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@RebeccaChernoff I think so, yeah...I couldn't really tell either, I'm going to mess around with it a bit more and see what happens. I'm sure you have many multiples more checkins, heheh, that's only 909 svn revisions.

drachenstern

I never did cook that food... I should do that and laundry and goto bed

Moshe

(removed - slow connectivity)

mootinator

4:26 AM

I should let the dog poop.

drachenstern

@Moshe I thought you were going to go write code

@mootinator did I tell you guys that I'm down to the one dog now? The other was not adjusting to the new apartment, took her back to the inlaws yard

Moshe

closes safari - Wait, nevermind.

mootinator

@drachenstern Aw :/

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone 909? Yeah, we have slightly, hardly, a smidgin, just a hair, more.

mootinator

@Moshe Opens Chrome!

Tim Stone

4:27 AM

I'm actually confused why there are several supernova file clusters, heh...I know what they are, but there should only have been one, hmmm....Oh, wait, I bet I know. nods to self

@RebeccaChernoff Like 90000? ;)

Moshe

@drachenstern - I'm thinking of getting a fish.

Rebecca Chernoff

not quite that many

drachenstern

@mootinator yeah

Rebecca Chernoff

though I guess in the clip I just did one month...hrm.

yeah, the one month I did has more than 909. (;

Tim Stone

Heheh, your userbase is a little more demanding ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

4:30 AM

Yeah, we should probably just get rid of them. Who needs them anyways?!

Moshe

Wait, is this what the SE team is spending VC on? I wanna get paid to play with gource! :-)

Tim Stone

Oh, whoops. I put it at 0.01 seconds per day, heh.

Rebecca Chernoff

lol nah that was just for fun

Moshe

closes tab and researched TimeZone classes in two languages

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone That's nothing. I tried .001!

Moshe

4:32 AM

well, keeps tab open to follow conversation, but moves on

Tim Stone

Well I think it might have worked for me :p

drachenstern

hahaha I tried 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 and that's enough of that nonsense

Zypher

anyone here hit our api via GAE?

Tim Stone

Sorry, not I

Moshe

not I

Zypher

4:36 AM

meh no worries

Moshe

Milliseconds = seconds * 1,000?

drachenstern

@Moshe aye. A metric converter would work well for you

Moshe

(Just confirming at this late hour)

@drachenstern Aye, so would a pillow.

drachenstern

@Moshe that sounds reasonable

Rebecca Chernoff

@Zypher whaddya need GAE for?

drachenstern

4:38 AM

@RebeccaChernoff probably checking something is working right

It's a shame he doesn't know any programmers

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern well I kind of assumed that...

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff :p I probably forgot how awesome you were ;)

Tim Stone

@drachenstern I've heard that's a costly mistake

drachenstern

@TimStone indeed

Rebecca Chernoff

|:

Zypher

4:41 AM

@drachenstern this

mootinator

|:|:|:|:|:|:|

|:::::::::::::::|

Rebecca Chernoff

the subtle question there was - is it important/urgent enough for me to spin something up. (;

thephpdeveloper

D:

Moshe

Hrm... Wondering if I can just copy this complicated Java method as is...

Seeing as it's likely valid C

stand back folks:

double a = 6378137;
double b = 6356752.3142;
double f = 1 / 298.257223563; // WGS-84 ellipsiod
double L = Math.toRadians(location.getLongitude() - getLongitude());
double U1 = Math
.atan((1 - f) * Math.tan(Math.toRadians(getLatitude())));
double U2 = Math.atan((1 - f)
* Math.tan(Math.toRadians(location.getLatitude())));
double sinU1 = Math.sin(U1), cosU1 = Math.cos(U1);
double sinU2 = Math.sin(U2), cosU2 = Math.cos(U2);

double lambda = L;
double lambdaP = 2 * Math.PI;
double iterLimit = 20;
double sinLambda = 0;

As if I know what that monster is or does.

