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user315433

12:30 AM

user315433

I don't understand voting on some sites... This had +1, being a requirement dump and (correctly) closed by 5 users.

bjb568

@sandwich It's because the score isn't properly aligned.

user315433

Yes, and the favstar cut off.

bjb568

1:00 AM

@Quill Hey, if you want to help with DevDoodle, I organized the issues a bit. github.com/bjb568/DevDoodle/issues/226 and github.com/bjb568/DevDoodle/issues/125 would be helpful and pretty easy to do.

hichris123

@sandwich You don't know the number of times I see wildly off-topic posts on SO with +1 or sometimes even +2/+3.

Quill

1:18 AM

@bjb568 that sounds cool, I'll clone your code later and take a look

hichris123

@bjb568 I'm just curious: how many people have visited DevDoodle in say the past week?

bjb568

@hichris123 IDK, I don't have those stats.

It'd go up by one if you got a friend to join.

hichris123

Well, I guess that's one way to be entirely honest about how many people use the site... "How many users do you have?" "Lots!"

Quill

Maybe a inhouse analytics engine might be a good idea

Listening to the Pixies is a great way to spend the last percent of your phone's battery

hichris123

@Quill knowing bjb that's an even better idea.

Quill

1:22 AM

@hichris123 I would suggest GA, but IIRC he doesn't want foreign scripts

@bjb568 Do you have an MVC style setup going? I can't remember from the last time I cloned your repo

bjb568

@Quill No, I have web pages.

@Quill Don't suggest GA.

user315433

> any codes i just want 3D codes so i can make a first person shoter or simething like that or a website that can teach me things like that.

user315433

The entirety of a question. Posted in 2011. Score: +1

Quill

@bjb568 Did you write the HTML scripting engine?

hichris123

> I use google API multiple times throughout the day, because of which google has banned my ip. How can I query google api so that each time a query is made different IPAddress is used?

bjb568

1:28 AM

@Quill I wrote scripts…

Quill

Okay

user315433

@hichris123 That's a practical question at least.

JamesENL

@hichris123 Where was that?

hichris123

What was the freeform vote to close reason prior to "I'm voting to close this question because..."?

Quill

@bjb I'll take a look at the qa/tips thing later if you like

hichris123

1:32 AM

-1

Q: How can I use rotating proxy (IP Address) for querying google API?

I use google API multiple times throughout the day, because of which google has banned my ip. How can I query google api so that each time a query is made different IPAddress is used?

google-api

@sandwich I guess... not very programming related though.

bjb568

@Quill :D

hichris123

Ugh the 365-day roomba didn't pick this math question up... (because of comments?) stackoverflow.com/questions/27255679/…

user315433

With -1, comments don't matter.

hichris123

@sandwich I just downvoted a little bit ago.

user315433

So it'll be deleted Friday night. Yes, >=2 comments prevent 365 roomba.

user315433

1:44 AM

Even if all comments are "voting to close as off topic because..."

hichris123

heh maybe this one was reported by Smokey... stackoverflow.com/questions/32039897/…

@sandwich That's dumb. There's about 1000 0-answer non-closed questions with voting to close as off-topic comments. I'm worming my way through them.

user315433

> I'm worming my way through them.

user315433

I like that.

hichris123

It's pretty much what I'm doing. ~200 a week.

user202362

2:17 AM

user202362

2:38 AM

user202362

sock kitties

tchrist

2:59 AM

That's animal abuse.

user202362

3:16 AM

Maybe it's too cold & the socks are the right size ...

user202362

>_<

bjb568

3:30 AM

3 AP exams tomorrow!

Night!

user202362

All the best, night

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Quill

> vivacious

nice

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Universal Indicators

yay

Random Physics OpenGL Render

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sd 10k

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Bart

8:37 AM

@UniversalIndicators cool. Yours?

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Universal Indicators

@Bart yep

Sd 20k

360 Final

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360 magic

Quill

10:57 AM

37

A: Did toddlers with guns claim more American lives than terrorism in 2015?

It depends on your definition of terrorism and your interpretation of the quote: is it about American lives anywhere in the world, or about death in America including non-Americans. For the purpose of this answer I'll assume the second interpretation. If terrorism only includes Islamic terrorism...

wat

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11:15 AM

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yo'

Please, don't anybody know what's the limit size of the badge icon?

Bart

Badge icon?

yo'

@Bart the bronze, silver and gold icons in the top bar

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Bart

11:54 AM

@yo' those are part of an SVG sprite sheet. So in theory as big as you'd want them to appear: cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/img/sprites.svg

yo'

@Bart but there's a big issue with anti-aliasing, so it's important to know the resulting size... Anyway, I figured that 14px seems safe...

