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12:05 AM
@PauloCereda So should we make egreg jump over the 100k ? :P
the votes are freed ....
 
@percusse ooh!
@percusse Locked and loaded, sir! :D
 
@PauloCereda Fire at will
I'll leave the last one to you
 
@percusse awww <3
What if David starts downvoting? :P
 
3 more and he has the palindrome. Don't forget to take the screenshot
@PauloCereda He's busy with accepting answers for 2 points.
see the starred message :P
 
@percusse oh! :D
What do we do now? :D
YES!!!!!!!!
@egreg: Congratulations!
 
12:14 AM
@PauloCereda I'm not that mean:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle <3
 
@DavidCarlisle Now it's your turn to be the victim of serial voting. We will concentrate on you
 
@egreg congratulations on the palindrome. (oh and the 100k:-)
 
@percusse Indeed! Target locked, sir! :)
 
12:44 AM
Paulo Cereda on June 27, 2012

We have another great milestone in our beloved TeX community: our very first user to break the 100k barrier! Who? I’ll give you a hint:

That was easy, wasn’t it? :) egreg is the first TeX.sx user to reach 100k!

Since egreg’s reputation grows on a geometric progression, I took an screenshot of the epic moment before it was too late:

And look, it’s a palindromic reputation, what a great number! We chatroom residents are found of palindromes. :)

As part of the celebrations – including a cake in the chatroom – we also made a video about egreg’s 100k. You might say, “the v …

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And a typo "fond". D'oh! :(
Fixed. :D
 
1:01 AM
@PauloCereda Wow, great video!
 
 
3 hours later…
3:37 AM
@egreg: Congratulations! I lost the bet by a full month... amazing.
 
4:27 AM
@Raphink Hi, long time no see. How are you?
 
4:57 AM
@egreg Congratulations. :)
 
 
1 hour later…
6:21 AM
Thanks to all, it's a great joy. But it wouldn't be without all of you, in the chat and in the site.
 
 
3 hours later…
9:01 AM
@egreg: congratulaitons on the 100k!
@all Thanks for answering all my question and your help with my problems!
 
@Jörg Thanks. I was just looking at your request about todo notes
 
@egreg I think joined 4 months ago and you "only" had 64k...how do you do that :)?
 
@Jörg Just answering questions. :)
 
10:09 AM
@egreg Just a quick question: is it possible to access the "title" of a chapter? E.g. if \chapter{Introduction}, how can I access the "Introduction"? I thought it would be \chaptertitle from the titlesec package, but that appears to work only for headers.
 
Guys, now our next plan: annoy @DavidCarlisle to reach 100k. :)
 
@RyanReich Oh, there's all sorts. Double spacing has already been mentioned. There are one or two that want to turn the table of contents into a symbolic forest. Then anything that mentions the name Tufte. Of course, it's all opinion, really.
@egreg: Well done. It couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow.
 
@BrentLongborough I'm really very happy. :) Because of all the friends here, mainly.
 
@egreg È molto meritano la vostra felicità (Credit to Google Translate; the errors, of course, are all mine)
 
10:30 AM
@Brent: Now I'm trying the combo memoir + biblatex. More epicness. :)
 
@BrentLongborough "La tua felicità è molto meritata". Grazie!
@PauloCereda I'm imagining you and @percusse staring at the screen waiting for the big moment. :)
 
@egreg I was refreshing your profile like crazy. :)
 
@PauloCereda But whose was the decisive upvote?
 
@egreg My vote. :) @percusse let the honour to me. I think both votes were mine, 99,991 and 100,001. :)
 
@PauloCereda :)
 
10:39 AM
@egreg I heard the 200k club is even more exclusive. :P
 
@PauloCereda I'm anxious to know. :P But now we have to press Martin and, of course, David.
 
@egreg 128 views so far of our blog announcement. :) And your profiled received 38+ views since the achievement. :)
@egreg Ah yes! :) Martin is very close too.
 
@PauloCereda Tomorrow I'll take a day off for some mountains. Friday I have exams.
 
