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Infinite Recursion

8:05 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@InfiniteRecursion Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad' and blacklisted user.

Infinite Recursion

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/q/137344/38388

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/137343/…

DroidDev

cv-plz dup stackoverflow.com/q/27011688/2389078

Infinite Recursion

Looks like Jan Dvorak is not reporting spam any longer ... hmm

DroidDev

Are you using some kind of random answer generator? — Selvin 2 mins ago

Andrew T.

8:24 AM

It might be that he has gone to Facebook

DroidDev

Lols

hichris123

8:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 86.4712: where to buy gold wow eu safe and cheap on gamedev.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

@hichris123 tpu

SPAM

SPArchaeologist

9:21 AM

someone upvoted my old proposal for the scouter hat in the old winter bash proposal thread.

seems people are starting looking around for bash info.

Unihedron

Do you get to know which hats are unlocked by which actions or are they easter eggs you have to discover yourself?

Jan Dvorak

It was part known, part surprise the last year

euphoria overlord

Does anybody on meta

actually check flags

meta.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/187194

all flags 7 hours ago

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Tools With Soliders by davidkalia000 on drupal.stackexchange.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 97.7954: Muscle Building Tools With Soliders on drupal.stackexchange.com

euphoria overlord

9:26 AM

no response

Vogel612's Shadow

@euphoriaoverlord um... you do know we can't see your flag summary, right?

euphoria overlord

oh

;_;

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector nuked instantly?!

euphoria overlord

too chatty – euphoria overlord 7 hours ago active
too chatty – euphoria overlord 7 hours ago active
too chatty – euphoria overlord 7 hours ago active
too chatty – euphoria overlord 7 hours ago active
too chatty – euphoria overlord 7 hours ago active
too chatty – euphoria overlord 7 hours ago active

Does nobody even check flags?

Vogel612's Shadow

@euphoriaoverlord comment flags are the lowest priority flags. This means if there's more pressing matters, such flags will not get processed

additionally flagging "too chatty" is problematic on meta, since meta is different...

Unihedron

9:34 AM

@euphoriaoverlord Maybe your flags are harder to be handled. What did you actually flag? My flags goes through being marked as helpful pretty quickly.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Supplement by anita ree on meta.stackexchange.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 88.3613: Muscle Building Supplement on meta.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

And as Vog said, since this is Meta "too chatty" flags would probably be declined unless it's really problematic. Which it hardly will be (not for seven messages in a row at least)

DroidDev

@Unihedron are you trying to make the guy jealous :P

Unihedron

@DroidDev Eh, just a comparison. Didn't mean to bring jealousy.

DroidDev

9:38 AM

@Unihedron lol, just kidding ;)

Oded

@MartijnPieters I can see it there... (just saw that ping - missed it yesterday)

bummi

Recommendation stackoverflow.com/q/3793112/1699210

Infinite Recursion

10:04 AM

@euphoriaoverlord Sometimes too chatty flags are handled within seconds. My conversation with Won't was instantly nuked when someone flagged them :(

Nov 14 at 15:09, by bluefeet

soo many comments to flag as too chatty

Martijn Pieters

@Oded Yeah, I suspected that a new day would straighten out the log.

Oded

status-norepro

Martijn Pieters

Discrepancies usually are, which is why I didn't post a bug report.

It was very reproducible yesterday, and a line drop like that doesn't happen that often.

Sure, the system self-corrects, but it could be there is an underlying problem that needs fixing anyway. :-)

Oded

Aye - though difficult to debug currently

Martijn Pieters

10:26 AM

@Oded I'll just keep pinging you and Marc whenever I come across it then, presumably it is easier on the day. :-)

Oded

Aye - should be. Thanks

Martijn Pieters

10:37 AM

spam: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243834/…

Oded

Destroyed

SPArchaeologist

A diamond!

Starting subliminal message....

