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5:01 PM
Now I want a nap.
 
ooh ooh! me too! naps for everyone!
 
I am so tired today. I think I have a cold or something. I've just been wiped for days.
I even napped before going over to a friend's house for dinner on Sunday because I didn't think I could stay awake otherwise.
closes eyes and thinks about pillow for a minute
Okay, okay, more coffee, who wants more coffee?
 
drinking coffee
thinks about taking a shower
OK, I think I can get jQuery to work, as soon as I figure out how to point it at the right thing.
 
drinking shower, thinks about taking a coffee
 
Hmm.
I can't figure out how to find the custom control.
 
5:19 PM
It should be "#usercontrolid" right?
 
How do you call an engineer in English as a title?
Like Dr. something
'Ello BTW.
 
Morning. Unless they have a doctoral degree, they aren't referred to especially. Just Mr. or Ms.
 
Aha, thank you.
 
5:37 PM
@KitFox Oh man. I just clicked this - I don't know why I would do that - and I nostalgia'd so bad for those instant messenger noises...
 
Hahaha
Got you.
 
Another day, another useful answer.
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A: Why is New York City also called "the Big Apple"?

NoemieNoemie Bergeron is a secraitaire cochone

 
5:57 PM
Hooray! I did it!
I haz tryed jQry!
 
How was it? Tasty?
 
It took me forever to make it work. A whole like, hour or so.
 
@KitFox You should totally drop jQry and use jQuery.
 
This whole custom control thing is taking for-eh-ver.
 
Customs always takes forever.
 
6:03 PM
Now to see how well this sorter plugin works...
 
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Q: Contract metaphor

Charlie PigarelliEnglish is not my primary language but I'm "forced" to write code and code's comments in English. I'm now trying to develop a PHP code (doesn't really matter this aspect) like this: function divide($x, $y) {} Which describes a function that divide $x / $v. Now I want to be able to add a commen...

Naming variables.
 
He says it ain't. It's about writing the comment for the variables.
 
Yes, so?
The variables are called A and B, respectively.
> If you follow all the [A]s I'll guarantee you that [B] will be verified.
 
Yes, and?
 
You can't just refer to them in the comment as mama and papa, because nobody would know what you would be taking about.
But I suppose I'll let it be because I gotta run shop groceries.
I shall return!
 
6:08 PM
Okey dokey.
I shall eat CheezIts.
 
Actually now I think I understand the question, by which I mean that I understand it even less.
"What should I call preconditions and postconditions?" And the top answer is, "call them preconditions and postconditions". Fantastic.
 
"As long as you do what you are supposed to, I guarantee that it will do what it is supposed to."
 
it's the joy of not knowing when you're right
 
Jan 3 at 20:43, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
Now you just don't make sense. It is always New York. Even in the rare corner cases that it isn't.
Oh there's a comment!
> Yep, sorry, but I'd like not to use PRE/Precondition or POST/Postcondition for a trauma closely related to these words I got recently (not kidding). And I'd love to be more metaphor-likely using abstract words referring to the contract itself. Maybe something formal
Well sorry, this is off-topic.
I know the words but I don't like them, let's brainstorm metaphors!
 
Guess where this is:
 
6:14 PM
Dover!
 
No :D It's your new favourite programming language library
 
Somewhere awesome!
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Jay Quarry, yeah :D
 
6:15 PM
@MattЭллен what? that's a thing?
 
a quarry called Jay I suppose
@MrShinyandNew安宇 found it on flickr
 
Well what do you know.
 
I wonder what other places in the world correspond to programming frameworks.
 
And Moleskine LEGO notebooks are coming!
 
@aediaλ I've seen these. Basically: It's a notebook, with a lego plate attached. That's it.
 
Yeah, but I love moleskines. I am a notebook addict. Well, a blank notebook addict. I'm really really bad at finishing filling them.
 
7:16 PM
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A: Why are Roman numerals still used?

Kaila MartinRoman Numerals can be used for Super Bowls like the one in 2002. you can also use Roman numerals for a test of numbering your paper you can calculate up the numerals to get larger numbers and also you can do very long hard working research about it and you can invent something like Roman Numerals...

I do wonder, what was so special about the Super Bowl in 2002?
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 it was symmetrical! also, in roman numerals you could spell it MIIM, which is also symmetrical
 
It was the best palindromic year ever?
 
@JSBᾶngs So M =2 and I = 0, but I wander what is V and X thx.
 
@JSBᾶngs Nah that's like a messed up 1998 again, innit?
 
@aediaλ I'm wondering that as well. Last I checked order didn't matter for the Roman language, but very much it did for their numbers.
I parse MIIM as "1002 1000".
 
7:23 PM
@aediaλ theoretically you could write numerals in any order, except for the IV thing, but that only worked for things which are exactly one magnitude less than what follows
ie you cannot write 999 as IM
it has to be CMXCIX
 
Mar 24 '11 at 16:03, by Robusto
Curiouser and curiouser.
 
Ah right. I thought you couldn't subtract the ones from the thousands.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 1002 + 1000 = 2002. QED.
 
