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12:00 AM
Oh, right. I forgot about writing writing SE all by myself. And chat. In a weekend. While drunk. Little things slip my mind.
 
@Shog9 maybe it's the age.
 
I prefer blaming all the drugs and loss of sleep. But yeah, could be the age.
 
@Trufa get off his lawn
 
12:14 AM
@RebeccaChernoff did I hit a nerve?
 
It's time to close my browser (except for research), crank up the music, and write about 25 pages for various essays. Ready? Go!
 
12:31 AM
@Moshe there are websites that can help you with that, the best website for procrastinators like myself is reddit.com
;)
 
@Trufa Shouldn't have; she's younger than me
 
@Trufa um no?
 
You all get off my lawn
 
@Pekka But I was in the middle of mowing it, if I leave now it'll look ridiculous.
 
12:40 AM
sets up lawn chair and chills out
 
finish it, and then get off it.
- I will shoot you if you don't finish it
- I will shoot you if you don't get off it
On second thought, leave it. I'll say it's art.
 
You can have @RebeccaChernoff collect the gallery fee, since she's already positioned herself nearby.
 
@TimStone that's a great idea. But she can't be sitting on the exhibition, can she? So she needs to get off my lawn first.
 
It depends on how you spin it. I mean, people go to wax museums all the time, so I figure having a real-life SE employee integrated into your display can only equal more profit.
 
That is true, but then people won't get off my lawn. So I'll have to weigh my desire for that against profit.
I have an inkling I may end up in favour of profit.
Will she be doing SE'y things while sitting on the lawn chair?
Because that might make it a place of pilgrimage for SO-heads.
Which would mean more profit.
 
12:52 AM
You can always put up a knee-high chain fence to keep people at a distance.
 
Yeah. That sounds agreeable.
 
This is true, you should arrange that in a very heavy contract. Very heavy contracts are a sign of Serious Business.
 
@Pekka lol
 
Speaking of Serious Business, it's about time I ate.
 
Yeah. Bon appétit!
 
12:53 AM
Merci
 
@RebeccaChernoff "Watch rchern go about her Stack Overflow work! $5 / 15 minutes." That sounds pretty good.
 
hmm, what's my cut? (:
 
1:08 AM
20%, and a new lawn chair. Plus free Wi-Fi for working. Deal?
 
(Psst, Pekka, throw in a "Don't feed rchern (unless it's home-cooked)" sign to seal the deal)
 
@Pekka - I need some more good Deutsch Musik. (Only rule is that it can't be female vocalists.) Thoughts?
 
It just so happens that I posted some German music over in Welbog's room not more than an hour ago!
It has no vocals, though, and is very weird.
 
@Pekka Nice, link?
 
1:18 AM
I'm mulling a Deutsch klass this semester, aber the school doesn't offer a German major, so a double major with German is out...
 
I can't think of anything else right now, I'm overdue for bed... I'll think of something tomorrow. 'night and till then!
@Moshe right! Wow, kudos for sticking with the language. Cool.
 
@Pekka I haven't been actively practicing, but I really want to get a class on it. Might need to wait until Summer 2011 or Fall 2012... We shall see.
 
@Moshe yeah. I hope you find one.
'night and see you later!
 
@Pekka Gute Nacht!
 
 
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11:15 AM
Is there a definite answer to "what was the first personal computer?" If so, what was it? (Please cite, working on a paper.)
 
 
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2:31 PM
Morning t. Is anyone around to answer a quick mod tools question from a newly 10K user?
 
3:18 PM
@chown What's up?
 
 
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4:43 PM
Is it bad that it takes me less than 24 hours to dislike a beta site :P
 
5:00 PM
@PopularDemand I get what flagging another flag as "Invalid" does, but after a mod reviews the flag and it says "disputed" next to it in my Flagging Summary; does that mean the mod agree'd with me and denied the flag, or is my invalid flag disputed, or what does it mean exactly?
 
I have a question.. usually posted code is not formatted. however I can not format it too. I must input 6 nonspace characters. That's why there is no way for me to improve formatting of the code. Should I live with that?
 
A 3k+ (I believe its 3k...) user can edit without minimum character restrictions. Which post?
Sorry, its 2k, not 3.
 
