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VxJasonxV

12:12 AM

@KyleCronin That is a ridiculously convincing photoshop XD.

@Nathan It was in a state where I had little access to anything. Frankly, I'm happy with how it turned out.

@Nathan Told you it'd be there on Friday.

Nathan

that you did.

VxJasonxV

I meant to reply to Kyle

@KyleCronin Told you it'd be there on Friday.

Kyle Cronin

@Nathan you didn't say when on Friday though

VxJasonxV

@bmike That much I didn't remember. I always get to my RSS after the fact. So time of day means little to me.

(bmike, re ^, we're making fun of the fact that I hit reply on the wrong post.)

Kyle Cronin

@VxJasonxV one thing I noticed when I had already finished was that I capitalized "randomly", whereas the rest of the options only had a capital for the first word

but I'm glad it came out well

VxJasonxV

12:19 AM

it did. good work

Ryan approves too. And she's a Graphic Designer!

Kyle Cronin

FWIW, I have Acorn to thank for making it easy

just over 500 visits from daring fireball.net so far

and that space is not me being clever, it was inserted by Lion's autocorrect

VxJasonxV

suuuuure

Kyle Cronin

@VxJasonxV can I get a screenshot of the close as off topic box on AD?

VxJasonxV

sure

Kyle Cronin

thanks

I'm going to start a meta post about our default migration paths

VxJasonxV

12:35 AM

yay

Kyle Cronin

1:16 AM

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Q: Which sites should be in our primary migration paths?

When you select "off topic" as a reason to close a post on most of the other established Stack Exchange sites, you're presented with a menu similar to this: As you can see, there are a few pre-selected sites that you can vote for a question to be migrated to instead of simply closing the quest...

VxJasonxV

I admit, I've never understood why there is a finite list

Kyle Cronin

me neither

VxJasonxV

It should have the same site chooser in place elsewhere.

a text box where you type a name or subject or url or whatever.

Kyle Cronin

I understand why they'd want to have a few suggestions - there are some sites with similar and overlapping subjects

Nathan

1:33 AM

Almost 1000 clicks from DF!

Kyle Cronin

yaaay!

Nathan

Ooh, found another inbound:

mactalk.com.au/content/thursday-morning-news040811-1718

Kyle Cronin

the stats in the mod page are a bit delayed

Nathan

And sloooow to load sometimes.

Kyle Cronin

I really wish we could see the actual inbound links, not just the domains

Nathan

1:39 AM

Yeah. GA does that...

Kyle Cronin

I'm sure there's a [feature-request] about it somewhere

Nathan

I don't wanna complain (now). SE spent $6k on advertising for us!

Kyle Cronin

DF sponsorship pricing is funny

Nathan

how so?

Kyle Cronin

back when we first got the tweet, I checked it out and it was $5500

then not 20 minutes later I checked and it was $6000

I have a feeling that it varies quite a bit, and might even be up for negotiation

Nathan

1:46 AM

Quite possibly.
Well, the fact that SE has given us a full-time employee and a ~5K+ ad campaign makes me feel honored.

Kyle Cronin

it's appreciated, for sure, but it's not a gift - they own the site

but it's great to see that they're committed to making it successful

Nathan

@KyleCronin Exactly! Seems they're paying us a lot more attention right now.

Kyle Cronin

yeah, it is nice

Spotify doesn't have Sometimes There's a Man mailchimp.com/sometimes-theres-a-man

this is ridiculous

it's completely useless

VxJasonxV

:|

Kyle Cronin

why would I pay for a service that doesn't even have every song in the world?

I am, of course, being sarcastic

somewhat

Nathan

2:06 AM

I have to say that Spotify has had just about all I've needed.
Not that my tastes are particularly exotic...

I have been pleasantly surprised by the comedy selection there.

.
Although, the app is... not great.
They need to spend more time on UX.SE.

Corey

I understand how to drag an app to Applications to install it, but what do I do when an app comes with an 'extras' or 'plugins' folder (such as XChat Aqua)? there is an app icon and a few folders.

