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George Edison

@Raynos But do you see any unusual JS files getting loaded by the page?

minitech η

12:27 AM

Would work.

I mean, setDate, not setDay.

Oops, RangeError.

Raynos

oh

I guess I could look

Anonymous

@GeorgeEdison

Anonymous

StackExchange.ready(function () {
    function d(d) {
        b(d, function (a) {
            return a + 1
        }) === (c[d] || d / 1E5 | 0 || 1) && (l ? a(d) : $.post("/clippy/get?id=" + d, {
            fkey: k.fkey
        }).fail(function () {
            a(d)
        }).done(function (b) {
            !b || b.later ? a(d) : (l = !0, e(b))
        }))
    }
    function b(a, b) {
        var d = JSON.parse(f["c-c-c-clippy"] || "{}"),
            e = b(d[a] || 0, c[a] || a / 1E5 | 0 || 1);

Anonymous

From http://dev.meta.stackoverflow.com/content/js/full-a.js

Raynos

@GeorgeEdison #clippy-box

Anonymous

12:39 AM

I think I copy-pasted badly... but it is at the bottom of that file.

Raynos

#i-hate-clippy

:D

Anonymous

Now, how to trigger it?

Raynos

be april 1st

It triggered about the inbox / accepting answers for me

George Edison

12:58 AM

5

A: How can I get the April Fool's joke to appear?

This is indeed very mysterious. Jeremy Banks pointed out the following little snippet in http://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/js/full-a.js: $.post("/clippy/get?id="+ So I decided to try /clippy/get?id=1 and received: "It looks like you're trying to reverse-engineer the clippycorn. You're...

^--- We're reverse-engineering it.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

1:20 AM

Oh man, I just got one from coming back to a tab when I've left it open for a while

Moshe

@mootinator are you here?

What's the Canadian "equivalent" of Australia's "land down under"?

mootinator

The Great White North?

animuson

WOOOOOOOO Justin Bieber won Best male Singer on the 2012 Kids Choice Awards!!! cheers

mootinator

Ah, Bieberland. That must be it.

Heh:

Great White North

Great White North may refer to: *Canada *"The Great White North", a recurring SCTV sketch featuring Bob and Doug McKenzie *The Great White North (album), a comedy album by Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) *Great White North Records, an extreme metal record label based in Sainte-Julie, Quebec

Moshe

Haha. Writing a piece on what rim can and should do to survive.

mootinator

1:35 AM

Get out of the phone business and shove their piles of cash and other business arms in all the sceptics faces?

animuson

I must inform @jadarnel27 of this :o

mootinator

Apparently it's April 1 somewhere.

bitbucket.org/spooning

Yi Jiang's Proble_

Oh man...

animuson

Sorry, I don't spoon with just anyone. o.o

Moshe

@moot go to my blog. Just uploaded a post. Please read it and tell me how insane and rant like it is. Thanks.

Well, refresh, there are typos and stuff.

mosheberman.com/wordpress/2012/03/31/…

mootinator

1:54 AM

Feh.

It's an opinion on RIM.

Everyone has one.

Some people blog about theirs.

;)

Moshe

Heh.

Ok, so no opinion on my opinion?

mootinator

I like the PB.

Moshe

PB?

mootinator

If lack of developer support is why it doesn't have things like Netflix, which is on every consumer device BUT the Playbook or BB smartphones, you're probably right.

I own a WP7 and a PlayBook.

They're solid platforms but developers of the most popular apps really aren't interested.

Actually the WP7 I have is a piece of junk.

I'm not going to pretend anymore.

Idea: good.

Execution: SUCK

I still like my Playbook aside from the fact it's the only thing in my house I can't watch Netflix on and the thing I want to watch it on the most.

I feel like I'm talking to myself.

Moshe

Sorry, was afk.

Agree.

@moot when nature calls, even the great white north must wait.

mootinator

2:07 AM

@Moshe :P

Moshe

Anywho, my boss bought a play book for me to look at when designing the app for them.

It's not bad.

Just cramped and uninspired.

mootinator

It's only cramped if you're a fan of the less portable alternatives :P

George Edison

And now Stack Exchange summons the wrath of Chuck Norris...

