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user202362

12:31 AM

In California ... went through a forest full of fat trees ... 🌲

Journeyman Geek

1:00 AM

Sklivvz did blog a fair bit about it tho

user315433

1:56 AM

Juan M has a diamond everywhere except Open Source. Hm.

user315433

3:29 AM

These link-less spammers get better at obscuring emails and fooling Smokey.

Journeyman Geek

5:56 AM

@Michelle but that's why we have humans reviewing spam too ;)

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How You Can Use the New Stack Overflow Bot from Microsoft

David Fullerton on September 25, 2017

As Joel often says, “developers are writing the script for the future,” and that is definitely the case when it comes to AI. The knowledge shared on Stack Overflow includes an ever-growing pool on AI and related topics such as machine learning, natural language processing and deep learning. From C to Lisp to Java to Python, professional developers and those learning the craft are eager to learn, share and build their careers around this important programming field.

So when Microsoft showed us how they were bringing AI to every developer through their platforms and tools, and asked if they could …

redhand

8:18 AM

deploying an angular 2 app on firebase is very very easy than doing the same on heroku

Oded, Out of curiosity, who are all the people working in HR team at SO?

Journeyman Geek

9:46 AM

@redhand so odd. Also, where's it from?

Oded

@redhand stackoverflow.com/company/team#People

redhand

@JourneymanGeek a job app on so

Journeyman Geek

ah on so. Then its probably the advertiser's mistake? (Since I don't see it on SO's own work here page)?

redhand

@Oded with a different title... That's why I missed it. thanks for the link

Oded

That can be read as "Html 5 developers", with "5 years experience" as web developers.

Journeyman Geek

9:49 AM

or that ;p

redhand

possible

redhand

10:13 AM

cool

it kama sutra? lol

Derpy

redhand

@Derpy that is an error message I got when I tried to open a post in Super User

Derpy

@redhand the reason they used that picture and the interpretation they gave to it do not change the interpretation you gave to it. But if you like consider the scolding extended to the designer who choose the picture in the first place.

That said, consider the positive side of this. I somehow remember hearing that when you collect 5 scoldings you get a free @ShaWizDowArd plush. After all, he and Droid probably are the ones with the highest scold-counter so far.

redhand

do you even maintain a counter for that?

Derpy

@redhand I wouldn't be surprised if Shadow actually did.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

10:37 AM

@redhand it's a very common geek meme

Since he's clothed, it can't be real kama sutra

@Derpy don't forget our dear @berserk

redhand

who's this Frank?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

in Shadow's Den, Aug 13 '16 at 5:49, by Shadow Wizard

=== Uncouth Users (percentage of total words) ===
1. berserk...............................17.102%)
2. DetonationsPlus.......................11.111%)
3. Clemens Himmer.........................3.625%)
4. DroidDev...............................2.123%)
5. Jason C................................1.679%)
6. CRABOLO................................0.806%)
7. maveň..................................0.746%)
8. Shadow Wizard..........................0.734%)
9. ProgramFOX.............................0.536%)

I'm just 0.734%

redhand

me. No O_O

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

You weren't around back then

But since even word like "fart" is considered uncouth, it's not hard to get "points" for that list..... :D

@redhand a tree

Derpy

@ShaWizDowArd they prefer to be called "ent"

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

10:43 AM

This? ^

Derpy

also, the list above is cheating. You tracked the word totals, not the times an user got scolded with the picture

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Derpy true

It's up to you to keep track of that. :D

Derpy

@ShaWizDowArd those redemption of Pippin and Merry should be pushed back to the abyss they came from. Really, I though the animated movie had bad character design....

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

lol

redhand

why this is showing as a separate edit (made within the grace period)?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

10:53 AM

@redhand comment

It's a rather new change, that comment "ends" the grace period

redhand

why do a comment ends the grace period?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

76

Q: Reset question grace period once an answer has been posted

When answers are posted within a question's initial grace period, it is possible that further edits could completely change the question (see "chameleon questions"), and render those first few answers incorrect. Worse yet, nobody is notified that there was a change to the question, except those...

oh wait oops

oh it's this, Shog explains all the conditions:

55

A: Reset question grace period once an answer has been posted

Jarrod whipped this up this past week, and the behavior should now be live. Edits will be rolled into the previous revision if the previous revision was created by the same author and none of the following conditions are present: The previous revision was created 5 minutes or more in the past A...

Why? To prevent ninja edits that render comments meaningless.

e.g. a comment "Better change XYZ to ABC", then user do it after few seconds.

redhand

ah that makes sense

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

11:10 AM

Good!

user315433

11:24 AM

@redhand The "Living Standard" thing was around for long before that, W3C process is not the only benchmark of its development.

user315433

Tor is 4 years old today. Top question of last year: Enable plugins on Tor

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle the real Tor is almost exactly 15 years old.

Tor (anonymity network)

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication. The name is derived from an acronym for the original software project name "The Onion Router". Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user: this includes "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms". Tor's use is intended to protect...

(15 years and 5 days)

So Tor is now during its puberty period. Wonder what will become of it when it will become an adult.

Magisch

@Michelle Maybe the CM team is just full?

user315433

11:42 AM

> this bot uses: Bing Custom Search

user315433

That's as far as I got.