Kyle Cronin

one day I'm going to go through my iTunes library and see how much is on Spotify

Nathan

@Corey If it doesn't have an installer (.pkg or .mpkg), the process will vary.

Kyle Cronin

@Corey I usually just drag the application only, and leave the extras where I downloaded them

Nathan

If the other folders are necessary, there should be an installer or a readme with details.

Kyle Cronin

2:08 AM

gopollgo.com/what-will-your-next-phone-be

Kyle Cronin

2:48 AM

I found out how to download Chocolat, but it requires a testing key

and I don't know how to get around it without reverse compiling the binary, which I don't know how to do

Nathan

1.3K from Gruber.

VxJasonxV

@Nathan Huh, I haven't thought to look for comedy. Nice suggestion.

Kyle Cronin

5:36 AM

in all seriousness, Spotify's pretty good

going down my iTunes library in terms of play count, I got to #20 before I found a song that it didn't have

granted, a few of the songs I could only find live versions of, but that's still pretty impressive

and in case you're curious, the one that stumped it was Bob Seger's "Turn the page"

Kyle Cronin

5:55 AM

actually, there's no Bob Seger at all

no Eagles or AC DC

VxJasonxV

6:34 AM

Metallica's version is better anyways.

Kyle Cronin

6:44 AM

uh, no

the entire tone of it is different

Graham Perrin

9:27 AM

Whilst editing something, I accidentally created new tags hackintosh and osx86 so FYI: meta.apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49/tag-corrections/… no rush, just to flag that it may be appropriate to remove one or both of the tags.

Nathan

2:01 PM

2.5K! Nice.

Abby T. Miller Ψ

just wanted to check in and see if @kyle is still alive after Gruber didn't use the space

Nathan

Yeah, he seemed alive yesterday afternoon.

(after Gruber posted)

Abby T. Miller Ψ

just checking :)

Nathan

The bump from it has been good, but less than I expected.

Abby T. Miller Ψ

do you have any experience with what kind of bump other plugs of his have experienced?

Nathan

2:11 PM

Not Gruber's, no.
But he does say there are like 400K subscribers who got pushed our link twice.

And a million monthly pageviews.

Abby T. Miller Ψ

i guess we'll just wait and see what it does over the weekend

Nathan

Yep. Hopefully that's when it'll really take off.

What we really need is for iOS 5 and iCloud to be released on like the same day.

And then for the new iPhone and iPad and iPods to be released on the same day.

Abby T. Miller Ψ

@Nathan that would be convenient!

Nathan

If we thought Lion was big...

Abby T. Miller Ψ

and for os x ocelot to be surprised released next month

Nathan

2:15 PM

That would be nice too!
Who knows, maybe it would even ship with **PHYSICAL MEDIA!** dun dun dun

Abby T. Miller Ψ

@Nathan scandal!!

Nathan

:P

VxJasonxV

7:49 PM

New Lion feature I had not stumbled across before:

QuickLook continues to play media (music at least, unsure about videos) when no longer in the foreground. This now makes QuickLook a BEAUTIFUL ad-hoc music player.

@KyleCronin That's why it's better anyways :D.

Kyle Cronin

9:51 PM

@VxJasonxV you have no taste, you have absolutely no taste

and I don't mean that in a small, way, I mean that in a big way

►

VxJasonxV

10:36 PM

@KyleCronin And you have no concept of sarcasm :D. Also I don't know if I've even heard Bob Seger's version. Therefore I carry no actual opinion of it.

Kyle Cronin

@VxJasonxV Seger's version is quite good - it's more subtle and emotional than Metallica ever can be

VxJasonxV

people say that about Duran Duran's version of Ordinary World, vs. my favorite trancey version.

Also... Metallica is neither subtle nor emotional so umm. No kidding :).

Kyle Cronin

if you want to get a feel for what the Seger version is like, there are a few 'tribute' versions on Spotify

of course, they're all by country singers, which Seger is not

VxJasonxV

@Nathan 'tis better to stagger than to play all your cards at the same time.

Kyle Cronin

I have no doubt iOS5 and iCloud and the new iPhone will arrive on the same day