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> There's also a role for our marketing team to promote a more accurate way for people to look at our products as we experiment with Stack Exchange advertising. meta.stackexchange.com/a/328538

user302202

Marketing.... more accurate... error: does not compile

user302202

Leaving aside the question of how attaching more banner ads to sites promotes a more accurate way for people to look at SE.

forest

[screams internally]

Journeyman Geek

@VoteDukakis I think they mean advertising for stackexchange over advertising on stackexchange

And I suspect that people thinking that they're getting what they want is a critical aspect of selling them a thing

(of course users being users, they turn it into what they want)

... Jon's link indicates the latter

never mind

No Distraction Wizard

2:07 AM

Where is Jon? The Snow one?

forest

2:21 AM

haha what

Is that just some troll copying a spam post or is that just really bad spam?

John Dvorak

3:11 AM

Most likely a spam bot that doesn't know how to link, or care

forest

No I mean the last word it used.

No Distraction Wizard

A rude bot that sometimes include spam?

Journeyman Geek

Pfft

Gone

forest

I actually laughed out loud when I read it though.

Just because that was so unexpected.

No Distraction Wizard

Admittedly, the absurdity on some reported posts becomes entertainment to some of us...

Rob

3:19 AM

JG, beat me to it (Unclear what you are asking). :)

Journeyman Geek

@Rob yeah, it almost sounds like someone got chained to a desk with a keyboard and was asked to write code

Rob

@JourneymanGeek TV Trope - Trapped in a tile factory.

rene

6:13 AM

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Journeyman Geek

6:29 AM

@rene woof

rene

Is this just a case of a (huge) language barrier: meta.stackexchange.com/q/328541/158100 ?

Shadow Wizard

@Shog9 proof or it never happened. ;)

Journeyman Geek

I for one feel like it's lost in frustration

Shadow Wizard

I mean.... forget about me... but everyone else?? lol

Tinkeringbell

@rene Someone opened a browser console?

rene

6:43 AM

@Tinkeringbell oh ... I didn't consider that option ;)

forest

@rene ahaha what

They don't do the API thing!

Shadow Wizard

I bet they don't even talk about SE.

Maybe they just want to quit their job?

forest

And they need our help?

I think Tinkeringbell's theory is good. It could very well be a developer's console.

@ShadowWizard If that's their job, why would they say they can't code?

(It makes absolutely no sense to me either)

Shadow Wizard

@forest many times non-programmers are assigned programming jobs, just because their employer is clueless as well. So yeah, that's not a surprise.

Margarine

@ShadowWizard soup with yogurt? Now you ARE weird.

Shadow Wizard

6:56 AM

So while the money might be good, it can get really frustrating to be ever-dependent on external sites/people to do your job. :)

Margarine

Can someone clueless hire me somewhere with a good salary pls. kthxbye

No Distraction Wizard

I hereby give you a good salary. Good.

Shadow Wizard

@Margarine thanks! :D

Margarine

@NoDistractionWizard Are you being deliberately clueless

Shadow Wizard

Clue.Less("@Margarine");

Journeyman Geek

6:58 AM

@ShadowWizard Don't we all?

Margarine

@JourneymanGeek No.

No Distraction Wizard

@JourneymanGeek No.

forest

Hey, I like my job!

Shadow Wizard

<Margarine Salary="Good" style="type: Weird;" />

forest

I get to do fun things!

Shadow Wizard

6:59 AM

:P

Margarine

@ShadowWizard Weird and proud

No Distraction Wizard

This work is weird..

Shadow Wizard

7:29 AM

@Margarine how much proud?

Margarine

@ShadowWizard four ounces and half

Shadow Wizard

@Margarine that's just 127.573 grams. My coffee is more proud than you then. :P

Margarine

Proudium is a very rare element. I bet your coffee has 0.0001 grams of proudium

Even less if it's not homemade

Shadow Wizard

@Margarine my coffee has even rarer element: shadium.

