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1:00 PM
@badp Yeah, I know I can participate. It's just that, with a community bulletin and all you'd expect a few more people to join in. Is there a rep limit?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I have no idea. Sockpuppet is a GO!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone 100 is relatively a lot. Also lol community bulletin
 
86 reputation is enough to get reviewing
 
100 reputation is a lot?
 
It's probably either 1 rep or enough rep to upvote
 
1:02 PM
@kalina Yes. Yes it is.
 
@kalina 100 reviewers
 
The first 100 reps are the hardest 100 reps.
 
@badp hardly, 100 reputation is the association bonus, it's hardly a lot
@BenBrocka 100 reviewers?
 
@kalina You need 200 to get the association bonus.
 
I got 108 rep on my first day on arqade
 
1:03 PM
@kalina Arqade had ~100 reviewers for the community evaluation thingy
 
So you still have to make the 0-200 climb once, when you're young and confused and bewildered and people close your questions and delete your answers.
 
and 238 rep on my second day on arqade
 
@kalina How much are you gaining daily now?
 
@badp 0-20
 
well, were, when you were active :P
 
1:04 PM
due to being completely inactive
 
@badp And we walked in the snow, barefooted, uphill, both ways
 
when I was active, rep capping every day I wanted to
 
yeah.
 
actually I didn't go through the "people closing my questions" phase
my first contribution to arqade was an argument with lesspop
followed by me joining chat to argue some more
how times change, eh?
 
@kalina You still argue
 
1:05 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I see what you did there
 
@kalina They grow up so fast, they retire when they're months old aready
 
@badp yes, exactly
considering I don't have one yet
by my reckoning, I could quit now and still get a yearling badge every year from now on
 
@kalina It's kind of shiny, isn't it? I've collected quite a few of those
 
Quitting just like you quit Guild Wars
 
@OrigamiRobot I didn't quit Guild Wars, I was replaced.
 
1:07 PM
Because you quit.
 
I had nearly forgiven you for it as well, but then you just bought it up again
so now I hate you again
die.
I was enjoying playing as well, despite having to completely break my sleeping pattern so I could play it with you
I take one week off to catch up on sleep and you replace me
unforgivable transgressions
 
That's what happens when you inexplicably disappear.
 
I didn't inexplicably disappear
I said I'd be sleeping more
you ignored me
you ignoring me makes it your problem
you've caused unfathomable levels of hurt to me
and yet you don't know when to stop
I CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP AT NIGHT BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTIONS
2
 
I have no problem. I am still playing.
 
Well, I replaced you with EVE online
EVE online is more fun than you'll ever be
 
1:11 PM
@OrigamiRobot No. Do you?
 
My father is stalking me on the Internet.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone at least it's only your father
It could be much much worse.
 
I'm surprised he's not fallen asleep yet.
Like I said, my Facebook timeline is populated almost entirely by automated IFTTT messages
He's pulling up my Google+ profile now. I used to take pictures for my co-curricula activity, and upload them on Picasa. When G+ was launched the photos got merged into my G+ account
He's looking at them now. The photos are all universally awful, because 1. I'm a crappy photographer and 2. The places where I'm asked to shoot at are usually also the places with very poor lighting (competition venues, prize giving ceremonies)
 
@StrixVaria I'm trying to get rid of one.
 
I still took the job though. It's the only way I could get out of even crappier jobs
 
user15026
1:18 PM
Showed up for a medical test. Just about died getting here in a snowstorm. They have no record that I am supposed to be here.
 
I think if I had to live in Canada I'd just curl up inside the house everyday during winter
Hibernation works for the bears. Should work for me too.
 
user15026
Yeah I really wanted to just hibernate today. University is closed, so today would have been a perfect sleep in day.
 
user15026
Instead I am sitting at a hospital while people try to figure out what to do with me because no one thinks I should be here.
 
 
@badp 1 in 4 users have 1 rep exactly?
 
1:27 PM
I admit to being wrong. It's not so much that it's hard getting the first hundred reps, it's hard getting the first ten reputation points to begin with.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone 28k users out of ~120k daily visitors isn't 1/4 but, eh, rounding
 
Because if you're looking at a cumulative graph shouldn't 1 rep be 100%?
@badp I'm not sure if that's a good way of calculating things
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Signing up is a hurdle. 3 in 4 people never bother.
 
