The Bridge

Mechko

00:23

omg

you know what would be awesome?

making a website which is a level for erkie.github.com

with like goals and stuff

Mana

Yeah, that would be pretty awesome.

Now I will star that so that people who don't check context will think you've undertaken this wonderful project.

Good luck! :D

Mechko

damnit. I have to work though :D

I mean, I can't run the code on blackboard, so I suspect there is someway for the page itself to interact back with the spaceship

so you'd have places where you have to steer

Mana

UGH BLACKBOARD

BLACKKKBOOOOOOAAAAAARD

Mechko

and if the page itself can detect when certain elements are gone (like containers containing javascript) then you can make a game over scenario

Mana

also last day of beta thumbs up

or second-last

whichever

Mechko

00:26

lol

Mana

wait

we have to get to server fault numbers for a domain name

fml

WillfulWizard

:6023 Oh no. I must go moderate something before my powers are drained!

Mana

>:

I'm like 23 rep away from that stuff

Mechko

hehe now you're 1 rep away from that stuff

WillfulWizard

Its not that exciting, being actually USEFUL and all. I can't actually think of anything useful to do with it just now.

Mana

00:31

DAMN YOU MECHKO

Mechko

OMG! you know what is amazingly cool?

starting up erkie like 20 times on one page

it lags, but it's so fun

@Mana happy birthday

tzenes

Is it your birthday or is he being ironic?

Mechko

00:47

Mana just broke 2k rep

tzenes

ah

badp

04:52

you know you've had too much SE when you can no longer read uppercase 'so' normally

argh, 2 rep to go

badp

07:19

tzenes

looks good

badp

07:39

:6053 the bevel effect looks kinda wrong, actually, isn't it supposed to have a darker "highlight" too?

anyway I hope people won't take that logo and mistake it for a gamer dating site :P

badp

08:08

this "just" in

Stack Overflow Blog: Domain Names: The Wrong Question

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. …

Oak

08:32

Yo @badp, nice rep score :)

badp

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

badp

:6063 it'd get me to 2,982

Oak

08:38

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

badp

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

badp

no, please recalc it

Oak

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

badp

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

Oak

08:41

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

badp

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?

badp

webapps.stackexchange.com/users

Oak

Oh you mean the rep status... yes

badp

08:43

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!

badp

Thanks

Yeah, the first user page goes down to 500 rep

kinda depressing

Arda Xi

15:48

Stack Overflow Blog: Domain Names: The Wrong Question

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?

tzenes

@badp why a dark one?

it doesn't obey normal lighting conventions to begin with

badp

:6100 er

tzenes

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

badp

Jin

@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

tzenes

15:58

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

Jin

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

tzenes

ah, you weren't going for semetry?

badp

yeah, that's what I was looking at

Jin

i fixed it there

tzenes

I see

badp

15:59

so no inner "shadow"?

asking if it's by design or not

tzenes

but isn't the specular reflection wrong then?

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

Jin

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

tzenes

oh sure

badp

no problems :)

Jin

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.

badp

16:02

sure

tzenes

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

Jin

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

badp

you're welcome

tzenes

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

Jin

sure thanks. did you dm me?

badp

16:10

:6134 er, no, I posted the email here

Jin

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

badp

sorry, fixed.

Jin

sent. thx

badp

2/4 done...

3/4 done...

@Jin replied

Jin

@badp thanks! much appreciated

badp

16:25

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

Jin

ok thx

LessPop_MoreFizz

17:26

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

WillfulWizard

17:38

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

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LessPop_MoreFizz

18:30

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

badp

19:27

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

tzenes

20:13

ugh, not a 2v2 question

how do I say: 2v2 is horribly horribly broken

don't play it

WillfulWizard

21:02

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

tzenes

oops

fixed

WillfulWizard

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

tzenes

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

LessPop_MoreFizz

Beaten by @oak as well!

Slacking Tzenes! SLACKING.

Oak

What did I do?

tzenes

21:09

well, I had a slow week

WillfulWizard

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

tzenes

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

WillfulWizard

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

tzenes

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

WillfulWizard

21:11

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 :)

LessPop_MoreFizz

Pictures are cheating. THe best kind of cheating.

even bad pictures.

16

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"

LessPop_MoreFizz

terrible picture

and it's nearly my highest voted answer

Oak

Graphs > regular pictures

Oak

21:14

My highest-voted also have a picture =D

Oak

chart actually

WillfulWizard

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

LessPop_MoreFizz

+1'd that for POIDH.

Oak

Ah finally, area51 lists us at 90 days

WillfulWizard

21:17

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

LessPop_MoreFizz

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

tzenes

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

Jin

@oak sooon very soon.

WillfulWizard

:6208 Lol well, thanks.

Oak

Yay @Jin!

WillfulWizard

21:18

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

Jin

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

LessPop_MoreFizz

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

Jin

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 :)

Jin

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

21:20

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 :)

WillfulWizard

Definitely.

Oak

only downhill from now, poor you!

Jin

ha. well some themes are more challenging than others.

Oak

(though I have to confess the cooking site drafts look incredible)

Jin

21:22

i happen to be a gamer(well, used to be before i switched to Mac), so gaming theme has been fairly easy and fun for me.

Oak

I really liked how in cooking, the red bar have these trails off to the sides

Oak

though it's all off-topic here

Jin

►

cooking site was pretty tough to implement in css. i made it hard for myself lol.

LessPop_MoreFizz

:6226 HAY! I'm a mac user and a gamer :(

Also, WE HAS LFD2 on OSX now!!!!

Oak

Oh, you poor guys

Jin

21:26

i still play games on consoles sometimes. what's that new FPS game coming out? it looks really good, it has Mechs etc.

Oak

Sounds like an [identify-this-game] question :)

Oak

Though actually I will be forced to buy a console soon :(

Oak

First time for everything, I guess.

Jin

I want to say it's Brink. but i'm not 100% sure. been out of the gaming loop for a while.

Oak

Hmm, I haven't heard about it

LessPop_MoreFizz

21:29

Brink doesn't have mechs....

though it looks pretty awesome. It's basically the next gen of Wolfenstein: ET in terms of mechanics

which makes sense, being the same devs

Oak

I'm off to gametrailers to check it out.

Jin

is "ID this game" type of questions allowed on gaming site?

i may just ask

Oak

We have an [identify-this-game] tag.

Oak

Mostly used for old games, but not reason it shouldn't be used for new ones

Oak

Just supply all characteristics you can

tzenes

21:33

:6229 ITS GUS!

:6244 yeah I'm not sure why we decided its on topic, but its definitely on topic

this is fun: theregister.co.uk/2010/10/05/verity_stob_stack_overflow/…

WillfulWizard

@tzenes good stuff.

badp

22:21

nite!

WillfulWizard

goodnight!

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