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user202362

01:15

user202362

03:22

are spammers hired under other job titles? there are so many of them & I have never seen a job title such as 'spammer' or 'Senior spammer'

Rob

I'd guess they'd be working for an 'advertising' company

user202362

that's my thought too

user202362

maybe internet is a place that only says no to spam that doesn't pay, if you pay enough, internet will offer to hide your spam and promote it as useful material :p

user315433

03:47

2016 summary: 12 new sites entered beta (and survived), 6 graduated from beta: Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, Puzzling, Law, Philosophy, Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair, Quantitative Finance.

hichris123

04:02

→ 29 messages moved to Chimney

SmokeDetector

05:38

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Playing FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Opus files over DLNA to a renderer by xiangshuii on superuser.com

bwDraco

06:08

in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 42 mins ago, by bwDraco

> A political map compressed using Photoshop's content-aware resizing algorithm to cut down on unused blank space

This map preserves the shapes of Tissot's indicatrices pretty well, as long as you draw them in before running the resize.

@SmokeDetector autoflagged

SmokeDetector

@bwDraco That post was not automatically flagged by metasmoke.

user315433

Which is good, because it's not a clear cut case. I didn't flag it either.

Alexis King

06:28

@bwDraco India’s really not doing so hot in this particular model. Most of it’s less distorted than I’d expect, though!

user315433

I like the map, it brings the countries closer together. Things would be a little different if people could hop between U.S. and Europe on a weekend without thinking much of it.

user202362

07:30

I like this map because it's much easier for the terrorists to travel to other part of the world

user202362

coz ocean boats are expensive

user202362

@bwDraco also racism!!! why is africa so far from the U.S.?? </trollololo>

user202362

there is a huge space in between the two

Bart

09:24

It's quite surprising how few users participated in the Winterbash. Well, to me at least.

Derpy

@Bart start here

Stijn

I personally didn't go out of my way to earn hats, just went along with it

Bart

10:00

@Derpy sure, you might not like it. But even the hat you get for simply participating doesn't really have a high count.

Derpy

@Bart that would bring me to conspiracy theory #2 - Stack userbase is slowly declining

or at least: the % of the userbase that wants to get involved in "Stack Exchange social life" is slowly declining

Bart

Dunno. Didn't look at the figures of others years

Derpy

10:32

@Bart just look at this chat room. You really think that there hasn't been an user-message drop lately?

Bart

Sure, but keep in mind that this room goes back to the MSO age where things were far more active

And several new rooms have been spun off from this one

alexolut

12:24

Do any bugs related only for Stack Overflow sites (main, meta and any of localized ones) should be posted on SO meta or Meta.SE also appropriate place for them?

Stijn

@alexolut if it also affects the localized ones, I think it's fine to post on MSE. If people think otherwise, they'll just migrate it to MSO, so don't worry too much about it.

alexolut

@Stijn ok. Thanx.

Derpy

@alexolut oh, and give you free downvotes and salt in the process.

alexolut

12:44

0

Q: Alignment issue for "questions that may already have your answer"

When asking a new question the list of "Questions that may already have your answer" contains questions with (green rectangle) and without accepted answers. As you can see these types or question has different indent: Related only for Stack Overflow sites (localized and metas too).

@Derpy you are welcome ^^^

Derpy

13:03

thanks, already took my daily dose of salt today.

alexolut

@Derpy what do you mean under "salt"?

rene

they probably tried configuring Share Point

Derpy

Mike Shadow: I paid for it! - Official Trailer

►

Stijn

That reminds me, I found out why our hosted SP is so incredibly slow. Management went with the cheapest tier available.

rene

They always do

Derpy

13:11

@Stijn don't worry, someone tried to force us to use D1 sized azure vm for sharepoint development....

rene

Always make sure you put stuff in your proposals that management can ditch. That makes them feel important

Derpy

@rene and remember to tell them they should ignore the raw almond smell too.

It is just your new perfume.

rene

:D

alexolut

@Derpy fun video, but I can't understand about "salt" whatever, sorry.

GrenadesPlus

13:37

!!/tea for @ShadowWizard

SmokeDetector

@GrenadesPlus brews a cup of darjeeling tea for @GrenadesPlus

GrenadesPlus

!!/tea for @alexolut

SmokeDetector

@GrenadesPlus brews a cup of lemon tea for @GrenadesPlus

Bart

Spent 3 hours on upgrading to new software, only to find it doesn't work and the bug won't be resolved soon. So now back to the old version. And then my second monitor came, but without the appropriate cable ... this is a productive day.