@egreg How nice! Any special region?
 
@PauloCereda Possibly Trento and the mountains west of the city. Monte Bondone is a famous climb.
 
10:49 AM
Well well well look who has honored the chat room. A member from the 100k club in which they eat ambrosia and drink nectar (or the other way around, I never get them right) :P
 
@percusse I wouldn't be eating ambrosia weren't for the generous upvoters.
 
@egreg How nice! Speaking of Trento, our first Saint was born in Vigolo Vattaro: Paolina del Cuore Agonizzante di Gesù, our Santa Paulina. :)
 
I can confirm that ambrosia is good; nectar is a tad too sweet. :)
 
@percusse Oh my, I think my dad bought a can of ambrosia last week (it's a common candy in the Minas Gerais region). :P
 
@egreg File a complaint, you have the right to do so now as an exclusive member :)
 
10:55 AM
@PauloCereda Vigolo Vattaro is a small village on a plateau between Trento and Lago di Caldonazzo: there's a splendid view of the Valsugana from there.
The lake is on the right of the picture, down the hills.
 
@egreg What a beautiful landscape! :)
 
@PauloCereda It's really a nice place: that plateau has a very good climate because of the hills that protect it on the north.
My sister also lives in a town near the lake, but down in the valley where winters are harsher.
There are actually two lakes there
 
Wow!
 
Left is Lago di Caldonazzo, right is Lago di Levico (where the empress Sissi went for holidays). Pergine, where my sister lives, is the town which can be seen following the division between the two lakes.
 
@egreg It must be a very peaceful place to live. :)
 
11:06 AM
@PauloCereda Very good for her two children.
 
@PauloCereda before that we have other tasks such as arranging your gold arara badge
 
@egreg :)
@DavidCarlisle ooh I'm just finishing the manual, then I'll write lots of arara answers here. :)
 
@PauloCereda as follows of Knuth we should honour binary anniversaries above decimal ones so I think @egreg's real target should be 131072
 
@AndrewStacey Are you sending messages to aliens or is it just the crop fields in this one tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61343/… ?
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@DavidCarlisle Let's see who gets there first.
log_2 100131 = 16.61152916811594, log_2 31116 = 14.92536899157445
 
11:42 AM
@egreg congrats for 100k!
 
@PatrickGundlach Thanks! Now I need some other target. :)
Maybe learning Lua.
 
@egreg another gold tag badge? :)
 
@egreg =)
 
12:10 PM
@PauloCereda I need 32 answers for the tag.
@N3buchadnezzar /me very happy
 
12:40 PM
@egreg OK or we could see who's first to ask a question
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@DavidCarlisle That would be very interesting.
 
:-)
@egreg I had asked a question on the main about Lattice diagram (Hasse diagram) of Z/30Z. Hope that interests you.
 
@KannappanSampath Unfortunately it's too TikZish for me. Maybe David can answer better.
 
@egreg Oh, I see. :)
 
@KannappanSampath On the serious side, I believe that a matrix is not the best way to tackle the problem.
 
12:44 PM
@egreg My bad; That is what I recently learnt.
 
@KannappanSampath Want a quick and dirty fix?
 
@N3buchadnezzar Why not?
I'd be glad.
 
@KannappanSampath I'm sure that our TikZ experts will come to the rescue soon
 
I think this will work, but it is sort of frowned upon...
 
(because the report is due the day after tommorrow.)
 
12:46 PM
The problem is that each node is not the same size,. So to get ridd of the problem all of the text boxes must be of the same size.
 
@egreg keeping the fingers crossed.
 
Now in order to create invisible text you can use \phantom{"some text"}
Eg Z/15Z and Z/3Z\phantom{5} for an example.
@KannappanSampath Oh, and always include a MWE (minimal working example) when asking questions =)
 
@N3buchadnezzar I thought this was true of the distance between the nodes -- as in -- the parallel edges are not of the same length.
@N3buchadnezzar Yeah, my example is not minimal!
 
