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2:00 AM
The ability to check royalties owed live :P
 
@mootinator Heh, I meant an app for fans of an artist to use.
 
And a tuning app.
I think those are the two things an artist would need.
Wallpapers, ringtones, tour dates, and err.
Something.
Stuff stalkers would like.
 
hah
ok
 
Like restaurant reviews by said artist.
lol
 
I met an established Jewish music entertainer this morning in synagogue and strangely, he was interested in an app.
I thought that he would for sure laugh at me.
 
2:05 AM
Interesting.
I like my guitar tuner/royalties app idea. I shall require you all to sign an NDA now.
Since that's what people who are fans of their own ideas tend to do.
 
Well, I can haz prior art. (EDIT: haZ, haZ I say! Autocorrect... grumble)
 
Not necessarily, I wrote a web app in, er.
1701* (adjusted for inflation)
 
I saw it in some movie in 1700.999. "Some time..., in the future..., a man..., with a vision ... queue music ... ... will write... a web app!"
 
Okay, but seriously can Apple, etc. stop being giant douchebags about their mostly uninteresting IP and just make gadgets?
(We invented rectangles! etc.)
 
Hah, agreed. Look, lodsys is the same way. It's just about time that the rest of the world caught up to Apple in the design dept. I'm not saying that the lawsuits are good - they're absolutely not - but Apple has built a brand for years on what they call "minimal".
In English, we call that "less clunky stuff sticking out all over the place".
</rant>
Google's homepage is patented.
psheesh.
 
2:13 AM
Indeed.
 
Brin and Page couldn't write HTML and that's become a brand.
 
lol
 
There's a difference between great minimalism and incompetence.
The law doesn't seem to distinguish.
But an in app purchase! Wow, what an invention.
 
Yeah, who would have thought of that...O_o.
Almost as clever as one click ordering.
Who would have thought you could save customer details, then use them... to order stuff.
 
Them: Your Honor, Mootinator, we hereby motion for extended protection.
 
2:17 AM
> Barnes & Noble had developed a way to design around the patent by requiring shoppers to make a second click to confirm their purchase.
I hope they patented this novel "Two Click Purchasing".
 
@Moot Run to the patent office! go, go, Go GO, GO, GO, GOGO !!!!!!
 
Prior art.
 
@mootinator > Click here again to kick lodsys as we circumvent their patent. Thank you for choosing B&N.
 
I could patent two dozen click purchases maybe.
 
Or, multifinger purchases?
tap with three fingers to purchase.
 
2:22 AM
Oooh good one.
 
It's "three buttons".
 
Slap your iPhone with your palm to purchase.
I shall call it: High 5 purchasing.
 
@mootinator palm or Palm?
:P
 
I could kill two birds with one stone for Blackberry users.
"Battery pull purchasing."
You know they're going to need it soon enough anyway.
 
lol
haha
Ok, HW, all day, every day.
Click here to purchase frustration and disappointment.
 
2:29 AM
You're selling Star Wars on blu-ray?
 
Zing!
 
I'm watching that right now.
I'm not going to let a couple of additional "Noooooooooooo!" s bother me.
A mod rewrite rule I had working the other day would appear to be broken... O_o.
Oh, wordpress deleted the rule. That was nice of it.
 
3:00 AM
I would really like to come up with a good idea for a new site, but anything I would be interested in, there's already either a site for it, one in the proposal stage, or just wouldn't work at all...
 
The trick is to do something you have a lot of domain knowledge about, and do a better job than everyone who has already done one.
I'm turning into my father with all this "The trick is..." business.
 
3:15 AM
@moot the trick to avoid that is to think before you speak.
:p
 
But I don't wanna!
Hee hee.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
 
4:07 AM
Anyone here wanna look at my homework? I already submitted it, but I'm curious to get some feedback.
 
Only if you also troll this question
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Q: TSQL substitution of key words and code blocks

JackI have blocks of TSQL that I want to create a MACRO for and then reuse in my SQL file. I want this to be a 'compile' time thing only. Eg: ?set? COMMON = "Field1 int, Field2 char(1),"; ?set? MAKEONE = "create table"; MAKEONE XXX ( COMMON Field3 int ); Please dont ask why I would want...

Ah, nevermind apparently I"m going to bed.
 
Ok, night.
Hi @Sathya.
 
hi @Moshe
 
@Sathya How goes it?
resists the urge to nag about an unlock - not really.
Seriously though, what's up?
I just finished C++ homework for tonight, and I have to crank out a 5 page essay and it's already midnight.
My HW ---^
 
@Moshe in the middle of a relocation - shifted to a different city last week, trying to find a decent house to stay
 
4:16 AM
@Sathya Ah, got it. Best of luck then.
 
