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mootinator
mootinator
2:18 AM
People work at odd times.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
no I don't
wait, what?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
2 am isn't an odd time, it's an even one.
 
mootinator
mootinator
I need my computer to not tell me about unhandled exceptions at 8:00pm
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
 
jcolebrand
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
mootinator
2:20 AM
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
jcolebrand
as in, I don't want to look it up, will you do my lazy for me?
@mootinator ouch
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@jcolebrand Ask me again after I finish this mini-userscript and finish more documentation. ;)
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@TimStone speaking of mini userscripts
next week I need to write something for this server
it won't take too long
 
Tim Stone
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
jcolebrand
I want to supply chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/705559#705559 and get a json response with a P callback
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
2:22 AM
Unless the hurricane washes me away, then maybe..
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
lol
it is coming right for you
are you guys evac'ing?
 
Tim Stone
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
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
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
jcolebrand
lol
 
Moshe
Moshe
2:39 AM
Has anyone heard of Bloodshed Dev-C++ (an IDE)?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
Nope
 
Moshe
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
jcolebrand
ok ...
have you seen that new fangled hammer they invented?
it totally looks like a hornswoggler
 
Moshe
Moshe
Heh.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
oh, that's right, once a tool is good enough, there's no reinventing it
 
Moshe
Moshe
2:43 AM
Right, but the last version of it is 5 beta 9
Like, no final release, just a beta.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
ok ...
 
Moshe
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
Tim Stone
Since it's a C++ course, no.
 
Moshe
Moshe
Ok, let's see...
Yay, I can haz blank window.
 
mootinator
mootinator
And now back to my regularly scheduled setting up my wordpress site.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
2:50 AM
Noooooo, WordPress!
 
Moshe
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
Rebecca Chernoff
wordpress, oy!
 
Moshe
Moshe
Does anyone know why the C in unicorn is not an H?
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
...
actually, to be fair, setting up wordpress as a custom cms wasn't entirely horrible.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
The WordPress insidey bits are scary.
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
2:53 AM
I didn't look at any of the core stuff. Just cms stuff inside a separate theme.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
so are my insidey bits
@Moshe I suggest asking skeptics
or EL&U
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Thankfully I don't have to ever debug you.
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Moshe
Moshe
@jcolebrand Skeptics? Why?
;-)
 
jcolebrand
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
Moshe
@jcolebrand That was me, being skeptical of your suggestion. :P
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
2:55 AM
@Moshe yes, that's why you should suggest it there
see, it all works out
 
mootinator
mootinator
@RebeccaChernoff I thought I'd give it a shot, since my company theoretically supports it. Though its insides baffle me.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@Moshe Because horn isn't horn in latin.
 
mootinator
mootinator
Though more the template designey side, which I'll likely never have any need of knowing anything about.
 
jcolebrand
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
mootinator
I think it should be unichorn.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
2:58 AM
I'm almost afraid to ask what is supposedly going to happen to my fingers.
 
Moshe
Moshe
@jcolebrand You, Sir, have just explained StackExchange's philosophy.
 
jcolebrand
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
Tim Stone
@jcolebrand I think even the dictionary has that answer, though. :P
 
Moshe
Moshe
I'm also near water. Not sure what I'm gonna do. Prolly stick around. It's a melted blizzard.
 
mootinator
mootinator
NARQ
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
3:00 AM
@TimStone you should ask him then why he didn't consult the OED
 
Moshe
Moshe
I repeat:
 
jcolebrand
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
Moshe
Ms Irene Hurrican is nothing more than a melted blizzard people. Get. Over. It.
 
Tim Stone
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
jcolebrand
see my prev message ;)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
3:01 AM
:P
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
spotify:track:0iQHjEwLtwyGA9kL1H6SeN
why do I like this track so?
 
Moshe
Moshe
@jcolebrand Ah, got it. I don't got it.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
aye
 
Moshe
Moshe
aye ~= oy
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
no
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
3:02 AM
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
jcolebrand
I was editing a gist
I should finish that
 
Moshe
Moshe
You were editing a gist
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Hong Kong actually has a whole network of huge undercity reservoirs to capture all of the run-off from major typhoons.
 
