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Hogan

01:15

@drachenstern Chrome since version 1.

drachenstern

Again with the people coming in WAY late

Hogan

heh

He is crazy -- chrome is faster and has a better interface.

and I like the debugging tools more. shrug

drachenstern

You should've seen what the mod crew had to say

almost a holy war on browsers, saying that Chrome had much worse in performance than Fx ever had (one against many, but still)

I prefer the debug tools in Firebug

Hogan

I was just reading it. And mod crew is crazy. Every benchmark shows chrome is faster... besides my personal experience.

drachenstern

no, actual usability performance

and it was just one person saying that

Hogan

01:23

And the whole extension theory is carp too.... I never loaded extensions into Fx or Chrome. (except firebug)

drachenstern

You should totally be using the chat userscript in here

Hogan

Because?

drachenstern

Because it makes it teh moar awesomesauces

Also, because we use it when we say stuff like "Check :622429"

I've been told I should just use this instead: "Check :622430" but that's so much more work

Hogan

I see. Not sure how you did that.... It is an honor to be linked.

Eclipse is driving me bonkers... you ever use it?

drachenstern

I uh ... linked myself

also, I did that with [:622430](url)

I have not, but I've been sorely tempted to recently

Hogan

01:29

Been playing with linking to github all day....

almost there but there are just a few things....

drachenstern

Yeah, I've considered it, but since I plan this project to eventually be a commercial venture, I don't think putting it on github is beneficial to me.

I haven't decided yet so far one way or the other

Hogan

I'm trying to post some bug fixes to jQueryUI

who can resist rewardjs.com ?

I'll catch you later @drachenstern -- off to play... (wave)

drachenstern

Night

I'm gone to my in-laws for the night (some concern of a burgler in the neighborhood, so apparently that means I should sleep there ... :S )

Popular Demand

02:41

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drachenstern

03:28

Shore is quite in here

George Marian

03:48

Uh-hum

Moshe

Hello Steam for Mac, goodbye productivity!

George Marian

lol

I sure wish they'd bring out Steam for Linux.

Moshe

Really glad they have a portal demo.

@GeorgeMarian I wish BootCamp wouldn't complain about fragmented files, so I could install Windows and (don't tell Apple Support) Ubuntu.

George Marian

It's a good game. Never finished it though. lol

@Moshe heh

Moshe

My gaming experience has actually been inspired by one individual. I should get original.

Battlefield 1942, BF2, and now Portal: First Slice.

It's neat that Steam has offline mode.

@GeorgeMarian - Which Linux do you use?

closes Safari, since his computer needs more RAM

(but will be back soon)

George Marian

04:01

@Moshe I have been using Ubuntu lately.

drachenstern

What do you think about it George?

George Marian

Meh. It's alright and I do seem to like the Debian way of doing things.

I don't like the fact that Unity was pushed out too early and have yet to upgrade to 11.04.

The fact that some of the configuration stuff is a bit non standard irks me, but there's usually a fair amount of information available.

drachenstern

most of my work in "Ubuntu" is as a server

so I don't see the stuff like Unity

so for me, it's all solid. I love the speed with which most things stay updated to stable

sucks when I can't get bleeding edge stuff fast enough (so for that I have git)

compilr.com <-- so interesting, imagine if SEI implemented this for SO posts??

George Marian

Yeah, I have an Ubuntu server as well for dev.

Overall, I do like the speed of Ubuntu's updates. I was bitching about VLC not being updated. Then I realized that they were applying patches to a slight older version for whatever reason, instead of pulling in the new versions.

Yi Jiang

> April 26th, 11:47AM Compilr Doubles Users in 5 short months!

When I see something like this I always think, "Oh, from one to two then"

George Marian

04:13

LOL

Moshe

Aaah... My MacBook is using all of its RAM.

Time to upgrade.

George Marian

@drachenstern Interesting. I came across a browser based editor when I was looking to pretty print some XML in a browser.

drachenstern

@YiJiang ha!

drachenstern

05:03

does anybody here remember the name of the truck stop in the second die hard movie? (I think it was the second one)

waha- Nord des Lignes truckstop,

Tim Stone

I appear to be dangerously close to the end of the activity list in here, I better correct that.

