't support feeds with HTML tags in post summary, like <i>...
user315433
Or maybe they have to be escaped.
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16:33
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Server 2012 Cannot find C: Boot to cd by wkb on serverfault.com
Stijn
Stijn
16:55
just found this quote by Jeff, from 2007
> [...] Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.
he was quite right with that one :)
rene
rene
That was before jQuery existed ...
user340193
17:17
@Frank's user page has this private message photo on it:
user340193
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user340193
Is it a fake?
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
@MarkYisri maybe it's a joke. I don't know.
user340193
The weird part is that it looks real.
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
wouldn't be too hard to fake it
user340193
17:23
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Q: At what reputation can you edit without review?

Mark YisriI undertsand you can edit your own questions and answers. You can also edit community wiki posts at 100 reputation, as is stated here. When can you edit "normal" posts without needing peer review?

support edits suggested-edits
user340193
Does Community own the "That solved my problem!" message on this question?
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
@MarkYisri what message?
user340193
When Glorfindel told me about the duplicate, it said "This question already has an answer here! Does that solve your problem?"
user340193
And when I hit Yes, it says marked as duplicate by Glorfindel and Community
user340193
Is Community used so that the moderator diamond will make it marked as a duplicate instantly?
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
17:25
yeah, I think so
you agreed that it's a duplicate, so Community closed the question... I guess
rene
rene
that ^ is correct
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
users don't get binding close votes on their own questions, although I'm not sure why not
I tried to close one of my questions and failed...
rene
rene
you flagged it, now it sits in the queue
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
it got a lot of "leave open" responses
rene
rene
So you asked a question that is good enough
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
17:29
apparently
rene
rene
@MarkYisri no, we can't talk there
user340193
@rene that's weird
user340193
For the attention of the rest of the community, I am able to create a gallery chat room from the Ask Ubuntu "Create room" button without having 1k rep. See my question here.
user340193
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Q: Creating gallery chat rooms

Mark YisriWhen I wish to create a gallery chat room, it looks like that's an option for me on Ask Ubuntu. However, I only have 529 reputation on that site right now. Why can I make this? Is it network rep that counts in chat, not site-specific rep? Update: It's now beginning to look like this might b...

