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1:54 AM
Enthusiast eh? Hm. :P
In my defense, I have wanted to contribute more.
 
 
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3:40 AM
@TimStone Me too, but I am always so far behind the latest and greatest games, I have trouble
 
@TheUnhandledException Yeah, I have a ton of stuff on my to-play list, heheh. I think that Minecraft is next, since I can get my hands on that right now.
 
Minecraft, that's all I hear about, LOL
I need to check that out
I'm playing through Metroid Prime 3 (in case you couldn't tell, LOL)
and yes I know that game's like 3 years old, lol
 
Yeah, I decided to cave, hahah.
Ah, nice. I actually haven't played it...not really sure why.
I actually have played very few of the Metroid games. I think they just typically end up coming out at times when I'm either playing something else, or am busy, and then I forget, heh.
 
I <3 Metroid although I only played Metroid 1 and Super Metroid before Prime 3
Super Metroid was a truly awesome game
 
My favourite series at the moment is Mass Effect, heh.
 
3:56 AM
I'll have to check that out :-)
LOL, I love it when the answer to your question "How do I do x ?" is "You can't"</sarcasm>
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Q: How do you steer the screw attack in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption?

JoshWhen I received the screw attack in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, I was told that I could steer while using it by using <icon>, where the icon appeared to be the analog stick on the nunchuck. But try as I might, no matter what direction on the nunchuck's analog stick I press, I always go str...

From a 10+K user too, LOL
 
Heh :P
 
@rchern sheds a tear It was so unexpected!
 
don't just read the headline (;
 
@rchern Ah, the bit about the Q&A? :P
 
4:08 AM
(;
 
@rchern I think they like to fail. ;)
 
Maybe StackExchange can buy out ask.com?
How's "webapplications.ask.com" as a domain name @rchern??
XD
 
haha there ya go
 
Webmasters should be wheresmytraffic.ask.com
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4:14 AM
haha
and of course cooking: nomnomnom.ask.com
 
Heheh
 
OK. Time for a little TV and then bed for me. Good night Tim and rchern!
 
G'night! Enjoy
 
 
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5:48 AM
@rchern I spent the last 20 some minutes playing with that jsfiddle, argh. :P
 
6:08 AM
Addicting, I know. |:
 
6:33 AM
sigh, this guy is trolling / spamming: stackoverflow.com/users/502825/user502825
 
@ahsteele, flag as spam
 
@Benjol I did
@Benjol just annoying
 
me too :)
he will be nuked shortly :)
 
@Benjol sometimes I wish you could just flag the account ;)
 
well, flagging all of his posts is a good start
 
6:46 AM
Was this custom-made for SO?
 
@Benjol I just flagged the first five answers, then ran out of spam votes.
 
@LanceRoberts, woops
maybe we need to slow down and share them out :)
all the mods are sleeping? :)
 
@Benjol yeah I am out as well
 
Well, the first answer just disappeared.
 
I've got one left, which ones haven't you flagged?
 
ok, flagged, I guess I'm all out too (it's 5?)
 
@Benjol which seems kind of low
 
@ahsteele, do you get them back when they nuke the post?
 
@Benjol I'd guess mods would have more but you'd think the number would go up the more rep you have
@Benjol no idea
I feel a meta question coming on
 
@ahsteele, knowing meta, the question and answer are already there... somewhere :)
 
6:56 AM
@Benjol lol so true if I ask it'll get closed as exact dupe, no repro, or bydesign :P
 
@ahsteele, ok voted up the question.+ comment
 
@Benjol cool, well I am exhausted ... time for sleep
 
night ;)
 
@Benjol night
 
7:34 AM
@rchern Your minions need you!
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Q: Seeing more than 15 posts on Get Satsifaction

DanOn the Get Satisfaction website, how do I see more than the last 15 replies Four example on this topic, we see this message: Due to volume, only the 15 most recent replies are being displayed There doesn't appear to be any official way to show more? is there a back door way?

Create the [get-satisfaction] tag for this question
 
8:06 AM
@YiJiang, morning
 
8:25 AM
@Benjol Afternoon
 
Already? ok
looks at map, blushes at geographical ignorance...
 
 
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10:10 AM
Okay, this is hilarious
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Q: Seeing more than 15 posts on Get Satsifaction

DanOn the Get Satisfaction website, how do I see more than the last 15 replies Four example on this topic, we see this message: Due to volume, only the 15 most recent replies are being displayed There doesn't appear to be any official way to show more? is there a back door way?

