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Manishearth

12:35 AM

Lobotomy (: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition o...

Why is there and rchern smiley after the word???

Lobotomy

Lobotomy (: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition o...

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@RebeccaChernoff says "Lobotomy (:" evil grin

Manishearth

@YiJiangsProble_ Exactly

Alright, balpha seems to have addressed this issue already

WP parser is too basic

2

A: Numbers mysteriously stripped from inlined Wikipedia articles in chat

Yes, the Wikipedia oneboxes only do a very simple stripping of the content returned from Wikipedia's API. To show the full content, we'd need a full Wikitext parser and all of Wikipedia's templates. Considering that the current handling works fine in most cases, and that you'd read the actual art...

For you guys, here's a screenshot

with freehand circles

@RebeccaChernoff I wonder what you're planning???

Hopefully I'm not the one being lobotomized(is that a word??) ;-)

Yi Jiang's Proble_

12:58 AM

@Manishearth It is, yes

And no, you have most certainly not discovered @RebeccaChernoff's top secret plan to turn all of us into zombies

Manishearth

@YiJiangsProble_ :P

mootinator

1:15 AM

@Manishearth are you related to @TimStone? I see a bit of a family resemblance.

Manishearth

1:42 AM

@Moot nope, but our gravatars are second cousins once removed :P

mootinator

=)

Manishearth

@mootinator It's like (=

Unfortunately, reversing :P--> P: makes one look hungry

Wonder how rchern phrases her :Ps...

mootinator

d:

Manishearth

Aah makes sense.

d:

animuson

2:24 AM

The Workplace finally reached 100%! :o

jadarnel27

Haha, my cousin's Facebook status:

> What does IDK mean?

What a troll.

mootinator

lolol

animuson

IDK :|

jadarnel27

Responses:
"I don't know"
"Then why did you respond?"
"No, no, it means I don't know"
"It's fine if you don't know, but I'm hoping someone will"

Seriously, all of them are totally sincere, what a jackass =)

Moshe

3:26 AM

0

A: Rewrite UIDatePicker?

What Dave said. That's the answer. :-D

Tim Stone

...

Don't make me flag that. |:

Manishearth

@Moshe Sometimes I feel like doing that as well :P

Moshe

Whoops. Was just such an epic question and answer.

Manishearth

4:09 AM

@cdeszaq My first question, and I feel that it's going to be closed for being too broad :/ stackoverflow.com/questions/10022546/… @jadarnel27 also

Thanks for the advice, though!

Lix

8:14 AM

@twi - between you and Mr. The Establishment, I'm going to have to keep tabs on you so that I don't get confused who I am talking to! ;)

Shawn Chin

10:43 AM

-1

Q: To sample a voice from many voices using matlab

I'm Don, I have a wave file of chicken voices. Among the voices there is a sound of chicken vommit. So I've already convert the audio to matlab plot, but don't have the idea on how to differentiate between the surround chicken voices and the vommit chicken. I hope somebody can give me the ...

matlab-guide

suspect this might be a genuine question, but I find it hard to take it seriously

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@ShawnChin I... I don't know.

Shawn Chin

Eeeek! Where did the accounts tab go?

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@ShawnChin It's replaced with the SE network profile

Shawn Chin

Ahh... fair enough.

@YiJiangsProble_ Is this a permanent change? I looked around MSO but couldn't find any official mention of it.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

11:02 AM

Don't know, don't see anything official either.

I'm going to assume it's permanent

Shawn Chin

That does solve issues such as this I suppose.

s/solve/avoid/

Lalit Poptani

12:27 PM

someone flagging every chat intentionally in Android Discussion Room, please have a look at it.

can moderators see who is flagging chats?

cdeszaq

@LalitPoptani No.

Lix

@lal - I believe that the mods can see who raised the flag... yes

balpha

yes

cdeszaq

lol, nm then, i'm wrong :)

@balpha Is it "normal" flags that mods can't see the user who raised it? (ie. flags on questions / answers / comments?)

