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mootinator

02:18

People work at odd times.

jcolebrand

no I don't

wait, what?

Tim Stone

2 am isn't an odd time, it's an even one.

mootinator

I need my computer to not tell me about unhandled exceptions at 8:00pm

Tim Stone

lolwutjk!

jcolebrand

Tim you should write me a couple of oneboxing mechanisms

does anybody know if there's a direct API pull I can make from the SEI chat servers to get a single message as JSONP so I don't have to look it up?

mootinator

02:20

Especially ones which involve a regression which would have been prevented had I written a proper unit test the last time I encountered the same thing.

jcolebrand

as in, I don't want to look it up, will you do my lazy for me?

@mootinator ouch

Tim Stone

@jcolebrand Ask me again after I finish this mini-userscript and finish more documentation. ;)

jcolebrand

@TimStone speaking of mini userscripts

next week I need to write something for this server

it won't take too long

Tim Stone

@jcolebrand I don't fully understand what you're asking.

Presumably I'm involved in this somehow? :P Well, I certainly won't be going anywhere.

jcolebrand

I want to supply chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/705559#705559 and get a json response with a P callback

Tim Stone

02:22

Unless the hurricane washes me away, then maybe..

jcolebrand

lol

it is coming right for you

are you guys evac'ing?

Tim Stone

Pssh, a little water..

No, I'm not in a particularly coastal region, so.

I am pretty close to sea-level, but that's not a huge issue.

jcolebrand

you're in a fricking coastal state

your entire state is a coast

I'm surprised your state has anything but coastline

Tim Stone

Hahah

I was actually kind of hoping that the weather was going to get extreme soon enough that I'd have an excuse not to go into the office tomorrow, but the forecast says it's going to be completely sunny all day, until around 4:00.

jcolebrand

lol

Moshe

02:39

Has anyone heard of Bloodshed Dev-C++ (an IDE)?

jcolebrand

Nope

Moshe

Well, that's what my instructor wants me to use for my Intro to C++ course.

It's interesting since the last update on the website seems to be from '05...

And, it only runs on Windows.

I'm about to find out if it gags on Win7.

jcolebrand

ok ...

have you seen that new fangled hammer they invented?

it totally looks like a hornswoggler

Moshe

Heh.

jcolebrand

oh, that's right, once a tool is good enough, there's no reinventing it

Moshe

02:43

Right, but the last version of it is 5 beta 9

Like, no final release, just a beta.

jcolebrand

ok ...

Moshe

Hah, it just prompted me to choose if I want code completion.

Whatever it is, it is.

Should I be concerned that the CS Professor's page has animated GIFs on it?

Tim Stone

Since it's a C++ course, no.

Moshe

Ok, let's see...

Yay, I can haz blank window.

mootinator

And now back to my regularly scheduled setting up my wordpress site.

Tim Stone

02:50

Noooooo, WordPress!

Moshe

Wait, one of my siblings (don't remember which) asked me earlier:

"Why is it called a unicorn, shouldn't it be a unihorn?"

Rebecca Chernoff

wordpress, oy!

Moshe

Does anyone know why the C in unicorn is not an H?

Rebecca Chernoff

...

actually, to be fair, setting up wordpress as a custom cms wasn't entirely horrible.

Tim Stone

The WordPress insidey bits are scary.

Rebecca Chernoff

02:53

I didn't look at any of the core stuff. Just cms stuff inside a separate theme.

jcolebrand

so are my insidey bits

@Moshe I suggest asking skeptics

or EL&U

Tim Stone

Thankfully I don't have to ever debug you.

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Moshe

@jcolebrand Skeptics? Why?

;-)

jcolebrand

@TimStone keep dreaming pal. One of these days we're gonna be playing lasertag, and something is gonna go horribly wrong ...

@Moshe um ... really?

Moshe

@jcolebrand That was me, being skeptical of your suggestion. :P

jcolebrand

02:55

@Moshe yes, that's why you should suggest it there

see, it all works out

mootinator

@RebeccaChernoff I thought I'd give it a shot, since my company theoretically supports it. Though its insides baffle me.

Tim Stone

@Moshe Because horn isn't horn in latin.

mootinator

Though more the template designey side, which I'll likely never have any need of knowing anything about.

jcolebrand

@TimStone pffft, make him go ask

then we only have to explain it to him once, the internet gets slightly smarter, and we save our fingers

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mootinator

I think it should be unichorn.

