The Whiteboard

Shahar

12:00 AM

what does that mean

Jimmy Hoffa

Mike

@Shahar Pre-loading images can be a good idea or a bad idea depending on the situation. I am in the process of writing a tool for my employer that lets us preview a photo book before we print it (checking it for errors and such). Books can have 100+ pages and pre-loading all of them would be a huge strain on the backend and the end user. Not pre-loading causes a delay when switching to the next page. As such my system only preloads 2 pages ahead.

Shahar

@Mike Yeah that sounds logical

Mike

@JimmyHoffa valueguide.pga.com/images/Titleist/Woods/howitzer_med.jpg

Shahar

But if you go too quickly

,,,

dang I ran out of ideas for things to put on github

Mike

12:05 AM

@Shahar If you go too quickly your commands get debounced and only the last one is actually executed :) underscorejs.org/#debounce

Shahar

oh those are actually useful

when I upload gif's

if I went them stored as AVI's

should I convert them on the client or server?

Robert Harvey

@JimmyHoffa: "Haskell: Ain't that a Golf Language?" Kinda sums it up, doesn't it?

2

Why most people will never use it.

Mike

@Shahar If you can do it client-side that'll take processing requirements off of your server. That said there's plenty out there for doing it server-side as well if that's what you end up forced into. ffmpeg.org

What type of client are we talking about here though? I was under the impression you were doing a web-based thing.

Shahar

@Mike I mean when a user uploads a GIF

Right now

when a user uploads an image

then I use javascript and HTML canvas to make the image smaller (then double check when it's sent to the server)

Since I want to store MP4's for the GIF's

Should I do the conversion client-sided or server-sided

Mike

Ah, I believe you'll have to do your encoding server-side then. I'm not aware of anything javascript based that would do it for you off the top of my head which is about all you have to work with on the client.

Shahar

12:15 AM

What if I convert to FFmpeg to javascript

Mike

@Shahar Do you mean porting FFmpeg from C to javascript? That'd be an enormous undertaking if it is even possible: github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Shahar

actually if you search ffmpeg on github

and then click on javascript

there are some projects

actually never mind

Mike

So this has nothing to do with programming, but I just can't help myself.

►

Shahar

I can't help myself either youtube.com/watch?v=oQKH56SdHfQ

►

Yousaf Ehsan

Hi guys anyone here ?

sup everybody

Mike

12:26 AM

Chillin' u kno how we do

You know I spend too much time in doors behind a screen because I made multiple edits to how I wanted to spell chilling.

Yousaf Ehsan

I have question, I was developing a system for 6 months and when i was at the point of launch the service the datasource blocked our servers.. any suggestion on it ?

Mike

Contact them and see what's up?

Yousaf Ehsan

i did no response

i was using public api

i guess i putted to much load on them

Mike

Sounds like it. What's the API? (if you can share)

Yousaf Ehsan

sure stubhub

stubhub.com

I can do alot of stuff to get the data even if i am blocked but i want to know if its worth doing it

Shahar

12:31 AM

Yousaf are you Israeli?

psr

@YousafEhsan Do you know if doing so would be a criminal act?

Mike

developer.stubhub.com/store/site/pages/terms.jag

Yousaf Ehsan

haha no are you ?

Mike

API Call Limitations. The number of API calls you will be permitted to make during any given period may be limited. StubHub will determine call limits based on various factors, including the ways your Application may be used or the anticipated volume of use associated with your Application.

StubHub may, in its sole discretion, charge you for API calls that exceed the call limits or terminate your access to the API in accordance with Section 14.2. Unused API calls will not roll over to the next day or month, as applicable.

Shahar

oh nvm saw your picture lol

Yousaf Ehsan

12:32 AM

haha ok no problem.. yes i know i can get data illegally it will be criminal act.. sure i dont want to do that.

yes i know each and everything about stubhub limitations calls etc... @mike

i guess i need to talk to them thats the only way

Mike

I have no experience with them but it sounds like they have an option to pay for additional API calls.

Shahar

don't do it

Yousaf Ehsan

@sahar what ?

Shahar

Don't pay for additional API calls

Yousaf Ehsan

why ? @sahar

should i get data illegally instead ? lol

Shahar

12:36 AM

Hold on is it number of simultaneous API calls or number of calls in total?