@KannappanSampath Minimal working example
If i paste your codes into a tex editor and presses compile your docoment does not run...
 
:(
Sorry! Will update that.
 
12:53 PM
Minimal working example includes the packages needed for the document to run
Now I am guessing how you have defined \Z ...
My guess was \newcommand{Z}{$\mathbb{Z}$}
 
@egreg Heigh-ho, thanks for the improvement -- machine translation still has some way to go.
@PauloCereda Yes!!!
 
@KannappanSampath and Jake already answered you, he is a machine!
 
@BrentLongborough I think you'll like the new arara user manual. :) I'm working on it. :)
 
@N3buchadnezzar Yeah!
@N3buchadnezzar Missed that!
 
@Jake moral of story: don't assume someone knows what a package does just because they wrote it.
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1:00 PM
@DavidCarlisle @egreg This reminds me of a challenge a friend and I posed as undergraduates. We had discovered (much to our amazement) that there existed students who were happy with C marks, and we thought it would be very challenging for us to get straight Cs in all our classes for a semester. Fs and As are easy, but straight Cs, now that's a challenge. Needless to say, we never actually tried it.
 
@KannappanSampath Your code will still not run if you try it ;)
 
@AlanMunn A small excess in studying easily brings a B.
 
awesome video,@PauloCereda !
 
@PatrickGundlach Thanks. :)
 
@egreg Right, that's exactly the problem.
 
1:09 PM
@PatrickGundlach Particularly for the music. :)
 
@DavidCarlisle =)
 
@DavidCarlisle Addendum?
Mar 26 at 19:37, by David Carlisle
@Canageek moral of the story: never read the documentation, bad things happen
Gotta love that quote. <3
 
1:23 PM
@egreg I am at work and I have the computer muted ....
 
@N3buchadnezzar Fixed that a while ago.
(Had someone to talk to here. Sorry for late reply.)
 
@PatrickGundlach Too bad! When Alan Munn will have his video, the music will be by Cage and Stockhausen.
And I will mute the computer, of course.
 
@egreg :P
When I reach 100k (probably around 2050), I want "The wheels on the bus". :)
 
1:38 PM
@PauloCereda At your current average, you should reach 100k by October 2029. :)
But, of course, the end of the world is next December.
 
@egreg Ooh! :)
@egreg On the bright side, no need for bugfixes after December. :)
 
@PauloCereda David should hurry, if he wants to fix his packages before the EOTW.
 
@egreg :)
 
1:59 PM
@egreg Not a big Stockhausen fan, I must say. But my tastes are very catholic, so my video (not that I will likely have one) would likely have something for everyone, and therefore annoy everyone simultaneously.
 
@AlanMunn Cage and Varèse?
 
Speaking of which, I heard the following Philip Glass "knock knock" joke:

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
...
@egreg For the Cage part of the video I could just have a muted 4'33" section. Although that's so clichéd, I don't think I'd do that.
@egreg Maybe Hildegard von Bingen and Avro Pärt with a bit of the Clash thrown in.
 
2:26 PM
@AlanMunn I'll go and buy all Hildegard von Bingen's production, maybe not tomorrow. :P
 
2:38 PM
@AlanMunn But Arvo Pärt is not in music shops, AFAIK.
 
Any traps about using dirtree?
 
@egreg Really? The couple of CDs I have were bought in a real store, but quite a while ago now. OTOH, with the rise of Amazon I must confess I haven't been to a record store in a long time, it's sad to say.
 
@AlanMunn In music shops you find works by musicians. :P
 
2:55 PM
Transmission. :) subliminal message
 
@egreg Sorry, I clearly didn't get the joke. (If you'd gone with the Clash, I would have, but Pärt...?) I keep forgetting how absolute your 1827 cutoff point is.
 
Hmph, the answer I liked for a different reason is gone!
 
@KannappanSampath Which ?
 
@N3buchadnezzar Here was an answer with pgf-3d(?) package. Can you see it?
 
From Altermundus ?
 
3:03 PM
No, there was another one where you had to specify viewing co-ordinates. It is now deleted, I guess.
 