GrenadesPlus

hey @Bart o/

Shadow Wizard

13:38

!!/Bart for @Gren

GrenadesPlus

ew

Shadow Wizard

@Bart so it can only become better.... ;)

Bart

Heyo @GrenadesPlus

GrenadesPlus

\o/

Bart

@ShadowWizard knowing my luck ...

it's all downhill from here

:p

alexolut

13:43

nice conversation

Shadow Wizard

@alexolut nah, just ordinary rant from @Bart ;)

@Bart well, at least you don't have a migraine... :D

Usually @Telkitty is the one ranting about her connection being blocked by SE, guess today she's too upset though

Bart

@ShadowWizard there's that at least. But let's not jinx it

rene

!!/coffee

SmokeDetector

@rene brews coffee for @rene

rene

have that ^ @Bart

GrenadesPlus

13:49

no

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@GrenadesPlus brews a cup of green tea for @GrenadesPlus

GrenadesPlus

have that ^ @Bart

Bart

Coffee tea

Coffee tea refers to herbal tea made from non-bean parts of the coffea (coffee plant), and may refer to: Coffee tea leaves Coffee cherry tea Ground coffee, brewed in a coffee bag, like bagged tea, is referred to simply as "coffee", and is similar to filter coffee. Yuanyang (drink), a drink combining coffee and tea...

Shadow Wizard

@Bart lol, true!

GrenadesPlus

Yuenyeung

Yuenyeung or coffee with tea (often transliterated according to the Cantonese Chinese pronunciation Yuenyeung, Yinyeung, or Yinyong), also commonly known as Kopi Cham in Malaysia (cham from the Hokkien word mix) is a popular beverage in Hong Kong, made of a mixture of three parts of coffee and seven parts of Hong Kong-style milk tea. It was originally served at dai pai dongs (open air food vendors) and cha chaan tengs (cafe), but is now available in various types of restaurants. It can be served hot or cold. The name Yuenyeung, which refers to mandarin ducks (Yuanyang), is a symbol of conjugal...

alexolut

13:51

@BrianNickel can you help me to get link for beta testing of iOS app? Already two times did request for it via google form, but no luck.

Shadow Wizard

I want this coffee:

@alexolut as the iOS app is long time not in beta, not sure it's possible...

GrenadesPlus

I want this coffee:

Bart

oooh

alexolut

@ShadowWizard I see posts with bugs from @Cai where he used beta version. Not available in AppStore.

Shadow Wizard

@alexolut well, most likely installed it long ago, and it's still working, but I doubt new people can join/install it.

alexolut

13:57

@alexolut Beta. There's a sign up link here. — Cai Dec 15 '16 at 7:02

Shadow Wizard

@alexolut yeah, but when he signed up?

alexolut

@ShadowWizard I don't know ... but form is still available.

Shadow Wizard

@alexolut well, let's Brian see and reply. :)

rene

@GrenadesPlus be careful! Don't drown @Telkitty

GrenadesPlus

@rene too late

rene

14:02

:'(

Shadow Wizard

)':

GrenadesPlus

>:)

Shadow Wizard

14:18

@JasonC how exactly is this duplicate of the main faq???

I understand it's a bad idea and very unpopular (downvoted too) but closing as dupe of something totally unrelated... ?

canon

@ShadowWizard Is there a way to see anonymous feedback? that might be nice for an OP.... if not for everyone else.

Shadow Wizard

@canon only for 10k users, on non-SO sites

canon

womp womp

Shadow Wizard

(no link, but the page still works)

rene

@canon in SEDE in the table postfeedback

Shadow Wizard

14:24

e.g. for MSE meta.stackexchange.com/tools/post-feedback

@rene oh. It's still active?

canon

@rene Almost certainly. I mean as part of the UI that perhaps I'd missed.

rene

no, that doesn't exist

@ShadowWizard was it ever down then?