Moshe
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
Tim Stone
@jcolebrand Somehow I didn't anticipate this being the song you were talking about.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
3:04 AM
lmao
 
Moshe
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
jcolebrand
yes they usually are
most of the internet is
 
Moshe
Moshe
Well, I don't know enough C++ to do anything useful. Can anyone point me to some tutorial that makes something interesting?
 
mootinator
mootinator
@TimStone Also, we don't get hurricanes in Saskatchewan.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Yeah, if a hurricane shows up in the Prarie Provinces we're all screwed.
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jcolebrand
jcolebrand
3:14 AM
you never know, it could happen
 
Moshe
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
mootinator
I used to play UrT on a semi regular basis.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Can 10K users see the moderator flag queue? Someone on Photography - Stack Exchange seems to be able to see it.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@DragonLord yes
it's a way of helping out
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
When did this become possible? A mod on Super User once told me this was not possible...
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
3:30 AM
it's been recent
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Thank you very much. Good night.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
3:52 AM
@TimStone I'm also digging this one:
spotify:track:2tr2WfkmOd2iv5fP5byRBT
 
mootinator
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
mootinator
4:19 AM
I have made a logo consistent with my approximate design ability.
 
Fosco
Fosco
4:44 AM
@mootinator I like it :)
 
George Marian
George Marian
5:37 AM
Cool, pundit badge.
Though, I am curios to know which comment triggered it.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@GeorgeMarian yes.
 
George Marian
George Marian
So, in other news. I've finally managed to remove the duplicate ATI Catalyst Control Center entries in my menu.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
nice
 
George Marian
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
George Marian
5:58 AM
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
Sathya
6:30 AM
@GeorgeMarian congrats!
 
George Marian
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
ChrisSE
6:47 AM
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
Sathya
6:59 AM
@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
ChrisSE
@Sathya Thanks. So, do you know any website providing this kind of service?
 
Sathya
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
M. Tibbits
7:15 AM
@Sathya Intriguing suggestions, I hadn't heard of those
 
ChrisSE
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
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
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
Sathya
@ChrisSE well, it's a one time thing. Plus if you have Gmail, you already have an account. shrugs
 
ChrisSE
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
Sathya
7:26 AM
@ChrisSE you're welcome.
 
M. Tibbits
M. Tibbits
@Sathya , I live in a box... ;O)
 
Sathya
Sathya
@MTibbits hehe :)
 
 
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balpha
balpha
8:56 AM
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
What the...?
 
ChrisSE
ChrisSE
@balpha Nice one :')
 
George Marian
George Marian
LOL
 
Sathya
Sathya
priceless.
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
9:17 AM
@DragonLord 10k users have partial visibility into the moderator flag queue but they can't see everything
 
Tim Stone
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
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
balpha
ah yeah, I forgot to answer that
checking the twitter onebox code...
yeah, it's UTC
(which is what twitter returns)
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
Jon Skeet Time, JST
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Right
 
balpha
balpha
9:21 AM
@JeffAtwood only in winter
 
Sathya
Sathya
we work on IST. Indian Stretchable Time.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Also, 'ello Jeff. Sorry to disappoint, by the way, heh. :/
@Sathya Hahah, what?
 
Jeff Atwood
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
Sathya
@TimStone IST. Indian Stretchable Time. Keep the meeting at 15:00 & they'll stretch the designated starting time to 16:00.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Ah, well it was basically a new experience anyway, so it was educational either way.
Ahh, yes. :D
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
9:24 AM
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
Tim Stone
Eww, that's pretty nasty
 
Sathya
Sathya
@JeffAtwood fun times.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I figure they don't cover that in the warranty, huh?
 
Sathya
Sathya
@TimStone Act of God clause?
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
 
Sathya
Sathya
9:28 AM
@JeffAtwood for the newsletter?
 
