Charcoal HQ

Seth

12:00 AM

oh, btw, I voted for you in the SO election @Undo :)

syb0rg

@Undo It looks like you are doing quite well in the moderator elections.

Seth

It looks like you'll make it past primaries.

syb0rg

@Seth Did you change your avatar?

Seth

@syb0rg Yes, for now. I was going to change it back earlier, but all my pictures of myself are underexposed and don't look good.. So I'm waiting a bit longer :P

Undo

@Seth Thanks :D

@syb0rg I'm doing much better than I figured, TBH

hichris123

12:03 AM

@Seth How's the AU primaries going?

syb0rg

@Seth Yeah, I don't have enough rep on AU to vote for you :(

hichris123

Can you run this on the page, @Seth?

syb0rg

@Undo You have a Code Review account with no activity?

Undo

@syb0rg Yep

I have lots of accounts with no activity.

hichris123

Do flags count? :P

syb0rg

12:05 AM

@Undo What is the point of them then?

Undo

@syb0rg Voting, flagging, etc.

Seth

@syb0rg That's OK :)

syb0rg

@Undo Idk, maybe it's just me, but in order for me to create an account on a site, I will have to be active on it. More than just voting and flagging. I guess I get your reason.

kalina

@syb0rg 25 edits is all it takes

Seth

@hichris123 gimme a min..

Undo

12:07 AM

@syb0rg Often it's spam on the site that I want to spam-flag. But yeah, I don't like to make accounts if I'm not going to be really active.

Seth

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  2. Mitch                [  122] ( 32k rep, 1635 helpful flags)
  3. Thomas W.            [   75] ( 10k rep, 1623 helpful flags)
  4. Braiam               [   60] ( 16k rep, 2854 helpful flags)
  5. Mateo                [   23] (  3k rep, 1329 helpful flags)
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  7. blade19899           [   10] (  4k rep,   82 helpful flags)
  8. Amith KK             [    4] (  4k rep,  164 helpful flags)

@hichris123 --^

I should run that on SO :D

Undo

@Seth Awesome. Things are going perfectly :D

syb0rg

@Undo You should put up the SmokeDetector for review. You are a co-developer, aren't you?

Undo

@syb0rg What do you mean up for review?

Seth

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  2. bluefeet             [ 1871] ( 96k rep,21065 helpful flags)
  3. Jon Clements         [ 1048] ( 44k rep,  811 helpful flags)
  4. Undo                 [  967] (  5k rep, 3846 helpful flags)
  5. Matt                 [  815] ( 34k rep, 3909 helpful flags)
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hichris123

12:09 AM

@Seth I wonder who's winning... :P

Seth

SO results

Undo

I'm kinda a co-developer in that I could push to it, but it's more @ManishEarth's and @hichris123's project.

syb0rg

@Undo Post the source to Code Review as a question.

Undo

oh

syb0rg

Sorry, I'm too used to the CR lingo over in their chat room.

ManishEarth

12:09 AM

@syb0rg blah, the code sucks and I know it, but I have bigger fish to catch

Seth

It's looking bad for Madara Uchiha :-/

ManishEarth

I first need to improve the underlying wrapper

Seth

@Undo @hichris123 Primaries doesn't mean I'll win ;)

I still have to answer all those hard questions on meta :S

Undo

@Seth When you win primaries by a landslide you probably will.

And the questions aren't that hard.

When in doubt, just say you'll ask the mod team.

Seth

No they aren't terribly hard.

Harder election this year since there are only 2 positions available.

kalina

12:11 AM

@Undo this

syb0rg

@Undo Lol, I definitely read you say that in your answers.

Undo

yup :D

syb0rg

I really wish CR would graduate so we could have our elections.

I feel like we are really close.

Undo

You are

ManishEarth

@hichris123 @Undo progress on graphy thingies?

(For the rest of you: projects.wncc-iitb.org/election.json)

Undo

12:13 AM

@ManishEarth I currently have another project.

