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3:00 PM

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I never thought I would ever see such a thing, but here it is: This question has gathered nearly 200 votes in under 24 hours, and this answer has gathered more than 560 votes at the time of writing (in under 24 hours...) The amount is amazing in itself. Perhaps that is due to a larger populatio...

Seriously?

"I don't consider it amazing myself, though I upvoted it, but given the number of answers I guess it is"

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@TimStone Ugh, we're talking about that question again?

Tim Stone

The linked question or the question which it is a question about? :P

radp

ugh

> Capture screenshots and add attachments. Quickly. The Mac way.

Yi Jiang

At least somebody fixed that ridiculous typo in the title

Sergio Tapia

wow that's insane

Popular Demand

3:03 PM

@YiJiang I was about to, but Michael did it first.

@TimStone The question which it is a question about.

As I said yesterday, there are legitimate questions about how pseudorandom number generators are implemented, but that's not one of them.

Tim Stone

Agreed.

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, ping?

Sergio Tapia

So you guys remember this movie?

I kinda want to buy bluray just for that movie

Tim Stone

Hahah

Hmm...is that the Fifth Element?

Sergio Tapia

yeah

Michael Mrozek

3:09 PM

@rchern Hello

I should probably fix audio alerts on my work computer too

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@SergioTapia [disregard my earlier message, posted it in the wrong place]

Yi Jiang

@SergioTapia What is that? (rubs eyes)

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/67912/… << history where? i don't see it in the timeline or the revision history. (though no confirmation this answer was ever deleted i guess)

spoulson

I didn't get the Fifth Element. Seemed to be a lot of non-sequitur type stuff going on.

Michael Mrozek

@rchern Of 3954220? He did do it within the five minute window

I was just clarifying that you can't delete a post and silently undelete it 30 minutes later

rchern

3:16 PM

so it was undeleted and then edited like 20 minutes later?

i guess i just figured the edit was done at the same time as the undelete

Sergio Tapia

@YiJiang it's the fifth element, one of the best scifi films ever to come out

@PopularDemand what do you mean?

Michael Mrozek

I think so. I'm testing on meta now, but I'm pretty sure I've done it before (deleted a post and then realized later it was actually right and undeleted it)

Popular Demand

@SergioTapia I saw your "should this be closed" MSO post, and I accidentally replied to you in chat instead of there.

Michael Mrozek

I'll get back to you in ~5 minutes

rchern

hehehe

Sergio Tapia

3:19 PM

@PopularDemand do you mean this question?

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Q: Do you think this question warrants a close?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3968475/what-does-abs-do-in-python Someone says that it should be closed, but I don't agree. I thought SO was a site to ask specific questions about programming. Why should it be closed? It's not like asked a typical 'give meh teh codez', right?

discussion

Michael Mrozek

:D I just got Disciplined because the random meta answer I deleted happened to have 3 upvotes

rchern

hahaha

you're welcome (;

Sergio Tapia

I still feel that it didn't warrant a close. The documentation page didn't find anything when I searched for abs; about 2 minutes ago I realized the page used AJAX to dynamically load content, so what I thought was an empty results page was just the loader doing its thing.

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@SergioTapia I do.

To be clear, you are not the person I flagged.

Sergio Tapia

How can I tell if someone flagged me?

(Was I flagged? :P)

SilentGhost

3:23 PM

@SergioTapia you might've read the comment, no?

Sergio Tapia

What comment?

SilentGhost

@SergioTapia the one everyone was pointing at? #Note: abs(num) computes the #absolute value of a number.

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@SergioTapia Become a 10k user?

Sergio Tapia

That's what I wrote in my question, I was asking for the docs page where it might show usage and some examples, similar to PHP docs.

"The documentation page didn't find anything when I searched for abs; about 2 minutes ago I realized the page used AJAX to dynamically load content, so what I thought was an empty results page was just the loader doing its thing." Posted that up there

SilentGhost

@SergioTapia and the answer you accepted provided with this?