Tim Stone

02:58

I'm almost afraid to ask what is supposedly going to happen to my fingers.

Moshe

@jcolebrand You, Sir, have just explained StackExchange's philosophy.

jcolebrand

@Moshe lol

@TimStone you're supposed to be working them to the bones on code

or driving to NJ, one of the three

I'm voting for underwaterness

Tim Stone

@jcolebrand I think even the dictionary has that answer, though. :P

Moshe

I'm also near water. Not sure what I'm gonna do. Prolly stick around. It's a melted blizzard.

mootinator

NARQ

jcolebrand

03:00

@TimStone you should ask him then why he didn't consult the OED

Moshe

I repeat:

jcolebrand

@Moshe you, sir, are not privy to a private conversation that without two days of backfill would escape you. Just understand I was giving Tim a moment to smirk at me

Moshe

Ms Irene Hurrican is nothing more than a melted blizzard people. Get. Over. It.

Tim Stone

I was going to make a joke in relation to your previous message, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate.

jcolebrand

see my prev message ;)

Tim Stone

03:01

:P

jcolebrand

spotify:track:0iQHjEwLtwyGA9kL1H6SeN

why do I like this track so?

Moshe

@jcolebrand Ah, got it. I don't got it.

jcolebrand

aye

Moshe

aye ~= oy

jcolebrand

no

Tim Stone

03:02

As a side note, hurricanes are fundamentally different from blizzards due to the amount of water that must be removed in a given period of time.

jcolebrand

I was editing a gist

I should finish that

Moshe

You were editing a gist

Tim Stone

Hong Kong actually has a whole network of huge undercity reservoirs to capture all of the run-off from major typhoons.

Moshe

You should indeed finish that.

A console window just flashed on my screen unexpectedly. Should I be nervous?

Oh, I forgot, I'm running an installer. Nevermind.

Tim Stone

@jcolebrand Somehow I didn't anticipate this being the song you were talking about.

jcolebrand

03:04

lmao

Moshe

@jcolebrand Starred for later, so I can look when I'm on Mac.

Also, noticing that the network of student-facing college sites are rife with spelling errors.

jcolebrand

yes they usually are

most of the internet is

Moshe

Well, I don't know enough C++ to do anything useful. Can anyone point me to some tutorial that makes something interesting?

mootinator

@TimStone Also, we don't get hurricanes in Saskatchewan.

Tim Stone

Yeah, if a hurricane shows up in the Prarie Provinces we're all screwed.

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jcolebrand

03:14

you never know, it could happen

Moshe

Okay folks, going to play UrbanTerror for a few and then off to bed.

Enjoy the weatherperson's sensationalism over Ms. Irene. (We should really give her a last name.)

mootinator

I used to play UrT on a semi regular basis.

DragonLord

Can 10K users see the moderator flag queue? Someone on Photography - Stack Exchange seems to be able to see it.

jcolebrand

@DragonLord yes

it's a way of helping out

DragonLord

When did this become possible? A mod on Super User once told me this was not possible...

jcolebrand

03:30

it's been recent

DragonLord

Thank you very much. Good night.

jcolebrand

03:52

@TimStone I'm also digging this one:

spotify:track:2tr2WfkmOd2iv5fP5byRBT

mootinator

Is it ironic that I find names made up names ending in -ify annoying?

Given that my handle is a made up word ending in -inator

mootinator

04:19

I have made a logo consistent with my approximate design ability.

mootinator.com

Fosco

04:44

@mootinator I like it :)

George Marian

05:37

Cool, pundit badge.

Though, I am curios to know which comment triggered it.

jcolebrand

@GeorgeMarian yes.

George Marian

So, in other news. I've finally managed to remove the duplicate ATI Catalyst Control Center entries in my menu.

jcolebrand

nice

George Marian

Alas, I'm not so sure I've determined cause of hangs nor fixed them. Though, it may be that its not caused by the proprietary drivers.

What wasn't so nice was the scare I had when I rebooted to a console because xorg.conf wasn't removed. LOL

George Marian

05:58

Hmm...I wonder if my monitors will go to sleep correctly now. Do I dare give it a try?

Ok, I can chalk that up as another accomplishment. I just hope it remains accomplished. :)

Sathya

06:30

@GeorgeMarian congrats!

George Marian

Thanks. It was unintentional, but I'll take it.

