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user315433

12:37 AM

Reorg: stackoverflow.com/company/team no longer has "Customer Support" and "Sales - Display Ads" teams, both are folded into "Sales - Talent". Hm. (Web Archive for comparison)

user315433

So, "Sales - Talent" ended up with 129 employees.

JamesENL

@ShadowWizard Is there an opening for token gay guy?

Journeyman Geek

lol

@JamesENL already taken

JamesENL

1:09 AM

Damnit

Journeyman Geek

@Gerry just curious (and its useful for me for reasons) - what's with the super close eyes on the SE internal jobs page? ;p

user202362

1:33 AM

you ask that question because you don't know what gerry is

user202362

gerry is a bot ... of the lowest kind - it's a manually operated bot

user202362

1:48 AM

trust me, I am right on this one

SmokeDetector

3:07 AM

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3:22 AM

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4:06 AM

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4:46 AM

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5:46 AM

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Shadow Wizard

6:12 AM

@JamesENL you're still looking? :(

JamesENL

Yeah

I'm on Grindr atm, but its got an awful Signal/Noise ratio

Shadow Wizard

@JamesENL isn't it just for.... casual/one-time things?

JamesENL

Ehhh originally I believe so, but it's changed and evolved over time

Shadow Wizard

oh

JamesENL

So it's both casual one time and also social networking and also more soul destroying than the PHP tag on SO

Shadow Wizard

6:16 AM

rofl

Just develop a thick skin there

JamesENL

That's one strategy

The other strategy is just get 20 cats

problem solved

Shadow Wizard

Don't let disappearing people disappoint you by simply not expecting them to really appear. :)

And so, if they really appear, have this as a pleasant surprise. ;)

So I take it that Tim won't be back? @James

JamesENL

Probably not

I don't know

Shadow Wizard

:(

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/a/296046/152859

spam with image, no link though ^ (also spam edit so better nuke this account to prevent those /cc @JNat)

Journeyman Geek

@JamesENL or one dog

JamesENL

6:20 AM

True

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard .... that's a really big microusb

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hehe, didn't even look, just flagged. :)

user202362

or get 8 cats, 1 dog & couple of parrots

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek there are certain things one just can't do with dog, or cats.... :D

(or parrots)

user202362

you will be so busy taking care of them, you won't have time to have your own problems

Journeyman Geek

6:25 AM

@ShadowWizard I knew a guy who was into .... but he was beating a dead horse

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek whatever sails his boat..... :P

"knew" - so you don't know him anymore? ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard tragic taxidermy accident

Shadow Wizard

6:44 AM

taxi what?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard dead, stuffed, animals

Shadow Wizard

Sounds more bizarre than most things I can think of... and I usually think of really bizarre things.... ;)

user202362

I need rescue, youtube has suggest a Squirrel Eating Mouse video to me and I watched it ...

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty at least you're not locked at your girlfriend's house!

user202362

I am not a lesbian

Shadow Wizard

6:52 AM

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 23 hours ago, by Edlothiad

I've been locked in my girlfriends house, send help!

@Telkitty no worry, we still love you.

:D

JamesENL

7:16 AM

@ShadowWizard Wind?

Shadow Wizard

7:37 AM

@JamesENL that can work too... ;)

SmokeDetector

8:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, pattern-matching website in answer: how to add multiple space between columns in Unix by Sharon Maxwell on unix.SE

rene

8:29 AM

@Bart well, that was a nice try ...

blunt Dutch

Bart

@rene aaaaand, he's going back to Facebook. I'd say problem solved.

Shadow Wizard

8:51 AM

?

rene

@Bart agree. Facebook should be a valid migration path on all questions

Shadow Wizard

??

Bart

I'd go for Yahoo!, but as you wish

Shadow Wizard

???

Bart

@ShadowWizard meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296048/…

Shadow Wizard

8:53 AM

!!!

rene

After the recent Windows Update my laptop goes into hibernate after 2 minutes or so. I hardly have time to think about what the next line of code should be.

