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bjb568

12:02 AM

meh

user202362

what if ... you release design updates on April fool's day?

Jason C

@ShadowWizard i got a status update on the aforementioned pm. poor guy. he busted himself up pretty bad.

tripped at the top of his front stoop, all the way down, landed straight on his face. broke like 5 separate bones in his face, completely shattered his lower jaw, concussion, and a broken arm.

i think he's gonna be out for a minute.

he's also a pretty good friend of mine, separate from work, so i'm actually kinda worried about him. first round of surgery next week.

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12:24 AM

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Shadow Wizard

@JasonC poor guy... He got a spouse? Family? (i.e. someone with him at hospital)

Jason C

his girlfriends there

Shadow Wizard

girlfriends? Lucky guy! ;-)

Shog9

I guess nothing helps you get out of the hospital faster like your girlfriend showing up and running into your other girlfriend.

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bjb568

out of the hospital and into hell

Shog9

12:31 AM

was gonna say "or into the hospital", but...

ɥʇǝS

seems to me like it should be nothing helps you stay in the hospital.

Shadow Wizard

@Jason also hope he got health insurance? From what I heard about your medical system, without it one might have to pay tons of money when hospitalized... 💰

Jason C

yeah...

i don't know

Shadow Wizard

Anyhow, hope he will get through this soon!

Jason C

and i didn't ask

it's one of those questions that makes things worse, heh

if he doesn't, it's gonna be a nightmare

Shadow Wizard

12:42 AM

@JasonC yup, your vet bill will be minor compared to it...

Jason C

pennies

on the plus side i recently learned that apparently medical debt doesn't permanently affect your credit score. once you pay it off it's like it never happened.

Shadow Wizard

And how is the project going?

@JasonC credit score?

Jason C

projects still in initial phases. today i had a fun interaction that was pretty much along the lines of: dude: "we can't do that without significant development costs and like 6 months of development, blah blah i'm an angry half-programmer". me: "hey, so, last weekend, i did it. it took about 2 hours. here.". dude: no response. client: "this is awesome."

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty only if it's Tuesday

@JasonC lol... I mean... LOL

But who is that dude??

Jason C

a guy

who i can't really explain without explaining the entire project, which, sorry.

Shadow Wizard

12:47 AM

Lol no worry just wonder what is his role in the project :)

But judging from this, you're going to have lots of fun in this project... ;)

Jason C

he's a graphics guy, i guess. visualization, vr. does a lot of non-c++ dev stuff in unreal engine.

the component in question was an unreal engine module

it's the same old project for me

user202362

BTW, my avatar isn't exactly a teeth floss advertisement

Jason C

same shit, same old client, same issues, same process.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC but you are there as a programmer, right?

Jason C

yes, primarily

and some systems integration/design work for certain parts of this project. and some quasi-consulting.

it's complicated and you're nosy.

i gotta say this particular project is kinda cool, though. i'll tell you about it when it's public.

Shadow Wizard

12:53 AM

More picky than nosy... And noisy with pings. @Jason

Jason C

no

just nosy

Shadow Wizard

:-D

Jason C

own it

lol

what country are you in

Shadow Wizard

Israel

2:55 AM

Jason C

oh it is public

@ShadowWizard theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/07/…

a step up from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bay_Lights

17 bridges; they all have to sync up, too. not sure how yet. i'm talking to one of the coordinators over there next week i'm really, really hoping that for some odd reason they just happen to have 6 miles of fiber already laid out between them.

user202362

1:03 AM

@JasonC when I was in London for 3 months, I constantly walked across 3 of its bridges, because I lived next to the london eye and offices were near bank & liverpool street stations

user202362

I used to love travel a lot, but that's when I was early 20s

user202362

The more I travel, the less I like to travel, nowadays, travel only wins slightly over boredom.

Jason C

@Telkitty i feel like i got similarly jaded at some point, i'm not sure when it happened

i think it's because i usually travel for work, which generally entails going to yet another large city, and everything sort of feels the same

what i need is more proper vacations to interesting places

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Shadow Wizard

@JasonC nice! Looks like a complicated challenge... So you were also involved in the San Francisco project of the same artist?

@JasonC Tel Aviv of course

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1:19 AM

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Jason C

@ShadowWizard yes i did all the overall system design, all the software, some of the it, and a bunch of debugging that Philips (the lighting is all ColorKinetics) really should have paid me for for the sf project.

will be similar here

this is project-manager-who-got-hurt's first major project for this client so i also sort of have to have this weird, separate, consulting hat in addition to my developer hat. i'm both above and below him in the chain. it's super weird.

user202362

I am doing the Tarkine trail in Tasmania next month, then plan to swing by Yellowstone national park and Niagara falls 1-2 months after that.

