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Q: How to make a relationship more romantic?

@Walt that's been true for a while. It's a tease: Disqus still makes you create a Disqus account after pumping whatever other service you authenticate with for your info.

user315433

12:47 AM

> - Quora has been a good source of traffic for us, but it’s becoming a place to advertise services which make it hard to read
> - It feels like every media platform becomes that after a while. Some quicker, some slower, some deliberately, some because of marketers.
> - That hasn’t happened to stack overflow yet. But it serves a different niche.

user315433

(and has Smokey...) Source: twitter.com/arielmichaeli/status/879768592610459653

user202362

1:40 AM

share through 4chan of course </trollololo>

user202362

I don't have an account there, but I have heard that, with 'quality material', you can gather a small herd of 'highly engaged' users (who I suspect maybe trolls) very quickly.

user315433

2:02 AM

Interpersonal Skills site is mostly familiar faces / avatars.

user315433

in Interpersonal Skills on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 7 hours ago, by Henry WH Hack v2.0

Stupid question idea: How do I talk to a SE employee without getting nervous?

user315433

And a better one,

user315433

in Interpersonal Skills on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 8 hours ago, by Rand al'Thor

I'd like to participate in this chatroom, but I'm not sure if I have the interpersonal skills to deal with a large group of chatters.

user315433

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I was in a relationship with a female, went out on several dates (more than 3), but, nothing exciting happened. We didn't break up, we just kind of stopped talking to each other. About a year later (now minus a week or so) she asked if I wanted to "hang out." I agreed since I still liked her and ...

user315433

"with a female" :-/

user315433

2:05 AM

On one hand I understand PC concerns, on another... this is an ugly use of the word, imo.

ESL maybe?

user315433

Doesn't seem so, my impression was that the OP doesn't feel like choosing between "girl" and "woman".

user202362

make -k romantic > relationship

Tempted to answer that with a Shawn special

> As far as strategies go, I try to come up with a really funny joke to break the ice. "A SQL Query walks into a bar and goes up to two tables. 'Mind if I join you?'" If a girl (or guy if you are into that) doesn't laugh, I know right away they haven't worked with SQL. Maybe they're old school and know some assembly or whatever, but most programmers have touched SQL at some point and should get it.

user315433

Why does a link to SO post redirect to Meta.SE only to show 404 there?

user315433

2:12 AM

(Under 10K, I mean)

because it was migrated to MSE and then deleted

user315433

But that ought to mean that migration is rejected, and redirect is pointless.

user202362

must say, trolls on Stackoverflow/exchange are of low quality

user315433

2:29 AM

Now that Ethereum graduated, who is next? Bitcoin has its review problem. Arduino is doing okay in review, but @Pops raised some other concerns in Beta progress update (January 2016). It's been a long time since January 2016, though...?

user202362

Internet romance is the best - you can setup an account on a social media and having a romantic relationship with another account you setup yourself

user202362

never has relationship been so convenient!

user315433

If it's neither of those two, then it's either スタック・オーバーフロー or (gasp) Data Science.

user315433

Speaking of moderation problems... Islam and Hinduism are hovering over the 10 QPD mark.

user202362

John Militer

2:34 AM

@ShadowWizard How do you make tags in chat display as red/moderator-only ? [tag:status-bla] returns status-bla

user202362

user315433

Do that without tag: part

user315433

status-test

John Militer

status-test

user315433

Must begin with status-, and not have anything else in that chat message. And works only on this chat server, not on chat.SE or chat.SO

John Militer

2:37 AM

@Walt thanks

user202362

2:57 AM

status-none

user202362

3:24 AM

status-pro-grandma

5:15 AM

@Walt this predates rejection

user315433

Those ancient times... speaking of which, Meta.SE is 8 years old today, the API returns 2009-06-28 as its "public beta" and "graduation" dates.

user315433

Happy birthday, dear Meta...

user202362

meat to meta is like beat to beta

user202362

who would have thought

user202362

5:31 AM

is gatherer a hoarder who can't accumulate?

user202362

I know sometimes I ask profound questions. It's okay if you don't know the answer.

user202362

5:43 AM

so as a toy boi, who is a better candidate: even carrot or the pie dude ? not asking on my behalf of course ~rofl~

6:20 AM

@Telkitty heh, that got me clicking on the link and find wrong statement...

> "pi is so long it would fill a library of several million 1000-page books if printed on paper", says Trüb

Trüb is wrong, since Pi has infinite amount of digits, it will fill the whole world, then the whole universe if printed.

Looks like that guy doesn't understand the meaning of infinity... so weird.

@Telkitty but as for your question, answer is obvious...

user202362

and ... the answer is?

How come Smokey didn't catch this? ^

Magisch

@ShadowWizard True infinity is hard for the human mind to grasp

We haven't evolved with a concept of infinity. For us everything has limits and ends.