Shadow Wizard

@rene happens to me with desktop PC, Windows 10. But from the very beginning, or at least one of the first updates installed there.

I leave the computer for like 5 minutes, and it's turning off its hard disk.

somehow it does not do it while I'm actually near it, no idea how, so never bothered to look into it. :D

rene

That is because the webcam picks-up your movement

Shadow Wizard

(the settings there clearly says turn off hard disk after 2 hours, if it matters.)

@rene no webcam

rene

Power management has gone insane

Shadow Wizard

9:01 AM

(at least none I put there myself ;))

rene

@ShadowWizard whoahahahahahahha hahaha hahaha haha ha ....

Shadow Wizard

lol

Glad someone is happy!

rene

I'm always happy

Shadow Wizard

Note to self: stop doing weird things in front of computer even when nobody is around

@rene except for when you're not

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard So that was you doing that thing with that . . . ?

Shadow Wizard

9:04 AM

@M.A.R. of course not, I'm not like that! It's all in your mind.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Knowledge of other citizen mind-state is above your current clearance level and therefore is considered treason. Please report to the nearest debriefing chamber for immediate termination. Thanks for the collaboration. Your friend The Computer wishes you an happy day-cycle.

rene

xD

Derpy

9:52 AM

Free Blatantly Off-Topic flag!

M.A.R.

@Derpy On-hold two minutes ago

Shadow Wizard

not his first OT question, better be suspended.

@Oded? You here?!

user202362

I lost a meta question

Journeyman Geek

10:08 AM

like, baleeted?

user202362

no idea ... it's one about internet security, the butt scan chair one

user202362

it's gone ...

M.A.R.

Bah, that was a fun trolling. :(

Maybe because SE plagiarized it in their butt-auth thingy.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Behavioral analysis of Blue clearance level personnel performed by Infrared-level citizen is also treason. Please, wait at your current location while an automated security drone is dispatched to terminate your new clone and relocate you to SE salt mines. Friend Computer wishes you a productive day.

Shadow Wizard

beep

M.A.R.

10:11 AM

peeb

Elephant

boop

user202362

that's not fair - all other April fools questions are still there

poop

wipe

10:20 AM

:(

but everyone are doing that!

(hopefully)

Anyway @Tel that's the only related question I could find:

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Q: Mysterious Butt

I was attempting to answer a question today on SO and include some screenshots to help illustrate what I was talking about. Everything was fine until I went to upload my fourth image. Here is what the post screen looked like before I selected to upload: Once I pressed the Image button I got t...

Derpy

11:09 AM

@ShadowWizard will skip scolding you for this link only because the bug is a nice example of Murphy law at work

Shadow Wizard

:D

Derpy

cowlar.com

could combine it with some AR tech.

Just put some Hololens on your cows and you can have Augmented reality dogs herd your cows automatically when they wander off.

Berry Holmes

11:31 AM

Hello everyone

Journeyman Geek

@Derpy oo

Darned technology, putting honest dogs out of work

Elephant

Ugh.

Shadow Wizard

@BerryHolmes hola! @Ber pings only you here...... :)

(only two multi-ping sets here... Sho and Tim.... ;))

@SmokeDetector gone

Berry Holmes

11:54 AM

A request: Can I get 21 reputation for my bot please?

0

A: Ability to "lock" your profile on a site

I agree, but I definitely would want two separate checkboxes: The first checkbox would be for your profile picture, because it is somewhat inconvenient to first download a picture from imgur and then re-upload it (not to mention for a higher quality pic I need to change the ?s=32 attribute to a...

Bart

12:26 PM

God I hate SourceTree so much. Why are people still using that? What a heap of shit.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart huh! Me too..... my first experience with it was that it was stuck. Frozen. Dead... turned out it choked due to too much data to pull, had to manually pull.

