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This is a great site. The people are great, and I really have no complaints spare one. If you visit the "unanswered" section, you'll find that most of the questions actually have been answered. They have been answered however through lengthy discussions in the comments section of the questions. ...

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Jude Niroshan

03:51

It's a brand new day! Very Good morning everyone...

Damkerng T.

05:20

@JudeNiroshan Good morning!

@StoneyB Thanks for the news. Let me think for a few days.

(Though I still think it's a bit too soon for ELL.)

@jimsug Hello! How are you today?

jimsug

Good, thanks. Well, still getting over the cold I had, but otherwise good.

Damkerng T.

Get well soon!

Can a user be a moderator on more than one stack? I think there is no rule against this.

jimsug

@DamkerngT. Absolutely they can.

Damkerng T.

nods -- Want to run for a mod on ELL? :-)

(It was only a half-serious question, BTW. But I do think that you would be a good mod here. :-)

jimsug

@DamkerngT. Do you see my hat? No? That's because I've thrown it in. ;)

Damkerng T.

05:34

A-ha! :D

jimsug

Though I don't know why you're not running, @dam

Damkerng T.

@jimsug I may, but I hope I won't feel I want to, but maybe I will.

Freddy

06:30

hola

Damkerng T.

Hallo!

Jude Niroshan

I'm back... Just got a free time

Freddy

@jude Good afternoon

Jude Niroshan

@Freddy ohh seriously; look. It's almost afternoon

Freddy

06:45

Currently listening play.spotify.com/collection/songs

@JudeNiroshan Yes. My fav part of the day

Jude Niroshan

I like cloudy; cold weather. do you?

Freddy

Cloudy, cold and quite. Just like late night

Jude Niroshan

it would be nice if you could hang around with your girl on such a day.... One of my dreams! ... ugh

Freddy

haha it's fun. Trust me. ;)

Jude Niroshan

it's only a prediction. lol

Freddy

06:56

it would be nice if you could hang around with different girl on such different day.... One of every ones dreams! ... ugh :P

Jude Niroshan

hehe. What are you doing right now? Just only swimming in soundcloud?

Freddy

Listening songs and giving last touch to HANGMAN(python game)

@jude Which OS do you use?

Jude Niroshan

at office; I have got no options. It's ubuntu

normally I like to work on Windows. I have got lot of issue with my laptop. I have windows 8 on it and I call update it and some serious bugs on it even though i got a original key from my dreamspark account

Freddy

@jude 2 years before I broke Windows 5 to 6 times in a year. But after that I changed to Ubuntu and it works like charm.

Ubuntu is far better then Windows

@Araucaria Hola

Need to Go. Bye

Jude Niroshan

@Freddy Good bye

ASR

08:33

I am back

ASR

08:47

@DamkerngT. @jimsug @snailboat Hi all

Damkerng T.

Hi!

Jude Niroshan

hi

Anonymous

09:11

Hello!

Damkerng T.

Hello, too!

Ah, WendiKidd is back!

ASR

09:29

How are you doing all?

I have one question regarding interview; what I have to say for the question "tell me about your self". its a common answer saying all people

@snailboat good morning

@JudeNiroshan good afternoon

@DamkerngT. good afternoon

@snailboat help me

Jude Niroshan

Hi buddy

ASR

sanga is retired right?

Jude Niroshan

@ASR hmm yeap. I see lots of posts about it in facebook

he is a great player

Anonymous

I'm sorry, I'm not really sure how to answer your question

ASR

@snailboat what I have to tell answer for it?

My name is sudheer, working as a associate software engineer, I am having 2 years of experience on liferay, I have completed my post graduation with MCA in NEC college.

@snailboat is it fine if I say like that?

Damkerng T.

09:44

I assume that it's in a face-to-face interview. "Tell us (a little) about yourself" is an open question. You're free to present yourself in whatever angle you want to present. -- Your answer is okay, in my opinion. (Keep in mind that I'm not a HR guy, BTW.)

