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hichris123

12:00 AM

I'm not even sure what that means...

Quill

RoR, CoffeeScript

nice

> Scrum Master

sounds like a job role in a fantasy game

> Millions of Chess Players Need Your Android Skills

Shog9

in The Whiteboard on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jan 8 at 19:22, by Shog9

Just remember: agile people make up so many words for the things they do because otherwise it's all incredibly boring. So really, they're just role-playing. Role-playing Games

in The Whiteboard on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jan 8 at 19:23, by Ampt

@Shog9 What do become level 89 Scrum Wizard Master??

Not to discount the work itself, mind you. Managing people is important. But if you're gonna give yourself a fanciful name, you should at least get a pointed hat to go with it.

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Jon Ericson

I'm going to put "Palatine of Communities" on my business card next time we change logos.

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user202362

Looks like Trump stepped on a land mine

Shog9

wouldn't be the first

This race is the real-life equivalent of watching the first Quake player to figure out rocket jumping.

Quill

12:25 AM

> Javascript Front Endgineer

oh wait, I actually meet the requirements for this

I guess there's a first for everything

user315433

Speaking of front end, the fancy triangular shapey photographs on business.stackoverflow.com have hover text "home1.png" and "home2.png"

Shog9

that means it's business time

Quill

You should set them to "you've uncovered the first in a set of clues, go to stackoverflow.com to look for the second clue. Wonderous plunder awaits, good luck adventurer!"

Jon Ericson

@404 We really believe in remote work.

user315433

user315433

12:36 AM

Imagine the same in English, with en.SO logo.

user315433

And I'm not sure they are >=13 years old...

user315433

Quick round-up of lang-SO: pt.SO still discusses how to make downvotes constructive, es.SO has the aforementioned image of an educational initiative, ru.SO debates whether to include SuperUser topics, ja.SO collects dust as usual.

hichris123

@404 The past few questions on meta.ja.SO are about untranslated strings...

user315433

hichris123

1:26 AM

It seems like the no MCVE/debugging help close reason is misused sometimes to mean no effort. Example: stackoverflow.com/questions/27321090/…. I'm not even sure that should be closed...

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bjb568

@hichris123 Perhaps TB, but I'm not sure, I'd need to know the technology.

hichris123

@bjb568 I'm no expert either, but if a ~15 LOC answer was given...

Eh. Voted to reopen - we'll see what the queue thinks.

bjb568

I don't get it. How is LOC better than line? You need to push shift so it's the same number of keystrokes.

hichris123

Well, most answers have more lines than they do lines of code.

user315433

1:33 AM

@hichris123 I think it's TB that's misused to this effect.

user315433

The majority of my CV reviews on SO is Leave Open.

bjb568

@hichris123 meh, then it can be reduced to a lower lined codeblock

What's really insane is code that I have to look thru and understand where it's split up into 10 files, each with 300 lines. 80 of the 300 lines are whitespace, 150 are whole-line comments. The remaining code is split up into cryptic functions which all call each other; each function is only a few lines of code.

hichris123

@404 I see both. I'm probably guilty of using too broad on some questions that shouldn't be closed.

bjb568

Like, d00d, just make one big function that's 150 lines long and has no comments. It's a lot easier to read.

user315433

Oh no, CRABOLO is #20 on CV reviewers list. Soon will be gone...

hichris123

1:37 AM

@bjb568 what

bjb568

Cyclomatic complexity of a well-written function can be >>20 if it's warranted.

tchrist

@hichris123 troll

bjb568

@hichris123 Look at this piece of crap for example. github.com/ccampbell/rainbow/blob/master/js/rainbow.js

hichris123

@tchrist no he's serious.

sadly.

bjb568

Wowee, hadn't looked at jQuery before. github.com/jquery/jquery/tree/master/src

There's hundreds of files, all cryptic and commented, of code that doesn't even do anything!

tchrist

1:39 AM

Except for being written in idiot language, it seems perfectly testable.

bjb568

It's a damn library, yet it's huge and sprawling and unreadable.

tchrist

Libraries are supposed to hold functions, not untestable behemoths.

bjb568

We don't need a utility function for incrementing a variable with 5 lines of javadoc, 3 of whitespace around it, and 3 extraneous of whitespace conventions in it.

@tchrist You shouldn't need to test libraries, they should be minimal.

tchrist

the fkc?

bjb568

For all but the largest and most complicated of websites, the only library needed is 0 characters long.

hichris123

1:42 AM

@tchrist I think you've forgotten how much of an Expert Developer™ bjb is.

tchrist

what's a wet side again?

