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user202362

12:37 AM

ruby or python?

user202362

I know it's a rather random question, but ...

Andrew T.

1:21 AM

Sleepy morning...

Journeyman Geek

I'd say

I read the sitename as overengineering.SE

Andrew T.

@Telkitty Python, because I haven't tried Ruby

hichris123

1:46 AM

@CrazyIvan Waiting on my ED response to see if I need to fill out more...

user202362

I would say python if not:

user202362

CocoaPods is built with Ruby and is installable with the default Ruby available on OS X.

Andrew T.

having caught the conversation regarding... question wizard?.. time to bash the spam!

user315433

To me, Python reads like English, and Ruby more like Japanese.

user202362

and C++?

Andrew T.

1:58 AM

Ruby character

Ruby characters (ルビ, rubi) are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of Chinese characters when writing languages with logographic characters such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean to show the pronunciation. Typically called just ruby or rubi, such annotations are most commonly used as pronunciation guides for characters that are likely to be unfamiliar to the reader. == Examples == Here is an example of Japanese ruby characters (called furigana) for Tokyo ("東京"): Most furigana (Japanese ruby characters) are written with the hiragana syllabary, but katakana...

user202362

(C++ == medieval torture device)?yes:no

Andrew T.

@Telkitty *too *much *pointer

user315433

user315433

@AndrewT. Ah, that explains it. I must have tried a different kind of ruby.

user315433

Just a mix up.

Andrew T.

2:02 AM

Wow... wiki-in about the programming language, the creator of Ruby was Japanese...

though the reason was apparently unrelated: birthstone (obvious)

Shog9

@Telkitty the medieval period is considered to end somewhere around 1500 AD, so... No. It's clearly a modern torture device.

user202362

2:19 AM

What do you mean? Modern people are more civilized, physical tortures evolved to mental/psychological ones ...

Andrew T.

but they are still ~~turtles~~ tortures

A Wikipedia article with ELI5?

user202362

Oo BTW, I found an article on wiki about feral chickens:

user202362

Feral chicken

Feral chickens are derived from domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) who have returned to the wild. Like the red junglefowl (the closest wild relative of domestic chickens), feral chickens will take flight and roost in tall trees and bushes in order to avoid predators at night. Feral chickens, like the wild red junglefowl, typically form social groups composed of a dominant cockerel, several hens and subordinate cocks. Sometimes the dominant cockerel is designated by a fight between cocks. == Locations famous for feral chickens == Bermuda Islands Niue Fair Oaks, California, United...

user202362

the only place mentioned in Australia is only about 20 minutes drive from where I live atm ...

user202362

@Shog9 thanks for helping me defeat my online enemy

user202362

2:30 AM

feel free to call my cyber foe a pervert

Shog9

if they're online, then by definition they are a pervert

that's why The Internet exists. To house all the pervs and keep them busy doing virtual pervy stuff.

Andrew T.

Pervert.SE

Shog9

perbert, Netherlands

14.9k 4 34 90

of course Dutch, hence the accent.

Andrew T.

The only user returned when googling "stack exchange users" was... Jon Skeet (who else?)

user315433

3:04 AM

Math stack abcya?

user315433

ABCya.com

ABCya.com, L.L.C. (also stylized as ABCya!) is a website that provides educational games and activities for school-aged children. The games on the website are organized into grade levels from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, as well as into subject categories such as letters, numbers, and holidays. Additionally, many of the games meet standards associated with the Common Core State Standards Initiative. == The ABCya Story == ABCya.com was founded in 2004 by Alan Tortolani, a public school teacher whose school district did not have any additional funding to purchase new software for h...

user315433

Unrelated to math.se but it would be nice to migrate some stuff there.

Andrew T.

Hmm... only Jon Skeet appeared on Google, and he's working at Google... wear tinfoil hat

Journeyman Geek

lol

@CrazyIvan alas, I don't think borging them quite meets the SE business model

(and historically IIRC they've only swallowed up another Q&A site once?)

@Stijn in theory I think its all the same code base.

@CrazyIvan I think most of chaos left or got converted into vanilla, orderly community managers.