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 59.0661: In my my iPhone application i am getting the “Received memory warning” on stackoverflow.com

SPArchaeologist

@Oded remember: we need at least one unicorn related hat in the winter bash :P

bummi

OT http://stackoverflow.com/q/26851566/1699210
OT http://stackoverflow.com/q/21246905/1699210

SPArchaeologist

10:42 AM

^ so subliminal, I should start a mentalism show with Derren Brown

Oded

Now, if only it were I that decided on hats, your plan would have worked.

Martijn Pieters

10:59 AM

I feel strangely compelled to not break the pattern: meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/stats

I mean, 2110, 4120, 6130.. there is a natural progression there, don't you think?

rene

@MartijnPieters Yeah, breaking that would cause havoc....

Unihedron

First world meta problems

rene

Just let me know when there is something to close vote. I really need to be in the top close voters list on MSE as well....

SPArchaeologist

@Oded I confide that you good heart, strong sense of justice, iron will, and sense of duty (not to forget your vulnerability to compliments) will entrust you with the holy quest of making your user happy by having a purple horn hat, at the cost of convincing your co-workers with elegant diplomacy, civil rhetoric and a big, wooden mace.

Bart

Or you can just borrow my smiting stick

Frank

11:28 AM

Er... good morning, all...

SPArchaeologist

@Frank dear cat, you should work on your initial dash charging, but you got the basic idea.

Frank

@SPArchaeologist How's this:

SPArchaeologist

@Frank dear cat. If you needed to ping @SiameseCat you should have just used standard chat message instead of swimming from America to Siam. But atlas you seem to have got his attention, just hope he is still awake when you manage to return to your pc

Martijn Pieters

11:53 AM

@rene I know, right?

Infinite Recursion

feature-request introduce 100k privilege threshold to post random cat gifs in the tavern

2

cv-pls migrate stackoverflow.com/q/26991052/2982225

Bart

Waaaah, change happened on MSO ... waaah!!!

Frank

@johnson316, most blind people do have eyeballs. — A E 17 hours ago

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 87.4696: i can't understand this word problem on math.stackexchange.com

Frank

@InfiniteRecursion Oh, sorry about that...

Infinite Recursion

12:04 PM

@Frank just kidding. Nice gifs :D

@Bart It's not nice, cVplZ and Rafflesia Arnoldii have got accustomed to it, but I don't like it

Bart

It feels so ... generic @InfiniteRecursion

DroidDev

@InfiniteRecursion o ya, and don't forget the one with fox in it... :P

Infinite Recursion

It feels so gray and white @Bart, a lot like your avatar :P

Bart

People really have to stop looking at me for inspiration.

Infinite Recursion

Absolutely

Bart

12:10 PM

Meh, I'll see how I feel about it in some time. But it feels a bit like someone has turned on the generic template at the moment.

Infinite Recursion

All that empty space and whiteness hurts ones eyes after a while. You are lucky that you don't have eyes, only a pair of glasses.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DB2 ERRORCODE 4499 SQLSTATE=58009 by user3825907 on stackoverflow.com

Bart

@InfiniteRecursion I purely evaluated the new design based on touch. What it actually looks like I don't know.

Infinite Recursion

@Bart Touch with caution. Most of it is empty now.

Martijn Pieters

Oops, and I broke it.

The streak is gone, and only if hims or Toon return to reviewing can it ever be mended again.

hichris123

12:16 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 92.7513: Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again? on puzzling.stackexchange.com

user202362

12:31 PM

spending too much time on meta can't be too good for your mental health, especially when you are not a SE employee ...

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 98.5786: Old Question got deleted, I dont Know the reason. It has answer too on meta.stackexchange.com

Bart

@chmod711telkitty stop talking about me please.

cVplZ

12:51 PM

was there always so much blood on meta.SO or does there just appear to be more bloodish color since it's on a more white background?

