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12:46 AM

I like how babaji is a blacklisted phrase

hichris123

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user315433

1:23 AM

!!/report askubuntu.com/a/912914

tchrist

When someone asks for a citation from an authoritative published reference work, is it cricket if the published citation you provide them with happens to come from a book for which the Library of Congress names you yourself as author? :)

user315433

If it is authoritative, why not.

tchrist

I seem to have gotten away with it.

And yes, it is.

user315433

But why LoC specifically, you're either an/the author or not.

tchrist

Because he would have had to click a little to notice that. :)

And I was trying to hold off as far as I could from revealing the kicker at the end of that sentence. :)

It made the question I just asked longer is all.

user315433

1:27 AM

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A: Joint distribution in layman's terms

Joint distribution is about selling joints (contain marijuana). So if I have 3 joints and distribute two of them, I have distributed two-thirds of my joints. I know you asked to stay away from mathematical equations, but if I have 3 of something and 2 of that thing I give away, I can put the 3 un...

tchrist

Times like this I wish I couldn't read any German.

user315433

@SmokeDetector gone, and I got 6 helpful flags out of this international incident

user315433

If two people can't read any language at all, could they effectively communicate using emoji only?

user315433

In more practical terms, two people who don't know each other's language.

user315433

Imagine all the people, emoji-chatting all over the world...

tchrist

1:32 AM

That depends what effectively means.

Some communication would be possible.

Fawad

Edit is not necessary to be 6digit if we add/remove tag?

user315433

Tag-only suggested edits are accepted, and are okay in moderation. Not sure they give any rep, however.

user315433

Also, any change to the question title is enough for suggestion to go through.

Fawad

Ok

user315433

We could try by instituting emoji-only chatroom somewhere... Can't be any worse than CoGro Musings.

user315433

1:49 AM

"Question" can be ❔or 🤔. "Downvote" is obviously 👎. Now just need an icon for "jQuery" and we're halfway toward a plausible SO chatroom.

Fawad

@Gerry 👍

user315433

I was thinking more along the lines of 🚽

hichris123

2:27 AM

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Feeds

4:02 AM

user315433

4:52 AM

@Feeds Foreign accents, too.

Fawad

5:11 AM

In review posts,which option should I click if I don't know anything about that post?

approach0.xyz/search/mobile.php

This link isn't opening ,iam using ipad

Journeyman Geek

5:37 AM

skip

Shadow Wizard

6:24 AM

@Fawad so what's the text?

Fawad

6:42 AM

@ShadowWizard ࿐

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki࿐?redirect=no

Wut that's actually a link, I will modify and send that link

@ShadowWizard goo.gl/Ufq1Pt

Shadow Wizard

umm... no idea what you tried to do there

oh, a square. Nice!

Thought you meant you want actual text.

So @M.A.R. was right, you found your square.

I don't think some very fancy unicode character that works only on some OS/browser can be considered as "text". @Faw :)

Text, in my view, is a letter in some actual language. (and no, Unicode is not a language.)

Fawad

@ShadowWizard hmm

Shadow Wizard

well, there is unicode for anything these days, but it's not standard yet.

some will see it, some won't.

It's fancy, and not stable.

So... better not use it "for real", e.g. on sites, just for fun.

Shadow Wizard

9:05 AM

in Shadow's Den, 18 hours ago, by KennyBOT

~ Where is everybody!?!

Shadow Wizard

9:49 AM

That's rare, SharePoint question in HNQ. /cc @Derpy

Shadow Wizard

10:12 AM

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.

Shadow Wizard

So @Elephant will you change your avatar now to match @Gerry's new avatar?

Elephant

That's a difficult question...

Shadow Wizard

Not really. Yes/No/Maybe

;)

Elephant

Not now

;p

Shadow Wizard

10:15 AM

haha

status-need-time-to-think-about-it

?

Elephant

Well, searching for inspiration needs time

Shadow Wizard

Or a muse

JNat

@ShadowWizard handled

Shadow Wizard

@JNat thanks! Did he post more spam?

JNat

nah

Shadow Wizard

10:24 AM

Oh well, better safe than sorry.... :)

I see... a... @Bart .... here?