(we vaguely still miss aarthi ;p)

@alexolut hm. Some people don't have titles - some are in past tense...

though, I suppose a good chunk of those reading (former) would look bad

Andrew T.

3:51 AM

anyway, close-worthy for many reasons: too broad, product recommendation...

rene

7:00 AM

→ 26 messages moved to Chimney

Isn't this just spam? meta.stackexchange.com/a/304081/158100

Nog Shine

@rene Yes.

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alexolut

10:05 AM

@JourneymanGeek someone don't have even a real name ... but a painted feet

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10:51 AM

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Journeyman Geek

@alexolut oddly that's fine for a (ex) cm

Shadow Wizard

plz-delete two Microcontroller questions meta.stackexchange.com/questions/304085/microcontrollers meta.stackexchange.com/questions/304088/… @rene @Bart @TravisJ @Journeyman

@JourneymanGeek but not for DBA?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard SRE uses real names it seems :p

Don't ask me why. :p

Shadow Wizard

oh BTW

Sep 13 at 18:43, by balpha

Now, people uppercasing the "b", I'll never get used to.

@Journeyman ^

Journeyman Geek

Oh lol.

Shadow Wizard

11:05 AM

it's like calling Bart... @bart. It's just horrible.

Journeyman Geek

Will fix that in a Bit

Shadow Wizard

:P

@JourneymanGeek I already did. :D

Journeyman Geek

Ahh. Ok

Shadow Wizard

You didn't get notification because it's minor edit. ;)

@JourneymanGeek well @bluefeet can't use her real name, it will be... too major change. Things we never knew about will fall apart. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard errr ;p

Shadow Wizard

11:09 AM

Same for Grace Note.... plus nobody even knows her/his real name...

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard WE ARE ALL DOOMED!

@ShadowWizard that's one of those mysteries that I think SE absolutely should keep mysterious.

@ShadowWizard oh, his name is known. Her gender is a bit of a mystery

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek or like Yi once said...

Nov 20 '10 at 10:44, by Yi Jiang

We're all doomed!! Doomed! I'm telling ya!

Journeyman Geek

(sorry about the mistakes, kinda distracted with a rebuild that's going strange)

Shadow Wizard

@YiJiang that is very true, to this day! :D

@JourneymanGeek very true!

@JourneymanGeek really? What's the name? (and it's "her", proven. I think.)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard nooooo

@ShadowWizard Grace is a Chris.

Its mentioned in their CM announcement

alexolut

11:12 AM

@ShadowWizard BTW ... are usernames casesensitive while pinging?

@shadoWwizarD

Andrew T.

＠AlExOLuT maybe

alexolut

@AndrewT. I had no notification

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek LOLLL.... Chris what?

Journeyman Geek

Welcome Valued Associate Chris Jaeger

Robert Cartaino on August 10, 2011

You might know Chris better as “Grace Note,” the moderator extraordinaire on our Gaming Stack Exchange.

I appointed Chris to a pro tem moderator position nearly a year ago. I wasn’t an avid user of Gaming SE, but I was continually amazed how often Chris’s name kept popping up in our moderator chat room. Chris was quickly becoming The Person to quote when you needed a clear, compelling explanation of how this community-management stuff should work. Even in our meta community, Chris was earning a ridiculous amount of rep in a short period of time. You should read some of his posts because it’s really good stuff. …

duuude. You should know this, Being the database of SE and all that ;p

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oh wait... for some reason I always thought it's a fake name... don't remember why though. lol

Journeyman Geek

11:17 AM

Well, it could be ;p

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Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek this reminds me...

@SmokeDetector ignore just crap, no spam

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@ShadowWizard Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

bluefeet

11:33 AM

@ShadowWizard just wait

Andrew T.

gasp

Shadow Wizard

waiting

Stijn

@ShadowWizard I always thought Grace Note was a real name

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn lol... no, that surely is not a real name:

Grace note

A grace note is a kind of music notation used to denote several kinds of musical ornaments, it is usually printed smaller to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential. When occurring by itself, a single grace note normally indicates the intention of an acciaccatura. When they occur in groups, grace notes can be interpreted to indicate any of several different classes of ornamentation, depending on interpretation. == Notation == In notation a grace note is distinguished from a regular note by print size. A grace note is indicated by printing a note that is much smaller than a...

