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user315433

01:33

jmac has no diamonds... and there is no Josh Maciel on company page anymore

user315433

His profile still says "Community Manager for Stack Exchange since July 2014."

user315433

The last comment, from August 21, didn't indicate anything unusual going on.

user315433

和訳のリストを提供すると、シノニムは作成します。 — jmac Aug 21 at 6:24

user315433

The activity was low in recent month; last post was mod announcement on ja.SO in July.

user315433

No update on LinkedIn, no recent tweets...

Elias

01:52

@Michelle surprisingly, it got converted to comment

Sinister

02:46

Can anyone answer this question?

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Q: Does the 'answer ratio' stat include closed questions and answers with a negative score?

In the statistics of all launched beta sites there is one stat called 'answer ratio'. How exactly is this calculated? Is it simply the average number of (non-deleted) answers per question for a site? Are closed questions included in the calculation? And are answers with a negative score included?

Journeyman Geek

05:38

@Michelle yeah... Looks like he is no longer a cm

Speaking of which... I'm quitting my job

Elias

meanwhile, stats.se welcomed new moderators

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

07:03

@JourneymanGeek oh my.... on one hand sorry to hear, on the other hand happy to hear! :)

Hope you got other job in progress?

Derpy

08:11

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 28 mins ago, by Derpy

@Gallifreyan Somehow off topic, but I was browsing artstation following the links you posted. Funny to see how this guy made a concept art screen for a Secret of Mana remake that looks far superior to the thing Square just annunced recently....

user315433

11:22

Bitcoin is 6 years old. Top question asked in the last year is Cryptocurrency Arbitrage - What do I need to know?, but much of recent traffic went to the older question Why is my transaction not getting confirmed and what can I do about it?

Journeyman Geek

12:50

@ShaWizDowArd no

But I was in a situation where I really couldn't see myself working there any more

My manager did an evaulation, and recommended I be confirmed and given a raise.

The higher ups decided to extend my probation and wrote a ... frankly insulting form letter essentially extending my probation to end of october, claiming my performance was poor.

Feeds

5 Tech Companies With Great Parental Leave Policies

Alyssa Mazzina on August 30, 2017

When developers are deciding between job offers, they’ll weigh factors such as salary, growth potential, and work benefits. One important benefit for developers on the cusp of starting families will be the opportunity to take paid parental leave.

This policy is not guaranteed from company to company or even state to state. In fact, the U.S. is one of 41 countries around the world that doesn’t mandate paid parental leave for new parents. Of the countries that do, the law requires new parents to take, at a minimum, two paid weeks off. Because U.S. companies are not mandated by law to offer paid p …

Someday, some big historical event will happen during the DST changeover, and all the tick-tock articles chronicling how it unfolded will have to include a really annoying explanation next to their timelines.

Magisch

13:33

@ShaWizDowArd Yah, but his liver is even more shot then before

Elias

14:04

> A mod on another site joked that Interpersonal Skills causes more interpersonal problems than it solves.

Derpy

@Elias the unholy knights of apocalypse are now complete

Healt.se
Skeptics.se
Lifehacks.se
Interpersonal.se

the four will soon raise and destroy the network as we know it. Be prepared, young ones, for the end is near.

(this message was offered by Cassandra Ltd.)

Journeyman Geek

14:26

health

Derpy

time ago someone posted a link to a generator that would reduce javascript code to an equivalent form that used only "[] () ! +" characters

someone still remembers it?

Elias

looks like code obfuscator?

Derpy

[][(![]+[])[+[]]+([![]]+[][[]])[+!+[]+[+[]]]+(![]+[]) ......

using javascript weird rules to produce a code that is basically a sum of empty arrays and the such.

Elias

looks like a job for codegolf.se or infosec.se...

Derpy

bingo. Found.

for anyone wondering

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

15:51

@Magisch oh my.... so he's in hospital? Why did he do this to begin with??

Magisch

@ShaWizDowArd really bad headache

figured taking more would do more

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@JourneymanGeek probation???

> Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender,

Anyway... sorry to hear... back to square 1.. :(

@Magisch so sorry to say but he's really, really, really..... stupid. :/

Magisch

@ShaWizDowArd Yeah

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

status-dying-of-stupidity

Elias

@ShaWizDowArd no no no, not that definition! this one!

@ShaWizDowArd ~~still~~ not better than putting sunscreen to protect eyes from sun

Magisch

15:57

@ShaWizDowArd This is the same guy that got told his liver was going to be shot if he kept drinking and then he kept drinking :D

takes quite a bit to be near liver failure at 31

user315433

16:41

> structures of techy startups I participated in (https://startups.stackexchange.com/a/13255)
CEO <- failed, ceo incompetence
CEO/CMO/HR, CEO/COO/CFO <- failed, problem with market readiness
CEO, CMO, CTO, COO/CFO <- failed, ceo incompetence/sabotage

user315433

Maybe it's just that person... common element of all the failed things

user315433

-1

A: Can a casino system prove my (divine) luck as cheating?

Go to the roulette, bet on number 1 AND 2, or buy 2 lottery tickets: see the world burn / the matrix collapse; you don't need money anymore.

rene

→ 25 messages moved to Chimney

Elias

17:50

Is IPS the most active beta site currently?

rene

@Elias what does active mean?

Jon Ericson

@Elias It's right up there: stackexchange.com/sites#questionsperday

Activity tends to fall off after a few months, however.

Shog9

18:09

Useless trivia for @ShaWizDowArd: hot network question clicks grouped by source and destination site over the past 90 days...

