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17:00
@twobugs was?
Well, the articles (which I'm sure are sensationalized) say some goofy stuff
> Daily performance reviews are standard, giving employees the opportunity to chime in and tear down others--anonymously.
> E-mails are sent out at all hours--miss the midnight e-mail, and you get a text message a few minutes later asking why you haven’t replied.
Oh, yeah, their treatment of employees. I read that article over the weekend
@KevinvanderVelden Supposedly none of this was endorsed by the CEO and he is vowing to combat this
I'll believe it when I see it =p
"was" is very premature wording on my part, though.
17:01
@twobugs Of course no CEO would publicly endorse this.
Operative word being "publicly".
Well, I doubt it would be endorsed privately, either. It seems like these kind of things usually come out and make a big stink when they do
"I can't believe that when I told them to do whatever it takes to improve number, they did whatever it took!"
Or maybe it's way more common than we like to believe and these are just the ones who got caught
He probably just turned a blind eye
17:03
> I am shocked, shocked, to find people overworked in my company
I heard about the Amazon culture being terrible years ago
AAH THERE ARE FLOWERS GROWING EVERYWHERE WHAT AAH HOW
@TimStone Oh god. Ambushed in the stall.
That's vile.
He wasn't even the right person!
17:05
He didn't even apologize.
How do you not apologize for that.
> The things that suck eventually become “quirks;” the culture just becomes “the way it is.”
> Weirdly, I did like it. Despite the strangeness of the company’s bathroom culture, my experience at Amazon had been a positive one.
Oh man, the story about the exec with her secret bathroom
Coding in the bathroom is just begging for shitty code
@GodEmperorDune ha ha
Well, on the plus side, Amazon is primed to start developing their own video games!
17:09
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Q: Scoreboard criterias

RoyalGaming369I am working on a map that I want to test if a player breaks a spawner. Then it gives the player a spawner, and maybe some XP ;D. I want to use a scoreboard command, but "/scoreboard objectives add SB stat.mineBlock.minecraft.mob_spawner" doesnt work even though the spawner ID is mob_spawner. Wha...

@twobugs Oh boy, will we get even shittier employment practices than is already common in the game development industry?
I can't wait!
The suspense is killing me!
Someday they're going to invent a device that sucks the video games out of developers by force
@StrixVaria I don't know what that is but it looks pretty and now I want to play it
Oh, that was before I clicked for full size. Now it's ugly and I don't want to play anymore.
That's an older Paradox mapgame, but I don't recognize it by sight
17:15
Right, dwarves need beds
@Sterno It was probably pretty in 640x480.
Hrm
Well.
Dangit.
I need to become a televangelist.
a what
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Q: Playstation Vita TV date always resets - how to remedy?

ErikI have my Playstation TV attached to a switchable power strip to save in standby power (TV etc. is connected there too). Every time I switch on the PSTV, it asks me for a time and date. Does somebody know how to fix this? Does the PSTV have an internal (real time) clock at all?

17:25
@Rapitor Someone who preys on uninformed/ignorant people for profit.
@Sterno The Church of Rebecca Black and Latter Friday Saints
@StrixVaria I believe they also need to announce "praise X" a certain number of times per minute
@GodEmperorDune let's be honest, we're talking about america. There's not many things you can fill in for X
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Q: On hay day how often do you feed your dog