Sergio Tapia

3:26 PM

pretty much

told me what it was, a further explanation and even a metaphor to boot

SilentGhost

@SergioTapia are you telling me that "absolute value of a number" is not a sufficient explanation?

Sergio Tapia

Yep

Hey guys, someone recommended that I use lxml for Python XML/HTML parsing, is this a good library? Which one would you recommend?

SilentGhost

@SergioTapia well, I'm withdrawing my services then

Michael Mrozek

@rchern meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/67977/revisions. I tried deleting, waiting five minutes, and undeleting, and then again with an edit in the middle. The delete/undelete didn't make the "edited" link appear like I thought it did, but it shows in the revision history either way

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@SergioTapia That may be more of a SO chat question than an MSO chat question.

Sergio Tapia

3:29 PM

@PopularDemand what is mso?

Popular Demand

@SergioTapia Meta Stack Overflow

Sergio Tapia

oh, I thought this was the stack overflow chat

so this is META stack overflow chat?

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@SergioTapia Yes, look at the URL and the icon at bottom right.

Yi Jiang

@SergioTapia Eh... how could you not notice the drab gray color scheme?

Sergio Tapia

Ah! You mean this, chat.stackoverflow.com

Yi Jiang

3:31 PM

Also, tell-tale sign:

status-meta-stackoverflow-chat

Sergio Tapia

Yep, found the python channel

see ya!

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, interesting. still, it is something that can go easily undetected. and does not show in the timeline view

jjnguy

@YiJiang Is that the only meta easter egg?

Yi Jiang

@jjnguy Eh... officially speaking that's a feature, not an egg

Tim Stone

@rchern That and migration events...meh.

jjnguy

3:36 PM

@YiJiang Fair enough

rchern

yeah, i wish the migration notice on the destination site had a timestamp

Tim Stone

shakes fist at the timeline

Yi Jiang

@jjnguy I just took another peek into the window object, and the Egg object is empty. So, no, I don't think meta has Eggs

Or else maybe they moved it somewhere else

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@YiJiang <nitpick>Jeff did use it as the sample easter egg when he was soliciting ideas for other chats' easter eggs</nitpick>

jjnguy

@YiJiang hmmm, I thought they said that every site had an egg

Tim Stone

3:37 PM

It is an egg, it's just a server-side one. :P

Or does it actually update on the client? I guess I never really paid attention

status-statusy

Michael Mrozek

I'm pretty sure it was originally a mistake (or at least intentional laziness that we massively abused) and they retroactively started calling it an egg

status-bydesign

jjnguy

status-by-awesome

rchern

If you edit it is still [status-should-be-in-sandbox-but-meh]

Tim Stone

Yeah, it actually edits it into your post: chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/message/245535

rchern

yeah, that's what it does for all the oneboxes

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/message/245487#245487

Tim Stone

3:41 PM

status-server-side-up-egg

'Ello @Chacha102

jjnguy

@TimStone That's a good pun, but it's still a pun...so I hate it.

Chacha102

Hello

rchern

ha

Tim Stone

@jjnguy I know, I'm just hungry at the moment.

balpha

3:59 PM

@MichaelMrozek this is the [status-tag] commit:

changeset:   1019:3a84c6e58f0c
parent:      1016:f3a7513fe118
user:        balpha
date:        Wed Jul 14 08:29:18 2010 +0200
summary:     Jeff wanted easter egg oneboxes. Here's one.

rchern

hehe

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@balpha I dunno, that looks Photoshopped to me.

Yi Jiang

Hey guys, mind helping me test this userscript out?

dl.dropbox.com/u/1722364/stack_overflow_chat_favi.user.js

rchern

what does it do...?

