The Whiteboard

maple_shaft

4:00 PM

I was all like, who is this angsty teenager with a sinus cold mocking my singing? Then I realized the terrifying truth

user41796

yeah, sorry

user41796

Life is cruel like that

enderland

11

A: Where's my swag?

And just when I had given up hope, the first part arrived today! For those of you still waiting, the swag is real!

cc @durron597

maple_shaft

Thought I sounded like Eddie Vedder singing, and Morgan Freeman when speaking

user41796

Pick up smoking. It'll trash your vocal cords and lower the pitch that it comes out at

user41796

4:01 PM

@enderland Finally shipped from the warehouse yesterday

enderland

yup. enderland is excited

maple_shaft

user41796

There's a characteristic sound to that damage though

Kit Z. Fox

@GlenH7 Thta's what I did! Also drinking whiskey.

Jörg W Mittag

Yeah, it's called jocockeritis.

user41796

4:02 PM

You can tell which local radio DJs smoked or still smoke just by listening to them

Kit Z. Fox

Also I went through puberty.

And had my voicebox enlarged by a mail-order surgeon of dubious reputability.

I might be lying about some of those things.

user41796

@KitZ.Fox Huh? You mean you didn't go through puberty?

enderland

wow cool I want a porfolio too, nice that that's part of the Swag

user55340

Still going hmm about the radicalness of removing ++ and --

PreferenceBean

@enderland my god, Spoelsky's spelling is horrendous

Jimmy Hoffa

4:09 PM

HAH! I DID IT! THERE'S AN e IN HIS NAME NOW!

<--- WINNER

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because stackoverflow is not a free code conversion service or a place to hire contract programmers. — timgeb 33 secs ago

PreferenceBean

dafuq I didn't even know about that swag contest where you just have to write a frickin answer on MSE about how great SO is

Ampt

@GlenH7 scribbles down notes. Go on

@maple_shaft argh, this might be the most overused facebook comment on all of my relatives pages. They're all conservatives and have to echo eachother CONSTANTLy about how awful hillary is and blah blah blah

Aaron Hall

Who doesn't love Hillary, right? She even made her own email server. She's almost one of us. But Trump. I want to see Trump in the whitehouse. Hyuge. Hyuge!

user41796

@AaronHall Are you really that desperate to get him out of NY?

enderland

4:18 PM

@AaronHall I legitimately fear what would happen should Trump become president

Ixrec

that was a very sudden topic change

Aaron Hall

<--- hyuge fan of The Apprentice

Ixrec

<-- fan of The Apprentice UK

Trump has nothing on Lord Sugar

Aaron Hall

I love that one too

The first couple of episodes I saw of it was the last season (a year ago or two?)

enderland

> Open tabs: 84

I think I should close some tabs

Aaron Hall

4:19 PM

I thought, "man, those English-people are soooo polite!"

Then I caught the first season. :D

Ixrec

the impoliteness and immodesty is part of what makes it so funny

I'm told especially so for Brits

Aaron Hall

What a cultural change!

Ampt

FEEL THE BERN 2016

Aaron Hall

k lol

15 hours ago, by Aaron Hall

Bernie says "We're going to increase the block size, and make more of them. Everyone should be able to mine a block."

Who couldn't get behind that?!

PreferenceBean

Blockheads.

Aaron Hall

4:23 PM

That's right.

Ampt

you got a quote for that or is this someone trying to apply distributed wealth to bitcoin mining

Aaron Hall

It's a joke.

PreferenceBean

@Ampt Like any post about SGU. Immediately you see 30 comments from neophytes who don't have the brain capacity to comprehend character-based drama and feel the need to write the same ten-page critique they wrote on all the other SGU posts. Yeah, we get it, you prefer other shows. Fuck off then.

enderland

@PreferenceBean lol. there were a few swag contests around that

PreferenceBean

It makes the show look so much less popular than it actually was, which is devastating to those of us hoping for it to make a comeback on Netflix or whatever.