Carpetsmoker

Last time I checked, SourceTree was the only vaguely usable git GUI client

I still haven't found any git GUI for Linux that doesn't completely suck

Bart

12:41 PM

@ShadowWizard just had someone inform me that their "remote" change went wrong. Apparently the UI is so unclear that they didn't notice the new remote they set was not for the repo they thought they were modifying ... then you push and voila ... miraculously merged repos with commits from 2 different projects.

user315433

> Lost my stack exchange hoodie in the Amsterdam airport. If you're there look around near gate D29 and enjoy your new hoodie! ;) -- David Haney at 5:42 AM - 16 May 2017 cc: @rene

Jason C

12:56 PM

Lol

Quick, @rene, make a run through security and bust into the gate. It might still be there.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart ouch! that's a real mess. And you need to clean this up?

bah, @David looks creepy in his Twitter profile...

And what exactly is a SE hoodie?

Bart

@ShadowWizard yeah, fixed it, but I see more stuff go wrong with SourceTree than that it's an actual help. Command line is just so much easier than that tool

Shadow Wizard

oh, this:

user202362

@Gerry you are so mean :'( ... all the meanie acts because I called you a manual bot? 😱 😰 😢 😥 😭

Shadow Wizard

@Bart so go on a strike until the boss tell everyone to use only command line... make a Stand! ;-)

user202362

1:08 PM

also I can't decipher hints, all your subtleness will be ignored

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty just a twitter bot, why mean? ;)

user202362

I got massive lags again

user202362

just on normal browsers, not slow when using tor

Shadow Wizard

massive legs is bad

rene

@JasonC I'll try but I might be gone for 6 to 8 weeks ...

Jason C

1:16 PM

Lol

Bart

@rene given the recent comments about how Schiphol staff is completely overwhelmed, you may have a chance

Feeds

Stack Overflow Official App launches on both iOS and Android

Anita Taylor on May 16, 2017

Shakespeare famously wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet … but, alas! ‘tis not so for mobile apps. At least not the Stack Exchange mobile app that we launched back in 2014. Without that sweet Stack Overflow name, some of you never discovered that you could use it to view, answer, post and vote on Stack Overflow questions.

So we just launched the new Stack Overflow Official App that lets you … (drumroll, please) … view, answer, post and vote on Stack Overflow questions. Both iOS and Android versions are now available for download. The Android app is currently in beta. All of the functionality is working, but we are making small tweaks to the user interface. …

Shadow Wizard

...

Not even bothering to try it. Waste of time. The android app surely got the same bugs as the old app, probably much more.

And as usual they will ignore all bug reports and feature requests anyone might submit.

user202362

Speaking of apps, I did something that many experienced developers said that couldn't be done. They said that my app would be rejected for sure for using an obsolete library. But I did some quick hax on the part of the lib & the app passed app review.

Shadow Wizard

1:32 PM

@Telkitty so you tricked the reviewers. Awesome!

Some cars company got few billions dollars fine for trickery, FYI. ;)

user202362

the ultimate show of elitism is to accomplish what others said can not be done </shameless_self_promotion>

Shadow Wizard

nytimes.com/2017/05/06/business/…

user202362

I did it a couple of time on a few very different things, ultimate boost for ones ego >_<

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty well, using obsolete code does not sound good. Just bad.

The fact you hide it doesn't make it better, maybe only worse... o_O

user202362

well, they made it obsolete first

user202362

1:36 PM

a good system should use the same interface but improve on the backend

Shadow Wizard

Anyway... you find weird things to be proud of. :)

Jason C

Can you guys see photos.google.com/share/…

Andy

Cables

user315433

> I still use Winamp. #ThereISaidIt -- Also, at this very moment I'm using it to listen to Ace of Base. So judge me. -- Ben Dumke-v. d. Ehe

user315433

I was just about to judge balpha for WinAmp, but... an excellent save there.

user315433

1:48 PM

But I still wouldn't use Winamp when Amazon Prime has pretty much their complete catalog.

Fawad

Edited foe few minutes and then..

