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chx

3:00 AM

travel.stackexchange.com/questions/67930/paris-in-one-day is this WANTA? I am unsure.

Gayot Fow

3:12 AM

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Q: Bounty Bonanza Interest Gauging and Commitment Levels

June 2016 will mark the 5th anniversary of the TSE site, to mark the occasion we can run a "Bounty Bonanza". This is a month long event where bounties are offered at an unprecedented level! Regular users will swarm over the site looking to run the maximum number of permitted bounties for the enti...

Gents, @MarkMayo, @JoErNanO, @chx @CMaster, are we starting to turn the corner on this where it looks like a go? I noticed someone going into the 3/100 bounty range.

chx

I thought we had a previous thread already and we said go?

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Q: The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza

The Proposals Our 5 year anniversary falls on the 28th of June this year, if we consider our birth date to be the date our public beta went live. Time to celebrate this Travel.SE style - with a competition! Below are two possible proposals: For the whole month of June we could run a bounty gi...

discussion fun competitions bounties

Gayot Fow

@chx We said 'go' in principle, @MarkMayo advised to write a firm commitment type of META

chx

Asking questions , problem is, any question I want to ask will be closed in seconds :)

Gayot Fow

3:30 AM

@chx I closed voted as WANTA,

I'm stunned to see a 10k user answer it.

I understand the noob wanting to jump in, but cripes a full 10k user?

I can't find the protect button

@chx why? did you make some enemies?

chx

haha no it's just off topic

like, where do you find interesting travel related crowdfunding projects

that's "too broad"

Gayot Fow

My brother is into that but he's very regional

I have to think up some questions for the bonanza.

chx

3:57 AM

"Is there a lightweight, easy to operate travel can opener? I am aware of johnlewis.com/joseph-joseph-can-do-can-opener/p1355716 and blog.consumerpla.net/2010/06/… and looking for more ideas." is this an acceptable question or too broad?

that would greatly interest me...

and impossible to google since it spits out all these horrible military can openers

Gayot Fow

@chx That might work!

@HeidelBerGensis I was thinking about a new handle for your evolutionary advance

chx

I already have a trusty spork I carry around, I have amazon.com/Yazawa-Travel-multi-cooker-TVR21BK/dp/B006NT20YG this, a can opener would nicely finalize the set.

I have the original Japanese version from quite a few years ago

onlineshop.com.sg/… "This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 30 November, 1999." as I said, quite a few years.

Gayot Fow

Can't you just go in and get one?

chx

get what...?

Gayot Fow

4:19 AM

a can opener

chx

I do not know what to buy.

that's the question itself.

Gayot Fow

If I were in that situation I would ask the lady what aisle they were on. Is it a language issue?

Heidel Ber Gensis

@GayotFow and what did you come up with?

Gayot Fow

@HeidelBerGensis I'm not finished yet. I only have the first name "Ian" because it's the last diphthong in 'Homosapien'.

Heidel Ber Gensis

I am thinking to use a name that spooks white people..

casper, osama.. something like that :D

Homo Ben Sapien?

Gayot Fow

4:34 AM

@HeidelBerGensis Dude, no

Heidel Ber Gensis

@GayotFow you are the English expert

tell me a word, when taking away 8 letters of it, it still gives the same meaning, and when adding 4 letters to it, it will still give the same meaning..

Gayot Fow

you got me by the short and curlies

Heidel Ber Gensis

?

@chx are you a french speaker from canada?

chx

No, I only speak English and Hungarian (at least among human languages. I speak a lot of computer languages :P )

Heidel Ber Gensis

@chx lol

printf("hi");

chx

4:53 AM

Pretty much yes

Heidel Ber Gensis

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Q: Why did French survive in Canda while being far from France, while other languages didn't (Arabic in Malta, Dutch in South Africa)

I always wondered, what makes some languages survive for a long time in a form that is similar to the one from its origin, while others didn't. For example, French in Canada, while being there for many years (almost same time as the Dutch in South Africa) and away from France and with absence o...

french

I always wondered about that..

chx

if you want to hear that sort of talk, had to the sprint rooms of [DrupalCon New Orleans]( events.drupal.org/neworleans2016) which is happenning right now

Heidel Ber Gensis

@chx a drupal event?

chx

rather, THE drupal event.

there must be more than 4000 ppl

I haven't been in a few years but even at the mentored codesprint in 2013 Portland there were 600 people which was awe inspiring.

the conference itself is usually 4-4500 people

Heidel Ber Gensis

I have never used drupal, I do not even know what is it about..

