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jadarnel27

2:52 AM

brumf.

HARUMPH

br00p.

Neener neener

miggity miggity mack mack mack.

mootinator

mack dad will make you... Jump Jump.

I can't ignore a random (1) appearing on a browser tab D:

jadarnel27

3:07 AM

I can fully relate.

mootinator

That's my whole evening so far. Facebook popped! Ooh, now Twitter! The excitement!

jadarnel27

Haha. Same thing here, but with games on my phone. "So and so sent you a word!"

animuson

4:54 AM

"42. I plan my work and work my plan." - Haha, that's just fabulous.

Manishearth

Devs: shiny shiny bounty!!!

13

Q: MathJax not loaded properly on review

Related review loading issue: Format code as code in the review preview Could you reload MathJax on clicking the review question link in the review section? It sort of defeats the "stay on this page and review" purpose of the review section if you have to open the page in a new tab to review...

Ends in one day

step right up!

please? :/

animuson

Hahaha this entire page has been all "Strongly disagree" answers and then they throw in a "I've never stolen anything" and I almost click "Strongly disagree" again. I was like whoaaaaa wait a minute...

Why are there two brand-new Google proposals right next to each other?

Manishearth

5:16 AM

@animuson Which page?

animuson

@Manishearth: I was filling out a job application

One of those stupid surveys they make you take that's a gagillion questions long

Manishearth

Oh, whenever there are too many radio buttons, I script those :)

$('input[id$="good"]').click()

or something like that anyway

and then I throw some randomness :)

(of course, I've never applied for a job so I've not had to fill out a form seriously yet)

jadarnel27

@Manishearth I love randomness =P

(that is one of my favorite answers of mine)

Manishearth

Oh, stuff like that is fun!

Make it flash and give people seizures!

(Once, in a VB class, I got bored after writing the program--so I poked around and made it seizure-style!)

jadarnel27

Hahahahaha

That is a great suggestion.

Manishearth

5:21 AM

My favorite answer :physics.stackexchange.com/a/21856/7433

Favorite question (not asked by me, thankfully):physics.stackexchange.com/questions/770/…

jadarnel27

@Manishearth Holy cow, man!

Manishearth

Yep, its long :)

THough Physics.SE doesn't seem to like long answers as much as they like answers with levitating frogs

jadarnel27

Hahaha, I'm gonna have to start checking that site out.

Manishearth

I was rather taken aback when I got the "nice answer" badge for that one--most answers get maximum 5 upvotes on P.SE (sleepy community)

Great!

jadarnel27

I only took two physics classes in college, but I did think they were interesting.

Manishearth

5:27 AM

There are some really great, not-too-complicated-to-understand questions here: physics.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes

jadarnel27

@Manishearth I wonder how that feels to the frog. Like you're floating and it's awesome, or like your insides are being torn to pieces?

Manishearth

Oh, resnick&halliday had a bit on it

he feels as if he's swimming

1sec, direct quote time

Chapter 32, Resnick, Halliday,Walker 8th edition extended

Chapter main problem:

"THis is an overhead view of a frog that is being levitated in a magnetic field produced by a current in a vertical solenoid below the frog. The solenoid's upward magnetic force on the from balances the downward gravitational force on the frog. (The frog is not in discomfort; the sensation is like floating in water, which frogs like very much). However, a frog is not magnetic (it would not, for example, stick to a fridge door)

How, then, can there be a magnetic force on the frog?

And then there's a pic:

Except that it takes up half the page :)

jadarnel27

Nice reference sir.

I guess if the frog were in discomfort, they would know because it would be freaking out?

I can't imagine how else they would know.

Manishearth

Pretty much]

Plus they know the physics behind it :)

The torn to pieces wouldn't happen---frogs aren't ferromagnetic

Lix

hi guys

jadarnel27

5:39 AM

@Manishearth Oh, I picked up on that from your answer. I didn't mean it would be torn apart.

animuson

Ooooo, 79 rep to 10k on meta :o

Manishearth

@Lix Hi!

@jadarnel27 No, but the feeling would only happen if there was a repulsion between the little bits of frog

animuson

stackoverflow.com/questions/10135621/… <-- close votes anyone?

Manishearth

And that sort of repulsion is only there in ferromagnetic materials--since they get magnetized

Lix

@ani - HA.. .gladly :P

Manishearth

5:40 AM

Even then, not much

Since there's attraction as well

jadarnel27

@Manishearth I just meant, if the force that's lifting it up isn't distributed completely evenly, then it might be uncomfortable for the frog. Because it would be like having different parts of you pulled in different directions, or with varying degrees of strength.