Harrymy dog won't Eat so how long do I wait

@Lazers2.0 this could be retitled and made better....
in the worst way
17:36
@KevinvanderVelden fair enough
Well, I just called 1-800-THIS-IS-LEGAL
@Sterno praise be, caller!
Unfortunately, the people giving money to televangelists are probably not watching John Oliver.
No, but they may know sane people
Reminds me a little of the Jehovah's Witnesses who set up at my train station it feels like 2-3 times a week in the mornings. Except they don't want to just ruin your bank account, they want to strip any and all joy out of the remainder of your life.
17:46
Still better than Scientology
@Sterno True, Scientology goes for both.
It must suck to be a Scientologist, because you'd automatically lose any argument with anyone over anything by them simply saying "Shut up, you're a scientologist."
@Sterno I don't know if they are allowed to talk to non-scientologists
@Sterno I assume there are many other reasons it sucks, but that doesn't sound so hot either.
@GodEmperorDune The same way jehovah's are allowed to talk to non-jehovah's; as little as possible, unless you're preaching
17:49
Pretty much, yeah
all them flags
Flags? :o
Curse my non-10k-edness
language.se chat is apparently having an argument and just flagging everything
Yay drama
Boring drama
You're not missing anything
17:54
bridge drama is most fun
lifehacks is also amusing
Lifehacks meta doesn't exist anymore.
Basically
It's all about "how do we get more questions" at the moment
and "why is question per day so low I calculate it as like 7" (the answer is "it's a moving average as it should be")
@Unionhawk Stop being fundamentally flawed.
Hmm, trees are giant and span multiple z-levels in dwarf fortress now
Time to build a giant floor over them
@KevinvanderVelden I'm looking forward to seeing that
17:59
@murgatroid99 Mmmm
@murgatroid99 Yeah
I am pretty sure the people who work on the OS are idiots
<.<
@James o.0
@James That's not very nice
@murgatroid99 i kind of like milkyway more
Yeah well I am still a bitter ex-android developer
It will be a while before I forgive those who provide that environment.
18:01
Sorry @murgatroid99, @James is still angry with you
@James android was/is a PITA to develop for I agree, but the OS is still pretty stellar
(I have no idea what you work on, I just know you work at google =p)
@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I don't work on Android, but they're my co-workers, in a distant-relative sense
It looks like the major change in Marshmallow is a new permissions model that includes run-time permissions
is project ara still a thing?
or whatever it was called
I was hoping it would be named Mars.
Or Mars Bar.
18:06
Damnit elfs. ALL MY TRADING GOODS ARE IN WOODEN BARRELS
@KevinvanderVelden Haha
Stone pots are better!
They're cheap
@murgatroid99 you develope the android OS?
@KevinvanderVelden You should beat them to death with wooden axes.
Yeah I'm automaking those
4 mins ago, by murgatroid99
@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I don't work on Android, but they're my co-workers, in a distant-relative sense
18:07
Oh
Also, stone mugs are the best trade goods
Yeah I have friends who work for Google as well
I like selling food
@James The stuff about the permissions model was in the blog post
Doesn't change my stance that design by committee as a good idea.
18:08
I want to see a movie where Tom Cruise realizes Scientology is awful, and then takes them down from the inside. Starring Tom Cruise, obviously.
And lots of guns.
@James I can't parse this. Are you saying that design by committee is good, or isn't good?
@Sterno Directed by Michael Bay
@Sterno I've read somewhere he may be leaving scientology
@StrixVaria Isn't
I always give Michael Bay a pass because he made The Rock
18:09
@James Somebody has to make design decisions. And if you have multiple people working on it together, the additional perspectives can avoid tunnel vision
He makes movies that are usually entertaining. I don't hate him. But his movies are dumb.
Michael Bay makes good popcorn movies.
I don't think anyone should dispute that.
He doesn't do Oscar movies, he doesn't want to do Oscar movies, and no one should expect him to do Oscar movies.
@murgatroid99 Yes, driven design and someone having the overall architecture in mind is a very good thing
Those are things I am all for
But Android comes across as someone who got sick of arguing with everyone as to how things are to be done, just built a simple messaging system for modules to talk to each other.. threw up their hands and walked away
And just FYI I am aware this is all my opinion
18:13
> Bay has been unaffected by his critics, saying "I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime."
Google is good at building messaging systems for things to talk to other things. And actually, that's my job
And there are plenty of other systems out there people develop for that have their own issues... I am just bitter about all the effort I had to go into making things that should have been simple that were not.
I don't actually know a lot about the Android OS except as a user
@murgatroid99 I actually think it's pretty neat. Screen transitions are done with "intents". "Explicit" intents say "load this specific screen". "Implicit" intents say things like "share this", and then the OS will either figure out or ask the user what screen is appropiate for the "share" action. You can build your app to handle specific kinds of implicit intents.
18:15
@Sterno moves back potential windows 10 installation date even further
@StrixVaria Yeah this is basically a command line API wrapped up in an object.. Send your intent with referred to data and it will find the registered app to handle it or pop up selection choices and such if there is no default
We used this to embed all of our apps into a 'single' app
Streaming client, Control Editor, Debug clients and the such, etc.
HA one of my dwarves just narrowly avoided getting catapulted by a bridge being closed
Allowed us to have a Dev interface to our apps and such that we could just disable from the released APK files.
Yesssss this is dwarf fortress
But even that API is then very poor for passing information back and forth. Instead of attaching a little blob of data you had to put it into a file, get file share access to work properly by making all your 'apps' use the same permission information and overall weaking the entire security simply to say 'Hey yeah, that app over there can use my files, its fine'
18:18
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Q: Can my son play Minecraft with his XBOX 360 friends with his XBON One?