Oh, the one from Herbert. Sorry, it looks like he removed his answer. Although the 10k guys can see the deleted answers. If you ask one of them, they might give you the code.
 
Hmph, I only wish he was not angry with me. :(
 
Poor Herbert
 
@N3buchadnezzar ?
 
@N3buchadnezzar Or we can vote to undelete it. It seems like a good answer; I'm not sure why Herbert deleted it.
 
3:06 PM
@AlanMunn Indeed a good answer, please see my comment there for one of the reasons why; it offers something mathematical to think about.
 
@KannappanSampath "Everyone" on the site seem to be using tikz, but he prefers Ps-tricks. Which from what I heard is superior when it comes to 3d graphics but it lacks pdfsupport and an awesome manual :p
 
@N3buchadnezzar not quite everyone
 
I will make this request to 10k+ers: Please vote to undelete Herbert's answer here.
 
I'm not quite clear on the etiquette of undeletion. Mods? Any comments? @JosephWright @StefanKottwitz
 
@DavidCarlisle Well I know Alan Munn, Herbert, (you used something obscure, but I can not recall what), and probably a few more. But the consensus in the site uses tikz-pgf.
 
3:08 PM
@DavidCarlisle I'm in la résistance too. :) MetaPost! MetaPost!
 
@N3buchadnezzar I've pretty much moved away from PSTricks myself, although I did use to use it. I don't do anything in 3D so TikZ is much easier for me. Also, pgfplots is simply awesome.
 
@AlanMunn: crazy reference above. ^^ :)
 
@AlanMunn I hate pgfplots at the moment =(
 
Can someone suggest if I should write a meta post or something?
 
@PauloCereda What, you don't speak Guaraní? For shame. :P
 
3:12 PM
@KannappanSampath Patience is virtue
 
@AlanMunn Oops! Paulo probably means "wacky writer of programs with learning issues". :)
 
@N3buchadnezzar . :)
Let the period go unnoticed ^^.
 
@KannappanSampath Impatience leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, and suffering leads to Word.
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@KannappanSampath Yes, that's a good idea. Something like "When is it appropriate to ask for a deleted answer to be undeleted?" (But we might have a little discussion here if you wait, too.)
 
@AlanMunn I can of course wait. There is no problem with that.
 
3:18 PM
Could someone explain why my ylabel and legend is out of place here ?
 
@N3buchadnezzar Where do you want the legend? For the ylabel you can do ylabel style={at={(.05,1)}}.
 
@AlanMunn Somewhere within the grid, and not overlapping the blue and red line. Exactly where is irrelevant just not outside of my figure.. I have no idea why this happens either.
 
For me it's in the upper right corner.
@N3buchadnezzar Do you want it more to the left?
 
@AlanMunn Yeah =) Within the the x-axis and within the y-axis. At the moment as you can see, it is more to the right if the x-axis. The dashed background grid, defines the outer edges of the image.
 
You can use the same method: legend style={at={(.8,1)}}. I'm not sure why it's not more automatic. There's probably a way, but I'm not an expert.
 
3:33 PM
Thanks!
For my previous plots the top right position has always worked, I have no idea why it suddenly messes up,
 
@N3buchadnezzar I'm sure there's something simple that @Jake could tell us in a split second.
 
@AlanMunn Indeed
That man was born with a silver plot in his mouth.
 
I planted my first TikZ tree today!
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3:52 PM
@AlanMunn Deleted by owner tends by be 'leave alone' unless it looks like a deliberate 'vandalism' act
 
@PauloCereda traitor
 
@JosephWright Yes, that was my impression too. Undeleting is a pretty aggressive act.
 
@N3buchadnezzar It's because xscale is alos applied to the legend coordinate.
 
@DavidCarlisle I swear, I was trying dirtree instead! The TikZ codes were too complicated. Then I found one that I actually understood. :)
 
@percusse Hmmm
@percusse What do you recommend then, removing the xscale, and adding a width = 0.75 \pagewidth of something?
 
