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user315433

12:06 AM

It seems the quickest way to bring elections.stackexchange.com back online is to propose a site about Elections on Area 51. Then post an html/js snippet with Tim Stone's client-side code in it. Will it work?

user315433

Failing that, Meta has snippet support. Hm. But AFAIR client-side scripts were scraping one election at a time, while keeping track of where elections happen was server's job.

Shog9

a snippet that uses the API to rewrite the post it lives in?

...gee, it sure would be handy if there was just an "election calendar" route on se.com or something

user315433

Maybe Grace has a Google Calendar for elections, and is willing to share it?

Journeyman Geek

@Shog9 sounds like turtles all the way down.

user315433

But possible, if one doesn't mind exposing an API token with write access.

Journeyman Geek

12:18 AM

you'd just have a bot account doing it I presume

so eh.

not that dangerous, if not a bit rube-goldbergian.

user202362

Must admit that I was wrong, I compared moderation on this site to the U.S. police. But last time I was there, there weren't many (traffic) police on the US roads at all. Unlike the traffic police here - randomly checking for drivers alcohol level, always hiding in the bushes, ready to pounce on a speeding driver like a lone lion waiting for that unlucky one in a herd of migrating wildebeest ...

user202362

12:47 AM

Did I kill the conversation again? Don't run, fluffy bunnies, apex predator love you <3

Journeyman Geek

@Telkitty apparently.

user202362

Journeyman Geek

@Desire ow

Journeyman Geek

1:22 AM

I'll whack a few when I'm bored, if nothing else, should IP ban em.

Journeyman Geek

1:37 AM

@Desire ._. I actually have a third party one installed (mostly used for epubs, and such - especially since I can tweak it to what I feel easier to read with)

TheLittleNaruto

4:40 AM

Yo o/

TheLittleNaruto

4:52 AM

kicks @Telkitty all kitties out of universe and runs away while I can...

user202362

5:04 AM

user202362

5:29 AM

there are always 2 sides of a coin ... pro and con ... so we know what program is, what is a congram? >_<

user202362

telkitty's guide to 'how to be an idiot'

Success

@Telkitty prolb (read: pro-pound)

success' guide to 'how to respond to an idiot'

user202362

@Success what about 'problem' then?

user202362

5:45 AM

there is a feral rabbit in the backyard ...

Success

@Telkitty properfect

this conversation doesn't make any more sense...

user202362

you need to make sense when taking a exam or build a house, trading shares or writing programs ... chatting on the internet - it's where you get to act silly :p

rene

8:33 AM

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Stijn

8:48 AM

good morning

you here all alone @rene :p

rene

It looks like it, yes. Europe is waking up ...

And @bart has been gone missing as well so we're at least a pair of glasses down

Stijn

He doesn't even show up in the ping list :\

and @Shog9 has taken over the star board

Success

yesterday, by Shadow Wizard

@Bart you... are... not.... p... pi... pin... ping.... pinga.... can't even say it.

rene

@Stijn let's solve that ...

Success

9:04 AM

hard to conquer Shog's stars :/

trying to remove stars from Shog's messages, Shog kicks you

Shadow Wizard

9:32 AM

@Success only @Bart can. Or c... co... cou....

Maybe... maybe @Bart has been merged with Shog... ?

This would explain all the stars...

@Stijn nah @rene is never alone. I am always right behind him, his loyal shadow...

@Telkitty here they got replaced by automatic cameras.

Cheaper, more efficient.

user202362

4

user202362

@ShadowWizard like this?

Shadow Wizard

9:57 AM

Exactly!

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Feeds

1:09 PM

What are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?

David Robinson on October 31, 2017

On Stack Overflow Jobs, you can create your own Developer Story to showcase your achievements and advance your career. One option you have when creating a Developer Story is to add tags you would like to work with or would not like to work with:

This offers us an opportunity to examine the opinions of hundreds of thousands of developers. There are many ways to measure the popularity of a language; for example, we’ve often used Stack Overflow visits or question views to measure such trends. But this dataset is a rare way to find out what technologies people tend to dislike, when given the opportunity to say so on their CV. …

user202362

1:55 PM

I wonder what's the most used language ... not by the number of job ads, but by the number of places using it.

user202362

Would it be C? Since literally all kernels in commercial devices are using it or am I wrong?

Oded

Define "used" :P

x86 assembly? x64?

user202362

there are a lot of assembly languages ..

user202362

@Oded run on?

Oded

C doesn't run on anything directly... machine language, however ;)

user202362

2:00 PM

Think abstract! By run on, I really mean: written in ... :p

Oded

Hey, I'm a programmer.