Ampt

4:24 PM

@PreferenceBean no, I had almost forgotten

WHY

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland our politics are crazy right now. Trump isn't a fascist; he's a national socialist: He wants to improve a bunch of domestic things - thus the socialist part - but wants to do so due to his staunch support upon ethnic lines; he wants to help his people and get rid of those that aren't his people. Hitler (godwinned, c'est la vie) did a bunch of good locally for "his people", as well as the terrible things we all know for those that weren't "his".

PreferenceBean

@Ampt sorry :(

enderland

@JimmyHoffa the parallels between hitler and trump are... concerning

Jimmy Hoffa

Meanwhile, the alternative of Hillary: Will be impeached if she wins the election because investigations and a congress that hates her like she's the embodiment of the devil

PreferenceBean

Ampt

4:25 PM

They were just getting setup to do regular gates back home a-la atlantis too I think. Also exploring the spaceship needed to happen moar. :'(

PreferenceBean

Absolutely without doubt the finest television show ever made!

I'm genuinely angry still about its cancellation, and I am a generally apathetic person (not that you'd know it from my SE posts, but it's true!)

Ixrec

I'm going to assume "SGU" means "Stargate Universe" and not Google's initial guess of "Scottish Golf Union"

PreferenceBean

:)

Aaron Hall

Devil in a pantsuit. I love how she reverse-carpetbagged NY.

Ampt

@AaronHall I think we need to seriously look at how we help out those around us and the social stigmas around taht

Ixrec

4:27 PM

I'm pretty sure we would've noticed by now if you were Scottish

Ampt

I've been on both sides of that fence. Neither is great.

@Ixrec No, we're definitely talking about the golf union. It may say scottish but it's really a multi-national league.

user55340

@Ixrec depends on what he wears under his dress.

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland it's very true. The "fascist" stuff is people not understanding the distinction between fascism and national socialist. Yes, one likely leads to the other, but right now it's not there yet. Regardless, they're both despicable. On the plus side: Hitler was wayyyy smarter than Trump, he politicked and backstabbed his way into dictatorship (burned down the bundestag and had a mentally handicapped relative of an opposition party member wear an "I did it" sign on the scene)

user41796

@Ampt You mean you've been in both side's shoes?

Ampt

@GlenH7 Sure. However you want to paint that mental image :)

Ixrec

4:28 PM

I honestly can't tell what half of these replies are about, you guys keep pointing at messages that seemingly have nothing to do with the things you say in response to them

Jimmy Hoffa

Not sure Trump could usurp America like Hitler did in Germany. Trump is nowhere near as intelligent as Hitler was. He'd likely fkn try though hah :/

Ampt

@Ixrec we're talking american politics and SGU's cancellation

enderland

plenty of people want to vote for Trump and have been in primaries (which is such an unbelievable WAT to me)

Ampt

I could see the overlap causing confusion now that I mention it

Ixrec

and half of the political comments are replies to non-political comments

that's the confusing part

user55340

4:29 PM

And questioning @Ampt's Scottish credentials.

user41796

@Ampt Clearly the wrong thing was cancelled.

Jimmy Hoffa

@PreferenceBean no, you're confused; the word you were looking for is apoplectic. Different things. :)

Ixrec

@enderland it was a WAT to me too, but I think this article resolved that mystery for me

whatsisname

I think Trumps rise makes perfect sense

Ampt

@GlenH7 I wish.

Ixrec

4:32 PM

in more lighthearted news, I find it hilarious that there's a black market for maple syrup: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/…

Aaron Hall

Well, if you've watched every season and every episode of the Apprentice like I have, you know that Trump is actually a diplomatic and sensitive leader.

Ixrec

that's definitely not how he's presenting himself on the campaign trail

Aaron Hall

He's playing to a specific crowd.

PreferenceBean

@Ixrec there's a theory that it's a deliberate ploy to get Clinton into power. they're quite close friends.

and he's not exactly got a Republican background

Ixrec

that would be weird

whatsisname

4:34 PM

at this point nothing would surprise me

Aaron Hall

And he looks like an outsider, and people want an outsider.

PreferenceBean

it's a surprisingly convincing theory

whatsisname

if his run was to kamikaze the republicans it would hardly be the weirdest thing we've ever seen

Aaron Hall

He's so savvy, I'm sure he's rather cynical underneath, but you'll never see it. He's not out to lose.