Yousaf Ehsan

@Mike i will check that if they have the option to buy

@Shahar its number of calls in total per minute

its 10 calls per minute

Shahar

oh wow that's stupid

Yousaf Ehsan

i agree to pay even 1000 dollars a month for 1000 calls per minute

i guess i will rather wait until i can contact them to see whats possible

user55340

@RobertHarvey on April 1, should rotate the title of the Lounge from Lounge<C++> to Javascript, Java, and C# every 5 min.

Mike

@MichaelT Then leave it on PHP and call it a night. Wake up and read the logs.

Yousaf Ehsan

12:42 AM

no mike i need the data in real time system is like artificial intelligence that detemines that what should be the user's price according to the market data

100's of brokers already love that system

ok guys have a goodtime

Goodnite

Shahar

bye

psr

@YousafEhsan Hmm, if brokers love it then it must bring their costs down. Stubhub gets a cut of what they pay. Your software will make that a cut of a smaller amount. If they figure that out then I think they might be hard to cut a deal with.

Yousaf Ehsan

@psr our system increased the profit of brokers by 30%.. and they dont need to monitor there inventory all the day.. they can play golf or football. while our system is monritoring there inventory and taking care of it..

psr

But did it make Stubhub money, or cost them?

Yousaf Ehsan

it did make stubhub money as well.. becuase on each sale they get the profit... if more tickets will be sold they get more comission

psr

12:51 AM

If that's true (your argument doesn't fully make the case) then Stubhub might be very interested in giving you more access - who knows, you might talk them into giving it to you. If it costs them money then they will want to shut you down.

But I wouldn't expect them to take your word for whether it makes them money.

Yousaf Ehsan

hahah yeah.. lets see.. what happens...

but appreciated your comments.... really helpfull

user41796

@jozefg BTW, I'm the one (or one of the ones) who flagged your java type comments. Your original comment wasn't that bad but it was clearly digressing into a flame war. Ergo, nuke 'em all. I would have mentioned it in here since you were online, but decided it wasn't worth the bother.

jozefg

@GlenH7 Fair enough, yeah it didn't realize it would upset that many people :$

Thanks for mentioning it though :)

user41796

@jozefg yw

user41796

The first one was <snicker>

user41796

1:04 AM

But it went downhill fast. So I clicked to nuke.

user41796

Yes, you're right. And the other side was right to a degree too. Sooooo.... Nothing productive to be had.

user41796

And compared to some calling outs that I've done on Meta ... meh. Yannis was quite correct in that the comment thread wasn't worth additional mention.

jozefg

Fair enough

Oddly enough the OP didn't care haha

user41796

@jozefg Some OPs don't actively watch their Q's. On Progs, you can get away with that as it's not as high volume as say SO.

user41796

@MichaelT - you're welcome to mock me. :-)

Robert Harvey

1:23 AM

@MichaelT I so need a bot for that.

user55340

@GlenH7 I poked a bit too. It was borderline. Still not that great of a question.

user55340

@RobertHarvey You'll have posts about "Please freeze the lounge! We can't take any more php questions!" on MSO

user41796

@MichaelT Without the SO profile, it definitely would have been him. :-)

user55340

@GlenH7 Yep.

user55340

Not completely ruling it out, but it doesn't pass all the tests yet... Robert hasn't posted an answer.

user41796

1:27 AM

My spirits kind of sunk a little when I saw the age on the SO profile. AFAIK, he doesn't manage to keep anything around that long.

user41796

I nearly called Robert out on that one too, but chickened out.

user55340

@GlenH7 On more tolerant sites he's stuck around for awhile.

user41796

Probably has done a better job at flying under the radar

user55340

@GlenH7 And they've got bigger trolls.

user41796

True. He's fairly penny-ante from that point of view. Doesn't change up his MO all that much. Handles are pretty easy to guess at. Quickly resorts to baiting comments.

user41796

1:31 AM

Probably doesn't score all that well in the trolling leagues

user55340

He's apparently poked at code golf - codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/16401/jungle-buffer

user55340

Math, physics, EE - they've got the trolls who go all time cube on the site.

user41796

I find it odd that he hasn't earned himself a longer ban.

user15026

@MichaelT That is a really good way to describe that.