@JSBᾶngs I don't see a plus there.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 look harder
maybe there's something wrong with your monitor
 
7:25 PM
I don't see a plus in MIIM.
 
or you have insufficient font support for roman numerals
 
My font support even manages to cope with your name.
And look, I posted some Klingon earlier today.
 
pfff, Klingon
 
I can even type Dschömann.
@JSBᾶngs Yeah yeah big boy now go say that to a Klingon.
I'm still perusing the Wikipedia article on Roman numerals and so far I'm seeing zero support for your wild theories.
> When smaller values precede larger values, the smaller values are subtracted from the larger values, and the result is added to the total.
So MIIM would be 1998.
Further supported by this:
> For example, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology could find no authority that could describe if the year 1999 should be written as MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII, MCMXCIX, or MIM
Ah!
> "I" can be subtracted from "V" and "X" only
There we go.
Well then the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology is 1/3 stupid.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 my understanding was that this also applied up the scale so that you can't use, eg XM to represent 990
 
7:33 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 No wait. That's an additional rule that has been applied only recently.
 
the rules for roman numerals have changed recently?
 
Yeah those are rules we made, but which don't seem to have historical basis, it sez
 
@JSBᾶngs According to Wikipedia, yes.
> Despite the lack of standardization, an additional set of rules has been frequently applied for the last few hundred years
 
i demand a refund
 
They do seem to be the ones I learned in school, or at least look pretty familiar
I remember about not subtracting more than one thing
 
7:34 PM
Yeah them's also the ones we used in our programming classes.
Or every CS student ever.
 
So @JSB at least lines up with my fifth grade education
I don't think I ever used Roman numerals in CS, actually
 
@aediaλ It's an excercise for noobs.
 
If I did, it's lost to the dim recesses of memory, along with assembly
 
"Write a program in pseudo code that converts Roman to legible."
 
Ah. I were one once though, but I suppose I had to do something else, like make a calendar
 
7:36 PM
Damn I must do laundry. BRB.
 
Hello EL&U - was there a screenshot taken of the "Help me spam people" question before it was deleted?
 
@tombull89 i don't know, but it's visible to people with > 10K rep
 
7:54 PM
Haha what the
 
@JSBᾶngs oh, wow. I've seen poor attempts at spamming on ServerFault but never that bad.
Thanks.
 
Oh man. I didn't even see that one.
Lots of treasures I'm missing today huh.
 
@aediaλ Here's a treasure for you:
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A: Where did the expression "bear bones" come from?

Mark BeadlesIt's "bare bones" - as in, the summary is just the bones and is not fleshed out.

If you don't appreciate it fully, check out the comment on it.
 
You're killing me, @Reg, you're killing me!
I accidentally found this
 
Accidentally, huh.
See, I have never accidentally found that.
 
8:01 PM
I was looking for bear bones.
 
my brother and i found actual bear bones when we were going into the woods looking for a christmas tree
 
"bear bones ferocious skeleton attack" is a really weird image search, seriously
 
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A: Is it "bear" or "bare" with me?

Ami “Bear with me,” the standard expression, is a request for forbearance or patience. “Bare with me” would be an invitation to undress. Source

These were the days when simply copypasting a witty quote from elsewhere would give you 570 reps.
 
@JSBᾶngs Eeek!
 
While posting basically the same witty comment as, well, a comment, would get you 13 upticks and your account deleted.
 
8:08 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 Yes. It's perfect in its own way.
 
@aediaλ my brother has also photographed wolves near his house
so in case anyone wants to be eaten by wolves, i can hook you up
 
I think I would be too terrified to photograph wolves... or is this with a non-attended camera?
 
these are actually w/ a wildlife cam, so he wasn't physically there
 
Really freaking cool, though.
 
however, he has been physically on the lake when a pack of wolves walked out onto the ice about a half-mile away
anyway, i'm off for the evening
see y'all later
 
8:18 PM
CU
 
@JSBᾶngs Night!
 
 
1 hour later…
9:23 PM
@Reg: Who to fight?
 
9:36 PM
@Robusto Samurai
 
Already spent on them.
 
Good.
I'll minispend.
 
@JSBᾶngs I was raised by wolves. I don't need to go back to that.
 
9:54 PM
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A: What form of verb is "thank" in "thank you"?

darrenthankyou is an adjective, it describe some sort of action,eventhough the acton is not technically seen. the action is understood in your barin. i.e giving thamks

This should be downvoted mercilessly.
Also, questions that are older than a week should be autoprotected or something.
 
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Q: What's the english translation of this beautiful quote?

Adele JonsonSaint-Exupéry écrit dans Terre des hommes : « Etre homme, c'est précisément être responsable. C'est connaître la honte en face d'une misère qui ne semblait pas dépendre de soi. C'est être fier d'une victoire que les camarades ont remportée. C'est sentir, en posant sa pierre, que l'on contribue à ...

 
 
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11:35 PM
@aediaλ Very cute. Somehow I think that is what Reg looks like.
 

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