Well, that reiterated that I have not fixed whatever is causing my system to hang. Though, yet again, it seems related to the a Firefox window.

ChrisSE

06:47

Hi there!
I was wondering if anybody could advise me on the question I raised here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/103976/where-to-ask-question-regarding-online-solution

Sathya

06:59

@ChrisSE Web Applications is the goto place for most webapps

but, as you mentioned in your Q

> I wanted to ask whether anybody knew of a good place to publish "blog

that'd be either here, or Root access

ChrisSE

@Sathya Thanks. So, do you know any website providing this kind of service?

Sathya

@ChrisSE are you looking at webhost?

> whether anybody knew of a good place to publish "blog"-like articles which would provide a permanent public link to refer too, without the hassle of creating an entire blog for a single article

Have a look at tumblr or Posterous

M. Tibbits

07:15

@Sathya Intriguing suggestions, I hadn't heard of those

ChrisSE

@Sathya Hmmm, they are still big blogging platforms, aren't they? My ideal (don't even know if such thing exists) would be a service a bit like pastebin, providing a public link to a single page, but unlike pastebin, the page would be in a "blog"-like format. The idea is to publish one or 2 posts and share them on social networks (or by email), but without having to start a new blog.

Sathya

@ChrisSE your use case fits posterous or tumblr perfectly. They aren't "big" - you can use a bookmarklet or send an email to post them

@ChrisSE For example: my tumblelog or posterous

@MTibbits Really? 'm surprised.

@ChrisSE Other alternatives are something like friendfeed or Google+

ChrisSE

@Sathya Actually Google+ is the reason why I wanted to use something like that. I wanted to publish a quite long article (for a "wall" anyway) to some of my circles and the "blog" format was what I wanted to go for. But at the same time, I didn't want to start a new blog just for one post

Sathya

@ChrisSE well, it's a one time thing. Plus if you have Gmail, you already have an account. shrugs

ChrisSE

@Sathya Ok. I'll check these site in greater details and see if they match what I want. Thanks a lot for the suggestion

Sathya

07:26

@ChrisSE you're welcome.

M. Tibbits

@Sathya , I live in a box... ;O)

Sathya

@MTibbits hehe :)

balpha

08:56

code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/issues/detail?id=60

Tim Stone

What the...?

ChrisSE

@balpha Nice one :')

George Marian

LOL

Sathya

priceless.

Jeff Atwood

09:17

@DragonLord 10k users have partial visibility into the moderator flag queue but they can't see everything

Tim Stone

Oh, @balpha, I went to answer this question, but I realized that I didn't have anything official to link to as justification, heh. Presumably it's in UTC because that's what makes sense for the transcript, and the oneboxes are prerendered? (or is that not true?)

Jeff Atwood

we couldn't figure out any way for the transcripts to be in any other timezone than UTC

I don't recall the exact details, but it's a hard problem

balpha

ah yeah, I forgot to answer that

checking the twitter onebox code...

yeah, it's UTC

(which is what twitter returns)

Jeff Atwood

Jon Skeet Time, JST

Tim Stone

Right

balpha

09:21

@JeffAtwood only in winter

Sathya

we work on IST. Indian Stretchable Time.

Tim Stone

Also, 'ello Jeff. Sorry to disappoint, by the way, heh. :/

@Sathya Hahah, what?

Jeff Atwood

their process is bullshit IMO

long story, but it also turns out they "weren't actively looking" which I wasn't aware of

Sathya

@TimStone IST. Indian Stretchable Time. Keep the meeting at 15:00 & they'll stretch the designated starting time to 16:00.

Tim Stone

Ah, well it was basically a new experience anyway, so it was educational either way.

Ahh, yes. :D

Jeff Atwood

09:24

I sprayed so much cleaner in my mirra it's very damp to sit in now

yeah, working at home seems like a good idea until you realize the cat threw up on the mesh part of your Mirra.. THREE DAYS AGO. Ick.

Tweeted by codinghorror on August 26, 2011 at 9:03 AM

Tim Stone

Eww, that's pretty nasty

Sathya

@JeffAtwood fun times.

Tim Stone

I figure they don't cover that in the warranty, huh?

Sathya

@TimStone Act of God clause?

Jeff Atwood

@sathya superuser.com/questions/greatest-hits

Sathya

09:28

@JeffAtwood for the newsletter?

Jeff Atwood

no, we're looking at a form of an automatic bountying system to get attention to "important" questions

since bounties are so rarely used outside SO.. how many are there on SU right now? 4?