user55340

Time Cube

Time Cube is a website created by Gene Ray, also known as Otis Eugene Ray, in 1997, John C. Dvorak wrote in PC Magazine that "Metasites that track crackpot sites often say this is the number one nutty site." Concept The website is mostly text written in centered, multi-colored variously-sized type in a single vertical column. The following quotation from the TimeCube.com website illustrates a recurring theme from Gene Ray's ideas: Ray has wagered $10,000 that his theories cannot be proven wrong. Public reaction Ray spoke about Time Cube at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MI...

user55340

1:36 AM

(or go to the site if you dare)

Robert Harvey

OMG MY EYES... THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING. >_<

user55340

2:04 AM

@RobertHarvey I warned you with an 'if you dare'

user55340

(heh - local youtube advertisment... a local ISP to do satellite network connection for people ice fishing)

user55340

2:33 AM

►

user55340

Which is kind of related to programming in that its linked from thecodelesscode.com/case/132

Jimmy Hoffa

4:02 AM

+1 for the bit at the end - learning from the KnR and plying that against vi and cc in a single user environment is a pretty accurate representation of the experience back then. Unless he wants to go further and deal with hanging chads... — Jimmy Hoffa 36 secs ago

Matt D

4:16 AM

any c# generic function casting masters in here?

tylerl

0

Q: Can anybody send me a link to that love letter that was written in a programming language?

I'm not quite sure where to put this question, so this is the best I could do. Anyways, I remember running across a link to a letter, which I think was a love letter, that was written in a programming language, which I think was C. The code doesn't actually do anything, it just contained the word...

c

This question appears to be off-topic because WTF. — tylerl 1 min ago

user15026

4:29 AM

@tylerl and lo, my first ever Programmers answer :P

Robert Harvey

@AshleyNunn Also your first answer on an off-topic question. Congratulations.

user15026

@RobertHarvey Awww sad trombone

user15026

I kinda thought it might be, but I was like "I REMEMBER POETRY"

gnat

8:20 AM

@AshleyNunn "...these questions aren’t educational in any way, because there’s no way to learn about the process of discovery. A particular community member, by virtue of their experience in the field, just happens to be able to take the limited information you remembered and fill in enough of the blanks to guess the correct answer... guessing game questions do not meet our goal of making the Internet better." (blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/02/lets-play-the-guessing-game)

gnat

12:49 PM

@RobertHarvey you're experienced in c#, do you think this question would better be reopened or kept closed? programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/229310/…

user41796

2:29 PM

@gnat It's still a bit of an opinion fest at the moment. I can't remember if I skipped or voted to leave closed from the reopen queue.

user41796

IIRC, the OP of that question went on a meta rant about the site as well. Not quite the way to elicit any sympathy from me.

gnat

2:41 PM

@GlenH7 I am on the fence that's why I ask for advice. In original revision, it was clear cut opinion-based to me, but edit drove it into gray area and essentially invalidated CV I cast

rev 2 looks good enough, voted reopen. To be fair it still feels somewhat broad, but I can't put a finger at anything concrete to justify for self leaving it closed — gnat Feb 19 at 21:07

user41796

@gnat It's not just somewhat broad, it's really broad. Said another way, the question is asking "MS standards on HTML" versus "W3C standards on HTML". Who should win?

gnat

@GlenH7 your reasoning would probably convince me if I was more proficient in this area :)

enderland

1

Q: Should I tell my co-workers that branch manager uses drugs (crack) at the office?

I worked in New York City at a mid-sized brokerage house. The place was open round the clock so if you needed, you can practically live there - included shower, changing rooms etc. The managing director was a great guy who has the one office with the boardroom taking up the remaining available sp...

management

be glad you guys don't get on topic questions like this. LOL

user41796

@gnat I had to re-read it a second (or third) time to really understand what the OP is asking

user41796

> Determining ethics of substance use to enhance programming [closed]

user41796

2:50 PM

It's a 10k only link at this point.

user41796

> deleted by MichaelT, GlenH7, gnat Nov 13 '13 at 20:20

user41796

IIRC It elicited a fairly lively comment thread + meta discussion.

MetaFight

how the hell does this question have 34 upvotes??