A 1.2k'er just added the [get-satsifaction] tag. I don't know if he's been deliberately obtuse but...
@rchern Once again, where are you when WA needs you?
 
Nice :) that's one way to get taxonomist, I guess
 
Okay, wait, what is the rep limit for creating new tags?
Because I just went in and fixed the typo... even though I thought I can't
Well, whatever, just congratulate me for been the creator of the [get-satisfaction] tag
 
10:25 AM
Couldn't find any with unicorns, sorry :)
erm, do you mind if I remove that now? It's hurting my eyes!
 
 
3 hours later…
1:26 PM
oh, heh.
 
 
> Wildcards are not supported YET but should be within the next 24 hours.
That would be why I was having so many problems with the new homepage sorting.
 
@Benjol You didn't try really hard :) first image for "congrats unicorn"
@rchern new sorting?.. the only view i use is questions/new.
 
Posted by Jeff Atwood on November 9th, 2010

As I mentioned in The Horror of No Answer: Revival and Necromancer:

It’s fine — expected, even — for there to be a “long tail” of questions that are too obscure, too narrow, or just plain unanswerable for whatever reason. Sometimes you have to be patient; it takes the time it takes. But seeing the number of zero-answer questions grow by 50% over a 3 month period is definitely concerning.

Part of this is our fault for not adapting the homepage to the massive amount of question activity that Stack Overflow now enjoys. We’re working on it, but it will take some time to figure out the right approach.  …

 
@rchern ty
 
1:30 PM
at risk of opening myself up to abuse, do you think someone could flag this. I don't need all of you to flag it - but any 10k-ers may wish to reload the page and provide flamage-abuse [er, constructive feedback, I mean] to the tweaks...
(in particular, the flags disk on your avatar should now behave differently)
 
Flag what?
 
huh? Sorry - I meant add a spam/offensive flag on the "at risk of..."
 
flagged.
 
maybe you should have metioned they need to reload the page first...
 
Thanks @Fosco. Unfortunately you don't have the 10k needed to see the change that makes, but it is there for discovery now. Cheers.
 
1:39 PM
@Fosco yours isn't animated :)
 
@Benjol depends what you're on when looking at it :)
 
@Fosco, a pogo stick? :)
 
 
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2:51 PM
yawns
 
@TimStone Hey, +1000 for Rangy.
 
Everyone, there's now a GlobalAuth test & help page on chat.stackexchange that tests some common issues. If you're having trouble logging in to chat.se, please check out that page (it's linked from the login page, too).
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@YiJiang Hooray! I'm confused, but I'll go with it.
 
@TimStone Oh, so it was another Tim Stone?
 
...I don't know? :P
What are we talking about?
 
2:55 PM
With exception to the fact that it's pretty heavy, it means that I won't have to touch the Range and Selection API Ever Again!!!!
throws arms into the air and cheers loudly
 
Ah ha
While range and selection pisses me off to the extent where I might be compelled to write something like that, I can't take credit this time. ;)
 
haha i just got freaking buried on a SQL question.. and I still think I'm right and the OP is an idiot.
 
@balpha I'll personally just continue not ever having problems with chat.SE I think, but that's a nifty page for people with those issues, good stuff. :)
@Fosco What's the question?
 
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Q: Why SQL can't infer tables dependencies when dropping multiple tables with constraints ?

Alois CochardGreetings, It's a general SQL question not tied to any specific implementation but more on global concepts. Let's take a simple example, I have 2 tables: User (with FK on Group) Group Why when doing DROP TABLE group, user; the server can't infer tables dependency and reorder table names int...

I deleted my answer.
 
Yeaaaaaah....The hell?
 
3:00 PM
To me it's f*n obvious... DROP groups, users; it tries to validate 'DROP groups' and there's a constraint with users, so you can't drop it and it fails.
why should SQL infer that since the next table you're dropping is users, that its OK to drop groups.
 
As the other answer points out, PostgreSQL actually allows for this using CASCADE, and then the OP whines that its an implementation "hack"
 
yeah..
i really got buried because i questioned how often he is dropping those tables and whether or not constraints are necessary in his scenario
and i analogized constraints to training wheels
 
SQL should just support SELECT * FROM EVERYWHERE WHERE IWANTTHIS=TRUE
problem solved
 
exactly.
 
Well, it's true that you shouldn't try to jam bad data into the database, but the relationship constraints are somewhat semantic as well.
 
