SE Podcast

Mooseman

20:00

Is the Chromecast button for the SpaceX stream NOT working for anybody else?

Jaydles

We'll be live in a minute...

Oded

@Jaydles I've heard that one today already

Mooseman

:o

Jan Dvorak

Today's topic: Stack Overflow mod elections?

Shog9

mmm... Snack Overflow

Mooseman

20:01

nom nom nom

Oded

Elections - discuss: choose 1) US. 2) UK. 3) SO.

Undo

okay, third display acquired.

Shog9

Today's Quiz: what sort of keyboard is Jan using, that puts t and n next to each other?

Jan Dvorak

@Shog9 Dvorak Standard Keyboard

Seth

Dvorak.

Mooseman

20:02

T-10mins

Jan Dvorak

both on the home row, right half

Shog9

that was less fun than I'd hoped

Jaydles

@Oded that was MEAN, @oded

Oded

@Jaydles imagine how I feel

Undo

My internetz do not like me streaming SpaceX and the podcast :/

bjb568

20:05

ooh something's happening now

Jan Dvorak

My internetz can't even handle the podcast

bjb568

mostly just freezing

Seth

I'm favouring SpaceX, sorry Joel.

bjb568

Why not use a real video streaming website?

Undo

T-5 minutes, spacex.com/webcast

Jan Dvorak

20:06

ah, good, it's a server issue

switching to spaceX

Mad Scientist

It's completely broken for me, but the SpaceX stream as well. Anything else still works fine, so no idea where the issue is

bjb568

black

offline

Oded

They are working on your problemz

Jan Dvorak

should I blame the chinese cannon?

bjb568

back

black

back

burning down close queue

rene

20:08

Ask Nick to stop coding in Ruby and fix the uplink

David Fullerton

HI EVERYONE

bjb568

HI DAVID

Undo

HI DAVID.

we're launching a rocket. spacex.com/webcast

2

D.G.

We should blame the discussion last time if London or NY had the faster internet...

Jon Chan

syncing the rocket launch with the podcast

David Fullerton

20:10

Alex has no idea how to fix the audio

abby hairboat

o hi @D.G. (aka editor david)!

D.G.

Wotcha! @abbyhairboat

Mooseman

30

bjb568

space launch doesn't start

AstroCB

Yes.

bjb568

20:11

se frozen

animuson

All I heard was meerkat so now I'm curious what's going on

bjb568

what is porblem

David Fullerton

there's a meerkat loose in the office, hold please

2

bjb568

Y U NO WERK?

Jon Chan

for a second I thought there was a meerkat in spacex mission control

David Fullerton

20:12

D.G.

Streaming was fine for Alex saying that the streaming doesn't work...

abby hairboat

we are going to periscope this

Oded

And today on the SE podcast, we will be watching the SpaceX launch

abby hairboat

and i am not joking

hichris123

...

abby hairboat

20:13

can you folks hear anything at present?

bjb568

no

Laura

@abbyhairboat ...perioscope does not work well

bluefeet

yes

hichris123

yes

D.G.

Yes sound and visual here.

sassie

20:13

yes

Laura

i can hear you, but you sound bad

2

JNat

no

abby hairboat

@Laura that is not very nice :(

D.G.

(And then it cut out again)

Jan Dvorak

I can hear the spacex stream

bjb568

20:14

hard reloaded, works now

abby hairboat

i am cry

David Fullerton

@Laura that's just how I always sound :(

cashenhu

you sound not good

bjb568

sounds bad too here

hichris123

gah, the stream keeps cutting out.

abby hairboat

20:14

I AM CRY

Laura

@DavidFullerton your yelling sounds very tame through the livestream

bjb568

U R CRY

Undo

Working for me, a little tinny

abby hairboat

/me is cry

Jon Chan

if you scream the entire team we can hear you

cashenhu

20:14

usually this is NPR quality

bjb568

THE ENTIRE TEAM

Laura

@abbyhairboat it's not very nice to promise a podcast but then make it difficult to hear :P

Undo

"It's got a little infinity, press that" < quote of the day

abby hairboat

not my fault

D.G.

Live is normally this sound quality.

David Fullerton

20:15

Current status: "We've got lots of mics, right?"

bjb568

Why does youtube streaming things work?

Even google can make something that works.