0 (NaN%) up / 0 (NaN%) down

GrenadesPlus

lol

Shadow Wizard

@rene thought that when they removed the link from 10k tools page they also stopped updating SEDE, though thinking about it, I posted answer using this data. facepalm

rene

you are getting old

canon

14:28

wizards start old

Shadow Wizard

:(

canon

lol

who knows... maybe shadow wizards make some dark, demonic pact in return for youth

GrenadesPlus

O_o

Shadow Wizard

@canon you got me... I surrender.... that's the real me.....

:-D

canon

lol

GrenadesPlus

14:33

rip my screen broke when it was loading the image from top to bottom

Shadow Wizard

lol

GrenadesPlus

i was slowly being burned alive

canon

lol

Shadow Wizard

3451x2100 pixels

GrenadesPlus

dies

Stijn

14:34

@ShadowWizard why did they remove that link? Never seen the page before

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn I think it was too expensive on resources, at least on SO. On SO it times out to this day.

canon

@Stijn maybe it's live data; so, it's a performance problem. #speculation

Stijn

@ShadowWizard yeah just tried it but got "Oops! Something Bad Happened" :)

Shadow Wizard

13

A: Post Feedback link is broken

The way this is architected absolutely does not scale. It's also not something we want to put resources into fixing given opportunity cost and what it would take to refactor. We will be removing the link in the next build and removing the page and code later in the week. I'm sorry that answer ...

heh, bug fixed

GrenadesPlus

@SmokeDetector wtf

was that porn?

Derpy

14:42

.engineerMetrics {
box-sizing: border-box !important;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
outline: 0;
border: 0;
}

.engineerMetrics * {
box-sizing: border-box !important;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
outline: 0;
border: 0;
}

Shadow Wizard

?

2

@GrenadesPlus this one? Don't think so, looks like poker site

GrenadesPlus

@ShadowWizard the link name tho

there is 2 links being placed there, not only one

Shadow Wizard

@GrenadesPlus Agen Domino? Sounds as some online game too

canon

@Derpy just dumping CSS to chat?

GrenadesPlus

@ShadowWizard this guy is the one i think, check it out

Seointan

1

cash-game texas-hold-em

2 links

the second link, the one that says "Streaming......"

discretion advised tho D:

halp

Shadow Wizard

14:51

!!/report poker.stackexchange.com/a/8604

GrenadesPlus

told you

i should get a cookie B)

Shadow Wizard

:)

rene

@GrenadesPlus look in your browser, there should be plenty left

GrenadesPlus

@rene you got me, you lil minx

jk i dont watch porn

Shadow Wizard

hehe like I'll say I don't close questions..... :P

checking @Gren's browser history

GrenadesPlus

14:57

deletes it beforehand

Derpy

@canon not any css. SP2010 layout, multiple web parts zone in a random table with collspan and row span galore, td must have pixel fixed width/height. That css is the result of a pony desperation.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy you mean that CSS is required for SharePoint to function properly?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard ....... this line. This EVIL line. At top... on the master page. Cannot remove, SP2010 does not "support" that...

̴͇ ̮̝̯ ̣̭̬̤̰͠ ̝̥̮̱̝̫̞͝<͕̭͚̘͕̬͟m̷̠͙̗e̥͚̭t̼̟̞̰̯̪̼͜ạ̢͇̗͈̮̙̼ ̶h̹̲̜̣̟̦͡ͅt͔͇̳̹̲ͅt̥p-͉e̮̩̰̰̗̞͙q̤̦̳̣͍̀u̦̕i̩ͅv̮̕=̩̬̻̠͉̭͘ͅ"͕X̙̜̰̣͕̘̙-̢̺̟͕U̴̺͎͚A͇͙̲̕‌̙-̡C̝̦̫͜om͓͙͇̪͇̦̙p͓̱̗̬̻̘̰a̬͔̤̟̗͍̙͜t͕̗͖i͕̲̮̹ͅb͏͈͇̣͚͈̞͓ĺ̲e̸̲̗̺͚̬"̕ ̛̳c̛͈̮on͚̙t͖e̮̣͜n͔͕̕ͅt͎̙͙̭=̳̼͉͓̖͙̖"҉̼͉̟Į͖͖̭͍̰E̦ͅ≠̦8̛͖̥͔̱" ̮̳ͅ/͈̱͉>͖̗

run.

escape.