Jason C

@ShadowWizard thebaylights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/02.jpg (from thebaylights.org) -- some of my software made a photo cameo

@Telkitty that sounds really nice

user202362

Speaking of which, what area should I stay if come to NY that's accessible within 30 minutes commute to NYC, with great public transport facility and not too dangerous? 4/5 star hotels in Manhattan is probably going to cost an arm and leg.

user202362

I have stayed on long island before, but that's in the opposite direction to Niagara falls

Jason C

1:36 AM

@Telkitty well it depends on what you mean by "nyc" and "30 minute commute".

are you trying to stay in nyc itself? and by "nyc" do you mean manhattan or are you counting the rest of the city?

note that it's about a 2.5 hour commute from one end of the city to the other, without ever leaving nyc. so it's a complicated question, lol.

user202362

2.5 hour commute? by walking? @_@

user202362

30 minutes commute by subway or bus I meant

Jason C

and yeah definitely don't stay in manhattan. tbh for nyc stays i'd go airbnb, and look for a spot in brooklyn, near williamsburg or perhaps cobble hill or park slope. it's great here. if you wanna stay in manhattan look for a spot in east village or west village.

@Telkitty well more like two hours. but by train lol.

rockaway park to inwood, 1:50 by train, god knows by car.

rockaway park, queens, to wakefield, bronx. 2:23 by subway and that's the google maps estimate, so add 30 minutes, lol.

all in city limits. because woohoo new york.

@Telkitty but really, airbnb. if you stay in lower manhattan you'll have easy car access north and west, and it's cake to get to grand central or penn station for trains. if you stay in brooklyn, go for something near the brooklyn/manhattan/williamsburg bridge. williamsurg is a fun neighborhood. anything down there will get you easy car access west and easy subway access to a train station. that's my official advice.

user202362

sounds like Sydney vs great Sydney

user202362

sydney cbd is like 2km x 3km, great sydney is like 150km x 200km

user202362

1:46 AM

@JasonC cool, thanks. will keep that in mind while go airbnb

Jason C

red areas are accessible, safe, and give you a nice nyc experience without the insane times square style tourism.

most of the city is pretty safe until you get farther out in brooklyn.

@Telkitty PS if you stay in manhattan, check out the bike trails along the west side up the hudson. they go forever. all the way upstate if you want.

now if you want to stay out of the city, go north

if you want quiet

like a little hotel in tarrytown or something. but you'll have way more fun in the city.

user202362

long island is a great place to live, yes

Jason C

a really good friend of mine lives out there in some beautiful house with a little private community beach, its awesome

its beautiful way out towards the end of it

user310756

2:06 AM

@ShadowWizard 29 - I've been 29 for years )

Jason C

grubhub is such fail

yet i continue to use it

5 years of constant fail

although lately i've taken to just browsing the menus then calling the restaurant and ordering directly

Shadow Wizard

2:32 AM

Thanks for all the details @Jason! Running out of battery 🔋 will read it all later... :-)

user315433

Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire) - Meat Loaf

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user315433

@Shog9 The loss is on US society's part... btw Youtube shows 35M views of GM version, 13M of LB version.

user310756

2:50 AM

@Telkitty yes I will email you :D

Shog9

@zaq those are depressingly large numbers

user310756

@Shog9 hi Shogs :D

Shog9

'evening

user315433

A moderator stepping down quietly is nothing unusual, but two at a time?

user310756

oh no, who's stepping down

user315433

2:54 AM

Ben Brocka and Rahul left UX mod-ship. The former still has "I'm a moderator on User Experience Stack Exchange." in the profile.

user310756

ah ok. That's a big loss for your site

user315433

And Gaz Winter is no longer a mod on Poker. A diamond-killing epidemic of some sort.

Shog9

There may be a sort of scheduled task that influences such things

user310756

Well I know all the unis are starting up for the year over here now

Jason C

3:10 AM

@zaq One moderator stepping down is boring. Two at a time is twice as boring.

Assuming it's linear. It could be 4x boring.

user315433

3:32 AM

Troll still needs flags, see ver 1 biology.stackexchange.com/q/56364

user202362

@YvetteColomb Speaking of uni, they have put a new sign in front of my neighbours house at North Ryde a few days ago:

user202362

that's the place where renovation has been carried out, not where I live

user202362

this was taken last Sunday when the tenant dumped everything next to the footpath. Noticing the blue sign wasn't there?

user202362

My dad was in the picture, we had to move everything back into the front yard because neighbours rang and complained about it.

user315433

3:54 AM

If I see a question and think "another one of those", I could spend a couple of minutes looking for a duplicate and then enjoy the misguided hope that my closevote won't expire, while trying not to think that I'm being someone's unpaid research assistant. Or I could downvote and move on. Decisions, decisions...

Jason C

gold badges make that more satisfying

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user315433

4:24 AM

Looking at the sidebar...
"How Do Students Use Stack Overflow?"
"Comprehensive question quality blocks now enabled everywhere"
Shog9 saved us a click.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title: menintalk.com/gain-xt-with-virilax/ by Dasilakp on graphicdesign.SE

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user315433

On one hand, it's nice that high-score spam posts get 3 flags at once... on another, those below the threshold hardly get any from CHQ anymore.

