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Pseudocode is an informal high-level description of the operating principle of a computer program or other algorithm. It uses the structural conventions of a programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading. Pseudocode typically omits details that are essential for machine understanding of the algorithm, such as variable declarations, system-specific code and some subroutines. The programming language is augmented with natural language description details, where convenient, or with compact mathematical notation. The purpose of using pseudocode is that it is easier...

nicael

How come a doorknob can be the human being? :P

UniKitty

Someone go find me some bugz here

@nicael How come unikittys are human?

Shadow Wizard

@UniKitty it's..... empty

UniKitty

2:45 PM

CLICK THAT DAMN BUTTON

Shadow Wizard

clicked

nicael

text not rotated

BUHG

UniKitty

hichris123

I sleep & the English literacy level in this room seems to have dropped. A ton.

Shadow Wizard

but it's not saving it anywhere so what's the point? ;)

Doorknob

2:47 PM

@hichris123 plz halp of teh englizhs nao

hichris123

@Doorknob Please edit that statement.

UniKitty

@ShadowWizard Fun

hichris123

... @Doorknob

nicael

Must be saved! Use php.

UniKitty

@nicael I'm too poor to buy a server

Use github gist instead... :(

Shadow Wizard

2:49 PM

@UniKitty you can even just save it locally on a cookie

UniKitty

@ShadowWizard I'm working on that

Shadow Wizard

@UniKitty just don't create any infinite recursions in your code.... :D

Infinite Recursion

...

nicael

5

A: Formatting Sandbox

Warning: you must have your cookies allowed; coz the message you enter currently is stored in the cookies. Click "Post message" to send it to the server! 1234567890-+del QWERTYUIOP[]\ ASDFGHJKL;:" ZXCVBNM,./?! ...

I've made it on the free server :)

UniKitty

@ShadowWizard while true do stackexchangeServer.clearCache() end

Shadow Wizard

2:52 PM

UniKitty

@nicael Wut

@ShadowWizard Why?

Shadow Wizard

82

Q: What happens when you plug a UPS into itself?

UPSey daisy; so we had a little ... incident ... Pretty sure that has power. We're past that now, and things are returning to normal. It's only appropriate that we take a moment to think about the folks that got pulled out of bed and worked their knuckles to the bone to get things back up and...

like you said, fun!

(real story though ;))

nicael

@UniKitty That's a chat I made :)

You see the keyboard and input?

UniKitty

Ya typing something

nicael

Then click "Post message"

UniKitty

2:54 PM

so slow...

nicael

That's slow sandbox. It's overflowed by all the answers :D

@ShadowWizard That was the first featured post I answered... so long time ago :D

And this answer was my top on MSE for quite a long time.

UniKitty

@nicael look at the formatting sandbox post

nicael

@Unikitty lol :D

UniKitty

justachat.freevar.com/lab

nicael

Yeah, me testin' things there.

Don't abuse please.

UniKitty

3:02 PM

ok

clozed tabz

found this

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

nicael

wat?

Jan Dvorak

tempted to flag as gibberish

nicael

@Uni Currently working on app allowing you to check meta rep-changes! Almost ready.

Unihedron

Oh?

Bart

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/31097963/…

Shadow Wizard

3:09 PM

@nicael yeah time fly by when you enjoy :D

Unihedron

@bujutsu It's not opinion based nor broad, one way is more efficient than the other and I need to know which one. — Karaflakos 4 hours ago

lol tough luck

bjb568

:D

having fun

UniKitty

@bjb568 Whats so hard?

Bart

Quick question: any chance that this is not a duplicate? stackoverflow.com/questions/31100977/…

bjb568

What's hard?

UniKitty

3:26 PM

@bjb568 You said having fun. Sounds like its hard to you

hichris123

We haven't had a swag contest in a while. :(

@UniKitty oh, :p

@hichris123 Swag?

@hichris123 Stag?