Jimmy Hoffa

@whatsisname agreed, I'm not clear why it confuses people that someone who promises to help with all of the citizens domestic troubles - promises so by shows of strength (people love that) and simple commanding terms that are clear and concise (if not detailed or realistic) - would be doing amazingly well. This is why the deep economic woes post-WWI caused a citizenry to back Hitler (even though they still thought he was crazy extreme and didn't back him all the way to the head position)

user41796

4:35 PM

@Ixrec Wow, that's an "ah ha!" article. Haven't finished it yet. But everything is much more clear

Robert Harvey

The answer to all "Why didn't they put [this] in a programming language" questions is "because the costs exceeded the benefits." — Robert Harvey 23 secs ago

Ixrec

@JimmyHoffa well, initially the confusion was why someone who is so openly and flagrantly racist and xenophobic doing so well (ie well enough he's clearly winning more than just the usual nuts)

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ixrec high quality pure Maple Syrup is fkn awesome, and really expensive. I spent a weekend with a friend on his Uncle's maple syrup operation in PA a few years back, when the stuff was brand-fresh from cooking down to the carmel, I have never had syrup so good. I put it in my coffee and a dab in my whiskey for the next month from what I got there.

user55340

3

A: Why is there no language supporting a if..elseif..any..else construction?

Every language feature has a cost to it. It could be a cost of added complexity to the parser. It could be an opportunity cost at not implementing some other language feature. It could be the cost of having developers work on it. It could be a cost of additional testing and possible backwards inc...

whatsisname

because people are tired of kale shakes and gluten free salads, and trump is the bacon double cheeseburger of candidates

PreferenceBean

4:37 PM

Someone that successful is too clever to be that dumb. He's making a bunch of it up for sure. The only question is whether he's doing that for his own ends or for a friend.

whatsisname

everyone knows its bad but sometimes you can't resist the delicious greasy cheeseburger

PreferenceBean

@Ixrec cos murrica rhetoric

user41796

@PreferenceBean both

PreferenceBean

Americans are tired of slowly realising America isn't the be all and end all. Trump can take them back into the world of bullshit propaganda and blissful ignorance

@whatsisname hungry now :/

and I just had a fry-up

user55340

He is speaking to a demographic that is dissatisfied with the others speaking to lofty goals and never things that they really care about. And nostalgia.

Robert Harvey

4:39 PM

That's a great piece.

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ixrec well, the reality is that as much as people want it to be true - we aren't in a "post-racial" society. This came home to me when I moved to PA and for the first time in my life began hearing racial epithets in every day conversation from people which I had no idea people still did anywhere in this country. This goes back to my recent point about how vastly different our local cultures are in this country than we realize. Culture can't maintain uniformity over such huge distances

2 days ago, by Jimmy Hoffa

Distance wise: California<->Idaho is about similar to France<->Poland and the chasm's between those 2 cultures are expected to be completely different from eachother; I posit they're not so far as we often think.

enderland

Trump's campaign is capitalizing on racism towards Islamic people as well as Mexico

PreferenceBean

@Ixrec Yeah but it breaks because of the it++ statement

Ixrec

@JimmyHoffa I'm very aware we aren't "post-racist", only commenting that I'm pretty sure normally someone that flagrant about it would alienate too many voters to be electable

enderland

@Ixrec there are plenty of people in the USA who are racist/bigoted against muslims

Aaron Hall

4:42 PM

I don't even watch the speeches or debates, though. I can't stand it. Just let me see the 10 seconds of soundbites. If that. But didn't I just read that he has like 46% of the hispanic vote somewhere?

ratchet freak

@enderland most of them only after 9/11 happened

Ixrec

I still remember the Cobert Report episode after Obama got elected where he proclaimed "RACISM IS OVER!!!!" and it was hilarious

enderland

Obama playing his race card all the time just encourages racism

Ixrec

Colbert said it, not Obama =P

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ixrec but that's not the case; thus my point. In your circles it would be so, but the differences in culture throughout our country are much larger than we realize I think

enderland

4:44 PM

@Ixrec Obama has made reference to being black plenty of times over the past 10 years

PreferenceBean

Yeah, to being a human being too.