3:03 PM
> Constraints are like training wheels... It's there to stop the bike from tipping over. However, if you just don't tip over, you don't need training wheels. You could manage the key in your application logic without requiring the database constraint.
 
@TimStone It's Tim Down, apparently. Yeah, I'm not very good with names
 
> @Fosco, that's about the silliest comment I've ever seen. It indicates a total lack of understanding of the role of the database engine.
 
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A: Cross Browser Selection Range Library?

Tim DownI've recently been working on a cross-browser Range and selection library called Rangy. In its current version it's not dissimilar in concept to IERange but goes beyond it in terms of implementation of the DOM level 2 Range and HTML 5 selection specifications, and also in terms of stability and w...

 
@YiJiang +10 for thinking to give me credit despite that though, I like the initiative.
 
@TimStone No, I just blame me mixing up people with the same first name
 
3:04 PM
+10: REVOKED then.
 
There are four people called "Matthew" in the club I'm in at school.
I had a really fun time trying to figure out who's who
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Q: the element which has no children returns nothing

subhathe element which has no children returns nothing including null.. then how can we use the return value?

> Ancient chinese proverb say "the element which has no children returns nothing". Please add some detail to your question. – Andy E
^ + 1000 to this comment
 
"nothing including null"
That's a pretty special nothing.
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Q: [Solved] PHP faked multiple inheritance - having object attributes set in fake parent class available in extended class

sandeepanI have used faking of multiple inheritance as given in Can I extend a class using more than 1 class in PHP? Notice that class A actually extends class B and faking is done for extending from class C. It was working fine until I needed an attribute set in a function of class C to be available in...

scratches head
Why does everyone always want to find a way to make multiple inheritance work?
 
heyOHHHH
 
Hahah
 
in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 hour ago, by Yi Jiang
人之初,性本善。性相近,习相远。 -> Man's nature is good. Sex, Distinct far.
Google Translate's take on Ancient Chinese Proverbs
I maintain that the Google Translate engineer's are dirty
 
3:17 PM
this is Google's translation of (what I think are) two people on chat.SO talking about cloning the chat:
> Oh, not afraid of him? Is not to find people to do or cattle do we can do it slowly. This can be learned, very cattle. Death is all deeply attached to each network in our hands The following icons also suggest someone replies to your speech. Too much bad, and the details of everywhere experience
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haha
what room is this?
 
@rchern Translation Party, of course!
 
heh
 
Heheh :P
 
3:23 PM
Hehe... I can translate those messages in that room if you want
Quite a lot of slang though. I've not kept up with Chinese internet language.
 
@TimStone, I added in that id attribute to my code so that once the business people convince the vendor to modify their code we're all set. My head hurts just looking at an id like that.
 
@YiJiang what'S ICANHAZCHEESEBURGER in chinese? :)
 
@balpha They're basically talking about how cool the chat is.
 
@rchern Yeah, the browsers spent so much time trying to prevent you from accidentally sharing information between the pages that they forgot you might actually want to do so :/
 
They want to copy the chat functions for one of their own projects
They talked about the reply system as well as the oneboxing system
And praised the people who built it for their attention to details
 
3:26 PM
yeah it's copy-worthy... best compliment ever!
 
cool -- and which part of that did google turn into cattle?
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> It's revolution about chat.
 
@balpha The part about the users, no doubt.
 
@balpha 很牛 in Chinese literally mean "very cow", but is actually slang for erm...
I can't find a good translation for that phrase
 
user image
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3:27 PM
hahahaha
that's what my cat looks like
if, ya know, it wasn't wearing a cow costume
 
That's what my cow looks like, if there weren't a cat where the limbs and face should be
 
i got a cat last week (a stray that had a collar)... took it to the vet yesterday and found out what it was. Burmese Tortoiseshell.. the vet said 'thats a very expensive cat', then charged me $260 for shots.
maybe he meant, 'thats going to be a very expensive cat' ? :)
 
Okay, that phrase, 很牛 should be translated as "very cool", in a over-the-top way
 
@Fosco I think they run for a grand or two, actually. Unless I'm mistaken them for another breed.
 
So every time Google tells you they're talking about cows they're actually admiring the chat for how cool it is
 
3:31 PM
Hahah
 
@YiJiang That sentence makes so little sense without context, I have to get that on a T-Shirt
 
@balpha Well, you'll just have to take my word for it. Google Translate can't handle slang I think
 
no, I mean this sentence:
1 min ago, by Yi Jiang
So every time Google tells you they're talking about cows they're actually admiring the chat for how cool it is
I believe you :)
 
@balpha There's your first mistake.
 