Undo

AAARG HE GRABBED ME

abby hairboat

limestream

Laura

@abbyhairboat don't worry, I blame Alex.

bjb568

sound better

Laura

20:16

BETTER

Undo

... okay

sassie

you don't even have to yell

bjb568

YES YOU DO

bluefeet

now I'm dizzy

Laura

@Jaydles you sounded okay, but David and Joel still sound far away

hichris123

20:16

Complaint: I can't see Joel too well.

bjb568

HOW ELSE DO PEOPLE HEAR ME?

Jon Chan

better

Undo

pickles

D.G.

Livestream is just cutting in and out same as before.

Pieter DePree

Everyone sounds pretty scratchy

bjb568

20:16

Complaint: Is this 360p?

Pieter DePree

pickles

Laura

no pickles

bjb568

cucumber

abby hairboat

gherkins

sassie

we can hear david fine too

Mooseman

20:16

pizzas

JNat

Everything's choppy for me

rene

brown?

sassie

Roberta should say something though

bjb568

@rene blue?

bluefeet

pickles

hichris123

20:16

@JNat same

Undo

Can you move the camera somewhere other than a cable jungle?

AstroCB

!xkcd status

Didn't think so; just wondering.

bjb568

xkcdbot isn't here

xkcdBot

Oh, but I am.

David Fullerton

this is just what it's going to sound like live, sorry :(

we've given up

bjb568

20:17

65˚C here running flash…

Mooseman

Question: Will the webcast be available later for those the livestream refuses to serve?

rene

The stream from space is better...

2

sassie

heard her

totally fine

Jon Chan

we can hear youu

Undo

Yeah kinda

bjb568

20:18

yay

Andy

@Mooseman yes. It's usually a couple weeks later

hichris123

@DavidFullerton Suggestion time: use Google Hangouts next time since it's quite a bit better & you use it internally.

D.G.

@mooseman Audio is always available later, video not so much(?)

abby hairboat

@Mooseman there will be an audio recording at the usual quality, but video isn't recorded

Mooseman

No video? :(

bjb568

20:18

y?

:(

AstroCB

Oh – it didn't match this URL.

hichris123

They didn't ask an Video Production question yet.

bjb568

i leik cheez

Mad Scientist

@hichris123 Doesn't work if a maximum of 15 people can be in the hangout

D.G.

"This morning" ?

abby hairboat

20:19

joel has his own time zone

4

David Fullerton

it's morning somewhere

Jon Chan

I told you not to touch it

hichris123

@MadScientist I meant hangout on air, sorry. So you can watch on YouTube.

Laura

It's been a while since we had a cheese sponsor: blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/07/…

D.G.

The buffer is larger than I thought...

hichris123

20:20

"Unfortunately, we're having trouble loading the page you were looking for"

Jon Ericson

@DavidFullerton Iceland, if I'm not mistaken.

abby hairboat

@hichris123 we'll look into that for next time around

AstroCB

!xkcd status

Jon Chan

should have at least given roberta some buffalo wings

bluefeet

@JonEricson At least it's always Friday there

hichris123

20:20

@abbyhairboat Okay, thanks!

AstroCB

I really shouldn't bring bots in here, but I'm heavily tempted.

Undo

please don't

Jan Dvorak

don't bring bjbot here!

AstroCB

@JanDvorak I think he's already here.

!xkcd find buffering

abby hairboat

PODCAST DRINKING GAME: take a drink when there's an audio editor david/@D.G. shout-out

bjb568

20:21

@JanDvorak :p

Undo

That was me

Jan Dvorak

ah! drat. At least he's not unkickable, though.

AstroCB

Goodbye, xkcdBot.

I was just wondering whether he would actually work in here.

Matt Sherman

roberta has done interesting academic work, btw

abby hairboat

Jon Chan

20:22

oh noez

Annonomus Penguin

So, on mobile now. Can anyone tell me what is happening with the steam since I can't watch it now? Is it delayed or just having technical difficulties for the live stream?

Laura

no more streeeeeeaaam!

abby hairboat

Ithaca Hours

The Ithaca HOUR is a local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating. It has inspired other similar systems in Madison, Wisconsin; Corvallis, Oregon; and a proposed system in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. One Ithaca HOUR is valued at US$10 and is generally recommended to be used as payment for one hour's work, although the rate is negotiable. == The currency == Ithaca HOURS are not backed by national currency and cannot be freely converted to national currency, although some businesses may agree to buy them...