Yi Jiang

@rchern Changes the favicon given the number of unread messages and @-mentions

Eg:

rchern

4:03 PM

oof tiny

Yi Jiang

Unfortunately I haven't had the time to produce the MSO set

So it'll just use the SO icons for now

Michael Mrozek

@balpha As if I'd just believe that

Yi Jiang

@-mentions make the thing go green

Michael Mrozek

changeset:   1019:3a84c6e58f0d
user:        balpha
date:        Tue Oct 19 18:00:54 2010 +0200
summary:     Change history to make @MichaelMrozek wrong again

Aiden Bell

Someone post the URL to this userscript you are all working feverishly on?

Curiosity is getting the better of me

rchern

4:05 PM

@AidenBell, that narrows it down to no less than, um, 5 maybe?

heh

Aiden Bell

@rchern - Semantics! I want URLS

rchern

>_>

Michael Mrozek

github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts ?

I'm guessing

Yi Jiang

@rchern is the github version newer or the one on your sever?

rchern

they're the same right now

Aiden Bell

4:06 PM

@MichaelMrozek thanks :D

@rchern - Will get it a go

rchern

i'm not sure if i should / if i can set it up to push to my server when i push to github

Yi Jiang

@rchern Looks like it didn't change since then, the one I downloaded this morning was semi-broken

rchern

o:

define semi-broken

Michael Mrozek

Just have your server redirect requests so they go to github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/blob/master/… instead

Yi Jiang

@rchern Localstorage highlighting, you didn't read from the localstore after the page loads

radp

4:08 PM

@YiJiang noop on Chrome :(

Yi Jiang

So basically there's no persistence

Or did you fix that already ;)

rchern

hmm, i may have just forgotten that part or didn't see it in your script

lol

link me to your version?

or submit a patch (:

Yi Jiang

@rchern My version is very messed up, a mismash of old version code and newer ones

I usually just grab the latest version of your code, drop in the changes I need, then wait for you to integrate it back into the main code ;)

@rchern Also, I've never used git before. Erm... how does it work?

rchern

hehe well having it on github now should help

@MichaelMrozek submitted a patch i need to merge too (:

i believe you'd fork my code into a local branch of yours, make changes, and then someone create a pull request that i can then merge?

Yi Jiang

Unfortunately pinning all the chatrooms creates other weird problems

rchern

4:14 PM

|:

Yi Jiang

At least the major problem, notifications, is solved. I think I can memorize which is which

rchern

that seems highly suboptimal

Yi Jiang

@rchern Eh... the tab space saved is pretty good

Firefox, or my ISP, seem to have this weird problem with the so-0.png icon I'm using

Chacha102

I'm bored...

Yi Jiang

Eh... what is this git thingy anyway.

Shog9

4:22 PM

Git

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Human gastrointestinal tract

The human gastrointestinal tract refers to the stomach and intestine, and sometimes to all the structures from the mouth to the anus. (The "digestive system" is a broader term that includes other structures, including the accessory organs of digestion). In an adult male human, the gastrointestinal (GI) are long in a live subject, or up to without the effect of muscle tone, and consists of the upper and lower GI tracts. The tract may also be divided into foregut, midgut, and hindgut, reflecting the embryological origin of each segment of the tract. The GI tract releases hormones as to...

Yi Jiang

@Shog9 Okay... what?

Shog9

Should be obvious - it's a metaphor!

Yi Jiang

Okay... maybe I shouldn't sign up for it so quickly... I have no idea what to do now

radp

@YiJiang I never had a problem with notifications -- at least on Chrome, pinned tabs flash when their title changes :)

Opera adds a blue dot to such tabs too

Yi Jiang

@radp Ah... well, good for you

rchern

4:28 PM

@YiJiang, github is where i have my repository and issue tracker. github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts

Yi Jiang

Firefox needs a little more coaxing

@radp Yeah, I know of that feature for quite a while now

rchern

i wish chrome had better support for permanently pinned tabs

Shog9

If it makes you feel any better, I didn't know Chrome had support for pinned tabs at all until just right now

radp

@rchern hm? it works well

especially for those pesky sites that award you for frequently visiting them

Popular Demand

@radp Ugh, those sites are the worst. What rubbish.