Moshe

techthirst.com/?p=1540&fb_source=message

Stupid article.

jadarnel27

@animuson I'm upset that I was just pinged for that -_-

Moshe

2:39 AM

@jadarnel27 - You can un-upset yourself with this.

mootinator

settles in to watch an MP and senator punch each other. Why not...

Anonymous

3:15 AM

@mootinator Did that start already?

mootinator

@JeremyBanks Ended. Trudeau won by TKO, even.

Anonymous

@mootinator No way!

mootinator

@JeremyBanks Yah, that was surprising =)

Anonymous

Indeed, wow. That's somewhat satisfying (albeit somewhat absurd).

Anonymous

@GeorgeEdison Have you guys been checking out the X-Clippycorn header?

Anonymous

3:27 AM

I can't figure out what requests it appears in.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

33

Q: We're all Rebecca Chernoff \o/

On this frabjous day, our community manager Rebecca Chernoff has graciously allowed all of us *1 to be her for one day, and one day only. And so, ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you: We're all Rebecca Chernoff \o/ A userscript dedicated to making all of you Rebecca Chernoffs. Reall...

I'll be seeing @RebeccaChernoff all day today

Anonymous

3:51 AM

@mootinator This is entirely unrelated to the issue at hand, but heh. Here's Trudeau posing with one of my fellow Katimavik group members and a loaf of bread (the folks in the room at the time were rather amused):

Anonymous

mootinator

@JeremyBanks Oy!

George Edison

@JeremyBanks No!

I didn't notice that.

Anonymous

@GeorgeEdison I checked the headers on several different ajax responses, didn't see it in any.

George Edison

How do you get it to show up?

Anonymous

3:56 AM

@GeorgeEdison I don't know, I just saw it in the code. (It checks for it on all ajax responses.)

George Edison

Ah.

It gets worse:

f.getItem("yodawgihearyoulikeunicorns"), JSON.stringify(0)

^---- There's the bullet.

Anonymous

It's not actually called "Clip-cloppy" anywhere, is it?

Anonymous

@GeorgeEdison Was that the base64?

George Edison

@JeremyBanks Yes.

It's only referred to as Clippy Corn - whatever that is.

b.getResponseHeader("X-Clippycorn")

^--- Is that what you were referring to?

Anonymous

@GeorgeEdison Yup.

George Edison

4:22 AM

pastebin.com/N47agZzm

There's some of the logic de-obfuscated.

Tim Stone

6:45 AM

I wonder if the unicorns feel violated with all you people poking at their underbellies...

balpha

Oh, they were expecting that...

I know you guys after all :)

6 hours ago, by Jeremy Banks

From http://dev.meta.stackoverflow.com/content/js/full-a.js

And it seems it was a good idea to minify this file even on dev. Muahahahahahaha

Tim Stone

Oh, not me...Too many Data Explorer things left on the to-do list to be poking around with that. @jadarnel27 will be disappointed if I don't finish off his feature request this weekend...although in good news, the users page is slightly less unusable now.

Hahah, well played. ;)

Michael Mrozek

@balpha Damn it. I spent 15 minutes guessing every filename I could think of trying to figure out which one that was generated from

balpha

the source files for concatenation aren't copied to the web

at least most aren't

so it wouldn't have helped you...

Michael Mrozek

Really? I was going from the list at the top of dev.meta.stackoverflow.com/content/js/full.js

full-anon.js and realtime.js both exist, so I figured they all did

Curse you, SO build system

balpha

6:58 AM

realtime.js may just not have been removed (it used to be served alone), and full-anon.js is (duh) full.js for anons

and it's part of full.js

so it's both served alone and concatenated to something else

Michael Mrozek

Also third-party/event-emitter.js. Basically, everything at the top of that file

So I maintain that my assumptions aren't insane, and this was all an elaborate trick

balpha

search for PartialJS

Michael Mrozek

Ah. I should read more

balpha

the PartialJS directory is excluded from being copied to the web server directory, so anything that's in there, you won't see

sorry

...not

Anonymous

Drat. I had also been guessing filenames earlier.

Tim Stone

7:09 AM

Hahah :P

balpha

it's PartialJS\clippycorn.js

DER U HAVE MY SEKRETZ

Tim Stone

Not the SEKRETZ!

