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1:17 PM
Like 4 people...
 
Moi
We aren't doing great :P
 
I wanted to restart ;p
 
We did
 
I was playing a short time but then went back to spread real downvotes...
 
I'm kinda confused about what we're supposed to be doing with it...
 
1:18 PM
He has a emoticon on the side I think you need to match it
 
Ooooh
That's what that is. I thought it was just mirroring whatever the last action was
Yeah. I think he is just showing what the last one was...
 
1:33 PM
@RPiAwesomeness Not yet. But it's still 31st March here.
 
Curious...my network card stopped working after resuming from a suspend, had to restart...
 
What the hell is Coffee SE about?
I mean, I can guess it's about coffee.... but really, how much Q&A can you do about that?
 
@CarlH you have no idea about the intricacies of coffee... it is more then just throwing black "powder" in some hot water...
@CarlH I mean sure you can do that... but then you just might as well drink used motor oil...
 
@TheX I know that. I just don't see how it can be a long term discussion.
Are there LTS releases of coffee? Alpha/Beta releases of coffee that aren't supported on CoffeeSE? What about questions about coffee that's end-of-life?
 
You don't drink end of life coffee
or living coffee.
 
1:38 PM
Maybe they discuss the next advertisement spot for Nespresso... What will George Clooney trade in for his cup of coffee next? ;)
 
And if you drink instant, may you get a thousand downvotes.
 
@CarlH LTS coffee = foldgers (yuck), alpha/beta = home brew beans, unsupported coffee = (instant coffee) End of life = expiration dates...
 
I know a guy with a T-shirt: "Instant man - just add coffee!"
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My wife got me a Nespresso machine for Christmas. I assumed it was because I look like George Clooney.
 
Ugh. See? People consider that good coffee. I've never understood why. Can't hold a candle to a real espresso or even a mocca.
 
1:42 PM
._.
We do oldschool indian cofee mostly
 
Plus, it's ridiculously expensive. If I remember correctly, it's about 4x the price of using normal coffee.
@JourneymanGeek What's that?
 
What are your views on Mellow Birds?
 
Is AU offline for service for anybody else???
 
sans chicory
Gravity brewed in a pair of cans, double boiled milk (we have a special container for that with 2 walls, and water between the walls for doing that) and sugar
 
@ByteCommander I can't get it to load...
 
1:46 PM
 
I just got an Error 522
 
@JourneymanGeek Hmm. Sounds interesting. And strong according to WP, I am in favor of all types of coffee as long as they're strong.
 
@terdon: Its strong, but tasty
and pretty no nonsense.
 
I think it is everyone trying to vote on StackEgg.. they have inadvertently caused a DDoS...
 
@TheX It is back now for me.
 
1:48 PM
One disadvantage not installing flash is I keep getting prompted to install it...
 
facepalm I just realized that sudo is just su do.
 
@terdon: I half suspect coffee "decoction" is undrinkable straight up
 
@TheX that's a big one.
 
Stupid flash :P
Yay! We just graduated!
 
Oli
2:04 PM
Huh, Flash is eating 7% (1.6GB) of my RAM. That's new.
3
A: Stop Firefox from asking to install flash and other plugins

justbrowsingNot sure about other plugins but at least for Flash Go to about:config Set notifyMissingFlash to False (double-click on it to toggle)

 
jrg
Wow
 
@JourneymanGeek I'm giving cold brewed in my fridge for a day or two a try.
 
jrg
did you guys see the cool stackegg?
 
what is this stackegg you speak of?
 
jrg
head to the site
instead of ads, click "stackegg" on the right corner
 
2:42 PM
holy crap, that's awesome.
is it a demo of the april fools joke this year? probably so.
 
jrg
it's april 1st somewhere right now
so of course it is
dangit i don't have time to do this at work
 
Why demo? (^)
Awww... ;) I have time!
 
jrg
i guess i'll just have to play a lotttt tonight
 
Really? I still think sleeping is more interesting than this mini tamagochi clone...
(ducking, running)
 
dude, someone spent time on that. and they need a hug. plus it's awesome.
 
2:45 PM
How much time would have to be spent on that? Not too much, I assume. An hour?
It is pretty simple, isn't it?
 
jrg
Nopeeee.
that's probably a full day, minimum.
 