ASR

:) okay

Jude Niroshan

I am having 2 years of experience on liferay, do we really need am in this sentence?

Damkerng T.

Note that I think you can't say I'm having 2 years of experience. Better say I have.

Jude Niroshan

Can't we say; I have 2 years of experience on liferay,

ASR

@DamkerngT. ty

Damkerng T.

09:48

No problem.

Jude Niroshan

Are those two sentences are identical or they means two different things?

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan No, in my opinion, one is ungrammatical.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Anyone planning on nominating?

@snail nice election question; dunno why that didn't come to my mind.

Prolly 'cause I was writing those question-answer thingies at four a.m. O.o

ASR

i will vote you :)

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. why didn't you applied for the moderator election ?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

09:58

He will.

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan I'm thinking. Ideally, I don't want to be one. I come here to learn, more than anything else. Also, IMHO, it's too soon for ELL to graduate.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I'm gonna nag him to nominate!

@DamkerngT. Election means we graduated though.

Damkerng T.

That's what I meant by graduate.

Jude Niroshan

Are you serious ?

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I don't think of graduation as holy moly we're perfect!!one!!!oneoneone!!.

Anonymous

10:01

Please flag as spam

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@JudeNiroshan They're a notorious spammer on the SE network.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M On one hand, it's good to have more mods to help J.R. moderating the site. On the other hand, there are good chances that we may choose new moderators wrongly.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Dunno if there's gonna be blind-voting.

@snailboat I custom-flagged and asked for account nuke.

Oh no. I need to go.

jimsug

Flag as spam; it'll get auto-deleted if six of us do.

Damkerng T.

See you!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

10:02

Cya guys in 8 hours!

Jude Niroshan

done!

Cya

Jude Niroshan

11:01

anyone here?

Damkerng T.

Yes?

Jude Niroshan

are you busy ?

Damkerng T.

Moderately.

Jude Niroshan

uumm.. ok. I am struggling with constructing a sentence. I'll get back to you once I have done the sketch for that. :D

ASR

@snailboat where did you go?

Damkerng T.

11:04

@JudeNiroshan Okay. :D

Anonymous

I'm still here

ASR

@snailboat :) ok

what are your hobbies?

Anonymous

I like to study

Jude Niroshan

I have perceived that 10 candies have eaten by my sister.

can I take this as a correct usage of perceive in a sentence? @snailboat

Anonymous

I'm not sure which of my activities count as hobbies

Anonymous

11:07

I wouldn't use perceive that way. I'd say "I saw my sister eat ten pieces of candy."

Jude Niroshan

perceive = observe ?

ASR

@snailboat its interesting to me :)

Anonymous

I practice guitar every day

ASR

@snailboat wow :) thats great!

have you done any albums?

Anonymous

Yes

ASR

11:09

@snailboat can I listen ?

Anonymous

Oh, better not—I'm not very good :-)

ASR

I'm music lover

Jude Niroshan

Me; flutist :D

ASR

@snailboat no problem, I will listen, no one is perfect

Anonymous

My sister plays the flute.

ASR

11:10

@JudeNiroshan wow its not english chat room, musician room :)

@snailboat you both composed any songs?

Jude Niroshan

I was in college band for 9 years

Anonymous

Neat!

ASR

@JudeNiroshan great da

@snailboat please send me I will listen

Anonymous

I play some other instruments too, but not as often these days

ASR

@snailboat wow.......awesome

Anonymous

11:12

I started playing violin and viola when I was little, but I don't play as much anymore

Anonymous

I love string instruments :-)

ASR

@snailboat :) you are really talented

Anonymous

Oh, no, I'm just bad at an exceptionally wide range of things

ASR

@snailboat for others s bad, only music lovers can enjoy.

@snailboat what other you will do when you get free time

?

Anonymous

I chat on ELL!

ASR

11:15

@snailboat :)

Damkerng T.

Starred; starred!

Anonymous

I like to get up at dawn and look for slugs and snails.