Ixrec

I was talking about the specific example you just responded to...

you guys are all in nitpick mode

PreferenceBean

Lots of other classifications come to mind.

ratchet freak

There an actor whose characters always play the race card. I cannot stand to watch his movies.

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ixrec your definition of the term nitpick, are not the same ones I use I think

PreferenceBean

4:45 PM

@ratchetfreak And for some reason you felt it necessary to describe him as "black" not just an "actor". Physician heal thyself.

Kit Z. Fox

@JimmyHoffa Sap is running here already. We've got to get our taps out.

Jimmy Hoffa

@KitZ.Fox if you never tried it; take the pre-finished stuff while still weak and watery and use as sweetener for your coffee - sooo good.

Kit Z. Fox

I have tried it. It is good.

You probably live too far away for me to send you some.

PreferenceBean

I thought this was a coffee-free chatroom

Jimmy Hoffa

@PreferenceBean flagged.

enderland

4:51 PM

@PreferenceBean who are you wat

Ixrec

@PreferenceBean really? this is the room where every day is coffee day

PreferenceBean

:D

Aaron Hall

@PreferenceBean you know how coffee is made?

enderland

successful troll is successful :P

PreferenceBean

all those attention seekers on tumblr are doing it wrong. that was SO easy.

don't worry, I like coffee too. would you like me to tell you my ... bean preference???

Aaron Hall

4:52 PM

First you roast the coffee beans. Then you grind up the coffee beans. Then you pour scalding hot water over the coffee beans.

DeliriousSyntax

They need to add chat to the stack exchange

App

Kit Z. Fox

Chat.SE

PreferenceBean

no point since mobile web chat ui beta is AWESOMEZ

user55340

Kopi Luwak

Kopi luwak (Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈkopi ˈlu.aʔ]), or civet coffee, refers to the coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). Producers of the coffee beans argue that the process may improve coffee through two mechanisms, selection and digestion. Selection occurs if the civets choose to eat cherries. Digestive mechanisms may improve the flavor profile of the coffee beans that have been eaten. The civet eats the cherries for the fleshy pulp, then in the digestive tract, fermentation occurs. The civet's protease...

Jimmy Hoffa

@KitZ.Fox aye. How do you do your taps? Just run it right on the tree or do you connect them together somehow? I thought it was super cool how the fella I helped did it; he had each tap with a line running to a pressure cooker, and all the pressure cookers networked together to pump the stuff out of all the trees and to the big shed where he had the whole cooking thinger. Don't know how the pressure cookers worked with it, but it was super creative for a small operation

DeliriousSyntax

4:53 PM

Not on mobile

Ixrec

@DeliriousSyntax go to your chat preferences page and turn on the beta mobile UI

Kit Z. Fox

@JimmyHoffa We run taps with attached tubes to a hanging 5-gal covered bucket.

All the neighbors get in on it, and we run a sugar shack at the house across the street.

Jimmy Hoffa

very cool

Kit Z. Fox

We cover maybe two, three dozen trees.

PreferenceBean

@DeliriousSyntax yes on mobile

user55340

4:55 PM

Search for "sugar shack" with Google location awareness returns results for.... An adult store in Lake Geneva.

Jimmy Hoffa

@KitZ.Fox think about the pressure cooker thing; it acted as a networked active pump, and each one handled 5 or 6 trees and only cost like $20-30 each. You're an engineer, you could probably come up with something better, but the cheapness of trying it is pretty awesome. You could have a trial connecting a few trees to one and pumping that to your bucket and see if it increases yield for those few trees

user41796

@MichaelT Different type of sugar...

user55340

@GlenH7 indeed.

Ampt

@MichaelT sigh why does it always have to be LG

whatsisname

nowadays that will get you put on a terrorist watch list

all those pressure cookers

Jimmy Hoffa

4:57 PM

@whatsisname really?

I know approx 0 about pressure cookers other than...they use pressure I guess.. :)

DeliriousSyntax

No upload button

Kit Z. Fox

@JimmyHoffa The trees are too far apart to make that practical, I think. I have been thinking of sensors to detect how full the bucket is.

whatsisname

not really I was just joking, but that's what the boston marathon guys used to house their explosive devices

Robert Harvey

Oded'd.