Jeff Atwood
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
Sathya
nice
11
 
George Marian
George Marian
Heh. I had a cat short out a monitor of mine with some up-chuck.
 
Jeff Atwood
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
Sathya
0
Q: "AOC monitor" lock & unlock OSD

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

monitor
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
9:30 AM
essentially, which questions represent the face of your site to the outside world?
 
Sathya
Sathya
AOC monitors must have real complex UI :/
 
Jeff Atwood
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
Sathya
@JeffAtwood agree. 16k views and only 4 upvotes on question, 2 on answer.
 
Jeff Atwood
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
Sathya
@JeffAtwood very much prefer the former
 
Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang
9:33 AM
@Sathya What does that question even mean?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GeorgeMarian That is messed up.
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
I don't know what "locking" a monitor even means @YiJiang
 
Sathya
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
Tim Stone
They have those for monitors? ...Why?
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
hmm, no, if I do, I never knew about it
 
Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang
9:35 AM
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
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
Sathya
@YiJiang yes
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Ohh, I suppose that makes a bit more sense.
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
@eat will be excited, I believe he asked for more than 1 bounty at a time for a while now
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GeorgeMarian Heheh, well that's not a bad trade I suppose.
 
Sathya
Sathya
9:36 AM
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
29
Q: Why can't a user have simultaneous bounties any more?

Eat more TwistersTo 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
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
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
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
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
Sathya
9:39 AM
@YiJiang pretty huge here in SEA..
 
Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang
@Sathya I am in SEA
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
I suppose I could be convinced the mods should get the free bounty rep pool to use on /questions/greatest-hits
 
Sathya
Sathya
@YiJiang oops.
 
Jeff Atwood
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
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
Jeff Atwood
9:42 AM
I'm not convinced a lot of users would be wanting to deal with the care and feeding of these improvement bounties
 
Sathya
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
Jeff Atwood
@Sathya none of those are really related, only things on /questions/greatest-hits would be considered, broadly speaking
 
Sathya
Sathya
btw, @Jeff there was talk about something like Stackathlon being looked in to - any word on that?
 
Jeff Atwood
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
Sathya
okay
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
9:49 AM
@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
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
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
Jeff Atwood
I might favor giving the mods a pool of experimental free bounty rep to use as well
 
George Marian
George Marian
Ooh...
 
Jeff Atwood
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
George Marian
9:54 AM
Eh?
 
Tim Stone
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
Sathya
@TimStone I'll be glad. The flame thrower's ready.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
:D
 
George Marian
George Marian
@JeffAtwood Explain. What's the difference in the front rendering?
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
CLICK IT
DO IT
Firefox 4+ renders more or less the same way, so replace IE9 with Firefox as well to taste
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
9:56 AM
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
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
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
Jeff Atwood
 
Eat more Twisters
Eat more Twisters
@JeffAtwood great!
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
F**KING PIXELS
 
Eat more Twisters
Eat more Twisters
9:58 AM
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
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
George Marian
@JeffAtwood So, this is worthless on my Linux desktop. :)
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
it's open source, so when it's broken you get to keep both halves
 
George Marian
George Marian
Yeah, I've given up on my desires for a high DPI monitor.
@JeffAtwood LOL
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GeorgeMarian Ah, good thinking.
 
George Marian
George Marian
10:00 AM
@JeffAtwood Yeah, I'm feeling that pain these days.
 
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood
0
A: What is the significance of the new text on the buttons of the Flag Dismissal dialog?

Jeff AtwoodThe 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
George Marian
Add yet another MSO question to my list of favorites for me to forget and simply ask @TimStone to find...
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Hah ;)
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
10:19 AM
HI everyone
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
'Ello
 
genesis-φ
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
Sathya
man fb needs to clear up that any question on SO line.
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
Ahh, so web applications.SE is for questions like this?
 
Sathya
Sathya
yeah.
 
Eat more Twisters
Eat more Twisters
10:25 AM
@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
genesis-φ
@Eat But when would be new SE created it would eliminate such problems
 
Sathya
Sathya
@EatmoreTwisters looking at android I'm really skeptical. And synergy on Super User
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
@Sat why?
 
