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studiohack

21:00

@iglvzx CO fires are nothing compared to what's here

Simon Sheehan

bahaha

nhinkle

Only 2 nominations so far? Come on, people! Get writing!

Simon Sheehan

@nhinkle 3 ;)

nhinkle

=D

studiohack

> I know a lot, but I'm not Jon Skeet.

way to be humble @SimonSheehan :P

Simon Sheehan

21:04

Now that exams and stuff are done, time to get back into the swing of things

@studiohack oh dear, let me reword that haha, i didnt exactly proofread it

studiohack

@SimonSheehan I was just giving you a hard time hahaha

nhinkle

Sounds about right to me.

studiohack

when I get some photos up of the fires and such on my site, I'll have to post the link in here :P

Luke

@nhinkle Can we not nominate other people too that we feel deserve it?

nhinkle

@Luke you can only do self-nominations

Mokubai

21:05

Good luck on the elections people

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack haha\

@slhck thanks for the nice comment :)

iglvzx

@studiohack Oh wow. It's been a hot summer, too. So, I expect there to be the usual natural forest fires, too.

slhck

@SimonSheehan Well, I'm just being honest :)

Bob

ooh, election

nhinkle

elections are fun because you get to hear all the warm fuzzy things people have to say about each other

studiohack

21:08

@iglvzx fire season is super early this year

nhinkle

until somebody crazy nominates and then it's all downhill from there

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studiohack

@nhinkle agreed! lol

nhinkle

@slhck should mention that he won MVSU in his nomination

studiohack

@Mokubai's in the running! :)

Simon Sheehan

And with that, Enjoy this lovely song titled "I'm a Cuckoo"

►

Mokubai

21:09

@studiohack Yeah, sorry about that ;)

studiohack

GAH!!! This is gonna be a hard election to vote in!

Shog9

CLICK HARDER!

nhinkle

Oh this is interesting. I can nominate myself

studiohack

@nhinkle do it!

Bob

@SimonSheehan distraction

nhinkle

21:10

I wonder what happens if a mod nominates themself. If they win, do they get TWO DIAMONDS?

Bob

forgets about election entirely

Simon Sheehan

@nhinkle hahahaha try it!

studiohack

@nhinkle do it! we all should :P

Mokubai

@nhinkle They become the Uber-mod!

iglvzx

@nhinkle If you win, then one poor sap is out of luck. Meanie!

studiohack

21:11

@iglvzx I don't wanna share my flagz!

Shog9

@nhinkle If you win, we make the losers mods. If you lose, we make the winners mods.

nhinkle

this sounds exciting

iglvzx

lol

nhinkle

@Shog9 if I were to nominate myself for kicks and giggles, how much would it break things?

studiohack

I can nominate myself too. neat!

maybe i'll run again. if I lose, I keep my diamond. If I win, I have DOUBLE DIAMONDS!

Mokubai

21:12

@nhinkle and @studiohack for mods!

slhck

@nhinkle Character limit :/

nhinkle

@studiohack let's do it! If we both win, then the world might implode.

Shog9

@nhinkle Seriously? We'd probably just delete it and tell you to knock it off. But if we didn't, it'd just waste the votes of whoever voted for you.

iglvzx

If StackExchange was going downhill, this would be an excellent act of civil disobedience.

nhinkle

@Shog9 obviously we'd withdraw before the real election :P

Shog9

21:13

damn right you would... ;-)

nhinkle

@slhck what's the limit? I'm surprised you ran up against it - my nomination was, like, a book. I guess that might be why they imposed a stricter limit.

studiohack

@nhinkle yeah!

Simon Sheehan

nhinkle

sigh apparently the fun police are here

iglvzx

I think @slhck already won his position...

slhck

21:13

@nhinkle Well, I can only add 3 more chars, so … Didn't feel like bragging either ;)

Simon Sheehan

the character limit is restricting my want to write my entire lifes story aha

Elections should show reviews, my numbers look weak beside you @slhck ;) haha

slhck

@SimonSheehan Well, it's not the most important thing ;)

Simon Sheehan

@slhck true true :) I do like this meta participation thing... can sorta guess meta rep from it haha.

slhck

@SimonSheehan That's true – too bad you can't see those stats on MSU itself

Simon Sheehan

@slhck Unfortunately :P

studiohack

21:21

Moose!

Simon Sheehan

oooh

Always so jealous of your pictures @studiohack :P

studiohack

not the best photo tho :)

aw, thanks @SimonSheehan :)

Bob

whoops

I should stop using Google as a calculator, it hates me now :P

Daniel Beck

Hi everyone

iglvzx

Hello

Daniel Beck

21:23

@Bob Too many queries?

studiohack

hey @DanielBeck :) nominating?