I don't see why you should even consider the people who are "just passing by". Remember that the end goal for SE sites is to have ~95% of traffic driven by search engines.
Doesn't mean 95% of them are going to be unregistered, but it should be close
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Does the requirement to sign up exclude people from using a certain feature or does it not?
I realize you can't really compare 120k/day with 28k since ever
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone google does better search, especially for SO that many registered users find answers through google
 
1:31 PM
You give me better numbers, I'll be glad to use them
 
@badp I liked the logarithmic scale posted a few months back
 
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Q: Red Mushrooms in Cosmic Split

axrwkrWhat is the difference between the red and green mushrooms in cosmic split? I stumbled across this screenshot that features a few red mushrooms near the top.

 
Here's the scale without the rather bogus ~120k
The numbers are uglier this way but oh well :P
 
Can someone fill up meebleforp.com/contact to test if it works?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I only get the first drop down
granted I only selected the pony option
OH I SEE
 
1:37 PM
You can... fill up the form?
 
nevermind
the form was the same colour as the background, it did not immediately register that I could click on it
I was too mesmerised by the pony
 
Well, either the form filling system didn't work or it exploded @YiJiang'sEvilClone's computer and he's failing as a result to report back to us.
Also, I'd nudge the +65 thing one pixel or two downwards
...once your computer is done exploding.
Torgue computers are best computers.
 
I have found what I am doing for the rest of my day
filling out @YiJiang'sEvilClone's contact form
YES!
I BROKE IT
Unhandled Exception

Message:

Address in mailbox given [hello'); drop database cake;] does not comply with RFC 2822, 3.6.2.
Location:

/home/yijiang/bundles/messages/swiftmailer/classes/Swift/Mime/Headers/MailboxHeader.php on line 352
Stack Trace:

#0 /home/yijiang/bundles/messages/swiftmailer/classes/Swift/Mime/Headers/MailboxHeader.php(264): Swift_Mime_Headers_MailboxHeader->_assertValidAddress('hello'); drop d...')
#1 /home/yijiang/bundles/messages/swiftmailer/classes/Swift/Mime/Headers/MailboxHeader.php(108): Swift_Mime_Headers_MailboxHeader->normalizeMailboxes(Array)
victory, my work here is done
-.-
 
> where to buy cosplay dress in philippines?
> How To Apply Cornstarch To a Heat Rash?
 
@kalina why did you expect a mail form to go through a SQL statement?
 
1:46 PM
> Why is my poop green? (a bit gross)?
 
@badp could have been storing them in a database, you don't know that
 
@OrigamiRobot You're a zombie.
 
it's a good job it's not with that lack of sanity checking!
 
@kalina I agree it's a possibility.
 
@OrigamiRobot Why are you still looking at that site?
 
1:48 PM
good mid-afternoon, @fbueckert
 
> Can I be "well rounded" without sports?
 
@kalina Good morning.
 
@kalina Thanks, but the form doesn't go to a SQL database
 
@fbueckert It was still on my work browser.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's still broken, don't take my small victory away from me
 
1:49 PM
> Does cowboy magic help hair growth?
 
If I don't break at least 5 things a day, I'm unhappy
 
@OrigamiRobot You should fix that.
 
I can wrap it in a try catch block and just reject anything that causes the mailer to throw an error
 
well you could
or you could make it check that the contents of the box follows the rfc
 
@kalina Yeah... no
 
1:51 PM
@fbueckert NOPE.AVI
> Is it ok for my cat to have a couple licks of vanilla ice cream?
> So I went to my doctor and he can't find anything wrong?
 
Look, RFC 2822 is the email address specification. To try to validate that is madness
 
...but you already do validate it!
or at least so claims PHP
 
The SwiftMailer class validates it. I don't want to touch SwiftMailer, not with a 10 foot pole
 
Simply custom build a finite state automaton to consume the email address. Couldn't be simpler
 
> for goodness sakes, No one in Religion listens to me?
 
1:53 PM
@OrigamiRobot Why is Aurelia's Fury worth so much for a single? It doesn't look that good.
 
@StrixVaria Hype.
 
It has gone down in price since I last checked by like $3.
 
Quite cute too.
I could try using HTML5 client side validation though
 
2:02 PM
> Could the Duct Tape be to prevent bugs & insects from mouth & nostrils?
 
@OrigamiRobot What are you quoting here?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone bla bla
 
> Why doesn't Yahoo Answers take better care of their top contributors?
 
Randomly generated content created using Markov chains?
 
> can guys wear fbt shorts straight cut at home?
 
2:07 PM
There we go, client side validation is done. See, this newfangled HTML5 nonsense has some use after all
 
> Can someone accidentally become a fan of someone else?
 