Andrew T.

Experts exchange by bjb

bjb568

If you have gigabytes of interactive content because you're a newspaper, then maybe you can have a few thousand lines of library to consolidate the most repetitive parts of the JS layer.

tchrist

@hichris123 Who's just learned about bong hits.

bjb568

Too often JS libraries are used to do CSS.

like animation…

Go over to DevDoodle, folks, for some pure code.

tchrist

1:43 AM

Blowin' in the wind here, kiddo.

Andrew T.

closed the topic as too localized

flagged as DevDoodle spam

tchrist

approves flag

hichris123

@tchrist No no he's an Expert!

tchrist

I likedd the pert version betterer.

hichris123

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

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bwDraco

1:47 AM

@bjb568 Flagged. For real.

hichris123

@tchrist When you were younger, how did you learn all of these words? I read a decent amount, and even then...

bjb568

@bwDraco That was a joke, you know…

bwDraco

@bjb568: I know how much DevDoodle matters to you but the number of times you're mentioning it is spammy and problematic.

No. Seriously.

bjb568

Like it or not, DevDoodle is totally part of Tavern culture.

user315433

May 18 '15 at 3:42, by xkcdBot

bjb568

1:49 AM

@bwDraco What about all the times other people mentioned it because it is a valid topic of conversation?

hichris123

Has anyone ever mentioned it in a non-disparaging way?

user315433

Quill. Quill is nice.

Quill

I like it

bwDraco

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/…

hichris123

... I may need to rethink my opinion of @Quill.

Quill

1:50 AM

besides the width 100% nonsense

bwDraco

The majority of recent DevDoodle messages are promotional.

Quill

I literally have a userscript to pad it when I visit

hichris123

Jan 11 '15 at 3:15, by Shog9

I heard DevDoodle gets 20,000 questions per day, and bjb single-handedly deletes all of them

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Quill

@hichris123 that implies you had a positive opinion of me, so thanks :)

Alexis King

@404 Hey, I made that poorly-photoshopped cat picture!

brb suing xkcdbot for copyright infringement

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Quill

1:51 AM

I think it's cool that @bjb has an awesome project to work on, and the insulting banter is funny

bjb568

:D

hichris123

@Quill Anyone in here can't be that bad... although... there have been some interesting Taverners.

tchrist

@hichris123 Uuh, words?

hichris123

@tchrist yeah, you know, the things you make sentences out of.

Quill

@tchrist people say you're good with your words

bwDraco

1:53 AM

Sorry, folks.

JamesENL

@hichris123 JAZZ HANDS

Quill

@bwDraco, I agree that promotional messages should be best kept to a minimum, but in the same sense, a lot of the topic's use is in comedic situations, e.g. bjb commenting on something SE isn't doing

tchrist

looks for the kickbot

hichris123

That's called @JasonC who isn't pingable... :(

Quill

we should appoint another room owner

tchrist

1:56 AM

"Call him louder!" Elijah

hichris123

Did you do something to Jason, @AlexisKing? He hasn't been seen in 3 days.

@Quill We have the duck...

JamesENL

What Not to Staple - Mock the Week - BBC Two

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Classic Adam Hills

Off Topic

Quill

> last seen two days ago

tchrist

@hichris123 Because having no pointy beak, ducks are impeccable.

user315433

May 29 '14 at 4:02, by David Robinson

And a minute-old answer indeed. So it's unlikely that it's a bug

user315433

1:59 AM

The most recent message by @DavidRobinson in the Tavern...

user202362

2:11 AM

anyone edited WordPress core files before?

JamesENL

@Telkitty Why would you want to do such a terrible terrible thing

I mean using Wordpress in the first place

tchrist

@Telkitty Core dumps are always a joy to edit.

Quill

@Telkitty I hear there's a site to ask about programming questions

stack something

you might find it on google

user202362

I need to change the maximum upload size for my awesome awesome pictures :p

user202362

Whatever I need is probably already on the internet

user202362

2:17 AM

I have found a few remedies, but I want to know the best way to fix this problem

JamesENL

Have you tried DevDoodle?

Shog9

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Q: How to increase the file size limit for media uploads?

How can I change the Maximum upload file size? I would like to be able to upload 10Mb at a time.