Feeds

Exploring the State of Mobile Development with Stack Overflow Trends

David Robinson on May 16, 2017

In honor of Google I/O 2017 and the launch of the official Stack Overflow mobile app, we on the Stack Overflow Insights team are sharing a look at the fast-paced history of mobile application development.

We can do this with the recently released Stack Overflow Trends tool, which lets us examine what mobile-related technologies have been growing and shrinking in developer activity, and gives us a glimpse of what the future might look like.

The vast majority of Stack Overflow questions about mobile development come down to the Android and iOS platforms. …

Bart

@ShadowWizard did Kasra ever reply to you?

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yes what about it?

Jason C

That's all about it. Just wanted to make sure it was publicly visible. I'm not really familiar with Google Photos.

Shadow Wizard

1:53 PM

@Bart on my comment today? Yes

The usual

But he didn't reply to any bug report or feature request for years, so it's all not relevant.

It's like a dog that only barks, but doesn't really do anything.

@JasonC so just open it in Incognito mode. :)

Jason C

@ShadowWizard Oh good idea I always forget about that.

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad happens to the best, no worry.

@JasonC that's what we're here for....

user315433

@ShadowWizard Yes, the post basically says it's the same app, rebranded.

user315433

> your notifications will be split between the two. Your Stack Overflow notifications will appear in the Stack Overflow app, and all other Stack Exchange notifications will appear in the Stack Exchange app.

user315433

Unbelievably convenient.

Andy

1:57 PM

Wait...what if I don't have the SO app? Do I lose all my SO notifications when only using the SE app?

Shadow Wizard

Huh!

> but in 6 months my team might be doing mobile-web if that helps the company more

So they got a 6 months dead line, after which the app will be shut down.

Bart

@ShadowWizard you left a comment some time ago on the app announcement iirc

Shadow Wizard

(and its two devs will work on mobile web instead)

@Andy nah, hard to believe. They should still appear in the old app. If not it's a REALLY stupid decision.

user315433

@ShadowWizard So they'll finally have a chance to do something useful.

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry true! I'll just miss the notifications.

user202362

2:01 PM

from my extensive experience with apps, I can tell you that you can have zombie apps in apple app store and on google play for quite a while ... that is, until they get caught

Shadow Wizard

@Bart oh, in Stack Apps? Let me check...

Elephant

@Feeds I read that as "Exploring Stack Overflow Trends with the Mobile"...

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty they won't bother to remove it from the store/play, they will just shut the server down.

@Bart not Kasra, Brian:

@ShadowWizard Guess I should rephrase. The app will still have some key features from SE.app. Split list and item view in landscape, live question preview, but it isn't getting special UI treatment in the way of having it's own special navigation compared to iPhone and it won't have its own custom user profile view. Some views will definitely be sparse or overly spread out compared to their iPhone counterparts, but probably not much more so than in the SE app. — Brian Nickel ♦ May 9 at 18:56

I never asked Kasra anything there.

oh wait, I did ask!

So no, no reply to that comment to Kasra.

Jason C

Oh man! I just now learned that unicode 9 finally added a facepalm emoji. I'm anxiously awaiting the day for wider support.

I can't believe how long it took them.

Bart

If only there was an emoji to express how you feel about that

Shadow Wizard

2:10 PM

Hope it has several versions: male/female and black/white

Jason C

@Bart 🎉

@ShadowWizard If they're consistent you'll be able to use the skin tone modifiers.

Bart

@ShadowWizard they managed to combine that into one emoji. Male white palm into a female black face. To keep everybody happy.

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Jason C

They really should have made it a modifier though, so I could make "FACEPALMING CAT WITH SMILING EYES"

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yeah, but can't modify gender, just color

@Bart how you know it's male palm?

Jason C

@ShadowWizard You can modify gender. You do a ZWJ with the male/female signs.

user202362

2:13 PM

@Bart like this?

user202362

Jason C

Check out unicode.org/emoji/charts/…

user202362

they have been quite racist about cats, only one coloured cat emojis ...

