The Bridge

I should undo exactly one downvote...

Oak

Actually, would you like a rep recalc?

Oak

It's likely to get you past 3k

Oak

Though it can also decrease your rep, I guess, you can check on gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation

:6063 it'd get me to 2,982

Oak

8:38 AM

Ooooo now I really want to recalc you >:-)

go ahead, make your day! :)

One day should be plenty of time to get 18 more rep right? <.<

Oak

Naa it's okay, I'll feel my evil quota later

no, please recalc it

Oak

And actually, you could take revenge on me pretty soon, I guess!

naaah, our mod team is an awesome one, no need to touch it

Oak

8:41 AM

Can't tell if you're sarcastic or not :) but anyway, we weren't chosen through the community process, so I guess we do need to start the nomination process again

Oak

At least soon, once the site leaves beta

no, I'm not being sarcastic

what's awesome however is that we won't be on diamond life support like webapps is

Oak

Why, what's going on there?

webapps.stackexchange.com/users

Oak

Oh you mean the rep status... yes

8:43 AM

Fourth top non-diamond user has 2,004 rep

that's a looong way to voting questions closed.

Oak

It's interesting that they actually have more users than us

Oak

Just a lot less >1k, >2k and >3k users

Oak

I guess they have had a lot less questions, which translates to a smaller rep pool

Oak

Well you asked, I complied :) go get those 18!

Stack Overflow Blog: Domain Names: The Wrong Question

Thanks

Yeah, the first user page goes down to 500 rep

kinda depressing

Arda Xi

3:48 PM

Posted by Robert Cartaino on October 5th, 2010

Friday night we rolled back the domain name of our first out-of-beta website. After less than 24 hours of existing on the internet, nothingtoinstall.com was reverted to its original public beta name – webapps.stackexchange.com.

We’re sorry for springing this on you at the last minute but – at least at the time – it felt like circumstances didn’t give us much choice.

With deep concerns about domain name choices for the 20+ ongoing public betas and some negative feedback about breaking up the network into smaller domains, we made the snap decision to roll back the name change we had launched barely a day before. We felt that rolling back ASAP was preferable to letting problems grow exponentially through the next week while we discussed and voted and debated. That’s not an excuse; just an explanation. In hindsight, dealing with the community and the repercussions of our decisions should have taken precedence. …

Why Pause for Help of all names?

@badp why a dark one?

it doesn't obey normal lighting conventions to begin with

:6100 er

and I can't think of any examples of a heart in games with both a light and a dark

@badp i had the gradient inverted by accident. check the heart in the header graphic i uploaded

i have since fixed it on my end

3:58 PM

It looks correct on my end, but maybe I'm seeing something different?

yeah i inverted the gradient. the lighter part should be on top

ah, you weren't going for semetry?

yeah, that's what I was looking at

i fixed it there

I see

3:59 PM

so no inner "shadow"?

asking if it's by design or not

but isn't the specular reflection wrong then?

if your light source is up and to the left shouldn't S=VR?

i can definitely tweak it some. right now solving some pressing css issues before the launch :)

oh sure

no problems :)

but normally, i don't try to make it 100% realistic. otherwise i'd have to change the shadow angle of the entire site :) some elements have top cast shadow, some from an angle..

the idea is just to get the feel out there.

4:02 PM

sure

ok, but your diffuse lighting is from top left and your specular from top right, its kinda weird

I had assumed you were just ignoring lighting conventions and going for symmetry

you give me too much credit. i think i just simply wasn't paying attention...

btw @badp can i send you a html file and you test the text rendering on linux for me?

you can dm me your email address via twitter. i'm following you

thanks

you're welcome

anyway, if you do change it, here is was I'd normally see with lighting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phong_components_version_4.png

sure thanks. did you dm me?

4:10 PM

:6134 er, no, I posted the email here

i wasn't able to copy your email here beofre you removed it

sorry, fixed.

sent. thx

2/4 done...

3/4 done...

@Jin replied

@badp thanks! much appreciated

4:25 PM

I don't seem to have Lucida Sans installed apparently

anyway I attached screenies

you may want to make the ask question ship react on hover btw in some way

since the tabs do fade to white

ok thx

5:26 PM

:6148 I like that the asker basically openly admits that he's @tzenes-baiting.

5:38 PM

:6151 I thought asking any SC2 question was @tzenes-baiting?

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6:30 PM

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that's off topic.

7:27 PM

woo, 3k rep of actual, honest-to-god reputation!

in other news I hate having the luxury of commuting

so bad for social interactions, so good for the pocket

8:13 PM

ugh, not a 2v2 question

how do I say: 2v2 is horribly horribly broken

don't play it

9:02 PM

@tzenes "PT: 8Rax Reaper + 7 pool"? Not TZ?

oops

fixed

Cool. I'd have just fixed it, but I had a feeling it might have meant you missed another in the list.

hey, congrats btw

you had more rep than me last week

I can't begin to tell you how relieved I was

stackexchange.com/leagues/7/week/gaming/2010-09-27

Beaten by @oak as well!

Slacking Tzenes! SLACKING.

Oak

What did I do?

9:09 PM

well, I had a slow week

I did see, thanks! :) I don't think I'll be able to keep it up, but I'm having fun trying.

but Will's week was better than my previous week as well

I think you can keep it up

Oak

Oh, the weekly ranking. Willful, bwarner, sjohnston and myself are there because of civilization v

I've had a slow couple of days already. I'll have to go play civ and ask a couple more questions.

Just remember, if you think you can write a better answer than already exists don't be afraid to answer a question which already has an answer or two

that was a hard lesson for me

because I didn't want to take away from answers that were there that were ok

9:11 PM

Oh I have. I also use pictures, which are basically cheating.

I don't just rewrite what everyone else already has, but if I have something useful to add, I know that can stand on its own.

Oak

Pictures are great :)

Pictures are cheating. THe best kind of cheating.

even bad pictures.

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A: How do I find diamonds?

When in doubt, Find a Cave. If you don't see anything on the surface, Dig Deeper. Really, that's all there is to it. In general, you won't find Diamond much past 10 levels or so above Bedrock. The graph below (Found in this thread) shows the density of Diamond in one generated world. 0 on the ...

Oak

But @tzenes I admit that I am indeed bad at this "adding a better answer"

terrible picture

and it's nearly my highest voted answer

Oak

Graphs > regular pictures

Oak

9:14 PM

My highest-voted also have a picture =D

Oak

chart actually

My highest definitely has a picture or 5. Its their own fault for asking for confirmation

:)

Oak

Man I wish civ5's rivers would look like civ4's

+1'd that for POIDH.

Oak

Ah finally, area51 lists us at 90 days

9:17 PM

@Oak now I'm going to have to go compare when I get home.

also, "+1 for POIDH." is below the minchar for a comment.

:6196 Yeah it took me a while to differentiate between a "ok" answer and a "great" answer

@oak sooon very soon.

:6208 Lol well, thanks.

Oak

Yay @Jin!

9:18 PM

:6210 YAY! Thank you. We <3 you Jin.

btw thank you for all your support with the design process.

All we did was cheer you on. The excellence is all you. :)

normally designers are scared by "design by committee" but you guys are nothing but supportive and constructive.

Oak

We can be cruel critics as well :)

when the design goes live (tomorrow) please let me know about bugs... i try my best to cover all the little obscure styles, but i don't always get it 100% on the first try.

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Oak

9:20 PM

We'll do our best

Oak

by the way, I'm sure gaming will be the most fun of all the se2.0 sites to design :)

Definitely.

Oak

only downhill from now, poor you!