Ah, wikipedia.

Vincenty's formulae

Vincenty's formulae are two related iterative methods used in geodesy to calculate the distance between two points on the surface of a spheroid, developed by Thaddeus Vincenty in 1975. They are based on the assumption that the figure of the Earth is an oblate spheroid, and hence are more accurate than methods such as great-circle distance which assume a spherical Earth. The first (direct) method computes the location of a point which is a given distance and azimuth (direction) from another point. The second (inverse) method computes the geographical distance and azimuth between two given p...

drachenstern

4:58 AM

ok, why the hell did that process try and generate a n-GB file of a video? What did I do wrong? ... I am only mildly motivated to find out

Rebecca Chernoff

my ppm output was 24 gb and the avi was 55mb

drachenstern

I just don't have 24GB on this laptop ... and I stopped it at 16GB due to the HDD was full

Moshe

night folks

for real

completely closes browser and does NOT open another browser

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff o_O

drachenstern

@TimStone well how big was yours?

Tim Stone

5:04 AM

Hmm, not sure. One sec, I'm redoing mine.

Oh, right, I have no idea about the ppm because it just passed through to the WebM encoder

prods DropBox

drachenstern

5:20 AM

lol

which webm encoder?

Tim Stone

Now with slightly slower action!

drachenstern

heh

Tim Stone

Though it didn't keep everything on the screen very well, meh.

> gource -o - | ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libvpx -b 10000K gource.webm

I'm not sure why the Windows one uses a file for the ppm output, maybe it's necessary.

drachenstern

yeah, idk, downloading ffmpeg <grumble/>

drachenstern

5:39 AM

grr, only a couple hundred messages from #5 ... probably by friday

And this weekend if I'm on SE after Friday evening and before Sunday night, somebody castrate me ...

Tim Stone

I'm going to pass those duties on to someone else, but I'll be sure to remind them.

drachenstern

lol

Indeed

sometimes editing really doesn't help that much :(

stackoverflow.com/posts/5388183/revisions

the blind leading the blind

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Q: getting some problem with gridview paging

i hav two pages in one pages i placed grid.in grid i m using two hyperlink select and edit when i click on edit page redirect to another page.when i editing the record it back to first page the problem is when i was click on 2nd ya 3rd page of grid then edit back to first page but i not getting 2...

c#

Tim Stone

@drachenstern O_o

drachenstern

@TimStone I think my edit was helpful

Tim Stone

That answer though, WTF? :P

drachenstern

5:52 AM

@TimStone you saw my comment?

Also, I added an answer that I feel is too advanced for the asker.

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Yeah

drachenstern

omg, go look again ... /facepalm

Tim Stone

Yeah, I saw that too, hahah

drachenstern

I swear to $deity if he does a rollback I'm deleting my answer.

George Marian

lol

drachenstern

5:55 AM

> if you took topamax while pregnant you may be able to sue someone for birth defects of your child.

what they didn't say:

> if you took topamax while pregnant you did not listen to the warnings we plastered over all the drugs, over the FDAs website, over every drug reasonably related to psychopharmacology ever produced, or every doctor's advice we've ever encouraged ...

I have never seen psychopharmacology that doesn't say "stop taking if you get pregnant"

Tim Stone

What really kills me is the people that go after the pharmaceutical companies in those cases, and win.

If the drug is a prescription drug, then uh, the weak link definitely wasn't the pharma company.

George Marian

Good point.

That said, not all doctors are actually responsible. =/

Tim Stone

There was some medication a while back that that happened to where the people sued and won, because the warning about gangrene wasn't "clear enough"

To me, any warning about gangrene is clear enough, since it's gangrene, but you know..

George Marian

lol

Tim Stone

But basically it was because the doctor didn't follow the instructions included (I think it was an injection-based drug)

But somehow because the labeling on the bottle about the side-effects (not about the instructions the doctor didn't follow) wasn't clear enough, the pharma company was at fault.

