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12:36 AM

I heard you can cash in 10 stars for 500 rep, but I think it was a scam.

I have way more fun flagging spam than answering crappy Java questions and functioning as a Google relay server anyways.

@SabreTooth ɐɥ ɐɥ ɐɥ

user273376

i was even likened to Ron Maimon.....so, I am apparantly rude too

Actually, since I'm apparently on this userscript-crazed mission to learn JavaScript lately, I guess I could benefit from answering some JS questions.

@SabreTooth If you think you're rude... Meet me!

puddinghead.

12:38 AM

The tag predictor says I hate jQuery, though. I'm not sure if I want to argue with it.

user273376

I could never contribute effectively to SO, not in a million years

user273376

@Frank that's Dr. Puddinghead to you

@SabreTooth Even by flagging junk?

user273376

i wouldn't know what is junk or not, I am pretty dumb

@JasonC How about you answer the one I just asked? (Sidenote: I asked a question on SO. It got an upvote. This is amazing! We need to record this in the books of history! A (real) question got upvoted on Stack Overflow!)

12:39 AM

@SabreTooth On SO just assume junk; you'll have about a 95% success rate, possibly higher if you stick to android.

@SabreTooth Okay then, Dr. Headpudding...

And don't worry, you don't actually have to be able to understand the questions.

user273376

dang, android is the only programming I have marginal aptitude in

user259867

My recent contributions to SO were moving closed questions with no answers from +1 to 0. An example: "SOLVED: wow, I had wifi turned off which was preventing it from using my local network".

@Doorknob Oh good one; challenge accepted, after a smoke break, and assuming somebody who actually knows what they're talking about doesn't jump in first.

12:41 AM

@SabreTooth Nah, it's easy. Find a question blatantly asking for recommendations for something, and flag it. That's mostly how I got my Marshal badge.

I'm still the only SO user to have that badge without asking or answering anything, or editing.

Still 101 rep.

2

Oh, there you go, star everything I say.

... oh the temptation

:D

I'll just jump on the bandwagon and star the thing that already has 2 stars.

3 syars, huh?

Yes, you bought the company South Yorkshire Animal Rescue 3 times. (Wow, not sure why you would waste so much money on all that, but it was your decision.)

(... how do you even buy something multiple times? :P)

user259867

12:48 AM

Maybe the question should be also tagged whitespace? Using only html and css seems too generic.

@Doorknob Oh, they had a $5 rebate for each time you buy it.

GL's highest voted comments are both at +15, but one is better than the other.

cVplZ

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@cVplZ Registered as false positive, added title to Bayesian doctype 'good', whitelisted user.

user273376

i am sure if I were to post or reply t anything on SO it would be downvoted so hard and so swiftly, it'll break the light barrier

@SabreTooth Well, not if you put effort into it, like most people don't...

good effort, that is...

user273376

12:55 AM

i alwys put effort in my posts

user273376

takes me 1-3 hours usually to write an answer

@SabreTooth On GL, it takes me an average of 3-10 mins - so there you go...

@SabreTooth Now this one took almost 20 mins, so is an exception.

@Frank data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/249753/… Lol, nice.

user273376

@Frank but remember, I am as dumb as a bo of rocks

a bo of rocks?

user273376

12:59 AM

SEE? a box of rocks

@SabreTooth You're one BIG box of rocks, then. :P

@Frank I suspect you might be the only person on the entire SE network with that distinction. I've only checked a handful of the sites though.

There should really be a special badge for that, lol.

user259867

Two such users on Drupal

cVplZ

@JasonC if anyone else does, @jan probably does

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Haha, nice. I swear I just checked drupal.

user273376

1:01 AM

@Frank yes, the dumb kind

Oh, duh. I switched to drupal but forgot to run the query... facepalm

user273376

okay, I will stick with my 8, and maybe add a 9th (SO) - but will look over it before I decide

@SabreTooth I've got 79 myself.

user273376

though the only programming knowledge I have at a marginal proficient level is android

I can't program a watch...

user273376

1:06 AM

my watches immediately malfunction in contact with my skin

user273376

ironically, one of the jobs I do is as a Maths Teacher.... been looking at ME.SE...