Jason C

The female modifier is fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2640/index.htm. It's how they make all the face variants. You use a fitzpatrick modifier for skin tone and a male/female sign for gender.

Shadow Wizard

Hey @Derpy which pony is this?

Jason C

2:16 PM

@ShadowWizard Applejack

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC huh! Will have to look into it

Jason C

I'm embarrassed that I knew that.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC how... do you know?!

Jason C

I don't actually know how I know. It's weird.

And I'm disturbed by this.

Shadow Wizard

Oh no. @Derpy hacked into your brain and planted that knowledge there. @Jason

Run full virus scan!

Jason C

2:17 PM

I don't know if I want to do a virus scan. I might not be ready for the truth.

Let's talk about something else.

Shadow Wizard

Or maybe you got a photographic memory, and you remember it from the old times in Den, where we were all there together and SPA posted tons of pony stuff. :D

Jason C

... yes. Yes. I'm sure that's it. I'm sure it has nothing to do with my friend bragging about her collection of MLP porn at all.

Shadow Wizard

omg lol

Jason C

Well that escalated quickly.

Shadow Wizard

Good think Derpy isn't around!

Quick let's bury this

Jason C

2:20 PM

Lol

Shadow Wizard

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard plz send teh coffee

Jason C

When I reimplement the transcript scraper I'll censor this day.

Shadow Wizard

!!/coffee

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard brews coffee for @ShadowWizard

Jason C

2:21 PM

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@JasonC I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and offensive posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

Shadow Wizard

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard brews a cup of darjeeling tea for @ShadowWizard

Jason C

!!/lick something

SmokeDetector

@JasonC licks ice cream cone

Shadow Wizard

2:22 PM

@Feeds translate darjeeling

!!/blame someone

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard It's Shadow Wizard's fault.

Jason C

Ok I'm good now my monitor is only 1440x900.

Shadow Wizard

Still seeing it... two lines to go...

And....

That's it!

Jason C

!!/wut

SmokeDetector

@JasonC Whaddya mean, 'wut'? Humans...

Journeyman Geek

2:22 PM

@JasonC 0_0

Jason C

Lol

Journeyman Geek

that's pretty terrible

Shadow Wizard

Like nothing ever happened.

Jason C

@JourneymanGeek I really like my friends.

Journeyman Geek

enough to suffer under a 1440x900 screen? ;p

Shadow Wizard

2:23 PM

@JourneymanGeek how big is yours?

Jason C

Oh you're referring to the screen

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow Wizard

(screen, screen!)

user287113

Hi

Journeyman Geek

Dual UHD

1440p laptop

Jason C

2:24 PM

It's my laptop. And it's really old.

Shadow Wizard

hi @nbro you new here?

Journeyman Geek

work laptop's 1080p, but I'd trade down to 1366x768 if it would mean a good chair

user287113

Is there a way to rejoin all favourite Stack Overflow and non chats in one shot? Right now I'm able to rejoin simultaneously all non-SO chats, but, afterwards, I also need to rejoin manually the SO ones...

Jason C

@JourneymanGeek Oh my friend just got this awesome office chair that I want to get for myself. But I don't know what kind it is. I've been meaning to ask him. When I do I'll let you know.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek lol, can't you buy a chair for yourself?

Journeyman Geek

2:25 PM

SO and non SO and MSOs are on different rooms

@ShadowWizard no paycheck yet

Jason C

@nbro There's 3 separate chat servers and they're all independent, unfortunately.

Journeyman Geek

and I don't think I'll be here longer than I need to

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek parents might help... health is important.

user287113

@JasonC Oh... which chat servers are those?

Shadow Wizard

@nbro SO, MSE, the rest

Journeyman Geek

2:26 PM

@ShadowWizard maybe

Jason C

@nbro chat.stackoverflow.com for all the SO rooms. chat.meta.stackexchange.com for the MSE rooms. chat.stackexchange.com for every other site.

