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user315433

12:30 AM

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user315433

user315433

Okay, the banner has a button called dismiss, let's click...

user315433

Someone is unclear on the concept of "dismiss".

Shog9

[Make shorter and turn off word-wrap]

@bjb568 so that's what you kids are using the the thumb emoji for?

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hichris123

4:35 AM

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user315433

5:00 AM

I had a moderate amount of fun writing a Google Apps script that copied Spring 2016 class / homework schedule to Spring 2017 (I'm using Google Calendar for this stuff, and teaching the same class in Spring 17 as in Spring 16). Tweaked the dates to align them with the beginning of semester, of course... And only after running all this, remembered 2016 was a leap year. ARGH.

hichris123

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user315433

Starting a comment with "Welcome to [site]" is in the same category as starting a question with "Hi". Should be auto-removed or at least discouraged.

user315433

To hell with canned niceties.

hichris123

@zaq It's part of the autocomments script.

user315433

5:23 AM

> I am willing to use a script to do this if someone could post one in the answer that I could copy and paste.

user315433

Wow, the sacrifices some people are willing to make...

rene

8:32 AM

waffles

Derpy

@rene muffins

rene

@Derpy cookies

we are ready for delete-vote-pls on this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288578/…

cc @Bart @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

8:54 AM

status-vote-cast

rene

9:04 AM

\o/

Stijn

Hard to cast a close vote on MSO these days, with those pesky gold badge holders around... @rene :)

rene

9:19 AM

@Stijn you're welcome ;)

rene

9:53 AM

@sha @bart another delv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288562/…

rather long lived ...

Bart

@rene gone

rene

Thx

Derpy

10:24 AM

just wondering.

has anyone noticed any easter egg on the Winter Bash site this year?

Stijn

nope

would be a fun thing for Easter though

eggs hidden all over the site

Derpy

so they probably dropped that.

oh, well. One post less to create.

b_jonas

11:03 AM

Yay, I have 20 of these trophies now!

No wait, not 20.

Only 16 of them.

rene

Can I have the mission accomplished hat for this?

Derpy

11:25 AM

@b_jonas I bet you are happy you got the Lunar Republic version of that hat instead of the Sun Empire one...

Bart

@rene you made the OP argue that Documentation is very useful. Not sure what to think of that.

rene

11:58 AM

@Bart don't blame me for unwanted side-effects ...

Bart

12:22 PM

#blamerene

bluefeet

#always

Stijn

12:39 PM

Can someone add rene to the wheel of blame?

Derpy

Dec 5 at 14:33, by Derpy

Oct 5 at 9:51, by Derpy

@hichris123 @Pops @JasonC ^ could any of you RO change the Wheel of blame link in the room description to this one? I have updated it to be a little more accurate...

Stijn

@Derpy I like that one :D

Bart

1:02 PM

@Derpy and here I was hoping there was some dynamic generation going on. Flagged for bullying. How dare you!

Derpy

1:14 PM

@Bart it uses some very complex neural networks developed by a partnership between Nasa, Google, the Illuminati, Mu, the gray aliens and some more I don't remember right now.

Don't blame me if their superior intelligence has come to the logical conclusion that you are the root of every problem :P

(hopes Bart doesn't actually check the code and find out his name is hardcoded)

rene

Let me brake his glasses to make that harder for him ...

Bart

1:59 PM

@rene blaming me for everything. Breaking my glasses. Since when has this become the Bart abuse channel?

Derpy

2:17 PM

@Bart wait a second... it is not "your glasses". You are the glasses. Remember?

You are a pair of glasses, bjb568 is a cat, Infinite is a duck and so on..

Stijn

:5622689 You have to be pretty mad when you take the time to register on a Q&A website to complain about something that happened to you

rene

that final comment was all that was needed @Bart ... all I needed to do was cast a rude flag...

Bart

Myeah, I did the same

No saving it really

rene

true

@Stijn maybe re-brand to C&A sites.

Or M&S

You have to think out-of-the-box. But start with a very large box ...

Derpy

2:40 PM

so uncreative.... they should hire someone Pinkier for those hats triggers....

So many wasted opportunities.

The Hatters should have been awarded for asking some tea to the chat bot in the chemistry room.

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hichris123

5:04 PM

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user315433

5:30 PM

Flagged "this should be the accepted answer" because the answer was already accepted. Insta-nuke. \o/

user315433

5:42 PM

(next step: SEDE)

rene

@zaq done 100 yesterday already ...

rene

6:20 PM

This might be a start of a good horror movie ... assuming there was an "accident" and not a real one ...

hichris123

function isVowel($ch)
{
    if($ch=='a' || $ch=='e' || $ch=='i' || $ch=='o' || $ch=='u')
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}
function isConsonant($ch)
{
    if($ch=='a' || $ch=='e' || $ch=='i' || $ch=='o' || $ch=='u')
    {
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        return true;
    }
}

I agree. Who writes that kind of code?

user315433

6:41 PM

!!/blame (git-)

Jon Ericson

@hichris123 Somone who has forgotten the "sometimes 'y' clause".

user315433

w is kind of borderline

Jon Ericson

$ grep -iv '[aeiouy]' /usr/share/dict/words | grep -i w
cwm
W
w

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cwm_(landform)

user315433

6:59 PM

I'll be looking for a chance to say "cwm" in public...

user315433

Meanwhile, while we're posting code: my Python disappointment of the day is that
[a*b for a in range(b) for b in range(4)] throws "b is not defined".

Undo

!!/alive?

Jon Ericson

@zaq Bummer. That seems like a useful and expressive syntax.

bjb568

7:18 PM

@zaq I'm going to use this for hangman in the future.

I currently confuse people with words like jazziest and carbocation.

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jcolebrand

8:26 PM

@Shog9 re: tweet I blame twitter url shortener masking things

Yeah, that's the ticket

Shog9

ha!

not that I'm against getting hats, mind you

I just really like URL slugs

bluefeet

speaking of t.co links

A: Where is my Amped Up Hat?

There definitely was a bug here. It was very obscure and it took the developers several days to figure out why you were not getting accurate counts from sharing your link via Twitter. The basic gist of the fix from Marc is: As reported, t.co shortened links were not being recorded correctl...

that was quite a bug

jcolebrand

@Shog9 uh huh. I thought we were discussing newts :p

Shog9

ask on pets.se

user315433

Speaking of Twitter, I answered a Web Apps question with @Shog9's tweet: How can I access an article directly from its Google AMP page?

Shog9

8:29 PM

oh, cool

Shog9

8:59 PM

...and with that, I have a hat:

bluefeet

There is such a Say Anything vibe going on

user315433

> So because “askdifferent.com ” contains “t.co” some things have been broken and we’re idiots. So, oops. -- Nick Craver at 10:30 AM - 22 Dec 2016

user315433

Reminds me of how Smokey reported links to english.stackexchange.com because it contains sh.st

Shog9

or (supposedly) Windows 9 couldn't be released because of Windows 95

Shog9

9:13 PM

ok, got an "Announcer" badge.

Only other site where I have that badge is Seasoned Advice, and only there because Sam used my ID in a link on Lifehacker. So strictly-speaking, this is the only time I've actually earned that badge.

user315433

Never used "share" links on Twitter before?

bluefeet

I guess that's good, since they were broken

user315433

Ah yes, and Nick's tweet explained why...

Shog9

I almost never use "share" links period

50 mins ago, by Shog9

I just really like URL slugs

user315433

URL slug: dribbble.com/shots/1300084-URL-slug-404