JamesENL

It's confirmed, Shog is hooked into the Google hivemind

user315433

@Quill SO tends to send WP questions to WordPress Development

user202362

thx

Shog9

2:20 AM

There are a ton of questions on this, both on Stack Overflow and on WordPress.SE

Quill

Shog is only a sock for Providence

they extended it to chat

user202362

I have read another opinion on the internet saying that one should not change ini file >_<

user202362

but anyways, let's do a 'quick fix' (aka as: patch, hax or ninja hack)

user202362

also php.ini is located at multiple locations

Alexis King

@hichris123 Factorio got ’im. He’ll come back. And when he does, he’ll be a changed man.

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JamesENL

2:33 AM

@AlexisKing Ohhhh that makes so much sense.

Playing on not peaceful is getting harder

I spent like an hour last night running around being constantly distracted that I didn't get anything done

Should've set up a laser turret factory waaaaaay sooner

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user202362

got helpdesk people at the hosting company to change it instead

user202362

@Shog9 there are tons of answers too, on the internet

Shog9

damn thing's a fad, I wouldn't depend on it

user202362

and only 1 best solution

hichris123

2:45 AM

@hichris123 Ended up with 3x Leave Close votes. stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/11835459 :/

Shog9

oh well

hichris123

I wonder if many questions are even reopened from the queue. Seems like most people just hit Leave Closed on 99% of them (although most probably should be kept closed).

@Shog9 Thanks, I guess? :P

Jeffrey Bosboom

I found the reopen queue very frustrating. Many tasks were edits by hopeless askers or protest reopen votes on old recommendation questions, but the few I tried to save with edits stalled out at 2 or 3 reopen votes.

Shog9

Reopen queue for some 60-day period:

hichris123

So not quite 0%... but looks like in the teens?

Shog9

2:53 AM

yup

which was actually a marked improvement

most stuff just doesn't get seen

I guess I could be feeding more stuff in there

hichris123

Didn't you try that a while back with old questions?

Shog9

I've tried it repeatedly

I just keep forgetting to try it again

Jeffrey Bosboom

What's the relative proportion of reopen votes from the queue versus organically?

Shog9

relative to what?

what's the ratio of queue-votes to non-queue-votes?

Jeffrey Bosboom

Er, relative to each other, I guess. What fraction of reopen votes are cast from the queue? (And then 1-p is organic.)

(I typed relative before I finished thinking.)

Shog9

2:58 AM

@hichris123 there you go, 600 reopen tasks to play with.

hichris123

@Shog9 Hmm, do I stay up and review or go to bed? :P

Shog9

@JeffreyBosboom for the same 60 day period pictured above, 6407 votes from review out of 10520 votes overall.

user315433

In the monthly Meta rep league, Patrick Hofman is #1, while ##2-7 are employees.

Jeffrey Bosboom

@Shog9 Interesting. I wasn't expecting so many non-queue votes, though maybe that's because reviewers predominately Leave Closed.

@Shog9 I'm also curious how many questions had a unanimous Leave Closed decision but were reopened from outside the queue, but I don't know how I'd interpret the result, so you don't have to get it now.

My get feeling (including as a reopen reviewer) is that it's pretty hard to get a question reopened from the queue and most people don't click on closed questions, so it's hard to get organic votes too. But I'm not sure what data would quantify that feeling and what, if anything, we should do about it.

Shog9

I think supper is a good answer here

gonna heat up some borscht

Jeffrey Bosboom

3:07 AM

I mean, with regard to pushing more old questions into reopen, are we (you) doing that because we're not reopening enough, or just because there's idle review capacity?

Shog9

yes

my theory being, those two things are not unrelated

Jeffrey Bosboom

Seems reasonable. You can go eat, I'll go review.

Shog9

Then one day I meet a man, he came to me and yellied, "Hard work good and hard work fine, but first take care of belly"

Quill

What do I look like, a lawyer? We don't have hard-delete without messing with the database directly, and that's reserved for questions involving boats, @Josh. Ain't like we can take back data-dumps in any case, and those aren't limited to 10K users. — Shog9 ♦ Sep 4 '15 at 2:58

boats.stackexchange.com

user202362

pork belly ... yum >_<

Alexis King

3:19 AM

@JamesENL I’m playing on an RSO map now :D

JamesENL

@AlexisKing RSO?

Alexis King

It changes how resources are distributed to be much rarer, but the resource patches get richer the further you go away from spawn. Super fun... you actually need to build trains. :D

user202362

how do I get people to not run away when I visit their area

JamesENL

@AlexisKing Oh that sounds super cool! Would certainly encourage expansion.