Lix

@man - have you turned everyone into a physicist? ;)

Manishearth

@Lix Yaay! I'm not a physicist myself :P

animuson

I'll never be a physicist. It goes in one ear and out the other.

Manishearth

@jadarnel27 Aah, I see what you mean

thinks

jadarnel27

5:44 AM

@Manishearth Yeah, sorry. I have trouble typing quickly enough to effectively discuss things online sometimes =)

Manishearth

@jadarnel27 To me, it seems that the effect can be compared to a jet of air beneath the frog

jadarnel27

@animuson I feel weird about voting to close questions like that. I did downvote it, though.

Manishearth

any irregularities will result in the frog re-aligning itself

Though vertical irregularities--- thinks more

animuson

The frog?

Manishearth

Yes, the frog

jadarnel27

5:46 AM

@animuson Haha, we're discussing that frog picture from earlier in the chat. And the question Manish linked.

animuson

Oh, I did not see the picture. I was busy eating cheese.

Can I poke this frog with Rebecca's pointy stick?

Manishearth

@animuson Oy?

animuson

My dentist said I could resume normal eating habits. So I am eating everything in the house.

Manishearth

@jadarnel27 OK, it seems that the frog will feel a bit strange. His vertically higher parts will feel less repulsion than the lower ones. But frogs are squishy.

:D

jadarnel27

Hahaha, very well said. Frogs are squishy.

animuson

5:50 AM

All the more reason to poke them with a pointy stick!

Manishearth

:D

animuson

You've earned the "Reversal" badge for Cannot use line break or code in comments. Editing help gives wrong information. See your profile.

:o a fancy meta gold badge!

jadarnel27

Congrats!

Lix

@ani - reversal is awesome :)

jadarnel27

I just got my first tag badge on SO proper.

Lix

5:59 AM

nice!

what tag?

animuson

asp.net :D

jadarnel27

@Lix What @animuson said =)

Manishearth

@animuson I almost have reversal for this. :D

Lix

haha thanks for that :P

I got my first meta tag badge the other day - was quite surprised :P haha

animuson

@Manishearth: I'd help you, but I already upvoted that answer previously.

jadarnel27

6:02 AM

@Lix Nice.

animuson

I'm close on this answer as well.

Manishearth

@animuson Thanks anyway :)

Lix

@man - you already got my vote for that one...lol...

Manishearth

@Lix I have 9 votes to go for that one

animuson

I think that was the post where BoltClock tried to resign as a moderator because he didn't leave a comment first.

Lix

6:05 AM

whaa?

animuson

@Lix: That is good reenactment of how everyone responded to that answer. xD

Lix

hahaha - just trying to fit in thats all ;)

what about bolt trying to resign?
:S

Manishearth

Hey, is this expected behavior?:

The question does have a score of 18

Lix

Two upvotes and one downvote?

Manishearth

but the last upvote/downvote aside from today is two days ago

animuson

6:08 AM

@Lix: The answer got deleted (obviously). But ya...

Lix

oh the controversy...

Manishearth

Downvote on apr 10

upvote on apr 8 (and today)

animuson

@Manishearth: Gratz for being listed as top meta earner this month. :)

Manishearth

Thanks!

Basically that means I'm too bored to actually post on other sites :P

Lix

haha - hey - I'm on the first page too :P lol

animuson

6:11 AM

Meta is more fun. You get to talk about unicorns and pointy sticks and dragons

Manishearth

@animuson And frogs! :P

Lix

and feel like a mod when you answer ;)

Manishearth

@Lix Yep!

@Lix Since the other votes are days ago, is this expected functionality?

I always thought that its for recent events

Lix

How do you mean?

I don't really understand whats wrong with the +18

Manishearth

@Lix +10 today, -2 3 days ago, +10 5 days ago

normally the numbers are for recent events

If it was for all events, it would have shown...uhh.. +188

Lix

6:14 AM

Well that depends if you sorted the view by time...

animuson

Is that the drop-down thing? It combines past events together for some time. One or two weeks. I don't know the exact timeframe

Manishearth

@animuson One or two weeks?

That's alright then

though strange

:/

animuson

It might be based on activity. Like if you get one event every day for 2 weeks, it will probably combine all the events together.

Because they were consecutive.

I honestly have no idea how it works though guessing

Lol 175 rep for the day? I've been done anything at all o.o

animuson

6:49 AM

You've earned the "Enlightened" badge for My mortarboard badge never awarded. See your profile.