Margarine

That's shady business

I don't want anything to do with it

Shadow Wizard

7:42 AM

For sure

You can't handle it anyway.

Margarine

Whatever you say Hulk

Shadow Wizard

My pleasure!

Margarine

If your rep was given by a fake account, then the upvotes what you've got were fake. The bad thing was not the removal of the fake ups, the bad thing was that they were given. However, typically only a very little rep is lost on this way. You should not blame the SE, you should blame the ones giving fake votes from fake accounts. Btw, if you had got fake downs from him, also these had been deleted now, resulting a positive rep change (it already happened multiple times to me). — peterh yesterday

Wow, am I seeing this right.

Magisch

7:57 AM

he's right in a sense

No Distraction Wizard

muzerh

Margarine

@Magisch No I mean he managed to write a comment, or even engage in a conversation (haven't read other comments), without resorting to outrageous conspiracy theories he himself knows are too stupid to be real.

Why isn't he like that on meta.SE, I wonder.

Shadow Wizard

8:16 AM

Evan is the same.

OK-ish in most places, troll-ish on MSE.

Rob

Is that the Peter Principle?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard actually no.

Shadow Wizard

8:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek not OK-ish or no troll-ish?

Journeyman Geek

9:14 AM

Yes

Journeyman Geek

9:43 AM

@ShadowWizard he is ok where he actually cares. Which is not most of the network

Mithrandir

10:14 AM

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No Distraction Wizard

10:33 AM

I can't flag comments as spam :(

Tinkeringbell

@NoDistractionWizard Where?

No Distraction Wizard

On WebApps.SE though...

Tinkeringbell

@NoDistractionWizard Oh well. That one will be gone when the post is deleted ;-)

Mithrandir

...I really need a computer with more than one core.

Tinkeringbell

Your laptop has only 1 core? :/

Mithrandir

10:49 AM

In this incarnation, yes.

Tinkeringbell

My sincere condolences.

What was the outlook for getting a new one? After tourist season?

Mithrandir

Hopefully, yes.

I'm trying to write something, which means I have a dozen research tabs open, and now I can see the letters typing themselves out as I write this a full two to three seconds after I press each button.

Tinkeringbell

That's bad.

Shadow Wizard

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Q: How to flag comments as spam?

When I try to flag a comment, I am offered the following possibilities. rude or offensive not constructive obsolete too chatty other.. Which of them should I choose in situation when a comment contains something which would qualify as spam, i.e., post containing the same content would be fl...

@Tinkeringbell everywhere, for several years. (comment flag reasons changed.)

That's a change I did notice. /cc @Shog ;)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard I meant where the post/comment was XD At least NoDistractionWizard understands me :D

Shadow Wizard

10:59 AM

rofl

Maybe I don't distract him enough... :P

Tinkeringbell

11:13 AM

@ShadowWizard Maybe you need a bit more 'no distraction' yourself :)

Shadow Wizard

:D

Magisch

11:55 AM

I'm starting to hate PDO

No Distraction Wizard

I don't like PHP either...

Magisch

`$statement->fetchColumn()` returns false if:
1. The column is set to NULL
2. No rows were found

thats dumb

Tinkeringbell

@Magisch Well, in either case you can't really fetch, can you?

Magisch

12:10 PM

yes, but I need to handle both cases seperately

No Distraction Wizard

$ash->fetchBone()

Magisch

e.g if a delivery note is generated without being linked to an order (order_id is NULL), I need to then look for the manual customer id field to fetch customer data. While when I can't find the note at all there is nothing to search for and the procedure needs to abort

Tinkeringbell

Sounds like an extra if statement.

Magisch

sounds like mandatory using of fetchAll() instead of fetchColumn because using the latter discards the result unless you assign it

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch blog.adafruit.com/2019/05/23/…

Magisch

12:19 PM

$Journeyman_Geek->fetch($a_bone);

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