Or is that just spam flags?

Lalit Poptani

@balpha thanks for the info., don't know who was doing that in A/D room.

Lix

12:34 PM

only spam i think...

cdeszaq

or am I just confused entirely?

Lix

@cde - the latter ;)

cdeszaq

@Lix - I knew you were gonna get me for that one :)

Lix

hehehe - all in good fun :)

cdeszaq

Of course

moguzalp enel_hak

12:59 PM

Hey guys, I have a question: Is having peer pressure bagde good or bad?

Daniel Fischer

Neither

jadarnel27

@moguzalpenel_hak I think it's great

Daniel Fischer

Bad: you posted an answer that got >= 3 downvotes

Good: You delete bad content you accidentally generated

Or both, rather than neither

cdeszaq

I think it mostly exists to remind / teach new users that they can delete their crap

moguzalp enel_hak

I see, so it is something tubmleweed

cdeszaq

1:02 PM

Yeah, the Tumbleweed badge doesn't really fit with current badge philosophy. It's mostly just around as a relic

moguzalp enel_hak

So having that Tumbleweed badge depends on how unpopular tags on your question

It is unfair sometimes

cdeszaq

It's mostly a consolation prize...

"Hey, at least you tried to ask a question! Here, have a cookie."

2

Lix

a bronze cookie :P

moguzalp enel_hak

:)

sometimes bage explaniations look like latin language to me, totally don't understand

jadarnel27

@Lix I would not buy that for a dollar =P

Lix

1:08 PM

@mog - unsung hero always makes me go - "Wait...whaaat?"

@jad - they hand it out for free! Haven't you heard?

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 Depends... Solid bronze vs. plated. And of course size matters. Might make it worth your while.

jadarnel27

@moguzalpenel_hak I agree they can be confusing. Having you seen the big list of explanations here on Meta? It is sometimes helpful.

@cdeszaq That's what she said.

moguzalp enel_hak

Quorum: first time see this word on SO

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 That one was for you, buddy ;-)

moguzalp enel_hak

then when I got "Student badge" Asked first question with score of 1 or more, I did not figure out if it is something good or bad for a long time :)

Lix

1:10 PM

What??? Comment vote limit reached??? Its only 16:00!!

Daniel Fischer

13 UTC, Lix

jadarnel27

@cdeszaq I kind thought you might be setting me up for that =)

@Lix There is a comment vote limit? o_O

cdeszaq

@Lix Whoa... easy there big guy. Step away from the mouse, nice and slow now. There will be plenty of comments to vote up tomorrow.

@jadarnel27 Yeah, I hit it all the time :-D

Lix

@jad - yep yep...

What can I do? I've been busy :P

dont you just love it when mods play along :P

cdeszaq

@Lix That you have! Throwin down musical-note unicode and everything!

Lix

1:14 PM

Really want to upvote that comment though :/

nudge nudge wink wink hint hint

moguzalp enel_hak

@Lix upvote but don't say "that's a great comment"

Lix

@cde - I do what I can ;)

moguzalp enel_hak

that is the convenstion on SO&MSO :)

Lix

@mog - my thoughts exactly :P

cdeszaq

Sometimes I wish I could edit comments for other to make them even better

10

Q: How come discussion tag made its way into SO?

commented: ♬ Plays @casperOne's re-tagging montage ♬

Lix

1:16 PM

hehe - how would u edit?

cdeszaq

Your "action" should be in italics

♬ Plays casperOne's re-tagging montage ♬ or ♬ Plays @casperOne's re-tagging montage ♬

Lix

Comment edit suggestion - becuase that's what meta chat was made for :P

cdeszaq

0

Q: Data Explorer should run the query with the Ctrl/Cmd+Enter keyboard shortcut

Many other query editors use Ctrl/⌘ Command + ⏎ Enter to execute the current query, and it would be great if the Data Explorer could do the same. It would save the world so much time if we all didn't have to: Move our hand over to the mouse drag the cursor over to the button Click each time w...