Jimmy Hoffa

@KitZ.Fox nowhere are there like 4-5 trees within ~30-40 feet of eachother? He ran the tubes pretty long distances to the pressure cookers, and the cookers could push the stuff even further then.

user41796

5:00 PM

Yes. — PreferenceBean 2 mins ago

user41796

@PreferenceBean - How did you pad that comment?

PreferenceBean

@GlenH7 I didn't nothing happened nothing to see here shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

user55340

Unicode white space it looks like.

user41796

ty

PreferenceBean

:(

maple_shaft

5:03 PM

@JimmyHoffa Any good resources you can recommend for understanding FP and Haskell?

Jimmy Hoffa

> Yes.&#8203‌; —

PreferenceBean

@maple_shaft Five years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry oughtta do it.

maple_shaft

I would need to learn the dark arts

user41796

When one must do the needful...

Jimmy Hoffa

Haskell Starter Resources

Feb 10 at 16:22, 5 minutes total – 7 messages, 3 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 12 secs ago by Jimmy Hoffa

PreferenceBean

5:04 PM

I have a userscript that bypasses the length restriction by padding with zero-width spaces on submit. But I try not to draw attention to it because Shog has let me get away with it so far and I don't want that to change.

DeliriousSyntax

I'm going to try it

PreferenceBean

oh good

maple_shaft

Tried reading about Monads and I was following the math and proofs for a couple pages and thought... this isn't so bad, I get this... then suddenly the beat dropped and I started convulsing and foaming at the mouth

user41796

@maple_shaft SO tag info looks interesting

user114359

The Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole

2

Aaron Hall

5:06 PM

I just saw a talk on converting Haskell to FPGA: meetup.com/NY-Haskell/events/228747255

maple_shaft

It is Imperative that I learn functional programming

user114359

high-res, color photo of Pluto's north pole

maple_shaft

pluto?

user41796

@PreferenceBean All of our actions are at the mercy of the SE overlords

PreferenceBean

5:06 PM

@maple_shaft No.

Aaron Hall

This is the most recent paper: cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/publications.html

user55340

@maple_shaft the-whiteboard.github.io/language/2016/02/19/…

Robert Harvey

I especially like your 1st and 3rd points. My friend is gaga for design patterns, and I keep telling him that if you just use good OOP, most of them derive very naturally from the initial problem. — CodexArcanum Nov 1 '10 at 14:35

user114359

that's history right there, first time we have photos like this of Pluto

Jimmy Hoffa

@Snowman that's so cool. We can see something that far away to that detail. +1

Aaron Hall

5:08 PM

Maybe it's been brightened a bit? I think I figured that if I tried to read in the sunlight on Pluto I wouldn't be able to make out the text on the page.

amon

@JimmyHoffa thanks to your help, my Haskell is getting stronger. It all started making sense once I stopped trying to be clever (the language has enough built-in, so it doesn't need much user-provided cleverness).

PreferenceBean

@Snowman Except for two months ago

user55340

@AaronHall there are some posts about the photographic brightness on Pluto. The essence being that the sun is still brighter than the full moon.

PreferenceBean

3

Q: Would I actually be able to see Ceres without shining a really bright torch onto it?

NASA's put out a semi-CGI video of a Ceres flyby using material from the Dawn mission. Now I realise that visibility is relative, even on Earth: I can walk into my basement and not be able to see anything until I've stood there for a few moments letting my eyes adjust. But I'm wondering, since C...

(relevantish)

tl;dr it's brighter than you think at Ceres

now Pluto's a lot further out but you can calculate using the same intel

user114359

@PreferenceBean right, but it takes time to send and process all of the images.

Jimmy Hoffa

5:11 PM

@amon yeah, it's an interesting paroxysm - Haskell takes people able to do clever things and gives them the ability to be unbelievably more clever than ever before! But that's just a side effect of how it lets you do so many things other languages can't. Once you get to distancing yourself from all that, you realize it's simplicity is the key point. Relevant: The evolution of a haskell programmer

user55340

Photo by moonlight. If we can do that with a normal camera, certainly nasa can do better.