Bart

You're imagining things again

Shadow Wizard

taking blue pill

seeing pink elephants

Bart

10:48 AM

I did not know @Elephant is pink

Fawad

Shadow Wizard

@Bart nobody know how he really looks like, same way we don't know how @Gerry looks like. They hide behind fake names and avatars. :D

@Fawad nah, smaller eyes, longer nose.

Fawad

@ShadowWizard I feel pity on u

Some people here know at least one of them how they look in real life.

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad indeed. @Bart, @Telkitty, myself... and of course @rene. ;)

Derpy

12:45 PM

@ShadowWizard Muffin?

Mithrandir

@Derpy No, a cupcake.

Derpy

1:10 PM

@Mithrandir attempts to reference human failure "fan" "works" will result in the message being ignored.

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir I prefer קרמבו actually

Mithrandir

1:26 PM

@ShadowWizard but they melt too easily

@Derpy ?

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir so don't put them in oven....... ;)

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard :O What a radical idea!

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir no worry, you're not alone. Few are those who can understand what @Derpy really means most of the time. :D

I think that in this specific case, I got it. For @Derpy, cupcake means this:

So trying to refer to this as muffin is a failure.

Derpy

1:43 PM

@ShadowWizard nope. I am referencing the old habit to mention cupcakes while talking to mlp fans to reference a specific "fan" "work" (surely not fan, and I wouldn't also call it work to avoid offending actual works), hoping to annoy them.

obviously not what @Mithrandir intended, but since I have saw that before on these boards...

Journeyman Geek

2:08 PM

I think I hate my new job ._.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oh my... didn't expect to hear that from you, as you appear to have low expectations.... what went wrong? :/

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I left work at 9, its a complete cluster**** and I have no clue what my work times or my job title is. I've not gotten a letter of appointment yet...

Its a job I guess

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek and that's why I said you better sign a contract before starting to actually work... otherwise it's all confusing, unofficial, and prone to tons of mistakes.

Journeyman Geek

ya

Shadow Wizard

But apart of that, what did you actually did there? :)

Journeyman Geek

2:47 PM

hm. Oddly, lots of moving things around, a few setups...

mild horror at the fragile, very important access application...

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Sounds like the usual stuff of a small and unorganized company, also fits the very unprofessional way they hire employees.... so the only bad thing is not knowing what hours you should work? And what you should do exactly?

Journeyman Geek

kinda

but I'm going to leave at a reasonable time tommorrow.

Shadow Wizard

So just arrive when you want, and do what you're being told, otherwise what you think is correct. :)

Journeyman Geek

eh. I can't put my finger on what exactly I hated.

Shadow Wizard

heh, I see @M.A.R. got into you, you actually use apostrophes now! :D

Journeyman Geek

2:56 PM

Just didn't feel like a great cultural fit. I'll give it a shot, but its not a good first impression

Oh, that its/it's mainly

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek sorry to hear. What about coffee/food? That's also vital... :)

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Non existant

Shadow Wizard

OMG

user315433

FR: give rep for suggested edits in chat.

Shadow Wizard

leave! now! While you can!

:D

Journeyman Geek

2:58 PM

On the other hand, I actually did get a decent work PC

Shadow Wizard

but really, no coffee?! @Journeyman

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard lol. I'd like to survive my probation as a minimum. Maybe a year or so cause my resume is a bit tatty....

Unless the right thing/a better thing turns up tho ;p

user315433

I never expect the workplace to provide those things, as long as they are available for purchase in the vicinity.

Journeyman Geek

there's a fridge with soda in front for a dollar a pop...

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry awesome idea!

user315433

3:00 PM

AKA a vending machine?

Journeyman Geek

@Gerry I'm happy to fix them if I noticed.

@Gerry no, an actual glass fronted fridge like you'd find in a convenience store ...

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry dunno, in ALL the places I've been, not just as employee, there is coffee. Somehow, somewhere. Not always a fancy machine, even just a small place where you can boil water and bring your own coffee from home with fellow employees.

Journeyman Geek

there's a ... microwave?

user315433

A small kitchen area with some equipment, sure.

user315433

I meant the part about providing coffee and food themselves. I prefer to choose such things on my own.