@Bart it only took me like 15 minutes to get fully adjusted to it, don't cry, it will get better with time

cVplZ

1:10 PM

@uni has new proposal

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW LONG SHOULD BRAKE PADS LAST? by LEANDER ROBERTS on bicycles.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

Who summoned me here?

@cVplZ Oh hey! It's mine!

DroidDev

@Unihedron guess who followed it :D

Unihedron

!! :D

\o/

Haven't thought of questions to propose yet. I'll do that later.

curiousdannii

9

Q: How technical must the questions be?

I'm not quite clear on this line from the "How to Ask in the Private Beta" page: Stick to actual, real, objective questions with concrete answers that a working professional or expert in this field might encounter as a part of their actual, real, job. Does this mean that the site should ac...

discussion

I think we'd appreciate some staff feedback on this

DroidDev

1:22 PM

@Unihedron nothing is coming to my mind either, but, I am sure, I can use a site like that :D

Unihedron

@DroidDev That's what I thought too, and since PLT is closed, I made one for apis and libs

hichris123

1:45 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 56.1936: i cant update at all on askubuntu.com

jadarnel27

I like the new MSO design. I know you were all curious.

Jan Dvorak

Not a fan, actually

Shadow Wizard

@jadarnel27 new design?? rushes over to take a look

hmm... looks like they only changed the font? Or am I missing something?

jadarnel27

There seem to be a lot tweaks around spacing, though fonts are probably the most obvious thing.

Alignment for the buttons on the main page has changed as well.

Shadow Wizard

found the source

104

Q: Feedback Requested: Stack Overflow design update

As you can see, Meta.SO looks a bit different today. Over the years I've gotten a lot of requests to "redesign" Stack Overflow. I've always felt SO's site design had good usability and was very functional. However, I did and do agree, aesthetically, it could use some polish. Today's new Meta the...

discussion featured design

cVplZ

1:51 PM

it looks like they just changed their wordpress theme back to default.css

jadarnel27

I just scheduled my first Microsoft exam :o

cVplZ

I don't not like it nor do i like it

bleh

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I WANT TO GET DATA OF ONE FORM INTO ANOTHER FORM IN VB by kamlesh Ahir on superuser.com

Bart

@jadarnel27 Clippy 101?

6

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DEGENERACY? HOW TO TELL? by Richard on math.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

2:02 PM

I dislike it. Bleh.

Shadow Wizard

Well, I don't think they're going to undo the change, same way like with the new top bar that many people disliked in the beginning.... we'll just have to get used to it. :)

Jason C

@ShadowWizard I still hate the top bar. I was just thinking about that.

It's annoying that "to give up complaining" is often mistaken for "to get used to".

jadarnel27

@Bart Are you taking that one too?!

We could get lunch after.

Bart

I'm still stuck at "It looks like you're trying to sign up for an exam"@jadarnel27.

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27018868/… recommendation

Lynn Crumbling

2:11 PM

@PatrickHofman voted

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC true, but think it's better than all other sites changing their design without announcing or asking for advice from their users

jadarnel27

@Bart It was pretty insensitive of them to force us to use Clippy in the Clippy 101 exam signup process.

Patrick Hofman

@LynnCrumbling Thanks. Need some more though

Infinite Recursion

need one more vote

TGMCians

o/

Patrick Hofman

2:14 PM

Closed, and one reopen vote?

Bart

\o

Infinite Recursion

\o/

Bart

What exam are you taking though @jadarnel27?

TGMCians

@PatrickHofman Hmm. /me don't know who do shit wurk

Infinite Recursion

@PatrickHofman it's nuked

Patrick Hofman

2:20 PM

@TGMCians It was a close voter that mis-hit he delete vote

jadarnel27

@Bart It's Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (this little guy).

Patrick Hofman

I see. Thanks

cVplZ

this is kind of offensive stackoverflow.com/a/27019049/3041194

TGMCians

@PatrickHofman Ah Ok

jadarnel27

@cVplZ I'm offended by its lack of English.