I am more like a .NET guy, it is a hobby, my job is so far from being about technology

chx

4:56 AM

it is supposedly an application to build websites with

but more importantly, it's an amazing vibrant international community

Heidel Ber Gensis

I will take a look into it..

it is built with php?

@chx after using MVC, it will be hard to work on php, as i remember php does not use an MVC model.. or is there something new?

last time i used php was years ago..

chx

Certainly things have changed

If you look for architectural purity then Drupal might not be the best choice ;)

quora.com/…

here's the answer to why French survived

it's not because the French language is special

Heidel Ber Gensis

@chx i am all into design patterns and architectural patterns now.. since it is a hobby, i got all the time in the word to make mistakes and learn

@chx of course no language is special, factors around it are..

chx

Drupal has many design patterns

Especially Drupal 8

it has all the patterns whether necessary to include all or not :P

make no mistake, Drupal 8 is awesome but it's a tad bit overengineered and sometimes hard to understand

Heidel Ber Gensis

@chx i just read a little, it is quite famous..

chx

5:07 AM

yeah, depending on who you ask / how you count at least 2% of all the web is Drupal powered

Heidel Ber Gensis

thats a lot!

chx

Yes, it's code I wrote :D

I mean I didn't write all of Drupal but I wrote a hell lot of it.

Heidel Ber Gensis

@chx that's something to be proud of mate!

chx

I am! (or was.)

and more importantly, it brings well paying jobs so I can live in my dream apartment and finance a really small almost-school in Hungary while at it.

Heidel Ber Gensis

nice

so u stopped working on dripal?

drupal*

chx

5:10 AM

I no longer contribute to Drupal, that's true

if work needs something I will send it upstream but that's all

Whether it's permament or temporary, we will see

Heidel Ber Gensis

nice

u r like bill gates of drupal then

except a few billion dollars difference..

chx

Thing is, I do not want to get into handling people

I am good at nudging code where I want it to go

I can even get specifications out of people who do not even have a clear picture of it themselves

but that's it basically

I am not managing teams

Heidel Ber Gensis

@chx my job is all about dealing with people.. cabin crew.. luckily i am at the office now.. little flights, less contact with people..

chx

Different people, different jobs

Heidel Ber Gensis

yup

chx

5:14 AM

I am very good at handling code and very bad at handling people so it makes much sense to hide behind the keyboard

Heidel Ber Gensis

I am bad at both.. lol

Gayot Fow

5:52 AM

@chx I always enjoyed your stuff here

chx

6:05 AM

thanks

JoErNanO

@GayotFow We are definitely running the event. We'll ask the moderators to communicate with the higher ups so that we can get some advertisements on other sites and maybe even some endorsement and swag prizes.

@MarkMayo do you think this can be done?

Gayot Fow

@JoErNanO There's a good lad!

@JoErNanO If I recall, this was to be marshalled by @JonathanReez, no?

Heidel Ber Gensis

@JoErNanO are you going to hunt Mercury while passing between the sun and earth today?

or you are not into this styff?

Mark Mayo

8:08 AM

I can offer a free beer to anyone visiting Sydney who posted a bounty during June? ;)

(assuming I'm still in Sydney by then)

Heidel Ber Gensis

@MarkMayo let me look up how generous kiwis are... wait

Mark Mayo

hey, that could be literally hundreds of beers if it takes off! :)

Heidel Ber Gensis

@MarkMayo make it more practical, a bounty of 50 = beer, 2 bounties of 500 = a ticket..

Mark Mayo

a ticket?

Heidel Ber Gensis

yes, to Sydney..

Mark Mayo

8:14 AM

dream on :)

Heidel Ber Gensis

ok, will keep on looking how [cheap|generous] kiwis are... lol

chx

I usually like to travel from colder places to warmer places

so Sydney in June... perhaps not.