Anonymous

I like to watch snails.

Anonymous

It's very calming.

Anonymous

They take life slow :-)

Anonymous

11:16

And they do surprisingly interesting things.

Anonymous

I like to find other animals too, but a lot of them are very fast and it's hard for me to watch them.

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. "I have observed that some most of hotels are still in inactive state. "
I want to write this in a nice way

Anonymous

We have lizards here that are very fast. Cute, but they run away if I come near.

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan That's a little confusing!

Is it some or most, and what "hotels" are you talking about?

Anonymous

I don't understand the combination of some with most

Jude Niroshan

11:18

I should remove some

I have observed that most of hotels are still in inactive state.

I am working on a Hotel Reservation company. So, hotels are real hotels

Anonymous

"most of the hotels" or "most hotels", depending on whether you're talking about a specific set of hotels that has already been mentioned

Anonymous

Or all hotels

Anonymous

I wouldn't say "most of hotels", though

Jude Niroshan

specific set of hotels that has already been mentioned

Damkerng T.

Do you mean that most of the hotels have only few guests?

Anonymous

11:21

Add the

Jude Niroshan

@snailboat yes. Then again it's the same sentence

Anonymous

I don't understand your message to me

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. No; in our system, those hotels are not activated yet.

Damkerng T.

I'm not sure what "inactive state" of a hotel means.

Anonymous

"in an inactive state"

Jude Niroshan

11:23

@DamkerngT. We have to activate the hotel status to true in order to display them in our web page

Damkerng T.

"I notice that most of the hotels (in the system) haven't been activated yet."

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. ok. it looks nice. Can you replace a nice word instead of I notice ?

Damkerng T.

Um... What do you mean by "nice word"? Does "I notice" sound rude to you?

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. No No! It's totally fine. I'm looking for a new english word

Anonymous

It appears that

Damkerng T.

11:26

Most of the time, it would depend on the context, imho.

Jude Niroshan

@snailboat awesome!

Damkerng T.

Is it formal or informal? Is it in speech or writing? Is this for a friend or the boss? etc.

Jude Niroshan

Thanks @DamkerngT. @snailboat for your help. I have to go for my lectures now. though it's 5:30 p.m.

Damkerng T.

Have fun!

Jude Niroshan

Cya!

ASR

11:33

@snailboat are using Quora?

Anonymous

I haven't used Quora.

ASR

@snailboat use it, its interesting.

Anonymous

Stack Exchange is the only Q&A site I've really used in English.

Anonymous

Thank you for the recommendation!

ASR

@snailboat best than the stack exchange try once

quora.com

Anonymous

11:35

I posted on Yahoo! Answers once when it first started.

ASR

@snailboat ok

Trust me, you can get benfited.

guys use quora....!

Anonymous

What do you like about Quora?

ASR

its Q&A site, not only for technical, G.K, current affairs, personalization, follow topics, so many there

Anonymous

What is G.K.?

ASR

General Knowledge

Anonymous

11:40

Oh, I see

ASR

@snailboat see this link quora.com/Science/…

its a question asked somebody

@snailboat its my profile

quora.com/Sudheer-Kumar-Akurathi-1

Anonymous

I suppose that the two of them would be more interested in discussing gravity with whoever owns the time machine

Anonymous

Assuming they know how it works, at any rate

ASR

@snailboat yes.

like that so many questions will be posted every second all over the world. its a non-profit site.

the guys who built the site was employees in fb, they came out from fb and started build it.

@snailboat you like quora?

Anonymous

Well, I've never really used it, so I don't have much of an opinion at the moment.

ASR

11:45

@snailboat ok start using it. for android there is also an app for the site

Anonymous

Thank you for the recommendation

ASR

@snailboat :) can I make friends?

quora.com/Learning-English

@snailboat its helpful to some one

like me

Anonymous

Is that your favorite place to discuss learning English online?

ASR

@snailboat Not like that ,I really dnt know stackexchange has english chat room.