Jimmy Hoffa

It's so foreign from other things, learning to tell what's idiomatic vs. what's clever is hard when all of the above takes a few mental leaps

user55340

Extraterrestrial skies

In astronomy, the term extraterrestrial sky refers to a view of outer space from the surface of a world other than Earth. The only extraterrestrial sky that has been directly observed and photographed by astronauts is that of the Moon. The skies of Titan, Mars, and Venus have been observed indirectly by space probes designed to land on the surface and transmit images back to Earth. Characteristics of extraterrestrial skies appear to vary substantially due to a number of factors. An extraterrestrial atmosphere, if present, has a large bearing on visible characteristics. The atmosphere's density...

Aaron Hall

It would be hard to read in the light on ceres then.

user55340

5:13 PM

> From Pluto, the Sun is still very bright, giving roughly 150 to 450 times the light of the full Moon from Earth (the variability being due to the fact that Pluto’s orbit is highly elliptical, stretching from just 4.4 billion km to over 7.3 billion km from the Sun)

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT are you suggesting that we have NASA start wandering our planet taking insano-camera pictures of our planet? Because I fully support that directive. That would be pretty damned cool.

Aaron Hall

I hope as the Sun gets bigger we figure out how to move Earth a little further away...

user114359

@MichaelT that is more light than I would have figured

user55340

@Snowman the sun is very bright.

Jimmy Hoffa

also, really big

user114359

5:15 PM

@MichaelT [citation needed]

user114359

14

Q: How bright would the sun appear from the hypothetical Planet Nine proposed by Caltech?

Theoretical Planet Nine, proposed by Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin, is said to have a 15-20 thousand year orbit. Approximately how bright would the sun appear from Planet Nine aphelion and perihelion?

sun planets 9th-planet

Jimmy Hoffa

I wonder what the sun looks like from Pluto- size wise. Pluto is hardly a twinkle in our sky, but the sun which is further from Pluto than we are from Pluto, is probably still visibly large

Aaron Hall

Maybe we could move Venus further out too

If we could do that, we might be able to cool its surface enough to colonize.

user114359

@AaronHall this will happen naturally as the sun expands, but unfortunately the radiation and other effects will overcompensate and obliterate all life on earth

Jimmy Hoffa

Can you imagine if our sun was just a twinkle like Pluto is to us? Our whole planet lit and warmed by this tiny dot that sparkles across our sky during the day.

user55340

5:16 PM

@JimmyHoffa it has a visible disk. For that matter, so does Mars from earth - which is why planets don't twinkle.

PreferenceBean

definitely real

Aaron Hall

Maybe we could steal a small moon and use it to both smash venus in the right direction (outward in orbit) and start it spinning correctly as well.

user55340

@JimmyHoffa blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/16/…

PreferenceBean

Yeah we could create a such a moon using material made up of the incompetence of Thomas's managers

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT how do you define "twinkle" ? Isn't Venus the brightest dot in our night sky?

user55340

5:19 PM

> So, as I established yesterday, on average Pluto is about 39 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, so if you were standing on Pluto (hopefully, in a well-heated and insulated spacesuit!) the Sun would appear 1/39th as big, or 0.026 times as big as it does from Earth.

user55340

@JimmyHoffa it is. But it doesn't jump around because of seeing in the atmosphere because it has a visible disk. Just real tiny.

Aaron Hall

Maybe we could jump-start a planet's magnetic field?

user55340

earthsky.org/space/why-dont-planets-twinkle-as-stars-do

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT I guess the word "twinkle" is vastly more technical than I ever attributed it to be; I just meant bright light thingy

@Ampt how am I doing on pedant points today?

Ampt

@JimmyHoffa I have you muted so no clue.

Jimmy Hoffa

5:23 PM

@MichaelT Holy crap, I just typed @a and 7 names came up for autocomplete.. this room has become something significantly different than I think any of us had ever expected. We're so outnumbered D:

Ampt

In reality I've been avoiding work by playing air hockey

meh, there are still plenty of letters that dont have any autocomplete associated with them

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ampt I wonder if all of these foosball, pool table, and air hockey things at companies is just a way to get employees to volunteer the amount they slack to their boss' that they may be identified for removal.