I love using construction drones to clear out huge area's of forest

user202362

I so far have met 0 person I got to know on the internet

Alexis King

3:21 AM

Yeah, it’s a lot more challenging, and I’m enjoying it a lot.

JamesENL

Last night, I used my tank to just plow through some Big Worms because I couldn't figure out another way to kill them without dying

Was super effective

How does one significantly reduce pollution? I feel like it's getting to be a rather huge problem

David Robinson

@404 oh hey I guess it is, until now. Can I help you?

Quill

we like to post your tweets

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Q: Has SE ever witnessed its posts going viral all over the Internet?

First things first: I came across this viral SE post 3 years ago. It was being shared left, right and center across Facebook groups. I thoroughly enjoyed the post! Thus my (rather highly curious) question: Are there any other such posts that had gone viral all over the Internet? What is the r...

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wut

David Robinson

@Quill oh yeah? :)

Quill

> P.S: I do realize that this is off-topic, but I'm trying to analyze the trigger behind such posts.And my curiosity has gotten the better of me!

JamesENL

3:29 AM

@AlexisKing ahhh damn, trees absorb pollution. I need to efficiency card my electric mining drills

Shame you can't get drones to do that

bjb568

Just have a go at the Data Explorer and look for high viewcount on posts and for the tweeted event in the Posthistory meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/… I have quickly adapted one of my queries to give you the high viewcount — rene Dec 12 '15 at 13:01

> Metaworkengineering

@rene ur qwewy is barked (should be Meta Network Engineering, not Metaworkengineering :))

Alexis King

@JamesENL I mostly ignore trying to curb pollution and just build lots of defenses.

Also, the easiest way to take out worms is poison capsules, imo.

user202362

most of the viral stuff on the internet are not of natural growth ... they are more artificially enhanced

bjb568

Like your previous horse pic?

JamesENL

Not tried those. I really need to expand my area out and set up other dedicated factory areas

I should set up another copper mine/smelting source on the other side of my main factory and then I've got iron and copper on the other side rather than relying on the main big one

@AlexisKing is installing mods on the Steam version fairly easy?

Alexis King

3:32 AM

@JamesENL Yeah, it seems to just be the same process as doing it in the non-Steam version.

JamesENL

Oh cool. Shame they haven't got workshop integration working yet

Alexis King

Yeah, I think they’re working on that.

Jeffrey Bosboom

Finished my reopen reviews. Just one "edit and reopen", but it has four votes already, so it looks like it'll go through. I did see two salvageable R questions, but I don't know enough R to fix them (I skipped). There were a lot of old recommendation/comparison questions that could be narrowed down to today's standards, but editing would have invalidated all the existing answers, so I had to Leave Closed.

bjb568

A ball of sun for viewing pleasure.

JamesENL

what-if.xkcd.com Interesting stats about the sun

hichris123

3:34 AM

@JeffreyBosboom hah that's the only one I voted to reopen as well

JamesENL

Anyway, enough about fantasising about playing Factorio, I should get back to work

user202362

@bjb568 what horse? that was a muscular unicorn ...

user202362

all natural too

bjb568

sure…

Andrew T.

I'm done with SE Android app's bugs...

Jeffrey Bosboom

3:40 AM

@hichris123 completed Reopen × 4, Leave Closed × 2, Edit and Reopen × 1

hichris123

Some of them were borderline so I skipped them since I don't know enough about the subject matter.

Jeffrey Bosboom

@hichris123 I skipped a lot, including some questions that looked like resource requests but might have been fixable by an expert. (I was just notifying you that the one we voted to reopen finished.)

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Quill

sd k

user315433

4:17 AM

Jul 30 '15 at 5:10, by Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls OP is 'testing'... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31715542/this-is-a-testquestion

user315433

Remember Hobo Sapiens? I just now noticed the account is gone...

Andrew T.

Your account was gone on MSE too.

user315433

Well. For me that's just how I roll. His is for real.

user315433

Which raises the question: who are the most active downvoters on SO nowadays? Hobo and Crabolo are gone, Wooble faded out a while ago... I think Quentin is still going strong.

user315433

4:39 AM

Forgot Peter Mortensen; he is #2 now, poised to become #1 when he overtakes CRABOLO.

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bjb568

@404 It'd be me if I bothered to build a bot to do it before I quit.

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user202362

How do we know that unicorns are not just horses with tumours/extra bones growing on their heads?

3

user202362

Like ... Mutant horses ...

user202362

If there are X-Men, there must be X-Horses

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bjb568

5:51 AM

Can a satellite do a yo-yo trick?

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Andrew T.

