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bjb568

12:17 AM

@zaq Nah, not that. That'd be too interesting.

For one of them I had to do something with equivalence classes.

user315433

Then, "prove that this thing is (not) a linear subspace"?

bjb568

There's nothing abstract :(

user315433

Boo.

bjb568

The first question is prove that the diagonalization formula gives a diagonalization.

The second question involves computing nth power of a 3x3 non-diagonalizable.

The fourth is polynomial regression even tho it wasn't mentioned in class. (of course I can still do it)

The eighth is worst of them all. DNE.

user202362

matrix in exams tend to stay in the domain of 3x3 or less, imagine how much fun you would have if it's 5 x 5 :p

bjb568

12:24 AM

I've had that before. Thankfully, all I needed to do with circle the pivots when it was already in echelon form.

user202362

also, no questions on 'eigenvalues' and 'eigenvectors'?

bjb568

That's what diagonalization is.

One of them is solving a system of linear first order DEs,

user202362

12:43 AM

must admit that I forgot a lot of things that I had learnt in Uni - mainly because it's not used on day to day basis

user202362

while as maths and physics learnt in high school are still often used to calculate and work out how things should work in immediate surroundings

user202362

I wonder what is the percentage of maths and physics used in spaceship launch calculations that is under GCE 'A' level and what percentage requires university maths ...

user202362

for the launch, not for communication technology, coz fourier transform etc are definitely college level maths

user315433

1:08 AM

The bot detecting SQL injections on SO has been discussed in a bunch of places over the weekend.

user315433

It appears to look for simple patterns, like ... where username='$username'"

user315433

Of which there are a lot...

bjb568

Wow, that's pretty bad.

user315433

When PHP-running servers become sentient, they will decide to eliminate apostrophes from everything. The real reason why the Terminator went after Sarah O'Connor.

user315433

1:29 AM

1

Q: How to create simple product programmatically?

I want to create simple product programmatically. Can anybody tell me where to add the code?

user315433

Has an upvote... this e-commerce site is going to be totally secure. (Magento runs on PHP)

Jason C

omg

so it turns out node.js is awesome

why did i not bother learning this before

apt-get remove tomcat

user202362

because there will be an even better language coming out in the next few years and your current node.js knowledge will become mostly redundant

Jason C

that's ok

i only ever knew how to write web applications in java and php. and php sucks.

it's so awesome though being able to do something in like 5 minutes and 10 lines of code what used to take me about two hours and a thousand server restarts in eclipse to do.

i have a pretty high fever right now so if i type words out of order just... move on.

because i'm trying to read what i just wrote and none of it makes any sense.

anyways, hi

bjb568

Jun 5 '14 at 8:34, by bjb568

Bored? Learn node.

I've recommended it before.

Jason C

1:40 AM

yeah but i don't really pay attention to you

because tabbies are lame

bjb568

:'(

user202362

this is cockroach infestation:

user202362

Jason C

@bjb568 bahaha

@Telkitty and, bahaha

bjb568

@Telkitty o_o

user202362

1:41 AM

this is just New York:

user202362

Jason C

people infestation

user202362

I have too many apps/websites on the market that's solely maintained by self, if someone hacked me, I would hardly know ...

user202362

sad side of life ...

Jason C

well

bjb568

1:44 AM

Jason C

oh... well!

i bet there's a creepy girl in there

as usual

user202362

creepy? you can a young girl wearing flimsy, wet dress creepy?? :p

Jason C

yes

and i resent your implication that creepy is not attractive

you see, you're the problem, not me.

both of my cats meow exactly once when you look at them. it's hilarious. i just spent the last 5 minutes looking back and forth and getting alternating meows. i should've recorded it.

/me looks at @bjb

user202362

The Ring has the best room service - image long haired girl wearing flimsy, wet dress crawling out of the TV and into your living/bedroom, ready for action ... you can do anything to her too, just fulfilling all your fantasies. It's not like anyone would notice if she disappears ...

bjb568

meow

Jason C

1:51 AM

@bjb568 I CONTROL YOU

bjb568

:3

Jason C

@Telkitty i dunno... that seems...

i mean does that same girl crawl out of lots of tvs?

user315433

Wells for Boys - SNL

►

Jason C

cause thats how you get the crabs

@zaq that's so awesome

user202362

@JasonC I know ... right?

bjb568

2:04 AM

The Ring Soundtrack 'The Well'

►

Shog9

2:16 AM

fleetwood mac oh well

►

user315433

2:33 AM

I remember using a real well back in the days... Not a good place to pause and reflect, that's for sure. Way too deep and too dark.

user315433

Plus the prospect of losing grip on the handle and getting smacked by it.