@hichris123 I think I was supposed to get swag at some point, but then the answer seemed to be "nah, you're not in the US" ... so yeah. I won't try.

hichris123

3:32 PM

@Bart If you want, just send a friendly email to team@. I was fairly sure they shipped international, but I'm not positive.

Bart

I don't really do friendly emails. No fun in those.

hichris123

... then loudly rant?

bjb568

See, Bart is my kind of guy.

Unihedron

By the way, hichris, I finally found out my mailing details!

hichris123

@bjb568 What do you play?

bjb568

3:35 PM

I composed it.

Bart

@Unihedron so, what are they?

hichris123

@Unihedron ... well, only a few years too late, but...

bjb568

But I also play piano.

hichris123

Not a real instrument. :P

Unihedron

@hichris123 Nah, it's just a week later than the message, I think they'll pardon it.

bjb568

3:38 PM

@hichris123 ಠ_ಠ

hichris123

@Unihedron How long have you lived there?

Unihedron

@Bart It's the blue box censored part in this unnecessarily over-censored email:

hichris123

L F B 4 S H

There's a puzzle in this.

Unihedron

I'll give y'all the first hint: If you look up my Google+ profile through my email, you'll see that my initial of the last name is L. So that's the first line covered.

@hichris123 A bit over six thousand days.

hichris123

& H is Hong Kong.

Unihedron

3:43 PM

Excellent! Four lines to unravel.

hichris123

@Unihedron That's why I said a few years too late. :P

Unihedron

@hichris123 I've iterated through this last time, but I've never used mail.

Eh, real mail as in not email.

hichris123

How can you not know your address when you've lived there for the past 16 years???

The future is bleak.

Unihedron

Actually, 17, since I've passed my birthday half a month back.

The number "six thousand days" isn't ambiguous when you consider that it was my birthday celebrated in the tavern earlier this month. :P

hichris123

The future is still bleak.

Unihedron

3:46 PM

The future is dark and cold.

nicael

0

A: Make voting activity on your posts available on site metas (what you would get from rep if metas had rep)

All the voting activity is actually recorded, so I've made a full-featured rep viewer (works on any site, including any metas). This viewer can be found there. Once you fill the fields and click "go", you can see all your rep changes (and copy the link from the top bar also, which hosts the valu...

Look! Just look. A convenient (I hope) way to see you pseudo-meta-rep.

Unihedron

It doesn't work.

nicael

:D It won't work this way, read placeholders. Fetches for the day you specify.

Unihedron

Ok.

It doesn't work with a date filled in either.

See this, there definitely were rep changes that day:

78

A: How to cope with complaints from tutors who want to fight cheaters?

Do not deal with claims to remove copyrighted content by yourself. The author of the copyrighted content should file a DMCA takedown notice following section 15 of the Stack Exchange Terms of Service in order for it to be removed from the revision history as well. Reporting Copyright Infringe...

WHAT?! month-day DATE FORMAT?!

nicael

Yep.

Unihedron

3:53 PM

-_-

nicael

Also, may is "5" :)

(editing the source)

Bart

@Unihedron see you tomorrow

Unihedron

^ @hichris123: Bart has it figured it out already :)

hichris123

123 Unihedron Drive, West London, England -- correct?

Unihedron

England isn't that portable.

14 mins ago, by hichris123

L F B 4 S H

^ It doesn't match this either.

hichris123

3:56 PM

It does to me.

Just sprinkle in some red herrings...

nicael

4:09 PM

damn profile page claims me having 10k already :D

(Though it wouldn't be that easy today as I've rep capped; needs two more accepts)

bjb568

4:22 PM

Should a couple and a half be 2.5 or 3?

hichris123

Depends on context.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: matlab turns off when libsvmtrain is tried for heart_scale_data by user5041838 on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

@SmokeDetector edited

bjb568

@Unihedron ur old

SmokeDetector

5:24 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LIST THE TOP 3 HIGHEST PAID INTERNET JOBS by user8187 on freelancing.stackexchange.com

nicael

5:41 PM

I've renewed my rep-loader and now it can haz prev/next day buttons.

bjb568

Hooray

user259867

5:58 PM

A pro-forma comment gets an uncommon response:

user259867

I'll soon explain it. First I need to remove my appendix (seriously). — Alan 31 mins ago

user259867

Scale it back

user259867

spam? I think so: android.stackexchange.com/a/113685

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: extract data from specifin number in array by Dănuţ Bălan Cătălin on stackoverflow.com

nicael

Can anyone help me experimenting with prev/next day buttons there?