Unrelated: 79 consecutive days and counting!

radp

4:40 PM

I'd have got the Fanatic badge long ago hadn't my mobile took a dive in the Mediterranean :(

now I'm merely halfway there.

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I don't think anyone gets Fanatic on the first try. There's always some tragic accident on day [80 < x < 100].

Tim Stone

4.7k 3 4 10

.htaccess mod-rewrite apache redirect url-rewriting php java

coughs

Popular Demand

0 questions, 219 answers? Well look who thinks he's Clever Dan.

Tim Stone

No, I just don't have interesting questions. :(

jjnguy

@PopularDemand I had a tragic vacation to Mexico that effed me the first try.

:)

radp

4:45 PM

@PopularDemand I envy that!

jjnguy

106 days and counting though!

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@radp Right?

radp

I have 8 questions and 97 answers.

I solved more problem than I created, in a way.

jjnguy

43 / 546

Shog9

Fanatic is a pointless badge. Sportsmanship is where it's at

jjnguy

4:46 PM

@Shog9 Do you have it?

Shog9

um... well, yeah, but it's still pointless

Yi Jiang

Eh.. can someone point me to an idiot's guide to using git?

jjnguy

@Shog9 I think it's a great idea

radp

@Shog9 It'd be poor sportsmanship to get the sportsmanship badge just for the sportsmanship badge's sake

Popular Demand

@Shog9 Hm, I would like to see my Sportsmanship progress. I upvote "competing answers" on SO all the time. Or at least, I feel like I do.

Yi Jiang

4:46 PM

All the flashing buttons and weird colors are making me feel uneasy

balpha

@YiJiang sure -- use mercurial's GIT import function

jjnguy

@YiJiang Stick to TFS

;)

Shog9

@PopularDemand I'm curious if deleted answers count

jjnguy

@Shog9 I'd guess not. They usually don't count anywhere else.

Yi Jiang

Eh... -1 to both of you

radp

4:47 PM

@yij I think most of hginit.com applies to git too

Shog9

That's a shame though. If you delete your answer and up-vote a competitor, you should get a SuperSportsman badge.

radp

the part where they differ the most is fixing goofs I'm afraid

I suck at fixing goofs in git

jjnguy

@Shog9 True, but I wonder how often that happens...

radp

> Imagine you want to do a major experiment on the side. Your boss hired a new designer, Jim, and lately the specs you’ve been getting from him are just absurd. There’s fluorescent green text, nothing lines up (for “artistic” reasons), and the usability is awful.

jjnguy

(Well, I guess I've done it a bunch...)

radp

4:50 PM

I didn't know Joel was psychic! (I'm sorry Jin)

Shog9

@jjnguy Unfortunately, I have no good way to determine that.

Popular Demand

@Shog9 Nah. I'd have that. The problem I see with your joke and the real badge is that people like me (i.e. think they know more than they do) will get them for being not-very-good at what they do.

radp

cough peer pressure cough

Shog9

@PopularDemand Recognizing that you don't know as much as you think you know is worthwihle

@radp that's for deleting bad answers

(well, down-voted answers)

Popular Demand

@Shog9 It doesn't really show sportsmanship.

radp

4:51 PM

@Shog9 disciplined, then. (I was really replying about badges that award you for being not very good at what you do.)

jjnguy

@Shog9 Agreed, that's super important to learning new stuff

Shog9

Disciplined comes pretty close

It saddens me to see questions with multiple duplicate answers

radp

@Shog9 I look at time stamps and flag the newest every time I notice.

Popular Demand

@Shog9 I got mad five minutes ago at an answer that was just a link dump that didn't even spell the product name correctly.

Shog9

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Q: How do I generate a random number in java between 450 and 150 that is a multiple of 10?