Michael Mrozek

@balpha Argh. I guessed clippycorn.js :(

balpha

Congratulations, you win the Captain Obvious Commemoration Medal!

Michael Mrozek

7:26 AM

I'm running out of room for those, there's only so much space on my shelf

balpha

in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 23 mins ago, by HackToHell

balpha

8:12 AM

0

Q: Am I the only one seeing a paperclip unicorn?

When browsing the EE SE I notice a paperclip unicorn come up and ask me whether I want some help with searching through the posts. Ahg, and now it just popped up and said "It looks like you're asking about me. That's nice. - Go on asking - Don't bother me again"!! Is this a virus that I've co...

bug

abatishchev

8:25 AM

5

Q: Vast majority of questions tagged [asp.net] and [mvc] should be tagged [asp.net-mvc]

I see that mvc (13254 so far) is used incorrectly very often. For example, vast majority of the questions tagged by asp.net (or .net) and mvc actually should be tagged by asp.net-mvc, etc. Only minimal amount of all the questions tagged by this tag are MVC framework independent and are about MV...

discussion stackoverflow tags retag-request

balpha

12:41 PM

0

Q: Why did I just get accosted by a unicorn?

After resuming my computer from suspend, and clicking on the scifi.stackexchange tab, a unicorn popped up on my screen welcoming me back? There was no close button on the unicorn, just a couple of options to click on, one which was "don't bother me anymore. Holy ** the unicorn just popped up ag...

discussion unicorns

Lix

This is still the best one I saw :P

22

Q: Why am I getting an HTTP 437 error when I view this page?

There is most definitely a bug on your site. Apparently my browser is trying to send a POST request to the following URL: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/clippy/get?id=10 But my browser returned the following status code: I don't get it - I am requesting the resource. Do I need to enable some ...

bug status-completed humor

Lix

2:17 PM

Come on people! :P I know I'm not the only one!

8

A: How to know if I am a serial up voter?

commented: Accidental serial up/down voting (IMO) would be much more probable here on MSO as there is a relativity small bunch of meta heads that cruise here all the time. You all know who you are! Upvoting this comment is a confession of that. commentVote++ // can't vote on my own comment. :P

Manishearth

2:34 PM

Does anyone know how comment-pinging works on CW answers? Does it ping the poster, all editors, or nobody (I think its the first, not sure)

Lix

well... from what I understand -

the OP will always receive a ping...

in the same way - the OP will receive a ping if anyone else posts a comment.

then pinging specific users will be normal - 3 character minimum for user names.

I do not believe that this is any different for CW... But I'm not 100% sure...

@man - forgot to ping you while talking about pinging :P fail....

Manishearth

Np, tab was open :p

Aah so you can ping the other editors with `@reply

Great, thanks!

Needed it to implement meta.physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1159/…

Lix

Yea - you can also ping editors of a post - their username will not be auto-completed though.

Manishearth

Cos most of our community isnt that active--makes sense to be able to ping them with interesting stuff thats in their field of study

Aah, I see

Thanks for the info!

Yi Jiang's Proble_

2:52 PM

Grrr... the stupid autoscroll bug from > Firefox 3.6 seems to return in the latest Firefox beta

balpha

4:35 PM

there's a paperclip unicorn thing on StackOverflow asking if I need help :o

Tweeted by ataulm on April 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM

@ataulm To be fair, you probably do need help ;)

Tweeted by hellogeri on April 1, 2012 at 2:49 PM in reply to ataulm

Tim Stone

Hahah

Tim Stone

5:07 PM

It is far too late in the day for me to only be half-awake.

mootinator

5:37 PM

Aww, clippycorn was about to help me and I navigated away.

Popular Demand

Why is there no 400-score April Fools question stuck to the top of the SO main page?

mootinator

3

Q: How can I change the UI language to English?

I set up an account of Windows 8 for my girl friend only to come to the shocking conclusion that it thinks its from Japan (or well somewhere strange): I noticed she had filled in Swaziland as her location on her Windows Live profile, but I don't recall them speaking Japanese there. Meanwhile...

windows-8-preview

FAKE!

Tim Stone

@PopularDemand Oh right. I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. And by "have to kill you", I mean that the subject matter would bore you to death.

mootinator

We can fix that, lemmie see.