Mark Mayo

no don't come in June, I won't be here :)

India is calling

chx

Although the way the weather gone nuts perhaps Sydney winter will be warmer than Vancouver summer

Mark Mayo

Hey, I'll hopefully be in Vancouver in August

I miss Vancouver :/

Heidel Ber Gensis

8:18 AM

@chx for someone who lives in the desert like me, with a temp close to 40c these days, it does not matter, it can't be any worse..

chx

Unless you come the first week of August, I wont be

I'm leaving on Aug 6 , coming back oct 3

Mark Mayo

I might be there August 2nd

will depend on my US Visa coming through, and flights

chx

Yeah, flights, I had a horrible itin with Aeroplan, three connections to Budapest but then KLM had a sale for 2k usd for biz class returns (!) and I quickly changed to that

that worked with KLM

the winter flight didnt as you all know :)

Gayot Fow

I missed Willeke last week, who else is coming here?

Mark Mayo

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Q: Meet other Travel.SE members?

I've been fortunate to meet other members on the site in Vancouver, Montreal and NYC, and I know other meetups have happened. I wondered if perhaps a community-wiki type list by continent and city for anyone who would be keen to meet for a coffee would be a useful idea? You may be passing thro...

discussion meetups

chx

8:24 AM

I added myself to that meta.travel.stackexchange.com/revisions/1604/54 last year

with that said, good night.

Mark Mayo

Night!

I'm still gutted I joined this site about a week after leaving St Petersburg, Russia and therefore missed @VMAtm, who also joined that first week

Gayot Fow

I have only been to 3 locations outside the UK this year, and two of them were crap. So the odds are better if people come here

Mark Mayo

you Brit-based people should organise another London meetup

Gayot Fow

Yes, I think it would be dandy

Except not that grouchy fellow

Mark Mayo

Gayot?

;)

Gayot Fow

8:33 AM

Not me, that melancholy Dane who is grouchy all the time

Gayot Fow

8:47 AM

@MarkMayo did you see where a 13k users answered a WANTA question?

JoErNanO

@HeidelBerGensis Mercury who? Freddie?

Heidel Ber Gensis

@JoErNanO the planet you pizza man

JoErNanO

@HeidelBerGensis Pizza planet?

Heidel Ber Gensis

@JoErNanO yes, a big giant meat ball is going to pass between the oven and our planet..

JoErNanO

@HeidelBerGensis Awesome. Can we eat it?

More importantly, can we see it with the naked eye?

Heidel Ber Gensis

9:00 AM

no, naked eyes can not look into the sun directly.. it is like being human 101..

but NASA is showing it live on NASA tv... it is online.

I do not have equipment, even if i did not in this heat..

I just wrote in facebook: it's ok to do drugs so you forget that you are ugly, just do not filter your photos and shock me when I see you for the first time.

many ugly people i know gave me likes.. I love the spirit..

JoErNanO

@HeidelBerGensis Because you think you are pretty? :P

Do you have a link?

Heidel Ber Gensis

@JoErNanO no because i know i am ugly..

nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv

they said around 11 something UTC..

JoErNanO

Awesome thanks.

Gayot Fow

Speaking of TV, there is a brilliant military parade spectacle on Russian TV, tune in if you can!

Heidel Ber Gensis

@GayotFow sometimes i love you, sometimes i do not,, like now.. first it is russian, seconds, it is on russian tv... how the hell are we going to "tune in" to that?

Gayot Fow

9:07 AM

Actually you don't need to speak Russian to be awed by the spectacle.

JoErNanO

@HeidelBerGensis If you want to see russian girls, you'll find a way. :P

Heidel Ber Gensis

@JoErNanO true, but not russian military stuff... would you?

Willeke

@GayotFow I am in England till 15th of May, spending time with knot tyers on Saturday 14th near Bristol/Bath. So if you can wrangle an empty leg.......I can introduce you to at least some of the people.

@GayotFow great keyfob, and even better if they do pay you properly :D

Gayot Fow

@Willeke I do hope to have better luck

JoErNanO

So I caught up with @RoflcoptrException in terms of rep.