Sathya

nice

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George Marian

Heh. I had a cat short out a monitor of mine with some up-chuck.

Jeff Atwood

determining "greatest hits" is surprisingly difficult.. views is best, but we also want to factor in anonymous user feedback too.. the "voice of those who cannot vote"

Sathya

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Q: "AOC monitor" lock & unlock OSD

how to lock and unlock "AOC monitor 21' " OSD ?

monitor

Jeff Atwood

09:30

essentially, which questions represent the face of your site to the outside world?

Sathya

AOC monitors must have real complex UI :/

Jeff Atwood

those are the ones that need to be maintained.. the ones that have a lot of votes have already been touched by active users, for the most part

Sathya

@JeffAtwood agree. 16k views and only 4 upvotes on question, 2 on answer.

Jeff Atwood

we're trying to decide if we want to give "free" bounty pool to high rep users to use on other people's questions, or let the system assign automatic bounties

we're going to increase the # of active bounties you can have from 1 to 3

Sathya

@JeffAtwood very much prefer the former

Yi Jiang

09:33

@Sathya What does that question even mean?

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian That is messed up.

Jeff Atwood

I don't know what "locking" a monitor even means @YiJiang

Sathya

don't ya have those child-proof thingies on your TV/remotes?

hit a nunch of buttons and the buttons don't do anything?

Tim Stone

They have those for monitors? ...Why?

Jeff Atwood

hmm, no, if I do, I never knew about it

Yi Jiang

09:35

On-screen display

An on-screen display (abbreviated OSD) is an image superimposed on a screen picture, commonly used by modern television sets, VCRs, and DVD players to display information such as volume, channel, and time. In the past, most adjustments on TV sets were performed by means of analog controls, like potentiometers and switches. This is still used in modern monochrome portable TVs. After remote controls were invented, digital adjustments became common. They needed an external display, which was LED, LCD, or VFD based. Including this display increased manufacturing costs. When electronics bec...

A lock for this?

George Marian

@TimStone Yeah, it was a pretty good monitor. I forget if it was 19" or 21" CRT, but it was the biggest monitor I had up to that point. I did get a new monitor out of it, as it my gf's cat. :)

Sathya

@YiJiang yes

Tim Stone

Ohh, I suppose that makes a bit more sense.

Jeff Atwood

@eat will be excited, I believe he asked for more than 1 bounty at a time for a while now

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian Heheh, well that's not a bad trade I suppose.

Sathya

09:36

Jeff Atwood

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Q: Why can't a user have simultaneous bounties any more?

To celebrate the new bounty system, I was just preparing for a shopping spree - for example, I need a good YAML parser for a project I'm working on, and thought I'd add a bounty to this question from 2009 to find out whether anything new has come up since then - only to discover that after starti...

feature-request bounty

George Marian

@TimStone Yeah, the monitor was getting old. So, I guess that was as good a way as any for it to go.

Tim Stone

Hmm, will high-reputation users be motivated enough to go out and award new bounties, even if they're free? I imagine if they have a list of user-highlighted questions to choose from, they will...although there might still be some hesitation if their name is going to be attached to the bounty.

I guess that's what the bounty categories takes care of, though.

Yi Jiang

AOC International

AOC International (, formerly Admiral Overseas Corporation) is the house brand of TPV Technology Limited (, ), the world’s largest manufacturer of computer monitors. TPV Technology Limited is a Taiwan-based company. The group designs and produces a full range of CRT and TFT LCD monitors as well as LCD TVs for distribution globally. Overview TPV Technology Limited is an investment holding company. The company manufactures CRT monitors, LCD monitors & LCD TVs mainly in China and sells to Europe, North and South America, China, India and other Asian countries. TPV has a total production ...

Apparently this is "AOC"

Why have I never heard of this brand?

Jeff Atwood

@TimStone I actually favor letting the system do it; for one thing on many SE 2.0 sites we don't have enough high rep users. And the mods have enough to do already.

Sathya

09:39

@YiJiang pretty huge here in SEA..

Yi Jiang

@Sathya I am in SEA

Jeff Atwood

I suppose I could be convinced the mods should get the free bounty rep pool to use on /questions/greatest-hits

Sathya

@YiJiang oops.