Schizophrenic Chinese Woman Fights with Aggressive Homeless Man on S.F. Muni

@Magisch even my children understand that infinity can't be counted.

and that it's "bigger than the biggest number", etc.

Anyway, daily rant: Stack Overflow is no longer part of Stack Exchange network, at least not where design is involved. It looks totally different from all other sites. Maybe they are ashamed of the other sites, dunno.

I wonder when they will remove anything that is related to Stack Exchange from Stack Overflow, so that people won't suspect it's part of such a network?

</rant>

user202362

6:36 AM

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user202362

am I the only one finding this funny?

what is the maximum number of votes we can cast within a minute?

user202362

without getting yourself ~~banned~~ suspended that is?

what?

6:57 AM

@SagarV the maximum number of daily votes. Votes are not rate limited by time.

@Telkitty won't happen, one can write script that use all daily votes in an instant (e.g. making array of post ID's to vote), and pretty sure no alarms will be triggered.

@ShadowWizard My script made 40 ajax requests and only 4 are successful

Since votes is the most important feature of SE, they didn't want to limit it in any way.

Remaining all are failed

@SagarV you should wait for one to succeed before making the next.

Otherwise you trigger race conditions behind the scenes.

Still, 40 such votes shouldn't take more than few seconds.

Use recursive function that calls itself in the success callback. @Sag

If that fails, well, what's the error?

Also @Sag I really hope you don't just vote randomly? That's bad.

the script prompt me how many upvotes and how many downvotes it should cast. When I input it, it will start running. Working on questions/ page only

that is if I am in the featured tab and set 20 Upvotes + 20 downvotes, it will run randomly.

7:02 AM

@SagarV so random questions voting? Please do NOT do that.

I am testing this feature

This is the most harmful thing for SO.

I have to improve it in such a way that If a question has more than 2 downvotes, it should cast a downvote

If a question has more than 3 upvotes, it should cast an upvote.

@SagarV again, stop doing that.

I don't want to flag you, as the only way to stop such bad and destructive behavior is suspension.

What is the problem with this one _I have to improve it in such a way that **If a question has more than 2 downvotes, it should cast a downvote
If a question has more than 3 upvotes, it should cast an upvote_**

7:04 AM

@SagarV that's the worst thing I've ever seen. Like I said DO NOT DO THAT, period.

It's bad in so many aspects, and against everything SE stands for.

You should vote after reading a post, based on your own opinion.

I'm amazed I have to explain this.

Q: Importance of Veneer Panel Cladding Systems?

In SO, I spend only 10 - 12 votes per day.

I think I want it in MSO.

Ok no issues.

I should find some other way

Do you have an information to share about cladding system?

-5

Want people to share information regarding Cladding Systems!

discussion

@SagarV just a typical off topic crap on MSE...

We get those every day.

user202362

@SagarV we should have darwin aware on SO/SE & it would be rewarded to you this year ... if we had one ...

@SagarV in MSO do whatever you wish.... but please don't mess around in SO. (or any other main site)

till date, in MSO, I casted only 55 votes. in SO, it is more than 1K

7:12 AM

@Telkitty probably...

@Telkitty well, the one with boy-ish avatar of course.... plus he's also a troll. ;)

tripleee

@SagarV you are obviously limited by the amount of posts on any one site, it's not unusual to spend more votes on sites which get more questions ... but really, what on Earth are you actually trying to accomplish?

@SagarV your comment on that question is kind of weird, are you missing a "not"?

shit. I missed a not

I didn't noticed that

@tripleee he said it earlier, a script that automatically downvote any question with score of -3 or less, and automatically upvote any question with score of 4 or more. (running on the /questions page.)

tripleee

@ShadowWizard I see that much, but I'm trying to ask why

@tripleee updated

7:18 AM

@tripleee I already told him it's bad idea.... dunno why though. As long as it's restricted to MSO, I don't really care.

removed the script

status-completed

@tripleee comment changed

status-completed

Q: Make links posted by users open in a new window

8:38 AM

-6

Most of the time when I follow a user's link, I just want to see their site, look it over, then return to answer their question (not leave SO completely and not come back). Could we make the links users post open in a new window please? EDIT: I originally wanted this implemented because it's wha...

feature-request status-declined hyperlinks

feature-request

CC @Oded

status-declined

Or did you miss that?

@SagarV What about it? One of thousands of old declined requests. It won't be re-considered.

If you really want it so badly, write a userscript...

Because it is very difficult from Lap

I mean from the touch pad of lap

"Lets take control away from the user, by making links open in a new window/tab. Never mind what they want to do and that there are easy workarounds".

@SagarV so, we should cater for the minority of users by taking control away from the majority?

Ideally, this will be a user preference, like for example the keyboard shortcuts, but it's just not worth the development efforts.