Oh, come on!
 
jrg
Hey, my internal company april fools joke is currently at 3 hours and counting. only half done.
and it's not a multi-site RPG competition.
 
@jrg ^^
 
if (command=="Ask") questions *= 1.5;
if (command=="Answer") answers *= 1.5;
and so on... Is there much more code?
 
jrg
2:47 PM
the hard part isn't the one site
it's the leaderboard
 
Okay... I bet they have a template for things like that. We have more leaderboards than this one.
 
jrg
But here's the thing about easter eggs - companies use it as a way of exploring different technology
 
@hbdgaf ^
 
jrg
so i'd be willing to bet that this is not the same .NET stack the rest of the site is done in.
and that it's in something like Go, just for kicks.
 
the nopetopus is fine... i've even used it a few times.
 
2:50 PM
Well, can be. But the "game" is still extremely simple.
I don't really like simple games...
Such as Minecraft too (at least concerning the graphics)
It's something to spend maybe 15 minutes on, but not something to get addicted.
 
jrg
like mine, last year - i'm typically a ruby person, but I did it in Python. This year my joke is geocitiy-ing the admin panel for just one person, so it's all CSS.
 
@ByteCommander but people still play it... and why do you think that is...
 
jrg
it's the same reason i don't like games with full story lines - i'm an open world kinda guy. minecraft gives me a headache because of the graphics, but when i found a skin that doesn't do that, it's a game i could (and have) spent hours on.
Each person has their own game niche.
and when it comes to development, everything takes 3-5x longer than you think.
i multiple by Pi every time i get asked for a software estimate.
and then round up to the nearest day+1.
 
Good approach...
 
jrg
So even if they did it in their normal stack, still not a 2 hour project.
probably a 2 day project. maybe longer.
 
2:55 PM
Depends on the programmers' skills, I assume.
I bet there are some guys that can do it in less than 1h.
 
jrg
There are people who ship bug free software.
Why? Because they are just that good.
But do you know how many of those there are?
 
1. I had to kill the other one. Don't like the competition joke
 
jrg
Hell, SpaceX and Tesla haven't had that kind of success.
@hbdgaf lol
So no, I don't think there are developers who could have turned that out in an hour with the completeness you see there.
 
You know somebody of them you could ask how long it took?
 
jrg
80% of the work takes 20% of the time. The other 20% of the work takes 120% of the time. People have gotten their PhD writing and researching why software is late.
@tinkertim Hey, there is some debate in the Ask Ubuntu chat about how long it took to build the StackEgg. How long did it take?
asked tim.
 
3:02 PM
Well... I wasn't arguing, but point taken.
 
So the best method would be to take 20% of the time to write the app and another 10% of the time to surround problematic stuff with try{} catch (){} to hide the bugs. Finished a to the outside good-looking piece of software in 30% of the time.
;)
 
@jrg 6 to 8 weeks.
 
jrg
@Seth hah
 
WUT!!??
 
jrg
3:06 PM
Joke with long history
 
I think I just lost my believe in good programmers...
 
I'm going to take a break a buy a monster, so I can come back and read this historically humorously
 
329
A: The Many Memes of Meta

Robert CartainoMeme: 6 to 8 Weeks Originator: Jeff Atwood First Heard: May 13th, 2008 Cultural Height: In about 6 to 8 weeks Definition: The time estimate given "off the top of my head" when the Stack Overflow team has only a vague idea of how long a task will take because they have little-to-no formal sche...

Seriously though, you know that will be his answer ;p
 
jrg
Yeah...
 
3:30 PM
Measuring time by meme. I like it.
 
Ask Ubuntu isn't doing too well in this game thing :/
 
Just saw the weirdest thing. Someone cut up for sale signs and posted them all over their car. Just the leader line at the top, no phone or anything. Makes me wonder what they're trying to project, because if there's no call this number to buy my car number - then... what?
 
3:47 PM
o/ @JourneymanGeek - anything new?
 
so, does anyone even know how to play the game, seems like everyone is doing the opposite of the little thing on the screen...
 
the little thing on the screen just does what the last selection was..
 
oh, does it?
 
yup
 
that explains a bit...
 