4:03 PM
and what happened to the time honoured tradition of ascii art trees:-) nag.co.uk/doc/inun/fl23/ai6dal/in.html#contents
 
@DavidCarlisle That was my last resource. :)
 
@N3buchadnezzar What do you want to achieve with that ? To scale horizontally the whole picture?
 
I do not know. I just want it to look pwetty!
I guess I am too tired to know what looks good or not, will have a look at it tomorow again.
 
@percusse That's also the reason why the y axis label is off, even if anchor=north west is used. Looks like xscale is buggy (it's a reasonably new feature).
 
@AlanMunn Also, I think the OP changed the requirements :-)
 
4:08 PM
@Jake I guess the \pgftransformscale{} needs to be scoped.
 
@N3buchadnezzar Yeah, using width and height seems to be a safer approach.
 
@N3buchadnezzar But take comfort in the fact that @Jake thinks it's a bug in xscale, so not a problem of your own making.
 
@percusse Ah, no, I got confused: xscale is the TikZ command, which shouldn't be applied to an axis. The new key is x post scale, which works fine and fixes the issue in this plot
 
Or not. :)
 
Hehe, sorry.
 
4:11 PM
@AlanMunn: help! platform specific or platform-specific? :)
 
@AlanMunn What comfort ?! :p
 
@PauloCereda I would probably add the hyphen.
 
@AlanMunn Thanks! Looks better. :)
 
@Jake I'm losing track of the changes again :)
 
@Jake Is there any way to stretch the image horizontally to match the pagewidth ?
 
4:15 PM
@N3buchadnezzar Yes, but you'll have to explicitly set the height to some value, then you can set width=\textwidth.
Or in this case, since you're using scale only axis, probably something more like 0.8\textwidth, since the labels aren't included in the width in this case.
 
@barbarabeeton Any comment on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5586/…?
 
4:49 PM
@percusse I don't want to comment on the actual answer in question as that would spoil the effect, but I should say that I only left that one to clarify what the others were already saying: that \circ is above its baseline.
 
5:16 PM
on tex.stackexchange.com, I created a minimal working example. Do I have to create the preview myself, or is it compiled when I hit "post your question"?
 
@mrothe You have to create the preview yourself. TeX code is not compiled on this site.
 
@Jake
@Jake: thanks
 
5:44 PM
@AndrewStacey It took some time for me to understand that it is not a node but \circ. Quite nice for the one who can see through the eyes of Kelvin :)
 
6:29 PM
@AndrewStacey Although it's a cute answer, I was inclined to downvote it. It's really only vaguely helpful, and has a bit of an "I'm in the in-crowd" feel. If you were user Joe Blow with a 200 reputation you probably would have gotten if not down votes, plenty of comments saying how complete answers are good, yada yada yada. So are we promoting a double standard here by voting such answers up?
 
7:11 PM
StackExchange offers a swag package to users over 100k, did you know that? :)
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@egreg No, what do you get?
Did you see they are getting rid of the store, so swag will be 'reward only'?
 
@JosephWright They asked me to look in the store, but it was closed. Probably they didn't check the standard message.
 
@egreg Ah right: how much are you 'allowed'
 
@JosephWright I really don't know. I'll wait for a new message.
 
@egreg OK, I'll have to put my foot down and find out :-)
 
7:36 PM
^^
 
Do not talk about swag. :(
 
@JosephWright ALL THE THINGS!
 
Meanwhile, I'm sweating blood to reach 10k. :)
 
user19161
8:13 PM
@PauloCereda You need more tomato juice then. :-)
 
@JasperLoy Indeed! :)
Wait a minute. JUSTIN BIEBER?!
:)
 
user19161
@PauloCereda Yeah, I'm a big fan.
 
@JasperLoy Oh. :) His style is not my cup of tea. :)
 
user19161
@PauloCereda It's just that I find he looks a little like me when I was younger. :-)
 
Incidentally, I was about to type biber mydoc in the terminal, I wrote bieber mydoc. :P
@JasperLoy ;)
bieber myworld was probably acceptable. :P
 
user19161
8:16 PM
Ah, the Bieber fever has spread everywhere, even into the LaTeX kingdom!
 