So far I have this code int w = (int)((450-150)*random()+150); This generates a number between 450 and 150... But I have no idea how to make that number a multiple of 10. Thanks in advance!

java homework random-number-generator

@radp I just down-vote.

Popular Demand

4:53 PM

And it turned out to be horribly wrong because the OP was already using the library that was linked to.

Shog9

flags evaporate

radp

That +120 rep will stick forever instead I guess

Popular Demand

... and someone canceled out my downvote.

radp

Make that +128.

@Shog9 Well, here the two answers were posted between four seconds of each other

Shog9

@radp ...followed a minute or so later by a much better answer

radp

4:55 PM

so I'll upvote the one that merely hints to the solution

as much as it annoys me to generate rep for this kind of questions.

Shog9

There were three answers posted with almost identical solutions, two of them originally buggy

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How can you answer a question in which the OP doesn't even know what she's asking?

jjnguy

Easy

Shog9

The sportsman-like thing to do would be to recognize that you were fast at the expense of accuracy, and delete your answer in favor of the player who got it right and fast.

jjnguy

You know enough about the problem space to have seen a similar question that the new ambiguous question can be mapped to

Popular Demand

4:57 PM

@jjnguy In general, okay. But I'm thinking of this question specifically:

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Q: How to derive desired sequence from a string using standard java api?

I need to get parts of a string in a particular format. Tried everything from split, substring to pattern and matcher. but everytime it fails with one of the requirements. Suppose str = (((abc) shdj (def) iueexs (ghi)) mkek ONE(tree23) bjm (twooo(bug OR bag)) mvnj THR-EE(<*>$##)) And te...

java

rchern

@radp is there a way to manage the pinned tabs without editing the shortcut properties?

@PopularDemand some people do ^__^

Popular Demand

@rchern And you wonder why so many people always seem to be against you.

rchern

haha

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(Hint: it's because you keep changing your smiley orientation. Pick one and stick with it!)

Congrats on Fanatic, by the way.

rchern

(: ^__^

Shog9

5:01 PM

Need Zealot badge. Like fanatic, but with more screaming.

Popular Demand

@Shog9 And ritual sacrifice?

rchern

to be fair, i had screwed up with the electronics site. if there was any proposal to fail, haha

Shog9

@PopularDemand MORE screaming!

Popular Demand

@Shog9 Eat all your unicorn waffles!

rchern

can you get Fanatic on the per-site metas? i missed a day on WA's meta, but i don't see it awarded on other per-site metas...

Popular Demand

5:04 PM

@rchern Good question. MSO?

radp

@rchern can you please rephrase that in English? :)

rchern

@radp, pretty sure i already did (: what don't understand?

Yi Jiang

@rchern You mean shifting tabs around without using the mouse?

rchern

@PopularDemand, yeah i'm looking for info on the per-site metas. i know it said you can earn badges there, so i'm looking to see if there were any exceptions

radp

@rchern uh, are you pinning tabs by editing bookmarks?

rchern

5:06 PM

can't find it though

Popular Demand

@rchern The only exception I'm aware of at the moment is Beta.

rchern

@radp, sorry i meant permanently pinned tabs. this is the only way i know of to manage them, which i wouldn't call fantastic support

Popular Demand

Apparently you can't offer bounties, which means the badges for offering bounties can't be earned.

radp

@rchern [this]?

rchern

no fanatics issued on MWA, MSF, MSU, MAU

yeah, i'm not sure i understand the no bounties on per-site metas

radp

5:10 PM

er, @rchern, I've only ever used the "pin tab" inbuilt feature

so long as Chromium closes cleanly and the last window to be closed is the one with the pinned tabs, you'll get them again on the next restart

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@rchern There are five Enthusiasts on MWA/MNTI.

rchern

@radp, i have too many tabs to have them all in one window. for instance i have a window that only has tabs for the StackExchange network.

Yi Jiang

@rchern TabCandy!

rchern

?