Journeyman Geek

(use very small words, and DO NOT RAP ON THE GLASS. Also, do not feed after midnight)

Oded

I don't know if it is C or Java these days. Saying Java because - android (also used in set-top boxes and smart TVs)

Journeyman Geek

@Oded arguably, there's a lot more systems using ARM than x86 these days ;p

user202362

Android kernel based on Linux kernel & Linux kernel is definitely written in C

Journeyman Geek

2:02 PM

also, while PHP is 'hated' a ton of useful, maybe even essential things run on it.

Its a bit like how people prefer postgres to mysql, but mysql is more common

Success

PHP is still loved, in a country where they don't know that PHP is hated ._.

Shadow Wizard

Why did @Cody become a pumpkin?

Cody S. Pumpkins ♦, Austin, TX

174k 28 327 417

c# .net winforms c++ windows winapi vb.net

Oded

Shark Screen (with audio)/Shark Tank at the International Spy Museum (Funny Prank)

►

apropos "DO NOT RAP ON THE GLASS"

Success

@ShadowWizard try tomorrow in your timezone, or Google Doodle

Oded

@ShadowWizard ליל כל הקדושים

It isn't done in Israel.

Journeyman Geek

2:06 PM

or anywhere but the US ;p

Shadow Wizard

lol this is better pumpkin:

Odif Yltsaeb, Estonia

2.8k 8 32 66

django python jquery django-forms javascript django-models django-templates

user202362

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A: What Languages are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux written in?

Windows: C++, kernel is in C Mac: Objective C, kernel is in C (IO PnP subsystem is Embedded C++) Linux: Most things are in C, many userland apps are in Python, KDE is all C++ All kernels will use some assembly code as well.

Shadow Wizard

@Oded ohhhh

So how come he's the only one?

Journeyman Geek

otherwise I'd call myself journeyman blackshuck? ;p

Success

Google Doodle is already celebrating it though

Oded

2:08 PM

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Shadow Wizard

@Oded so let's add חנוכיה to our names too when Hanukkah will arrive! :D

user202362

I have checked: windows, macOS, linux, android & ios are ALL at least partially using C in their kernel

rene

@ShadowWizard what a gold badge show-off ;)

Shadow Wizard

@rene well Cody earned each of them by right.... :D

Journeyman Geek

I have more ._.

hides

Success

2:11 PM

I have none ._.

cries

Journeyman Geek

@Success dude, how do you not have fanatic

Success

@JourneymanGeek oh, I thought we're talking about tag badge >_>

Journeyman Geek

oh I have those on SU too

but I thought ~~tag~~ badges in general

Shadow Wizard

Only three.... (both SO and MSE)

Well ordinary gold badges are sometimes easy to get, for many of those you don't really have to do anything. Gold tag badge on the other hand means you earned tons of upvotes on the site.

e.g. you can post a question which has 0 score, or even negative, it will get 10000 views, and you get a gold badge for that.

user202362

why didn't I try to become a C kernel programmer - write once, reuse 5 billion times ~_~

Journeyman Geek

2:15 PM

yup

funny thing is I need more posts, not rep for my first tag badge here ._.

@ShadowWizard yeah, I have a bunch of those on SU ;p

and only 2 tag badges?

ow? Maybe I donno ;p

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek only 1, Windows Gold Tag Badge

oh

Yeah, 1 ;p

Well the user with most gold tag badges (after Jon Skeet) is BalusC, with 30.

BalusC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

760k 254 2824 2967

jsf java jsf-2 jsp servlets primefaces javascript

user202362

2:25 PM

also older languages seemed to be disliked more than newer languages ... not surprisingly, I sure hope they are making life better not worse :p

Success

BASIC?

Shadow Wizard

PASCAL?

Feb 1 at 11:53, by Shadow Wizard

GW-Basic

Derpy

MALBOLGE?

user315433

Not so many people have to maintain legacy code in newer languages.

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Oded

2:29 PM

@ShadowWizard that mean he can close windows by himself?

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Shadow Wizard

@Derpy PIET?

@Oded no only smash them with his hammer... and/or diamond... which is even stronger. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Oded on some days. Some days, I don't even need to try,

@ShadowWizard ya, and i kinda am more on windows + I'm at the funny point where imaginary internet points arn't really that important on that site...

Derpy

@ShadowWizard esolangs.org/wiki/FiM%2B%2B

Shadow Wizard

@Oded hey, any chance for a preview/spoiler about what we're going to see here for October? :)

@Derpy yours?

rene

2:44 PM

Is there a specific reason the ChatServer kills a websocket with code 1000? Could it be that I should stop abusing the websocket? Or is it just a tough luck, bye, bye and try later event?

Shadow Wizard

Think @balpha might know ^

Stijn