MEH.SE

user273376

question - is having 12 revival and 3 necromancer badges from just 31 answers a bad thing?

"Use a backtick to add inline code which contents don't get parsed." is this correct grammar?

@SabreTooth Meh. Not necessarily.

@SabreTooth What answer do you expect? Of course it's bad!

1:10 AM

What? Why?

It's possible for them to not be bad.

user273376

I made sure the answers were researched

Because obviously, SE designed badges to get awarded when you do bad things, right? So, the answer to his question is 'bad'.

user273376

hmmm sorry I asked

@SabreTooth Me being sarcastic, sorry.

@bjb568 IS IT?!?!?!

@Frank It is irregular behavior which could mean bad behavior.

user273376

1:13 AM

huh?

@bjb568 No. It means someone was working on old questions and is getting rightfully rewarded.

But working on old question could mean rep-whoring.

Then again anything could.

user273376

hmmm never intended to do 'rep-whoring'

@SabreTooth I've seen your work, and it's legit - don't listen to the cat...

Sorry @bjb568 :P

I'm saying getting that many badges isn't a good thing. But it doesn't mean your answers are low-quality. High-quality answers are indicated by their… quality. Not badges.

@bjb568 assumes yes

user273376

1:17 AM

i doubt the quality in everything I do (side effect of a decade and half of teaching), that's why i ask

@bjb568 No. It is incorrect both grammatically and structurally. You need "whose" not "which": "Use a backtick to add inline code whose contents don't get parsed."

@bjb568 true. But I know the user's work, and it is above SE average.

@Frank Which is not much. But yes, my point is the quality is the most important.

@bjb568 And structurally, that's still wrong, since the backticks cause the contents to not be parsed, rather than being an indicator of "code whose contents should not be parsed" (outside of that context).

I would say something like "To indicate code and prevent it from being parsed, enclose it in backticks."

Or "Use backticks to indicate code, this will prevent it from being parsed."

"Enclose code in backticks to prevent it from being parsed."? (to match style)

1:21 AM

Oh, and "get parsed" isn't right either. "don't get parsed" => "should not be parsed".

user273376

my motives are to provide at last-acceptable answers to questions that I have some knowledge in - i assure all, it is not badge or rep 'whoring'

^bjb getting less than an 83 in English again

@bjb568 Yeah, that looks good, although it doesn't encourage unparseable code from being placed in backticks, which you probably also want to express. E.g. it suggests backticks as a workaround for code that is inappropriately parsed, rather than suggesting backticks for formatting code in general (and treating the no-parsing is a side-effect).

The primary purpose of enclosing code in backticks is to format code. It not being parsed is a desirable side-effect.

@SabreTooth Hmm, maybe I'm a rep-whore on GL? ;)

(And really, along those lines, I should have wrote, "Use backticks to indicate code, this will also prevent it from being parsed" earlier.)

user273376

1:25 AM

@Frank not at all

@Frank You have quality.

cVplZ

@Uni you were an audit

@SabreTooth With well over twice the rep of next user this quarter, etc, etc,

@JasonC Aghaghagh too complicated, I'm splitting it up…

Lol

user273376

1:26 AM

@Frank you do quality work, far better than I am able to do

But I must be a badge whore, I have the most gold badges of any user on GL.

@SabreTooth Nah, I just know stuff.

@bjb568 "Encode close in parsebacks. It won't not get ticks."

user273376

@Frank no you earned them

ZEH CODEZ IN ZEH BAKTIKZ R KEWL N NO R PARSED

A: How do trees respond to solid, isolated, chunks of minerals such as iron, placed in the root zone?

@SabreTooth Yeah, but I tried to. Look at Bamboo, who doesn't care a whit about badges, has more rep than me, and no gold. (Also far fewer accepted answers, but I didn't just say that...)