Yi Jiang

@rchern azarask.in/blog/post/tabcandy

rchern

5:15 PM

1) why would i use firefox?, 2) that's a lot of mouse usage there (;

Yi Jiang

@rchern Don't make me come over and bash you over the head with my keyboard like I did with Mr. Greasemonkey over there

Tim Stone

shakes fist at Greasemonkey

jjnguy

@radp What is your Gravatar?

rchern

@YiJiang o:

Yi Jiang

How do you set which editor GM uses? It's defaulting to Notepad on Windows, which is killing me

Tim Stone

5:23 PM

@YiJiang about:config greasemonkey.editor

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Thanks

Popular Demand

@YiJiang Notepad? Real programmers use write.exe.

Yi Jiang

@PopularDemand Wordpad? Who the hell uses that?

Popular Demand

@YiJiang What? Is that what that does? I meant the blue screen DOS program.

(Though I will sometimes use WordPad to preserve formatting of something I'm copy/pasting.)

Fosco

edit.com

Shog9

5:27 PM

@PopularDemand That was "edit" i think. Or "DOS Edit". Not sure what the official name was.

Yi Jiang

@Fosco Oooo... Windows 3.1

Fosco

@YiJiang it's still around in every version of windows.

Shog9

That said, I will sometimes use WordPad to screw up the formatting of something I'm testing.

Just to see how horrible it'll look on systems without Word installed.

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MS-DOS Editor

__NOTOC__ MS-DOS Editor is a text editor that comes with MS-DOS (since version 5) and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. Originally (up to MS-DOS 6.22) it was actually QBasic running in editor mode. With DOS 7 (Windows 95), QBasic was removed and MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program. Editor is sometimes used as a substitute for Notepad on Windows 9x, where Notepad is limited to small files only. Editor can edit files that are up to 65,279 lines and up to approximately 5 MB in size. MS-DOS versions are limited to approximately 300 KB, depending on how much conventional m...

Shog9

NOTOC!!!!

Yi Jiang

5:28 PM

@PopularDemand "65,279 lines" That's a lot better than what notepad.exe can do...

Popular Demand

@Shog9 Gasp!

Shog9

Please tell me they've fixed that stupid 16-bit Notepad limitation by now...

Fosco

notepad is terrible =\

Shog9

It's been a long, long time since I last used DOS's editor. But somehow, I don't remember it being as bad as Notepad still is.

Yi Jiang

@rchern Why does /list take a number now?

rchern

5:33 PM

it does?

Yi Jiang

list: function (id) {
    var args = { "tab": "all", "sort": "active" };
    if (id != null) {
        validateArgs(1, ["number"]);
        args.filter = id;
    }

rchern

hmm, that should be string not number

and the variable should technically be match rather than id if we're following convention i guess

Yi Jiang

@rchern Eh... convention? What convention?

Tim Stone

The convention.

...this phone conference really needs to end, I'm starting to zone out, heh.

Yi Jiang

@rchern Also, since all instances of isNumber really should be determining whether input is an integer, shouldn't parseInt be used instead of parseFloat?

Since message ID 245859.12 is going to pass that test

rchern

5:40 PM

fork it or create (;

Yi Jiang

@rchern Forked, but I still don't know how to use this

Also, what do those buttons do? Especially the one that says commit

rchern

you fork it to get a local copy that you modify and then commit changes that i could then merge back into the main branch

Yi Jiang

@rchern Eh... right

radp

@jjnguy 10101!!

jjnguy

@radp Ok, but it is written in the game of life?

radp

5:48 PM

It could've been 101010 but that'd have been one eye too many.

so I dropped a 0.

big deal.

get all technical on it, will you.

:P

jjnguy

I'm confused...

it's supposed to look like a face too?

radp

Tim Stone

I've always assumed it was related to his other gravatar:

radp

Tim Stone

Oh, I was right. :P

radp

5:52 PM

4 bit, grayscale, freehand drawn half 42.

jjnguy

Ah...ok

radp

I'd love to say that once I noticed that my clothes' colour was too dark and the image seemed to read 10101 I went with it, but it was really planned

or maybe it's the other way around.