Shadow Wizard

3:02 PM

@Gerry exactly. You have such a thing? @Journeyman

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard there's a tiny one

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry ohh, that's fine, yeah.

Journeyman Geek

and some benches in front since I pack lunch

Shadow Wizard

finally!

Journeyman Geek

He has coffee

of course it is

Shadow Wizard

3:04 PM

@JourneymanGeek well, if you can make yourself a coffee that should be fine. :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow Wizard

So while in good spirit, will you reveal how you helped @Shog two years ago? @Gerry? ;)

Or is this a Top Secret of Stack Exchange? o_O

user315433

I hope it was more than one thing.

Journeyman Geek

WHAT DID YOU DO GERRY? WHAT DID YOU DOOOOOOOO?

user315433

3:15 PM

Sounds risky. Who knows how much Google knows about my day.

user202362

@ShadowWizard emm ...

user202362

Shog sounded rather bitter when he said 'He helped me a lot, maybe two years ago. That is all.'

user315433

I imagine coming back from work and being greeted by Google Hope reciting the list of my failures.

Journeyman Geek

google hope?

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry hopes Google Home will be kind to him

@Gerry oh well, I'll just ask your Google Home.

@Telkitty I don't think so. Though not sure what's the context of that message or what Shog was replying to...

user315433

3:22 PM

> Don't get me started on copy/pasting code. Just don't. -- Tim Post at 7:54 AM - 8 May 2017

user315433

Umm... wasn't it SO that made copy/pasting code into an industry?

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry tell that to Tim, see what happens.... ;)

(but wear a strong helmet, he's a good sniper! ;))

user315433

@JourneymanGeek Yes. Referring to the expectation that what you said will be parsed correctly.

Shadow Wizard

rofl

user202362

Shadow Wizard

3:30 PM

@Telkitty nice tree

thinking about @Frank

user202362

I think there is a correlation between kangaroos & lacking of good reception.

user202362

Last weekend I saw many roos 😂

user315433

5:12 PM

Fresh blog post: How to push past the trolls and get the help you need on Stack Overflow

πάντα ῥεῖ

5:27 PM

@Gerry While the advice there seems generally good, blaming the active community members as "trolls" still shows a serious misconception about what the sites are about.

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Key point: None odf the SE sites is meant as a personal helpdesk.

Wrote a comment there ...

Feeds

6:13 PM

Podcast #108: Welcome Back Joel!

Jess Pardue on May 08, 2017

Welcome to the Stack Overflow podcast #108 recorded Thursday, May 4, 2017 at Stack Overflow HQ in NYC. Today’s podcast is brought to you by peanut butter and Stack Overflow Enterprise. Visit stackoverflowbusiness.com for more details.

In today’s episode:

Joel is back! After a month-long surgery hiatus, Joel is back to talk about how much better the podcast is when he’s gone. There also may be some ranting about hospitals and the Apple Health app.

The right way to pronounce “hummus.” …

Travis J

@JourneymanGeek I own a convertible version of the knightrider car :)

> Still, it took me some time to add Stack Overflow to my toolbox. It was because I wasn’t yet sure of how to ask the right questions.

#iRobot

πάντα ῥεῖ

7:17 PM

@TravisJ Stack Overflow is a very common tool for almost ever developer nowadays. We need to make clear why it is so useful, and what's the point of keeping it useful for everyone. Despite the blog poster denied t argue further, I wrote another comment there.

Jason C

I love when engrish meets trying to be hip. The sign on this new sandwich shop says "We don't make the sandwich... we building them."

πάντα ῥεῖ

@JasonC We should propose Burger Building at Area51

Jason C

Lol

Sandwich Engineering

πάντα ῥεῖ

^Yeah!

Though I'm missing a gastronomy specialized site at SE. Could be a really great resource for chefs.

I love watching that kinda stuff at TV :-P

Travis J

7:33 PM

Burger building? Ever made a burger patty from shredded beef? That is good.

πάντα ῥεῖ

7:48 PM

@TravisJ It's more about if you should put the cheese below the patty or above.

Travis J

In. The cheese goes in the patty.

;)

user315433

8:03 PM

Here comes a puzzling election.