Bob

@DanielBeck No, I just messed up the order of operations :P

Daniel Beck

@studiohack Not sure.

studiohack

@DanielBeck you should :)

> flagged by @SimonSheehan 5 secs ago.

BAM!

that's the kind of reaction time I expect from new mods...

iglvzx

lol :D

Bob

21:25

Ah, now the 7 day wait till the vote :P

Daniel Beck

@studiohack So you can take a break?

studiohack

another photo from this weekend

Simon Sheehan

studiohack

@DanielBeck sure, then I can retire! :P

Simon Sheehan

This is what @studiohack looks like when he's taking care of flags ;)

studiohack

21:27

@SimonSheehan hahaha yeah, that's right! :P how did you know?

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Oh, experience... and 0.02 second average time to respond to flags ;)

studiohack

@SimonSheehan eh true :P

KronoS

@studiohack ha ha... like you'd retire...

studiohack

@KronoS sure, why not? I can stretch out, and get my tan...

nhinkle

ROFL

KronoS

21:30

@studiohack why not just use this: mystique.net/cybertan.htm

studiohack

@KronoS I'd rather have the real thing :P

slhck

In case you haven't seen this before: javascript motion detection | Soundstep

That's just incredibly funny

Mokubai

You can get a tan in a computer room @studiohack?

KronoS

@studiohack real shmeal

studiohack

@KronoS not the real deal :P

@Mokubai there is such a thing as sun tan lotion

Bob

21:32

I would read a tutorial. Here a list of 10 good tutorials. If you're used to a VCS like SVN, forget everything you know, git is completely different. — criziot 51 secs ago

If only someone told me that last year :\

Daniel Beck

It seems to me that every VCS works completely different from every other. I recently had to use MKS Integrity. A steaming pile of %£&# and it destroys the minds of the people forced to use it. They just don't get SVN after prolonged exposure to MKS...

Bob

Ah, the simple world of SVN...

slhck

Is it weird saying that I completely forgot how to use SVN after changing to Git?

Simon Sheehan

I have to say, SVN bothered me :/ Generated a LOT of hidden files that were a pain to pack away later

iglvzx

I should get around to setting up Hg-Git. I prefer Mercurial, but GitHub doesn't support it natively.

studiohack

21:37

another chopper!

Mokubai

Svn got better with that 1.7 release, much less cruft scattered around the filesystem

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack I got play around with one of these lenses a few weeks ago, you'd probably like it for all your photos...although its hellishly expensive haha.

studiohack

@SimonSheehan ooooh crazy

me would love that

iglvzx

Canon white lens... The standard

Simon Sheehan

Yep. Also tried a 300mm Olympus one... was cool at the race track.

Bob

21:40

@Mokubai I've only ever had hidden .svn folders in every folder :S

Then again, I'm relatively new to VCS

Daniel Beck

@Bob Now it's only in the topmost folder of your working copy (I think git behaves like this as well?)

slhck

@SimonSheehan Is that the 70-200 2.8? Or even bigger?

Bob

@DanielBeck Git does, brb (checking my svn repos)

Simon Sheehan

@slhck 70-300 :P

slhck

@SimonSheehan Those are really great lenses. I used to have a 70-200, but I sold all my gear.

Simon Sheehan

21:42

Er, sorry, that one I showed him is strictly 300mm.

If you've got the cash, there's always 100-400..

slhck

That's what I got myself

370€, and it comes with a 28-112 2.0-2.8 lens. That's just crazy.

Simon Sheehan

@slhck Neat. I saw recently that you can get Digital Cameras that actually have full size lenses on them, pretty neat.

Daniel Beck

@slhck Weren't the SO election nominations just a month ago or so much longer?

slhck

@DanielBeck A month or so

Bob

@DanielBeck Wasn't just topmost with whichever version of TortoiseSVN was available last year

Simon Sheehan

21:44

Okay be right back guys, time to get some pizza haha.

Bob

Every non-empty directory

Daniel Beck

@Bob Yes, 1.7 is rather recent.

subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#wc-ng

slhck

@SimonSheehan Ohhh.. Pizza.

And I was debating on what to get for dinner.

Bob

@DanielBeck It was 1.7.1

Daniel Beck

@Bob They introduced it with 1.7. IIRC you had the option to convert older working copies but didn't need to, but am not sure about that.

Sooo... let's hope I can get that Windows VM to run or I'll commit tax evation :-/

Bob

21:48

@DanielBeck Whoops, never saw that option :P

Daniel Beck

I truthfully was never this happy to see a Windows login screen

Bob

Hmm

You're in Germany?

Just recently there was some fuss here in Australia because filing tax returns online required Windows :P

Daniel Beck

@Bob Germany as well, at least as a business. I complained about it here before.

Bob

Ah, here it is. Journalism... gah

smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/…

> it isn't as if we're asking for [the computer operating system] Linux or anything like that, Mac OS is a major operating system.

