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5:06 PM
What is this chat with an expert thingie?
 
 
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6:12 PM
@BobJansen It's an April Fool's joke.
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Q: What is "chat with an expert"?

AntonyA box just comes out of nowhere which says "chat with an expert". It happened once on Stack Overflow and once on Meta. Is this an ad? Isn't Meta supposed to have no ads? Here's the HTML for that weird box: <div id="adviza-box" style="width: 380px; "> <div id="adviza-status"> ...

And here is how you can trigger it on demand:
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A: Will the expert still be accessible in the future?

ManishearthFound this in the code: // Yes, dear person reading this, there's a secret trigger. But you'll have to // work a little bit to find out what it is. Challenge accepted So, here's a surefire trigger, that ought to work for a few days (until the code is pulled, which it probably won't be for a f...

 
7:11 PM
Doh!
 
7:26 PM
@BobJansen Personally, I wish this would trigger anytime someone asks "how I do become a quant?" or "what kind of programming language should I use?" Like some sort of smart filter that recognizes someone is about to ask a time-wasting question and then prevents it from going through by demanding that the noob talk to a robot.
 
8:02 PM
This could actually work
 

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