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ruddfawcett

22:00

@Mahnax what's that for?

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett Why? (suspicious)

:-)

Mahnax

@ruddfawcett Chemistry SE.

daviesgeek

@DanielLawson Oh, yeah, about that........

ruddfawcett

I had a sweet idea for your avatar (@daviesgeek).

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett No problemmo....just a sec

ruddfawcett

22:00

@Mahnax Uggh. Chemistry... Good thing I did that last year!

Jason Salaz

@Mahnax I can't click on either of those buttons. They just take me to the picture. Ugh!

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ruddfawcett

Well, the site could have been useful I guess...

Jason Salaz

(Note: SARCASM. HEAVY, SARCASM.)

ruddfawcett

@JasonSalaz Star for trying to click the buttons!

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett i.sstatic.net/J7qq5.jpg

Mahnax

22:01

@JasonSalaz Darn, eh?

@ruddfawcett gasp

I'm going to be starting Chemistry next year.

I'm quite excited.

Jason Salaz

I did have the urge to click them at first, then I realized what it is.

and didn't actually click them

daviesgeek

@Mahnax Me too. I'm not sure if I'm excited or not...

Mahnax

@daviesgeek I'm definitely excited.

ruddfawcett

I think i'll come up wiht an article about the hidden features of Preview.

Mahnax

I love all the sciences. Physics, Chemistry, Biology, in that order.

ruddfawcett

22:02

There are a ton.

Mahnax

@ruddfawcett I love Preview.

ruddfawcett

Me too!

Mahnax

It seems so simple but is capable of a good number of things.

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett Agreed. Do you listen to Macbreak Weekly?

ruddfawcett

I can't say I do... I'm not really supposed to be on my computer unless it's Friday or Saturday, and I'm not one for podcasts.

I'll check it out though.

daviesgeek

22:04

@Mahnax Yah. Physical Science was easy for me, but Biology has been hard...I've had to really study it well...

Mahnax

Oh, are you a youngun too, Rudd?

@daviesgeek I've found Biology to be a breeze thus far.

daviesgeek

Oooh, he's younger than both of us @Mahnax

Mahnax

@daviesgeek I see.

daviesgeek

@Mahnax For me, I think it's the definitions.

ruddfawcett

Why how old are you guys?

Mahnax

22:05

@daviesgeek Hm, I just hated remembering the whole Kreb's cycle thing.

@ruddfawcett Fifteen.

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett Sixteen

Mahnax

There were too many sixes.

ruddfawcett

@Mahnax cool, do you like python? :)

daviesgeek

@Mahnax I don't think I've learned that yet...I'm a bit behind in Biology...

Mahnax

@ruddfawcett Yeah, but I haven't much time for it. By the way, if you want to directly respond to a message, hover over it and click the little grey arrow on the right.

@daviesgeek Hm? What are you learning in Bio then?

daviesgeek

22:06

@ruddfawcett You mean the snake-that-strangles-you type of python, or the language?

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ruddfawcett

@daviesgeek The language :P It's his avatar.

Mahnax

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Q: Is Python a snake or a programming language? If the latter, why is it choking my dog?

We've been getting a rash of questions asking, essentially, what a programmer should name methods or properties. One such was a request for a word that meant both "add" and "remove" because the programmer wanted to have a method that could add or remove an element. Does this really fall under E...

daviesgeek

@Mahnax Just finished learning about the phylum Chordata and the basics of plants...

Mahnax

@daviesgeek Oh, in Science 10?

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett I know what you're talking about ;-)

ruddfawcett

22:07

@Mahnax That's hilarious/sad/stupid

Who asks that?

daviesgeek

@Mahnax Science 10? What's that?

Mahnax

By the way, best Meta post ever.

ruddfawcett

@Mahnax I can see :P

Mahnax

@ruddfawcett The title is a joke.

ruddfawcett

ya i got that.

Mahnax

22:08

@daviesgeek Grade 10 science. Or do you even use the 10, 20, 30 system?

The guy who asked the question is an established EL&Uer and he knows his programming.

Actually, he's the top EL&Uer and may stay that way forever.

Daniel Lawson

@daviesgeek I don't say LOL often, but you really made me laugh there. And I'm proctoring an exam, so I shouldn't.

daviesgeek

@Mahnax I dunno. I'm homeschooled, so I don't think about such frivolous things. :-) However, it would be grade 10 science, unless sophomore year isn't grade 10

@DanielLawson :-)

ruddfawcett

@DanielLawson Which exam? :)

Mahnax

@daviesgeek Is it a combination course that introduces you to Bio, Chem, and Physics?