Yea, rubbish like that

Daniel Beck

It's just a convenience thing, isn't it? You can print it and mail it, can't you?

Bob

21:57

No, there's an actual software package

Most convoluted thing ever, too

Still, calling Linux minor and OS X major? That's.. apart from being barely accurate (is it?), it's not going to get them any support :P

Daniel Beck

@Bob Well... I have the paper forms in a program window, complete with pagination and monospace font for entering values. Looks a lot like a PDF form, only less usable.

Bob

Ah, damn technology journalists

@DanielBeck You need Windows for that?

Daniel Beck

@Bob Yep.

Cool, huh?

Wouldn't have thought it's possible to create UIs this ugly with Qt....

Bob

lol

Tom Wijsman

-3264 characters left

Aw... :(

4465 characters, so I need to get to 1/4th of what I typed, what... o_O

</type><condense>

Daniel Beck

22:13

@TomWijsman Wow. Good luck.

Good night everyone

Bob

@TomWijsman <backspace>{3300}

:P

Tom Wijsman

Should have checked, thought it was longer previous year.

Bob

@DanielBeck Night.

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman I'm pretty sure SO elections a month ago still were walls of text as well.

Tom Wijsman

@DanielBeck Yeah, true, 1200 feels weird.

Eh well, $(".file-contents").text().length a few times on GH will get me at 1200 within 7 days, I suppose.

iglvzx

22:47

So, I tried Github for Windows. It was too simple. Giving SmartGit a shot now, and I'm already enjoying it. :)

Tom Wijsman

Well, I don't see another way than putting my nomination as it is, I'll try to consider a shorter one but I don't see me do it as it would totally change my message. Something which I would not intend to do so, perhaps I'll shorten the GitHub version.

iglvzx

@TomWijsman Maybe you can add a "Read more ..." link at the bottom of your shortened version on the nomination page?

soandos

@TomWijsman, can I search deleted posts?

studiohack

nope @soandos. only diamonds

soandos

@studiohack, thanks, but this is annoying (i'm sure it has been suggested though)

Tom Wijsman

22:54

@iglvzx I don't want people to only read a shortened version, read the TL;DR or the longer one, there is no inbetween.

studiohack

@soandos they almost didn't give mods this as well... so mods are already lucky to have this

soandos

@studiohack, what is the big deal with not allowing it?

iglvzx

@TomWijsman I see. AHA! Post your entire blurb as a PNG. Take that character limit!

Then include a link to the text version. :P

studiohack

@soandos privacy, spam, etc? I'm not sure

@iglvzx SMART!!!

soandos

@studiohack Strange, but ok

Tom Wijsman

22:55

@iglvzx: Worth trying, but I don't want to get sanctioned. Linking to GH is already, uhm, tricky...

iglvzx

@TomWijsman Your nomination speech is brilliant. Hehe

(I have no idea how to pick version numbers for my software...)

Tom Wijsman

@iglvzx Yeah, and I want to keep it like that, previous year it would have fit but now it's an issue. But well, I'll just give it a shot...

Simon Sheehan

I have returned!

iglvzx

@iglvzx (I think I'll just do "Name rev#"... My projects aren't that big anyway...)

Tom Wijsman

23:11

@iglvzx: Since I've put the TL;DR and Vacation part in the nomination itself, I have cut those off the GH one. Makes it seem shorter already.

Think I can still dedupe some of the bottom part, won't turn 2300 chars into 1200 though. Eh well...

iglvzx

@TomWijsman Microsoft Word --> Summarize. :P (Don't do this, though)

Tom Wijsman

What does that do? I'm on Gentoo Linux and Word is kinda out of my reach right now...

o_O That would've been an option, problem though is that it's not likely to produce something that you can read without stopping at the end of each sentence. (= not fluent)

@iglvzx: If you have it available, feel free to run a 25% new document summary of it, would make up for a good laugh. :D

iglvzx

@TomWijsman Okay. I'll post it as a Gist. BRB

Tom Wijsman

@iglvzx: Or 33%, given that I've cut a part already. Or whatever brings it down to character limit if you want to play around.

Bob

@TomWijsman I thought this looked familiar...

Tom Wijsman

23:23

> pretty iffy algorithm

Probably, given that every sentence will end up having the same words.

iglvzx

The feature was hidden away in Word 2010... I'm looking for it. lol

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Bob

@iglvzx It was removed...

iglvzx

@Bob Ok. I have word 2007, too. I'll try there.

Tom Wijsman

I think it'll be something like Help, People, Community, Super User.

And if every sentence contains those words, it's going to be boring to read... :D

Bob

@iglvzx You should know!

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iglvzx

23:25

@Bob Dang it. Haha

Bob

:P

Tom Wijsman

Make a toolbar button that calls ~~AutoHotkey~~ ~~AutoIt~~ AutoHotkey which will copy the documentfrom Word 2010 to Word 2007 and then open up the dialog.