J HaySince MS has introduced backward compatibility can my son connect with minecraft games being played on his friend's 360 with his XBOX one? I purchased the gold membership solely for this purpose but my son gets a "Connection Lost" notice when attempting to join these games. Before I chase my ta...

xbon.
Xbone one true name
First strange mood!
blerghugh
BLERGHUGH I SAY
@Unionhawk u ded
xbonone
x bo none
18:21
Bah that's an even worse outcome
BAH
hrm
Ugh, windows 10 is gonna suck when old games can't be played anymore because of bullshit DRM
@GodEmperorDune what?
DRM that requires drivers installed
This whole, I'm in ur computer, inspecting ur games thing
I mean, unfortunately old game support is already pretty much dying or dead
18:23
Where drivers haven't been updated properly
Solution: Don't buy first party games (Minecraft is a first party game now @Uni) DAMMIT
@Unionhawk That's easy! Don't buy minecraft, you already have it
Yeah, this is true, and a free copy of Windows 10 edition
Take that, Microsoft!
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Q: How to kill a battleship in Luftrausers?

BanditoBunnyHow to kill a battleship in Luftrausers? Seems to be impossible to kill a battleship, how to hit it so it dies.

@SaintWacko: Spiky path of falling doom or spiky path of caged doom?
18:28
@KevinvanderVelden I prefer cages
Easier to collect the loot, and sell the prisoners
Also usually what I go with
The best base I ever had, the entrance was in a cliff over looking the water, and the only access was across a bridge
The bridge was designed so that when enemies ran across the bridge, it would drop out from under them
(Well, I usually go with stripping the prisoners, then dumping them in a hole and giving them swimming lessons)
And right under the bridge was a hole leading to a waterfall that fell down into a pool in the main room of the fortress
18:30
cc @fredley because he loves Archer
But there was a grate partway down, with gates below the grate, and a bit above
So what happened was the enemies would get sucked into the waterfall, then land on the grate
Then I would close the gate below it, so the pipe would back up with water and drown them
@Sterno Learning about @fredley's undying love of Archer significantly improved the series for me
Hmm, is there some kind of lever toggled by enemies walking over it?
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Q: What is the rate limit on Minecraft authentications

ZizzyDizzyMCI have lots of Minecraft accounts (21) and I can normally log them all (20) in one short time period. Until recently I had 20 accounts and no problems. Now that I have 21 accounts the 21st account attempts to log in and errors out with invalid password / email. After this error any account I at...

@Sterno I was just about to post this in chat, and then I realized where I found it.
THis si glorious.
I lol'd for reals
18:44
I just killed 2 of my miners, oopsie
18:59
@Sterno I hate you, @Sterno
But not as much as I hate Archer
Black Books is awesome
starred for truf
HEY
I SAW THAT
I'll take back my star then, @fredley
You're right, @Rapitor, modabuse is awesome!
19:00
He just fixed your mistake! You should be thankful
you're a butt.
DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS STAR TRAIN AROUND
@Rapitor I'm a butt that's making sure you don't say Wrong things
You should be thankful
It's been two minutes hasn't it
2
WELL TWO CAN PLAY AT THIS GAME, PORK CHOP
19:03
@uni cleared stars, fetch the pitchforks
"Nintendo, give me free stuff." I hope that plays out for him.
I should probably actually watch rick and morty sometime...
So, would we call this mod abuse conflict some type of "star wars"?
@Unionhawk *waits two minutes*
@GodEmperorDune you're fired.
19:06
@Unionhawk @Yuuki we need your pitchfork business over here!
@fredley OH YEAH
Didn't I tell you? I can rewrite history to my liking.
OH YEAH
yeah
TAKE THAT PORK CHOP
19:06
Oh my.
WHAT NOW
I didn't even have to use modabuse to do it!
Help, help, I need an adult!
DAMMIT
@GodEmperorDune No adults, only mods
19:07
YOU WIN THIS TIME TURTLE
I MEAN PORK CHOP
Turtle chop?
You're a monster @uni
I have all these caps and nothing to do with them
CAPS LOCK?
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Q: Minecraft Forge 1.8 Crashing after loading world