It's like badges galore tonight.

Manishearth

@animuson Don't tempt me.. I shall release a flood of custom badges into the market :)

(Working towards the LIAR!!! badge)

Manishearth

7:06 AM

Hey! Today's friday! Concocts evil plan

Aah, nvm--once is good enough :P

Manishearth

7:30 AM

I found a jQuery heretic!

Manishearth

8:07 AM

Manish's stupid programming mistake #432: initialize an array to zero after you add elements to it

and its javascript, so it doesn't complain

And here I am, thinking about JS scope and what it did to my array :P

Manishearth

8:20 AM

hates javascript scope to the core

My program contained an object that was slightly recursive. Each object would contain an array of sub-objects of the same type. Turned out that I have to add this. to EVERY DAMN LOCAL VARIABLE THAT I WANT TO USE IN A METHOD otherwise the variables are reused

But it works now :)

(atleast the part I was working on)

And now I wrote a method that cleans up all unnecessary properties from the object once its been created. Since I have a truckload of this.xyz but only four properties I want to keep. Forin loop ftw!!

abatishchev

9:08 AM

0

A: Tag synonym request [scroll] -> [scrolling]

Indeed. I wanted to ask a new question, and found this.

sorry incorrect

6

Q: Tag synonym request [scroll] -> [scrolling]

I just submitted a tag wiki for scroll but noticed that there is a scrolling with an already established wiki that is a pretty good synonym for scroll. I don't have points in scroll yet but would like to suggest it as a synonym of scrolling.

support stackoverflow retag-request

Manishearth

9:35 AM

Why are posts deleted on meta?

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/126919/…

Seems OK

Blatant promotion alert!

JOIN JOIN JOIN Chemistry.SE It's taking too long! 14 more commits required. Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top? :D

Anonymous

10:29 AM

@Manishearth "deleted by The Establishment, Popular Demand, Bobby 1 hour ago" at a score of -65

Anonymous

Still in Google cache.

Anonymous

I guess they don't want dumb unconstructive drama junking up the site.

balpha

if both the establishment and the popular demand are pro-deletion, there can be no doubt

Anonymous

11:14 AM

Query StackOverflow (Stack Exchange Data Explorer) is currently #6 on Hacker News.

Tim Stone

11:40 AM

If Data Explorer crashes I'm totally not responsible. :P

Tim Stone

12:41 PM

:o

jadarnel27

haha, let me try that again. Too wordy for a comment?

FYI, answers that are just links to other sites are frowned upon. See the faq - "Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This includes answers that are...barely more than a link to an external site". Also see these meta posts: Are answers that just contain links elswhere really good answers? and What is an acceptable answer?. — jadarnel27 3 mins ago

Tim Stone

Does it fit within the comment character limit? :P

jadarnel27

Barely!

Tim Stone

Then it's acceptably wordy!

David

A comment on an answer that's more descriptive and helpful than the answer itself. FTW.

jadarnel27

12:45 PM

=)

After I posted it, I thought it might be a bit TL;DR. That's why I asked =)

@David A large portion of that person's answers are of similar quality.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

259

Q: Reference - What does this symbol mean in PHP?

What is this? This is a collection of questions that come up every now and then about syntax in PHP. This is also a Community Wiki, so everyone is invited to participate in maintaining this list. Why is this? StackOverflow does not allow searching for particular characters. As a consequence, ...

php

So, the problem with this post is that the links to each question is not inline

I'm thinking of writing a script to do that. The question is, would that large number of inline links still work?

I think the client-side preview has a limit

balpha

9

A: What limitations does converting question links to links with titles have?

You had to ask – well, here goes. The restrictions are currently as follows, but note that they do look a bit contrived, resulting from the fact that they have grown over time (from single site to cross-site, from "there are no subsites" to "facebook.SO", etc.), so it's not unlikely that w...

Yi Jiang's Proble_

So, unlimited. Still, writing a script to do this could be annoying

TofeeqAhmad

1:10 PM

2

Q: Should we have a procedure duplicate for answers also?

I have gone through these two questions answered by Mike and CommonsWare. Mike has just copied and pasted CommonsWare's answer as-is from another question. Answer by Mike and original Answer By CommonsWare. So should there be any option of duplicate vote. Or we can just refer that it duplicate...

discussion feature-request duplicate-answers

Tim Stone

@YiJiangsProble_ Well, you can just do the scanning Markdown does and then look for the [text][id] tokens to do the replace with. Why do you want to make them inline, though?