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user202362

2:48 AM

Imagine in the old times, there was only 1 well in a village. Then a little girl accidentally fell into it and killed herself. The villagers thought the girl went lost and drank corpse water for a whole year ...

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user315433

3:38 AM

TFW you spent weeks working on something, took notes, built a prototype... and have no idea where you put any of it.

Tweeted by shog9 on December 1, 2016 at 5:46 PM

user315433

So much for the new Ask Question page...

user315433

There are 5 beta sites without custom design. One of them, Anime & Manga, is waiting for its design since September 2015...

user315433

Apparently, none of the current designers are big on the genre.

user202362

What should I do if I see something that looks like a bait? Should I 1) ignore 2) wipe my cat's butt on it, then ignore it 3) let my chicken eat it or 4) depends on the bait, if it looks delicious enough, I might steal it then do whatever pleases me

user202362

baits on twitter != decoration on a Xmas tree

user202362

3:46 AM

When a 1337 C a bait, she would know ...

user315433

@zaq I meant "graduated", not "beta".

user202362

Now stop insulting 1337's intelligence - 1337 not reacting to baits not because she didn't see them. It's because 1337 knows they are baits.

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bjb568

@Telkitty Yum yum, the sweet taste of dysentery.

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Sterling Archer

5:56 AM

Learn how to lose weight healt

1 1

lol

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user202362

7:41 AM

@zaq !!/coffee

user202362

oops, wrong bot

user202362

Stijn

7:54 AM

there was an attempt

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user202362

an attempt at a really bad idea ...

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Shadow Wizard

8:21 AM

@zaq not enough bacon for Jin

Because the SE devs didn't feed Jin enough bacon? ;) I can only speculate, but it might have something to do with the new LESS codebase that's been slowly being rolled out across all the sites. — Doorknob Jun 23 '15 at 0:21

lol

Derpy

8:40 AM

Illuminati confirmed

> if (!t) throw new Error('SVGMorpheus > "element" is required');

we are in the Matrix.

Can I have my "Blue Pill, Red Pill" hat now?

Stijn

Ooh the countdown is live on winterbash2016.stackexchange.com

@Derpy ...and I just figured out where you got that from :p

Derpy

yep, but it doesn't seem the countdown hides any easter egg

probably that would be asking a little too much

Stijn

an ARG would be cool

MD XF

poke...

Derpy

@MDXF game, not sticker collection.

MD XF

8:49 AM

@Derpy I'm confused.

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Derpy

Weren't you replying to Stijn?

MD XF

@Derpy Misread the comment. Apologies.

Derpy

Don't worry. I just assumed that you were saying that Pokemon Go is an ARG :P

MD XF

@Derpy Yeah, definitely not XD

Derpy

9:01 AM

and even then it depends on what do you mean with ARG -

Augmented Reality Game or Alternate Reality Game?

not even sure it qualifies as Augmented, but it surely isn't Alternate Reality.

Bart

Alternate Reality Game

Derpy

right. Alternate, not "Artificial"

corrected, thanks

Bart

Too many damn ARs everywhere

user202362

ARRRGH

user202362

9:04 AM

said the bird

Bart

:D

Derpy

mumble... Somehow, the countdown on the Winter Bash site seems off by a second.

When you load the page, there is a small delay before the count starts....

MD XF

What is it counting down to

*?

Stijn

the end of the world

Derpy

maybe I should try to confirm it, just for the fun of posting a bug report "The countdown is off by a second"

Stijn

9:10 AM

have you received a pamflet yet?

@Derpy they'll blame caching

In all seriousness, it's counting down to the start of this year's Winter Bash event

MD XF

Oh huh

Nah haven't got anything

Derpy

@Stijn Didn't someone recently claim that the 2012 Maya End Of The World count was off by 3 years and half because of some odd error they made?

