The Whiteboard

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12:00 AM

@MichaelT relax

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possible duplicate of Approaches to checking multiple conditions? — MichaelT 25 secs ago

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Wanted to get the dup vote in there before people started answering that bike shed question.

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@MichaelT Like I said, relax

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:)

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12:26 AM

I hate to say this but it appears that you might have a resource leak in your cup. If Consume throws an exception - say because you dribble - Dispose won't be called. Of course, in this case, that's probably a good idea because it really doesn't appear that your Cup should be implementing IDisposable. — tvanfosson 10 hours ago

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Should this question be migrated to Code Review? Just checking ;-) — rolfl 6 hours ago

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@enderland you've got some jokers over there.

Matt Giltaji

@MichaelT we have much more fun over on workplace. Take this one

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Q: My boss slapped me over a calculation error

My boss slapped me because My Excel file had a calculational error. I fixed the error and saved the file to the network. If I complain, I guess I will just get fired. But I don't want to work for someone like this. How should I talk to her about it?

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@MattGiltaji meh... the worker isn't having an affair with the boss's wife... boring.

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1:09 AM

Yea! Self delete migration!

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Q: Can I patent a communication protocol?

Is it possible to patent a communication protocol, like HTTP or IMAP or SMTP, etc..? How about a sequence of REST APIs? If not, is there anyway to prevent others developing clone applications that will be compatible with my application? If yes, any pointers to a similar patent would be highly ...

patentability legal

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(P.SE 10k version: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/263173/… )

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@MattGiltaji Okay, as bad as my former job was, I never got slapped, so there is that

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1:29 AM

I've updated the patent tag tag wiki. If anyone wants to look at it to see if I've missed anything or such...

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New rule: The computer world puts ME in charge of naming things so that things have names that are not like thing, thing+, thing2, thing2+

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Because that is just frustrating.

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@gnat @AshleyNunn has volunteered to name All The Things. We should flag naming questions for migration to AskAshley.SE.

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@MichaelT That would be the BEST SE site on the network hands down

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@AshleyNunn I wonder what looks you'd get from Rob and the other community managers if you proposed that on Area51.

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1:37 AM

@MichaelT Probably really confused ones and a quick closure, also laughter from the Bridge because they have a feedbot that throws all the newest A51 proposals in there (at least, they used to.)

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Oh, only the recreation ones, it seems.

psr

@AshleyNunn Hands down because no slapping is allowed.

Matt Giltaji

@AshleyNunn it might even make the meme wiki

user15026

@psr Exactly.

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@MattGiltaji I don't think anything I've done has made that, and I am okay with that

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1:41 AM

given this (mostly Chinese) (see also blog.edgecast.com/post/102918735991/the-great-firewall-of-china and news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8622331 ) I wonder if China would do something about stack exchange when this goes beta:

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Chinese Emigration 移民海外

Proposed Q&A site for chinese people emigrating. | 帮助中国人讨论如何移民海外

Currently in commitment.

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(short version of the news articles, china blocked a major CDN which screwed up large parts of the net for chinese web browsers... thinks like durpal updates, firefox updates, and such)

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If they notice, I suspect it wouldn't last long.

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@AshleyNunn MSO regularly gets posts about "problems accessing in china" because china blocks googleapis which hosts some javascript that SE uses...

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it would be more along the line of "yea, we're just going to block all of Stack Exchange"

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1:44 AM

@MichaelT Yeah, I suspect that would be the answer

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Sailing

Proposed Q&A site for offshore and inshore sailors, shipwrights, racers, and cruisers.

Currently in definition.

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What would I need to program on a boat?

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@MichaelT creates boat-programming

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Because we need more of that

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Q: What is the boat programming meme about?

I remember some time ago there was some huge problem regarding some question that had something to do with a boat, and I think I missed that topic completely. As I see it being mentioned every now and then, I'd just like to know what it was about.

discussion memes

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1:48 AM

@MichaelT Yep, thats the thing I was remembering

Matt Giltaji

there is also this (NSFW language)

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user15026

@MichaelT finished Celebromancy today, started the novella (Attack the Geek, I think it's called?)

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@AshleyNunn yep.

user15026

It's good so far. Not far in, but that's okay. (Been reading a lot lately because of my commute)

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@AshleyNunn Its a fun, easy to read series.

user15026

1:54 AM

@MichaelT Yeah, they were nice brain candy

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Q: Feedback Requested: Stack Overflow design update

As you can see, Meta.SO looks a bit different today. Over the years I've gotten a lot of requests to "redesign" Stack Overflow. I've always felt SO's site design had good usability and was very functional. However, I did and do agree, aesthetically, it could use some polish. Today's new Meta the...

discussion featured design

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3:20 AM

Whoo: Special number for close vote reviews:

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enderland

3:36 AM

@MichaelT we get tons of jokers

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3:56 AM

@enderland I'd be half tempted to take the code from the mug, stick it in a question on workplace (the mug works, but I keep getting unclean resource allocations) and migrate it over to code review though... just to see what they do with it.

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5:18 AM

Here's one for @JimmyHoffa (languages and such) and @RobertHarvey (waxing poetic on days of old):

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Robert Martin on Clojure is the new C

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> Robert Martin argues that Clojure is a replacement for C with its simple syntax and minimal semantics.

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(side bit for @GlenH7 - look at what laptop he's using)

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(and @Ampt will recognize the IDE... look closely at the sidebar after he makes jokes about vi and emacs)

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Stack Exchange

11:17 AM

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Q: Should Programmers participate in Winter Bash 2014?

Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate. Users earn “hats” for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions trigger the user receiving a hat, which their gravatar can “wear”. We track everyone’s progr...