For example this one
but there are many of them
 
@chown should I then wait till I have 2k?
 
5:08 PM
@RomanB I dsidnt see what you linked
 
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Q: works in windows fine, but in ssh/linux doesnt

WhoCaresI have a function. it works in windows very fine but when I try to run it on my linux ssh account, it reports me segmentation fault. If someone can understand linux/ssh etc.., please help me? Plural Linked List: http://c1112.hizliresim.com/s/1/uz9k.png void List::deleteStudent(char* num){//dele...

@chown now you should see
 
Or, what you can do is put in a formatting language tag, I forget the exact syntax, but its something like: <!-- code:lang-sh -->. Then you have more then 6 characters and no changes to the post. This way you can format a single line for example.
Ah, its <!-- language: lang-html -->
replace html with whatever code it os
is*
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Q: Formatting Sandbox

Ólafur WaageAs per Jeff's suggestion here in the comments. You can use this question as a formatting sandbox (if you can edit CW questions) and you can post answers if you want to test out formatting there as well. Beware that since the changes to syntax highlighting in December 2010, and the inline hints ...

has more infoz
 
@chown hm.. to format one line I should use this long command?
 
To get around the 6 changed character minimum, that is the least obtrusive way imo.
 
@RomanB I just submitted a suggested edit that did nothing but format the code - it took way more than 6 chars.
And that doesn't even touch on all the grammar and other issues
Rarely will you ever find a post that cannot stand at least 6 characters worth of editing
 
5:12 PM
@Shog9 it's not always the case.
 
Rarely. Extremely rarely.
 
usually posts leave out all kinds of punctuation, capitalization, etc... Almost every post could have its "i" changed to "I" at least a few times.
 
:) yes that's true. I was probably frustrated about those rare cases.. where I formatted smth and then couldn't submit it...
 
Yea, for those rare cases, throw in "<!-- language: lang-html -->" at the top of the post and viola, you've met the 6 character minimum.
changing html to whatever language the post is asking about of course.
 
@chown This is a good tip. I'll try not to misuse it.
 
5:19 PM
Just remember that a lot of suggested edits get rejected for being too minor. meaning: "This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements addressing multiple issues in the post."
I dont know about "a lot", but at least some =p. You get my point ).
 
5:36 PM
Another thing I want to ask.. Formatting code is vary painful. Is there something planed to make it easier?
 
Hello, human beings and other creatures ;)
Can I ask someone of the moderators to have a look at my retag request, pls?
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Q: Merge [ndk] into [android-ndk]

IdolonThere are two tags now android-ndk and ndk for the Android NDK. Considering tags usage (336 for ndk and 1037 for android-ndk), and since it is explicitly encouraged to: use the Android-specific tags such as [android-intent], not [intent] I suggest to replace all ndk with android-ndk and ma...

 
@RomanB CTRL+K
See also:
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Q: Keyboard shortcuts, phase one

balphaBlast from the past: Add keyboard shortcuts to Stack Overflow was posted in September 2009. You might have noticed that that post was recently retagged status-planned – we're working on it. Since keyboard shortcuts are definitely a power user feature, we have decided to go about this proje...

 
@RomanB this is a common question on meta
 
@shog9 Why is this closed? Not complaining, just asking.
 
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Q: How to overcome "Edits must be at least 6 characters"?

vbenceOn Stack Overflow, there was a question with an incorrectly formatted list, which lacked a newline before it and thus came out like this: 1. Hello 2. Something else 3. Goodbye I changed it to the right formatting by inserting a newline: Hello Something else Goodbye And I got the "Edits must ...

 
5:51 PM
@Moshe Why are you asking me? Ask random...
 
Wait... SE isn't just a giant hive-mind?
 
6:07 PM
Good point @shog9.
 
6:33 PM
This ... is just fscking WRONG. (pardon my french)
 
@chown Not sure about that, sorry. I rarely cast "invalid flag" flags, so I'm not familiar with that part of the UI.
 