Jeff Atwood

Community user already auto-bumps a certain # of questions per hour; that user could also assign, say, 1 bounty per day. If we can figure out the right criteria for it.

the advantage of letting users assign free bounties is that they could then decide the award, too. Bounties for "improvement" are rather subjective in how you award them.. it's one thing to award a bounty for best answer, but .. best edit? best series of edits?

totally different thing

Tim Stone

Hm, yeah...Trying an automated approach would be pretty tricky I imagine, since people are (well, at least usually) better at judgment calls than some heuristic.

Jeff Atwood

09:42

I'm not convinced a lot of users would be wanting to deal with the care and feeding of these improvement bounties

Sathya

@JeffAtwood Community also bumps questions that have been abandoned by users - you need to distinguish those to be not given the bounty

Jeff Atwood

@Sathya none of those are really related, only things on /questions/greatest-hits would be considered, broadly speaking

Sathya

btw, @Jeff there was talk about something like Stackathlon being looked in to - any word on that?

Jeff Atwood

there really aren't enough multi-site users with significant rep for it to be anything other than ultra-niche.. I do like it, but I also have seen the #s of people it would be applicable to, it is maybe 100 network-wide

granted that is probably 100 of our very best users

it's still on our list, just may take a while. by then maybe we'll have so many sites and so many users that multi-site rep will be a bigger deal

Sathya

okay

Tim Stone

09:49

@JeffAtwood I think it would work on sites like Gaming, since there seems to be a number of users who are directly invested in maintaining the site on all fronts, but I'd also believe that isn't the case for every community.

Jeff Atwood

well, the basic improvements in the bounty system are coming first

e.g. bounty reasons, and > 1 bounty active per user

George Marian

@TimStone Oh, guess what may just lead to me using Chrome more often? I haven't figured out the cause of those hangs, but they always seem to happen while opening, closing or displaying a Firefox window.

Jeff Atwood

I might favor giving the mods a pool of experimental free bounty rep to use as well

George Marian

Ooh...

Jeff Atwood

when is Chrome going to switch to the rendering style used in Firefox and IE9 now?

traditional font rendering seems very old-school now

George Marian

09:54

Eh?

Tim Stone

Hm, right, documentation writing... @Sathya, when this (project) is all over, want to join me in burning Visio to the ground? If I ever see another diagram again, it'll be too soon.

Sathya

@TimStone I'll be glad. The flame thrower's ready.

Tim Stone

:D

George Marian

@JeffAtwood Explain. What's the difference in the front rendering?

Jeff Atwood

paulstovell.com/ie9 <--

CLICK IT

DO IT

Firefox 4+ renders more or less the same way, so replace IE9 with Firefox as well to taste

Tim Stone

09:56

Unless that tells me that IE10 will have pushState support, I'm going to be disappointed.

@GeorgeMarian Well, Firefox 7 is on the way with all these new stability improvements, right? Heh. Also, turns out the whole version number thing was just a big misunderstanding. ;)

Jeff Atwood

> IE9 bypasses OS font smoothing settings in favor of Microsoft’s DirectWrite text rendering engine, which makes type look incredible. It also ensures that all IE9 users will see type rendered the same way. Firefox 4 will reportedly also use DirectWrite for text rendering.

George Marian

@TimStone Ironically, I'm using Firefox 5, since it seems to be less hangy.

Thankfully, I kept all those old versions around and I just have to change a symlink.

Jeff Atwood

Eat more Twisters

@JeffAtwood great!

Jeff Atwood

F**KING PIXELS

Eat more Twisters

09:58

26 mins ago, by Jeff Atwood

we're trying to decide if we want to give "free" bounty pool to high rep users to use on other people's questions, or let the system assign automatic bounties

This sounds interesting, too.

Jeff Atwood

the answer to so many of these problems is "insanely high DPI displays" , but except for on 4" diagonal phone screens, good freaking luck ever getting there

George Marian

@JeffAtwood So, this is worthless on my Linux desktop. :)

Jeff Atwood

it's open source, so when it's broken you get to keep both halves

George Marian

Yeah, I've given up on my desires for a high DPI monitor.

@JeffAtwood LOL

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian Ah, good thinking.

George Marian

10:00

@JeffAtwood Yeah, I'm feeling that pain these days.

Jeff Atwood

0

A: What is the significance of the new text on the buttons of the Flag Dismissal dialog?

The names were changed to more accurately reflect the intent of each flag dismissal state. Helpful The flag was helpful in some way, even if the moderator did not agree with it or take any specific action as a result of it. and Declined The moderator can't see any utility in t...