feature-request data-explorer keyboard-shortcuts

jadarnel27

I should really stop feeding the trolls. Stops responding now

ManishEarth

@cde I feel that there should be a direct terminal sort of access to the DE--im very bad at SQL looking at a schema--prefer typing EXPLAIN and figuring it out--

Lix

1:29 PM

@jad - did u see this?

cdeszaq

@ManishEarth If you check "Explain" you get a rough equivalent of the query execution plan (which is all Explain does)

ManishEarth

@jadarnel27 Panama's a troll?

Lix

3

A: Auto fill the last person replying to me in the @ auto complete box in comments

commented: "that Panama guy" - HA!

jadarnel27

@ManishEarth Yes.

Lix

(* going for a smoke *) hold my calls please...

jadarnel27

1:32 PM

@ManishEarth You can check the "show execution plan" checkbox and then look at the "execution plan" tab that appears. Would that help you?

ManishEarth

@cdeszaq Well I usually take a peek at the data inside as well-- My general method of SQLing is thus: Do bunch of EXPLAINs (look at schema if possible), root around in db (check how the data is stored), etc. Probably inefficient, but schemas end up confusing me

@jadarnel27 Nope...

It's just my extremely weird way of using SQL--I'm much more efficient at a terminal (with a schema in front of me preferably)

cdeszaq

@ManishEarth I think that's pretty much how most people do it, depending on their level of access to the DB. reverse-engineering tools that can take a DB connection and give you a diagram are fantastic if you have them though.

ManishEarth

Cos I can execute chunks of a query

@cdeszaq Most people I know prefer a DBMS or something. PHPMyadmin/MS access &c

cdeszaq

@ManishEarth 1.) MS Access is not a DBMS, it's more of a very evil torture device and should not be preferred by anyone. 2.) Yes, PHPMyAdmin and similar things are great, but a diagram (esp. with FK connections) conveys much more information much more quickly.

jadarnel27

Something I really like about SQL Server Management Studio is that you can highlight one part of a big query and hit execute and it just runs that portion of the query.

ManishEarth

1:38 PM

@cdeszaq Yes, I do like schemas, but I'm not comfortable building big queries from them. I'll probably manage once I get more experience

@jadarnel27 Ooh, that's nice!

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 Yeah, the equivalent for MySQL (mysql workbench) has pretty much the same abilities. But I think SqlServer Mgmt Studio is better. and more fun to work with.

ManishEarth

@cdeszaq MS access was just an example--the only one I could remember--I doubt anyone prefers it. There are rather long and weird names I can't recall that I've heard.. PHPMyadmin I've used a tiny bit, so that cropped up. MS-anything is usually an evil-torture-device

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

Hi all sirs or madams

cdeszaq

@ManishEarth Recently, the MS dev tools have gotten loads better, but PHPMyAdmin is fantastic, esp. for a free tool

Lix

Hello all canals

ManishEarth

1:42 PM

@cdeszaq Yep, its useful--but I'm not good at big queries using a tool like that. :/

cdeszaq

@ManishEarth Same here. I haven't really found a good SQL editor that does everything I want, like folding, syntax, auto-suggest, on-the-fly diagramming of the query, etc. (note to self, make this)

ManishEarth

@cdeszaq I haven't found the need for such large stuff yet--most of my SQL queries have been to the Wikipedia (replicated) toolserver database, or the userdb for a tool I used to help dev there

(Yes, wikidb is large, but I didn't come across any strange stuff)

@cdeszaq Note to self:make this I find myself doing that a lot. And then it piles up since I don't have time --but that must happen to everyone ;)

Peoples any reason why we don't have bot support on SO?

this could be done in a jiffy

cdeszaq

@ManishEarth And it makes you wonder how much overlap there is in these lists from various people. If we could capture that and cross-link it, that might be a great way to get people focused and get things done. (Note to self: make this)