MD XF

Any programmers want a laugh? prohackr112.tk/r/proper-c-obfuscation

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Derpy

I remember some tinfoil hatters theorist saying that the new date was falling around June

yournewswire.com/…

and then we are off for the next date.

2017

morningledger.com/…

Bart

9:24 AM

Of course it's the dates that are wrong ... not the whole premise to begin with

Derpy

We will just have to wait until some Spandam wannabee pushes the Buster Call button while playing with the golden Den Den Mushi

Derpy

9:57 AM

Protip: if you post a question on Worldbuilding with a purposely odd title, hoping that it will get on the Hot Question list (and then you get perplexed at the mixed results) at least do your research.

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10:23 AM

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12:16 PM

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Derpy

Random Stack quote of the day:

> People follow patterns without realizing the purpose of the pattern

user202362

like that's new, all social animals are herdable ...

Stijn

As is evident by all the .NET shops implementing the "repository pattern", a vicious cycle of green-behind-the-ears-devs learning the wrong things

Derpy

don't worry. I live my life among those odd creatures.

one side must have read that old "How to write unreadable code: a guide to job security" manual....

the other one sings odes of patterns, Uncle Bob, TDD and the such before asking themselves why that works.

and in the middle a small group of devs that try to use.... warning - strong words ahead - ..... common good sense

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12:45 PM

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Derpy

1:04 PM

..... Someone may have fixed the countdown.

nope, can still repro :P

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rene

I really need a generic blame caching MSO post which I can use as a dupe target for everything slightly applicable.

Andy

@rene Create one: "Why is my data out dated?" "Caching <a bunch of zero space characters>"

user315433

Heads up: I plan to change all Stack Exchange API /site links to point at https:// with cache breakers this week. http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/sites#filter=default&run=true

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on December 5, 2016 at 2:03 PM

user315433

So if you were using that link as a dictionary key for some reason...

Stijn

@rene or a close reason

rene

2:26 PM

Oh, that would be nice, also for main ...

Shadow Wizard

!!/hats

waffles

!!/blame

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@ShadowWizard WE LOVE HATS! Winter Bash will begin in 13 days, 9 hours, 29 minutes, and 12 seconds.

Derpy

Oct 5 at 9:51, by Derpy

@hichris123 @Pops @JasonC ^ could any of you RO change the Wheel of blame link in the room description to this one? I have updated it to be a little more accurate...

rene

that will do ...

Shadow Wizard

no need for a post.

Jan 30 '13 at 20:05, by Shog9

It's always caching

Just link to Shog's message ^

rene

2:35 PM

But I can't dupe hammer a post against a chat message from Shog9

Andy

Has there been a meta post about SO's VLQ review queue recently? It used to have 400+ reviews in it at a time, but in the past week or two it's been near zero. Was there a change that accounts for this, or is it just the new mods?

rene

@Andy not sure, but the mods on SO did clear the mod queue as well

that might be related

Andy

I did hear that. Good job new mods.

Shadow Wizard

As time goes by they will probably get tired of this and queues will grow back again, no worry @Andy

oops, lol

rene

well, it doesn't look like they touched much of the CVQ

Back in the days Bill the Lizard did a steady 50 or so, per day

He was almost everyday the users with the most reviews

Shadow Wizard

2:45 PM

@rene until... ?

rene

Until Bill was ~~demoted / forced to leave /~~ stepped down

Shadow Wizard

but.... he can still vote to close 50 times a day... no?

Shog9

Considering he stepped down so he could spend more time on other things....

rene

@ShadowWizard not when he lost his diamond he can't in the queue

Bart

@Shog9 and "other things" wasn't the CVQ?

Disappointing

Shadow Wizard

2:57 PM

@Shog9 well, as a mod he probably did more than just VTC. If his main focus before was closing stuff, he could get back to this only. :)

rene

3:26 PM

Hmmm, the economy is overheating. I get job offers from HR people who claim they read my profile. None of the major technologies used on that job are on my CV/DevStory.

user315433

For a former mod, dealing with a review queue must be even less fun than for regular users. Same effort as before, with 1/5 the result.

rene

yeah, true

user315433

3:59 PM

user315433

I suspect this might violate some brand guidelines...

user315433

Source: grahamcluley.com/take-care-copy-pasting-code-stack-overflow

user315433

Which leads to a new interview question: When copying code from Stack Overflow, do you take it from:
(A) question;
(B) commends on the question;
(C) answer;
(D) comments on the answer;
(E) all of the above.

user315433

4:13 PM

> Idea: your so-index, analogous to h-index in citations, is the highest n where you have n Stack Overflow answers with score >= n each pic.twitter.com/sbLdKDB5C1 -- David Robinson at 8:12 AM - 5 Dec 2016

user315433

I like it, but at present it's much too easy to compute for me... my current SO-index is 2.

user315433

(My h-index is 12 according to Google Scholar)

user315433

Jon Skeet's SO-index is 160...