Moe Hamka---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- WARNING: coremods are present: FMLPlugin (InventoryTweaks-1.59-176.jar) Contact their authors BEFORE contacting forge // Surprise! Haha. Well, this is awkward. Time: 8/17/15 12:02 PM Description: Exception preparing structure feature java.lang.ExceptionInIni...

So much clowning... Cc @GnomeSlice
19:12
@fredley ARCHER IS COMEDY GOLD
LIES
YOU'RE A LIE
@fredley You're not my real moderator!
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19:29
I SURVIVED MY FIRST DAY
@spugsley AND YOUR SECOND. AND YOUR THIRD. AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS
@spugsley How many children did you shoot?
@KevinvanderVelden just faculty today :p
@spugsley but what about the victims, I mean subjects
no children until September :p
19:33
Damnit @Rapitor, stop hiveminding me
ugh. I feel kind of icky because I didn't sleep well last night and got up at 5am
I really want to take a nap but tomorrow is another early day
Stealing all my starbait before I can type it on mobile
I think I have to be up at 6 tomorrow
@spugsley you'll get used to it
@Sterno wow I'm slow right now, i only just got that
@spugsley :(
19:38
Hue
"shocking bit" I see what you did there
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Q: Will I get the MGS 5 pre-order bonuses with a CD-Key from Newegg for Batman's poor port?

mugen2099After the terrible PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight, I got a CD-Key from Newegg that will be arriving in a few days via email. Will I get the pre-order bonuses for MGS 5: TPP? I bought Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes on the same account around it's PC launch.

@Lazers2.0 I've read this question numerous times and I don't think I understand it
I'm thinking about getting a mac mini just so I can play with Xamarin :(
stupid apple and their stupid licensing
I could never go back to a PC now that I have Macs.
19:46
@twobugs I'm guessing that Newegg offered some bonus MGS 5 content for ordering Arkham Knight from them
I don't know what they're asking though
And why would it take a few days for something to arrive via email?
@murgatroid99 I can't imagine why they would do that, it sounds like they're offering MGS5 content as a "sorry you bought a crappy PC port of Arkham Knight" bonus? But that they're releasing it at some randomly selected arbitrary date?
So does this mean the arkham knight port is not getting fixed?
@GodEmperorDune Why would it mean that?
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Q: How do I have my king fight in battles?

rs232When I first played Crusader Kings 2 I remember my king participating in battles. How do I get my king to take up arms and go out into battle?

@twobugs I think I might get it. Maybe the asker already bought Arkham Knight, then Newegg made this offer and the asker wants to know whether they'll get it.
In which case, they should ask Newegg
19:51
I would take it to be an apology on Newegg's part, because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. Why would Square Enix be giving away codes for MGS5?
@twobugs yeah, that's what I'm thinking
@murgatroid99 Yeah, exactly. If this is all the question is then I feel like they spent more time asking us than just searching their inbox
@murgatroid99 I think I read it wrong
Can you clarify your question? What did you buy? What is this pre-order bonus you are talking about, and why are you unsure whether you will get it? And why did you ask us, instead of whoever is making this offer? — murgatroid99 11 secs ago
There. Maybe they'll just tell us
Thanks. I was going to add a comment but I'm trying to do my actual job for once!
19:59
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A: Is there a faster way of completing an objective asking for a dweller with a specific attribute?

Dewi MorganYES YOU CAN GET BALDNESS BY BREEDING WITH A BALD GUY (apparently I have to state this really superclearly or this "isn't an answer".) Yes, hair does appear to be inherited with at least some reliability - I've several boys with the same hair as their dads. So baldness also should be, too. [On c...


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