Sathya
Sathya
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Q: Synergy specific entry page

Matt JenkinsWe 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...

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> 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
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
genesis-φ
10:34 AM
@EatmoreTwisters I'm going to propose it on area51. We'll see
Hmm ... Technology?
 
Sathya
Sathya
@genesisφ proposal for what? facebook? why? It'll overlap Web Applications :/
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
Hmm..
I meant for facebook as a whole. Facebook itself and programming, too
Something like we have FB.So now
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
That's far too widely scoped.
 
Sathya
Sathya
@genesisφ way too broad & again, overlap.
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
I don't think so. It would be just a mix of SO & WA
 
Sathya
Sathya
10:38 AM
why?!?!?! would be my question.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I think saying it's a mix of two existing, and intentionally separate sites just proves @Sathya's point.
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
Okay, screw it ;)
 
Sathya
Sathya
@genesisφ you're free to raise the proposal. Just don't be surprised if it gets closed down.
 
genesis-φ
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
Sathya
@genesisφ already flagged.
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
10:50 AM
me too
Wait. Flagged, or just voted to close?
 
Sathya
Sathya
@genesisφ I don't have VTC privileges in SO, so flagged.
 
genesis-φ
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
Sathya
Not sure. Perhaps because it didn't have any context initially
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
@Sathya good point. However it get downvoted AFTER that edit
 
Sathya
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
genesis-φ
11:00 AM
@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
Sathya
well you've had 3 other people upvote
 
genesis-φ
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
Sathya
@genesisφ happens, it'll get caught by the suspicious votes scripts anyway
 
genesis-φ
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
Sathya
not sure..
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
11:24 AM
@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
Sathya
@genesisφ not sure. You have 10k+ right, you should have inline tag edits
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
No. I have only edit
 
Sathya
Sathya
@genesisφ you have inline tag edits too. However the cursor near the tags
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
whoops, you'Re right. thx
 
Sathya
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
genesis-φ
11:31 AM
hmm. facebook.stackoverflow.com/posts/7203423/edit-tags? however, there was option to non-inline-editing
 
Sathya
Sathya
@genesisφ try without the facebook. subdomain
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
Dammit. must include at least one tag not related to Facebook - why?
 
Damodar
Damodar
12:07 PM
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Q: Burn many movies to a Video DVD

PallavanI 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
genesis-φ
voted to close
 
Damodar
Damodar
@genesisφ dont vote it for close, move it to Superuser
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
I voted it to move it to Superuser
It needs 4 votes
 
Damodar
Damodar
me to did the same
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
@Damodar I think you didn't. You do not have enough reputation
 
Damodar
Damodar
12:12 PM
@genesisφ i have it in SO not in MSO
:)
 
genesis-φ
genesis-φ
Damodar, Hyderabad, India
415 16
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415 rep is not enough
 
Damodar
Damodar
@genesisφ iam able to flag on others if it is reasonable.. also check my flag weight
for flaging only 15 rep is required
 
genesis-φ
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
Damodar
@genesisφ iam not getting you dude
 
 
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Sathya
Sathya
3:34 PM
@Damodar what @genesis mentions is you're flagging, not voting.
 
Sathya
Sathya
3:53 PM
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Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@Sathya Programmer protests! What's that bill for?
 
Sathya
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
Tim Stone
Ah ha
 
Moshe
Moshe
4:09 PM
What happens to my classes if we get hit by Irene? The Subway says they are likely to close down.
 
awoodland
awoodland
@moshe - I sort of assumed subways were mostly immune to above ground things
 
Tim Stone
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
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
jcolebrand
4:44 PM
@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
awoodland
my browser doesn't support the HTML5 joke markup anyway
 
balpha
balpha
5:22 PM
Btw, tweeting @irene doesn't deliver any messages to the hurricane. Sorry.
Tweeted by irene on August 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
That's clbuttic right there
 
Sathya
Sathya
5:46 PM
 
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