Andrew T.

Anti-alias in vector graphic?

yo'

@AndrewT. on a raster screen?

Bart

What exactly do you mean there @yo'? It should scale to any size, no?

yo'

@Bart it does, but sometimes really badly, see e.g. the signature in puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32248/…

Bart

12:01 PM

I guess I don't see the problem

Andrew T.

I also don't find any problem with it (LCD 1080p), but it may be for some users.

Just, that puzzle icon looks dimensionally-unbalanced.

yo'

@AndrewT. I in general don't like it. I think a question mark would be better

This is what I see

Sunshine

@Bart Change your glasses :D

yo'

Does not look like a puzzle piece to me...

Andrew T.

Okay, now that looks bad...

yo'

12:09 PM

@AndrewT. and that's on a 3yo notebook, middle-priced

Shadow Wizard

12:38 PM

@yo' what exactly is your browser and OS?

yo'

@ShadowWizard Fedora18, FF38

Derpy

so, reported yet another scraper site.

the mail I got from Stack had a code at the end.

Bart

gg

Ooh, secret codez?

Derpy

can I use the code to track the mail somewhere or it is just an internal thing?

or maybe there is a page somewhere with a list of monthly winners codes that get a free Ladycorn plush?

Shadow Wizard

1:07 PM

@Derpy what code? If numeric, maybe the internal ticket number, e.g. stackexchange.zendesk.com/requests/58205

(58205 in that case)

@yo' well, that's an oooold version, try to update. Also, you see this one in good quality? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/SVG-logo.svg

Derpy

@ShadowWizard actually it is an alphanumeric code.

But right now it is not my priority ^_^'

Yet again I am facing my nemesis,

Yet again I am trying to have Costura.Fody work with Sharepoint

(actually, any other dll embedding tool would probably be good too)

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy something like this? bcaec548a5bfb4a791052e8a5429

user315433

Marc Gravell's blog, How I found CUDA, or: Rewriting the Tag Engine–part 1

Bart

1:24 PM

@sandwich boooo, cliffhanger teaser post

Man, I should find some time to get back into playing with CUDA.

Derpy

Pinkie Pie - Pinkie Pie uses Twilight Sparkle as a gatling gun

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Shadow Wizard

guess that's a "no". oh well.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard no. Guess that is a correlation-id guid....

but why I am explaining... you know what joke you where making... -_-

Shadow Wizard

1:41 PM

@Derpy not really... and I found something for you.... ;)

Actually I copied that code from one of my own emails sent by SE team, @Derpy.

It shouldn't normally show, but who knows... each email client has its own quirks.

user202362

is this pic photoshopped?

user202362

I can't tell ...

user202362

It's in the thread of "world's most beautiful horse"

user202362

as you can see, it must be really beautiful, at least in its owner's eyes

user202362

1:45 PM

otherwise why so well fed & groomed

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty weird enough, looks like it's real. It's a horse called Puma Pants who won some prizes... racingandsports.com.au/horse/puma-pants-875599

user315433

Oded's presentation is now on YouTube: Stack Overflow behind the scenes - how it's made

user202362

rather soft spoken

user202362

@ShadowWizard can't see any image of the said horse

user202362

I saw some really fat horses on a farm once

user202362

1:55 PM

must be eating grasses all day long then given beans and other high calorie food a few times a day too

yo'

@ShadowWizard That one is completely fine. And I know I have an old version, but that's it and I can't really change it (it's not that old, again, about 2 years). And believe me or not, there's millions of people who can't easily upgrade their systems.

Shadow Wizard

@yo' hmm... and when you view this directly, the badges are fine? cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/puzzling/img/sprites.svg?v=e930b06795d9

Andrew T.

@sandwich The description of the video seems a bit weird: "I" refers to who...

> In this talk I will cover how we develop, build, configure, deploy, monitor and maintain the site.

(well, it's Oded, but still, pronoun without clear subject..)

user202362

You know how in the Lord of the Rings, the Dark Lord Sauron in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. Not sure the ring actually worked, didn't he lose in the batter when his finger got chopped off?

user202362

It's very sad that the ring that can rule all other rings can't even rule a sword to not chop its owner's finger

Andrew T.

2:10 PM

^ unrelated:

!xkcd find standard

xkcdBot

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

user202362

s/batter/battle/

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. it's a copy paste from here.

user202362

also, can't dark lord just create like a dozen such rings just in case?

user202362

maybe he knew that the ring did not work at all!