Popular Demand

At least you weren't willfully ignoring me. Things are better than expected!

mootinator

5:43 PM

Yah no, can't think of anything funny.

I did my best.

Tim Stone

@PopularDemand \o/

minitech η

Help!

Oops, wrong chat room.

Bye!

Ah. There we are.

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/9559/brainf

mootinator

5:59 PM

flags room as offensive.

balpha

Never expected that #stackoverflow would copy @microsoft and show an assistant! and that too a donkey with a horn? http://t.co/nD5lf13x

Tweeted by Lost_InSpace on April 1, 2012 at 6:02 PM

DONKEY WITH A HORN???!!one! THAT'S IT, I'M SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET.

12

Tim Stone

Everyone please proceed in an orderly fashion to the emergency bunker, balpha is about to go into unicorn attack mode.

Popular Demand

Did balpha just out himself as a member of Anonymous?

balpha

#stackoverflow would copies @microsoft and shows a stupid assistant! donkey with a horn? ok its a unicorn, but still! http://t.co/gJwFDJkP

Tweeted by Lost_InSpace on April 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM

SHUTDOWN CANCELLED

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

6:38 PM

Hi all

minitech η

Hi, anyone can answer this question plz?

-6

Q: Built-in webcam capture in windows 7 os?

I came across an error in my code I have one dialog box named "Video Source" with three buttons: ok, cancel, apply. When I action upon button then, I get an error: device could not found exception occurred How can I get rid of this?

reltag

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

-5

Q: How do I install jQuery?

How do I do it? What do I press to install jQuery on my computer? I downloaded onto my computer, but it did not install... Halp me please. Thank.

jquery installation

Can anyone help?

minitech η

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Nobody's helped me with stackoverflow.com/questions/9965709/… yet.

balpha

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Help you be funny? I'm afraid no...

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

Hmmmm why is it not constructive?

It definitely has an answer. It is completely constructive no matter how it was asked

minitech η

6:42 PM

You're right, let's reopen it and close it as too localized instead.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

Hah why is it localized?

@mini i had the corre t capitalization...

minitech η

Sigh

Popular Demand

Man, things seem really harsh this year... perhaps I should abandon my attempt.

mootinator

lol

minitech η

@PopularDemand Don't abandon your attempt. Please!

mootinator

6:52 PM

I want to get downvoted for asking a jQuery question.

minitech η

Anybody here know BrainF*** inside and out?

It's a rather complicated language.

mootinator

I read on StackOverflow that jQuery is wonderful and does all things, I was wondering how I use jQuery to do X unrelated to programming thing?

minitech η

@mootinator It's easy, you just use a plugin!

minitech η

6

Q: Why won't this server accept HEAD requests?

I'm working on a simple server to accept GET requests and read them from the standard input. I tried modifying it to add HEAD requests, but it doesn't want to match the pattern. I think I've narrowed down the problem to the number of characters read to check for GET (4 including the space, versus...

webserver brainfuck

Can anyone help?

Popular Demand

@minitechη Easy for you to say, you have 30k rep... I'm loath to give up a single point, as I'm still slowly struggling to reach 10k.

minitech η

7:06 PM

@PopularDemand Oh, you can always delete your question afterwards :)

Popular Demand

At the same time, I don't want to accrue any rep for a non-serious post.

minitech η

@PopularDemand Oh, you can always delete your question afterwards :)

Popular Demand

Not if it results in upvoted answers.

minitech η

@PopularDemand Oh, we can always delete your question after it gets closed :)

Popular Demand

I'm no James McNellis, but I like to think I'd attract at least one decent response (or else what's the point?).

Very good then!

It's a shame that's locked, it really should be bumped today.

minitech η

7:20 PM

Any other good ones that I haven't seen?

Anonymous

@GeorgeEdison /posts/0/editor-heartbeat/ask returns X-Clippycorn:294 to trigger the "it looks like you're asking about me!" message. I'm adding a remark about that to your post.

Moshe

@PopularDemand Agreed.