Hm, do I want to get into a grammar fight with someone in MSO comments... decisions, decisions....
 
3:35 PM
@PopularDemand You already know the answer is yes.
You also know to link us.
 
@TimStone Actually, I was going to go with "no," but I will link you.
 
@PopularDemand As long as you completely ignore their original point while you do it
 
Sep 15 at 21:43, by balpha
SE sites need a "This question was recently mentioned in a chat room. Don't be surprised by incomprehensible edit wars" notification
 
Especially now that I added comment highlighting to the userscript so I can know what comment you actually linked to without going to the DOM
Ah ha, yeah...
 
3:38 PM
@TimStone You did what now?
 
@PopularDemand just edit the post to say "It was only a few hours previouser that I had"
always go for compromise
 
@balpha That'll just lead to "I'm not going to roll back, but 'earli' would've been a better compromise."
 
I unagree
 
That
 
@TimStone Ah, nice. Doesn't the link automatically take you to the right comment, though?
 
3:43 PM
Yeah, except in cases where the page isn't long enough to scroll.
 
@TimStone geez, someone should really handle those pull requests already
 
The highlight is supposed to fade like questions, and it was...but it seems broke now, hrm.
@rchern For realz ;)
Also, before you couldn't link to comments that were hidden, but if the person you're linking to has the script, those will work now too.
 
@TimStone They're probably using something like the jQuery color plugin. I'll have a look
 
Huh, treble (v) = triple (v). Thanks, BBC World Service!
 
        	var finalColor = '#FFF';
            $('#answer-4146204').animate({ backgroundColor:finalColor }, 2000, 'linear', function() {
            	    // shove the hex color into an element to easily compare rbg() numbers
            		var test = $('<span></span>').css('background-color', finalColor);
            		if ($(this).css('background-color') != test.css('background-color')) {
            			$(this).css('background-color', finalColor);
            		}

            	}
            );
@YiJiang
 
3:46 PM
@TimStone, getting a js error in Chrome from SEMod
 
Uh oh >_>
 
@TimStone Okay, they're definitely using the jQuery color plugin
 
I tested it this time too..hrm. What's the error?
 
..
 
3:50 PM
seems to mostly work.
 
I swear, one more question like this, and I'll start referring to WA as "the site where people don't have eyes"
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A: How do I disable Google Instant Previews?

Yi JiangYou can use the menu found on the side of the search box.

 
status-norepo
@rchern, you didn't have to knock chat offline just because I couldn't repo your bug. :P
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Hmmm... is chat working now?
 
seems to be back
 
Hoorah
 
4:03 PM
Hurray
 
Chat's back, and it brought @AidenBell with it
'Ello
 
@rchern Possible WA -> SO candidate?
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Q: What is a good method for auto-testing a customers API credentials on Authorize.Net?

wahtimswa1970In our app, customers put in their own unique API credentials for Authorize.Net. So basically, each customer account has a different Login ID and Transaction Key, as supplied by Authorize.Net. We're a shopping cart type product. We have problems with customers entering the wrong thing or not cop...

 
@TimStone - Hello - I arrived on the cosmic ray that knocked out the chat
 
Ah, the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together now
 
@YiJiang I'm wary of any question with a title of "What is a good *"
Also "Best [mroozek] for [barchern]"
 
4:07 PM
@PopularDemand Yeah, go great or go home.
 
@PopularDemand I'm starting to think anything that has more than three paragraph doesn't really belong on WA
@PopularDemand Go for [barchern]. Fits the Tavern theme
 
@YiJiang Gosh, if you took the time to read the question, you'd see I'm already using [barchern]. What I need is the best [mroozek].
 
@PopularDemand Oh dear. I blame WA for my drop in reading skills
Also, I'm spinning the wheel for this spade of timeouts
 
The wheel tells me that it's Jin's fault, but that seems unlikely.
 
@TimStone He could be fiddling with chat.se's @-mention color
 
4:12 PM
Ah, maybe the next issue will be Jin's fault, as I was a bit late in spinning the wheel.
 
What is all this about [barchern] o:
 
@rchern A new product of the SuperColliding DropDown, of course
 
@rchern I decided not to ask
 
hrmmmmmmmm
may have screwed something up royally.
 