> How do I perform a GET on 4chan?
@OrigamiRobot I just came to do this too
The streets will run red with terrible questions
 
@BenBrocka The streets are already running red as our eyes are bleeding from those terrible questions and I would like to unsubscribe from your newsletter
 
@BenBrocka I think we have some kind of disease.
 
2:10 PM
@BenBrocka They sound like question titles scraped from Y! Answers. The site generates revenue by filling in the 'related links' section below each question with spam
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Does that appear before you even stop typing?
 
No, it appears only when you try to submit the form
 
@BenBrocka Shame early, shame often.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, I noticed the spam links, the one time the "question" page actually loaded
> Is the anonymis that protects wikileaks the same anonymis that is afiliated with 4chan?
 
The validation is done by the browser. I only had to add type="email" to the form
 
2:11 PM
@BenBrocka The "webmaster" will be oh so giddy from all the traffic you're bringing in
@YiJiang'sEvilClone No worries, I'll just grab a copy of Internet Explorer 6
 
Geez, are we still talking about that kopea site?
 
...or 7 or 8 or 9 or probably even 10.
 
@badp 10 is the first IE that supports this
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Where can I buy Pooh stuffed toys in Singapore?
 
@OrigamiRobot Try Build-a-Bear?
They recently opened a store here
 
2:14 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone You should post that as an answer.
 
Pooh-stuffed toys?! Disgusting
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Q: How can I make my lapotronic charge pad charge faster?

fredleyIt takes ages to charge my GraviChestPlate while standing on a Lapotronic charge pad. Are there upgrades that will make it faster? Overclocker? Efficiency?

With these minecraft mod questions sometimes it's really hard to tell if people are just making stuff up or it's real
 
@BenBrocka That one's real :P
 
@OrigamiRobot You're doing the same thing I do when I'm running through meta.SO.
 
And the LoL/Dota questions are even worse
 
@SaintWacko Quite a bit of our crap LoL questions come from the promotions we had about it.
 
2:18 PM
@fbueckert Yeah, I remember every time those hit there would be a flood of questions -.-
 
@fbueckert MSO is funny. Someone posted two "I got answer banned pls helps" within like an hour this morning
 
We actually gave people stuff to come here and ask LoL questions, when the general community consensus about LoL is, "Yuck. Go away."
 
@BenBrocka Did they then get question banned?
 
@SaintWacko I sure hope so
 
Nah, two posts isn't enough
 
2:19 PM
It'd be hard to tell without their complaining though
 
@fbueckert Seems like poor planning
 
Anyone here who plays ingress?
 
Besides, the question ban criterion on MSO is set much much higher
 
And yeah, LoL questions are annoying
 
I've heard 2 posts can be enough if they're both craaaaazy bad
 
2:20 PM
@Ladineko I have it but don't get to use it much
 
@SaintWacko I think they were going for increasing the userbase.
 
@Ladineko sort of. But I'm stuck on the training mission
 
@BenBrocka It's a wonder how many people prefer finding the link to meta, the ask form and the filling thereof to clicking the one link in the error message
so much for "path of least resistance"
 
But the return on investment was crazy low; none of the new people stuck around.
 
@badp "Guize this message said read this link what should I do"
 
2:20 PM
@BenBrocka The hacking a portal one?
 
Can any of you two tell me how long it normally takes before i get an invite?
 
@fbueckert Just wham, bam, thank you ma'am sort of thing? :P
 
Speaking of Ingress, anybody got an invite they can throw my way?
 
@Ladineko Weeks
 
@SaintWacko collect XM, it's been too cold and too rainy to do a trip around the blocks, and it doesn't seem to actually collect any XM when I'm just checking in/normal routine
 
2:21 PM
@Ladineko Took me a month or so
@BenBrocka Ah, yeah
 
Damn :(
 
@Ladineko was like 2 weeks for me
 
It makes you actually move to do it
 
I maxed out my XM in a single commute
 
@SaintWacko While the app is open I assume?
 
2:21 PM
Now I just have nothing to spend it on
 
@badp For the training?
@BenBrocka Right
 
Ingress is a game you basicly have to into the real world and do stuff?
 
I wish it could sit in the background and collect XM
 
@badp Mine doesn't appear to collect XM during my commute. But I don't leave my phone in the ap
 
@SaintWacko It's, "Contest!" Go ask stupid crappy questions, get them all closed. Don't win contest, decide Arqade sucks because obviously their questions are awesome and nothing is wrong with them, leave and never come back.
 