@Grace love music, hence that name.

Andrew T.

and game

Shadow Wizard

11:38 AM

gaming, yeah

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Shadow Wizard

@Shog is also a gamer!

6

Q: How can I make Left 4 Dead 2 stop giving me a female avatar in online Campaign play?

Playing on XBox Live. Keep dying. Lousy teammates won't revive me. But that's not even the problem... I KEEP GETTING SPAWNED AS A GIRL! It's starting to give me a complex. Please, make it stop...

anyone?

anytwo?

today i chanced upon a series of fake SE's at google.com/search?&safe=strict&q=questionidea.com

contains everything we have.

exact copies.

has all the SE's like blender, IPS and whatnot.

Shadow Wizard

11:45 AM

@NVZ there are hundreds of those

Stijn

333

Q: A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?

Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC-BY-SA license. For my fellow non-lawyers, that license basically means: Anyone can use any Stack Exchange posts at any time...

discussion faq attribution copycat-sites screen-scraping

Shadow Wizard

Yup ^

At some point they asked to stop posting new ones, and just email the team.

NVZ

okay, i've reported via "contact us"

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12:24 PM

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Stijn

Apparently someone on the Microsoft Visio team once decided that 20 undo steps ought to be enough. :(

Shadow Wizard

12:50 PM

@Stijn so can't undo more than 20 steps back? Nice.

oh wait

> You can set the maximum number of units on the undo stack (20 is the default) on the Advanced tab of the Visio Options dialog box (click the File tab, and then click Options). If the number of calls to the Undo method exceeds the number of undo units on the stack, no action is taken and the Undo method raises no exception.

Stijn

Oh, that's rather odd UX :p thank you, I'll change that

The maximum number is 99 still, but it's a whole lot better than 20

John Dvorak

Why max out at 99? Do they have to fit into a signed byte or something?

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user315433

@SmokeDetector f

rene

1:14 PM

@ShadowWizard both gone now

Shadow Wizard

@rene good!

rene

\o/

Shadow Wizard

@JohnDvorak probably fit into a very small textbox, or just a whim of the developer

"What maximum to set here? Hmm.... should I ask the manager? Nah... let's just put something."

John Dvorak

makes sense, given that most managers hate you if you want to know something

Shadow Wizard

Exactly

Then if there are enough complains from clients (in Microsoft case it's minimum 1000000 people complaining), they will consider changing it.

That's, in a nutshell, how big companies work. ;)

Journeyman Geek

1:24 PM

;p

Shadow Wizard

So we should be happy SE is not big.

Anyway.... today I just realized something about my country. Rain is so rare here, that when it finally arrives, our radio stations put rain songs.

Today is one of those rare days when it's raining.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard heh. Its probably not just size

Shadow Wizard

Not surprising, the only questions from role playing site that reach HNQ are about personal conflicts/issues, which might better fit IPS.... ;)

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Q: Our GM won't let us affect the story; the more I play the less fun I have. What do I do?

I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice or anything on a GM situation. My current GM is running a campaign and it is very video game/anime like. It started out super fun and the deeper we get the less fun I have. The reason is, it feels like GM is telling us a story but we cannot in...

roleplaying group-dynamics problem-gm railroading

Journeyman Geek

People live trainwrecks

Shadow Wizard

People love to read about other people problems.

Journeyman Geek

1:32 PM

yup

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oh in this case it is. It's linear: the bigger the company (in terms of money it makes, not employees), the less it cares about its clients/customers.

rene

@ShadowWizard Rain songs?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard SE's probably in the "teenager" phase tho

Shadow Wizard

@rene this one wasn't in the radio, maybe next time it will rain, in 6-8 weeks... (or next winter ;))

I think we have less than 10 days with rain during whole winter here. (that is during a full year.)

Andrew T.

I hear something something about Trump and Yerusalem, but doesn't know about the detail...

Shadow Wizard

1:35 PM

@AndrewT. it is super simple: Trump might declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

That is it.

Now the impact won't be so simple and can't be predicted.

Those words he might say might be stronger than 100 atomic bombs.