@YiJiang I was looking for a source link in "Question title that doesn't describe the problem," but I actually can't find one.
 
4:14 PM
That error is actually coming from SEChatMod, but on the site's /questions page, not chat.
 
@rchern You were there.
Nov 6 at 23:40, by radp
@PopularDemand foo → mroozek
 
Why is the chat script triggering on the sites >_>
Especially since we've already discovered that meta changes (ie, @include) requires a full uninstall/install whereas I just did a disable/enable
 
Oh, so it's not my fault? Hooray! ;)
But yeah, good question.
 
@TimStone TBD. (:
 
I still maintain that it's [status-norepo] :P
 
4:19 PM
@rchern Points to the Wheel. That, my friends, is the only way blame can get shared equally
 
@YiJiang Why share it equally if we can dump it all on, oh, say, Mrozek?
 
I did an uninstall and installed from the server and still it is triggering on the sites >_>
 
Hello
 
> yea i know :(, but until SO provides tactile feedback by way of electric shock, theres not alot that can be done about this really. – jasper 28 mins ago
 
@PopularDemand Mmmmhmmm... I smell a [feature-req]
 
4:24 PM
:)
I mean, its Friday right?
 
@Chacha102 Only Thursday here at GMT+8, we've gotta do better than that
 
@rchern Chrome fail!
 
Hello
 
'Ello @Chacha102, @spoulson
 
@TimStone Shush, she must not hear the bad news
 
4:26 PM
meta needs more creative user names
user image
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@YiJiang Already requested.
Already doing my part, balpha.
 
@PopularDemand you were my inspiration :)
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@balpha I will treasure this message forever.
Well, my day is complete on the Stack Exchange front, see you all tomorrow.
 
See ya
 
This is strange.
 
4:30 PM
@rchern No, this is stranger. MSO is the very definition of strange.
 
@rchern Strange enough not to be my fault, excellent.
 
Uninstalling, reinstalling, and restarting Chrome several times seems to have fixed it.
Nice work, @TimStone!
lol
 
Heheh, hoorah! ;)
 
now I'm back to only having sstatic errors hehe
 
Why are you getting those?
 
4:37 PM
Hello
 
Ah, the question I was looking at that had several comments was the glossary and it has the old sstatic links for a couple of the images.
 
Ah, heheh :)
All hail muffincat!
 
Its totally a meme...
 
(In this answer)
Meh. Pulling it out of the sprite conflicts with my be-lazy attitude right now haha.
 
4:47 PM
Yay! Physics Stack Exchange is now in public beta. http://physics.stackexchange.com/
 
Yay physics!
 
@TimStone Pffft. What has physics done for me lately?
 
A lot, theoretically.
 
What has Physics ever done for me?
 
@TimStone "Marge, in theory, communism works. In theory."
 
4:53 PM
@Chacha102 It's been propping up my GPA for quite a while now
 
Anyone else having connectivity issues?
 
Together with Computing of course
 
yeah
 
@balpha What, you mean you're not to blame?
 
@YiJiang What? You can be both a victim and the responsible party.
 
4:54 PM
"responsible party" -- that sounds like a warning label on a beer bottle
 
@balpha Yeah to me or yeah to a conversation I just walked into? ;-)
 
@TheUnhandledException yeah
 
If only it were actually 2 in the afternoon, hehe. Err, 1 now I guess, but still!
 
@rchern If only it were not 1 in the morning and I'm dosing off in front of my computer. But still!
 
4:55 PM
goes back to pretending to do work while actually sneaking time in to code XMPP write support
 
@TheUnhandledException I thought you said yesterday you couldn't do that because your job was in HyperUltraMegaDeathCatchupSurge mode.
 
The Wheel of Blame saiz:
There is no escape this time @balpha!
 
@PopularDemand I can't spend much time on it, but I'm frustrated by an issue I've been working on this morning and so am allowing myself no more than 30 minutes of "fun" coding time
be sure to remind me in 27 minutes that I should be working @PopularDemand ;-)
 
Can we stop considering [status-something] to be the easter egg here, and replace it with a Wheel of Blame?
 
@YiJiang your wheel isn't even a wheel
badly reinvented, I'd say
 
4:58 PM
@balpha Better than something which nobody else except you have seen
 
Feature Request: We want Eggs.WOB!
 
@rchern +1 because saying "Eggs.WOB" amuses me.
 

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