ManishEarth

Basically, by bot, I mean an account that does an approved task--silently (don't bump the question)

Wikipedia:Bots

:"WP:B" redirects here. You might be looking for , , or . :"WP:BOT" redirects here. You might be looking for . A bot (derived from 'robot') is an automated or semi-automated tool that carries out repetitive and mundane tasks in order to maintain the articles of the English Wikipedia. Bots are able to make edits very rapidly and can disrupt Wikipedia if they are incorrectly designed or operated. For these reasons a bot policy has been developed. There are currently bot tasks approved for use on the English Wikipedia; however, they are not all actively carrying out edits. Bots will le...

cdeszaq

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Since when do keyboard jockeys exercise? My big brain is too busy thinking big thoughts to waste it's time managing all those muscles! ;-)

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

1:52 PM

@cdeszaq :-) ehhh not much. I need to lose a few pounds. and some mouse movements should do the trick ^_^

cdeszaq

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Ok. Let me know how that works for ya' :)

ManishEarth

@cdeszaq There's Schemer-- something based on their model, maybe? :P

Lix

mouse clicks mouse moves.... gross... ;) (* sent from Lix's keyboard *)

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@cdeszaq :-P

ManishEarth

Got to go, guys (might drop in later)

cdeszaq

1:54 PM

We (or at least I) will be here, like always :)

Lix

@cde - you are always here!

cdeszaq

@Lix Yup. Esp. during my work-hours, when I'm in front of a computer the whole time. Outside of that, not so much.

Lix

heh

3

A: Project name, description and technologies from Apps & Software are not in the pdf export

Yo, I fixed your problem. What's up.

cdeszaq

Since I'm a 1-man dev team, I figure hanging out in here isn't any different than having others in the office to talk to about programming things.

Lix

@cde - me too - at work I'm here all the time... although I login at home too...

cdeszaq

1:57 PM

I'm usually too busy doing things (or not doing things) to be on-line at home

Lix

lol :P

@cde - gahhh... no....comment....votes...left.... grrrrr.... hehehe

cdeszaq

3:02 PM

Does anyone know if there is a clone of the Data Explorer for Java? Perhaps @TimStone might be aware of one?

Tim Stone

Nothing that I'm aware of. You'd miss out on some of the tooling doing a port perhaps, but otherwise it should be pretty easy to transition into the Java MVC framework of your choosing.

cdeszaq

@TimStone Too bad that one doesn't exist yet, but I'll put this on my list of things to do.

jadarnel27

One of these things is just like the other.

Lix

@jad - yes - I see a striking resemblance...

jadarnel27

=D

cdeszaq

3:08 PM

@Lix Pretty much just a few whitespace characters

Lix

Can I flag the dupe as a dupe of the dupe that I flagged as a dupe? :P

cdeszaq

@Lix yes

jadarnel27

Well done gentlemen.

Lix

flagception....

jadarnel27

So, I guess the "Possible duplicate" comment I left was automatically deleted? I did not know that happened.

cdeszaq

3:11 PM

@jadarnel27 Odd

Lix

When it is automagically added it is also automagically deleted I would assume... The links dont have to appear twice...

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 Dude, get to 3k already so you can cast close votes too!

Lix

would love to help with that... but I've already hit the limits :P

cdeszaq

I gave some bumps for things that I thought were good (ie. that I would find helpful if I had a similar question)

jadarnel27

@cdeszaq I'm working on it =) And apparently, someone is helping me ;-)

I've gotten 178 rep this week (which is pretty high for me, honestly).

cdeszaq

3:18 PM

@jadarnel27 I find that editing older posts is a great way to bring in more views & votes. (As long as the edits are valid ones)

jadarnel27

That's a good point. I think I've done that before...maybe.

