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12:00 AM
@hichris123 Oh right.
@hichris123 Desktop has a GUI and some other desktop related features, server is minimal (cli only).
If you ever want a desktop I'd just use the desktop version.
 
@Seth So... doesn't matter, really?
Yeah, probably desktop.
 
@hichris123 For the most part, no. However the server addition might not have some things you want and it could lead to problems getting them.
(not bad problems, but unpleasant ones)
 
k. So probably desktop then.
 
yeah
 
@Seth So what's new in 13.04, 13.10, and 14.04 vs. 12.10?
 
12:04 AM
@hichris123 Mostly additions to Unity and sometimes newer GUI apps. Libraries and programs progress. 12.04.4 has the main ones, just not all of them.
For a server though it's best to stick to an LTS release (12.04 currently).
more stable and somewhat better hardware support.
@hichris123 Is this going to be a wired or wireless server?
 
@Seth Wireless.
 
Fun :D
 
@Seth So... nothing major?
 
@hichris123 Nope not really.
 
@Seth Yeah, I want my own home server now. :D (based off of @Undo's closet server)
 
12:08 AM
I guess since you're using a desktop you want need this.. which is kinda a bummer since I was hoping for someone to read my answer and tell me if it was clear enough.
@hichris123 server's are fun :D:D
 
@Seth Exactly!
@Seth Heh, you wanted me to be the guinea pig. :P
 
Found a weird bug:
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Q: How does SE have 233 and 117 sites?

Annonomus PersonWhile browsing on slow internet at another person's house, there was a little bit of lag when I clicked on the site switcher. It was enough to trigger the tooltip. What it read surprised me: A list of all 233 Stack Exchange Sites But wait... don't we only have 117 sites? I'd imagine that th...

Hi @HiChris! Sorry have been away for the day.
 
@AnnonomusPerson [status-reproduced]
@AnnonomusPerson WHY U HAVE A LIFE???? :P
 
@hichris123 [status-thanks]
@hichris123 To make you mad :)
Ahh I love when you get rep on meta :P
I've pleased the SE gods!
 
12:24 AM
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A: New users can't create new tags: show a singular or plural message?

Jeff Atwoodhttp://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105 Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S But not you. I like you. You're nice.

 
Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S
^ That's where it came from. :D
 
@hichris123 I saw that :P
Will he attack me with a giant site switcher then?
Locks doors
I don't know which would be a more painful death...
 
@hichris123 Wait, I thought they separated the diamond using a small, transparent S... — Qantas 94 Heavy Mar 1 at 23:01
This is one of the best meta posts:
 
Switches tabs
 
12:28 AM
Actually, no, best one:
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Q: Evaluating the risks of allowing teen moderators on the SE network

user774411I have a David vs Goliath case here involving a teen moderator on Stack Overflow. His display name is BoltClock. I'm a low reputation SO user (less than 150 points) who was recently suspended for Voting Irregularities by BoltClock. Eventually the mistake was corrected by another non-teen moderat...

 
:)
Wow Bootstrap is so flexible. I think I could twist my monitor while developing it and roll it up into a ball no problem :)
 
:P
reminds self he needs to work on InstaGlass
 
I'm working on an advanced web based todo client.
Calling it... The Undo List!
I don't really know the name yet :P
That would be bad for marketing...
@HiChris How far on IG?
 
@AnnonomusPerson Eh, I dunno. Homepage needs work, install process needs a little work, prettyifying all of the pages... oh yeah, it needs to actually upload the picture to Instagram.
 
@hichris123 Sorta. I did it myself, but I wanted to know how easy it was to follow.
 
12:39 AM
@hichris123 Minor detail... :D
 
@AnnonomusPerson Yeah. :P
@Seth So is that server version only?
 
Favorite web IDEs everybody??? Me: VS2013 web edition Express... the only issue is PHP is a total pain.
Too bad my whole site is PHP :P
 
@AnnonomusPerson IDE? None. Editor? Sublime Text. :D
A wild @Undo appears!
 
@hichris Don't you need to buy that for it to be legal?
 
Probably because I said the word Sublime. :P
@AnnonomusPerson Not really... they want you to buy it but it's an unlimited trial.
 
12:46 AM
@hic I thought it was in the EULA somewhere...
Of course they want me to buy it...
 
@AnnonomusPerson You think I read EULA's? Hah! :D
 
@hichris123 Neither does @Undo...
A lot of mods don't read the mod agreement... lol
 
It's not that long. :P
Oh, @AnnonomusPerson have any good music for me to listen to?
 
@hichris123 No, but I can find you some annoying commercial to spam the chat with =D
 
sigh
^ Stuck listening to that, I guess. :P
Although I do love that song... listenes
 
12:51 AM
Either that or some meow mix commercial in a ten minute loop on Youtube...
:) You choose @HiChris
 
@AnnonomusPerson First. :P
 
Or the SE podcast...
Yay broke 200 on mSO... I don't go there much.
 
:D
I totally want an SO diamond now... :(
 
@hichris123 SO or SE? Or either?
 