Lynn Crumbling

2:22 PM

@cVplZ How so? (other than, as @jadarnel27 mentioned, no english...)

Patrick Hofman

Spam Q (90.9%): The protein actions are, by CWani khan, on drupal.stackexchange.com.

cVplZ

@LynnCrumbling the suck me here part, google translate

Bart

@jadarnel27 cool. So you're going for a certification?

Shadow Wizard

@PatrickHofman tp

Patrick Hofman

@ShadowWizard TP acknowledged.

Lynn Crumbling

2:23 PM

@cVplZ Thanks for the ~~heads up~~ info.. flagged.

TGMCians

flagged, Gone

jadarnel27

@Bart Yep, step 1 in getting the "MCSD: Web Applications" cert.

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls recommend stackoverflow.com/q/26389784/656243 (needs one more)

Shadow Wizard

@cVplZ totally offensive yeah translate.google.com/#auto/en/… (warning: NSFW language)

Lynn Crumbling

@ShadowWizard Wow. Yeah.

Braiam

2:26 PM

boom

Shadow Wizard

booom

Braiam

oh ho

Shadow Wizard

wow, Oded is a model!

Sam

Ho ho ho, merry bashmass...

Shadow Wizard

@Oded hope they paid you well for this! :-D

cVplZ

2:29 PM

@ShadowWizard photoshopped ?

Oded

@ShadowWizard did you not read the text? ;)

TGMCians

@Oded where ?

link pls

Oded

careers.stackoverflow.com/products

Turns out, I'm the best. Who knew?

8

Shadow Wizard

@cVplZ why? Oded works for SE and takes part in their conferences/meetings

Bart

@Oded that, or they're trying to get rid of you. "He's the best, take him, ... no really, he's great ... take him please"

6

Shadow Wizard

2:32 PM

@Oded maybe it's a compensation after David was chosen as the iOS app model :D

Oded

@Bart that's probably it

TGMCians

oh you guys earn from this much Job Listings start at $350 for thirty days but may vary based on location.

Oded

Speaking of which - need to run. Interview prep.

Shadow Wizard

cya!

Oded

Laters!

TGMCians

2:34 PM

see ya!

my profile stats are not good. what about you guys ..

> Public views31
Employer views2
Search hits4

btw i created this 2-3 months before

Bart

> Public views 366
> Employer views 28
> Search hits 345

But I have it for quite a while. And it doesn't really seem to move up any more.

And I guess most of it is due to the link in my profile.

Andy

> Public views 3
Employer views 64
Search hits 395

Jason C

> privacy settings private

TGMCians

careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/employer/211749

Shadow Wizard

> privacy settings public

TGMCians

2:38 PM

how it's looking ?

Shadow Wizard

> Page Not Found

Jason C

I just wanted to make sure nobody could take my full name URL.

ProgramFOX

yesterday, by DroidDev

One more time you people star that and I'll throw a bomb on that fox

TGMCians

@ShadowWizard Ah I see careers.stackoverflow.com/tgmcians

Jason C

In particular, there's a CNET blogger with the same name as me who is like, my internet arch nemesis.

ProgramFOX

2:39 PM

NOBODY, BUT REALLY NOBODY, THROWS A BOMB ON A FOX!!!

@DroidDev ^

Shadow Wizard

@TGMCians looking good! :)

SPArchaeologist

2

^this one?

Jason C

ProgramFOX

@SPArchaeologist Yup, that fox

Jason C

Counter attack was already prepared.

TGMCians

2:41 PM

@ShadowWizard Hmm thanks and I tried to upload a pic there as like we can do on stackoverflow.. but I didn't find same process of it.

ProgramFOX

That fox is almost becoming a meme. Who was the first one who posted it?

Braiam

sometimes I have to wonder why I'm doing a report for a chemical class when my major is economics...