I used to read those links in quora

Anonymous

ELL is supposed to be focused on specific questions, so there aren't very many questions like "How can I get better at English?"

ASR

11:58

@snailboat stack exchange is live, but quora is not, we have to wait for some time to get answer.

Damkerng T.

How is Quora's Learning English different from ELL (the main site, not the chat room)?

ASR

I will read question and answers every day, and I can easily understand english they have written without any mistakes, because so many content writers are there to modify question and answers specially.

Damkerng T.

It sounds like from your point of view, it's a place that content writers publish their articles.

ASR

@DamkerngT. content writers will verify content, only users of Quora are publish content for questions.

Damkerng T.

Are users and content writers different groups of people?

ASR

12:05

I dnt compare these 2 sites, but very useful to us who want to improve personally.

Damkerng T.

Me either. I just want to know about Quora a little more.

ASR

@DamkerngT. yes, both are different

Damkerng T.

Ahh... so users can't write anything, just read. How can one be a content writer, then?

ASR

Quora is a social network.
Relationships: You have clear relationships between users (followers) - usually you don't have users and/or relationships in blogs (Medium is interesting exception here).
Profiles: Each user has a public profile page.
Content: Quora's users are creating and consuming the content in the platform (questions and answers). Blog can keep running without its readers (but with authors), Quora can't run without its "readers" (because they are also the creators).

Damkerng T.

Hmm... that still doesn't answer the question how one can become a content writer.

ASR

12:08

@DamkerngT. users ask questions and and answer questions, content writers review the content and suggest edits like stack overflow

Quora is an online collaborative information sharing and learning platform.
Quora is an online engineering platform that connects the information needs of real people with information solutions provided by real people.
Quora is an expanding, continuously improving, democratically ranked resource library that contains 'bite' sized nodules of highly contextualized learning.
Quora is the mobile university. What articles are to desktops, Quora's answers are to mobile devices - the '1 minute' solution to the many daily questions we all have.

Damkerng T.

Really, that doesn't help me much.

ASR

Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. D'Angelo resigned from his position at Facebook in January 2010 to create Quora. He said that he and Cheever were inspired to create Quora because "we  thought that Q & A is one of those areas on the internet where there  are a lot of sites, but no one had come along and built something that  was really good yet." Quora's base of users grew quickly in December 2010.

Damkerng T.

It sounds like something you'll find on a brochure that promotes Quora, rather than what Quora is really all about.

But thank you for the information. :D

ASR

I am user, not promoter. just want to share what I know, I have no argument regarding this, if you like use, otherwise its your wish.

Damkerng T.

Let take a step back. :-) I didn't have anything against Quora. But I didn't know it, and you are its user, and I got curious about it, so I asked. There was no argument at all.

But I was thinking that maybe you could sum it up and made it easy for me to understand what it is.

ASR

12:15

:) i will take lite every thing :)

Damkerng T.

Good. :D

ASR

@DamkerngT. what are you working on?

@DamkerngT. do you know any Editors like CK Editor?

Damkerng T.

I don't know CK Editor. What is it?

ASR

@DamkerngT. its WYSWYG Editor

Damkerng T.

Like Google Docs?

ASR

12:19

@DamkerngT. did you ever edit content in wikipedia?

Damkerng T.

@ASR Why would I do that?

It sounds like you have edited some pages on Wikipedia. If you want to share your experience, I'll listen.

ASR

when you click on edit, all the content will open in edior, C.K Editor is also like that,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales he is founder of wikipedia

Damkerng T.

Ahh... so Wikipedia uses CK Editor?

ASR

he is in Quora also

@DamkerngT. no its not using, but its better than any editor, its rich text editor.

ASR

13:08

@snailboat you are so busy ?

are you playing any instruments?

Anonymous

I multitask

Anonymous

I'm reading

ASR

@snailboat :) great, can you send your music to my email?

i really want to listen

Anonymous

I'm sorry, I don't want to do that

ASR

@snailboat :( ok

@snailboat if you have website, pls put all there, so when any one likes you may feel happy

What ever i know I will share through my site, liferayway.blogspot.in

@snailboat how is my blog?

