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bjb568

8:00 PM

@JanDvorak Lol, 12 year olds, PG?

You mean R, right?

Jamal

@SantaClaus For locating all the nice boys and girls on SE that deserve ~~presents~~ rep?

Santa Claus

@Jamal No cookies == No presents

bjb568

@SantaClaus Heeeeeey…

It's probably rubbing off of you and doorknob.

Jamal

@SantaClaus What about browser cookies?

bjb568

Wait… there's a k in doorknob? doork-nob?

Santa Claus

8:04 PM

@Jamal Browser cookies are always too stale. Those browsers never seem to know when to throw them out.

2

bjb568

Uh… Is @SantaClaus the new star-spammer?

Santa Claus

@bjb568 ?

Jan Dvorak

WTH is this??? edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com/questions/756/…

bjb568

@SantaClaus We know you are.

Santa Claus

bjb568

8:06 PM

@JanDvorak Those sites.

Jan Dvorak

@SantaClaus photoshop'd

iStimple

@JanDvorak an SE site

Jan Dvorak

but... that... isn't a question, is it?

bjb568

@SantaClaus I'll just blame animuson then.

2

Braiam

@JanDvorak spam...

Jason C

8:08 PM

@iStimple But... what is it?

Braiam

the "just blame animuson" hour started

2

hichris123

> I am looking for a English speaking person for pair-programming. It seems to me, in their own language will benefit more from it

Jan Dvorak

@JasonC well, that help page just sucks...

hichris123

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Q: What is story behind the edX stackexchanges?

Specifically http://edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com/ and http://cs50.stackexchange.com/ I just saw these in the top menu bar, and I'm confused about how these were able to get into public beta on the StackExchange network. Historically, the SE network was focused on being a Q&A board with defin...

iStimple

@JasonC good job

Jason C

8:10 PM

@iStimple high five

bjb568

@JanDvorak Y NO SPAM FLAG FOR SITEZ

iStimple

@JasonC someone was definitely trying to get an excavator badge

hichris123

@bjb568 It's not spam.

bjb568

@hichris123 The site.

iStimple

@hichris123 it promotes education, that's spam

bjb568

8:13 PM

Ah, that's better.

Jason C

@iStimple Oh man; meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/stats you're hot on my trail to taking today's #1 edit review spot.

iStimple

@JasonC just don't fall asleep

Jan Dvorak

*falls*
*asleep*

hichris123

@JanDvorak But... but... but... who's going to post the spam???

4

Santa Claus

@hichris123 I'll do it for the team.

animuson

8:26 PM

Now I only need to answer four more feature requests for the gold tag badge.

bjb568

@animuson delete-pls chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/18205916#18205916

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 why him?

bjb568

@JanDvorak Mod.

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 also, why delete it?

iStimple

@animuson just don't abuse the dup hammer

bjb568

8:28 PM

@JanDvorak It's offensive?

Jan Dvorak

There could be a new family of funny jokes

@bjb568 it's not

bjb568

@JanDvorak No. There can't.

@JanDvorak Meh, broken window effect and you're one of them.

Jan Dvorak

BJB's skull is so thick it cracks a Nokia

bjb568

one of them

animuson

@iStimple I still have 51 bugs to respond to before I get that tag badge. But imagine, having the power to insta-dupe-close all questions on Meta SE... AGAIN!

bjb568

8:29 PM

@JanDvorak Not offensive since I know that you're not trying to be offensive.

hichris123

@JanDvorak Nokia phones are crappy anyway.. :P

bjb568

Yeah.

iStimple

@animuson drools

SomeKittens

bjb is notorious for not getting the point despite multiple methods of explanation.

Also, my snark < Russian armor piercing rounds < bjb's skull.

Braiam

@hichris123 WUT? Nokia phones secondary usage was blunt weapon

SomeKittens

8:33 PM

@JanDvorak Which is why Russia never invaded Finland

bjb568

@SomeKittens "famous or well known" Uh… no.

Braiam

arg! 4 more superuser.com/a/793267/235569 obvious attempt to gather upvotes :)

Jan Dvorak

@SomeKittens I thought it was because the russians were confused by seeing flowing water?