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ That's the turkish style. But you see there are things to discuss seriously ;-)

user315433

@Feeds Or conversely, if someone at missile launch control center tries to order Chinese for lunch using Amazon Echo. (Sorry, China.)

πάντα ῥεῖ

@Gerry "A diamond will be attached ..." Well, that's tremendously important ;-)

@Gerry Auto correction saves us, as mentioned earlier today :-D

I bought +3dpt glasses today BTW. I can see everything very clear now ...

user315433

I actually meant to link to Puzzling election and got Sharepoint question collection instead.

πάντα ῥεῖ

@Gerry Ah, that makes more sense probably.

Travis J

8:17 PM

@Gerry I was certainly puzzled.

user315433

> Im trying to do this programmatically, but I dont get the beh.

user315433

Is "beh" a short form of "behavior"?

πάντα ῥεῖ

@Gerry There's never need to apologize to chinese people, they'll alwas manage to save their face in 1st place anyways.

Travis J

@Gerry yes

πάντα ῥεῖ

Beh-ave at the beehive!

I'm chatty today, I know ...

user315433

8:21 PM

I'm tempted to edit it to "behaviour" to spite the OP.

πάντα ῥεῖ

I personally hate such kinda shortcuts.

Maybe because I'm no native speaker.

Travis J

It makes it harder to read, I wouldn't think you should hate that though, so many other issues in the world to spend that type of effort on.

πάντα ῥεῖ

I saw that job offer at LinkedIn today:

linkedin.com/jobs/view/336711559/…

Are they serious?? Half a million pa??

I prefer social contacts (physically) though.

Travis J

What do you mean pa?

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ pa == per anno. Does the vice president have an opinion about that?

user315433

8:28 PM

Aha, beh -> behaviour is a 6-character edit. The real reason to have letter u there.

Travis J

@πάνταῥεῖ - I see "$60,000/year", not half a million. Am I looking at the same post? linkedin.com/jobs/view/336711559/…

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ Seems they've been changing that meanwhile. 60k is peanuts, disinterested now.

Travis J

Yeah.

Half a mil pa would be a decent package for an executive position, wouldn't expect that as a dev salary.

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ When spotting that offer 1st, they offered 540.000$. must have been a zero failure ;-)

Travis J

One of the two most common error types, which are naming things, syntax errors, and off by one errors.

πάντα ῥεῖ

8:36 PM

@TravisJ Off by zeroes in that particular case it seems.

;-D

@Travis Did I already notice you that "I'm the president of the shadow government"?

Thievery Corporation - 33 Degree

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In other words: I've got the jesters' license.

Regarding that feed about Joel's recreation, I'm still daringly missing Jeff Atwood being around here!

All of us anarchists are underrated, and will bite back seriously one day.

Travis J

8:54 PM

There is a serious irony in using the internet to proclaim anarchy.

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ Irony and sarcasm is one of my heaviest weapons.

Travis J

Most people just say what they mean, and mean what they say.

πάντα ῥεῖ

Sure I do!

I do so very clearly. There's almost no room for interpreting something. I mean that quite literally.

πάντα ῥεῖ

9:20 PM

@Travis I don't mean to diminish you in your role as VP or CTO of a small business niche, but you should seriously overthink that in favour to become other people in charge and leading them, instead of taking on in every stage of your software development.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away [Official Music Video]

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πάντα ῥεῖ

9:32 PM

@TravisJ "The internet" is just another transport mechanism.

rene

You do realize you are having an out-of-sync exchange of comments?

πάντα ῥεῖ

@rene I didn't really realize that so far. Could you explain further please? Is it the missing @ping?

rene

Meh, it looks like you jumped back into the conversation but I didn't bother to read back much to see if I could find a natural starting point

I'm just too lazy to scroll up ...

Feel free to continue, don't be bothered by my ramblings

πάντα ῥεῖ

@rene I did realize that @Travis has a very different view of things than mine though. Yeah, I agree that it's hard to scroll up and refer to earlier posts.

I mainly refer to their profile statements though, and if or not a CIO's statements are overrated or not.

@rene I'll be never bothered about flowery comments for sure ;-)

user315433

9:58 PM

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