@PauloCereda Oh, no!
 
@egreg To the mountains!
 
@PauloCereda Vive la résistence!
 
@egreg \o/
 
Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
 
user19161
8:20 PM
I only know the last word: monotone convergence theorem. :-)
 
user19161
Oh congrats for reaching 100k @egreg!
 
@egreg I can spot the poem, but the meaning... :)
 
@JasperLoy It's the Verlaine's poem that BBC (Radio Londres) broadcast for announcing the D-day to the résistence
@JasperLoy Thanks. Minus Justin Bieber, of course. :)
 
@egreg Oh! :)
 
@PauloCereda Didn't you see the epic movie "The Longest Day"?
 
8:25 PM
@egreg Ah!
 
@PauloCereda John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, to name only a few. imdb.com/title/tt0056197/fullcredits#cast
 
@egreg I remember it! My uncle told me to watch it, mostly because of John Wayne. :)
 
user19161
@AlanMunn The plots look really delicious!
 
@AlanMunn Sure, it's silly. Mind you, show me a new user who can post an answer with no words and I'll happily vote up their answer. Would it be better if I did leave a comment explaining the point of the picture?
@egreg Don't believe I've said congratulations yet, so "Congratulations".
 
@PauloCereda He's a fan of John Wayne, isn't he? There's the scene in Blazing Saddles where the sheriff says "You would do this for John Wayne!" and all the men take their hats off and say "John Wayne!"
@AndrewStacey Thanks also to you, then!
 
8:39 PM
@egreg Yes, he is. :) He bought a subscription of all the Telecine channels (are they worldwide? I don't know), which is the most expensive pack of the cable TV, just because of one particular channel (I think TC Premium) because of the Western movies, and of course John Wayne. :)
 
@AndrewStacey There are plenty of other answers that explain the problem very well, so I don't think that's needed. But anyway, the issue I raise is something to think about.
 
8:54 PM
@AlanMunn They explain it, sure, but I did feel it was worth seeing the \circ symbol with its baseline and that that was a bit hidden (less in PolGab's answer). So there was a purpose to posting, not just facetiousness. Of course, once I'd created the answer it was facetiousness to post it with no text whatsoever. So it wasn't posting-for-the-sake-of-silliness but the form was deliberately silly. However, I do agree that it shouldn't be encouraged and if you see it getting ...
... disproportionately many votes you should act as your conscience tells you to. I shan't hold a grudge! Slightly more seriously, I completely agree with your point as to "If anyone else had done it ..." but I do hope that actually the response would have been the same if anyone else had done it in the same context. And I hope that the fact that the other two answers were already there makes it clear that this is not intended as a full answer to the question.
I am often silly, and do worry that I go over the line - so it's good to haul me up on it.
I don't feel that I crossed it here, but will admit to being a bit closer than I would normally skate so shall tread carefully in the coming ... hours.
 
9:44 PM
This, after a long discussion in chat, can be closed as Too localized
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Q: Question mark instead of number for reference

AkavallI an new to Latex, and I am trying to use 'bibtex' to create a reference, I was working in pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTex. Here is my sample code: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{cite} \begin {document} $$ x_i$$ \section{Introduction} According to \cite{2006} \bibliographystyle{IEEEt...

Would you believe that the problem was that the name of the bib file was my_bibtex.bib.tex?
 
@egreg Voted. :)
@egreg Uh-oh. :)
 
@egreg Closed
 
The arara manual is doing fine. :)
 
@PauloCereda My rep too. :)
 
@egreg :P
 
9:55 PM
@PauloCereda I have spent quite some time on egreg's last quote I've always it at hand and .... in the video
 
@percusse TeXbook. I'm stuck at page 16, I guess. :P
 
@PauloCereda I mean the sentence itself eheh.
 