Yi Jiang

Building a website for our school's current affair society. I'm thinking of creating a sort of 'news wall' for the background by pulling headlines from, say the BBC and putting them as the background of the website. Good idea?

drachenstern

given about 8 active people, that's not really something to complain about

@YiJiang I think so

Yi Jiang

05:57

WTF is the suggestions-wanted tag?

drachenstern

Apparently it's for questions that should be on code review?

or programmers? (help me find a better structure for my program <-- should be a valid topic there)

Moshe

06:32

\O/ Portal: First Slice is great!

drachenstern

omg, goto bed it's 2:30 am

:p

hell, I oughta listen to that advice.

Moshe

@drachenstern yea yea, was designing sprites with a friend over skype.

drachenstern

@Moshe don't listen to me (it's almost always a bad idea if it's not about code) ... :p

Moshe

But then I got this odd message from my MacBook: "Welcome again to the aperture science enhancement center."

drachenstern

hahahahahaha

Moshe

06:36

Which, by the way, can run Portal, but is better after a reboot.

According to Activity Monitor, running Mail, iChat, Xcode 3, Xcode 4, Photoshop, Activity Monitor, Steam and Portal is not conducive to smooth gameplay.

Seriously, Activity Monitor says I need more RAM.

@drachenstern you wuz askin to a starr

drachenstern

I'll leave it for now

Moshe

Oh, and btw, watching my friend email me the sprites on my iPad in realtime is way cool.

drachenstern

how's that? oh, cos of screen remote viewing ...

Moshe

@drachenstern Yep, TeamViewer HD

jjj

07:14

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Q: Why is the ban for too many rejected edits so lengthy?

I have been editing some questions and answers lately. Suddenly, I wanted to edit a question and this message shows up: Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days. What? Seven days!? Why? Isn't that a bit exaggerated? How about: You have had 3 edits rejected today; pleas...

badp's sockpuppet

08:39

And a 25ker on SO wants deleted. :/

Delete This Account

24.2k 2 18 50

python regex javascript php ruby c# jquery

It may be me, I just don't see the point of deleting accounts.

balpha

09:00

@badpssockpuppet that's postponed

badp's sockpuppet

@balpha I don't have 10k anymore :\

balpha

oh nvm, you don't have 10k

badp's sockpuppet

ever since writing inane answers on MSO is worth more than reporting bugs or raising concerns, I kinda stopped frequenting much :P

Not that all MSO answers are inane. That's where much of the inanity resides however.

badp's sockpuppet

09:21

(Still, not a reason to delete my account.)

Pekka's other trolling account

10:50

Sometimes, I'm lost for words.

-1

Q: don't have the idea to to design my DB

don't have the idea to to design my DB how can i design a database for a currency exchange site, any help

mysql database-design

jjj

11:04

@Pekka's ..No duplicated..?! ..^_^

why did you close it .. ? .. he needs help ..he is just a beginer

At least give him some time ... ask him more to get the wanted issue

user153011

Afternoon

user153011

@jjj Your avatar looks SO nice!

jjj

Thanks ..

your pic is cool too

..

user153011

It's the jQuery logo.

jjj

oh ..

^_^

badp's sockpuppet

12:01

@Pekkasothertrollingaccount plz-to-send-teh-es-qu-els

Yi Jiang

@jjj No understand you say what!!? Closed it because question awful, time given question after clean up, issue no understand, question no answer!

Pekka's other trolling account

12:16

@jjj he needs help that SO can't provide. Like learning fundamentals. And how to read the FAQ that get shoved in your face every time you ask a question

What would you say if I came to you and told you, "I want to build a three-story house. I need to be done in three weeks. What should I do?"

Hogan

12:27

@Pekkasothertrollingaccount I would tell you to hire a contractor (probably an expensive one.)

badp's sockpuppet

@Pekkasothertrollingaccount jQuery wood plugin

$("house[stories=3]").build()

Yi Jiang

Ign linux.dropbox.com natty/main Translation-en
Err dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Something wicked happened resolving 'dl.google.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)

apt has some weird error messages

Pekka's other trolling account

12:43

@Hogan but I don't want to hire anybody. Can you please just get me started? I need something called a foundation, right? How do I do that? What materials do I need? Can you help me build it?