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Q: How and when should we use the "invalid flag" flag?

cHaoI found the "invalid flag" option, and have used it a few times. Mostly where someone's flagged a post as "very low quality", but it's either been fixed or it was never really that bad. But it seems that every time i pick "invalid flag", my own flag gets marked as invalid. (And the 3-4 "invali...

 
6:53 PM
@Shog9 TY, that's exactly what I was looking for.
 
7:28 PM
@TimStone, dunno if you remember, but you answered a question of mine a while ago by writing a pretty detailed guide to Subclipse icons. I just got an "FYI everyone on the team, this page is a great resource" e-mail pointing to said answer.
 
Awesome. :D
That's my highest-voted (real) answer actually, heh.
 
Must... resist... urge to take credit... for question... and reveal... time spent... on Stack Overflow....
(Not that it would really matter, I've seen people reading newspapers and watching YouTube videos at work here.)
 
Hahah
 
I was actually talking to someone last week who works at a prestigious national lab and didn't want to bother IT about e-mail not loading properly... until he found out that IT there routinely fields questions like "Why isn't Yahoo! Games loading today?"
 
<philosophy>What is __? </philosophy>
 
7:59 PM
@Shog9 - I posted on meta, trying to be respectful and all, just don't know exactly if the question really should have been closed.
 
8:14 PM
@Moshe that is the proper protocol. Now wait and see what the SU community thinks.
 
8:35 PM
@Shog9 Ok, thank you. :-)
 
9:12 PM
The question is opened. \O/
 
9:30 PM
@AManAPlanACanalPanama I was going to post this as a reply to your comment but that question got deleted:
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A: Retagging/Bumping Etiquette

Grace NoteFirst off, if it is only <30 questions to retag, then it shouldn't be a problem. I don't know just how fast Super User goes, but I think that small enough numbers should go off the front page fast enough. Do batches in the span of minutes, like 3 questions at a time. If you have a really large...

Sorry if it bothered you, I only retagged 7 questions though fyi
 
9:50 PM
@JasonPlank hmmm ooook
 
Anonymous
10:00 PM
@AManAPlanACanalPanama You seem very energetic the last few days.
 
Anonymous
by which I may mean "using a lot of <h1> tags". :P
 
10:20 PM
@JeremyBanks hehe im mixing it up a bit
getting more involved in meta
not as much on SO as i was before
 
Anonymous
I've never seen this before. I guess mods would be aware of it...
 
They get sent a link to it monthly, so it's always possible
 
What does anyone think of my proposal?
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srewsnA !oohaY

Proposed Q&A site for anyone who wants to ask a question on Yahoo! Answers but wants to use the stack interface.

Currently in definition.

 
's got nothing on Apocalyptic Defense
 
10:47 PM
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Q: Why was Apocalyptic Defense closed?

MassimoThat was really disappointing. If this whole Stack Exchange thing is going to be community-driven, then one and only one rule should apply to site proposals: if one of them can fulfill the requirements and clearly show a good community would follow it, then it should be opened, no matter how sil...

 
@AManAPlanACanalPanama Have to get on that proposal before it disappears.
 
Anonymous
@JeremyBanks The moderator community blog has only been linked from meta four times, so that would explain why I've never heard of it.
 
@mootinator go for it :-)
@Shog9 o cmon lol at least spell right :-P
@Shog9 yay memes
see if we can move them over ^_^
 
Can't believe you left that one out. Gotta use all 5 of your questions
 
10:51 PM
@Shog9 haha i just chose randoms from the yahoo answers front page
give me some memes
 
@AManAPlanACanalPanama It would be a good way to implement my suggested migration path
 
@mootinator haha yea ^_^ you can add the proposal to the answer :-P
good one :-)
 
11:14 PM
SE is now officially distracting me from writing my papers for college.
 
11:44 PM
English 1010 confirmed what my word processor has been telling me for months: Punctuation belongs inside of the quotation mark nearest it, not outside of it.

English 1010 (as part of freshman semester): ~$2K
Pages for Mac: $20

Now, I need a spreadsheet program to do the math...
 
Anonymous
@Moshe Sure, if you're writing in "English"
 
Anonymous
but we all know better than that (programmers know their parens).
 
Anonymous
Oops, you said quotes, not parentheses. Same deal.
 

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