Feeds

I tried converting the prices into pizzas, to put it in more familiar terms, and it just became a hard-to-think-about number of pizzas.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle what bot? The link is broken. No bot. Maybe it's late April Fools prank. /cc @Derpy

To be honest, it's more funny that what they did back in April. "Hey, see what an awesome bot we built! Here it is!! [broken link here]".

redhand

@ShaWizDowArd add a sample after the - in the broken link

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@redhand no I won't. If they're so... [something here], I won't bother.

redhand

11:49 AM

@ShaWizDowArd this is the link where it will take you github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Samples/tree/master/…

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Rule #1 when posting a blog: read it. Check the grammar. Check the links. Duh.

Derpy

14

A: How can I get the 2012 April Fool's joke to appear?

Well, I live in Portugal, so it's already April 1st here (it's now 1H42 AM here)... And I just got the "Clippy" April Fool's when doing a search for fgets "segmentation fault" in Stack Overflow! :) Here's a screenshot for that epic moment. Have fun! :)

redhand

@ShaWizDowArd The broken link is https://aka.ms/stackoverflow-bot- and you have to complete it as https://aka.ms/stackoverflow-bot-sample

That's a homework task to you by SO :p

Derpy

@ShaWizDowArd also, is the link "https://aka.ms/stackoverflow-bot-"? I got some X-Box ads that seemed pretty intentional....

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Derpy typical for Microsoft, to provide URL shortening service which only cause the URL to become long and borked.

redhand

11:54 AM

you can expect some jokes from the bot here github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Samples/blob/master/…

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Google knows better how to do that properly.

The bot must also be just useless. Won't even bother to check, lol.

redhand

A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?"

ha ha ha ha ha ha

assume it was a joke

user315433

> Thank you for your great answer. What I really want to do is

user315433

Wins "least likely to get my attention" award.

user315433

As for "new AI from Microsoft", nothing will ever top Clippy, so that shouldn't even try.

user315433

12:03 PM

0

Q: Blocking calls on my phone

How to block calls? I have looked and cannot find details to do this. I have asked Cortana for help with no success.

calls

user315433

If they made a bot that can answer the questions posted by frustrated Windows Phone users, that would be something.

user315433

But artificial intelligence does not supplant the lack of native.

user315433

Grr, three hours and my flag was first.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

cheating spouse... lol

at least the spammer picked a proper-ish question to hijack...

Derpy

12:33 PM

about the chat bot... am I mistaken or the "watch live demo" link points to a totally unrelated video too?

Journeyman Geek

@Michelle OUR CLIPPY IS BEST CLIPPY!

redhand

2:27 PM

1 hour later...

Hi wrote my first post on medium here medium.com/@sagartanur/… any feedback will be appreciated

Journeyman Geek

flags as spam

Boo needs a login

ugh. needs an account?

@redhand not making it easy dude... :(

redhand

:(

Journeyman Geek

and works in private mode...

redhand

I become somewhat professional.

better hey guys I wrote an article here check it out <link>

Journeyman Geek

seriously medium WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU WHEN YOU ANNOY ME MORE THAN TUMBLR

redhand

2:30 PM

is enough

uh?

Journeyman Geek

@redhand the flags as spam was a joke

the rest to

augh. Its not you. Its the platform being a pain ;p

redhand

@JourneymanGeek why?

It helped me many times. I mean the angular posts helps me very much with my work

Journeyman Geek

no no

medium

I'm all for self-documentation by blogging.

(I don't know how educational me bitching at medium would be for you ;p)

redhand

for me, it is useful. But not a regular there. But many of my google searches redirect me to there.

previously it was to SO. but when I started searching on advanced things, medium will comeup

Journeyman Geek

meta.stackexchange.com/a/301322/135565 needs some spam flag 'love'

user315433

2:33 PM

"Nice update you have here.... would be a shame if spam was added to it" (re metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/86310)

redhand

@JourneymanGeek gone

Journeyman Geek

2:51 PM

\o/

redhand

3:59 PM

1 hour later...

bwDraco

4:35 PM

lol

rene

4:52 PM

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Podcast #116 – What is Technology? Do We Even Know?

Jess Pardue on September 25, 2017

Thanks for tuning in for Stack Overflow podcast # 116 recorded Thursday, September 21. We usually record at our Stack Overflow HQ in NYC, but today, in true remote-first fashion, we are being recorded from Florida, Utah, Washington, and NYC.

This episode is brought to you by Oracle. Stack Overflow greatly appreciates Oracle’s support for this podcast and for our community. Learn more about everything that Oracle does for open source, java, and developers like you at oracle.com/developers.

Today is full of firsts: …

user202362

5:10 PM

flying back home tomorrow, in SF again today :p

user202362

drove through 9 states this trip

rene

@Telkitty nice!

You now visit the Zoo of SF to finally see your bear?

user202362

I could fly back & see a bear in zoo there

rene

But now you can't claim you saw a bear in America ...

Looks like our anonymous editor doesn't like lines... :(

user315433

5:40 PM

@Feeds "Learn more about everything that Oracle does for... developers like you" Like trying to prevent me from calling my max-computing function Math.max?

user315433

And it's the second podcast in a row sponsored by them, looks like they bought a season ticket?

user315433

7:40 PM

> "create an AI driven experience for developers to use and learn with"
"We hope developers will be inspired to use the bot’s sample code to create innovative AI experiences for Stack Overflow and share it with the community"
"a place for developers to engage and enable one another to drive transformative change in society"
So I have just one question: what does it actually do? -- http://disq.us/p/1mg8qqn

user315433

Judging by the number of buzzwords, probably next to nothing.

user315433

8:49 PM

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Q: 2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

Mathematics Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, October 2nd.In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is complet...