@badpssockpuppet another case of programming destroying real world jobs.

badp's sockpuppet

@Pekkasothertrollingaccount You need small pieces of colored paper called "money". You can get those for free from Google with this very clever ~~scam~~ trick. Do you have skype?

Yi Jiang

> This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy

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Pekka's other trolling account

@badpssockpuppet but I want to do it myself. I tried money once, didn't like it. It was too difficult to obtain it.

balpha

12:59

Made it past 300k on #stackoverflow. Woot 'n all that. Not sure what the next milestone will be.

Tweeted by jonskeet on May 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM

badp's sockpuppet

@balpha 2^32-1

or 500k.

btw when I originally suggested an hard cap for reputation at something like 200k rep I was burned alive for being envious or whatever.

(Jon wasn't there yet)

Tim Stone

WTF?

05/14	12:10 AM	phone	 Internet/MEdia Net	Sent	133425KB

Uh, I think not.

badp's sockpuppet

@TimStone uuuuh, that's gonna hurt.

Tim Stone

I had hardly been using any data, so I had dropped myself down to 200 MB a month. Given this nonsense though, I've retroactively gone back to 2 GB, so I shouldn't have to pay overage penalties.

I still have no clue why all of that data was supposedly transferred.

badp's sockpuppet

15:08

@TimStone Probably all of your passwords, to a secure server in Russia.

Did you recently attempt to parse HTML with regexps?

Tim Stone

@badpssockpuppet Regexps and jQuery, it's the only way.

I was also seeding torrents from my iPhone, because it's what the cool kids do.

Pekka's other trolling account

Is it just me, or does this job ad sound scammy?

sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/web/2379961398.html

150k with no previous experience required?

Tim Stone

Not even a degree!

Hahah, I know people like to throw money away on stupid things, but yeah, that sounds scammy :P

Pekka's other trolling account

@TimStone I thought so, thanks.

drachenstern

15:25

@Pekkasothertrollingaccount That does sound like if Milk was hiring how they would list some of their ad, except there's no reason for Ryan to advert on CL

Pekka's other trolling account

@drachenstern you need to help me out on who Milk and Ryan are :)

Wikipedia is being unhelpful:

Milk

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It provides the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is known as colostrum, and carries the mother's antibodies to the baby. It can reduce the risk of many diseases in the baby. The exact components of raw milk vary by species, but it contains significant amounts of saturated fat, protein and calcium as well as vitamin C. Cow's milk has a pH ranging from 6.4 to 6.8, making it slightly acidic. Types of consumption There are two distinct ...

drachenstern

Actually, I think "Ryan" was wrong ... /facepalm

Wes

Hi from firefox :P

drachenstern

KEVIN. That's who I meant

Wb from chrome

Pekka's other trolling account

@drachenstern ahhh, I see now!

Wes

15:30

May I get some opinions on my meta question here? Just a spot check really.

drachenstern

So Milk Inc is a venture by Kevin Rose the guy who started Digg

@Wes always

that is rather why this room exists you know

Wes

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Q: Is this question a good match for programmers.stackexchange.com site?

Exact Duplicate: Is this question a good match for this site? I've had a question migrated to programmers but I don't think its a good fit for programmers. If I understand the nature of the questions you get there. How can you make a cluster run a task only once? Should this have been migrated...

discussion support migration

I don't disagree with it being migrated per say but I question the target site

drachenstern

yeah idk

also, what do you know about distributed computing and task schedulers?

Have you ever heard of Condor? (U Wisc)

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Q: Can we raise the awareness that question upvotes have always been free?

Related: Can we raise the awareness that question downvotes are now free? People commonly comment on questiosn in affirmitive or positive tones, and don't upvote. I started to make this question as a parody of the "related" question, but then it dawned on me that if we're going to raise aw...

discussion reputation voting

Wes

no sounds like something that I should look at

have to go for a bit. Willl look at your question later

sorry

drachenstern