Yi Jiang's Proble_

@TimStone Makes the post easier to update, and to ensure any future edits to these question titles will be reflected in the reference question

Tim Stone

1:28 PM

Fair enough. I actually thought someone had made this script somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment...shouldn't be too difficult if you're really inclined, though.

That said, time to drive to the office...back in a bit.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

I've done it. Anyway, there is a lot of questions on that list that have been closed as dupe

jadarnel27

1:56 PM

That was weird. The rep count at the top of the SO showed I had about 350 points less than what I have actually have. When I refreshed the page, it went back to normal.

Or maybe I'm crazy.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

3:43 PM

Ugh, a lot of times SE sites seem to be stuck loading an analytical pixel from Quantcast

Tim Stone

Seems to happen to another people. Your ISP should stop proxying your connection. |:

Yi Jiang's Proble_

As far as I know, every ISP here does that

Tim Stone

Or at least I assume that's what's happening, that pixel request returns 204, which seems to trip a lot of proxies up.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

But how would it help in this case?

Oh, the 'no content' request?

Tim Stone

Aye

Yi Jiang's Proble_

3:45 PM

Yeah, that's what I see on Firebug

Tim Stone

I think it sits around not knowing what to do because no body was returned.

Yi Jiang's Proble_

But only occasionally. Sometimes if I reload the thing will work again

Tim Stone

Hmm

Popular Demand

When a post receives that most magical of votes, the fifth reopen vote, does it get bumped? According to Jeff a year ago, the answer is yes, but I reopened an MSO post almost ten minutes ago that still isn't on the main page.

Tim Stone

I'm giving you a -1 for reopening that question.

But to your question, I wouldn't think so...

Popular Demand

3:55 PM

I needed a test case for my non-bumping suspicion, there hadn't been any activity on the main page in a while, that question already had four reopen votes and the comments made me doubt that the question deserved to be closed.

Tim Stone

I will reduce my vote to a -0.5, because I suppose using it as a test case is acceptable.

Popular Demand

It's very intentional that I said "doubt that the question deserved to be closed" rather than "believe that the question deserved to be reopened"; all the other factors were a tiebreaker, there.

I accept your -0.5 as a reasonable punishment.

Tim Stone

The question is the same though, since it's talking about the fact that the server doesn't prevent that, which is status-bydesign. The fact that the mobile UI doesn't have client-side code to prevent submitting on a question closed while the answer was in-transit is a separate issue, I guess (but also status-bydesign).

Hmm, I can see why it would make sense if reopening bumped questions, though...but not sure if it's actually supposed to (clearly it doesn't, at the moment)

@PopularDemand Hmm, the FAQ entry on this states that reopen votes don't bump, but that was written before Jeff answered.

Manishearth

4:31 PM

I say that bountied questions(on a site with <20 active bounties) should be bumped every hour.

(says the dissatisfied customer who has an expiring bounty that devs aren't listening to) ;-)

Popular Demand

@Manishearth You should cancel your subscription. Once they start missing your monthly membership fee, they'll start listening!

Tim Stone

The solution is to put bounties on Data Explorer requests, of course. Look at that speedy response!

goes to eat lunch

jadarnel27

4:54 PM

Hey @PopularDemand, did you ever find that article about the dude writing an email to a company about bad grammar in one of their error pages?

Popular Demand

I did not. I actually forgot about it... a lot of other stuff came up this week. But now I'm interested again.

I don't suppose you're here to tell me you found it?

jadarnel27

Nope!

@PopularDemand I guess that explains why you've been somewhat absent this week.

Popular Demand

Yeah.

jadarnel27

6:18 PM

> It's also possible that your IPhone's internal crystal is slightly out of whack. In order to build a good tuner you need a reasonably good reference clock and the IPhone hardware has no particular reason to have one with a tightly controlled center frequency. - this answer

What is this crystal they're talking about?

David

@jadarnel27 I don't know what they're talking about, but I've installed a Kaiburr crystal in my iPhone. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)

jadarnel27

@David Have you noticed any significant enhancement to your iPhone's force powers since installing that?

David

@jadarnel27 I still can't choke people from across the room, so it's not as useful in meetings as I'd hoped.

jadarnel27

@David Drat. TODO: Make an app that does that.

animuson

Awwww. :( I lost 125 rep from that deleted question. Lamezorz

David

6:33 PM

I would definitely buy an app that could force-choke insolent fools.

jadarnel27

I'd certainly buy that for a dollar.

jadarnel27

6:49 PM

I like how the "Community Bulletin" notice looks like a sticky note.

jadarnel27

7:02 PM

Today, I noticed that the "x" you click to close the modal dialogs on these websites, is not an image, but actually just an x* with some neat styling.
*Not exactly an x. Some other ascii-character-x-looking-dealio.

yesterday, by jadarnel27

These are thoughts, from your friendly neighborhood fake-Josh.