Popular Demand

Alright, @minitech:

0

Q: Unable to print "Hello, World"; all I get are numbers

I can't seem to get a simple "Hello, World!" program running on my computer. I have managed to solve some simple polynomials and generate a few tables of logarithms by copying some tutorials I found online, but every time I try to write a program of my own, I get strange output. I do have prior ...

hello-world april-fools babbage-diff-engine-no-2

Lix

7:39 PM

@mosh - no takers... sorry :P

@all - hiya ^_^

Moshe

@Lix Heh. Clippycorn. Sounds like a snack.

3

minitech η

8:26 PM

@PopularDemand: How do you have so much MSO reputation? :S

Anonymous

9:43 PM

Why did a revision by me trigger "[made Community Wiki by George Edison editing at least 10 times]"? He had made 11 revisions before that happened.

Michael Mrozek

I was wondering about that. The first revision isn't an edit, so he had edited 10 times, but I don't know why the message was attached to your revision instead of his

Anonymous

@MichaelMrozek Ahh. I just posted a question about it, I'll correct that.

Popular Demand

@minitechη Lots of reasons. To start off, you could look at my answer history (and, to a lesser extent, question history). There's not a lot of activity on MSO, which means less "competition." MSO questions don't require much thinking (most of the time), so I don't feel as bad posting to MSO as I do to SO while I'm waiting for a build to compile or whatever at work. And the reputation is easy to come by in general.

mootinator

Easy if people agree with you.

I'm too strange to get MSO rep. I have to make lame attempts to be funny in order to get it.

Michael Mrozek

9:59 PM

20% of all meta posts are lame attempts to be funny. The rest are people asking how to get around question bans

Lix

10:26 PM

@min - be-careful ;)

minitech η

Haha! The pluralization bug returns!

2

Q: Pluralization bug in chat transcript only

In a normal chat session, time lapses between messages will be represented like so: But in the transcript of the same thing (pixel-perfect, this is the same image except for the pluralization bug (which I'm about to mention)), there's a pluralization bug (freehand circle mine): This is a se...

bug chat plurals

@Lix Ah, you already noticed.

Mr. Atwood has given me permission to try, however.

Muahahaha!

Lix

Gotta stay up pretty late at night to catch me off my guard ;)

@min - say, have u any experience with fork() in peehpee?

minitech η

@Lix Peeachepee you mean?

Lix

Yea :P

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/PHP

minitech η

I was unaware that such a function existed.

php.net/fork

Lix

10:32 PM

yep yep - does too :P

complicated corner there - especially for someone who has had no formal training :P

threads and stuff I know not much of...

minitech η

But it doesn't seem to exist.

Lix

yes - its platform dependent...

it actually creates a new process so the OS comes into play..

minitech η

I don't have it. So no.

Sorry.

Lix

:P no worries!

minitech η

Is it like every other language's fork?

e.g. Perl

hell.jedicoder.net/?p=82

Lix

10:35 PM

I believe not... I don't know about perl thou...

oh yea - it looks really simmilar...

minitech η

Is it like pcntl_fork? Is it an alias? ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php

Lix

yes - that's exactly what i'm using...

minitech η

Okay, um... what exactly are you having trouble with? It pretty much works like the example.

Lix

I'm tripping up at grasping the method of capturing dead/zombie child processes and ending them gracefully...

minitech η

Register a handler using signal

Then dispatch a signal to kill using signal_dispatch

Aforementioned handler should die(). Or return. Or something.

Lix

10:39 PM

oh yes :) believe me - i've read all of those pages back and forth including the comments which held some invaluable info about the behavior of the mysql connection after a fork in both child and parent processes...

minitech η

Why do you need to do this anyway?

And why aren't you asking the PHP room? :)

Lix

Becuase i've tried that room a few times and was unable to correctly do the secret handshake ;)

The forking is happening within a socket server... so that broadcasts can be made without blocking the next incomming connection...

minitech η

Why are you making a socket server in PHP?

I'd rather make a socket server in Visual Basic .NET, for goodness' sakes.

Probably because I love VB.NET.

Lix

Oh... well now you have come across another reason I dare not enter the room with my question :P

Yes - I realize now that it was not the best choice - but - its been a learning experience :P

and for small scale projects it works quite well for the most part...

Right now its able to run a 10 multiplayer spot the difference "reflex" style game

jadarnel27

@TimStone Tick tock Mr. Stone =P

minitech η

10:49 PM

Au revoir.

Lix

cheers!

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