Well, now I'm at 3k =P
I honestly was not trolling for votes from the folks in here, although I *do* appreciate it =)

cdeszaq

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/140453/20770 Question is just asking for recommendations

jadarnel27

Ooh, ooh I'll do that!

uses new privilege

Lix

hahaha

@jad - you want to try out your new found power? Checkout the facebook tag... But put on two pairs of underwear first ;)

cdeszaq

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/226469/20770 Pointless "What's the most..." type question of 'yore

Lix

3:26 PM

"most clever..."

(* shudder *)

Moshe

Still in awe of the selected answer to this question.

cdeszaq

Man, there's just so many of them!... cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/187587/20770 Just soliciting tool suggestions

jadarnel27

@cdeszaq You know, there's an app- er, I mean room for that =)

Lix

@mos - its a whopper... isn't it...

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 Yeah... but it gets so little traffic. The SO PHP room is good for it too, but they get a bit irked when you ask for closing non-PHP questions

Lix

3:27 PM

@cde - I know that is a meta tag - what does it stand for? "cv-please" I assume? right?

cdeszaq

yeah, "close vote please"

Lix

ahh - makes sense...

cdeszaq

@Moshe Yeah, props on getting a iOS dev to respond :)

Moshe

@Lix Yea, I've written some pretty decent answers, but this was the answer was insanely great.

@cdeszaq Heh, he's been hanging around on SO for a while, but we have a mutual friend and I have been poking him on Twitter and via email. So that helps. :-)

But, it's pretty great.

A wild @Zypher appeared!

Hi a wild @Zypher! waves

nefariously looks in backpack for Pokéball, then thinks better of it

I'm tempted to ditch my game concept and freaking rewrite Pokémon.

Arggggh copyright laws!

:-)

Zypher

howdy @Moshe be careful i may be feral

Moshe

3:37 PM

Pokémon are never feral.

The correct answer is

@Zypher careful i may not be a Pokémon

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe you should know better than to post this: stackoverflow.com/a/10022287/561731

:-P

Moshe

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Glad you approve. :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe I don't.

Moshe

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA What do you know about sefer torahs and website layout? ;-)

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe eh?

Moshe

3:42 PM

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Like I said. I'm glad.

We need to speak, offline.

But I have a project for a client and small team. If you're smart, you'll have deduced what we're doing based on my question.

I ask because you seem to be somewhat of a web ninja.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe I am on gchat

Moshe

ok

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA New email addy? Don't see you.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe I am at the newer email addy that I told u abt

Moshe

I don't recall.

Please email it to me. mosheberman at me dot com

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe my full hebrew 1st name + my last name (at) gmail

Moshe

3:44 PM

ok

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Moshe got it?

Moshe

yuppers

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

cool ^_^

jadarnel27

4:09 PM

braaaAAAAP!

After having read that word, sometimes I cannot get it out of my head.

jadarnel27

4:22 PM

@Lix Haha, I just read this. I'm a bit afraid. Also, I'm not sure I'm qualified to vote-to-close Facebook questions.

Lix

When you see a question that says "Help sent my crush a friend request and can't find where to cancel it".... You'll know what to do :P

Or - "Halp! I ccant nnot loginto my face's book!"

jadarnel27

Hahahahaha

I gotcha, so I can vote to close the total garbage that comes across. Neat.

Lix

Can't find links right now.. .:P But i assure you those are real titles :P

It should be the VTC sparing program :P A test run for your new found privilege :P

jadarnel27

Indubitably.

Moshe

6:33 PM

Face's book?

Popular Demand

6:45 PM

Pops-Perturbing Pedantic Problem of the Day: bizarre documentation requirements. I shouldn't be forced to specify things like "press TAB to move to the next field." Is my software going to people who have never used computers before?

Daniel Fischer

@Pop To people who don't remember ever having used a computer before, probably.

And don't tell them to press any key!

2

jadarnel27

7:09 PM

@PopularDemand Haha, that is absurd.