Shadow Wizard

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A: Tutorial on starting Stack Exchange chat

Stack Exchange chat crash course 101 for dummies One network, three chat "zones" First of all, one needs to know that Stack Exchange has three chat "zones", which are: Stack Overflow Meta Stack Exchange All the rest Each of those zones has its own rooms. Viewing existing chat rooms To ent...

Jason C

Only SO and MSE are separate, the rest of the sites are all together.

user287113

ok

Shadow Wizard

domains are mentioned there too ^

@JasonC you have lots of friends, with various things they got..... ;)

Jason C

2:28 PM

@nbro Your best bet is probably to favorite the rooms you like, then bookmark chat.meta.stackexchange.com/chats/join/favorite on each of the three servers. If you use a session manager you can save a session with all three. You'll still have to click one more button on each but it's about as close as you can get to being convenient.

Journeyman Geek

yup

@JasonC I kinda want this secretlab.co/local

Jason C

That looks nice.

This one has nice lumbar support and is pretty badass looking too.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, its on my wishlist

mesh?

SE uses aeons

my employer 2 employers ago used em

they're pretty good to

Jason C

Yeah it's mesh

Journeyman Geek

unwantedimports.com/shop/herman-miller-aeron-chair ?

(singapore retailer - 2-3x the price :( )

Elephant

2:39 PM

Did a quick test on SO Android app... no access to MSO, multiple drafts, view favorite questions on SO (sorted by 'active' and only), browsing history, poster and editor's usernames are now shown (but still no revision history)... well, that's all?

I won't test any further because I need sandbox, but there's none.

oh, and no 'help' :)

Jason C

@JourneymanGeek No it was definitely not that pricey, but had a similar look. I'm gonna find out. I just messaged him on FB and I'll probably run into him this week, too.

Journeyman Geek

ah lol

Jason C

It was like $150-$200 I think.

Journeyman Geek

ah

Jason C

It's got a lot of bang for the buck but isn't nearly as high end as those secretlab chairs. I don't have the money for a $800 office chair (wish I did) right now.

Elephant

2:42 PM

no documentation, no jobs, still better to use SE app browsing SO...

Elephant, reporting out on SO Android app

Journeyman Geek

lol

@JasonC heh, its probably going to be a purchase I'm planning long term, and when its on discount

user202362

I have a genuine leather office chair, I bought it for $200-$300 and have used it for 10 years now.

Journeyman Geek

I go through one of these every few years ikea.com/sg/en/catalog/products/50339414

user202362

nowadays it's hard to find good quality chairs like this

SmokeDetector

3:16 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: How to customise keyboard mappings with Wayland by realh on unix.SE

Jason C

3:57 PM

@JourneymanGeek amazon.com/Executive-Ergonomic-Leather-Mechanism-Position/dp/…, then replaced the casters with amazon.com/SET-Office-Addiction-Rollerblade-Replacements/dp/….

i wonder if amazon's 3-year accident protection covers having an accident on the chair...

Fawad

4:25 PM

me.me/i/grumpy-cat-facebook-join-grumpy-cat-for-more-74840

I didn't get this meme^

@JasonC @Telkitty @bjb568

Elephant

@Fawad Based on assumption that fat people tend to run away from problem by eating more.

Fawad

Got it @Elephant

SmokeDetector

4:50 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Why does Indiana Jones say 'I like Ike'? by saqib on movies.SE

Jason C

5:30 PM

@Fawad and also youtube.com/watch?v=OzpXuRCBgsM is a famous old song, so he quote "big girls don't cry" is an idiom

but in the song "big" means grown-up. the meme takes advantage of "big" also meaning physically large.

Steven Vascellaro

Wanted to make a feature request for specify a tag wiki's name in the achievements dropdown. Then I found an old, slightly outdated request asking the same thing

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Q: Can the activity dropdown say more than just "+2 tag wiki"?