(read: I don't feel like it right now)

ManishEarth

ah

lol

syb0rg

Just wondering, why is the SmokeDetector running on the Chemistry beta chat room?

hichris123

@ManishEarth Er... hichris.erwaysoftware.com/electiongraph.php

ManishEarth

@hichris123 graph broked?

or data broked?

hichris123

@ManishEarth Yeah, I have the feeling it's something to do with the JSON... not sure.

kalina

12:16 AM

@Seth yeah sorry about those

if it's any consolation, some of my best ones are being asked on SO as well

ManishEarth

@hichris123 the JSON parses for me

@hichris123 note that the format is different, you'll have to do some converting on your side

hichris123

@ManishEarth Mm... what?

syb0rg

@kalina Ahh, I thought I recognized you. Weren't you in the Arqade elections?

ManishEarth

Ask @Undo for the postid-username-reputation details

syb0rg

@Undo How do you know?

kalina

12:18 AM

@syb0rg that isn't my key distinguishing feature, but yes, I was

ManishEarth

@hichris123 So, the JSON is a list of objects, indexed by timestamps

Undo

@syb0rg Because I lurk.

ManishEarth

Each object is a list of +/- votecounts, indexed by postid

syb0rg

@kalina That's where I recognize you from lol. I joined the Arqade site, answered two or three questions, and voted.

ManishEarth

@hichris123 so you'll have to convert that format (do some addition on the vote counts) to one which the graph will accept, basically one data series for each user

hichris123

12:19 AM

@ManishEarth Is there an easy way to convert that to net votes?

ManishEarth

@hichris123 add

hichris123

sigh

ManishEarth

@hichris123 what format do you need?

Undo

Uhm... you mean subtract?

ManishEarth

yeah, that

:P

I can give you an easy converter

hichris123

12:20 AM

@ManishEarth Anything HighCharts will let me use...

ManishEarth

which is...

hichris123

I could do a PHP array of the values, and show that.

ManishEarth

@hichris123 alright, got the format

hichris123

Yeah...

@ManishEarth What is it?

ManishEarth

@hichris123 I'll write conversion PHP

hichris123

12:23 AM

Ok, thanks!

ManishEarth

@hichris123 got a quick list of postids and usernames?

hichris123

@ManishEarth No... I can dig it up though.

ManishEarth

@hichris123 already on it :p

hichris123

You're ahead of me.

:P

Pingy me when you're done @Manish.

ManishEarth

12:40 AM

@hichris123 Alright, won't be able to do it easily, picked up the wrong highcharts thing

Could you try?

<?php
$json=json_decode(file_get_contents("http://projects.wncc-iitb.org/election.json"));
$finalobj=array();
$midobj=array();
$users=array(21687052 => 'Raghav Sood',21688166 => 'bluefeet',21688827 => 'Jeroen Vannevel',21687117 => 'vcsjones',21687291 => 'Undo',21689830 => 'Doorknob',21690998 => 'hexafraction',21688429 => 'meagar',21687869 => 'Rob',21718555 => 'Siddharth Rout',21820676 => 'The Wobbuffet',21686985 => 'Jon Clements',21708189 => 'Matt',21744504 => '0x7fffffff',21764746 => 'Sergey K.',21687943 => 'Wooble',21687524 => 'FreshPrinceOfSO',21820647 => 'Dukeling',21690779 => 'slugster…

that's what I came up with till now

you basically have to foreach through it and rebuild the array

gtg

hichris123

Okay, cya. Thanks.

ManishEarth

@hichris123 So basically the Xaxis needs to have the timestamps, and then you need an array of series, one per user

hichris123

@ManishEarth Yeah, I'll work on it in a few (15 or 20) minutes.

ManishEarth

great :) whenever you have time :)

I would do it myself, but I've got an exam to study for

hichris123

Yeah... schoolwork. :(

ManishEarth

12:48 AM

It's just an issue of reorganizing the data, but I don't really understand highcharts

hichris123

Neither do I. But Google is my friend. :P

syb0rg

@hichris123 What grade are you in?

hichris123

@syb0rg Um... I'm 13. :P 8th grade.