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 ×

jadarnel27

@TimStone Yeah. That little guy!

Tim Stone

Multiply all the dialogs!

jadarnel27

Hahahahaha

That would be a great April Fools joke. Clicking the × makes 2 more dialogs appear.

Tim Stone

:D

Tim Stone

8:05 PM

Well played @animuson, reading my mind :P

animuson

Haha, this makes me think of the Geico commercial. "It's like we're connected."

Tim Stone

Oh, seems that we were both equally wrong, then.

I wasn't aware that was the case...

animuson

My answer has a fallback ^_^

Tim Stone

Yes, nicely done. Within the edit window, too!

Now lunboks beat me to a comment too, heh.

animuson

I did not bother looking into it because I figured someone else would do it.

animuson

8:53 PM

1

Lockpicking

Proposed Q&A site for study lockpicking methods and ways to prevent it.

Currently in definition.

This amuses me.

Popular Demand

1

Q: Design a Rube Goldberg machine to achieve the Fanatic badge

Background information: Rube Goldberg machine The Woot! Enthusiast and Fanatic badges are awarded to users who manage to log into one of the sites every day for 30 and 100 days straight, respectively. We have already seen that this is easy to accomplish, either through sheer user addiction or ...

discussion fun enthusiast-badge fanatic-badge

This amuses me. (I'm much more straightforward than animuson.)

moguzalp enel_hak

9:25 PM

13 friday and happy hour!

Shog9

TIME TO DRINK SOME LUCKY BEER!

Lucky Lager

Lucky Lager is a beer that has a strong cult following on Vancouver Island. At one time Lucky was actually brewed on Vancouver Island in Victoria but in 1982 Labatt Breweries of Canada moved off the Island and proceeded to tear down the brewery to prevent any competition on the Island. Labatt now brews Lucky out of Edmonton, Alberta in the same brewery where they produce Budweiser for all of Western Canada. In 1995, Labatt was purchased by Belgian brewer Interbrew. Interbrew was then subsequently purchased by Brazilian brewing giant Ambev in 2004 and the company became Inbev. July 13, 200...

moguzalp enel_hak

Me I am on local drink "RAKI"

Rakı

Raki (Turkish: rakı, Ottoman Turkish: راقى, ) is a Turkish unsweetened, anise-flavored hard alcoholic drink that is popular in Turkey, Greece, Albania, Serbia, and other Balkan countries as an apéritif. It is often served with seafood or meze. It is similar to several other alcoholic beverages available around the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and in Colombia, e.g., pastis, ouzo, sambuca, arak, and aguardiente. In the Balkans, however, "raki" refers to a non-anise-flavored drink made from distilled pomace, similar to Italian grappa, Greek tsipouro, Cretan tsikoudia (which is also know...

Popular Demand

Huh. I didn't know Labatt was affiliated with Budweiser. Or with Inbev, although that's no surprise in light of the former connection.

moguzalp enel_hak

Good for singing :)

Once you got drunk enough of it, you sing like this :)

►

Oups I talked too much, one of side effect of it :P

mootinator

9:43 PM

@Shog9 Heh. Local beer.

Shog9

Had a roommate once who drank Labatt Blue by the case. Never understood why.

moguzalp enel_hak

Do you have a such term "polish" for switching between drinks?

Shog9

@moguzalpenel_hak No...

Chaser

but that doesn't sound quite the same

> Chaser, a mild drink consumed immediately after a drink of hard liquor

moguzalp enel_hak

I mean when you drink a lot votka you finish by beer

then you polish votka by beer for example

Shog9

oh, maybe you do mean chaser then

There's also the classic,

> beer before liquor, you get sicker quicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear

moguzalp enel_hak

9:47 PM

aha right dictionary says polish ->chaser :)

@Shog9 exactly :)

Popular Demand

@Shog9 The problem with that is that you can swap the pairings and the rhymes still work... just with weird cadence. Which can be hard to notice after drinking.

Shog9

I've never been fond of chasers, apart from that in some regions it's traditional to offer them gratis with an order of strong drink

@PopularDemand Yes... which leads to the "classic" mistake ;-)

moguzalp enel_hak

So important point not to chaser between, for example after a bottle of wine, beer is not good idea

Shog9

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