Shadow Wizard

2:13 PM

@Telkitty guess he could, but you must have a strong basis for a story, without making it impossible or too complicated.

yo'

@ShadowWizard when I zoom in, yes. But the rendering is bad when it's zoomed out. On the other hand, it's not worse than any other rendering of similar graphics, whether on web or not

Shadow Wizard

@yo' so it's really weird. Only thing I can think of is some local browser or OS issue. Can't you try with Chrome, or on different machine? (even your phone)

yo'

@ShadowWizard I tell you, this is not a software issue, it's simply how the thing looks like in "low resolution" (by current standards I mean) screens, i.e., 3 yo machines

Andrew T.

@yo' Curious, what's the screen resolution?

yo'

@AndrewT. 1366x768, 15.6"

Note that I work as a typographer and I'm 100% fine with my screen for the job.

btw, looks bad also on my workplace monitor with FF45 on Windows (1440x900, 19"), the point is, the thing simply does not look like a puzzle piece when it's 14px large.

user202362

2:19 PM

@ShadowWizard I have a better theory: poor hobbits, I think they were doped by Gandalf and took all the trouble to destroy a ring that could only create hallucination. And because of hallucination, the Dark Lord Sauron thought that One Ring could rule the other Rings.

yo'

(actually, it may be the rounded corners, which is ridiculous for a high quality puzzle piece, these have sharp corners)

Shadow Wizard

@yo' yeah, the weird ratio might explain the problem. As far as I've seen, very few use such resolution.

user202362

but if that's case, Sauron must be a deluded dumbass, how could a deluded dumbass become a dark lord??

yo'

@ShadowWizard that was the most common thing for 15" sized notebooks in 2013, and my pixels are completely squared, so there's nothing weird going on.

Shadow Wizard

@yo' well, you can try start a feature request asking to change the SVG to support such resolution (if possible at all, not sure) but don't build your hopes too high...

yo'

2:23 PM

@ShadowWizard no, the point is, you see, it does not look as a puzzle piece to me even on other screens I tried, including my 3-month-old smartphone

Shadow Wizard

@yo' and here? ^

You see this as puzzle pieces?

yo'

@ShadowWizard no, at best, some poor attempt for the apple logo

Andrew T.

lol

Shadow Wizard

@yo' so it's matter of taste... feel free to ask changing it - or ask SE to hire a new designer. :)

yo'

even if I zoom in and step back to kill any screen rasterization issue, it doesn't get better

Shadow Wizard

2:25 PM

It won't get better because you don't like the actual design.

Andrew T.

Personally, I hardly see it as puzzle pieces due to its dimension, but it's only me.

yo'

@ShadowWizard well, they had nicely and neatly looking keys for badges, but it was requested to change this, so now they got these creatures

@AndrewT. obviously not only you

Andrew T.

And then, there's MSE post about Puzzling and Workplace favicon being too similar

It's really puzzling...

yo'

@AndrewT. that's being solved on M.Puzzling, no need to raise it there. (Note that I went here because I knew here people better know the SE internals, but I would post the change requests on M.Puzzling of course)

user202362

!xkcd find fat horse

xkcdBot

2:27 PM

xkcd.com/why.txt

Andrew T.

@yo' apparently it's been raised on M.Puzzling as a response to "new design" meta post, so, problem solved

yo'

@AndrewT. yeah, I know

Well, originally I asked "what's the number of pixels available for the badge" so that I could design a nice question mark for the badges. I didn't really want to get into this "my screen is a loser screen" stuff :D

now I gotta go, I teach in 30 minutes and I need a coffee beforehand.

Shadow Wizard

@yo' thing is, there's no real answer for this because it's SVG so in theory, it shouldn't really care about pixels, as far as I know. :)

yo'

@ShadowWizard yeah, but note that Academia was shifting the badge sprites by "half a pixel" to significantly improve the rendering, so it cares about pixels ;)

Shadow Wizard

2:45 PM

@yo' can't notice any change, but you think it's per-site and it's OK there, you can simply post in the meta site of Puzzling asking to make it like on Academia. :)

user202362

@ShadowWizard it does check on iphone ...

user202362

and doing it at the very end

user202362

wtf

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty well, it's probably only in the "final gate", when actually trying to add the question via the API. The site showing you the message in the Ask Question page itself?