33

Q: How to write camel case for words like "phonenumber", "motorcycle", "wavelength", etc

I am having a problem in understanding how to apply camelCase syntax to some of my variable names. For example, how should I correctly write a word like "phonenumber" in camel case? Is it phoneNumber or phonenumber? Similarly with "username", is it username or userName? I think it doesn't loo...

notation camelcase

user41796

@MetaFight BIKESHED

user41796

and yeah, I meant to shout.

user41796

2:58 PM

I'm just miffed about the spread between the top answer and mine.

gnat

1

Q: Should I give more information to this question? How to improve

I just asked this question with regards to using cognitive enhancing drugs to assist with your coding job. It wasn't as good of a question as I thought it would be, considering I left out specific details to not bring attention to a possible ethical issue. However, should I reveal the source an...

discussion closed-questions specific-question

MetaFight

I want 2k rep so I can get edit privileges... maybe I should ask pointless questions like that.

user41796

@gnat Yep, that was the one.

MetaFight

hrm, they beat you by 13 minutes, but your answer is clearer.

I'm gonna downvote you for being too slow.

gnat

@GlenH7 spreads like that are standard for bikesheds, lemmings visiting there have attention span barely sufficient to take a look and click an arrow on top answer. This is by the way the main reasoning behind hotness formula correction I proposed, the more they pile on the question, the more it cools off. Automagically...

53

Q: In “network hot” questions formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that these are not good data points

TL;DR When votes of 20... 30... 100 users clearly indicate that only one or two answers are popular, it does not make sense to pretend that other answers are popular too. In current version of “network hot” questions formula (AnswerCount * Qscore) *, all answers up to 10 are assumed to equally...

feature-request status-declined voting stackexchange-button hot-questions

Oded

3:03 PM

@enderland - heh. Saw that one earlier :)

enderland

3:18 PM

@Oded I wish I could in good faith vote to close it since it's going to be a storm of bad answers... but it's more or less an ok question :\

Oded

@enderland yeah. Though coming from the completely wrong direction. I mean - who cares about the colleagues? This is something to report to HR/Upper management.

user55340

4:17 PM

Would it be possible to get the nth close vote on this review? programmers.stackexchange.com/review/close/52867

Jimmy Hoffa

@RobertHarvey something about getting crap in animated-meme-gif form from someone who's old enough to rightfully make crotchety get-off-my-lawn comments about modern culture just feels weird.

I guess you're more of the "get off my reddit" sort.

user55340

4:37 PM

I wonder if there's a /r/grumpy-old-men

Jimmy Hoffa

5:15 PM

0

Q: Decisions in self-organizing teams take too much time

Currently we use Scrum with the exception that our Scrum Masters sometimes act as project managers rather than facilitators of the Scrum process. About half of the time team members pull tasks on their own, but half of the time the Scrum Master assigns the tasks to team members. I would like us ...

scrum

^-- Engineers who don't know how to compromise are missing a key lesson about the core of what engineering fundamentally is.

user20683

@JimmyHoffa Being Physics' B****

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer Yeah, that's a fair enough description of it

Jimmy Hoffa

5:30 PM

@WorldEngineer don't forget though, that physics is just math's bitch

On the other hand, physicists like to say physics is to math as sex is to masturbation.

user20683

@JimmyHoffa which is in turn Philosophy's Bitch...but is it really?

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer Punny :P

user41796

@WorldEngineer - I hope you or one of the other mods gets a chuckle out of my latest mod flag.

Jimmy Hoffa

Sometimes xkcd just shows way more dedication to obsessive nerding than humor, like todays. I'm still looking forward to XKCD 1337 coming up though. It'll be a huge let down if he doesn't pick up on it, but as obsessive as he clearly is about the details of everything, I can't even fathom that he isn't aware and already thinking about it.

rscnt

5:49 PM

say it to me.

user55340

#!/usr/bin/perl
use feature qw (say);
say "me"x2;

Jimmy Hoffa

start() ->
spawn(rscnt, say_something).
c(rscnt).
rscnt:say_something("it", 1).

psr

@WorldEngineer No

Jimmy Hoffa

6:06 PM

@rscnt sorry but that highcharts answer bugged me when I saw it, had to edit it. I tried to stop myself; but I overpowered me.