@percusse o.O
:P
 
@percusse Behind me, at arm's distance I have: The TeXbook, The LaTeX Companion, The LaTeX manual, The LaTeX Graphics Companion, The METAFONTBook. And Bringhurst. :)
Actually I own two copies of the TeXbook, of the Companion and of the MFbook.
 
@egreg Wow!
 
10:03 PM
Oh, and I have one copy of the Companion, first edition.
 
@egreg A circular library, very clever! :P
 
What, no comments on the football^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H cricket? After all, Sri Lanka beat Pakistan.
 
Spain won. :(
Portugal lost. :(
 
@PauloCereda The first half was very exciting. The rest less so. But Spain really is good. I was rooting for Portugal too, though.
 
10:23 PM
@AlanMunn Me too. :) I don't like Spain, because most people now tend to praise the "Spanish football school", which is in fact there's nothing to be said about. "La Furia" is a scam, IMHO. Football school is, say, the totaalvoetbal in 1974 with Netherlands, or Brazil '82. :)
Speaking of 1982, I read that Zoff said that his defense against a header from Falcão (?) which was over the goal line was "the most important defense of his entire life". :)
And of course Zoff was Juve too. :)
 
@PauloCereda That, I can't comment about. You know more about linguistics than I do about football :) I just like to watch the big international matches like this.
 
@AlanMunn :) Do you know this Portuguese saying: "Três coisas não se discutem: religião, futebol e política."
 
@PauloCereda Probably wise advice. Here it's just the first and the third.
 
@PauloCereda A save at the last minute: with a draw Brazil would have advanced. We were 3:2 at that moment: Paolo Rossi, Socrates, Paolo Rossi, Falcão, Paolo Rossi. That last head shot was by Oscar.
 
@egreg Ah, Oscar! One of the greatest battles in the football history. :)
 
10:38 PM
Rossi scored also twice against Poland in the semifinal and the first goal in the final.
 
@egreg: speaking of Falcão, one of his epic goals: youtube.com/watch?v=DMWj8yExx4A :)
 
@PauloCereda Great player. Even if he played for Roma. :)
 
@egreg Oh I forgot about that. :) It's not my fault that Juve never had Brazilian players. :P
Oh, you had Felipe Mello, but I mean good players. :)
@egreg: The Agnelli family could contract Thiago Motta. :P
 
@PauloCereda Altafini played for Juve
 
@egreg Really?! He was a great player. My dad told me that since the Brazilian team didn't called him for the 1962 World Cup, Italy called him. :)
@egreg: Thankfully, Altafini came from a great team to a great team: from Palmeiras to Juve. :)
 
10:47 PM
The first Brazilian to play for Juve was Paolo Sernagiotto, from Palestra Italia, in 1932. :) The best Brazilian were Altafini and Julio César. Altafini indeed played for Italy.
 
Hey, I know that team!
:)
 
@PauloCereda Altafini came to Italy to play for Milan; then he went to Napoli where he met Sivori, who had been dumped by Juve (great player, but difficult character) and Zoff.
 
@egreg Ah. :)
 
Comments like this one are very rewarding: tex.stackexchange.com/a/61491/4427
 
user19161
oging off topic here - but then it outlines with my main problemin researching: not everyone who writes beautiful code with maximum efficiency is able to document too. People writing manuals with a solid knowledge of the topic are even more rare. An answer like this stands out as an example. At least for me. — el_olmo 16 mins ago
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10:55 PM
Let me paste it here for the record!
 
@egreg How nice! You really deserve such nice words. :)
 
@JasperLoy Thanks, Jasper.
 
user19161
The trick is to right click on the time there and copy the link location to bring comments into chat.
 
Bed time. Ciao!
 
@egreg Buonanotte! :)
 
11:11 PM
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Q: Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

GManNickGHere is a piece of code that shows some very peculiar performance. For some strange reason, sorting the data miraculously speeds up the code by almost 6x: #include <algorithm> #include <ctime> #include <iostream> int main() { // generate data const unsigned arraySize =...

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Cool, and a pretty informative answer.
 

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