discussion bug chat
user315433
@MarkYisri The privileges in chat are not site-specific, they are within a chat cluster (chat.SE, chat.SO, chat.meta.SE). You have 1K combined rep in chat.SE
user315433
17:39
Combined rep = sum of rep over all accounts with 200+ rep in them.
user315433
@MarkYisri an embedded gif, nothing more
yellowantphil
yellowantphil
@MarkYisri maybe the privileges page is wrong. I can create a gallery chat room on unix.SE with 400 rep there.
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18:15
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: How do blind people know where to find Braille signs? by Corbin Miller on ux.stackexchange.com
user340193
18:44
How do I migrate a question to another site in the SE network other than the options I have on Android Enthusiasts?
user340193
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@MarkYisri Mod flag?
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other ^
rene
rene
@MarkYisri make sure that question isn't crap and on-topic on the target site ... related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225006/…
user315433
If it's on Android Enthusiasts and is about development, vote/flag to close as off-topic.
user315433
Never try migrate to SO, it's a waste of time. They are either Q-banned there, or should be.
user315433
18:52
I disagree with red-flagging. It's a user answering "sip" and padding to get past the length requirement.
user315433
@SmokeDetector f
Frank
Frank
19:18
@MarkYisri lordy, you actually asked
I altered the source HTML to change the message, then used a gif animation website to animate 2 screenshots.
Bwahahahahaha
I should actually make that an image link directing you so some shady off site messaging service lol
Feeds
Feeds
19:52
How Do Software Developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalore Differ?
David Robinson on November 30, 2016
When I tell someone Stack Overflow is based in New York City, they're often surprised: many people assume it's in San Francisco. (I've even seen job applications with "I'm in New York, but willing to relocate to San Francisco" in the cover letter.) San Francisco is a safe guess of where an American tech company might be located: it's in the heart of Silicon Valley, near the headquarters of tech giants such as Apple, Google, and Facebook. But New York has a rich startup ecosystem as well- and it's a very different world from San Francisco, with developers who use different languages and technologies.
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Criação de app Cortana em Português não esta funcionando by Mario Sergio on pt.stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Busca fonética no SQL server by Mario Sergio on pt.stackoverflow.com
user315433
21:47
@Feeds It'd be nice if @drob linked a higher-res version of that chart, with easier-to-read labels.
user315433
I didn't expect to see "Washington, United States" that high on the list.
hichris123
hichris123
... D.C. or the state?
user315433
Can't be the state, drob isn't that stupid. Seattle is on the list just below.
user315433
I think a lot of govt contractors... who had some high-profile website to fix in recent years.
user315433
For all the telecommuting and outsourcing, having presence in D.C. area remains important for the contracting crowd.
user315433
21:57
So... New York does the yucky stuff (like VBA) and San Francisco the trendy stuff (like Go). Sounds about right.
Shog9
Shog9
As you travel east, the tech gets more enterprisey
By the time you hit Bangalore, it's all Java.
user315433
And then, when you hits the international date line, a datetime bug eats your Java code and you start over.
user315433
I should learn pandas. I must learn pandas. I will learn pandas.
user315433
(this repeats about once a year)
user315433
As a motivation, telling myself that the alternative is learning R.
Undo
Undo
22:03
I should learn R.
Really, really should
user315433
Text editor or reader for working with huge files in windows - software recommendations stack exchange gender quotes At the office ...
Tweeted by RoderickNyman on November 30, 2016 at 9:55 PM
user315433
Is this Twitter spam or what? Using SoftwareRecs post title.
Undo
Undo
odd
Shog9
Shog9
22:36
spam.
user315433
I remember SO wrestling (or otherwise gaining) Twitter account @StackOverflow. On the Facebook frontier, no such victory yet... facebook.com/STACKOVERFLOW
user315433
So it's officialstackoverflow for the time being.
user315433
Code for a living twitter icon is confusingly similar to ru.SO icon.
user315433
Speaking of which, a comparison of Twitter followers among lang-SO sites: es.so 377, pt.so 262, ja.so 25, and ru.so 14...
Shog9
Shog9
Does anyone here still care about Facebook?
bjb568
bjb568
22:48
no
Never did. ur old
user315433
No, it's disgusting. Deleted mine years ago.
user315433
@bjb568 You missed that year or two when it was cool.
bjb568
bjb568
What a skary time.
user315433
That said... SO accounts have 457.7K FB likes vs 21.6K Twitter followers.
user315433
On the other hand, the FB count is totally meaningless. facebook.com/zaqmathdept is nearing 2000 likes, with all but a dozen completely random internet people with no interest in, or relation to, the page.
user315433
22:58
It doesn't look like there is an official Google+ page.
bjb568
bjb568
23:41
I'm in a wireless networking class. It's grad level.
Groups are presenting their projects.
Two of them presented the same one: analyzing the efficiency of different distributions of access points. They all use Matlab. Both groups found that random is worse than rectangular.
The one that just went cited the prof's textbook and simple.wikipedia.
user315433
Nobody used the golden ratio to distribute access points?
bjb568
bjb568
There are never any questions. It's bad.
Ooh, this presentation uses material design.
Second one on how to generate RSA keys, after that was already taught in class.
user315433
What's your presentation about?
bjb568
bjb568
I don't have one. Only grad students are doing it.
Ooh, this project uses both MATLAB and Python. Such wow.
user315433
> Jon Ericson has spent over 20 years working as a developer tending production systems. He supported an instrument testbed for the National Weather Service, took the night shift on a Space Shuttle mission ground data system, and was the science data processing system technical lead for a NASA/JPL Earth-orbiting spectrometer. saucelabs.com/blog/…
user315433
23:48
+1 Space Shuttle is cool
bjb568
bjb568
Two groups have shown potatoes at the end of their presentation for extra claps.
user image
user315433
So, perhaps you should not go to Cinci for graduate school.
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
@zaq One of the perks of the project was that I could listen to the astronauts communicate with mission control. (But we couldn't talk on that channel for obvious reasons.)
bjb568
bjb568
@zaq Perhaps.
@JonEricson But… did it have potatoes?
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
Not that I can recall. But Penn Jillette seems to be into them.

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