Andy

@ProgramFOX This is the first of that particular imgur link:

Nov 13 at 12:17, by Unihedron

2

Jan Dvorak

*major

Jason C

2 mins ago, by Jason C

Shadow Wizard

2:43 PM

@TGMCians you can't, Careers only takes Gravatar.

ProgramFOX

@Andy Yeah, that was also the earliest one I found. Though not sure whether it really is.

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam Why are you doing a report for a chemical class... when your major.. is econ?

DroidDev

yesterday, by DroidDev

....don't take me seriously though, I am drunk

TGMCians

@ShadowWizard Oh for verification like purpose..is this so?

Shadow Wizard

@TGMCians go here and register your email with the picture you want to be seen in Careers

Braiam

2:43 PM

@LynnCrumbling because education sucks?

Shadow Wizard

@TGMCians nope. convenience.

ProgramFOX

@DroidDev Still? :P

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam You need to be a "well-rounded" individual. Liberal arts college?

Shadow Wizard

@ProgramFOX with the stuff he drinks, it's no wonder he's drunk for days! :D

TGMCians

@ShadowWizard Ok, will register there. thanks for sharing link

ProgramFOX

2:45 PM

@ShadowWizard :D

Braiam

@LynnCrumbling nope... actually I don't know what's the focus of my college...

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam Most useful NON-MAJOR class (in terms of programming) that I ever took: Accounting 101 & 102. Have used that knowledge several times in developing transaction systems.

DroidDev

@ProgramFOX exactly, what @ShadowWizard said, he knows, because he was drinking with me :P

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam They don't either ;)

Vogel612's Shadow

Braiam

2:46 PM

just that you have to waste a cycle and half on basics like language, bio, physics and stuff

Vogel612's Shadow

This looks so goddamn creepy!

Braiam

@LynnCrumbling I understand that... but physics, biology and language x2?

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam Say it with... "well-rounded" .. hehehe.

Shadow Wizard

@Vogel612'sShadow how... why.... how.... ?!!?!!?!?!$#

Braiam

they are must have... meaning that if I don't take them I can't graduate

Vogel612's Shadow

2:48 PM

@ShadowWizard Color inversion ...

But definitely not for the win here..

Shadow Wizard

Color Invasion

Oded

@Vogel612'sShadow I'm not normally that negative

2

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I WANT TO GET DATA OF ONE FORM INTO ANOTHER FORM IN VB by kamlesh Ahir on superuser.com

Oded

Could just be that German brings out the worst in me

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam Sounds like liberal arts... 6 credits of a language elective.. 6 credits of science elective... 3 credits of a religion/philosophy elective... 6 credits of an english/lit elective....

Braiam

2:56 PM

@LynnCrumbling mm... check it yourself just type detallePlanEstudio('P-ECON', '000013', '50401', 'Licenciatura en Economía', 'ECN', false) in the console

from my point of view... is just a massive waste of my time

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls dup stackoverflow.com/questions/27019107/…

Infinite Recursion

3:29 PM

@ProgramFOX: First appearance in the tavern was this:

Nov 11 at 18:03, by TGMCians

inb4 jason's counter gif

ProgramFOX

Okay, thanks!

bjb568

-1

A: What's the point of this anyway?

Our successful Photography QA site has many questions that are subjective, opinion-based, and work very well. For instance here is the summary of the "composition" tag: Composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subjec...

Infinite Recursion

After that, there is a nice article linked by Shog. In case you mention it as a meme anywhere, do add the article from the transcript @Pro.

ProgramFOX

@InfiniteRecursion Will do, but I don't see the article you mean. Have you an explicit link to it?

TGMCians

@ProgramFOX Hey! you should add that gif in your profile desc :P

Infinite Recursion

3:35 PM

Nov 11 at 19:12, by Shog9

> The fox uses the invisible magnetic field of the planet to triangulate and home in on its prey, buried in up to 3 feet of snow, from 18 feet away.