SomeKittens

bjb cannot stomach a situation where he's not the center of attention.

bjb568

Siiiigh… I'm leaving.

Jan Dvorak

8:35 PM

s/not //

SomeKittens

@JanDvorak zing!

iStimple

everyone be nice to @bjb568

SomeKittens

Or else he'll whine about you on meta and flag.

iStimple

or else he'll have his mom call the mods :/

user170979

Everyone be nice in general.

2

iStimple

8:38 PM

^

Jan Dvorak

^

Santa Claus

Questions with 4 active close votes. data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/216652/283075/…

AstroCB

That's useful

Jan Dvorak

@SantaClaus isn't that essentially the top of the cv queue?

except slower to update

Santa Claus

@JanDvorak No idea.

Jan Dvorak

8:40 PM

and not load-balanced properly

Santa Claus

@JanDvorak But I could easily make it so you could choose off-topic close reasons

Jan Dvorak

@SantaClaus still a copy

Santa Claus

@JanDvorak You can't choose off-topic close reasons in the cv queue

Jan Dvorak

oh, the subreasons? That's... nice. But it still lacks load-balancing.

Jamal

Would someone care to rollback this?

AstroCB

8:43 PM

Please do.

Jamal

I don't have editing privileges.

AstroCB

@Jamal Yes: I meant that in a general sense ("if anyone's out there, please do").

Jamal

Ah :-)

Jason C

cv-plz typo stackoverflow.com/questions/25230280/…

Santa Claus

@JanDvorak Throw 14 in for the parameter for recommendation off-topics

new query data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/216661

AstroCB

8:46 PM

var markers = document.getElementsByClassName("catchup-marker");
for(var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++){
    markers[i].className = markers[i].className.split(/catchup-marker-*\s*\d*/).join("");
}

Removes the catchup markers

Jan Dvorak

!!tell astro format

AstroCB

Hmm...

Jan Dvorak

oh. This is the tavern...

Braiam

@AstroCB needs its own box..

Jan Dvorak

or *his?

AstroCB

8:48 PM

Doesn't help, though: even a userscript would just run on page load...

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB look up "mutation observer"

AstroCB

The best I could do is inject a button that clears them, but that's too much trouble to go to for just removing the separation bars.

Braiam

@JanDvorak (the code) needs its own box

Jan Dvorak

@Braiam oh.

Jason C

So PendingFlags is where the close votes are stored? I was having a hell of a time getting close vote counts the other day, but I was looking through PostFeedback and ReviewTasks.

Santa Claus

8:49 PM

@JasonC ya

Jason C

How about that.

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Interesting: I'll give that a try...

Santa Claus

> Despite the name, this table in fact contains close-related flags and votes.

via meta.stackexchange.com/a/2678/229166

Jason C

Thanks

@SantaClaus Milk is to cookies as ______ is to browser cookies? (Difficulty: not browser milk)

Jan Dvorak

cookie clicker milk?

Jason C

8:58 PM

... ew

Santa Claus

@JasonC Spoiled milk?

iStimple

@JasonC boobs?

3

Jan Dvorak

localStorage?

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Beat me to it.

Jason C

@JanDvorak Good guess but no, it's boobs.

Jan Dvorak

8:59 PM

@JasonC ew

Jason C

Hee hee now the star list says 2 boobs. Next one's the total recall midget.

Jan Dvorak

should I star a message I don't like just to ruin a joke I like even less?

Jason C

@JanDvorak It only makes it better. Let's go for 5 boobs.

Jan Dvorak

@JasonC ew

Jason C

Maybe this will work out better for you:

pounds of bacon.

AstroCB

9:18 PM

Say things for testing purposes

iStimple

star this for testing purposes

user163250

BJB's skull is so thick, it blocks radiation!

user163250

I wanted to play the game too.

AstroCB

More things!

So...close...

It removes all separators but the last one.

hichris123

@Cupcake Cupcake is soft and fluffy!

Eww. How do I know @Cupcake isn't stale?