George Marian

Add yet another MSO question to my list of favorites for me to forget and simply ask @TimStone to find...

Tim Stone

Hah ;)

genesis-φ

10:19

HI everyone

Tim Stone

'Ello

genesis-φ

There are a lot of people thinking that facebook.stackoverflow.com is their support for questions like this stackoverflow.com/questions/7202271/delete-a-old-account/… and this facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/7202393/… .. wouldn't it be better to create new SE site for this purpose?

Sathya

man fb needs to clear up that any question on SO line.

@genesisφ Web Applications

genesis-φ

Ahh, so web applications.SE is for questions like this?

Sathya

yeah.

Eat more Twisters

10:25

@genesisφ yeah, I'm interested to see how this plays out - whether the masses can be educated not to ask actual FB support questions there.

genesis-φ

@Eat But when would be new SE created it would eliminate such problems

Sathya

@EatmoreTwisters looking at android I'm really skeptical. And synergy on Super User

genesis-φ

@Sat why?

Sathya

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Q: Synergy specific entry page

We are linked from the Synergy support pages ( http://synergy-foss.org/support ) as the first port of call for support requests about Synergy. They currently link to http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/synergy Quite often people who visit us through that link don't realise that this is a gene...

discussion

> Thanks for raising this - I didn't know it was an issue until yesterday. We've created a new site for our primary support channel (synergy-foss.org/osqa) but still refer users to Super User as an alternative

Eat more Twisters

@Sathya yeah.

@genesisφ maybe, but a new SE site would have to be thought through really well. Plus it would have to have strong community support to get going

genesis-φ

10:34

@EatmoreTwisters I'm going to propose it on area51. We'll see

Hmm ... Technology?

Sathya

@genesisφ proposal for what? facebook? why? It'll overlap Web Applications :/

genesis-φ

Hmm..

I meant for facebook as a whole. Facebook itself and programming, too

Something like we have FB.So now

Tim Stone

That's far too widely scoped.

Sathya

@genesisφ way too broad & again, overlap.

genesis-φ

I don't think so. It would be just a mix of SO & WA

Sathya

10:38

why?!?!?! would be my question.

Tim Stone

I think saying it's a mix of two existing, and intentionally separate sites just proves @Sathya's point.

genesis-φ

Okay, screw it ;)

Sathya

@genesisφ you're free to raise the proposal. Just don't be surprised if it gets closed down.

genesis-φ

Sure I know. But I think it would be closed in less than a hour ;)

Well I'm interested to see when these questions will be only about programming, next one facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/7203417/…

Sathya

@genesisφ already flagged.

genesis-φ

10:50

me too

Wait. Flagged, or just voted to close?

Sathya

@genesisφ I don't have VTC privileges in SO, so flagged.

genesis-φ

stackoverflow.com/questions/7203464/… plzzzz give me teh codezzzzzz

I forgot it. I have no chance to flag it as offtopic when voted to close

BTW could someone tell me does this question meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/103863/… get downvoted 3 times? What is wrong there?

Sathya

Not sure. Perhaps because it didn't have any context initially

genesis-φ

@Sathya good point. However it get downvoted AFTER that edit

Sathya

@genesisφ no idea, tbh. I wouldn't have downvoted, nor would I have upvoted (prior to the edit). After the edit, yeah I'd have upvoted. But shrug.

genesis-φ

11:00

@Sathy okay, thanks. At least somebody...

@Sathya seriously, someone is going after me. And not for the first time. Yesterday - stackoverflow.com/users/764846/genesis?tab=reputation

Sathya

well you've had 3 other people upvote

genesis-φ

Yes I know.

-2 16:57 downvote How to post feed on application's facebook wall from an android app?
-2 16:56 downvote Referring page to app
-2 15:56 downvote $.getJSON - ajax is sent but callback function is ignored - Internet Explorer
-2 15:56 downvote What's wrong on this query?
-2 15:55 downvote How can I get color ("white", "yellow") instead of rgb(255,255,255)?

Sathya

@genesisφ happens, it'll get caught by the suspicious votes scripts anyway

genesis-φ

I know it will :)

I just feel it's the same person. I've got no idea why... It's sometimes better not to comment when downvoting

@Sathya aren't they executed at midnight?

Sathya

not sure..

genesis-φ

11:24

@sathya, what's the link for only-retag?