Braiam

@InfiniteRecursion cuz, U kn'w, fox r kelw

3

Infinite Recursion

:D

bjb568

:D

Infinite Recursion

wut u mean? birds aren't??

Sam

#trainburk

bjb568

3:38 PM

@InfiniteRecursion birds r kewl fer eatz

Vogel612's Shadow

@bjb568 catz r kewl fer eatz too

bjb568

:O

Braiam

eww... catz no gud

Infinite Recursion

kittys r kewl for kicks

bjb568

No kik!

Infinite Recursion

3:41 PM

Shog almost kicked @uni when he was at skool

ProgramFOX

@TGMCians Yeah, I should do that :D

TGMCians

hehe

Braiam

@InfiniteRecursion Shog playz fudbal?

Infinite Recursion

all of us added it in our profiles - uni, mooseman and I

Shog flaunts his boots

11 hours ago, by Shog9

@Unihedron when all you have is a boot...

Shog9

3

Infinite Recursion

3:44 PM

10 hours ago, by Rafflesia arnoldii

A rare sighting of Shog's boot

ProgramFOX

ProgramFOX, Belgium

3.1k 5 14 31

c# regex javascript html jquery .net php

^ Fox gif added :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Process exited with return value 3221226356 by Jay on stackoverflow.com

Lynn Crumbling

^ should we fp that?

Infinite Recursion

@Shog9: I am skeptical if that is your real handwriting

Shog9

as real as anything

Infinite Recursion

3:49 PM

it's nice

ProgramFOX

@Sam Is your bot still alive? (I cannot ping you in the test room now)

Sam

@ProgramFOX Yep :D

I obviously can't post messages though.

ProgramFOX

@Sam I'll now star a message to force your bot to post something, and then see whether it breaks.

Sam

Kk

Can you say something as well?

ProgramFOX

@Sam I starred and unstarred a message and FOX 9000 left the room; is the bot still alive?

Sam

3:54 PM

Yep, still going.

TGMCians

@ProgramFOX Great! :)

ProgramFOX

Well, I added a link as it's not very pleasant to see a gif while you're reading someone's profile...

@Sam Nice!

@Sam I'll kick you now to test.

Infinite Recursion

why are both of you debugging here? what happened to my pond @Sam?

ProgramFOX

@InfiniteRecursion I revoked Sam's access and made the room read-only to do testing.

Infinite Recursion

:D

Sam

3:56 PM

^

Now try saying something.

ProgramFOX

Is it still alive now?

in Room for Uni and Inf, 10 secs ago, by ProgramFOX

I'm now saying something.

Sam

Oh wait.

Jason C

1 hour ago, by Jason C

2 mins ago, by Jason C

I saw that.

Sam

@ProgramFOX I got the "test" message.

Ben Collins

@hichris123 I am not active on the iOS project anymore. I'm technically still working on the quality project, but there's not a whole lot of ML work going on there at the moment, so I'm working on other things

ProgramFOX

3:58 PM

@Sam Wow, and still not crashed? Your bot is strong :D

Sam

:D

@ProgramFOX I'll take a screenshot...

Infinite Recursion

The squirrel is so fake @JasonC, please find something natural

Lynn Crumbling

Infinite Recursion

bleh

Lynn Crumbling

I love the mini-beer.

Infinite Recursion

4:05 PM

Meh...animals are beautiful in their natural form and surroundings

like the fox, it's adorable <3

SPArchaeologist

@InfiniteRecursion Detected vulnerability to cuteness. Target acquired. Starting "you have to watch MLP propaganda"

Jason C

@InfiniteRecursion We already covered this.

yesterday, by Jason C

No, it's not fake.

Period.

I have a question.

Why do web designers like tall, narrow pages with big margins on the sides?

Do they not realize screens keep getting wider, not taller?

