@GlenH7 Not too late. That contact is still in the beginning stages.

@MichaelT You're more patient than I. I would have said "They have this thing called Google."

I was an ass before I ever became a mod, though becoming a mod made me more of one.

Actually I nominated myself on a lark. Never really expected to get elected. I had almost cured myself of my Stack Overflow addiction when I became an elected mod. Bill The Lizard's story is very similar.

@MichaelT So many people don't know how to use Google well.

Yes, I have a similar background. I worked at Packard Bell for a couple of years doing phone support, though my knowledge-base was a shelf of binders about four feet across. My lookup time for anything was about 30 seconds. This was before Google was a thing.

My Google-fu's not bad. Occasionally there's something I can't find, but that's usually because the good stuff is behind a paywall.

Several companies I worked for could have benefited from a good knowledge-base.

Reminds me of the WW2 decoders who learned who the operators were by their cadence and preamble. If you believe the movie, Turing was able to eventually crack the code because every message ended in "Heil, Hitler."

Thus greatly reducing the permutations.

Do you know anything about Android?

Some dude on SO wants to build an anti-theft app, and he needs to do things that I didn't think Android developers were allowed to do, like permanently locking the phone remotely, and providing a lock screen that disallows any other app.

Yeah, I think the phone manufacturers have that kind of access. These people... They always want to do something that regular developers really shouldn't need to do.

Yeah, I just told him off. His question is icanhazcodez anyway.

Why he thinks he needs to write his own is beyond me. Or how he could possibly provide any more value than Google's anti-theft mechanisms already provide.

hahaha! I solved my problem

it would've been nice to get the answer a month ago from someone else, though certainly more rewarding to figure it out myself.

I am amused/infuriated by some of the people over on the workplace. They have such optimistic views ("everyone has the potential to be awesome") that it makes me think that they're the net-loss dead weight that everyone else is asking how to work around.

meh, bbiab.

It's surprisingly difficult to Google BBIAB. All of the Google summaries say something like "Looking for the definition of BBIAB? Find out what is the full meaning of BBIAB on Abbreviations.com! The Web's largest and most authoritative acronyms..." Urban Dictionary doesn't even provide a definition, simply saying "the most annoying fucking abbreviation to look at. ever"

Oh, I found it. I'm just amused by the attempts at "We're not going to tell you here in Google summaries; you're going to have to click the link and go to our wonderfully awesome page to find out!"

@GlenH7 glad to hear

    Dear LinkedIn:

    The manager of the group .NET People (linkedin.com/groups/NET-People-40717) has posted a spamvertisement for his certification products.  Because he is the manager of the group, and he's marked his spamvertisement as a "manager's choice," he is immune from his post being flagged as "promotion."  When I (and a couple of other people) complained about it, he apparently removed our comments, causing my contributions to the group to become subject to moderation, which I guess means he gets to control them.

@AshleyNunn How are you feeling?

The usual recuperation time from "crack my head open" surgery.

OMFG. Is Rick Unger like the biggest plagiarist ever?

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