Source site                               Destination site                                    HNQClicks
----------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- ---------
The Workplace Stack Exchange              Politics Stack Exchange                             133
Unix & Linux Stack Exchange               RPG Stack Exchange                                  56
Code Golf Stack Exchange                  Academia Stack Exchange                             69

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user315433

18:35

-1 not sorted

Elias

Interesting... though I crawl HNQ from any sites (e.g. open IPS from SO, then open Workplace from IPS, etc...)

Shog9

sorting lists, tracking paths across sites... I feel that y'all don't quite grasp just how lazy I am.

Magisch

19:02

@Shog9 I can relate, I was too lazy to strip html tags in a SEDE query I did :D

Until like yesterday

rene

Maybe you can offer to use cursors to sort it, just to annoy Oded ...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@rene huh? @Oded doesn't like cursors?

@Shog9 thanks! But why for me? @gnat for example would likely be much more thrilled from such trivia.... ;)

@JonEricson yep, after all the easy questions have been asked...

rene

@ShaWizDowArd nope, it all needs to be set based operations.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Elias oh... this explains a lot about @Journeyman then. We don't have such thing here. We do have "temporary" employees, but not in such a way.

It's clear signal "You're not good enough, we don't trust you", valid reason to want to quit. :/

@Elias rofl.... so sad that is overflows and becomes funny.... :D

@Magisch totally.... it's a miracle he's still alive then... lol

user202362

@Elias flight was the safest part of journey, then I had to drive on highway for more than 100 miles out of LA in a car model I have never driven before when I totally not sure of the traffic rule and the drivers drive on the 'wrong' side when I was totally sleep deprived.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

19:16

@Telkitty ouch... alone?? Sounds quite scary!

I did that too, but not alone. About 9 years ago...

Think I drove around 1000 miles in two weeks in USA.

rene

I also drove 100 miles in LA but that was because I couldn't find the exit road of LAX ...

user202362

Amazing :p

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

lol

What did you do in USA? Business or pleasure? @rene

(for me only pleasure ;))

rene

@ShaWizDowArd both, a week holiday and a week PDC

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@rene good for you! And client paid for the flights?

user202362

19:21

also got myself a new US sim, a power adaptor and other stuff

rene

@ShaWizDowArd the boss paid, yes

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Telkitty sure, those are essential! So you now browse from your phone?

user202362

macbook

user202362

that's why I got the adapor

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@rene boss? You weren't freelancer back then?

user202362

19:22

15G SIM was for when I am on the road

rene

@ShaWizDowArd nope

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Telkitty how much it cost?

user202362

something like $60 USD

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@rene hard to imagine you as employee with boss.... you're a Free Flower! :D

user202362

I need internet

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

19:24

@Telkitty no WiFi??

user202362

yes, free wifi here

rene

@ShaWizDowArd my boss agrees. He still has nightmares ....

user202362

but when I am on the road, there is no in-car wifi :p

rene

are you allowed to hold your phone while driving?

user202362

@rene that's why you drove 10 miles inside LAX :p

rene

19:26

LOL

user202362

I am actually staying 100miles away from LA

rene

is this edit valid?

Shog9

debates spam-blocking the suggesting IP as a test

rene

@Telkitty along the coast or inland?

Shog9

It almost certainly is valid. I can't remember off-hand how we implemented that, but the likely alternative would discard edits without warning.

rene

19:30

OK

user202362

this leg just along the coast, then I am going to drive back to LA, switch to a SUV and do the Las Vegas - grand canyon - yellowstone - banff - Seattle - SF - LA loop

Magisch

Hey Shog

What view do you take on users trying to find serial voters on their own anyways

rene

@Telkitty awesome!

Magisch

Should that be left to moderators to do?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

19:47

@Michelle jsfiddle.net/9ao41xgn

Better: jsfiddle.net/9ao41xgn/show

@Shog9 looks really low for 90 days when actually looking into the numbers... only 51 clicks in 90 days in some sites?? How you collect this, using referer header?

Shog9

Jan 18 at 15:03, by Shog9

Every time a HNQ is clicked, there's an entry created for the source and destination sites. This is also why figuring out what was clicked is less trivial; it actually would require digging through the request logs instead of just querying this data.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

I thought https blocks the referer, no?

@Shog9 oh

Shog9

That said, I should really check & see if that data is sampled - in which case these numbers are bogus and only the relative quantities have any meaning.

Magisch

could you post that with a uniform seperator @Shog9?

I would like to order it but hand-inserting seperators is tedious

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Magisch you can fiddle with my fiddle

Shog9

19:54

eh...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

I've already sorted it

Magisch

Ah

Neat

I assume that's an internal database and not available through SEDE

Sad thing that normal users can't see that data. You must have some amazing opportunities for analyzing with a full dataset

Shog9

@ShaWizDowArd ah, yeah - looks like it's sampled at 1%, so...

Magisch

20:11

multiply all of that by 100

Oded

20:30

@ShaWizDowArd get your dirty cursors out of my relational database, you philistine.

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rene

20:42

WUT?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

23:31

@Shog9 so more useless than you originally thought... :)

Shog9

@ShaWizDowArd well, useless is sort of absolute...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Shog9 useful is the new useless then?

@rene how rude! hijacking my question like that!

Shog9

Naw, I was accurate and remain so

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Oded 1) My cursors are clean! 2) I don't live in Philistines hence can't be philistine!

@Shog9 sure, if you'll be wrong the whole reality will fall apart so it just must not happen.... :D

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