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Kuba

9:24 AM

Is the Kernel creating expressions from boxes or is it converting them to string first?

2 hours later…

xzczd

11:01 AM

What's wrong with my face? I remembered it should be something like this:

3 hours later…

rcollyer

1:47 PM

@xzczd did you change email address?

Tim Stone

2:04 PM

Q: Why is my profile image different?

When I first signed up on a Stack Exchange site and got a profile image, it was this one (see my current user card): Later, I got Area 51 and SEDE profiles, and my user image there was a different identicon. Because reasons I already know. I would have a picture of it, but that's the problem....

tl;dr Gravatar is a monster

gwr

@Kuba Look at it this way, if you describe yourself as "I excel at Mathematica" people imagine you are wearing a tweet jacket, glasses and have a humongous IQ. OTH if you say "I excel at JavaScript" they believe you are wearing a worn out hoody, a basecap and have a huge body from eating pizza. :)

Kuba

@gwr You may be right, I have talked with couple of programmers lately and when they heard MMA- "I know, this geeky stuff, right?"

Yet face to face I couldn't hide my appearance ;)

gwr

2:19 PM

@Kuba That is why I went shopping to get me some tweet jackets (I am wearing glasses already). :)

Kuba

2:33 PM

@gwr not sure why, you can't be mistaken for a JS programmer :)

Pickett

3:20 PM

I cannot get
Import[name_String, "MyFormat", ___? OptionQ]
to take precedence over
Import[channel_, format_?ElementQ, opts___?OptionQ]

i.e. I cannot override the built-in patterns. Why?

Any ideas for how to increase the precedence of my form?

4 hours later…

Pickett

7:42 PM

I've also run into this problem:

Q: How to call a java method that takes a boolean (not Boolean)?

I'm trying to call a method on a java object that takes a single boolean argument - note boolean (native or primative) not Boolean (Object or Reference type). object@method[True] Goes bang with... Java::argx1: Method named method defined in class blah.blah.blah.Object was called with an incor...