@PauloCereda Yes. Maybe.

Elephants and horses have great power only eat grass. This means that the grass is high-energy food.

So, I'm giving TeXMaker a try, since TeXStuido is being dumb about custom icons and dones't have a latexmk option by deafult

Holy COW. It is painful going back to Word and suddenly having to deal with ragged-left again. How did I ever prefer this?

Do we already have a question about cs naming conventions to optimize (i.e., decrease) hash conflicts?

@StephanLehmke oh no don't get David K started again:-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@kan Polish? I can understand some Polish, that's true ;)

@tohecz: Reverse Polish Notation?

@DonutE.Knot whatever. I never got why it's called the Polish notation at all, but again, it's the English habit of giving things completely stupid and irrelevant names ;) :p

what's the situation with downvotes -- that they might be accidental?

@tohecz After Łukasiewicz?

@egreg ok, call it Łukasiewicz notation, but why Polish notation? And after all, it has much more convenient name: pre/post-fix notation

btw, do you know what Parikh vector is?

@tohecz ‘Polish’ is more easily pronounceable than ‘Łukasiewicz’

@egreg yeah, it is. However, post-fix is the easiest ;)

@tohecz While ‘prefix’ and ‘infix’ have a long history, ‘postfix’ is a recent formation in analogy with ‘prefix’. I wouldn't be surprised if ‘postfix’ came into use well after RPN. Why not ‘suffix’? Because it has the idea of ‘sub’ (under) and it's indeed used in phrases like ‘suffixed variable’.

@JG What do you mean?

i got some negative feedback on a post where i had lots of positive feedback. i thought i heard once that sometimes it may be error

that there is some bug. but i don't remember

@JG Never heard of any bugs causing downvotes, only accidental mouse-clicks. Probably someone who didn't feel your question was a good one.

@TorbjørnT. Well I got many upvotes for the question. Is Throston still here?

@JG Yes, I noticed. You could leave a comment asking for a reason for the downvote, but all in all I wouldn't worry too much about it. Thruston was logged on yesterday.

No not that person. Thorston. Maybe it wasn't him.

I just want to know who downvoted it and why

but i did not get any feedback from the person

@JG Votes are anonymous, so while we (as a 'community') can ask for feedback that can't be enforced

@JG Remember that many people active on other SE sites can vote here, and they may have a different idea on the boundaries for up/downvoting

@JG It's really not worth worrying about the odd downvote

@JosephWright Thanks. It still makes me very unhappy to get the downvote.

@JosephWright I am very worried :(

But it's ok I don't want to trouble anybody

@JG As I say, while the 'local convention' is for very few downvotes, that's not the case cross-network

well this is at least a much better community than SO

@JosephWright we're basically the only site with this policy :)

whic policy @tohecz?

@JG of very little to no downvotes

@tohecz I've no idea how things work on different sites: there are lots of SE sites nowadays, and the 'standard' number of votes given varies

@JosephWright well, I'm recieving many downvotes on Ac for no obvious reason sometimes :-/

Hope you've been doing well @JosephWright!! I don't want to trouble you--you're an incredible mod!

@tohecz what's Ac?

@JG academia.SE

Anyways, gotta go! Later!

@JG I surely didn't downvote it; but I don't find the method particularly good from the pedagogical point of view.

you mean the way the question is presented?

@JG The diagram you'd like to obtain. But it's personal opinion, of course.

oh ok

thanks

@JG It happens, I assume it's vim users, they can't be trusted.

vim hahah

@JG maybe they downvoted because of the shoddy picture: you should get a better graphic artist next time.

hahahah

Oh batman...

@DavidCarlisle Hey!

@David: in a related topic, dad saw me coding in vim in a big black screen. He was like, "Where's the drag & drop?". I LOL'd. :)

@PauloCereda Is that really the kind of activity you should let your parents see you doing?

@DavidCarlisle Their health is at risk. And they might think their beloved son is crazy.

@PauloCereda happens to the best of us :)

@PauloCereda at least we have a suitable Advent calender: brauerei-schimpf.de/cms/files/adventskalender.jpg ;)

@cgnieder OMG

@David, @egreg: hey, I'm not ooh a duck! crazy. :)

@DavidCarlisle I'm doing some tests right now and the results are looking rather significant...

@StephanLehmke I just forwarded you a couple of old emails about that (I thought it was on a public list but it was just internal email discussion)

@DavidCarlisle Thank you; will look into it. Do we have a question on this site concerning this?

@StephanLehmke not really, Joseph mentions it here tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79437/…

@DavidCarlisle: so it's also your fault. ^^ :)

@PauloCereda It's always David's fault.

@egreg :)

@egreg: Any plans for Christmas? Any gift in mind? :)

@PauloCereda I have to write my letter to Santa.

@egreg In plain TeX, hopefully. :)

I thought of getting me a Kinect.

@PauloCereda M$? No way.

@egreg I have an Xbox 360. :)

And a PS3.

And a Wii.

And a Wii U.

And a PS2.

And a N64.

And a SNES.

And a 3DS.

What else do I have?

:)

@PauloCereda It's amusing you find time for chatting here.

@egreg My friends here have top priority. :)

@PauloCereda I'd actually written a comment saying it was Chris at Frank's house the link to the tug talk was posted. I think it was Chris but it was a long day and we'd been bouncing ideas around for hours so it's all a bit of a blur. There may possibly have been some beer involved:-0

@PauloCereda And, of course, working has lowest priority. But at top priority one should always have procrastination.

@egreg I'll fix my list later. :P

@DavidCarlisle ooh you little rascal. :)

@PauloCereda What else can two Englishmen and a German do?

@egreg LOL

@PauloCereda High level discussions, I mean. ;-)

@egreg of course. :) English or German beer? :)

@PauloCereda And of course, the final decision can come only after careful judgment. One glass isn't enough. Two? Oh, boy, don't be silly.

Who has to drive?

@egreg :) Do they play backgammon too? :)

@PauloCereda well I thought it was at Frank's house which would suggest German, but he says it was in the UK, so it could have been English:-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@JosephWright: got Rayman Legends? :)

@PauloCereda Not yet: my local shop had both Ni No Kuni and Ico available, so I splashed out and got them. They didn't have Rayman Legends, so it will wait until I've played those two (or three, depending how you count)

@JosephWright :)