Derpy

@zaq more salt for low traffic communities! YAY!

I already love so much to strive to reach for 5k rep with the same effort that brings you over 20k on other sites....

I need more pain!

wait....

Shadow Wizard

Derpy

4:19 PM

Maybe I can just ask Cyborg to lend me this for a while.

rene

4:30 PM

waffles

Derpy

4:41 PM

pancakes

xkcdBot

5:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Settling):

Of course, "Number of times I've gotten to make a decision twice to know for sure how it would have turned out" is still at 0.

user315433

5:42 PM

@xkcdBot is back! First post since October 21

user315433

@xkcdBot Hm..... should we stay on SO or find an alternative sooner?

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6:01 PM

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user315433

2

A: The frontpage for anonymous users is too static

We are changing it to show "active" questions now (previously it was active in the top 10 tags). This will be out in the next deployment.

user315433

I think that Mad's post was actually about a previous iteration of homepage, that was even more static, essentially hottest questions of the month.

user315433

6:17 PM

Filtering by top 10 tags wasn't a smart move... that means emphasizing movie-identification on Movies, homework on Physics/Chem/Stats, Harry Potter and Star Wars on Sci-Fi...

user315433

Homework status: on Physics, it's #2 but about to overtake quantum-mechanics for #1 spot. On Cross Validated, where it's called "self-study", it is currently #7 but moving up to #6 soon. On Chemistry it's #2, trailing organic-chemistry.

user315433

Here's hoping that Physics users will take notice when it becomes the site's top tag, placed at the top of the front page shown to non-logged in visitors.

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8:13 PM

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user315433

New gTLD Announce

@newgTLDannounce

Announcing new gTLDs as they start responding on the global DNS infrastructure

732 tweets, 2k followers, following 0 users

user315433

Is this a parody account? Hard to tell.

bjb568

Parchment seems to have a very colorful random number generator.

user315433

I was about to ask how they get those.

bjb568

There is no way that they even bothered to get somebody who knows how to run a multiple linear regression on it.

It's just made up.

user315433

10:13 PM

> The words I use are odd, glandular, hormone, pungent, scented, musky, oily old hat, boot, ear wax, sour, bitter, and deer. -- Is the "gamey" taste of venison just a polite name for "rotten"? by TNT on cooking.stackexchange.com

goldilocks

10:26 PM

@rene I'm good if you are. That chat post was actually a comment I was part way through when Adam put the hammer down. Which is fair enough, it is probably abusing things a bit to migrate something to be intentionally closed as a dupe -- would have been better to at least discuss that with mods here first.

So I'm sigh going the hands on route now...

rene

yeah, no problem. If it came with a comment when you migrated it, it was clear why you moved it. That is all.

@goldilocks take care \o

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user315433

11:04 PM

Is this comment non-constructive? Or slightly rude?

user315433

Manuell, silence. This is answer was exactly what I was looking for.. you provided nothing. SKC word! — Proximo Apr 29 '14 at 2:43

user315433

At least this is how it comes across to me.

user315433

Context: reddit thread

rene

@zaq yeah, I can handle it so it is probably rude where you live

But I would use a custom flag to explain

if you flag that

user315433

11:40 PM

Aha, another auto-nuking regex I didn't know about: Automatic deletion of comment by non Mod? by luka on meta.stackoverflow.com

Jon Ericson

@zaq Probably because it's new as of Thursday.

user315433

The best ones were "What have you tried to improve your accept rate?"

user315433

I can't accept the credit you gave me in this answer. — Jon Ericson ♦ 4 mins ago

user315433

11:55 PM

Is this comment meant to test the regex?

user315433

But it's probably active only on main.

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