Telastyn

fucking IoC containers

user55340

@JimmyHoffa we need to get Spartacus back.

Ampt

@JimmyHoffa heh, it's run by the building on the lobby floor, so my boss never sees me

Telastyn

5:24 PM

and fucking lazy ass programmers with no concept of coupling.

Kit Z. Fox

I am Spartacus. How can I help?

Ampt

No, no, I am Spartacus, how can I help?

user55340

@KitZ.Fox Ampt really is Spartacus.

Kit Z. Fox

sighs

Maybe he can make me some coffee then.

Ampt

It's even in my bio

with my passport

Jimmy Hoffa

5:27 PM

@Ampt right next to a disappointing number considering your time here :P You should slack by accruing some rep.

user55340

Oct 3 '13 at 16:51, by MichaelT

Go to your profile

user55340

Start reading there.

Jimmy Hoffa

0

Q: Publish / Subscribe via HTTP Callbacks?

My team is tasked with creating a publish/subscribe system for incoming REST messages. 99% of the time, this system will be used for notifications between different processes on the same cpu, but we will need to support notification over the network as well. We are considering a REST based mode...

design rest http pubsub callbacks

Go tell them to use ActiveMQ or another message broker that has REST transport built in

+rep

Kit Z. Fox

@MichaelT I can't. It's too much.

user55340

Oct 3 '13 at 17:19, by MichaelT

Haskell, however... thats all hogwash.

Ampt

5:28 PM

@KitZ.Fox Too much of my bad spelling? Yeah... that's embarassing

Kit Z. Fox

I could fix it... thinks on this

user55340

Back in the four person chat days...

user41796

@Ampt well played

PreferenceBean

@JimmyHoffa their .. "boss'"???? really, Jimmy???? REALLY????

Jimmy Hoffa

1 hour ago, by Jimmy Hoffa

<--- WINNER

Kit Z. Fox

5:31 PM

That is an indecent number of question marks.

Ampt

I find it quite scandalous.

Jimmy Hoffa

FridayBoard, make additional space on your tray tables, @GlenH7 will be coming around with complimentary refreshers momentarily. You rock that blue sash @GlenH7.

Kit Z. Fox

hurriedly corks bottle and looks frantically for a place to stash it

Aaron Hall

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/427778/…

PreferenceBean

I'm in the loos with one of your female colleagues

joining the Whiteboard High club

Kit Z. Fox

5:36 PM

I can't believe I'm getting another respiratory infection already.

PreferenceBean

Gasp

Kit Z. Fox

@AaronHall I need money for jam.

Ampt

@JimmyHoffa ugh, can we get to the peanuts already? That's the only reason I booked this flight

user41796

@KitZ.Fox that sucks and sorry to hear it

PreferenceBean

lol

Kit Z. Fox

5:39 PM

@GlenH7 Well, I got recommended for a promotion though!

PreferenceBean

sorry it's not funny. it really blows.

user41796

If there's no corn in the cheesy corn chowder are you actually allowed to call it cheesy corn chowder?

PreferenceBean

sounds like "cheesy chowder"

Kit Z. Fox

@GlenH7 No.

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ampt sorry, below 4k rep places you in Low Class seating. Peanuts are not served, and the complimentary scotch has been mixed with sweet and sour back there.

Ampt

5:40 PM

@JimmyHoffa YOU BASTARD!

PreferenceBean

sweet and sour mash?

Kit Z. Fox

@JimmyHoffa goddamnit

Aaron Hall

@KitZ.Fox I'm really close to William St. and Fulton, maybe there's a store here that take SO rep...

Ampt

@KitZ.Fox Points at Kit's now-stopped bottle

Kit Z. Fox

grumbles about 200 paltry reps and impossible time don't even know topic

user41796

5:42 PM

@Ampt don't worry, I'll sneak you some of the good stuff

user41796

The dead teamster can't tell the difference anyway

PreferenceBean

he's only MISSING

user41796

Just keep it quiet, mmmk?