Out intelligence claims there won't be any big impact or violence but it's bullshit. There will be, and lots of it.

Oh well... hopefully we'll survive, as always. :D

Andrew T.

oh well...

Shadow Wizard

So if you won't hear from me (and others from Israel) in the near future... you'll know why. ;)

user315433

1:49 PM

Jerusalem Embassy Act

The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 is a public law of the United States passed by the 104th Congress on October 23, 1995. It was passed for the purposes of initiating and funding the relocation of the Embassy of the United States in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, no later than May 31, 1999, and attempted to withhold 50 percent of the funds appropriated to the State Department specifically for "Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad" as allocated in fiscal year 1999 until the United States Embassy in Jerusalem had officially opened. The act also called for Jerusalem to remain an undivided...

Shadow Wizard

@CrazyIvan yeah, well, after today's speech it might be updated. Or not. :)

rene

car crashed on to pole

Shadow Wizard

@rene random pic of the day?

rene

@ShadowWizard just my eventful view from my apartment ...

Shadow Wizard

bear cleaning a window

2

:)

Andrew T.

1:56 PM

@rene poor pole...

@ShadowWizard that face...

Shadow Wizard

lol

rene

@AndrewT. yeah, they get hit often but I never saw it like this before

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. it appeared when searching for random pic of the day. ;)

@rene oh lol.... would be better to have the context before the picture, otherwise it's, well, just a random pic with no way to know what you meant by this. :)

As for the pole, well... guess it happens to the best. Or the worst. :D

user315433

Custom close reason: chat message lacks context.

Shadow Wizard

+1

How would a closed chat message look like? @Cra

Journeyman Geek

2:02 PM

Does a bear clean a window if no one is there to see it?

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek of course not. When he's alone he'll just fall asleep. In this case, literally. o_o

Andrew T.

☓ 1 message was closed

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. hmm... with link to history/revisions? ;)

Sounds fair. starting a new feature request

Andrew T.

that's called "censoring" :v

Shadow Wizard

How come no pinned messages?? @rene

Andrew T.

2:04 PM

↑ pin this

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. maybe new 30k privilege then... Censor Chat Messages. :D

rene

@ShadowWizard nobody was funny for the last few days

We miss @Bart I guess ...

Shadow Wizard

@rene but there were few pinned messages, pinned less than 2 weeks ago... ?

Was there some angry diamond around clearing all dem pins?

Too bad we don't have pin history. :(

Andrew T.

Last pin was about "Turkey hat"

Journeyman Geek

deleted messages do turn up in history no? ;p

rene

2:10 PM

@ShadowWizard the bear cleaning the window is pinned

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek nope, only if you scroll upwards while actually in the room clicking "load older messages" again and again until you reach it. It's not listed anywhere and not part of the transcript. (maybe for mods it is?)

Journeyman Geek

ahh ya, there's that

I was thinking of like chat.meta.stackexchange.com/messages/6537186/history

Shadow Wizard

@rene yay!

alexolut

2:39 PM

@m0sa year later, any chance for some quick fix? — Shadow Wizard 20 mins ago

Tooooooo quick

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Stijn

I think SO could benefit from open sourcing parts of the code, so many tiny bugs that could be fixed via community effort.

But it'd probably screw up the business model of SO.

Journeyman Geek

@Stijn well, kinda maybe...

Its probably possible to throw together a SE clone

Aaron Hall

catherine: did you really copy the entire original answer word for word from "two scoops"? — Aaron Hall ♦ 1 min ago

Journeyman Geek

The hard part to me is building and maintaining a community around the site (and SE's done great in some places, and less so in others), and working out a revenue model (which SE has been talking about a lot).

Stijn

2:47 PM

@AaronHall IANAL but that sounds problematic

Journeyman Geek

also, posted 4 years ago

is OP still around?

rene

@JourneymanGeek Last seen Feb 12 '15 at 2:12

I don't expect catherine to respond, no matter how nice you ask ...

Stijn

Maybe contact the book's authors and ask if they object against the content. If so, delete it.

Aaron Hall

He tweeted about it.