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Unfortunately, you cannot substitute the iron for just any mineral. Iron is a big part of soil, see my answer here: Is rust from steel rainwater barrel harmful? It will not harm the tree if it is really only iron, not coated with anything. Now, even after it rusts, it will not necessarily be ab...

I lied! I wrote another answer...

1:30 AM

@bjb568 move backtick. for great justice.

user273376

also, I like answering questions

ID LIKE TO ENCLOSE MY CODE IN HER BACKTICKS, DAYYUUUUM

@SabreTooth Great!

Sorry wrong window

HER BACKTICKS MY CODE HER BACKTICKS

|o|

1:33 AM

That's what I'm talkin about

That girl's backticks go waaaaay back, if you know what I mean.

(Which, you do.)

\o/

It's almost like (o(

github.com/DevDoodle/DevDoodle-Public/blob/master/sub-projects/…

Hey, I think this is one of those endlessly downhill conversations we were talking about.

Me like.

Derivative negative.

@SabreTooth Me too.

2 days ago, by Braiam

ALERT: the conversation is going downhill

1:49 AM

I wonder whether I'll catch up to Bamboo or kevinsky next?

I just discovered the best cat laser pointer game ever. Although I actually wonder if it borders on cruelty, lol.

If I just flash it for like a half a second so she sees it, she goes into insane hunting mode for like 10 minutes.

Then I wait until she's calmed down and do it again. It's kind of hilarious.

Chattering all over the place.

@JasonC Your wife?

@Frank No I tried that with my last girlfriend. I'm single now.

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@JasonC Do you want to have DevDoodle full source access?

@JasonC Shine it straight into their eyes, they'll never se you coming...

1:55 AM

Lol

Worst bar game ever.

@JasonC aha! Ha!

@bjb568 Maybe? I don't know how much I can contribute.

Whatever. Link to github profile?

github.com/JC3

Done.

1:59 AM

Does this look unbalanced to anyone else? I'm crazy...

@bjb568 Thanks!!

@JasonC Review the pull req.

@Frank Unbalanced in what way?

@bjb568 TheUberKid's?

@JasonC Well, you can tell him that it's crap.

But I meant github.com/bjb568/DevDoodle/pull/110

@JasonC I - voted far over twice what the next user did. Who does that? It's weird.

2:03 AM

socks

@bjb568 hey. >:[

:P

I haz only 1 sock.

I haz only

counts

13?

2:08 AM

@bjb568 If I want to make / suggest edits do I just click the edit button in github? (Sorry, github noob).

@Frank ~

@JasonC Edit what?

@bjb568 Grammar on the formatting help page.

In the pull request.

@JasonC You could, but it's a better idea to pull.

Are you on a mac or PC?

PC

@bjb568 wow man...

2:09 AM

Ugh…

@Frank :P

Does git not do line ending translations?

@JasonC windows.github.com

@JasonC No.

@bjb568 I have that already

That's kinda lame...

@JasonC Good. Push the clone button on the website.

@bjb568 d:

2:11 AM

That's actually surprisingly lame given it's position as being the next evolutionary step in cvs -> svn ->

Thanks. Can you freehand red circle that?

@JasonC UR CODE EDITOR DOZ LINE ENDINZ

@JasonC Ugh, just find the button!

@bjb568 I'm having trouble starting my browser. If I send you a screenshot of my desktop can you help me out?

I know it's one of the round icons but I'm not sure which

Ok.

You could also do join.me

Oh! Oh nope, that's Eclipse, hold on... there we go! Oh no wait, that's the Arduino editor.

2:13 AM

:P

(I'm being facetious)

U IZ NOOB

Can't you… search?

Hi

Is this a chat room?

@JasonC YESH

@JasonC go reed teh faqz.

2:14 AM

HI

dont yell

I CAN'T FIND MY KEYBOARD

@JasonC dude, ...

look under your fingers.

I CAN'T FIND MY FINGERS

Yay, @Frank miss the sarcasm.

@JasonC LOOK 2 UR HANDZ

2:16 AM

@JasonC Look at the end of your flippers.