AstroCB

9:21 PM

That's as good as it gets

How does it decide what's code?

Jason C

// indent each line by 4 spaces
// and i guess it comes out as code

AstroCB

var markers = document.getElementsByClassName("catchup-marker");
var observer = new MutationObserver(function(){ var markers = document.getElementsByClassName("catchup-marker");
for(var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++){
    markers[i].className = markers[i].className.split(/catchup-marker-*\s*\d*/).join("");
}});
observer.observe(document.getElementById("chat"), {attributes: true, childList: true, characterData: true});

hichris123

@JasonC fail

Jason C

@hichris123 Yeah but do it multiline with a reply!

AstroCB

Magic

hichris123

9:25 PM

`// this works`
`// as does this`

... or not.

Jason C

Bahaha

Santa Claus

Jason C

@SantaClaus Error: The operation has completed successfully.

Santa Claus

@JasonC That's kinda true, since development has already been enabled on the device...

Braiam

// indent each line by 4 spaces
// and I'm sure it comes out as code

Santa Claus

9:28 PM

test

Jason C

^ Bahaha

Braiam

test

Santa Claus

I did 3 spaces instead of 4 at first...

AstroCB

greasyfork.org/scripts/4029-se-chat-catch-up-marker-remover

hichris123

@JasonC

test                                                                                                                                                                test

:D

Jason C

9:31 PM

@hichris123 Code is stupid anyways.

hichris123

@JasonC lol, totally a programmer.

AstroCB

Here's a rudimentary userscript fix in the meantime. One issue: because of the way the separators are added, it will display the last-added separator, so you will see one at a time. However, I think that this behavior actually makes more sense as a solution for the original description: why would you want to know all of the places you've removed your focus from chat? The only useful one is the last-added (the last time you moved to a different window/tab). — AstroCB 40 secs ago

Jason C

@AstroCB There's actually a keyboard shortcut that already exists to clear them away.

AstroCB

Oh, really?

...

What is it?

Jason C

@AstroCB Yeah, F5.

AstroCB

9:37 PM

Ah...

I see.

Braiam

9:52 PM

mm.... why is there a horizontal scroll bar in chat?

D:

it gets centered when I send a message

Jamal

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25233308/…

Jason C

10:47 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25233709/…

hichris123

11:06 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24465574/…

Jason C

There was a blog article; maybe by Joel, or Tim Post, or somebody that I read the other day about the value of reminding people to be good at the last minute, and how that's put into effect on SE sites. Does anybody know what I'm talking about / where that is?

hichris123

@JasonC I think it was Tim Post's.

@JasonC This? alertfalse.com/2013/10/…

Jason C

@hichris123 No not that one; but that one's a really good one.

hichris123

Okay, then I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Jason C

Ah found it it was Jeff Atwood; forgot it was on Coding Horror.

blog.codinghorror.com/the-just-in-time-theory

hichris123

11:11 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/3656578/python-based-torrent-server

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/3593215/…

cv-plz-dupe stackoverflow.com/questions/2040133/php-and-bittorrents

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25080372/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24886047/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24807703/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1081497/mysql-or-sql-server

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1130779/…

bjb568

@bjb568: No, of course not. Don't be ridiculous. I'm saying that when you post to SO and use certain markdown, you're using markdown that may include sanitized HTML (but it may include something else totally as well). I give up; you're clearly trying to argue by injecting meaning into my words that isn't even close to what I actually wrote. — Ken White 10 mins ago

^ Obviously you saying things that are ambiguous is impossible.

hichris123

cv-plz-dupe stackoverflow.com/questions/8472349/…

user163250

11:52 PM

cv-plz recommendation stackoverflow.com/questions/167206/…

AstroCB

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Q: Where should "Issue with MS Exchange Client Mac 2011" question be asked?

I have the following question: I have installed the native Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 client on my MBP and it's been running fine for 6 months. Two weeks ago, I moved all emails to a subfolder I created with the name "archive." Since then, Microsoft Outlook is stuck in a per...

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This is on-topic for Super User, right?

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1298184/xbox-programming

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