Seemed a little complainy

Stijn

I'd delete it then. What do your fellow moderators say? :)

Aaron Hall

2:53 PM

Not much. Thought I'd use you guys as a sounding board.

Journeyman Geek

I think the slightly problematic part is that its the selected answer

and as always, stuff like that is always best handled quickly

Aaron Hall

That's not too worrisome in my book.

ok, I'll do a delete.

There, maybe 4 years later, but within 24 (~12) hours of coming to our attention...

Now maybe someone should make a community wiki or something to recapture the material donated by neuronet.

Journeyman Geek

Well, the idea being if its quick, you can use it as a teaching moment ;p

Aaron Hall

Maybe we should get one of those plagiarism services to screen posts as a demonstration, like those prover/test programs run on open source software...

Journeyman Geek

@AaronHall kinda surprised no one's built one on SE as one of those "ugh I need to code a thing" thing.

Shadow Wizard

3:05 PM

@AaronHall let me understand... we are not allowed to copy from external sources any more, even when giving attribution? That's very drastic and will be fatal blow to SO content. Only few people will bother to sit and spend hours on writing everything from scratch. You really better start a MSO discussion before going and deleting highly upvoted answers just because they quote external source.

If the original author has a problem, they can issue DMCA form or whatever it's called.

Aaron Hall

No new policy here - plagiarism is copying without attribution.

Shadow Wizard

But there was attribution.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard attribution is necessary but not always sufficient

Shadow Wizard

Aaron Hall

@ShadowWizard Not in the post as it was accepted and stood for the past 4 years.

Shadow Wizard

3:07 PM

@AaronHall so what? Someone fixed it.

SO should be about content, not people.

Journeyman Geek

If your answer is a few big quotes vs something properly paraphrased, the former can be seen as plagurism, the latter might not

Aaron Hall

that edit would have been appropriate for a community wiki. In any case, feel free to write a different answer.

Shadow Wizard

I won't, just upset that you damage SO contents without thought, that's all.

No wonder people are upset at SO, now good answers disappear, just because they were copied from a book.

Journeyman Geek

._.

@ShadowWizard I'd have done roughly the same

Andrew T.

I still remember that I got warned on MSO when replacing a copyright image which someone's mad it's posted without ~~attribution~~ permission with self-made image.

Shadow Wizard

3:11 PM

If it's new answer that didn't get much attention yet then fine.... other answers might still arrive. But old answer, which got good reputation? I'll never just delete it out of whim.

Journeyman Geek

stackoverflow.com/help/referencing

> Do not copy the complete text of external sources; instead, use their words and ideas to support your own. And always give proper credit to the author and site where you found the text, including a direct link to it.

Aaron Hall

@ShadowWizard that was not good reputation - it was bad reputation.

Journeyman Geek

I kinda think @AaronHall's in the right here.

Andrew T.

Moreover, I got warned by SO mod that the correct way is for the author to file DMCA

Shadow Wizard

@AaronHall no. It helped people. It was marked as good content by the upvotes. Bad reputation is downvotes and flags.

Andrew T.

3:12 PM

59

Q: Dealing with a claim that a post on SO is using copyrighted content without permission

This (a bit surprising) answer to this question has just popped in my review queue. The question contains a photograph and someone stating that they are the photographer posted an answer demanding that the photo is removed. How should I react on similar claims, that question is using copyrighted...

discussion legal

Aaron Hall

If you have a revision that is acceptable (and not just an annotated copy) and want to post it as a community wiki, feel free to do so.

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. not really related, and if anything supports my own claim here. The copied content was left in place and got sealed confirmation from Tim Post, senior SE employee.

(the image that someone claimed it's his.)

Based on @AaronHall new (for me) logic, the whole question would have been zapped.

Stijn

Since there's now somebody disagreeing with deletion, perhaps @AaronHall you should undelete the answer and ask on MSO.

Dealing with plagiarism is hard :\

Andrew T.

@ShadowWizard I actually support your viewpoint that the answer shouldn't be deleted, unless the original revision was really a plagiarism (then that's a different case)

Aaron Hall

I'm not undeleting it for the following reasons: 1) It was a wholesale copy from the source (as I understand it). 2) Even with the revision, the original author was unhappy with it. 3) An acceptable revision can be posted as a community wiki or someone can post an answer that correctly cites the material, and it can go through the voting process, and the user who creates legitimate content can get credit. 4) Plagiarism is a very serious issue, and undermines our reputation to let it stand.