I can't even begin to fathom what logic was used to reach that conclusion, but yeah

drachenstern

6:04 AM

@TimStone indeed.

if it says "side effects may include your peen falling off" then guess what?

Tim Stone

I think it boiled down to "If you don't follow the instructions, you're at increased risk of gangrene", where apparently "If you make [this specific mistake], you're at increased risk of gangrene" would have suddenly made the administering doctor more competent, hahah.

kicks Oracle in the shins

It'd be super cool if half of the Java bug reports didn't suddenly "disappear".

drachenstern

omg ... seriously? "plz send me teh codez" ... I feel that was a proper and appropriate smackdown

@TimStone that is probably true :p

can I upload libx264 to youtube?

Tim Stone

Good question, I'm not sure. (WebM FTW :P)

Turns out that my cable jack is on the opposite side of the room, hmm..

drachenstern

oh snap. they have a size limit don't they?

it's 36MB

I wonder if it's too large

Rebecca Chernoff

6:21 AM

@drachenstern to upload to youtube?

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff yeah, dumb thoughts. I haz them

Rebecca Chernoff

1 hour ago, by Rebecca Chernoff

my ppm output was 24 gb and the avi was 55mb

drachenstern

don't use logic with me NAO

> About 1 min. remaining...

I really want to delete my answer now, and revert my edit. But it may help the next person not ask a dumb question

I can haz video upload?

Rebecca Chernoff

In a few minutes. (;

drachenstern

Yeah, I saw that. :D

Tim Stone

6:26 AM

@drachenstern I bet it's a visualization of that repo! points

drachenstern

@TimStone :p

I'm curious why it takes so long to upload and prepare the video ...

Tim Stone

Just like mine was a visualization of this repo. nods

Tyler Chacha

@ircmaxell You really don't post to your blog much...

drachenstern

@TimStone lol

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Conversion and such, plus they gotta scan for your infringements using unicorns!

drachenstern

6:28 AM

@TimStone yeah, I know :\

it's a little depressing they can scan my work against all known uploads in less than 10 minutes ...

I bet the guys there could write the one program I want written inside of two weeks...

there's nothing good on TV

Tim Stone

I still need to run this cable all the way around the room so I can see what's on :P

drachenstern

►

it's live :D

Tim Stone

Nice, your code is clearly much more stable (and sizable) than mine ;)

drachenstern

yeah, it's much more sizeable in terms of filecount, because apparently we don't know how to write good code, but that's just my opinion

and this is the primary product. I want to try tomorrow on my computer at work and see if I can do more than one log at one time ... that would be sweet

Also, I didn't let it put the pauses in between the days, I had it snip all the slow parts

that's 18 mos of logs, give or take

well probably 15 mos

Tim Stone

Yeah, I think mine is about the same timeframe, though my calendar maths is a bit fail at the moment.

drachenstern

6:41 AM

alright, I've been up way too long

G'night :P

mm

raises brow

@TimStone "whom should I tell the reason for a user suspension" ... the question was framed over there, figured I would draw attention so the guy could get an authoritative tonight.

Tim Stone

Ah ha

drachenstern

6:45 AM

@TimStone yeah, nothing big.

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern That "rush service" is gonna cost you. (:

drachenstern

ok, I'm gonna not pull a @Moshe ... night ;)

@RebeccaChernoff I can send you a bottle of that sauce sometime towards the end of summer, will that be close enough?

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Mind-reader!

drachenstern

speaking of rush service, will I get my tshirt before the meetup?

gone

Yi Jiang

0

Q: What makes a good tag?

I just read the tag FAQ and it didn't seem to make clear that tags should be unambiguously meaningful. I would suggest that a "good tag" be one that you could write a tag wiki excerpt for (and not just copy a definition out of a dicitionary). This was prompted by clicking on the level tag and se...

discussion tags

Oh god, we have a not-working tag!?