@gnat Hot question hitting in T-30 minutes:

1

Q: Decisions in self-organizing teams take too much time

Currently we use Scrum with the exception that our Scrum Masters sometimes act as project managers rather than facilitators of the Scrum process. About half of the time team members pull tasks on their own, but half of the time the Scrum Master assigns the tasks to team members. I would like us ...

scrum

(sub-text: Go upvote SO Qs on hot list)

user15026

@gnat re: my answer - it's up there with answering identify this game stuff on Arqade, so I likely shouldn't have answered, because I was pretty sure it would get closed. (well aware of that blog post, I have used it a time or two myself. I just get weirdly excited over poetry)

user55340

Black Perl

Black Perl is a famous piece of Perl poetry. It was posted to Usenet on April 1, 1990. It is written in Perl 3 and will not parse under Perl 5. Multiple independent updates to Black Perl to make it parsable in Perl 5 have been published. The full text of the poem is reproduced below. Attribution While the poem itself is signed Larry Wall, the original message was posted with forged message headers, causing uncertainty of authorship. Sharon Rauenzahn, born Hopkins, has been suspected, but has denied authorship. Randal Schwartz has claimed that Larry Wall is in fact the author, and later...

psr

Do you think there is a way to minimize arguments with self-organizing Scrum teams?

Makes me think of the codeless coder

lock them in separate rooms, cut out their vocal cords, something like that.

user55340

Close the door and let them argue until they come to a decision. Note that the number of story points due that sprint aren't reduced because they argue for 8h.

user15026

@michaelt that is neat. I love when people take stuff and so completely different things with it (like art out of code, or poetry)

psr

6:17 PM

Outsource your programming to haplodiploids.

user55340

@AshleyNunn Perl poetry has a long tradition - early perl actually had some changes made to it so it was possible to write poetry in it. perlmonks.org/?node=Perl%20Poetry

Jimmy Hoffa

@psr This is possibly the single weirdest reference I've seen in the whiteboard... I had to look it up and now I'm really not certain how I feel about your suggestion or what it even means other than that @psr knows too much about bug reproduction

user55340

@JimmyHoffa Bugs reproduce in your code when you're not looking.

psr

@JimmyHoffa Bugs and hairless mole rats. Don't look that up. You have been warned.

user15026

@michaelt I like those poems. That is really neat.

user55340

6:21 PM

@AshleyNunn Note the page counter on it... keep clicking.

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT It's ok though because the bad alleles work themselves out quickly as the males lack of diversity ensures a hastened darwinian dead end

user55340

@psr what-if.xkcd.com/4 - do not click the truly horrifying link.

Jimmy Hoffa

Personally I tend to prefer the star-nosed mole myself.

user55340

@JimmyHoffa Better image...

user55340

Jimmy Hoffa

6:24 PM

it's basically a radiosymettric ball of fur with claws attached and what appears to be a tentacled vacuum nozzle.

user55340

Yours looks like "oh, something with a butterfly on its nose." Mine looks like "this is cuthulu coming out of the dirt with too many hands in wrong places."

user15026

Those moles are creepy.

user55340

@AshleyNunn Read about the mole of moles and then get creeped out.

user15026

Why are they like that? Is there some sort of purpose to the weird nose?

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT nose? If you didn't notice, the thing has neither neck, head, or face in my picture

psr

6:27 PM

@MichaelT But yours shows off it's baby seal eyes.

user55340

Star-nosed mole

The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is a small mole found in wet low areas of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, with records extending along the Atlantic coast as far as extreme southeastern Georgia. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura. The star-nosed mole is easily identified by the 11 pairs of pink fleshy appendages ringing its snout, which is used as a touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, known as Eimer's organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around. With the help of its Eimer's organs...

Jimmy Hoffa

@AshleyNunn They're blind, very small and cute in reality I'm sure (they're not dissimilar size from a squirrel), the nose and feelers on it I'm sure allows them to orientate as well as finding/eating all the bugs they can muster

psr

Tentacle-horror-faced mole would be more descriptive

2

Jimmy Hoffa

@psr In pictures yes, I wager in reality they're funny looking and cute.

psr

@JimmyHoffa The squirrel resemblance probably makes them look like an alien pretending to be a squirrel.

gnat

7:28 PM

oh my, this question is as vague as it gets. What is "Code Style"? What version Checkstyle, are default Checkstyle settings there or not. Add into the mix IntelliJ with its own inspections, defaults and config, and this turns into even bigger mess. Are answerers expected to be mind readers? Even checkstyle would better be referenced somehow as this tool is not universally known (pretty widely, but no that wide to fly without a reference) — gnat 3 mins ago

I'm totally outta votes and this crap is most definitely not flaggable, what a pily

amon

@gnat hmm, as what should it be closed? It's this difficult mixture between tool recs, overly broad, and unclear

gnat

1

A: How can I write a good custom close message?