Lynn Crumbling

@JasonC Negative space. It isn't as intimidating.

Jason C

Like 95% of web sites I see look better when I rotate the display and put my monitor on its side.

@LynnCrumbling Yes, being able to clearly see all of the information I'm looking for at a glance is certainly intimidating.

user259867

@JasonC Large number of characters per line hurts readability.

Jason C

4:16 PM

I guess I just don't understand this resistance to design for wide screens. It's almost as bad as continuing to design for 640x480.

user259867

So, the columns can only be so wide. Then it's the question of how many columns you want to have, before it becomes a newspaper.

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Yeah, if you can't read. Besides, you can put stuff on the sides. Like this chat interface is great.

user259867

Yes, a bigger sidebar would be nice. Also, I have a Chrome extension that puts most recent comments there.

user259867

(Useful for tracking meta flames.)

Jason C

But e.g. SO has no real reason to say, not put the comments beside the posts.

Oh that's neat.

hichris123

4:19 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 50.8080: In Sea Of Love , Al Pacino said “Can I get a little hi-de-hi here?” when he sang Sea Of Love , what's hi-de-hi mean? on movies.stackexchange.com

Jason C

The long lines hurt readability thing; is that a natural human limit or a consequence of always being exposed to narrow lines?

user259867

BTW the redesign made meta.SO wider. The "content" div used to be 980px, now it's 1000px.

Jason C

Yeah I actually really like the meta; I was pleasantly surprised when I loaded it this morning.

user259867

Readability: the Optimal Line Length

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I've actually seen that article before. It doesn't touch on why that limit exists though. I.e. can longer lines be made to be more readable by constant exposure to longer lines.

jadarnel27

4:22 PM

Haha, I did not know about this Google easter egg: search for 'anagram'

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Jason C

Lol

user259867

Neat, but I get a flash of code (CSS it seems) when clicking the anagram link, before the page renders. (Chrome). Anyone else has it?

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Yeah I also noticed that (also Chrome), but figured it was just me.

Ah, it only happens when you use the anchor query form (his link is https://www.google.com/#q=anagram).

Hey SO totally uses tables for layouts in the comments. Isn't that like, a web design party foul?

Props for stickin' it to the CSS man.

Jan Dvorak

4:38 PM

Second answer on Puzzling, and I'm already on my way towards a second publicist...

jadarnel27

@JasonC Related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3110/…

Jason C

Ha

jadarnel27

@annakata: Give me a widely implemented standard that allows me to easily align screen elements horizontally and vertically easily without having to sacrifice dynamic widths and will use it. Until that standard comes, stop asking developers to not use the best tools available to them. — XMLbog Jul 7 '09 at 16:29

Jason C

Hey, you guys seem good with browser scripts. If I want to see what the site looks like, in chrome, with comment flag icons next to comment vote icons, without hand editing every table in the inspector, are chrome content scripts the right place to start?

Jan Dvorak

@JasonC I wouldn't even make an extension. A userscript, a bookmarklet, or copy/paste into the console...

Jason C

4:47 PM

@JanDvorak Oh word; userscripts, like with tampermonkey?

Jan Dvorak

yep

Jason C

/me is excited to have a new distraction.

Jan Dvorak

Easierr than extensions

at least to install

ProgramFOX

Here we go:

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A: The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: GIF of fox jumping in the snow Originator: TGMCians, in chat Cultural height: TBD Background: TGMCians posted the animated GIF of the fox jumping in the snow in chat, and later, the image was posted several times and some people even added it to the "about me" on their profile. The fox G...

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@TGMCians Congrats, you are the originator of a meme :D

pyrrha.csisdmz.ul.ie/4012/animated-gifs/IWQNcGes9u.gif — Jason C 20 secs ago

Infinite Recursion

I noticed that brown is a meme too. Why isn't Bart a meme?

Jason C

4:59 PM

Or chicken butts.

Infinite Recursion

:D

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