8:41 AM

Sane defaults trump lots of settings/preferences.

yup

That's what userscripts are for. :)

@ShadowWizard want to make one.

really tired of right click -> open

blog.codinghorror.com/…

$(".post-text").find("a").attr("target", "_blank");

@Sag ^

Just turn this into a userscript and you're done.

@Oded Ah I like the simple dialog box

Very similar to WinHTTrack's settings wizard

@Oded what are the criteria for matched jobs ? I am just a junior Front end engineer with 6 month experience. And the matches show me jobs for Senior Developer with atleast 5 yr experience

8:49 AM

I don't work on the jobs team. But from what I know - we match what we know about your with relevant jobs. If we don't know your exact details, difficult to match up correctly.

@Oded If we don't know your exact details how do I fill the details? In developer story, I filled all the fields correctly

Guess it's best effort then.

Q: Network Flair uses Stack Overflow profile photo on all sites

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I recently changed my profile picture and saved it only to Stack Overflow. I included my flair in my profile page in all SE sites. When I checked my SO profile page, I saw that the flair is using my SO profile picture. I think it is somewhat like badges (taken from the current site). But when I...

bug profile-picture combined-flair

CC @Oded

The same pic from SO appear when joining new sites

yesterday I joined in interpersonal skills and the photo is from SO

Probably uses site you have registered on first.

If that is the case, is there any way to change this without changing SO pic?

8:58 AM

Change the image on that site?

no. change the image on network flair

I'm using the NW flair in my site and I want to display the image from SE

and this is what I see even in SE meta.stackexchange.com/users/228134/sagar-v/flair

any solution @Oded ?

Flair is cached. It will take a few days to clear out.

Thanks for the info. Do you have any idea how many days it'll take?

9:16 AM

Depends on when it was cached. Could be up to a week.

user202362

I like how you scare little newblets

???

Interpersonal Skills

oh, so, the magic link works for private beta sites, even though they are not listed in the community dropdown

user202362

10:20 AM

can we have a grooming site on stackexchange?

user202362

take this photo to pets SE

they have everything you want

user202362

you obviously missed the point

no not at all.

I'm just joking

propose one

@Telkitty Personal Productivity

10:45 AM

@ShadowWizard CC @ShadowWizard

Source : Won't

11:08 AM

CC @Oded

bug Missing Dropdown menu in Data.SE

cazc_941

12:33 PM

Avast

Hump day mystery

chrispaladin.bandcamp.com/track/ultima

Aka Today's Listening

Journeyman Geek

1:10 PM

\o/

Hit 15k

user202362

\O/

user315433

2:06 PM

@ShadowWizard Naturally, Jerusalem looks different from small villages

So does New York.

user315433

Hm... going by the amount of garbage lying everywhere, New York may be a better comparison for SO.

user202362

what do you compare yourself with?

user202362

since you have such a 'high' regards to everyone and everything else

user202362

Sydney and San Francisco are the best - if you have enough resources

user202362

2:12 PM

I myself is not a big fan of apartment living

user202362

prefer the convenience of a global city ... with a big backyard

user202362

I mean, I am okay, but my chicken prefers a big backyard

@Walt hmm? You been to Jerusalem? :)

user202362

and good weather

user315433

> Can't believe I've been at @StackOverflow for 7 years as of today. It's been an amazing adventure and I'm so proud of my team. -- Jin Yang at 7:17 AM - 28 Jun 2017

user315433

2:25 PM

The team is surely great and does a lot of work on marketing / talent projects.

user315433

The last time a Q&A site got custom design was 2016-10-06.

user202362

Although to be honest, I love San Francisco partly because it looks like Sydney

user202362

I mean, I lived in quite a few places, they are all great

user202362

Also I don't necessarily love everyone who lives in Sydney, I just love Sydney itself if you know what I mean ...

Aurélien Gasser

2:49 PM

@SagarV what you're looking for are the match preferences

user315433

> If you care to try and get some of the badges that are reachable this week - please ping me or the other mods in Ask Different Chat. – bmike♦ -- apple.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-288117

user315433

Seriously?

user315433

Or maybe I'm reading it wrong and it means "we'll tell you how to do it / not to do it" rather than "we'll help you get them".

Journeyman Geek

or "You should, and let us know you did"

> I have lots of  products

Considering I only see "rectangle" products... I won't vote (nor do I can though)

user315433

2:55 PM

@JourneymanGeek What's the point of telling mods that you earned some badge? It's in the profile & included in candidate score automatically.

Journeyman Geek

good question

and we tended to traditionally not like people badge hunting only towards elections

user315433

I think it's more of the second interpretation: mods are concerned about flag-farming at the election time.

@SagarV Data.SE is an open source project. We can't just integrate our full header with it.

@Disney that's an apple unicode character, though Chrome doesn't support it yet

(at least under Windows)

Well, the real question is, how many badges can they get within a week?