3:52 PM
good grief who's voting to restart?
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jrg
The answer is in.
It's either "As In I blinked and they had a working prototype", or "about 6-8 weeks"
 
oooo....
and it restarted...
 
jrg
@ByteCommander ^^
 
@jrg You make me smile sometimes
 
@Mateo sigh
@jrg I think I totally called it :P
 
4:05 PM
0
Q: NOEXEC and RESTRICT in sudoers

mi0puI understand the script below has a serious problem, and NOEXEC and RESTRICT are not enough as a solution to this. user ALL=(ALL) /usr/bin/vim /etc/httpd/confs/httpd.conf However, I still have some confusion with these two options. RESTRICT Due to the large number of programs that offer s...

 
jrg
4:21 PM
ask, answer, upvote, downvote, lather, rinse, repeat
 
@jrg Huh, what? I was away...
You pinged me, but I don't really see the reason...
 
0
Q: simple shell script to compare two tables and perform operations on its columns

Shah HussainI have two tables like following: Table 1 TABLE_NAME COUNT AIN_EDP_SCRIPT 33 AMA_CALLTYPE_LOOKUP 24 APPLICATION_INFO 0 ARS_PROFILE 0 AUTHCODE ...

 
jrg
4:43 PM
@ByteCommander we got an answer on how long it took to build the thingy
 
@jrg You mean the "close to no time" or "about 7 weeks"?
Very precise...
 
4:59 PM
@SmokeDetector That spam Q is still alive! To all AU users: Lift your torches and pitchforks! I request a flag food!
 
5:20 PM
aw, someone is sabotageing the egg game...
 
hi
now there are no questions! :/
 
StackEgg... what the...
 
join the fun, I need someone on the good side
 
What do I do?
 
5:22 PM
what makes the stats good
but remember it dosn't matter to make the users happy
it is all about quality and answers
then questions
I had all five hearts till someone started voting opposite from me...
upvotes are not as useful, users will go up with the other stats being good
yay we did it
 
We're 16th now.
 
;)
just remember not to upvote ;)
 
jrg
oh, didn't realize that someone was coordinating things here.
 
with quality + answers - traffic goes up, and users follow
 
jrg
ok, can't play anymore. Need to get work done. :\
 
5:32 PM
Me too :(
But I may pop in later.
 
cool
 
Can you hijack other sites???
Because it looks like someone is hijacking ours.
 
erg, i suppose...
 
Lol... you should see Code Golf.
They're in the lead and everyone keeps voting to restart :P
 
we were doing ok, and then someone got a restart
then killed it 6 days in
 
5:44 PM
Yeah...
 
now, they want to restart again...
 
5:56 PM
oh yeah, downvote every time... nice job.
 
WE NEED TO WRITE A USERSCRIPT FOR THIS >:)
This is my goal for the day :)
 
@NathanOsman And you know it will only be finished by April 2 of course :)
 
Challenge accepted. Let me get started.
 
jrg
6:13 PM
so what, it'll take commands from a master control program?
 
At this point, it will just figure out what's lacking and vote for the appropriate thing.
 
jrg
cool
 
I'll give you guys a UserScript to run in your browser and you can just leave a tab open :)
 
jrg
i'd be down for one that would derail it
and run it on other sites
;-p
 
Lol.
Okay, will do.
 
jrg
6:15 PM
just constantly votes to restart
that's all it does
 
what is this
I got better things to do than clicking buttons.
 
I'm working on a script.
Don't worry.
I've completed reverse-engineering the protocol now.
This is going to be a cinch to exploit >:)
Oooh. And for bonus points, it will only restart when the phase is almost complete.
That way nobody will get suspicious with constant restart votes.
>:)
 
6:35 PM
close can be handy in the third round
two question for two quality
 
12
Q: What is the optimal strategy for the launched site in Stack Egg?

PearsonArtPhotoThe Stack Overflow instance in particular seems pretty poor. How should it be done to achieve the best performance? How is there such a difference between different sites?

I am following that strat.
 
6:55 PM
First version is almost complete.
 
23rd place. Not bad.
I'm home again so I can help.
 