Undo

you are younger than me! :D

I was under the impression you were at least 16

hichris123

Yep. :)

syb0rg

12:56 AM

Whoa, nice.

hichris123

@Undo Um... wow. :P Thanks? :)

syb0rg

@Undo How old are you?

Undo

@hichris123 hehe

@syb0rg me is 14

syb0rg

All of you are so young, yet so mature

hichris123

I have a late birthday though (I'm like the second or third youngest in my grade).

ManishEarth

12:58 AM

@hichris123 13 year old and already lord of the graphs :p

syb0rg

@ManishEarth How old are you?

Undo

@syb0rg thanks ;)

ManishEarth

19

hichris123

@ManishEarth Again: Google is my friend. :P

syb0rg

@ManishEarth Ahh, now that's more on par with me.

ManishEarth

12:59 AM

@syb0rg But these guys do most of the dev work on the Charcoal org

hichris123

Well... I have more time, though. :)

Less schoolwork == more programming time.

ManishEarth

yeah

I don't have so much schoolwork per se

hichris123

Hiya @AndrewT.!

ManishEarth

Just burden myself with other things

syb0rg

@ManishEarth HOW?!

Andrew T.

1:00 AM

Hi @hichris123 , just coming from election post

kalina

@Undo if you want to max out your suggested edit approvals on SR... ;)

syb0rg

I'm always swamped with homework :P

ManishEarth

@syb0rg Physics major, like physics, like to study things beforehand, boom, half the subjects handled

And the other half are usually crappy subjects that I have to study for which I procrastinate

Undo

@kalina Hehe, I really don't know what to do with all the tag wiki suggestions.

ManishEarth

@syb0rg I'm in college.

Undo

1:01 AM

I thought I had it figured out then Robert came and changed all my views.

ManishEarth

Less homework. Occasional assignments

kalina

@Undo oh?

syb0rg

@ManishEarth Hmm. Is your location really in India?

ManishEarth

yeah, why?

kalina

I guess I'll have to stop for a bit then, before I cause a backlog

Undo

1:02 AM

Well, more he corrected me on how to suggest tag wiki edits. And now that I can approve them, I try to stick to his guidelines. Which is tough when you don't fully understand them.

@kalina Nah, you're fine.

ManishEarth

Not always been in India, but yes, for the past 6 years I have been

syb0rg

@ManishEarth Just wondering. Sometimes people fake their location.

kalina

@Undo "fine"? It's got to be >40 by now

Undo

@kalina 27

syb0rg

@ManishEarth Where were you before then?

kalina

1:03 AM

interesting...

syb0rg

States?

Undo

Hiya @mbq!

ManishEarth

Oy! Co-mod! @mbq! :)

@syb0rg MA

Undo

@kalina So what I understand is that we want the excerpts to not tell what the tag is for, but what is should be used for. I.e. we want to make the tags meta.

hichris123

Where was this room linked to?

kalina

1:04 AM

@Undo the bulk of mine have that

Undo

@hichris123 My nomination

kalina

wait, excerpts

Undo

Yeah

kalina

is that the short one or the long one?

Undo

@kalina Short one.

hichris123

1:05 AM

@Undo Ah, that makes sense... we're going to way overthrow the Chem room now. :P

kalina

off I go editing some more then!

Undo

So instead of (taking one off the top of the queue) "An Internet Protocol-based computer network for sharing information and services inside an organisation.", we want it to be "Questions requesting programs involving Internet Protocol-based computer networks for sharing information and services inside an organisation."

I don't fully understand, of course. I'll be the first to admit that.

kalina

Does he only want "Use this tag for X" in the excerpt, or still an intro?

hichris123

@kalina I'd say this: if it's obvious, no intro. If it's more technical, and not everyone would know it, intro.

