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M.A.R.

2:13 AM

@NobodyNada Why so hostile to fishing attempts? Is it mating season?

@HovercraftFullOfEels Partly. But there is other things that may be harder to understand. Much psychology, actually. That so many people get upset is a count on this, I guess. — Leo Dec 1 at 2:08

For the nth time, why do people think implying that there's something 'wrong' with someone's psychology if they get downvoted will win people over?

NobodyNada

yeah, if you Google key phrases it's all over the 'net going back to at least June

M.A.R.

It's a step up from a millionaire Nigerian prince, you have to admit

> I'm new to c++ and I didn't found anything on this.

TIL only founders can C++

I was always in the presence of greatness and didn't know it

Andrew your small avatar mask looks like something from Mad Max.

RIP Immortan Joe

On another note, people are still being pissed off when shown a ready-made answer.

Journeyman Geek

3:21 AM

@M.A.R. And he will go to valhalla all SHINY AND CHROME

Kenn Sebesta

5:37 AM

Okay, here's a meta meta question. Once upon a time I read a wonderful explanation of why people ask a question on SE instead of searching themselves. I'm a little hazy about the exact particulars of an answer, but basically it explained that it's because searching gives a wall of answers which require domain specific knowledge to wade through, when the questioner was just trying to get over a hump so as to focus on the problem at hand. Like trying to revert an accidental git disaster, or get a compiler to do its thing.

Tinkeringbell

6:53 AM

@KennSebesta Have you tried MSO as well? Sounds like something that might actually be on MSO...

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

7:27 AM

@KennSebesta this one?

293

A: Why do people post questions that they could Google in 5 seconds?

Because they genuinely cannot "google that in 5 seconds". Allow me to explain. When people are searching for a solution to a problem, they sometimes enter a kind of "search mode". They read everything with a filter over their eyes. That filter is designed to search for solutions to the problem t...

Ironically, first result on Google:

:-D

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

7:49 AM

That's weird, someone using Smokey marked this as not spam???

It's 10000% spam, pure and raw.

Ryan M

@Shadow10YearsWizard I think I'm with tripleee here; it's responding to comments on this post. If that one wasn't spam, I'm not sure this one is either.

I assume they've lost the credentials to their original account.

Rob

Agreed, Sha see here: bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/959/…

Rob

8:18 AM

Caution: Irony Loop

Sonic the K-Day Hedgehog

10:11 AM

@rene Ha, nice use of dupe closure here meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357446/boot-device-not-found

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@RyanM didn't see any such comment or post by user with that name. It is answer promoting a site with the same name as the user display name, without attribution. In my dictionary, it's pure spam. Spammer might have also copied something from existing post, it's not rare.

I don't mind being in the minority group, I flagged and can't do much further anyway.

rene

@SonictheK-DayHedgehog yeah. I didn't feel spending much time on it.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

10:26 AM

@Luuklag k

Luuklag

Thx for the confirmation @Shadow10YearsWizard

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Luuklag tp

!!/coffee and tea for Luuk

SmokeDetector

@Shadow10YearsWizard brews a cup of Americano for @and

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

o_O

sdc O_o

SmokeDetector

@Shadow10YearsWizard No such command 'o-o'.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

10:32 AM

Huh? "_" turns to "-"? Why? lol

sdc tea Spe

SmokeDetector

@Shadow10YearsWizard brews a cup of passionfruit tea for @Spe

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

taking passion of the fruit and throwing on @M.A.R. and @Ollie

Feeds

10:52 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2020/12/04/…

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

@Tinkeringbell so, just wondering... based on the Bash preview.... Will you start posting random pictures of maps, references to Konami code and ninja turtles in about 10 days from now? :P

Tinkeringbell

I'm not allowed to tell :P

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

@Tinkeringbell Are we allowed to organize a mass comment bomb just for you in case there is a new "Hairboat" style hat?

Tinkeringbell

I'm not allowed to tell :P

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

I mean, would be only logical to assume that there will be an hat for sending the parrot at least 10 comment a day for 10 days :P

Tinkeringbell

11:05 AM

It would also only be logical to be suspended for excessive discussion in comments if you did so :P

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

11:31 AM

@Tinkeringbell but but but Bash! Didn't the even exist just so that we can do all the bad stuff at once in that few days and then be nice the rest of the year? Furthermore, who said they wouldn't be relevant. They could all be seasonal wishes and greeting postcard - what could be more relevant than that....

I could even make all the comments about crocheting

.....

Jokes aside, wonder if the hats will be new

and to be fair, I wonder if animuson got his old idea implemented.

The gatcha thing.

Also, will the knitting be back? If they do, I think at least they would have to change something in the color background, don't know if it would fit the current site palette

Luuklag

12:11 PM

@JNat cross-sote spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20130444/dennis-raymundo

Luuklag

12:21 PM

Very productive one this one

Tinkeringbell

12:32 PM

@Luuklag What's that thing they usually say about job-hunting? It's the amount of applications you send, not the quality of them? :P

Luuklag

1:55 PM

@Tinkeringbell I doubt he'll get any with this quality. And yeah esoecially for junior poaitions that could be true. But if I would apply for 3 positions today chances are I get offered a job by atleast 2, if not all 3.

Tinkeringbell

2:26 PM

@Luuklag Are there that little < whatever you do's > ?