PreferenceBean

only his spelling is dead

Kit Z. Fox

hides bottle in sock

user41796

5:44 PM

@KitZ.Fox careful. That sock might get a bit thirsty and nip some

enderland

argh. got a refill on coffee from a different coffee machine and it's way too burned. sad day :(

Kit Z. Fox

@enderland My coffee shipment hasn't arrived yet. I'm almost out.

PreferenceBean

how do you burn coffee....

user41796

Back during my Uni days, I had a friend who actually managed to burn mac & cheese.

user41796

Everyone was already giving her a lot of grief, so I didn't ask to find out the details.

PreferenceBean

5:47 PM

The only things I've ever burned are noobs

enderland

I'm not sure, but this is definitely got a "super super dark and burned" flavor

user41796

I think we're back to the broadcasting discussion where things sound better in our heads...

enderland

like leaving early on friday?

just leave yourself then

user41796

Here you are bitching about when the boss not so subtly lets you know "go ahead and break out the booze 'cuz I won't know"

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland untennable, I vote you go home for the rest of the day

PreferenceBean

5:50 PM

Nah he knows I'd have the booze with me if I wanted to

user41796

I mean, seriously now. That's a being a team player.

Jimmy Hoffa

actually had a boss once tell him to go home because he spilled a drink in his car

best boss ever

(not that kind of drink!)

user41796

@PreferenceBean Or not so subtly telling you that you do need some

enderland

@JimmyHoffa I was told I couldn't take PTO either and had to just leave. :P

(I obviously asked about this earlier in the week)

Jimmy Hoffa

what?

user41796

5:52 PM

@PreferenceBean - Maybe you should have some vodka tonics then as they're less bitter than beer. :-D

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland you're not allowed to take PTO? Does your work have one of those "unlimited" PTO scams?

enderland

@JimmyHoffa no. I asked if I could work more earlier in the week and take off early on Friday

PreferenceBean

@GlenH7 Yeah I tend to

enderland

and in that convo I asked if I would have to use PTO, and got told:

PreferenceBean

Out at pub => two ales then onto double vodka coke.
Out at hotel bar with work => double vodka tonics

user41796

5:53 PM

@JimmyHoffa Couple of gigs back, I had a management team that would do that. "Fire drill in 30 minutes. Pack up and make sure you're not here for it. Pretty certain it will last all afternoon."

Ampt

@KitZ.Fox sorry, what booze?

All I've got is this empty bottle burps

Kit Z. Fox

sighs Now my sock is all wet.

user41796

@KitZ.Fox I warned you

Kit Z. Fox

Sometimes I just have to learn it myself.

PreferenceBean

I did say I wouldn't go out tonight

but I have a headache so feck it

Kit Z. Fox

5:55 PM

Beer before liquor, never sicker.

PreferenceBean

I suppose that's a bit perverse - but it's because my alternative is computing and/or TV-watching, neither of which are great with a migraine

Jimmy Hoffa

@PreferenceBean make a plan then. TV show you love? Movie you want to see? Video game you really like? Spend the money on steam rather than the bar and enjoy something new.

user55340

@bluefeet as this was moved to status-review, could you elaborate on the exact feature that you are considering implementing so that we can address the various implications of its possible implementation prior to it being surprise and outrage? — MichaelT 40 secs ago

PreferenceBean

@JimmyHoffa TV shows - yeah when I get home (also headache). Movie? Nah they're all crap this week; I listened to the review on Radio 1 last night. Video game? Yeah I'm playing Halo 4 right now! Steam is free and I have access to none.

Jimmy Hoffa

@PreferenceBean access to none? $20 on drinks or $20 on a new game off Steam.. AntiChamber is a fun very quiet calm game

PreferenceBean

5:58 PM

oh that kind of steam

($20 lol that's like three drinks)

anyway yeah I take your point but the key is that I need to get away from my screen

Jimmy Hoffa

TV is a good distraction from a headache if you like the show - and provided the screen is far enough away like a TV should be

Ampt

I prefer to be seated no more than 32 inches from my 70 inch tv, thanks

Jimmy Hoffa