Bob

I never liked Office 2007

At least I can actually find what I need without resorting to Google in 2010 (I basically jumped from 2003 to 2010 too, so it's not just getting familiar with the ribbons)

@TomWijsman Eurgh

Might as well implement your own as an addin

iglvzx

@TomWijsman Here's 25% gist.github.com/3079744

Tom Wijsman

But that won't call the original pretty iffy algorithm. :(

Bob

23:28

o.O Taylor Swift quote

Tom Wijsman

That works out quite well, and yeah, the TS quote is deadly. :D

soandos

anyone know how to select a field in the output of ls (or some other command)? Having some trouble with "cut"

Bob

@soandos What's your terminal/console program?

iglvzx

Now with 10% gist.github.com/3079744

soandos

@Bob, bash

Bob

23:30

No, not the command shell

soandos

teminal, but I am looking for a bash way

Bob

oh

As a Windows user, I pipe to clip

xD

Tom Wijsman

One of the first things I learned in Linux is to keep the cat at home...

Bob

Ok, I failed that. I meant clip, obviously

soandos

its just painful

Tom Wijsman

23:32

@iglvzx grep -i help ~/SuperUser/Drafts/GitHub/Nomination.MD

Probably have to do a sed regexp first that inserts newlines after dots, but hey, I'm new to Linux.

iglvzx

@TomWijsman lol. I think you found your campaign slogan. "How can I help you?"

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Well, I'm off for the day. Have to take care of laundry and stuff. :( lol Have a good day, everyone!

jokerdino

woah, SU election?

Tom Wijsman

@iglvzx I hate how questions, it'll rather be What can I do to help you? :D

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Simon Sheehan

Its that time again :p

jokerdino

I totally feel like nominating myself :p

Simon Sheehan

23:35

@iglvzx "Welcome to Super User, my name's Simon, how can I help you today?" We're going to sound like McDonalds ;)

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@jokerdino do it :)

Tom Wijsman

@jokerdino Go for it, I want to write an ever longer nomination next year.

jokerdino

@SimonSheehan That won't be fair.

Simon Sheehan

@jokerdino why not?

jokerdino

I don't even do anything useful for the SU community. And i won't even vote for myself =)

Simon Sheehan

Oh, you're from Ask Ubuntu haha, didnt even see that :P

Tom Wijsman

23:37

@jokerdino You keep the ~~bored~~ ~~procrastinating~~ productive chatters ~~busy~~ happy.

jokerdino

@TomWijsman I wrote a 1K word essay for my nomination last time =)

@TomWijsman oh yeah? :D

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, you do. :-$

jokerdino

@SimonSheehan SU is third on my list :)

Simon Sheehan

@jokerdino Yeah, was just examining your profile ;)

jokerdino

Ok, let me quickly see who has nominated themselves.

Tom Wijsman

23:39

@jokerdino Sathya, studiohack, DMA57361 and nhinkle did. Oh wait, that was last year...

Bob

I'm staying well away from this until next week

jokerdino

gulp all are wonderful nominations.

It's a pity I only get to vote thrice. :/

@TomWijsman haha, I am talking about this one.

Tom Wijsman

Don't mind me, I'm just being ~~awesome~~ ~~entertaining~~ silly.

jokerdino

heh man. Since I see more than 3 awesome nominations, I think I should boycott this election.

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Tom Wijsman

You should nominate too, then you get the same feeling. :D

@jokerdino: Getting a moderator to leave so a fourth one can be elected like last year, I see what you're up to... :)

jokerdino

23:46

heheh

OK, here's the deal. Anyone who goes through Ask Ubuntu /review more in the coming weeks got mine and a bunch of other AU'ers votes ;-) talk about being an opportunist :-)

Tom Wijsman

@jokerdino You want a full flag queue, eh? :D

jrg

@jokerdino screw you, i'm the one who has to deal with all those. <3

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jokerdino

Actually, I am pushing for more flags. Then we can have more mods, etc

@TomWijsman That's the plan :D

@jrg oh come on! :D

Tom Wijsman

But then I betray the Super Users, and I'm a Gentoo user. :(

jokerdino

I didn't know I had my boss here in this room. :D

jrg

23:49

@jokerdino I suppose I could go on another vacation and let Marco deal with them... ;)

jokerdino

@jrg and make him grumpy at all us flaggers :-)

jrg

That'd be fun.

jokerdino

@TomWijsman Remember, this is more than just a single vote. :)

Tom Wijsman

And how are you going to verify it was me?

jokerdino

You are going to leave comments right? Reviewing includes editing as well you know =)

well, anyway, this is joke-ish. Don't feel compelled.

I am glad myself that I have enough rep to vote for this election. I had to scrap through 150 rep to vote for the SO election.

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