Lix

-2

Q: Highlighting a section with color on jump to link

Here on stackexchange, when you have a new message in your Stackoverflow inbox, and when you click the link and are navigated/jumped-to it, it fades in orange and then fades out. whenever I want to be able to have a fade in-fade out highlight color of a section that was jumped to following a link...

support stackoverflow

This person asked a question about Stack Overflow here on meta.... but a technical one :P His heart was in the right place :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

7:26 PM

lol @Lix how do u know my name?

@Lix he already asked it on SO yesterday...

Lix

Its all in your bio in your profile.. :P

Yea - formulating an answer as we speak :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Lix haha i forgot abt that lol. they won't find me in spam bots, unless u tell them

thats why i ws so vague

Lix

hehe so yes - first visit to G+ in months :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

haha i am the manager of the Doctor Who page there @Lix

Lix

well I know that now :P But i never really inspected your gravatar before :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

7:33 PM

@Lix bad site I made for it: docwho.co hasnt been updated

Lix

Oh my.... thanks for reminding me that I left my speakers on LOUD

hahahahahaha

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Lix there is sound on the site?

ooo

are the videos playing by themselves?

Lix

mmmhmmmm...

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

odd

Doctor Who fan?

plus.google.com/116004737922927360371/posts

Lix

no actually :P nothing against him hehe

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

7:36 PM

see how many ppl rely on me?

lol

Lix

but yes - it sounds like a whole bunch of videos are playing at once... cant see them though

hehe

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Lix odd, yea the site was made badly. but my posts werent

Lix

well i'm using chrome on linux - so Im not too phased by weird shit happening on the web :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

plus.google.com/116004737922927360371/posts

:-P

@Lix hmmm?

Lix

well with flash at least :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

7:39 PM

ahhh haaa

Popular Demand

Note to self: never use custom suggested edit reject reasons again. In the time it takes to explain, someone else will have blindly approved the edit.

Daniel Fischer

If it's important, roll back

Out of curiosity, got a link?

Popular Demand

7:56 PM

In fairness, it's rare for this to happen to suggestions that actively make a post worse; usually I see this happen to suggestions that keep overall quality about constant, or only fix two out of the 50 errors. I don't have the specific link handy anymore.

Daniel Fischer

Ah, the old, you think they didn't fix enough, somebody else thinks every change is an improvement

Popular Demand

That, or the fix is no better than the original (e.g. equally incorrect code formatting), or the fix improves some things while introducing new errors (e.g. turning "how i can this do wit html" into "How cand I to this with HTMl").

That would be a great* rep harvesting strategy for a newbie, though. 1) Find post containing 100 errors 2) Submit suggested edit that fixes only one of the errors 3) Wait for the edit to be approved 4) If rep cap not reached, GOTO 2. *: and by "great," I mean "terrible."

Daniel Fischer

Fixing only one out of 100 is too risky, they would need to fix two in every iteration to be sure.

Popular Demand

Ah, of course, how silly of me.

jadarnel27

8:47 PM

There is something seriously wrong with you guys =)

animuson

Shhh, that's a compliment

Daniel Fischer

Coming from a fellow Tavern dweller, yes.

jadarnel27

This is interesting:

I flagged something when I had <3k, then went back and voted to close after reaching 3k.

Daniel Fischer

That dismissed your flag

jadarnel27

9:02 PM

Right, I just thought it was interesting that it wasn't marked as "helpful" or "unhelpful".

Daniel Fischer

By the way, congrats and welcome to the cleaning brigade.

jadarnel27

Or "disputed". I've just never seen "none"

@DanielFischer Haha, thank you!

Daniel Fischer

Disputed is for when someone disagrees with your flag, the close vote by you, once you could, converted the flag into a close vote. Poof it disappeared.

jadarnel27

Very relevant:

Mar 10 at 0:05, by mootinator

I just realized all of the perks for gaining rep come in the form of "more types of free work you can do for us."

Popular Demand

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Q: What happens if I flag a question that gets closed?