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Pandya

4:45 AM

Can you help me in getting what this want to say in simple sentances?

user315433

!!/report video.stackexchange.com/a/20699

user315433

5:02 AM

@JasonC Yes, which is why I now defer closevoting to mods and gold badge holders. Wouldn't want to deprive you of the satisfaction.

user315433

The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Official Lyric Video)

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5:14 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: Folder In Use error by Aaditya Singhania on serverfault.com

user315433

5:31 AM

I'm closing this question as off-topic because it is asking for guidance on something that is illegal in many parts of the world, and will generate an emotive response in most of the audience, not answers that the OP wants. — Rory Alsop ♦ 17 hours ago

user315433

Interesting intepretation of what makes a question off topic.

user315433

How high-rep is too high-rep to spank?

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user315433

6:01 AM

!!/report travel.stackexchange.com/a/88245

user310756

6:13 AM

@Telkitty lol I know where that is :D

user310756

Hm interesting they need to let people know where Macquarie Uni is from there. I'm wondering why now

Rory Alsop

7:21 AM

@zaq we didn't have ideal wording, but that question had to be closed for now to stop the fighting.

There are things that will need to be sorted on meta before topics like that go any further

Journeyman Geek

7:38 AM

@zaq depends on. Whether they enjoy it....

I'm not a fan of corporal punishment of children. Or capital punishment for that matter.

Derpy

8:54 AM

@zaq the part before the first comma was probably already a valid reason to close.

user202362

9:12 AM

@YvetteColomb not terribly hard to guess consider where you live

Shadow Wizard

9:24 AM

@Pandya the same question ban that exists for years on Stack Overflow is now applied on all Stack Exchange sites.

@Shog what about answer ban? Is it still limited to few sites?

@RoryAlsop how closing the question stop the fighting? You mean there was a flood of hate answers?

user310756

@Telkitty we live in the same area - compared to this site, we're positive neighbours :D

Shadow Wizard

How cute... ;)

Rory Alsop

9:45 AM

@ShadowWizard yep, and fighting in comments and some really nasty language

Not swearing, just calling out the OP as an abuser, a bully etc

Shadow Wizard

@RoryAlsop so why not temp lock?

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10:24 AM

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Stijn

11:03 AM

Where should bugs and feature requests for the Stack Apps site itself be posted? MSE?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Read this article, tell me if you notice anything ^_^....

blog.mgechev.com/2016/06/26/…

Shadow Wizard

11:40 AM

shadow.children += new Baby(Gender.Female);

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Stijn

@ShadowWizard congratulations! :)

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Bart

@ShadowWizard congrats :D

SamsungNote7Plus

@ShadowWizard wooohooo \o/ shadow children

Derpy

Hurray for the new filly

Shadow Wizard

12:20 PM

Hehe thanks everyone!

Rory Alsop

@ShadowWizard congratulations!!! And now even less sleep :-)

@ShadowWizard this is a bigger issue than I'd usually use temp lock for. We can always reopen if the community decides that way.

Bart

Maybe spank the community until they behave, and then reopen?

user202362

12:38 PM

user202362

Stijn

There's ~~an XKCD~~ a cat gif for everything

SamsungNote7Plus

oops

user202362

@ShadowWizard congrats

user202362

glad that you have checked out the coffee cabinet already

SamsungNote7Plus

12:45 PM

user202362

bjb kitty :p

qwer

1:00 PM

@ShadowWizard congratulation :)

Rory Alsop

1:58 PM

@Bart lol- nice

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Apologies for the blip there - an inadvertent SQL table lock escalation exhausted our connection pools for a moment. Executing plan B now.

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Stijn

eww, pascal casing SQL keywords

Shadow Wizard

2:14 PM

@Stijn thanks! :)

@Bart thanks! :)

@RoryAlsop thanks! :)

@SamsungNote7Plus thanks! :)

@Telkitty thanks! :)

@qwer thanks! :)

@Derpy thanks! :)

SamsungNote7Plus

@ShadowWizard cheers!!

Shadow Wizard

@RoryAlsop lock is "bigger" than closing (e.g. can't also post comments), but guess you know what you are doing on that site... :-)

Stijn

Is it me, or do notifications with the new top bar tend to arrive later than usual?

Could be that I just don't notice always notice them the first time

Journeyman Geek

@Stijn yup

Its also a way to temporarily stop someone from doing something to a post while working out what to do

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Q: What is a "locked" post?

A post can be locked. What does it mean to lock a post? Who can lock a post? When should a post be locked? Return to FAQ index

I've never locked a post as a SU mod

Stijn

2:30 PM

@JourneymanGeek was that meant for me or for @ShadowWizard :p

Journeyman Geek

._.

@ShadowWizard ^

@Stijn my bad. :(

Stijn

I was really confused at first hehe

Journeyman Geek

I expect autocomplete to read my mind sometimes ;p

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