That's kinda nice to know though.

Feeds

2:52 PM

The Overflow #50: A CS degree from Big Tech

Ryan Donovan on December 04, 2020

Welcome to ISSUE #50 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. We lined up a whole bunch of goodies for our big five-oh: how to write a great resume from a hiring manager who reads hundreds each year, the etiquette of pull…

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell when we have a vacancy its really hard to find someone. So I guess so...

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Well, it's kinda bad they can't easily find replacements or fill vacancies, but it would be reassuring to know that you won't be let go soon or can easily find another employer :)

Kenn Sebesta

@Shadow10YearsWizard Yes, that's exactly it! Thanks.

@Shadow10YearsWizard Because of course it was. I had tried with several search patterns, such as the natural language question, "why do people ask questions on stackexchange instead of searching" and got a lot of SE results... but none which were this. Mea culpa and thanks again!

Rob

3:24 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard Look what you did 💥🔨

user400654

3:47 PM

🚽

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

3:57 PM

@KennSebesta cheers! :)

@KennSebesta well @Tink gave the hint of MSO, so credits go to her as well. ;)

@Rob tried to close it as duplicate of the one in China, hammer hit too hard. Oops.

@user400654 that's a duplicate.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

4:18 PM

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе yes, think Yaakov hinted there will be some new hats.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

5:02 PM

So... I couldn't resist... playing for 7 years in a free-to-play game which of course let the players pay to buy the good stuff. I didn't want to spend money on it, but ended up just buying two existing accounts, $200 each. Taking comfort knowing those who sold them spent way more than x10 though, it's crazy.

At first I was amazed it's legit to have "sock accounts" and interact with each other, but it's very common in that game. Guess when money is involved, the company simply doesn't care.

M.A.R.

@Shadow10YearsWizard nooooo . . . cyanide

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

5:38 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard "some" new hats.... Not criticizing anyone, but I still think that if they did a "contest" every year in November "design an hat and see it used during the Bash" they would save themselves money and work...

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@M.A.R. sure! :P

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе well but will they pay those who give the hats being used? If not, will they be able to sue SE for using something they did? It can get complicated, so I understand SE point of view, in that case.

The design team isn't the problem, I think, the bottleneck is the development time that is given to the developer(s).

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

@Shadow10YearsWizard .... you mean the ones posting content on SE, with TOS explicitly granting SE rights to reuse that content under the license they list in said TOS?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе that's different

Tinkeringbell

@Shadow10YearsWizard Free credits, yay. That should buy me another dinner :P

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

I don't think that an user claims that they weren't payed would stand much scrutiny after they posted on their free will a picture on a post that claimed "your picture could be used in next Winter Bash"

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

5:45 PM

When the company running the site do commercial use of the content posted on the site, it won't be received well by some.

Spevacus

!!/tea Sha

SmokeDetector

@Spevacus brews a cup of darjeeling tea for @Sha

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell only two Shadow Coins. Enough for, umm.... gummy bear!

Spevacus

steals the darjeel so it's just ing tea

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

@Shadow10YearsWizard And they "signed" their being nice with it the second they posted the picture on a question that clearly stated what would happen if they won.

Tinkeringbell

5:46 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard gummy bears are nice :D I have some wodka to make them even better ;)

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tink ^

Red, as you like.

Tinkeringbell

Nice :D

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell wodka? You mean vodka? ;)

Tinkeringbell

@Shadow10YearsWizard Ah, yes.

Different language :P

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе sounded like you meant the users will post/send the full SVG code for the hat, i.e. full design project, not just mockup. If that's what you meant then you can ignore my previous replies. :)

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

5:48 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard If Nintendo is able to tell players in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp to post pictures of their camps and have the best ones published on the PAID FOR MEMBER ONLY montly game "electronic fanzine", I guess that SE can use hats made by users that expressed their consents to have them used in the first place by taking part in the context.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell still similar enough! I got drunk one time in my life, and it was from Vodka shots. :D

(think Grey Goose)

Tinkeringbell

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе They could... but it would disgruntle some people that they even dare ask ;)

@Shadow10YearsWizard Not the worst choice, I guess :P

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе if only ideas/mockup then sure.

@Tinkeringbell wasn't my choice, it was during my bachelor party, friends did it. :D

Tinkeringbell

Sounds familiar. The one time I was really drunk... it was a 'friend' that did it.

That's sad.

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

@Tinkeringbell well, those would probably be disgruntled even if SE added an option to cash out rep to real $$ because "the exchange rates are too low! I didn't work for so little money!!"

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

5:52 PM

@Tinkeringbell yeah, remember you told something about it. :/

Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

@Shadow10YearsWizard to be fair I meant the final svg file, not just the idea. That was already done.

8

A: What are the fantasy secret hats you'd wish to get?

Somebody HAD to do this. IT'S OVER NINE THOUSANDDDDD! (Vegeta hairs + Scouter Hat) View the profile page of at least 10 different users whose reputation exceed 9k points. and also: Super Sayajin You are Jon Skeet NOTE: The "scouter hat" idea (minus the Vegeta's hairs) was used in th...

and yep, I proposed the scouter hat in 2013, was used in 2015, two years later

Probably without even realizing I suggested it two years earlier.

The Twilight Sparkle hat instead... that proposal they still ignore as now....

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