2:22 PM
@Ladineko Virtue reality location based MMO thingy
 
@BenBrocka Yeah, the app must be active
 
But yeah, that
Should I get The Witcher 2 for $10?
 
@badp So if I leave it on the app and drive will it collect XM? Or will it stop immediately when the phone locks?
 
@BenBrocka Sounds like a good question to ask!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Isn't it, "Augmented reality"?
 
2:23 PM
@BenBrocka I don't know, but there's XM to be found only in cities anyway
 
@fbueckert Yes
 
(afaik)
 
@fbueckert "Argumented reality" is where the app takes the view from the camera and adds stuff to it, right?
 
Yay, most of our staff called in because of the snow. Why am I at work again?
 
@Powerlord To earn dough?
 
2:24 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Well, to a degree, yes.
 
@Powerlord because snow is constantly falling on your rather festive hat anyway.
 
But Argumented Reality takes your real world, and makes you defend it against implausible and idiotic arguments.
 
@badp yeah, I've noticed the non-training mission XM is mostly around landmarks I don't drive past. I'm all in-city anyway
 
Is there any way to speed up the ingress invite progress?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, but there's nearly half a foot of snow on the roads!
 
2:25 PM
@fbueckert So it's like a tag discussion on The Bridge
 
@badp My Buckaroo's Cap is festive?
 
Honestly Ingress isn't great, because once you are at the game landmarks, it's just a matter of tapping buttons until you can tap no more, there's nothing else to it and no skill involved.
 
@Powerlord Well somebody's gotta dem doughs, nay?
 
@BenBrocka Yeah, except it's all automated against you.
 
@Powerlord Everything is more festive if you call it a cap
 
2:25 PM
@Powerlord Only six inches?
 
@badp It does get you out of the house, right?
I mean, that's something :P
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone No, it doesn't.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone This is the point I see to it :P
 
But even for that there's that zombie run app
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not in winter it sure doesn't
 
2:27 PM
The fun part is, with both our secretary/administrative assistants calling in, the person with the least seniority gets to answer phones. Want to guess who that is?
 
> The microtransaction store has been updated with a range of cosmetic Scorpion Pets and Valentine's Heart - a weapon effect that impales a bleeding, beating heart on your sword, dagger or wand. This heart is only available for sale until January 15. These can be viewed in the "Newly Added" section of the shop on pathofexile.com.
HOW ROMANTIC
 
@fbueckert I fail to see the issue here.
 
Please tell me the "cosmetic scorpion pet" is a makeup compact with scorpion limbs
There's a big difference between a cosmetic scorpion pet and a cosmetic scorpion pet
 
@OrigamiRobot No issue. You've got the whole, "What did I just read!?" vibe going. Helps you recover from trauma faster.
 
@BenBrocka Pets come in various options pathofexile.com/shop/category/new-items
(10 coins ~= $1)
 
2:30 PM
lame
 
@BenBrocka The stinger is lipstick and the claws are those scary looking eyelash curler things.
 
so yeah, the lightning scorpion is just a mere $100 "micro" transaction away
 
@OrigamiRobot yes
 
@fbueckert Yeah, but basically every school district in the area is closed today
 
@badp Jesus christ
 
2:31 PM
I don't know what's so micro about that transaction though.
 
@Powerlord Geez, what I'd give to have the city come to a screeching halt because of six inches of snow.
 
@fbueckert We do that at one inch.
 
Anyway, the average rainfall here is around... 2.3m per year. Thunderstorms occur on 40% of all days says Wikipedia.
 
And the other thing is, the last time I came to work during a day we started with a lot of snow, it snowed an additional 13" while I was at work.
Which I not only got to drive home in, but my car got stuck at the end of my driveway.
 
The only time I have seen more than like 5" is when I went to Michigan for a few days.
 
2:34 PM
@Powerlord I've had that happen.
 
@OrigamiRobot Michigan? What a coincidence, that's where I live.
 
Sometimes, if it's late and you don't feel like shovelling, you just backup, ram the drifts as hard as you can, and either you get through, or you get stuck. Either way, shovelling is for another day.
 
@Powerlord There was a huge hill behind the hotel that my dad and I made a slide out of.
 
I'd want one of these, if it wouldn't turn into a moth
 
2:35 PM
@BenBrocka Or if the spines weren't poisonous
 
I read '5"' and the first thing that came to mind was "that's not very big"
2
 
@BenBrocka Instant chinese holiday!
 
@badp Actually, Chinese holiday decoration are usually red
or orange
 
@kalina Typical
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Now, now, I'm sure this can be fixed.
 