I flagged a question with 4 close-votes. It looks like a fifth person came and closed the question. Under flag weight, there seemed to be no effect but the response was none. What exactly does that mean, and under what circumstances will that show up?

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Daniel Fischer

9:05 PM

Yup. 10K really was a hit. The 10K tools suck up so much of your time.

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See also this comment and the post it's attached to.

jadarnel27

Ah, well that answers that. Thanks @Pop

Your ability to find references on Meta is uncanny.

@DanielFischer I bet. I don't think I have to worry about that for a while unless @cdeszaq continues to serial upvote me =P

Daniel Fischer

Hehe. cdeszaq alone would still take a while. You need more fans.

cdeszaq

@jadarnel27 It's all in good fun!

@DanielFischer Yeah, quite a while. And with the questions/answers available to be voted on right now, it isn't even possible for one person to do it :)

Most rep a single person can give is (roughly) 10*numAnswers + 5*numQuestions (if we ignore bounties, "accepted" rep, and sug. edits)

Daniel Fischer

Ah, right. Unfortunately, @jad's tags are not mine, so I can't properly judge most of his answers.

jadarnel27

9:11 PM

@cdeszaq I know dude =) Just messin' with you.

cdeszaq

's all gud

jadarnel27

@DanielFischer You can assume they are correct. And awesome.

Ok gents, I'm out. Have a good evening.

Daniel Fischer

Can I quote you on that when the serial upvoting script kicks in?

jadarnel27

@DanielFischer absolutely

Daniel Fischer

Some people have strange ideas:

but performance wise, which is the best way to go - All on one line, or using as much as lines as I feel necessary?

cdeszaq

9:16 PM

@DanielFischer At some level, that matters. Likely at the compiler or file transfer performance level, not code execution, but who knows. I'm sure there are lots of "flexible" systems for which that question would matter in a big way.

Daniel Fischer

@cdeszaq It's about PHP, so it could have an influence on execution. But if that difference matters, pick something with an optimising compiler anyway.

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@DanielFischer Hrm. I was planning to reply with this, which was said by balpha himself, but I can't find the (original) source... even Google is coming up short, which makes me think it's been deleted.

Daniel Fischer

Three letters? What a waste.

I mean, if you need more than 702 variables, there's always upper case.

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9:31 PM

@DanielFischer Where'd you get the number 702 from?

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 scripts, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data compute...

Daniel Fischer

@Pop I'm old. I don't accept newfangled stuff like accented letters.

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Legal variable name in Java (used at SE): ανδ

Tim Stone

@PopularDemand I should start throwing stuff like this in my code just to mess with coworkers.

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@TimStone The following program compiles and runs without errors or warnings:

public class Wont {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String ಠ_ಠ = "Hello, world! I will destroy you!";
        System.out.println("ಠ_ಠ: " + ಠ_ಠ);
    }
}

Tim Stone

Brilliant

Keep people on their toes by having the code stare back at them.

animuson

9:53 PM

Let's try eating Jello again

Lix

10:12 PM

What is this tag supposed to be?

stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/stackoverflow.com

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Q: Burninate the stackoverflow.com tag?

In looking at the questions, they pretty much all seem to belong on Meta. Can anybody think of a purpose served by this tag that's on-topic for SO? Maybe if someone attempts to use it they can be notified that: Hey, if you're asking a question about StackOverflow, why not hop over to http:/...

feature-request stackoverflow tags

Lix

hmm... I guess then Stack Overflow is an acceptable place to post questions about DE...

Tim Stone

10:49 PM

Questions (bug reports, feature request, what have you) about things supported by Stack Exchange belong on Meta. Questions about applying things that Stack Exchange uses in your own implementation scenarios belong on Stack Overflow.

Lix

agreed - but do they need their own tag?

Tim Stone

shrugs

animuson

11:48 PM

Does anyone know where on the body the "back till" is? o.o

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