Shadow Wizard

I can see IE8 there hiding

Derpy

@ShadowWizard with all its bug, missing css features support and a whole bag'o'fun

Shadow Wizard

15:11

@Derpy so any SharePoint site must also support IE8, no matter what?

rene

~~also~~ only

Derpy

@ShadowWizard nope. Sharepoint 2010 sites force the browser to run in IE8 compatibility mode.

rene

unless you have a dupe I think this can stay.

not every user is a dev.

Shadow Wizard

@rene yeah, the comment was meant to explain the downvotes.

I didn't downvote or voted to close

@Derpy that's... ... sad.

rene

Ah, I thought you were advocating for closure, sorry

Shadow Wizard

15:24

@rene nah, I would have just voted in such case. :)

rene

@ShadowWizard the first rev was a trainwreck

Shadow Wizard

@rene yeah.. who fixed?

rene

the community ... ᔕᖺᘎᕊ did a bit and moved content from the comments in the post

Shadow Wizard

@rene heh, Community finally became sentient? :D

Jason C

Test

Grr I have mobile stufc

Hate

Stuff

Bart

15:30

:D Welcome @JasonC

Shadow Wizard

stufc? Googling

Jason C

Autocorrect incorrectly corrected one word and totally ignored another in the same sentence. It's like my phone is trolling me.

M.A.R.

@JasonC Your mobile hates big fat fingers too

Shadow Wizard

twitter.com/hashtag/stufc

Jason C

I was too distracted trying to keep grr from becoming "great".

M.A.R.

15:31

Oh, and then there's Automobilecorrect

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC "thank you, and have a grr day"?

Jason C

@Shadow 1. Those topics have been discussed so much that it isn't worth any treatment beyond checking the faq at this point, and most importantly

2. The reasoning that each one of that posters privileges are the way they are are all in the faq, just short of a bulleted list. The topic has been discussed before and every answer is there, and every resulting discussion can be found from there as a good starting point. It is precisely the spirit of a dupe link as a sign post and as a reference to something that clearly addresses all underlying issues in the post.

To your point befor. I can't reply easily to specific keys on here

And also I'm just giving up though ncorrectly you'll just have to figure it out

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC so according to this logic, you can close any question on any meta site as duplicate of that faq.

Jason C

No it isn't black and white like that.

Shadow Wizard

Closing a question as dupe of the main faq is.

M.A.R.

15:33

@JasonC Which is exactly why you two disagree

Shadow Wizard

If you don't like it, downvote. If it's off topic, close it as such.

Jason C

This question can be closed as a dupe of the main faq. There is no "logic" involved there that immediately implies that other questions can get similar treatments. The topic of this particular post is done to death and is all there.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC it boils down to a simple feature request: let users vote and comment with 1 rep. That is it.

Jason C

I did everything I was supposed to do. I downvoted, and i CVd for a reason I felt was appropriate. If you disagree, then dont vote the same as me. Any questions? :P

Shadow Wizard

Totally valid request, popular or not.

@JasonC that's exactly what I did, and what I'll keep doing. :)

Jason C

15:35

Then it's moot. So with that in mind: Hi

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC Hi! Want ice cream?

Jason C

I do. How are you going to get it to me?

rene

UPS?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard sadder - I discovered that my idea to implements hats is basically undoable due to browser restrictions.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy :(

@JasonC expect a knock on your door in 10... 9.... 8...

Jason C

15:48

Nice. Thanks.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC my pleasure!

Jason C

Wtf. He did not have ice cream. He only had really expensive cat food.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC for you, it's cat food. For the cats, it's ice cream.

So @Jason how are you these days? Found a new job?

canon

16:07

@Derpy I've been half paying attention. Are you trying to add hats to a sharepoint site?

Shadow Wizard

lol

@canon in case you're serious, @Derpy is trying to write some userscript that will allow users to wear hats even without any Winterbash. :)

canon

no no... :)

bjb568

@Undo You doubt me?

:3

Shadow Wizard

@Undo heh, maybe he's listed here? ;)

canon

@JasonC spying on a school?

Derpy

16:30

@ShadowWizard the problem is not the hats, the problem is how to store the info about the selected hats so that other users can see your hat. Either you use an external server - and then you are best in moving ALL the logic there and just have an user script that queries the service and applies the hat overlay...

or if you want to build a script that has no "external dependencies" you are basically going to bang your head on the wall.

without an external source of hat placements info, you have just one option.

store it in the avatar. And that is lame. And basically impossible too.