IF NO HANDZ THAN PAWZ

O FLIPPERZ

If I send you a selfie can you freehand red circle my fingers??

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Just get the github thing open!

Sorry I just deleted my github account. Let's start over.

It's coming over me too.... WHAT THE HECK IS STACK EXCHANGE AND WHO ARE YOU ALL?!?!

@JasonC Bahahahahaha

mops coffee from all over the room

2:18 AM

Haha nice.

HOW JQUERY PHP WORK SYNERGY

Oh yeah. Anyways.

1.

2.

^bot

2

2:19 AM

^bot

2

^bot

2

"Mister" ^bot LOL

Train jumping is dangerous

@JasonC wasf ertyg sdfgh rtyuigfd sdtyu dftyitf srdtfyuh

@Frank That's racist.

ok, was testing google translate, which did nothing.

SmokeDetector

2:21 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SQL JTEXTFIELD DELETE ROW by user1294476 on stackoverflow.com

OMG, A TASK! WE HAVE A TASK!

^bot

Who will get their edit in first?

^butt

sorry

First DV/CV.

Lol butts are funny

2:23 AM

Lol

Take that, you mature old people!

@bjb568 takes it

Who are luckily not present in the room at the given time mostly.

Taking bets on how long before somebody posts a little bobby tables xkcd link on that question.

@JasonC 3 days.

Not sure if you need the ";" at the end, but you should be using a PreparedStatement instead — MadProgrammer 44 secs ago

8 minutes.

@JasonC Did you get github to work yet?

2:25 AM

@bjb568 Oh sorry I got sidetracked.

:D

Aw man now I have to decide where I want to store this.

: ‍ ‍ ‍ D

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\en-US\DevDoodle. Perfect.

@JasonC Money?

I'll find a place.

2:27 AM

Just put it on your desktop or something.

@Frank Lol butts are funny

@JasonC Maybe my back pocket...

where my wallet is

to all pick-pockets out there

Dear pick-pockets, Frank keeps his wallet in his butt. Which is funny. Because butts are funny. Lol.

Hi I'm 33 years old.

@JasonC so wrong

Do trees have butts?

I bet yahoo answers knows.

user259867

2:29 AM

Shog9 posted the results of the experiment, in case you missed it as I did.

I'll give you cake if you go find out, I/m too lazy.

user259867

Easy to miss updates to a post with -25.

@Frank Lol, oh god. Thank god for BuzzFeed. buzzfeed.com/lookoverthere/6-examples-of-tree-butt-j9q

@JasonC Ha ha have some cake.

Wow, seriously. That would be so weird to come across in the woods.

@bjb568 I've got it cloned although I'm unsure how the formatting pull request fits in here.

Also I totally forgot what I wanted to edit.

2:33 AM

Change branch to formatting-help.

Open the file you want from your local filesystem.

Edit.

Commit.

Sync.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Shog has no idea what problem he's actually trying to solve.

ɥʇǝS

For once in my life, I almost believe that is true.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: calling java method in javascript by Baba on stackoverflow.com

user259867

2:49 AM

^ why is this on the active list?

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Community ♦ bump

user259867

Wee Kat's answer makes sense enough to be upvoted, doesn't it? Upvoted

@JasonC That's what you're trying to do, BTW

(back after butt explody)

@bjb568 Yeah I'm looking at it. Who is your target audience for this?

@JasonC Users

Like, IDK, programmers with at least a medium-y level experience probably young enough to be in school.

2:54 AM

With the assumption that they've never done much posting on forums before / aren't aware of etiquette?

(That's a real question, not snark)

Well, I'll need to do a page on etiquette, but that's not for that page.

(yes)

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 60.1085: Stolen 3ds before nintendo id update: can i get my games back? on gaming.stackexchange.com

notices answer quality then realizes it's not puzzling SE — bjb568 52 secs ago

user259867

flags as too chatty

user259867

You should instead go help Doorknob hack around undesired linewrapping.