Or do you have separate classes for each of those?

daviesgeek

@Mahnax No. It is Biology only.

Mahnax

22:10

I will draw a quick diagram of our science system.

daviesgeek

Ok. I wish I could say I could too, but I can't, 'cuz I don't know the system...:-)

@DanielLawson About those edits...I was going through new tags and editing questions tagged with the wrong things.

Mahnax

There.

daviesgeek

@Mahnax Cool.

Mahnax

@daviesgeek Yep.

Of course, for IB students, there is a Bio 35 after 30, and Physics 25 before Physics 20 and after Science 10.

(At my school.)

daviesgeek

I see

Well, I must be off. I need to continue studying/writing my paper for my final.

Mahnax

22:14

Yep. Fairly nonsensical business, this 10->25->20 stuff.

Good day to you, then.

Daniel Lawson

@ruddfawcett Econ 2

daviesgeek

@Mahnax Yah. Why not just 1->2->3 etc.?

ruddfawcett

@DanielLawson Oh :O

jtbandes

I'll just leave this here...

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Mahnax

@daviesgeek The usual way is 10->20->30.

daviesgeek

22:15

@Mahnax Ah.

(leaving now)

Daniel Lawson

@jtbandes Why would someone want to study Computer Science?

jtbandes

@DanielLawson Someone has to herd the lolcats and wrangle the interwebz.

Daniel Lawson

</deliberately-provocative>

jtbandes

</i-figured and-thats-why="the frivolous response">

I doubt attributes are valid in closing tags, but this conversation is at a level above such things.

Daniel Lawson

:-)

jtbandes

22:19

Thought you were very surprised for a moment there :P

Daniel Lawson

no, just can't type

also, O is just below )

on my keyboard

jtbandes

More importantly, 0 is )

(which I think is what you typed)

Mahnax

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/4361133/history

Daniel Lawson

yep, you're right

Mahnax

0 it was.

Daniel Lawson

22:20

all typos must be dissected thoroughly.

It's the law.

jtbandes

/me just read that sentence for ironic typos about 5 times

Daniel Lawson

Well, I didn't capitalize the A.

jtbandes

I figured it was consistent with the non-capitalization of your previous 4 lines so I ignored it.

Are we really having this conversation?

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Daniel Lawson

It appears we are.

And now that Daviesgeek is gone, the time has come to approve his edits.

daviesgeek

@DanielLawson I saw that!!!!

jtbandes

22:23

ahaha.

Daniel Lawson

@daviesgeek You're supposed to be studying.

Notice I didn't even @ him, and he read the comment instantly.

jtbandes

Shouldn't have notified him last time, should it? yeah..

Daniel Lawson

He's using the ninja lurker trick, I see.

daviesgeek

@DanielLawson :-P

Daniel Lawson

Yep

You have learned well.

jtbandes

22:25

Is that the "log out" trick? or the "private browsing mode" trick? or the "iDevice" trick?

Daniel Lawson

I hadn't thought of the iDevice trick. I'm partial to logging out.

daviesgeek

@DanielLawson i learned from you

@jtbandes What's the "iDevice" trick?

jtbandes

@daviesgeek being on chat on your iDevice, but not logged in... and opening a tab (logged in) on your computer to talk.

Daniel Lawson

@daviesgeek You also seem to have learned the "not getting the work done that you're supposed to be doing" trick from me... I've seriously got to get back to grading here. Which I'm obviously avoiding, given the stupid grammar discussions I'm engaging in rather than grading essays.

daviesgeek

@jtbandes That's not what I'm doing

@DanielLawson :-)

I am really leaving now

jtbandes

22:32

That's what they all say.

ruddfawcett

@daviesgeek i.imgur.com/5jWOm.png

@daviesgeek i.imgur.com/T5paJ.png

You can still see if the person is on by doing @ and then seeing what comes up...

Right?

Daniel Lawson

@ruddfawcett I don't think that's true

That's only affected by recent posts, not current status.

ruddfawcett

Ah...

I gotta go eat :P

I'll be back.

Daniel Lawson

That's what they all say.

jtbandes

"That's what they all say" is, apparently, what they all say.

daviesgeek

22:37

@ruddfawcett Hmm…dunno if I like it or not...

Mahnax

@daviesgeek ahem

daviesgeek

@ruddfawcett I'm gonna switch it back. Not enough color. Try making the letters a different font so they fill up the space more. Thanks for posting that and taking time!!!

ruddfawcett

22:52

Sure.

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