The Nineteenth Byte

@epicTCK Ah, okay. I have a Mac laptop with Windows and Ubuntu VMs. I also have an old Windows laptop that takes 45 minutes to turn on.

8:42 PM

"Just two lines of code enable you to bring the “Hello World” of Windows Ink into your apps through the InkCanvas and new InkToolbar controls. " still can't beat the majority of programming langueges.

aw, Pyth overloads < which I don't want :[

U:<

no idea what's that supposed to be Oo

>:U

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Q: Quack the Angry Duck

No one is quite certain what the emoticon >:U is intended to represent, but many scholars believe it looks like an angry duck. Let's assume that's the case. Task Given an integer n between 0 and 3 inclusive, print or return quack if n = 0, >:U if n = 1, U U > : U U > U U >...

well, I really only need to check if x is an integer

.EIlQ could work... I guess?

8:48 PM

sIQ

\o/, thanks

@Dennis++

Careful not to increment Dennis too much; he'll assume his final form and rule us all as the Supreme Golfer.

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@Dennis Pash is like PowerShell v0.3

it's okay, he'll just get to 70.001 :P

@AlexA. he already is ruling us all as the Supreme Golfer?

8:56 PM

@epicTCK The bigger announcement is UWP for Xbox One coming this summer. That is yuge.

UWP?

Ultimate Wiggle Power

My God

@El'endiaStarman Universal Windows Platform -- seamless transition between devices

Unikong

8:57 PM

yeah.

2

wat.

majik

Yes.

a bit late to the party guys

Literally write-once run-anywhere.

8:57 PM

Its not even april 1st

@EasterlyIrk what party?

But not Java.

> yuge

@Downgoat this one

2 hours ago, by Easterly Irk

hey, anybody notice unikong?

oh

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 hours ago, by Quill

8:58 PM

@muddyfish ...where you are.

@TimmyD Oooh, neat.

Uk

^^^

@TimmyD WTH is UWP?

Oh nvm

@MartinBüttner is it april 1 where you are?

8:58 PM

@EasterlyIrk mentalfloss.com/article/71417/…

@muddyfish no that wasn't a question... I meant it's not even april 1st where you are.

@EasterlyIrk not yet.

okai

but I am aware of other timezones :P

where I am

where is SE located? it's not april 1st in the US yet

8:59 PM

New York

They should have used JS to see local time based on clock or ip or something

@Downgoat their date-based stuff tends to last for 48 hours so that it covers all timezones

(50 hours actually, I think... -14 and +12)

I wonder if they made the game this year intentionally single-player so as not to encourage things like StackEgg.

^

I think so.

in the game, what does the clock do?

9:00 PM

clock?

@AlexA. That and they probably didn't want to bother with validating scores when the primary audience is full of hackers... :P

my first pyth answer \o/

@Downgoat That's a diamond.

@Downgoat is mod diamond

9:01 PM

oh, so that' show I can become mod

Yea, finding out that the highscore board wasn't shared sucked.

@EasterlyIrk what dies it ei

It's just points.

collect them all to win

oh

D: UNicorn is trying to kill me.

Worst. language.

9:03 PM

yeah

Ok. Idk what to think about this. just dont know...... My mind is so confused right now...

imma go play minecraft

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unikong

roflmao

unikong

woo

nice!

What level did you make it too?

I'm still going but I just passed 9

9:07 PM

\o/

\o/

@EasterlyIrk I just realized that the badges in the game are Arqade badges.

@AlexA. Beat 18.

Are the high scores fake? They seem to be different for everyone and are very round numbers...

Yes.

9:08 PM

@EasterlyIrk Nice!

I think nobody has legitimately hit really high.

@EasterlyIrk ∏.∏

@El'endiaStarman also took me a bit. :P

@AlexA. IKR?

Also, I don't see any place to choose your 3 letter name... :P

Yeah

TRICKERY

Then again, this is April Fool's...

@EasterlyIrk it is randomly generated to "YOU"

9:11 PM

what?

@AlexA. true..... KILL THEM ANYWAY!!

@Minibits (cc @Geobits) pokemon.alexonsager.net/76/109

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Golfing + Pokemon.

does anyone know what a "voltage detector" is?

I'm gonna go ahead and guess it detects voltage.

@EasterlyIrk Nice

Use it as an incentive to get minibits to golf code.

Also, you should totally let @Minibits chat, we won't teach him to worship avocad and hate java/js or anything.

Lynn

cjam.aditsu.net looks broken...?

Oh, wait, now it works.

@EasterlyIrk He's got an account, just not the rep yet.

Helka Homba

9:22 PM

@Geobits no

Fearow makes for some good combinations

who is minibits?