(still the rep loader)

user259867

6:04 PM

@SmokeDetector kind of LQ, but edited

user259867

6:25 PM

@JanDvorak Yes; for the most part it's 1). There is also 3) intentional clickbait using memes with some mentioning of math.

nicael

6:36 PM

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Really the first time you meet such a q&a? I have a joke answer on it :)

bjb568

6:52 PM

Bug!

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@nicael get on reporting @bjb's bug! :P

@nicael lol - but yeah; first time I've seen something like that happen!

(+1 btw!)

hichris123

Or @Doorknob just go delete the question ^^

user259867

@bjb568 Already reported: The pop-up "please consider adding a comment" wraps awkwardly on mobile site by 1999 on meta.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

7:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Wasteland exploration by Chris on gaming.stackexchange.com

hichris123

Pulled, @1999.

user259867

I also wanted to add !!/coffee to the wiki page (list of commands), but turns out GitHub doesn't support pull requests for the wiki repository.

hichris123

@1999 I may come to regret this, but I opened editing of the wiki up to all.

user259867

!!/regret

hichris123

7:30 PM

@SmokeDetector fp-

SmokeDetector

7:42 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Angled minecraft rails by John Klubertanz on gaming.stackexchange.com

Hobo Sapiens

Spam: stackoverflow.com/questions/31091957/…

SmokeDetector

7:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Onshore / Offshore (Team and Testing) by Viktoryia Panteryonok Malkova on programmers.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Wasteland exploration by Chris on gaming.stackexchange.com

user259867

8:12 PM

sd ignore- tpu-

nicael

I've marked this my question as a dupe of my newer one, because the old one is obsolete and with the redesigns, the new one affects any sites. Can I delete the newer now?

However, umm... I ~~maybe~~ won't do it.

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/156006/…

SmokeDetector

8:45 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: POWER DISSIPATION by haxkalibrr on electronics.stackexchange.com

nicael

^ has a suggestion from me.

nicael

9:02 PM

Final step :P

bjb568

10:14 PM

Somebody should make a bot that tries to start an intelligent conversation whenever there's a period of silence.

Or… am I that bot?

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

@SmokeDetector delete edited

user259867

@bjb568 If you didn't say "intelligent"... :p

bjb568

:o

nicael

10:38 PM

Is there no post about searching for merged questions?

Braiam

isduplicate:1 answer:0 locked:1

I think the answer part is not necesary

Unihedron

cv for no-repro or is this on topic? stackoverflow.com/q/31101865/3622940

bjb568

Seems on topic.

Braiam

@Unihedron just me or that stacktrace isn't unmodified

Unihedron

@Braiam totally isn't

Braiam

10:54 PM

yeah, I see some weird lines break

user259867

@Braiam "answer:0" is not a valid parameter. Did you mean "answers:0" or "is:question"?

nicael

@Braiam Having corrected it a bit, included in my q&a

1

Q: How would I search for the merged questions?

Searching for merged:yes doesn't seen to work. Nor does ismerged:yes or duplicate:yes hasnotice:yes. How would I search for the merged questions?

support merged-questions

Braiam

@1999 answer count parameter

user259867

Okay, answers:0 it is then, which is what nicael wrote in the meta post.

user259867

> Want an inside look at how we gather data to make decisions at #stackoverflow? Here’s a breakdown of the process: imgur.com/1UTf5y3 -- Nick Craver at 3:36 PM - 28 Jun 2015 via Twitter

3

nicael

11:04 PM

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259662/…

Braiam

@nicael I would close the other way... this guy even included a fix!