I wanna make script witch will give me direct links to retag, so I wanna know link to that

Sathya

@genesisφ not sure. You have 10k+ right, you should have inline tag edits

genesis-φ

No. I have only edit

Sathya

@genesisφ you have inline tag edits too. However the cursor near the tags

genesis-φ

whoops, you'Re right. thx

Sathya

Stack Overflow Blog: New 10k Feature: Inline Tagging

Posted by Jeff Atwood on April 6th, 2010

We’ve had inline tagging as a moderator-only feature for quite a while, and it’s been fairly stable, so we decided to roll it out to all users with 10,000 reputation or more.

If you have the requisite 10k reputation, just mouse over the tags on any question page, and an “edit tags” menu item will appear. Click it, and just the tags will become editable.

This is the standard tagging UI, except loaded inline rather than on a separate editing page.

Enjoy!

genesis-φ

11:31

hmm. facebook.stackoverflow.com/posts/7203423/edit-tags? however, there was option to non-inline-editing

Sathya

@genesisφ try without the facebook. subdomain

genesis-φ

no, stackoverflow.com/posts/7203423/edit-tags

sandbox.phpcode.eu/g/facebook/d91f

Dammit. must include at least one tag not related to Facebook - why?

Damodar

12:07

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Q: Burn many movies to a Video DVD

I bought a DVD with 4 ninty mins movies. Now I was trying to write such a DVD, but don't know how to do it. I tried to write it using DVD-Flick, but it says 98% for single ninty mins movie. Anybody knows the best solution. FYI: I have windows 7 pro x64bit DELL Desktop. and my movies are 700mb d...

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do the above post is encouragble in stackoverflow

genesis-φ

voted to close

Damodar

@genesisφ dont vote it for close, move it to Superuser

genesis-φ

I voted it to move it to Superuser

It needs 4 votes

Damodar

me to did the same

genesis-φ

@Damodar I think you didn't. You do not have enough reputation

Damodar

12:12

@genesisφ i have it in SO not in MSO

:)

genesis-φ

Damodar, Hyderabad, India

415 16

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415 rep is not enough

Damodar

@genesisφ iam able to flag on others if it is reasonable.. also check my flag weight

for flaging only 15 rep is required

stackoverflow.com/privileges/flag-posts

genesis-φ

I know it is

but it's not close/migrate vote

your flag weight is 370 - and?

it's like 10 posts or so if I remember

Damodar

@genesisφ iam not getting you dude

Sathya

15:34

@Damodar what @genesis mentions is you're flagging, not voting.

Sathya

15:53

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Tim Stone

@Sathya Programmer protests! What's that bill for?

Sathya

@TimStone Anti-corruption

Jan Lokpal Bill

The Jan Lokpal Bill (), also referred to as the citizens' ombudsman bill is a proposed independent anti-corruption law in India. Anti-corruption social activists proposed it as a more effective improvement to the original Lokpal bill, which is currently being proposed by the Government of India. The prefix Jan (translation: citizens) was added to signify the fact that these improvements include input provided by "ordinary citizens" through an activist-driven, non-governmental public consultation. The Jan Lokpal Bill aims to effectively deter corruption, redress grievances of citizens, ...

Tim Stone

Ah ha

Moshe

16:09

What happens to my classes if we get hit by Irene? The Subway says they are likely to close down.

awoodland

@moshe - I sort of assumed subways were mostly immune to above ground things

Tim Stone

Water has an interesting way of succumbing to gravity, heh.

@Moshe I assume if it causes significant disruption they'd postpone your classes a few days, but I could be wrong.

Moshe

@TimStone Yea, I just called a friend who's been there for a couple of years. He said that if anything is cancelled, I'll get an email.

@awoodland The news was discussing the MTA's pumping systems and how they're probably inadequate, despite millions in funding for the pumps.

Well, we shall see. Hopefully everything is ok.

I already got a frantic phone call from a relative asking where I'm going for the weekend, since my whole neighborhood is being evac'd.

I didn't hear of such plans for evacuating.

Oh well.

jcolebrand

16:44

@Sathya wait, this can't be true, girls don't know how to program.

Do I really need to add a joke tag to that everybody?

awoodland

my browser doesn't support the HTML5 joke markup anyway

balpha

17:22

Btw, tweeting @irene doesn't deliver any messages to the hurricane. Sorry.

Tweeted by irene on August 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM

jcolebrand

That's clbuttic right there

Sathya

17:46

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