If so we can, in theory, start feature request asking to check before actually submitting, like on the site, but from what I've seen, the team usually doesn't care much for such things. (i.e. making the life easier for suspended or banned users)

Anyway, thanks for checking!

user202362

doh :p back to writng my blog

Derpy

3:02 PM

ok, boiling point reached for now. We will try again. Later.

Much later

Right now, I am unable to understand what is going wrong. Will try to replace costura.fody with an hardcoded module initialize.

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Quill

Anime&Manga changed their policy enough for me to robo review a whole bunch of questions...

I guess there's a first for everything

xkcdBot

4:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Recent Searches):

autoexec code posted by verified twitter users

Quill

> Predictive Touchpad

haha

ArtOfCode

4:55 PM

Evening all. SmokeDetector is temporarily running from my account, while the real Smokey is dead. When you see SD messages from me, that's why.

2

canon

5:43 PM

@ArtOfCode Will it be less spammy from your account?

Quill

< latest commit strip >

ArtOfCode

5:58 PM

@canon it's exactly the same bot, so whatever it would post here normally will get posted here

Quill

6:13 PM

!!/sarcasmNotDetected

canon

@ArtOfCode I know, I was just being a jerk.

ArtOfCode

@Quill SarcasmFilter.Status = FilterStatus.NotEnabled

Quill

When I wrote my latest bot, most of the time spent developing it was making it sarcastic

function alive(){
    var responses = [
        'Yeah',
        '*sigh*',
        'Can I pretend not to be?',
        'I\'m a robot, we\'re not alive anyway'
    ];
    return responses.slice(sarcasmFactor)[Math.floor(
        Math.random() * responses.slice(sarcasmFactor).length
    )];
}

canon

@Quill you didn't cache your slice() results...

/torch

/pitchfork

Quill

meh

premature optimization is the root of all evil

canon

6:26 PM

well, it serves a twofold purpose there

a: optimization, sure

but b: here's the exact same, named subset

user315433

6:45 PM

Part two of Marc Gravell's series: How I found CUDA, or: Rewriting the Tag Engine–part 2

user315433

7:01 PM

@Quill Math.random() * (responses.length - sarcasmFactor) does not create another array just to find the length.

canon

@sandwich no need to slice at all, imo... let alone twice :P

Quill

and if you have an empty responses array it'll return negative numbers

user315433

You're accessing its elements anyway, without checking for non-emptiness.

Quill

slicing an array's elements where they don't exist does nothing, meaning there's no chance for a rouge exception

I could improve the function but it's like three extra lines of code and I'm lazy

canon

7:17 PM

@Quill rouge exception: eyeshadowlipstick.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/…

looks like an overflow, imo

Quill

rouge = #FF0000; rogue = not_my_exceptions;

bjb568

8:10 PM

Just tested for 8h straight, no lunch break.

hichris123

8:46 PM

@bjb568 Poor cat. No time to even scratch your claws.

bjb568

Myeah. A nightmare.

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9:13 PM

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user315433

9:51 PM

@JonEricson On your network profile, clicking "activity" results in "Oops! Something Bad Happened!". What have you done?

Jon Ericson

@sandwich Bad things, I guess.

user315433

Unspeakably bad things that make even a server throw error 500. :O

Jon Ericson

@sandwich I checked a few other people's. Jarrod Dixon and Adam Lear have the same problem. I'll ask one of them. ;-)

user315433

10:22 PM

0

Q: innner join troubles

Dang it's hard to send you well wishes here. I wish you all a good year before this post is deleted. Remember to love your fellow developers. I'd like to join using(love) where i=heartU group by noms with rollup;

mysql

user315433

From January 1, 2012

user315433

10:37 PM

i can't make much sense of what you just said, but i would like some samples of what you are smoking.. — lurscher Jun 22 '11 at 16:40

user315433

11:07 PM

Beer, Wine & Spirits officially has a new name and URL.

Doorknob

Oh, I just realized who @sandwich really is.

The SE site trivia gave it away.

user315433

The network profile activity error went away.

user315433

Marc Gravell's third blog post of the day: CUDA–getting started in .NET

hichris123

Did Marc write these beforehand? I think it would've been better as one blog post, but either way works.

user315433

Yeah, not having an easy-to-find link to Part N+1 is a problem. He uses Blogger (ugh), where the link to next post is... just that, "newer post", title not included.

user315433

11:23 PM

It's debatable whether Google still remember that Blogger exists.

hichris123

Aren't the "Official" Google blogs run on Blogger?

user315433

Okay, so they must be aware it exists.

Jon Ericson

11:35 PM

@sandwich Oh. By the way. Adam undid what I done did.

hichris123

@JonEricson So what exactly did you do?