I'm almost done writing a script you can open on other sites that will vote to restart once they reach 90% >:)
 
@jokerdino Seems no one else is following that >.<
 
answers and qulaity are important, no threat on others till they turn red, then must keep up
 
^--- alright, everyone install that script and open a tab for Code Golf (ping @jrg)
 
7:04 PM
this feels hopeless :P
 
At least we can help keep Code Golf at bay.
 
That feels like cheating @Nathan
 
It's all in good fun.
 
jrg
so what's the good one for ask ubuntu?
;-)
 
I haven't written it yet.
 
jrg
7:10 PM
lolk
So now you need to codegolf it
and submit it as an answer
 
crl
Hi guys, I don't really like the vertical left bar menu by default on Ubuntu, what could I try mate or cinnamon?
 
free hearts if you wait a round to upvote
so wait till it is red
 
231
Q: What kinds of desktop environments and shells are available?

Amith KK This question exists as it fills a specific criterion. While you are encouraged to help maintain its answers, please understand that "big list" questions are not generally allowed on Ask Ubuntu and will likely be closed per the FAQ. More information on the software-recommendation tag. What ...

 
crl
@Seth thanks
 
@Mateo: what's the order of strategy? If you can express it in terms of an algorithm (based on hearts), I can code it.
 
crl
7:14 PM
I might not be ready for Gnome-Shell yet :)
 
quality first, then answers - then questions, only upvote ask if they turn red
 
I saw the flag.
 
you get a free heart if they dip red and then you bring them up
 
jrg
lol.
 
7:15 PM
I don't like the idea of invading theirs either, but I wouldn't have flagged it.
 
jrg
For what it's worth, I closed the tab and uninstalled it. wasn't really that amusing.
 
Hmm... a lot of people seem to dislike my script. I guess not everyone appreciates the effort as much as I thought.
 
basically users don't matter ;p
 
jrg
Oh, I find it hilarious.
 
@NathanOsman it's well.. cheating.
 
jrg
7:17 PM
I might leave it running on our own site.
 
close if qulaity dips two hearts
 
@jrg ಠ_ಠ
 
jrg
lol
 
You can't :)
I programmed it not to work on our site >:)
 
jrg
I am a programmer.
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7:18 PM
nice lol, but we can undo that ;)
 
jrg
R-C view source. ;-)
 
I know, I know :P
 
awwzhite awwz the room is blowing up on a tuesday during the workday.
 
er, close is a two for two trade...
so downvote first ;)
 
crl
going with lxde
 
7:21 PM
courtesy The Bridge.
 
I saw that. Fine, I'll stop the script.
 
downvote first ask questions later ;P
 
@NathanOsman I know you saw it, I posted it for other people's sake ;)
 
I think the smart thing to do is call it a day and move on to something more productive.
Sorry, guys. I guess I got a bit carried away.
<-- takes these things a bit too seriously sometimes
 
I wanted to take it seriously.
But with so many people pressing random buttons I found I couldn't.
So I'm answering a question instead \o/
 
7:24 PM
Yeah, let's all help the actual site.
 
quick, someone seems to be voting strange
yeah, someone is sabotaging...
 
@NathanOsman - you ever fix the bottom left three solver snippet?
 
Not yet.
 
me neither, but i did write about half of it.
programmer problems
 
7:33 PM
well, that was awesome...
 
smh
 
Wait - this is better:
> "Or Perl..."
Lol.
 
Got to love cody's answer
I invited a couple of people to join in on the sudoku solver code-golf thing. No takers. I honestly have no idea why.
 
yeah
 
7:47 PM
o/
 
I'm getting more and more disgusted with the whole thing.
 
I feel bad about what I was doing.
Not only did I waste my time, but it wasn't in very good spirits.
 
@Seth can we just burn the stackegg game, sabotage is evil and should be considered cheating - makes me want to stab people sometimes
get rid of the game problem solved
 
Uhm... ouch.
 
was fed up with the game the first hour after he woke up and noticed sabotage
 
7:50 PM
I have an idea though. We should create a game whose sole purpose is to write code that sabotages other player's code. That might be fun.
Then this creative energy could be put to good use. Sorta.
 
jrg
Isn't that called battlecoderbots or something?
 
Oh, okay.
 
@jrg hadn't seen that, although it is interesting
 

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