Popular Demand

Sep 29 at 17:49, by Popular Demand

@radp "10101"? Isn't that just the old avatar, desaturated and set to b&w mode?

Sep 29 at 17:50, by radp

@PopularDemand sssh, you're busting my ninja face

Tim Stone

It is surprisingly difficult to see the #121212 pixels in there :P

Yi Jiang

@radp Watch as the opacity of the gravatar decreases - you'll be able to see the circle at some point

radp

5:56 PM

@YiJiang That's why I'm the most active user :P

@TimStone It actually looks pretty distinct from #00000 on my laptop monitor

(and almost black on my external monitor)

Yi Jiang

opacity: 0.5

Popular Demand

@YiJiang Fancy trick.

Tim Stone

Hah, nice.

Yi Jiang

6:12 PM

@rchern Off to sleep now, I've just pushed the changes through. Erm... at least I think that's what I did.

Byeeeee...!

radp

nite

rchern

@YiJiang, you committed it to your forked branch, but i don't see a pull request on my end

Yi Jiang

@rchern Eh... what does that mean?

rchern

@MichaelMrozek, can you explain? i've never tried to push a forked branch back >_>

Michael Mrozek

After you push back to github there's a "pull request" button on the github site you can click

It's not strictly necessary, the upstream maintainer can pull whenever they want, it just alerts them that you want them to pull

(if I understand it correctly)

Yi Jiang

6:25 PM

@MichaelMrozek Okay

rchern

and gives a nice summary of the changes and lets you discuss

rchern

6:37 PM

this is quite suspicious!

> Replaced /list and /highlights with my version, because they are obviously superior ;)

ChrisF

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Q: Not got the Suffrage badge on SO (or SU) despite hitting the vote limit

Related to this question, but the opposite problem. I know that I've hit the vote limit several times on Stack Overflow and Super User, yet I haven't been awarded the Suffrage badge. The only thing I can think of is that at least one of the posts I voted for on those days have been deleted, thu...

support badges votes

Jeff's comment has annoyed me.

Lance Roberts

@ChrisF, yep, I should have got one on Superuser, I'm thinking you're on to something with the deleted posts

ChrisF

It would be nice to have a statement along those lines - I know it's essentially unprovable, but "we can't count votes on posts that have since been deleted, so you might not get this badge even though you think you should" would do

Still I need to vote on some more questions on SU anyway - get a move on with the Electorate badge - I've been neglecting it lately

Michael Mrozek

@rchern I would make fun of you, but I'm trying to stay on your good side until my commit is merged. Then the mocking will begin

ChrisF

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A: Need smallest possible images for iPad that can zoom to 200% without losing quality

The iPad screen is 1024-by-768 so to view images at 200% zoom with no pixelation you are going to need an image that's 2048 x 1546. Possible solutions: Find or write an image viewer that does interpolation between the pixels for the higher zoom values. The images won't be pixelated, but it wil...

Annoyed about the downvote on this too.

rchern

6:50 PM

@MichaelMrozek, LOL. ya know i was going to merge it, but maybe i should leave it pending for a while in that case (;

ChrisF

I had a comment about the dpi being irrelevant for displays when the OP is talking about pixel sizes!

Happier now I've vented

Shog9

Don't you understand? It's 1024x768 @ 132dpi! The pixels are higher-quality than the ones on a PC!!

(where's this 72dpi thing coming from anyway? Wretched Mac users...)

Fosco

7:23 PM

I really wish 'Stupid' was a close reason...

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Q: Alternatives to If-else Statement

I was looking at this question today and I started thinking about alternatives to if. What are the most common ones out there? I know Ruby has an unless but that's just an if backwards. It also has one-line tack-if-at-end-of-line things, which we have in Java/C# but we usually put in a carriage r...