Oded

It has been a lovely sunny day in London today

bjb568

No gas falling from the sky?

Oded

20:23

Nothing liquid, anyways

Jon Ericson

Only reason to move to Ithaca is for love (or college).

Laura

did the stream totally die for anyone else? no sound or video anymore

bluefeet

@Laura still working here

abby hairboat

Moosewood Restaurant

Moosewood Restaurant is a restaurant that was founded by Therese Tischler, Judy Barringer, Kris Miller, Josh Katzen and others in 1973 in downtown Ithaca, New York. Moosewood is located on the first floor of the Dewitt Mall building, which is a converted high school. When The Seed Company (a bookstore cafe) closed, the owners gave Therese Tischler the money they had left saying, we're giving this ($1200) to you because we know you'll find something good to do with it. Therese had been politically active as a student at Cornell and was very concerned with ecology and the health of people and the...

Jon Chan

@Laura cuts out sometimes refreshing works

Undo

20:23

working here

bjb568

@Laura workinghere

hichris123

@Laura Just refresh.™

Jan Dvorak

The youtube version is working like a charm

Oded

There is a youtube version?

Jan Dvorak

SpaceX CRS-6 Launch

►

hichris123

20:24

lol

Oded

:P~

bjb568

Jan Dvorak

12k viewers

bjb568

37 o'er here

Oded

Winning

bjb568

20:25

37 > 12

Laura

why didn't we do the SE podcast live from the spacex launch?

Jan Dvorak

12k>>>37

Oded

Q.E.D.

3

Matt Sherman

roberta wrote a parser for a custom syntax for candidate search

Jon Ericson

@Laura Imagine the audio problems...

hichris123

20:26

Game time: what's going on? It's cutting out on me every few seconds...

Laura

@JonEricson would it really be worse than this?

abby hairboat

i volunteer to be ghost-producer-abby-from-space

4

SomeKittens

You guys are competing with SpaceX

Poor timing

Laura

@hichris123 Roberta is talking about her work on Careers! including a neat candidate query language feature for employers

abby hairboat

@SomeKittens i bet spacex never mailed you a dollar

8

Jan Dvorak

20:26

SpaceX livestream ended nnow

Mooseman

SpaceX hit 113k viewers :o

Andy

@SomeKittens To be fair, those slackers were supposed to launch yesterday.

SomeKittens

@abbyhairboat oooh, you've got me there

hichris123

@Laura ah, okay. thanks. :)

bjb568

@abbyhairboat wait, you guys do?

abby hairboat

20:27

we did! once!

bjb568

huh

SomeKittens

But how many things has SE put into orbit (aside from my career)?

Oded

Jon Skeets reputation

abby hairboat

touché!

Jan Dvorak

space.se

Mooseman

20:29

Look like I'll have to wait to hear the podcast :/

You guys should do it at lunchtime one of these days

abby hairboat

whose lunchtime?

Jon Ericson

@Mooseman It is lunchtime.

JNat

Well, this sure was fun, but I guess I'll wait for the podcast, since I haven't been able to hear a full sentence yet :P

bjb568

@JonEricson NO IT'S NOT

IT'S DEFINITELY [TIME OF DAY]

hichris123

@abbyhairboat GMT. Get Joel et al. up in the middle of the night.

Bart

20:30

@bjb568 it always is

bjb568

:o

Oded

Bart knows.™

Bart

^

rene

^^

D.G.

Who hasn't muted something that's ba-ding-ing?

hichris123

20:31

@Oded Trademark time?

Jon Ericson

@D.G. We could find out...

SomeKittens

@D.G. Ping 'em one at a time

process of elimination

@JoelSpolsky PING

Oded

@hichris123 done

AstroCB

1

Annonomus Penguin

@hichris123 but how do you determine when the middle of the night is?

D.G.

20:32

No it wasn'tt the chat room ping.

bjb568

why am i moving

Shog9

sound is not annoying enough. someone needs to start rubbing a balloon

5

Jon Ericson

We are trying to put the camera into orbit.

3

Jaydles

@Shog9 that noise cripples me.

hichris123

@AnnonomusPenguin lunchtime GMT = 8:00 EDT. So I guess not the middle of the night, but...

rene

20:32

OK, I just puked in my keyboard...stop moving that camera

D.G.

seX camera launch!