7:07 AM

Why is my mouse so fragile in the office...

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bwDraco

Spammer's avatar.

Good night, folks.

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Andrew T.

SE↑ (SE upvote)? Cool avatar, bro.

Jeffrey Bosboom

I think it's supposed to be "SEO", but I saw "SET" at first.

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Andrew T.

Ergh, april fool is coming

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Quill

sd 5k

IͶΔ

Quill K

Cake

Quill

If I say delicious, is that cannibalism?

IͶΔ

8:19 AM

Challenging

Good question

+1

Gonna research the answer

Quill

It's on topic at LifeHacks even

IͶΔ

Based on the first result, I'm inclined to say "yes".

Andrew T.

@bjb568 Does DevDoodle celebrates April Fool like Stack Exchange?

IͶΔ

@AndrewT. Every April fool, @bjb gives a heartfelt speech about Devdoodle in Devdoodle. Best April fool joke evar.

Quill

8:53 AM

haha that always cracks me up

rene

9:07 AM

@bjb568 Grrrr, string replacement .... :(

Andrew T.

9:31 AM

I don't think I'll get android-app badge even after doing this lol.

rene

10:00 AM

@bjb568 quick hack applied but I'll revisit that to have a more robust solution.

Derpy

10:13 AM

soooo.... is the staff still attempting to claim that they haven't got any time for an April Fool joke this year?

IͶΔ

I think so.

I'm still waiting for a surprise

which doesn't make it much of a surprise

Derpy

@IͶΔ Maybe they will listen to my proposal and have a celebration swag with ponies plushies

IͶΔ

That's a shaky maybe

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kos

sd k

Pandya

11:28 AM

My flag on question is pending for week!

when I flag on MSE who is notified?

IͶΔ

@Pandya What did you flag?

Pandya

@IͶΔ 24-March

say one week ago

IͶΔ

That's a pretty weird thing to flag.

Pandya

@IͶΔ what is meant by "weired"?

I flagged for possible migration of question

IͶΔ

@Pandya Reread the messages above.

Pandya

11:35 AM

ok

Derpy

11:57 AM

Hi, Friend Computer welcomes you to ~~Alpha Complex~~ StackEchange. We have detected a violation of the "Happiness Is Mandatory! Insufficient happiness will be punished by termination" by your recent activity. Please wait at your current location as we deploy standard TrogX1 unit to your position for burination.

rene

@Pandya MSE is handled by SE employees and there is not much going on normally that needs their full attention so mod flags can sit in the queue for weeks if not months. They will come to it someday. Just be patient.

Derpy

12:11 PM

@ShadowWizard i.stack.imgur.com/nPBsN.gif

Shadow Wizard

12:31 PM

@Derpy hmm.. which of those girls is me? ;-)

@rene true, average time for my flags is 2 months, and I have about 10 flags which still wait, more than 3 months. I kind of stopped even hoping a custom flag will get any attention, doing it out of pure habit. /cc @Pandya

rene

@ShadowWizard I suggest we run MSE elections. You'll have my vote...

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya if you mean a question is better suited in other meta site, much better to ask the OP to do it, and delete his question on MSE.

@rene lol, thanks! :D

Pandya

12:49 PM

@ShadowWizard I'm talking about this question.

And my flag is:

> This question deals with specific site "AskUbuntu" so it is better to migrate to meta.askubuntu.com instead on main MSE. So, move this question to meta.askubuntu.com – Pandya Mar 24 at 5:54 pending

No need to hammer though

rene

@Pandya not sure if that question should really be on Meta Ask Ubuntu. You could argue that the question is also interesting on MSE for users that want to know how other proposals started. The question is more about the process of site creation as it is about Ask Ubuntu.

user202362

omg ... apr 1st

IͶΔ

1:06 PM

@rene what's this all about?

You're going and apologizing to ranters that you close a lot?

Shadow Wizard

@IͶΔ yeah @rene is too good of a person. :-D

user202362

I find SE to be an exceptionally friendly place ... I mean usually people on the internet have this "can't get rid of you so has to accept you attitude"

rene

@IͶΔ I feel bad for lying but yes ;)

IͶΔ

Reading this, it feels like @rene is a caring mother telling her naughty kid (the OP) why he shouldn't do bad things.

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya oh. I agree with @rene that it probably better stay on MSE, and also note it was already migrated to MSE. Migrating again will cause all sorts of bad things to happen.

IͶΔ

1:10 PM

@rene Waiwait, which one is a lie?

The "yes" or the apology?