@Moshe thanks :)
@Moshe :? why don't I see any classes
 
@Sathya Classes?
 
classes/objects
 
Oh, well, it's a basic program, meant to enforce concepts like looks, input, and filestreams.
We're not even going to cover full fledged classes this semester.
 
@Moshe ah
sounds good.. looks like I can learn C++ via your HW :D
 
4:21 AM
@Sathya Heh, that's not good. My teacher says to assume the reader knows C++. But if you think my commenting is that good, I'll take it as a compliment.
 
@Moshe it is pretty thorough :D like I said, I don't know much about C++, but i sure as hell can learn from your comments + the HW
 
The folks in the C++ room are complaining how much commenting there is.
If the compiler read only comments, I'd have just as complete a program, heh.
 
:D
 
Well, let's see... I still have that essay to write. Sheesh, I hope my teachers don't find SO, or I'm in twouble! So much to do, so little time!
 
 
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7:40 AM
Spotify, it's not really a "radio" if you just line up the same ten songs over and over..
 
 
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10:06 AM
@TimStone quit whining. At least you get to hear something....
 
Heh, true. :P
I did not, however, get to sleep...I'm not really sure I got the upper hand on that one.
 
@TimStone haha.
 
 
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12:26 PM
Hi mods - does anyone see this post in the Flagged queue stackoverflow.com/questions/4336286/… when it's already been deleted
I've refreshed a few times and it's still one of the pending flags
Is it only me?
 
1:14 PM
It does not appear for me, must be gone now.
 
1:49 PM
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Q: Two of the same flag - Two different responses

A Man A Plan A Canal PanamaSee my Flagging Summary here: For the flag on answer to How can I fade-in divs on page load and fade them out in the opposite when leaving I wrote why is this community wiki? is there a reason for that??? and it eas declined (because basically it says I do not know how to flag). BUT for the a...

hi all
see above...
 
Did anyone get Tomalak's comment ?
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A: Check time after

genesis φif ($unix_time < (time() - 60 * 60 * 24 * 7)){ //later than 7 days ago }

 
"Later than 7 days ago" in this case would typically be construed as "Sometime after 7 days ago", which is the opposite of what your code does.
 
2:05 PM
@TimStone ah. I thought there is problem in my code...
@TimStone so " // earlier than 7 days ago" is correct?
 
I suppose it's usually said "more than 7 days ago" or "over 7 days ago," but yeah, that's fine.
 
2:38 PM
Typical SO user: "I want to change the default behavior of something without writing any code which changes the default behavior. How do I accomplish this?"
 
@mootinator the answer is obviously "17"
@TimStone Sounds like an EL&U Q because the "earlier than 7 days ago" sounds correct to me
 
:P
I can't wait for the "I saw that identical question from 3 years ago with hundreds of votes on it but I didn't like those solutions either."
 
3:06 PM
@mootinator I read that comment six months ago but couldn't be arsed to lulz at this one.
 
Seriously...
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Q: AJAX and FormsAuthentication, how prevent FormsAuthentication overrides HTTP 401?

vtortolaIn one application configured with FormsAuthentication, when a user access without the auth cookie or with an outdated one to a protected page, ASP.NET issue a HTTP 401 Unauthorized, then the FormsAuthentication module intercepts this response before the request end, and change it for a HTTP 302 ...

"I read all of those answers to my question, but I'm wondering if there's some new magical solution."
I'm kind of whiny today.
I blame Monday.
Monday.
 
I always blame Monday. Especially on Thursday.
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Gotta tucker down on Monday.
 
I am also not getting code things accomplished this AM. I should do that
 
I haven't looked at Fogbugz for what I need to accomplish this AM yet, as I'm almost certain what I find will annoy me.
 
3:20 PM
@mootinator I hear that. I went ahead and printed the one task off that I need to work on so that I'm less annoyed.
 
Another joke: Neutrino. Knock, knock.
 
Haha
 
haha, that's cute
Also, I should really consider writing code or fixing bugs or somesuch
yep .. I should consider it ..
 
Hello Everyone
 
3:30 PM
How Ya All Doing?
 
Hi Tyler... doing well, thanks. How about you?
 
good
 
 
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5:17 PM
seriously ...
I can run this TSQL in SSMS and it returns in 00:00:00 (really effing fast)
and if I run it from C# I get a timeout after three seconds (which seems to take the framework even longer to timeout)
 
How are you doing it in C#? EF? ADO?
 
ADO.NET (sorta)
it's getting loaded into a dataset (not my first choice)
 
are you sure it's connecting properly?
 