Jon Ericson

(Or rather Alex is.)

Bart

@Shog9 bags of crisps ... we need bags of crisps

Oded

Sound engineers is going to have his work cut out for him.

bjb568

@Bart *chips

hichris123

20:32

@Oded Stack Exchange: Bart knows

Alex Miller

Is the audio better now?

Jan Dvorak

In the meantime: disorient.ddns.net/SOVoteMonitor

Oded

@hichris123 you can quote me on that.

Laura

@AlexMiller yeah, everyone's a little louder now

Jin

hi

SomeKittens

20:33

@AlexMiller Still can't hear Joel say horrible things

Shog9

DavidF needs to project

SomeKittens

He's being far too reasonable

Oded

> Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.

animuson

Haha Google Opinion Rewards just gave me a new survey and the sole question was "How often do you listen to podcasts?"

Pieter DePree

@Oded, do they have video for that yet?

hichris123

20:34

Joel's having coffee, but what's David having? Orange juice?

Oded

No idea

Alex Miller

this is what the studio looks like now

Shog9

nice

Bart

@AlexMiller are you sure that arm will hold?

bjb568

in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by Jason C

@JonClements Correct. "Royalty free farts" is now in my search history.

^ idea for more annoying sounds

Anonymous

20:35

Has it started yet?

bjb568

YES

Alex Miller

@Bart oh yeah, this is a $200 C-Stand, its fine

Anonymous

Stupid lunch distracting me from what matters.

SomeKittens

@AlexMiller add more duct tape

bjb568

and vinegar

Bart

20:37

@bjb568 you've been hanging around on lifehacks too much

bjb568

:p

abby hairboat

obscenely fast the way jay was just talking

holy crap that was amazing

Oded

I've been doing it all wrong

hichris123

We need better video quality so we can tell what's on David's screen.

SomeKittens

Yeah, take that Australians!

Great view of Joel's bald spot

Bart

20:39

@hichris123 "Enhance!"

Laura

@hichris123 you can't tell? he's toggling between the livestream and this chat room!

Jon Chan

bev bash!

hichris123

@Bart sadly not. :(

Laura

there was origami recently

during bev bash

they're getting more elaborate

hichris123

@Laura I can see a chat room... but not this one since it has an image in it.

Jon Chan

20:40

a lot of making fun of me on the treadmill

Oded

I spend too many Friday nights on bev bashes :)

abby hairboat

@JonChan i have yet to join a bev bash with you on the treadmill!

i am excite

cashenhu

@Oded well if we're trying to re-create the office environment we've succeeded!

Anonymous

5

Q: Allowing subscription to all scheduled events for a chat room

I'd like to be able to subscribe to notifications of all scheduled events for a chat room. For example, I'd like notification of all events in the SE Podcast Live Chat room without needed to re-register each week or each time it's rescheduled. Listing such users are "registered" would be mislead...

Anonymous

It would be nice to get notifications of upcoming podcast streamings through something like this.

Jon Ericson

20:40

Remotes had to drink alone. :-(

3

Jon Chan

@abbyhairboat what nobody knows is that my treadmill powers our servers

cashenhu

Because I have spent WAY too many friday nights at the office.

Laura

@hichris123 well, he was looking at this chat room when I typed that.

SomeKittens

"I'll be drinking alone in my office" So just like every other day?

Oded

@cashenhu ha! Though some more interaction with people in the offices (not at their computer) it would be great.

Ana

20:41

I do even less work than usual on Friday afternoons and bev bashes are a great way to deflect responsibility.

2

hichris123

@Laura Well, yeah... looks like internal chat to my untrained eye now though.

Jon Chan

"incestuous hangouts"

bjb568

@SomeKittens yes, you crazy kitteh

Jon Ericson

29, actually.

abby hairboat

4

SomeKittens

20:42

29?!?!? HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?

bjb568

@abbyhairboat yay

abby hairboat

TIL "ori-GAAAA-mi" is a way people pronounce it

(assuming @Jaydles is people)

Ana

eh

Bart

@abbyhairboat quite the assumption

bjb568

@abbyhairboat go back to skewl

hichris123

20:43

No, it's chat.SO?! It's orange.