Can work around the lame part.... but not the "it's basically impossible" thing.

canon

Maybe the userscript could help you upload a custom avatar which would encode the hat selection in the image data

Derpy

@canon that was the idea, but I have no way to get the data from the current user image.

canon

well, no

because it's not in the current image

this would be a forward only deal

I'd assume

Derpy

sorry, probably didn't explain well.

canon

You can hide all sorts of crap in image data. I don't know how much SE messes with it when you upload, though. Conversion to lossy jpeg, etc.

Derpy

16:41

the idea is to get your current avatar, make you select&place the hat and then create a new version of the avatar image with some exif data embedded. That, assuming imgur doesn't strip that (seem it keeps the original image, that is how I restored animated avatars with another userscript for example)

Stijn

@Derpy imgur normally strips exif data, unless an exception was made for SO

Derpy

@Stijn strange, I was of the idea the original file kept it BUT the resized version were stripped (and de-animated)

Stijn

@Derpy maybe they keep some exif data then. Or maybe it has changed since imgur went live. reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy_ama/c0edps8

Derpy

@Stijn possible. But as I said, no purpose to really check that now since I can't really use that option anyway.

Next option would be an external site and service to feed the userscript with. All hat selection would be done on the site, the script would just consume the data to place the hats. Still sub-optimal but the best you could do without being a part of Stack infrastructure.

Should be possible for an external site to consume the user data and user auth. I think there was an alternate chat site for stack exchange that did that - something with a name like... MIAU chat?

@ProgramFOX probably remembers it.

found:

dystroy.org/miaou/login

user315433

17:44

I got used to seeing various odd things in comments, but a copy of an email is still kind of weird

user315433

At least there are no emoticons, inspirational signatures, or a long trail of back-and-forth messages (although they probably cut that off).

user315433

> I will be posting a 2016 edition of this as soon as I have some more details ironed out. -- Internationalization 'State of the Stack' - Stack Overflow edition

user315433

Looks like there won't be a 2016 edition of that post...

Jason C

18:16

@Shadow lol @ the cat ice cream comment

No. I haven't found a new job. Actually I'm in a weird spot. I had enough savings to coast for a while and I've been trying to relax and not look yet.

The my cat got cancer, I found him in bad shape on the 1st. had surgery a few days ago. Went well. He's pulling through and doing well. But the bills hit over $10k. So now I'm in panic mode, lol.

I thought just once, once, maybe I could chill out, coast, not plan ahead for a little bit and relax. Lesson learned, heh.

canon

That reminds me

I need to get some pet insurance

sorry about your cat :/

Jason C

Yeah I always laughed at pet insurance too. But man, that stuff rivals human health care costs.

It's the lab work that's the craziest. It's nuts.

canon

it's all the same type of crap they'd have to do for a human

we're all just fleshy bags of chemicals

Jason C

Greetings, bag of mostly water

canon

blorp

Jason C

18:25

Yeah. I never go to the doctor. But last year I had a headache for two weeks and the internet told me to go. So I did. I got one totally routine blood panel.

canon

Where, in America? Our healthcare system is awful.

Jason C

Insurance didn't cover it (mind boggling, you'd think they want to cover checkups to minimize their payouts by keeping clients healthy). I got a bill from the lab for 3000 freakin dollars.

Yeah. US. Highmark BCBS.

And even worse, I couldn't get out of it. I even went to the lab in person, and I wasn't even a jerk about it, lol. Nothing. I waited until it got sent to collections and managed to talk it down to 2000 with them.

I need to pretend my apartment is a hotel so I can get Gordon Ramsay to come give me a life makeover.

canon

18:49

... the chef?

kamula

19:17

Hey all, just a question about etiquette. I've found the solution to my answer through some contributions from SO + some work on my own part. I'm inclined to approve the answer given by SO, but it is not complete. should I also post a complete solution that merges answers from multiple sources? (also not sure where I should ask this)

canon

blorp

alexolut

19:41

@ShadowWizard I've got link to beta iOS app today.

user315433

@kamula yes, please do. Attribute the sources. Feel free to mark your own answer as accepted. Too.

user315433

My punctuation isn't best when I'm walking with a cup of coffee in the other hand.