Schoko

13:41

haha

she ran away

ASR

@Schoko :)

@Schoko hi

I really interested in making friends, but I dnt know why people not interested :)

ha ha ha :)

ASR

14:28

good night guys

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

14:42

Hmm.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:25

\o @Fanta

Have you seen the big news?

Fantasier

15:35

What big news?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Da ELLection.

Fantasier

O

I see

Stack Exchange

17:21

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Q: Moderator Elections -- How many moderators can the site have?

How many moderators can the site have? How many moderators can an individual vote for?

discussion election

Catija

20:13

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M As a note, Ankit is one of the mods on M&TV... he's from... India? I think... But your English is better than his, and sometimes what he says simply doesn't make sense.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Ahh.

Well, I think he's trying to say something about movies and TV, but I don't get it.

Waiting for his comment.

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M If I had to guess, I think he misunderstood what you were saying about chemistry.

I'm guessing that you were simply saying that you weren't aware of swag for chemistry.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

No one ran into chatroom shouting "Da swag'z cool, eh?" So I thought no one has gotten the swag.

Also, I'm the top 30-somethingth user, so I should've gotten one.

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Probably because they haven't sent it. Apparently they post a meta topic when they send out the swag emails...

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Q: Graphic Design SE - Top User Swag!

For our thanks to the users that helped make this site the resounding success that its become, if you appear on the first two pages of this list, I'll be reaching out to you within the next 7 - 10 days to get your shipping and size information. Why would I want such information, you ask? Well th...

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I'm not sure if there are swags anymore . . . Oh!

@Catija From one year ago though.

Catija

20:21

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M That's the most recent I could find... but they're still claiming to give out swag... it's in the Chemistry site design announcement.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Catija I read the meta post about graduation like this:

> Yay! You graduated! blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah <shiny image> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah <shiny image>

So I'm not really sure if we're promised swags.

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M It's linked in my question.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I'm too lazy to click links.

Catija

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Q: Chemistry site design

I’m Kurtis, senior product designer at Stack Exchange. First, I wanted to congratulate you because this site is now starting the process of moving out of beta to become a fully-graduated site! Well done! Graduation and Your Site Design Graduation comes with a few perks. We have already started ...

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Still too lazy.

Catija

20:27

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Ahh, that's one of the shiny images.

I thought those were just for showing off somewhere.

I mean, I didn't think they were for IRL versions.

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M They're the examples of what may become the IRL swag... they're not always the same in the end but it's concept art.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Waiwaiwait.

I'm not seeing "you're gonna get a swag some time soon."

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M That's because they've not made the "your swag is coming" post yet... it's two different meta questions.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Just "swag: <shiny image 1> <shiny image 2> <shiny image 3>"

@Catija Then does your meta question still hold? I mean, of course they're gonna get the swag when the meta post comes.

Catija

20:33

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M First off, that's not the point of my meta question... The main point of the question is "how will this be handled with the two-step graduation process"... and the secondary question is "is swag still a thing".

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Third off, ellipsis is . . . not ...

:P

KK whatever. I need some sleep.

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Night!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

G'night @Cat! BTW, I think you and @Nathan would make nice mods.

Damkerng T.

23:54

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M +1

I have a hunch that ELL will never be the same after the election.

Good tide, @StoneyB!

StoneyB

@DamkerngT. OF course it was never the same before the election either :)

Damkerng T.

True!

StoneyB

You really think the election will make that much difference?

Damkerng T.

Yes.

StoneyB

Hmm ... I have to say I'm dubious about the ability of the mods to influence a group of people as ornery as we are.

Damkerng T.

23:57

Besides observing the language, I observe how people interact, too.

Mods have power, and I think we have a saying along the lines, "Power in the wrong hands are dangerous."

A similar thing also happened in my own village recently.

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