Jon Chan

oar eh gom ee

Laura

turns out bars are quiet at 2pm on a weekday

bjb568

:o

Oded

That was an awesome hangout moment - we were all laughing so hard

Jon Chan

that credit card is how I expensed this treadmill

6

hichris123

20:45

Trust, but verify.

abby hairboat

@JonChan jay says the second syllable as if it rhymes with "grammy"

bjb568

internet of things is meaningless buzzword

quit hitting the camera stand thing

can't type while upside down

Oded

He is not welcome there anymore

Laura

and dogs!

and babies

Zirak

What is David Fullerton (?, the guy opposite of Joel) drinking? Weird cup of orangey death?

Laura

20:46

all kinds of critters

SomeKittens

Remote work question: What's SE at in terms of % remote engineers?

Arie Litovsky

Cats get all the work done, really

Zirak

With chunks of evil?

hichris123

@Zirak I was thinking orange juice, but it doesn't look like it at all.

Arie Litovsky

@Zirak I think it's some kind of tea

Zirak

20:47

In the glass

Jon Chan

cats at Stack Exchange

2

Conspicuous Compiler

What percentage of random cat talk is edited out of the uploaded podcast, would y'all say?

Zirak

Next to the bottle. There's some orangey goo. With red blobs in it.

SomeKittens

My gender is zero

Jon Chan

oo I like Turing

SomeKittens

20:47

@ArieLitovsky Yes, we do.

bjb568

me like turing too

SomeKittens

Get a dog, name it Barkov

Oded

@SomeKittens most developers are remote.

Jon Chan

get two cats. name one ruby, name one haskell - see which one you like better

Bart

@Oded physically or just "not quite there"?

Oded

20:48

@Bart take your pick

abby hairboat

crazy windstorm here - if i drop out suddenly it's because we lost power

Oded

Fyoder Turing?

abby hairboat

(i'm not in nyc)

@Oded alan dostoevsky

SomeKittens

I feel sorry for the three guys who work on universal TV clickers but are forced to go to an office. Y'know, non-remote remote devs.

Oded

@abbyhairboat the third.

@SomeKittens that's a fireable pun

abby hairboat

20:50

@SomeKittens you're fired

Oded

See?

SomeKittens

Wow, fired before I could even apply!

and here I thought dad-jokes were a theme!

Zirak

You weren't a cultural fit

Oded

@SomeKittens We are all about efficiency

Part of "performance is a feature"

abby hairboat

dad jokes are for OFF HOURS ONLY

the podcast in question:

Blog - Stack Exchange: Podcast #54 – The One With All The Anachronisms

Alex Miller on November 14, 2013

Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast #54, with special guest Sara J. Chipps! Joining us today also is CFO Michael Pryor. Your hosts as usual are Jay Hanlon, David Fullerton, and Joel Spolsky. Today’s episode is brought to you by /r/husky!

We’ll start out with Site Milestones. We have one: Ham Radio will be in public beta by the time this podcast goes live. Turns out there are tons of ham radio enthusiasts even today. Ham!

New Features The big thing we’re currently working on is the new topbar. It hasn’t changed in years… until now! David walks us through the new featu …

33 mins ago, by abby hairboat

PODCAST DRINKING GAME: take a drink when there's an audio editor david/@D.G. shout-out

Bart

20:55

What is this @Oded? You're no longer the best?

Jon Chan

+1 for roberta being awesome

2

Shog9

I had a friend who did that

Anonymous

It is an actual story, but is the story actual?

Shog9

Put like $10 in ones on the table.

If service was really bad, he'd take tips off other people's tables on his way out

He was not popular with waitstaff for some reason

Oded

@Bart had to check. Still good.

SomeKittens

20:57

"Saying 'we hire the best' only selects for delusional people" <- really accurate, never seen it expressed so concisely.

7

Bart

@Oded phew.

Mooseman

@JonEricson Lunchtime EST, please ;)

abby hairboat

I HAVE A VERY GOOD FRIEND WHO IS A DUDE WHO IS IN NURSING SCHOOL SO THIS ARGUMENT IS INVALID

Mooseman

MY OPINION MUST BE YOUR OPINION

abby hairboat

scrubsmag.com/pros-and-cons-of-color-coded-scrubs

TIL there is a magazine about scrubs

Transcript for