Jason C

19:53

@canon Yeah. Check out Hotel Hell. It's like Kitchen Nightmares, but with hotels.

rene

@JasonC maybe we should ask Gordon to do the First Post queue?

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy oh... thought you meant that to be client side only, for the user only. Well, having it show for others is indeed impossible without help from SE itself.

@canon SE does not touch or host the images, it's all handled by imgur.

@Derpy to "restore" animated avatar you just need to remove the "s=..." part from querysting... the original image is still animated.

@JasonC whoa... sorry to hear. Hope you got help from friends or family?

@canon there is such a thing??? lol.... wow... :)

@canon bag of bones.... good book. ;)

@JasonC and? What did the doctor(s) find?

@alexolut good! :)

@JasonC heh, I got family in the USA, living there for 30 years. Until few years ago, they used to fly all the way to Israel just for dental treatments (e.g. taking out a tooth) and it was still cheaper.

status-pings-completed

canon

20:27

@ShadowWizard yep :P

alexolut

@ShadowWizard ... status-by-design? — alexolut 1 min ago

Shadow Wizard

@rene why did you delete your comment there? ^

Or was it @Robert, deleting all comments along with his?

rene

@ShadowWizard I guess so. Me being not constructive is an option

Always happy to learn about that by having your comments nuked

And I wasn't even trying to be funny this time

Werner

21:11

@rene: If I have a PostId in SEDE, how can I make that directly link to the post?

I thought using [PostId] works... but it doesn't.

rene

@Werner PostId as [Post Link]

Werner

Ahh...

rene

but if you have a large result set that might error out

Werner

@rene Thanks.

rene

yw

user315433

21:14

Proposal: Merge SuperUser, Unix&Linux, ServerFault, AskUbuntu, AskDifferent

Jason C

@rene lol! That would be so awesome. Esp if he made a video doing it.

Hell Overflow, with Gordon Ramsay

Omg

@ShadowWizard Nothing. Seasonal migraines, inherited from my mother.

rene

@JasonC This jQuery is under-cooked, not flavored at all and I wouldn't dare feeding it to my dog

Jason C

I got a $2000 bottle of Scotch😂. Now, I'm leaving that like that, as an example, because I tried to cynically type "Excedrin" and autocorrect changed it to "scotch" with the smiley face. There are no words.

@rene Stop. Stop! Everybody stop! Come here you donkeys! NOW! This byte code is raw. RAW! Look at it! LOOK! IT'S. F***ING. RAW!

rene

lol

Jason C

SHUT IT DOWN.

Haha oh man it's too good.

Did you ever see that key and Peele sketch parodying his shows

Key & Peele - Gideon's Kitchen

►

rene

21:26

not yet, not sure if they have boadcast that here

:)

Shadow Wizard

21:45

@rene heh, ouch. Maybe Robert just have a bad day... he also made mistake when trying to understand the question, I rolled back his edit. (I mean, it was obvious it's about per-site meta, no?)

@JasonC so you still keep trying to find job as freelancer, or looking for "solid" job?

rene

@ShadowWizard yes, it is about per-site meta

Shadow Wizard

@rene and caching. It's always caching.

Though turns out MSE got no cache buster.

Hm. There is no cache buster on the CSS file URL. That's... strange. Will need to investigate further, @Sha — Oded ♦ 6 hours ago

So no wonder it's so full with cache.

umm... why my ? is starred? ? ?

Did I become @Bart?

runs away in terror

Bart

22:05

Impostor! It is I, the one and only Bart.

2

user315433

22:24

Jason C

23:41

@Shadow Solid job. But for my immediate needs I'm gonna have to go back to freelancing. I hate the work but the money's great and I had enough ins to line up a few decent gigs in the next few weeks. It's sort of a necessary evil. But I don't want to get trapped in freelance world again I was so ready to get out.

My biggest ex client has a massive project coming up in London too, I am going to try to get in on that just to build up the bank account again. Plus it should be at least an interesting project. And he still doesn't have a proper replacement programmer, just a scripty Linux guy.

Except I know exactly what he needs and it's not a short term one-off project, so... I dunno.

I was able to charge about half the vet bills to this credit card I got for this, no interest for six months but then like an insane %30 APR after that, including those 6 months. So that helps give me some time, with good motivation to pay that off ASAP.

... because HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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