The problem is that it's being pivoted at the DB end, which is fine when you can hook a dataset and databind on the fly, but seeing as how I'm using AJAX to load the data ... idk, I kinda want to rewrite the entire thing and see how much more efficient it is to pivot it on the client
@Fosco yeah, cos when I remove the artificial connection timeout of 3s and let it run it does a 10s callback
 
Ah ok.. I'm of no further help. Good luck sir :)
 
5:23 PM
yeah, it's just pissing me off
the rest of the code runs in two digit ms speeds
this one query returns at glacial speed
 
What if it were placed in a stored proc.. then maybe it would run equally in SSMS and C#
 
Hmm, my magical view state storing worked exactly as I wanted to on the first try, but it didn't do anything.
 
@mootinator so ... net benefit?
@Fosco we only do stored procs here
 
@jcolebrand I got the jQuery wrong maybe...
$('#tabs').tabs('select', '#tabs-equipment');
Probably needs to be a fake tab link click instead of a .tabs call.
 
oh ffs, I figured out my end too ...
we were just discussing this in the office the other day
 
5:32 PM
No, thats right... I have no idea why it doesn't work.
 
that sometimes TSQL caches things too effectively, and so when you goto run them, it has to exhaust all the query plan stuff which can take a while
I should probably force our dev server to flush everything, but I'll push that onto the DBAs
so anyways, effing 10+s query now down to sub 150ms as it should be, and no code rewrite needed.
now to remember the name of this trick
@mootinator sorry, you were saying?
$("#tabs").tabs();
 
    $tabs = $('#tabs').tabs();
    <%= Html.SetScrollPosition() %>
    <%= Html.SetOpenTab("#tabs") %>
 
<div id="tabs">
  <ul>
    <li><a id="tab1" href="#tabs-1">Hourly</a></li>
    <li><a id="tab2" href="#tabs-2">Historical - Day</a></li>
    <li><a id="tab3" href="#tabs-3">Data - Hourly</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="tabs-1">
  </div>
  <div id="tabs-2">
  </div>
  <div id="tabs-3">
  </div>
</div>
@mootinator just click the first one?
 
Actual output:

$tabs = $('#tabs').tabs();
$(window).scrollTop(446);
$('#tabs').tabs('select', '#tabs-equipment');
Scrolls to the right page, but tab 0 is still selected.
LOL
Crap.
Nevermind... UI bug.
 
lol
 
5:38 PM
The selected tab just doesn't look selected. O_o.
 
Tortoise SVN first-world-problem: It updates, then sits/spins for an extra 3 minutes before letting me hit Ok.
 
@mootinator you can always artificially decorate the tab to start with on page load
 
5:57 PM
Why didn't you tell me to open the correct tab before setting the scroll value. Sheesh, some free help in entirely the wrong sort of place for that you are.
This is my punishment for not just using an ajax submit on this page to begin with.
 
@mootinator I did tell you to artificially decorate the tab on page load, which would have solved that issue.
Would you like a refund?
 
@jcolebrand Yes please.
Okay, one more tweak and I tell the client to just give me the time to do it properly if they want anything else.
 
6:16 PM
I appear to be hungry.
Oddly this would appear to coincide with lunch.
 
6:27 PM
@mootinator I have the same problem
 
I had a delicious calzone for lunch, followed quickly by an epic movement.
Sorry, tmi... bahahaha
 
lol
 
+1
Sharing the wealth with future visitors.
 
lol
I should clean those up
 
Now I'm embarrassed.
 
6:40 PM
Never say anything on the internet.
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ok, food for me now
 
anything
 
I found a way to bury it, with haste.
 
Fine fine, no need to star pointless things :P
 
o/
 
6:54 PM
Herro forks!
How are you arr today?
 
7:06 PM
Groovy
Dammit how did my lunch break go by so fast.
 
7:36 PM
No idea.
 
8:04 PM
ok seriously
what's the point in setting a connection timeout if it takes more than that length of time to return, and it doesn't timeout?
 
connection time out is different than query time out?
 
Aye
the one should shut off before the other
ok, well that worked, but not quite as I had expected :\
 
i was thinking the connection would only time out if it failed to connect.
once connected, that setting has no bearing... then only the query timeout would matter.
 
Nope
 
Ah =\
 
8:34 PM
And now I shall attempt to explain to a client why their feature request for a feature which already exists makes no sense, including screenshots of said feature in action on current site.
Though I think I understand the misplaced concern.
 
300 rep minimum? Sounds like work...
 
haha, you have a week, you could squeeze in 20 rep a day for a week
 
22.7
 
8:50 PM
nm, bad at math
1 week != 10 days
the point being, you could conceivably attain that
 
Right. I'm at 141 even ;)
 
So you're gonna try? :p
 
Thinking about it. A little.
 

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