Geobits's' kid

how old is (s)he? @Geobits

9:24 PM

looks like my neighor

^^ Minibits

He should see a dentist.

dammit ninja'd

Using Staryu makes everything look like it's been face-huggered.

9:28 PM

^Pikachu (seems broken)

@Dennis this is raichu

-_-

no it's a Pikachu/Raichu fusion

oh

the fusion thingy

try "electrisian"

pokemon fusion is not a real thing, right?

9:30 PM

@Dennis good idea though

@Optimizer No, this is Raichu.

apparently electrisions look like this ^

my uncle doesn't and he is an electrician

At last, I have finally read all of the TNB transcript from my week without internet. :P

@epicTCK what's "*sian" from?

persian

9:32 PM

persian

dangit nijad

oh right

that was from memory

something you get after watching 18 seasons of pokemon

how do I quote a previous post?

link

Electrtoise is quite fun

9:33 PM

@Optimizer -_-

squirtoise

@epicTCK click the little triangle left of it, then "permalink", paste the URL into an answer without anything else (except a direct message reply)

ok thanks

dammit, its just a color mix

@Optimizer no try Weepintini

mouth changes

9:35 PM

color and face

yeah

lel

Nidoran (U1)

Nidoran (U2)

lel

you wanna no what a guy looks like when he's crying? a weepindude

this is the LOL meme face

mbomb007

9:40 PM

@AlexA. You writing a bot to play it for you?

hai

@Geobits aww

@mbomb007 Uh no?

@AlexA. why will you waste so much time feeding the trolls?

What?

follow the conversation

9:48 PM

Election begins in 22 hours. Hoo boy.

I predict that mods will be elected in this order: Martin, Dennis, Doorknob, Alex, with these candidates being eliminated in the process in this order: El'endia Starman, Mego, (and maybe PhiNotPi).

I predict I will be eliminated between Doorknob and Alex.

edc65

help| info needed

How is it possibile that a closed challenge is reopen by my single vote?

codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/76591/revisions

it says right there

What are all those images? A Pokemon parade?

10:04 PM

@edc65 You have the gold badge in code-golf

@edc65 you have a gold tag badge in code golf

ninja'd

Huh. Does gold badge give you that power? Didn't know

edc65

Uh it's a superpower I was not aware of

^^

10:05 PM

a gold badge is there
your powers are the supreme
dupe close and reopen

worst poem eva

Poem? :-P

A: UNIKONG goes off the edge of my screen so that I can't see its bottom

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Obviously you didn't read the minimum requirements... of browsing the internet in 2016.

@Quill :/ the image isn't loading for me...

^

10:09 PM

^

ಠ_ಠ

oh, Zach was not pointing out the stupidness of the message?

ಠ_ಠ

@Optimizer no ;-;

10:13 PM

what is the difference betreen l and ls?

A: Unikong environment halts when pressing left alt key

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Don't press the left alt key, and you have no problem.

@Quill remember: real developers play games by pressing ctrl+shift+j; all listed inputs are for "users". — Marc Gravell ♦ 1 min ago

what does ctrl+shift+j; do?

can you not press it?

no

ok

10:23 PM

@rgettman given that the javascript console exists: I doubt that — Marc Gravell ♦ 16 mins ago

??

I figured out how to change your name...

Photoshop?

it does the console
but you could have just searched it
you made me haiku

no

@Quill hai ku!

Just set up a new printer for my parents and now I'm trying to think of something to print.

I haven't used a printer for years...

10:33 PM

coz you still use fax machines?

@El'endiaStarman print a goat gif

@Optimizer I don't think I've ever used one of those. Seen them used, yes. Used them? No.

Print one of those sweet test pages.

@Geobits It already did. I'm just looking to test the wireless connection.

@Geobits those suck, I tried to print one out and it came out with really weird colors D:

10:34 PM

> print ... gif

We are mere Muggles...

@El'endiaStarman you can print each frame

then staple into a flipbook

@Downgoat I don't think that's the test page's fault...

:/

I'm gonna print this: paulgraham.com/power.html.

@El'endiaStarman you should print this picture

10:40 PM

@Downgoat Yeah, no. I've been trained to mouse-over links before clicking. :P

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D: how must I improve my ~~rickrolling~~ interesting picture linking skills?

Q: Why do door knobs still exist?

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As far as I know, in US, grip-and-turn style door knobs are still the most popular, as opposed to lever-style handles, which dominate in the rest of the world. Is there some UX advantage to door knobs that I am not aware of, which is the reason for keeping them around? Edit: To clarify the dif...

ergonomics household

@Quill that has already been posted here many times

¯\_( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ) _/¯