Stijn

4:31 PM

WTF of the day: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/360306

rene

@Stijn meh, it's OK, just a bit misguided maybe ....

It is an answer to a question. Not sure if it answers the question ...

Stijn

@rene sure, its content isn't wrong per se (I did read it :) ) but it's a bit over-the-top as a response to the question, imho

canon

@Stijn what the hell...

I can't tell if that's a foreign speaker struggling with the language... or a native speaker struggling to sound intelligent with ineffective overcompensation.

prose equivalent of r-dropping?

rene

4:47 PM

left a comment

Stijn

thanks, I suppose that's a better response than mine :)

canon

Is DILEMMA #2 supposed to be a poem? Suddenly it all makes sense...

rene

I'm being trolled here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/360170/…

Oh </sarcasm>

canon

On each attempt to read that post, my mind skitters in confusion around the clumsy ruin of that language... and I give up.

@rene </facetious>

rene

yeah, edited in the grace period

I bloody well know what it read initially ... ;)

canon

4:58 PM

lol <- don't shoot

DonQuiKong

5:41 PM

startups.meta.stackexchange.com/a/349/12265 is that spam or just .. uh ... almost-spam?

Feeds

I'm working on a car capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex boolean expressions on "honk if [...]" bumper stickers and responding accordingly.

Optimus Prime

6:49 PM

oo one noline

user315433

7:22 PM

You used to be easier to talk to, Smokey.

user315433

Keep contradicting me like this, and I'll ignore you.

user315433

7:34 PM

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Q: People that disses everything

Simple but first, read from the start to the end For some damn reason, people disses my decent questions for NOTHUNG Can you admins/mods do something for this by montiroing decent questions and kicking the asses of the people (Llamas ass) that disses for fun or for that "Critic" badge ? (I Will a...

discussion

user315433

It seems Smokey is one of those people now.

Shog9

@ShadowWizard unfortunately, no. I posted that on behalf of someone else.

user315433

7:52 PM

s/un//

user315433

An idea: Posting Stack Overflow Questions as a Service.

user315433

Something like a paid support channel where a customer explains his problems in some arbitrary, barely comprehensible way, and the support person extracts a reasonable question and posts it on SO.

John Dvorak

8:07 PM

Downside: they'd either cost a fortune or quickly go out of business

angussidney

8:23 PM

By the way everyone, sorry if Smokey acts a little weirdly/differently over the next few days, we’ve just done a massive refactor of our chat system and we’ve encountered a few bugs that we weren’t anticipating.

3

Bart

Sigh ... It has its own will and you have no way to stop it, correct?

Prepare for the end

angussidney

Don’t worry, it’s been slowly undermining us over all these years, nothing's different about that :)

user315433

Now that someone mentioned it, intags:mine search page does have that annoying tag cloud on top...

user315433

Moar custom CSS rules...

canon

8:34 PM

@CrazyIvan "I am talking about people that disses good questions like this Can a F-35 shoot while hovering?" Awesome.

user315433

4

Q: I can Rickroll Stack Exchange, and so can you!

While testing the YouTube video edit preview feature for the next version of my Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP) user script / browser extension, I stumbled across an interesting input validation bug. Specifically, when using the long-form URL syntax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO...

bug markdown

quartata

@CrazyIvan I fixed this

sorry that was on me

user315433

11:21 PM

The sticky review bar (with review action buttons) shrinks in width as I scroll the page. Distracting. Repro?

rene

→ 20 messages moved to Chimney

user315433

Seeing it in LQRQ at the moment.

rene

@CrazyIvan no repro on SO for me

user315433

Probably my userscripts again. I keep throwing CSS rules in, the design team keeps tweaking things, everybody forgets what those rules were even for...

Shog9

there've been two fixes for other scrolling issues with review in the past day, so I'm guessing one or both broke your styling

user315433

11:53 PM

Unborkified by unhiding the topbar on /review pages, seeing as the review bar now depends on it.

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