Reno

6:50 AM

we should totz convert it to a Y-U-NO-WORK tag

Tim Stone

next from admin issues: item not-working - separate repeated ideas

Yi Jiang

@TimStone separate 'em! separate 'em all!

Tim Stone

:D

Apparently there's also a blank

A tag which evidently gave birth to the wsod

Yi Jiang

7:17 AM

So yeah, its brilliant that you'd have to click through five 'Possible Duplicate' link to see the master question

0

Q: minor quirk in "Tags" page.

Possible Duplicate: Tag search state retention inconsistency Small bug report. (actually, maybe more of a quirk than a bug?) If you go to the "Tags" page, it loads with a set of page links at the bottom. If you type anything into the search box, those links disappear. I can understan...

bug status-completed tags search pagination

Tim Stone

That seems a bit ridiculous :/

Yi Jiang

... they aren't really dupes aren't they?

Tim Stone

I don't think so, for multiple reasons.

The most obvious being that it was a regression, but the linked duplicate is about using the back button.

Yi Jiang

Shouldn't the system automatically link to the 'master' dupe question?

Tim Stone

I think that the close-as-duplicate functionality would have to be expanded on a lot more to make that possible.

It'd definitely be nice, but it's one of those cases where people should just use the correct duplicate.

Yi Jiang

7:30 AM

What is this I don't even...

It looks like some 12 year old got hold of Photoshop and decided to go wild with filters and layer styles

And that horrible, horrible title font. Cannot unsee!

Tim Stone

lmao

By the way, Jin posted the Android design preview on that site's meta (link somewhere above) if you wanted to comment :P

goes off to lay down and watch tv

Reno

@YiJiang whoever made it is a pokemon cards fan

Yi Jiang

@Reno I see the influence, but having owned a number of Pokemon cards myself I have to disagree - Pokemon cards are much, much better

@TimStone Awww, its so cute, little green robots have invaded the header. My only problem with it is that the badge icon might be slightly larger than what parts of the site might be designed for

What

8:08 AM

@YiJiang Don't be so mean. That was the way we designed stuff in 1998!

Oh, wait

badp's sockpuppet

8:22 AM

SHARKTOPUS

2

badp's sockpuppet

10:02 AM

~

(~_~)/

Yes?

oh nothing

So why did you raise your hand? stares

Reno

err .. umm

(~_~),

badp's sockpuppet

10:05 AM

(−_−)

ircmaxell

10:49 AM

@TylerChacha Look at the date of the first post ;-)

drachenstern

2:01 PM

0

A: getting some problem with gridview paging

The problem is that the webpage needs to know what page to send you to. The way I do this is to pass a querystring parameter when I change pages. So in the URL to the edit page you want to have the URL say (for example) http://server/edit.aspx?value=number&returnPage=2 and then when you go ...

@TimStone it didn't get any better

Mornin everyone, what's the good news today?

So who hasn't heard the story of the badass Japanese who rescued his wife and mother from the floodwaters.

decodiversean.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/…

This is the much better version here badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html and you should really read this version even if you've read the real news version.

And if you run out of awesomeness this morning, read this one too badassoftheweek.com/lozito.html

Pushan

13 1

php javascript mysql image star file insertion

ircmaxell

2:22 PM

@drachenstern Holy Crap!

Yi Jiang

2:34 PM

Remember the ~~blindingly~~ awesome One Million Question gif? The JavaScript room just enhanced it:

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 8 mins ago, by Myles Gray

http://jsfiddle.net/6mtgr/6/embedded/result/

We utilized the latest in HTML technology

drachenstern

@YiJiang except how it's too impossible to read and the onclick does nothing

@YiJiang a Marquee tag?

Yi Jiang

@drachenstern Its cross browser all the way down to Netscape 4!

Popular Demand

Can I get a quick Java sanity check?

ircmaxell

sigh

Popular Demand

0

Q: Why are my classes not found even though my imports are correct?