2:36 PM
@OrigamiRobot sorry
 
@badp I don't think caterpillars take very kindly to paint
 
obviously I have to follow up with FAE's "It gets bigger when you play with it?"
 
@kalina It's enough to turn the roads into a bumper car arena*!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone A minor detail
 
*I used to use the term "ice skating rink"
 
2:37 PM
oh are you talking about snow?
 
@kalina Yes
I won't ask what you thought I was talking about
 
well that completely changes my perspective on this conversation
 
I'm glad cats aren't poisonous. They're not good at keeping their pointy bits to themselves
 
@Powerlord I hope that's because you don't have to ask
 
@badp this
 
2:38 PM
@BenBrocka Depends on what they've been dipping/digging their pointy bits into.
 
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Q: How can I make my lapotronic charge pad charge faster?

fredleyIt takes ages to charge my GraviChestPlate while standing on a Lapotronic charge pad. Are there upgrades that will make it faster? Overclocker? Efficiency?

 
did they change the style of the flag pop up btw?
 
oh good
 
Also that of the close vote popup
 
2:39 PM
I thought I was suffering from extremely short term memory loss
 
They changed all popups (on site)
 
@kalina Oh, you are. You asked this yesterday.
 
Yup. They're all monochromatic now
 
gone is the red border of serious businessness.
 
@fbueckert oh
well I suppose that is plausible
 
2:40 PM
Even our resident man hating lady falls into male stereotypes.
 
@kalina (Totally kidding)
 
@fbueckert I know
I didn't even do a search to see if you were messing with me
all of you later time-zoned people missed my GnomeSlice post on meta too
 
@kalina I got pinged on it.
And I still don't care.
 
but you don't have 10k
so you can't see it
and I can't show you, because the fun police have been active too recently
 
@badp Fun police?
 
2:45 PM
@OrigamiRobot what do you mean?
 
er... I mean @kalina
 
@Powerlord badp is the fun police
 
@kalina Seriously though, it's stupid. If you want to show the post to people you could just take a screenshot with your 10k (TM) powers and post it here
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I.. maybe
 
@kalina Yes, that was the joke.
 
2:46 PM
@kalina Single mindedness.
 
@OrigamiRobot hardly, I have many things going on in my head
 
@kalina Yes, it shows.
 
just because whenever I see people using inch for measurements I think of a particular thing means nothing
@OrigamiRobot what are you suggesting?
 
@kalina I thought I was being clear, but then I remembered you only think of one thing.
 
@OrigamiRobot no, I just want clarification
you are so mean to me
all that time I spent saving you from being bad at gaming
and you can't even be nice to me
 
2:51 PM
@kalina I'm just trying to get a rise out of you.
 
I want this code to crash but it's not. WTF
 
@BenBrocka exit(1)
 
It's getting an error, I removed the try/catch, but it still silently fails. What in the hell
 
@OrigamiRobot I don't like you anymore
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I want it to crash with a reason
 
2:53 PM
@BenBrocka That's talented. Maybe a higher level try/catch?
 
@kalina I will always be your favorite robot.
 
@OrigamiRobot no you won't
you are nowhere near my favourite robot
 
@fbueckert It's the only try/catch in the subroutine
 
@BenBrocka Huh.
I love mystery code like that. "Why are not functioning the way you're supposed to!?"
 
Nov 27 '12 at 16:05, by pixel
@OrigamiRobot its ok, you're still the only robot made of folded paper for me
 
2:54 PM
I wouldn't think outside try/catches would affect it...but I don't know much about vb.net try statements either
 
@OrigamiRobot yes, that sentence clearly identifies a series of things that makes my other statement still valid
 
@BenBrocka If you're using Visual Studio, the output window will sometimes have error text dumped there.
I ran into that with some event wiring not working properly once. Was ready to chuck my computer out the window, as it looked like it was failing silently.
 
Yeah, it wasn't outputting any error text...though I have some now
the weird thing is the changes I made don't touch this function. And they happen AFTER this function. So I have no idea WTF is wrong with it
Stupid other people's code
 
@kalina It's ok, we both know the truth.
 
@BenBrocka Be glad it's not classic ASP.
 
2:57 PM
@OrigamiRobot I would demonstrate why you are not my favourite robot, but doing so would involve lowering the tone of the conversation
 
omg i just fell in love with a concept car :O
unfortunately i dont have the money for it :P
 
@kalina Your face is a tone.
 
@OrigamiRobot let me help you understand how much you are not my favourite robot anymore... do you want to join Retrosaur on ignore?
@GraceNote lol
 

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