Shadow Wizard

lol

rene

My lawyer thinks it is better if I refrain from commenting on that ...

IͶΔ

You just commented on that.

rene

fun to see my answer is being incorporated in an MSO answser by the same OP.

IͶΔ

Uses @rene

Shadow Wizard

1:23 PM

Smells @rene

rene

farts

Pandya

@ShadowWizard ok. no-problem I just wanted to say that it should be migrated to MAU instead MSE from Apple.SE

now let's forgot it

Unikitty Blends People

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A: How can I offset the start of a fluid simulation

You should use the offset field in the domain's settings: What you would normally want is a negative offset. For example, if the camera switches at frame #240 (10 seconds at 24fps), the offset should be -240. Blender will skip the first 240 frames. It only starts doing the simulation at frame ...

:D

Pandya

1:39 PM

@UnikittyBlendsPeople Appreciating your contribution & use of free software!

Unikitty Blends People

Yay!

Andrew T.

@Pandya if possible, use meta.[site-name] except MSE. I was a little bit confused reading MAU :)

SmokeDetector

2:26 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Checking if three numbers sum to a given number by aaaaaaa on codereview.stackexchange.com …

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya yeah, too late for that...

@rene falling unconscious

sd k

rene

@ShadowWizard \o/

Shadow Wizard

2:45 PM

Are you lol'ing over an unconscious wizard? That's cruel! D:

Oh my, forgot to visit Den. bolting

Shadow Wizard

4:00 PM

Quill

4:47 PM

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Q: What to do about hundreds of the same basic question?

For the umpteenth time someone asked the question "what does 'str object is not callable' mean?" with the tag [python]. This is a very common error for newbies, so it just gets asked over and over and over, each time in a slightly different context. A little spot checking shows that nearly every ...

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discussion questions feature-request edits answers review voting

tchrist

Well then.

user315433

Imagine if error messages were more like "you put (n) after a string variable, which does not make sense in Python. Did you mean [n]?" rather than "'str' object is not callable".

KutuluMike

5:03 PM

@404 that assumes that by the time the interpreter/compiler figures out the error, it has enough context to create such an error message; it also means you've need to have countless different error messages for what is probably caught as the same fundamentla problem.

"oh, you tried to call something that's not callable. Is is a string? ok, error message 1. Not a string. How about an array? ok, error message 2. Not an array either.. any kind of container? ok error message 3."

Shadow Wizard

5:22 PM

@404 would probably be the case when there will be global peace, no more wars, no hunger, and little green aliens will live among us. :-D

user315433

@KutuluMike The context is all there: just looking at 'str' object is not callable and nothing else, we can guess what the newcomer to Python tried to do. It's have to be some option like python -novice file.py. And I don't think it's countless number: str, list, and dict cover most of such errors committed by beginners.

user315433

The message would be different for dict, though I'm not sure dict(2) is even a common error

user315433

An exception that helped me immediately identify and fix the problem, I might faint from shock https://t.co/OZDUsokHFd

Tweeted by tmslft on March 20, 2016 at 3:00 PM

user315433

5:37 PM

New pro-tem mod on Space.SE: kim holder. ~~No meta announcement.~~ Announced by an edit to pro tem post, which makes sense.

bjb568

@AndrewT. Well, what should I do?

Quill

6:35 PM

Jon Ericson

@Quill Review from my three-year-old: "Keeeep playing da gaaaaaame, Dadeeeee!"

bjb568

Good thing you're not DDOSing yourselves again :p

user311528

@JonEricson rofl

TGMCians

6:51 PM

\o

hey guys

whats up

Quill

storing score globally
not a good idea... prone to
a madman's (javascript dev's) wrath

Doorknob

@Quill O_O

rene

Hi @TGMCians \o/ waves frantically

TGMCians

7:06 PM

\m/

my friend just got stackoverflow swag goodies for this

Quill

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Q: Job listing offering INR 7-30(USD 0.106- 0.45)

I came across a job listing on my homepage, which offers INR 7-30(USD 0.106- 0.45). Considering that the listing is for a senior dev role with desired experience of 10 years, and you can't even buy a decent cup of tea with INR 7 in India, I believe this to be a bug. Should raising the issue on ...

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TGMCians

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A: How Did Stack Overflow Help You?

As a Stack Overflow user, I have learned a lot. Let me start with my story: When I joined my first company as an Android Trainee, I was trained under their training program which went for just 10-12 days only. Thereafter, I was assigned to a project. As I had never been into programming in my...