Unclear what help you need Unclear what help you need. Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell what problem you are trying to solve or what aspect of your approach needs to be corrected...

Kate Gregory knows the words for stuff like that :)

@JimmyHoffa go SO upvotes go!!! As for cooling down stuff like that, first thing to try is to edit the title to match the question asked with as much precision and detail as possible. Hot list lemmings prefer 3-5 words in the title, lengthy and detailed titles scare part of them off. And block part of lemming answerers, too

2

in The Water Cooler, Feb 19 at 8:56, by gnat

@jmort253 yeah. I think I first learned about titles importance in this question. Number of attempts at lemming answers dropped dramatically after changing the title from "Why did Git become so popular?" to "Why is the sudden increase in number of Git submitters on Debian popcon graph in 2010-01?"

0

Q: Giving team members more decision-making power led to very long arguments, blocking progress since there are no one with the final say

Currently we use Scrum with the exception that our Scrum Masters sometimes act as project managers rather than facilitators of the Scrum process. About half of the time team members pull tasks on their own, but half of the time the Scrum Master assigns the tasks to team members. I would like us ...

scrum teamwork communication

totally legitimate edit, "title clarified from question text" (whistling innocently)

amon

7:44 PM

that's a clever way to hack the hot list problem :)

gnat

@amon tried and true (I am talking about de-dramatizing titles, another part of solution, one that involves lemming voting for SO questions in hot list, is still in testing, too early to say how well it works)

@AshleyNunn dreamsongs.com/PoetryOfProgramming.html

Unnormalized Models

This is the recipe for this.
Random fields,
exponential models,
motivated from (turn

your head
and say natural language
processing

). Segmenting and
labeling sequences. A
framework

based on
conditional random fields
offering several

advantages over
hidden Markov models and
stochastic grammar.

(she was thin
I thought
not normal I
liked her segments
enough to fill
the universe with a 2-d
string)

Second, we derive an equivalence
between the well-known
technique of boosting and maximum

> "When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular place, and when I'm writing code the center of my thinking feels in the same kind of place."

user15026

8:05 PM

@gnat I can understand that

user55340

@AshleyNunn you know you want to upvote my haiku...

user55340

3

A: Factorial in haiku!

Perl $r = 1; for(1 # r gets one for one .. pop @ARGV) { $r *= # to pop arg v r splat gets $_; } print $r; # the default print r Toss this into a file named f.pl And the output: $ perl f.pl 3 6$ perl f.pl 1-1 1$ perl f.pl 10 3628800$ Which is read as: perl f p l thre...

gnat

8:21 PM

@amon by the way, it's the second time I did it today. "Whose responsibility are regression bugs?" -> "Whose responsibility (in term of finances) are regression bugs?" Judging by votes, views and answers, it totally killed the drama :)

user55340

-13

Q: what is the name of that class?

Being a java web developer you know each tag handler class must inherit from another class. what is the name of that class? Answer: Tag Handler is also a java class that is implicitly called when the associated tag is encountered in the JSP. Must implement SimpleTaginterface. Usually extend from...

discussion

user55340

Notice which site.

user15026

@MichaelT That is the wrongest place to ask that thing

user55340

@AshleyNunn I wonder if Pets.SE gets "what should I name my cat" questions

user15026

@MichaelT We've not gotten any of that ilk yet.

user55340

8:29 PM

@gnat you know... I bet with a little bit of organization, we could get a hot "what should I name my ${pet type}" to show up on the list.

Jimmy Hoffa

@gnat This is actually a great idea!

user55340

dog, cat, fish...

Jimmy Hoffa

@gnat since there are no one? :P

psr

What is the proper way to propitiate a star-nosed mole before it runs amok?