When one earns reputation from making tag wiki edits, the activity drop-down, shown when hovering over one's username, just says +2 tag wiki. There is no indication of which tag wiki was edited, or whether it was a tag wiki or a tag wiki excerpt. This gets particularly silly and useless if one ed...

feature-request suggested-edits tag-wiki activity-dropdown

Should I suggest an edit to the old question with new screenshots and title to reflect the new dropdown?

Wasn't sure if that would be rejected as too major an edit

@JasonC I was actually planning on making a MSE question about why the chat servers were separate. :P

rene

6:03 PM

load, history, privileges and reasons, many reasons.

user315433

Not sure about load, isn't it tiny compared to websites?

user315433

@StevenVascellaro I don't see the point. The request is there, and it's clear what it's asking for. The interface is now different between SO and other sites, so a screenshot will not match everyone, in any case.

user315433

The app announcement is now at +30 -30 score.

rene

@Gerry yeah, that is true, maybe it should be load-balancing where you can have at least one of the servers still running while others are down.

Steven Vascellaro

6:31 PM

@Gerry I'll make it an edit then. Thanks

@Gerry I wonder whether most of the down voters use the iOS or Android apps. From what I've heard about the Android app, I'd guess the latter.

user315433

I don't use either, and DV'd it simply as another illustration of the pointy-haired management that permeated S* recently.

Elephant

6:46 PM

@StevenVascellaro I assume you have iOS, have you tried the app?

I'm personally confused for their decision to implement 'multiple drafts', when it's already difficult to write a question on mobile (not to mention, source code).

user315433

Interaction with SO posts tends to involve either copying or pasting... to/from something that typically is not used on a phone.

user315433

7:06 PM

Speaking of copying and pasting: Bioinformatics is in private beta now.

Elephant

7:18 PM

Current total questions' score: 1 (out of 9 questions)

user315433

7:35 PM

And of course, half of questions by kenorb.

Steven Vascellaro

7:57 PM

@Elephant I've used the new iOS app. The multiple drafts was already a feature in the base app.

I actually quite like the multiple drafts

user315433

8:20 PM

!!/report academia.stackexchange.com/a/89595

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Where can I find templates for a mathematics research paper? by Faisal Ali on academia.SE

Jason C

@rene I got an sql question. I can do count(a) to count non-null a's. I can do count(coalesce(a, b)) to count where a or b is not null. Is there a way to count if a and b is not null that's shorter than sum(iif(a is not null and b is not null, 1, 0))?

Jason C

9:07 PM

Heh, meta.stackexchange.com/q/296082/230261 -- problem-user

user315433

This is the site you are on. You can find the appropriate site in the site list at stackexchange.com/sites. — Jason C 2 mins ago

user315433

Reading that list might be less helpful than you think

user315433

I mean, that's a lot of sites.

Elephant

"giving a book explaining how to fish"

Jason C

I'm not trying to be 100% helpful. Just mildly helpful.

user315433

9:10 PM

Challenge: recite the complete list of SE sites from memory. In alphabetical order. Backwards.

Jason C

Hehe

A girl I dated in college, her parents had 27 cats. I used to be able to list them all, lol.

Elephant

@Gerry is the first one Russian.SE? Or is it ja.SO?

Jason C

Anyways, SO is the first one on the list. So maybe they'll see it.

user315433

Impressive. Will Hunting could recite the names of his 12 big brothers, which however only led to more complications. Should have done cats instead.

user315433

@Elephant No idea, when different alphabets are involved. Unicode code points ....

Jason C

9:14 PM

@Elephant japanese according to the site list

Elephant

At least I got the first one more or less right

Woah, the Gboard search function must be used with care...

user315433

9:30 PM

> (or who search their respective app marketplace for “Stack Overflow”)

user315433

Just tried that, the old SE app is the top result. How odd. Who would think that Google knows how to implement search?

user315433

Kasra's modest assessment of his product.

Shog9

10:44 PM

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