Undo

@kalina More a "use this tag for", as far as I can tell.

Andrew T.

1:06 AM

too many nominations to vote.. best of luck for you all

gtg!

Undo

@AndrewT. cya!

hichris123

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 24 secs ago, by hichris123

Why am I getting 503's on i.stack.imgur again?

@Undo You getting any 503's on i.stack.imgur?

kalina

@Undo try now

well, I have 3 more left to do and I'm sat in timeout waiting to click "ok"

Undo

Right now I'm making a thing for the election

hichris123

@Undo Um... what thing?

kalina

1:17 AM

np

hichris123

Are you doing my work for me? yay

Undo

@hichris123 A thing. You'll see.

No, not a graph

I got tired of the character limit

hichris123

Not. Vague. Enough.

Seth

2:11 AM

@Undo @hichris123 You're getting some free rep from your answer to the questions on MSO :P

hichris123

2:36 AM

@Seth Yep. And I like it. :P

Seth

@hichris123 lol

hichris123

And people are upvoting random things of mine... weird.

Doorknob

@hichris123 okay, so TheWob installed a script

which says "HAMMERTIME" every time someone ends a message with the word "stop"

and now we're trolling him and making him think he's being hacked :P

syb0rg

Hello @Doorknob.

Doorknob

hey @syb0rg

hichris123

2:42 AM

@Doorknob Wait really?

Doorknob

yes :P

look back a few messages

@hichris DANG IT! he refreshed :(

hichris123

It... stopped.

Doorknob

ahahaha it's a userscript

hichris123

@Doorknob It's back.

Seth

ROTFL

@Doorknob How did he install a script that does that without knowing?

Doorknob

2:45 AM

no idea :P

Seth

@Doorknob How do you know it is a script then?

Is this a practical joke?

Doorknob

because it auto-responds :P

hichris123

rofl

syb0rg

I'm so confused...

Welcome back @Undo

Seth

How does this work? Someone must know.

hichris123

2:47 AM

@Undo Heh. Just say stop. :P

Doorknob

(in the tavern :P put it at the end of your message) @Undo

and look back a few messages for context ;P

NOOOOOOO @Robert RUINED IT :P

hichris123

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 24 secs ago, by Robert Harvey

I guess nobody's figured out that using the word st*p triggers the thing.

sigh

> Edit

I notice this happens when someone says "stop". I'm pretty sure my account was hacked.

Doorknob

ahahahahaha

hichris123

I think you ought to just leave the children alone for awhile. — Robert Harvey 25 secs ago

rofl

Doorknob

@seth NOOOOOO

y u do this >:(

:P

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 31 secs ago, by Seth

!!/help

Seth

2:57 AM

I got sorry for him, and I wanted to prove it was a userscript.

But that was HILARIOUS

hichris123

@Seth sigh If I could, I'd kick you from this room. :P

Seth

@hichris123 :P

I posted it in the JS room xD

hichris123

Linky?

Seth

Seems like you saw it.

hichris123

Yep. Took me a while, though.

I was lazy. :P

hichris123

3:18 AM

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 51 secs ago, by Shog9

they may or may not already have been chosen

@Undo ^ In regard to PT mods on SR.

Seth

3:48 AM

Interesting.

Seth

4:02 AM

I got two stars in the JS room xD

Undo

@hichris123 huh, interesting.

hichris123

You're back @Undo.

ManishBot

6:31 AM

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kalina

9:50 AM

morning

ManishBot

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Doorknob

@ManishBot wat? why?

ManishBot

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Seth

5:38 PM

@Doorknob I'm pretty sure ManishEarth is running the bot in his browser window so..

Undo

uh-uh. It's headless.

Seth

so is it running on his computer or a server?

Same thing applies if it is his computer.

Undo

@Seth I dunno.

Seth

That's the only thing that can account for so many start/stops IMO.

Undo

I suppose

Seth

5:40 PM

shrug

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