@AnnonomusPerson Really either, but mainly SO since there's so much crap there I flag.
 
12:58 AM
@hichris Well a mod isn't as glamorous as it seems... no amount of warnings can prepare you for the job...
 
@AnnonomusPerson Ik, but you want to see my flag history?
 
You get a lot of crap and clean up a lot of crap... and both simultaneously sometimes. Often, someone doesn't like a decision you made, but you're trying to keep the community together. But it's fun...
@hichris123 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Runs away
Actually, I should leave soon. Maybe you just need 10k?
Bye!
 
@AnnonomusPerson That too.
^ That's the first page
 
1:16 AM
Back!
Did you miss me @HiChris?
 
... sure. :P
 
Okay. I'll go then.
Undo leaves as I come back :)
 
@AnnonomusPerson No! Don't leave!
 
Fine...
Gained a lot of rep recently...
 
1:20 AM
I love inspect element. It's fun for changing dates and confusing people.
(And dev.)
 
So what do you think of my flag history @Annon?
 
Very... flaggish.
 
I ♥ flags!
 
I ♥ Money and Rep... you love flags?
Become a mod... that'll change :)
 
@AnnonomusPerson Nope. I'll still HATE flags... :D
 
1:25 AM
@hichris123 I'll change that right now :P
@HiChris Look now :P
 
Fixed that for you.
 
Don't make me ban you :P
 
Be that way. :P
 
But anyway I think I found a bug in the chat editing... when I edit your thing it pings me saying that I said the edited content... hmmm.
 
Yeah, that's been reported... by Manish. :P
 
1:27 AM
@hichris123 What hasn't been done by Manish? :P
NO NEED TO REPLY
Last time I asked a rhetorical question... ahhh
Waits for very long message by @hiChris
Or many short messages....
 
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A: Mod-editing a chat messages loses the "reply" button

ManishearthBasically, when a chat message is edited, the userid/username sent through the websocket is that of the editor, making the message seemingly owned by the editor. This removes the reply option and puts the message under the editor's username in the sidebar. This can be fixed by making the user de...

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So... red.
 
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1:30 AM
Taste of your own medicine...
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We should stop now...
 
Sure. :P
 
Okay!
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(In case you didn't get the message)
 
works on InstaGlass
 
1:32 AM
Which bootstrap css file should I use @HiChris?
 
@AnnonomusPerson bootstrap.css
 
Why do things have to be so complicated @HiChris?
 
Or bootstrap.min.css
 
My hero unit isn't working... :(
 
@hichris123 no, but there's no point in using it on a desktop install.
And you might confuse the network manager.
 
1:39 AM
@AnnonomusPerson You have bootstrap 3? It's now called a jumbotron.
 
@hichris123 Sigh.
 
2:07 AM
@HiChris Seems like the bug isn't a bug...
I'm guessing 233 includes per-site metas. Not sure about the 119/117 discrepancy though. — Doorknob 39 mins ago
119 includes StackApps and Area 51 + 117 subject specific sites. — AsheeshR 36 mins ago
Still confusing
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Q: How does SE have 233, 119, and 117 sites?

Annonomus PersonWhile browsing on slow internet at another person's house, there was a little bit of lag when I clicked on the site switcher. It was enough to trigger the tooltip. What it read surprised me: A list of all 233 Stack Exchange Sites But wait... don't we only have 117 sites? I'd imagine that th...

 
Probably 233 does include per-site metas... but they're not really sites, and they're not even shown in that dropdown. So I'd say just change it to 119/117. — hichris123 15 secs ago
 
Made it a [meta-tag:feature-request].
 
@Undo Merged a pull from Blaze.
 
2:39 AM
@Undo Did you get your swag yet? (just curious)
 
Gah! Need a good way to have a footer be at the exact bottom of a page...
 
 
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11:45 AM
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A: How does SE have 233, 119, and 117 sites?

3venticHere's the explanation: There are 119 sites in the drop-down menu, there are 117 sites listed as Q&A sites under stackexchange.com/sites. The two sites that are not there are Area 51 (which is still linked in the footer, but is not a Q&A site) and Mathematics Educators, which is in private beta ...

 
 
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2:24 PM
@Seth swag for what?
Election swag?
 
Yeah that.
 
no swag
but I have my coloring contest swag
so I'm not swag-needy right now
 
You won the coloring contest?
Cool!
 
yeah
 
My 40the SO flag :D
 
2:29 PM
My... looks ~4200th
 
Fun fun fun :P
 
2:43 PM
enters room
 
hi @hichris123
 
lol, I got Jeff to comment???
@hichris123 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUggggggggHHHHH — Jeff Atwood ♦ 7 hours ago
 
saw that :D
^ The dangers of submodules :P
 
2:47 PM
YAYZ!
 
[ SmokeDetector ] anothertest
[ SmokeDetector ] another
 
now I must figure out how to set those environment variables.
 