The Classes ADSTool and the Class PPM are not found by my compiler. I'm using Eclipse Helios. The docs say that I have to import java.lang.Object for both, and I imported java.lang*; I can't see why this isn't working.

java

Am I wrong about java.lang*? Note the lack of a dot between lang and *.

drachenstern

2:43 PM

@PopularDemand Not to my reading.

Popular Demand

@drachenstern Thanks. I'll live with the downvote as long as I'm not actually wrong.

Trufa

2:54 PM

@drachenstern hi!

I did not find you yesterday

15 hours ago, by drachenstern

Interesting. I would encourage you to update this page with more information for us Amerikaner ;) I can guide you on the things I would love to see. (Like: when the usual school term is during the year, how many years one is encouraged to goto college, etc) ...

I did not quite get what you are interested in knowing :)

Moshe

Am I wrong here?

stackoverflow.com/questions/5406231/…

I basicalle removed (solved) from a question title as part of an edit.

The OP complained. I'm ignoring it, but I just want to know if I should have left it.

Is this off topic?

1

Q: What's the most popular code snippet platform for iPhone/iPad?

I'm wondering which platform do iPhone/iPad developers make use of or contributions to, like Snippler for instance. Instead of searching every code snippet platform for the number of iPhone tagged snippets (in fact I did search 6-7 platforms and could come up with just Snippler), I wanted to get ...

iphone objective-c ipad code-snippets

Trufa

@Moshe No, I think it is correct

drachenstern

@Trufa Yeah, I was rather absent from chat ;)

Moshe

0

Q: Preserving Baseband when jail breaking to iOS 4.2.1

I have been reading up on this and still have a lot of conflicting information and confusing contradictions. I have a iPhone 3Gs running 4.0.2 on Baseband 05.13.04 Model MC131B Can I upgrade to 4.2.1 whilst preserving my 05.13.04 Baseband? If so, with which tools?

iphone jailbreak

Flagged for removal.

Wow. So many things wrong. Off topic. Gray Area legal.

Wondering if I should burn a downvote too, just for good measure.

Trufa

@Moshe I commented on your previous question

@drachenstern whenever you want, we can talk about how my classes.

drachenstern

3:09 PM

@Trufa What does your schedule look like in about 8-9 hours?

Trufa

sorry I'll be in class then

@drachenstern in aproximately 10 hours I'll be free

or in 2

drachenstern

@Trufa 10 hours from now sounds good.

I'm at work this AM so 2 hours doesn't quite work ;)

Speaking of work ... let me go get new work assignments

Trufa

@drachenstern ok great!!

10 (worst case scenario 10 and a half hours from now)

we'll make a chat room

Yi Jiang

I wonder...

drachenstern

@YiJiang bored?

Yi Jiang

3:14 PM

@drachenstern Yeah

drachenstern

@Trufa nah, we can do it here, might get more useful information from others too

Trufa

@drachenstern Agreed! :)

@drachenstern see you then!!

Moshe

0

Q: Play a note of a certain frequence

Hullo, I have a sequence of digits from 0 to 255 that I would like to convert to the volume of a given note. And I need to play 920 different notes with this feature. Is it possible to set a certain frequence in the audible range and have the iPhone play a note at that frequence like for example ...

iphone objective-c sound

balpha

3:30 PM

→ 1 message moved to Sandbox

drachenstern

@balpha awww you don't like being bored?

Yi Jiang

@balpha Awww, why can't we have recursive quotes? Anyway, have any idea why the JavaScripts are randomly not loading for some people?

balpha

this one:

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Q: Comments not working, drop-downs not showing on StackOverflow

EDIT : problem solved. What was the problem? I noticed that on SO the voting up of comments doesn't work any more, and that the dropdown next to my name for the recent activity is not showing any more. I also can't add any comments on SO. More details : the arrow for upvoting and the flag fo...