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT My kid can't say catfish without cracking up for at least 2 minutes because fish aren't like cats how ridiculous

user55340

8:32 PM

@JimmyHoffa don't tell him about dogfish.

user55340

(which aren't fish...)

user55340

Squalidae

Squalidae, also called dogfish sharks or sometimes spiny dogfishes, are a family of sharks in the order Squaliformes. They have two dorsal fins, each with smooth spines, but no anal fin and their skin is generally rough to the touch. Unlike virtually all other shark species, dogfish sharks possess venom which coats their dorsal spines – this venom is mildly toxic to humans. These sharks are characterized by teeth in upper and lower jaws similar in size; caudal peduncle with lateral keels; upper precaudal pit usually present; and a caudal fin without subterminal notch. They are carnivore...

user55340

But if you really want to confuse him...

user55340

Catshark

Catsharks are ground sharks of the family Scyliorhinidae, with over 150 known species. While they are generally known as catsharks, many species are commonly called dogfish. Catsharks are found in temperate and tropical seas worldwide, ranging from very shallow intertidal waters to depths of or more, depending on species. Description Catsharks may be distinguished by their elongated cat-like eyes and two small dorsal fins set far back. Most species are fairly small, growing no longer than ; a few, such as the nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) can reach in length. Most of the s...

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> While they are generally known as catsharks, many species are commonly called dogfish.

Jimmy Hoffa

8:33 PM

@psr propitiate? I was just listening to a comedy podcast where the adjective priapic was used, and your use of a similar enough word that I don't know just has me assuming you're talking about stopping a star-nosed mole from a very specific type of amok

@MichaelT We get enough laughs out of him from catfish and

Spoonbill

Spoonbills are a group of large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the Ibises. All have large, flat, spatulate bills and feed by wading through shallow water, sweeping the partly opened bill from side to side. The moment any small aquatic creature touches the inside of the bill—an insect, crustacean, or tiny fish—it is snapped shut. Spoonbills generally prefer fresh water to salt but are found in both environments. They need to feed many hours each day. Spoonbills are monogamous, but, so far as is known, only for one season at a...

psr

@JimmyHoffa No, but that is a worthy goal as well.

gnat

@MichaelT TWP makes it with ease...

in The Water Cooler, 3 mins ago, by gnat

in The Water Cooler, 2 mins ago, by gnat

fuckers still think they'll make SO safe at the expense of smaller sites, I'll do my best to prove them wrong

user55340

@gnat I was thinking of doing it to pets though... and maybe gaming too... "what should I name my mage?"

user15026

@MichaelT You are such a sweetheart ;)

Jimmy Hoffa

> Q: How should I approach my boss after offending him?

^-- With a mask on and a fake cockney accent.

'sa ma'a guv'!? you's still gah'a bovver??!?

psr

8:47 PM

@MichaelT Mage question works best with a picture of "you" dressed in costume.

user55340

@psr thinkgeek.com/product/14d5

enderland

9:14 PM

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Q: How much time to allocate for a study group in a software team

We are considering setting up a study group in our team (5 developers, 1 QA lead) to expand our skills and have a bit of fun as well (still we are planning to focus on business-relevant skills and technologies). We have produced a rather lengthy list of topics so far, and are about to have our fi...

colleagues team training

you guys want this?

user55340

> It would be interesting to know if there are any known pitfalls with this kind of learning setup or better ways to do it. Specifically, we are concerned that 1 hour every 2 weeks could be not enough time to do something reasonable. However, having a meeting every week could require more preparation time than we realistically can afford so the quality of the material could be not so great then.

user55340

@enderland I don't think we really want it.

user55340

The amount of time would be "as much as your workplace allows for"

enderland

@MichaelT you might want to drop a comment there to confirm that

user55340

@Laf it would be a very subjective and would fall in the career or education advice bucket. That said, it is a topic that we wouldn't mind tossing about in chat if people wished to stop by there to discuss it. — MichaelT 9 secs ago

enderland

9:29 PM

drawback of WP graduating is there aren't enough people to help me delete answers :(

user55340

@enderland Flag them low quality and let the LQ review queue act?

enderland

oh yeah, most of htem are in the flag queue

user55340

6 "recommend delete" will delete it too.

user55340

@enderland you just need to run for mod there... all the cool kids are doing it.

enderland