@hichris123 Technically it was me who sparked that comment... give me the credit :P
 
@AnnonomusPerson Heh, true. gives invisible points to @AnnonomusPerson
@Undo I'm fixing what you messed up... :P
 
> drat. I... ugh... was pushing to the wrong repo. hides
Lol
 
2:55 PM
Yeah... I'm fixing that. :P
 
@hichris123 Yay!
Fires up VS2013
 
Best script:
 
@Undo Do you mind if I just remove those commits from the history?
 
@3ventic No the best script goes something like this:
 
That's better
 
2:59 PM
#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers Lol best code ever!
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A: What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

Leo #Christmas tree initializer toConnect = [] toRead = [ ] toWrite = [ ] primes = [ ] responses = {} remaining = {}

@3Ventic that above is the best script ever (if it's a script)!
 
too bad I barely comment my code..
 
rofl, NAA alert:
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A: java version of bat algorithm in matlab

user3126239I need this algorithm in java plz send me a version of it works good on : k.heragmi@yahoo.fr

 
I have a few hundred lines of code. The purpose of the code is to convert a file from one format to 2 files in another format, and the only comment in the whole code is // Converter here
 
Gah, where did @Undo go?
 
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A: What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

ihr-namepublic GetRandomNumber() { // Chosen by a fairly rolen dice return 12; }

Wow reading a ton of old posts today... sounds like xkcd!
 
3:06 PM
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Q: Can someone help me convert the post to post multi-part?

user3451439I was trying to convert the method to post multipart so it can include the parameter while upload file @Override public void onClick(View arg0) { if(arg0==btnselectpic) { Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setType("image/*"); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_C...

^ Can anyone tell me waht multi-part is?
 
@hichris123 It's more than one part!
It's like one part... only there's more than one in the application.
 
@Undo Go have some fun with these approvers: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4405201
 
@hichris But I think it's splitting a file into multiple pieces...
 
Heh @Undo reviewed that...
 
3:11 PM
And I just rolled back that edit...
 
@hichris123 Good choice. The edit made it a little better, but it still had bad grammar and they wrecked the title.
 
I saw it.
 
goes to report another bug
 
@hichris123 Show me the bug
I can confirm it....
 
@HiChris I can explain part of it...
 
That it has no history, sure.
 
Those wikis and tags are pre-loaded with the system on meta.
 
However... should it really send you to //revisions?
 
@hichris123 Good point. They should at least have it created by Community ♦
 
3:19 PM
Huh, wait a sec, could you make a small edit to the tag wiki @Annon? And then when I say so, you can just revert the edit.
 
@hichris123 Sure...
Adding a line break tell me when to submit.
 
Whenever. More like... now. :P @Annon
 
One second... making it useful so I'm not spamming the system.
 
Up
There should be some bullets tell me when to rollback
 
3:22 PM
Huh. You... just created it???
Weird.
 
Wait... there is no rollback button.
Huh... at least it's more useful now :P
 
Yep. :D
Gah, I'll write up the bug report soon.
 
You need my todo list site!
 
Do you know a good way to use a footer via HTML/CSS?
Uh... someone downvoted this? Okay...
 
@hichris123 Oops! Just kidding.
 
3:34 PM
?
 
@hichris123 Ahh a fixed or what? Why don't you just to the col-md-12 or whatever it is?
Center the text, color it!
 
@AnnonomusPerson I want it to be at the very bottom of the page...
 
@hichris123 Like no padding or what? Ohh you want it pushed to the bottom if it's not a full page of content?
It would be easy to make it position:fixed
(With some JS of course!)
 
It should look like this:
 
Hey SE Looks like it's built off bootstrap (but it's not)
Just like Ask Ubuntu.
 
3:39 PM
 
@HiChris Will you ever have to scroll on the page? (specifically on mobile)
 
Hmm... maybe.
 
Found it on SO. Enjoy!
:) Everything's better with SO @HiChris
 
I don't really want it like that... I want it pushed to the exact bottom, so it doesn't show up unless you scroll all of the way down to it.
 
Okay....
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Q: Fix footer to bottom of page

mcvitiesAlthough most pages on my site have enough content to push the footer to the bottom of the page for most people. I would like to know it's always fixed to the bottom regardless of screen size from now on anyway. I've tried a number of ways such as bottom: 0x; position:absolute: etc. Never seems ...

Ahh code formatting me driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!! Fix it @HiChris!!!
 
3:51 PM
@ManishEarth When's SmokeDetector comming back up?
@AnnonomusPerson Which part? The question or the answer?
 
@hichris123 Question... all of it is indented 3/4 tabs!
I thought of a bad-practice solution... but it'll work... find a height for your content. In JS: if height of browser > content, then make a sticky footer. If <, do not make it sticky and just place it at the bottom. It's hard to work with, but workable @HiChris
 
@AnnonomusPerson 2 spaces per level okay? Or should it be 4?
 
@hichris123 Either or... they just have all of the code indented.
See?
 
But the </section> is much closer to the left edge than <section> is
 
@AnnonomusPerson Better?
 
3:57 PM
@hichris123 Much! Thanks...
Annoying when that happens.
 

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