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mootinator

12:00 AM

Or posting a reference question after hearing a product announcement: stackoverflow.com/questions/7421825/…

Tim Stone

4:40 AM

apologises to the servers Whoops. >_>

Moshe

5:40 AM

Go giants. The slightest twinge of excitement for a NY team winning something.

I slept though the whole thing.

Tim Stone

6:36 AM

Hooray, the election site backend is successfully revamped (and also now works on Windows, even)...now for the client-side stuff...

jadarnel27

2:11 PM

Kind of breaking my downvote anonymity here, but...wtf?

Tim Stone

Hmm?

Yi Jiang's Proble_

lolx

jadarnel27

I quoted the downvote text, and the OP responded with "lolx"

Tim Stone

Ah :P

You joker you ;)

jadarnel27

Hahaha

Tim Stone

2:13 PM

Now that coffee's done, time to drive into the office... disappears for an hour or so

Moshe

2:50 PM

I'm a blogoverflow contributor. Sweet.

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 Didn't you know? "x" is the newest in a long line of hip punctuation marks. It joins the ranks of other recently popular marks like "!!!!1" and "?!?!?!". Increasingly popular with the up-and-coming "1337 h4x0rz", it will soon be getting it's own UTF-16 encoding and will be featured in the 5th edition of Elements of Style!

Moshe

Lolx? I think they meant "lox".

jadarnel27

@Moshe Smoked salmon dish?

@cdeszaq ^_^

cdeszaq

@Moshe Props. Nice, simple article. And a good, classic choice of terminal color scheme too!

jadarnel27

For the record (and because I'm awful with sarcasm), I think he actuallly meant "lolz".

Which is an awesome response to having someone point out that your post is garbage.

David

2:56 PM

That's one of those short comment threads that I sit and stare at for several minutes, trying to come up with something constructive to help the user, and ultimately give up and navigate away.

jadarnel27

Oh wow. Someone is much nicer than me. Here's the post, and a rather helpful comment after that exchange:

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Q: Set border on area chart using asp.net chart control

I want to set border on x-axis line using area chart. Please look at this link http://www.goldalert.com/free-interactive-gold-charts/ for reference look at this image.

cdeszaq

@David I usually navigate away much faster. Especially with a comment "response" like "lol", I find that the OP is usually not going to benefit too much from any attempt to help.

David

@cdeszaq I've been jumping back to this one all morning with the same reaction (wanting to be constructive, but needing to walk away): stackoverflow.com/a/9161111/328193

(OK, ignorant me... how do I one-box this?)

Yi Jiang's Proble_

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A: how to send an e-mail automatically when a row is inserted in the database?

If you are doing this through a common interface, then I'd suggest putting a seperate call next to the insert routine (between Java and database). I heard you can do a whole lot of things with triggers in MS SQL, but I was told to keep my hands away from triggers. Made by the devil to make a day...

jadarnel27

@David It has to be in a message by itself =)

Yi Jiang's Proble_

3:02 PM

Just post the URL on its own

cdeszaq

@David Yeah, I would simply vote-to-close the question as too broad, dropping a comment about needing way more information. That answer is just as bad as the question (even if the point about DB triggers being evil is true). Nothing in that Q/A is worth saving, IMO.

Though I do tend to be a bit ruthless with the close-votes...

David

Ah, I see. Thanks!

@cdeszaq Indeed, I flagged it for attention as such. Though the comment up-vote continues to throw me for a loop...

jadarnel27

3:20 PM

Just noticed a list of rules at my work, one of which is "No trips to cars in the parking lot during shift hours (except lunch breaks)". I wonder, what actions created the need for a rule like that?

(note that these are rules I saw posted in the company's warehouse, I don't know if that would make a difference)
Thoughts, fellow tavern-people?

David

@jadarnel27 Excessive smoking breaks, but the rule-writers didn't want to word it that way?

Or excessive parking lot jousting tournaments?

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 Perhaps to limit the chances of stealing things?

jadarnel27

@David You win a star for that awesome thought that will be in my head all day.

cdeszaq

@David Yes, because everyone knows that rolling office chairs make for much better steeds...

jadarnel27

@David Hmmm. That's a good thought.

@cdeszaq Ah. That's possible to. I heard we had a problem (before I worked here) with someone stealing.

David

3:27 PM

@jadarnel27 Note that I said "excessive" jousting. A moderate amount should be both acceptable and encouraged.

jadarnel27

@David I don't think we have any horses though. There are several large shipping trucks.

cdeszaq

@David Clearly. Lack of workplace jousting has been definitively linked to excessive productivity, unhealthy numbers of TPS report submissions, and a general increase in the amount of managerial smiling. All things OSHA would take issue with, to be sure.

David

@jadarnel27 I'd prefer the trucks anyway. Even if the lance misses its target, you'd still probably win by default.

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 That just allows for much larger "lances" to be used, making such revelries all the more exciting!

David

@cdeszaq At a previous job we actually had a guy bring in fencing equipment and we fenced on the loading dock. Once. Management didn't enjoy it.

cdeszaq

3:36 PM

@David Fencing is far more safe than using actual broadswords and either maille or plate armor though. Working with other like-minded nerds who have a similar love for little metal rings and long chunks of steel is always a recipe for a good time.

David

@cdeszaq When working with weapons of olde, I always interpret the word "dangerous" to simply mean "period-accurate."

"You shouldn't bring that to work, it's too period-accurate."

"Suspect is armed and period-accurate."

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cdeszaq

@David You, sir, just made my day.

@David Good way of "encoding" if the suspect has a gun, if he intends to "go medieval on your a**"

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