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any plans to go to Guangzhou?

what's guangzhou again?

5:12 AM

Guangzhou

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near hong kong?

eww! stack exchange stop parsing html with regular expressions!

yes

i dunno. i think a friend lives there... let me check up on him ... he was travelling but due back this month

we go to there.. i am thinking of getting the visa and taking a flight to there..

visa needs 7 working days..

i think that's where my friend jin lives but he's still absent on facebook

checking the dates my friends in weihai and beijing are good for visiting

so i can meet one friend in harbin around the 9th or the 14th - to hitch up to the very north bit of china

and i think my friend in weihai can have me visit around the 20th or 22nd

i have to leave on the 24th

taiwan is most interesting for me but then overland from there it's a dead end

5:33 AM

@karlson sort of, I couldn't choose extra baggage on the booking site, OR on their website (kept causing errors). But they charged me a small fortune to buy it at the desk.

@hippietrail @HaLaBi C# is the popular language, unless you're in a opensource house, odds are web dev is C#. It's what I'm doing at the moment. I actually prefer playing in python and ruby lately, but this pays the bills :)

@@hippietrail yes he changed to santa c and 'vandalised' (can't think of a better word) the meeting board on meta - we know who is he, and he doesn't live in Finland :/

@MarkMayo C# is my favourite..

you should try ruby, it's really nice for syntax. I'm still better at C#, can do more stuff, faster, but it's a fun one to play with.

and .net is my favourite as well, Linq and lambda expressions are great...

EF is a great ORM..

especially the code first approach.. i loved it..

other thing is, WCF.. made the whole client/server thing much easier... automatic generation of proxies made things more easy for non tech people like me..

JSON support in WCF... made it more great as well.. restful WCF made it much much more better for making services accessible from almost any other platform/language..

the only thing i hate in WCF is sessions concept.. not supporting the ASP.NET sessions directly..

again, i am not a programmer, so excuse my ignorance or mistakes..

you're sounding more knowledgeable than a lot of programmers I know ;)

thanks for the complement...

5:44 AM

all good

so I would normally never repost cracked.com articles

but they have an absolutely epic one

about new years resolutions

one more thing about .net is the xml configurations.. so powerful. the app.config and web.config.. almost all configurations can be done from there.. no need to hard code it..

really good read, if you're looking for inspiration

6 Harsh truths that will make you a better person

"#1. Everything Inside You Will Fight Improvement"

so true!

yeah I'm going to have to re-read it a few times the next week or so, it takes a while to absorb

@MarkMayo did you watch gorge carlin's show about human behavior..?

although it is funny, it is so true!

5:54 AM

nope?

I shall investigate

youtube.com/results?search_query=george+carlin+human&sm=1

another nice one is "our similarities", i am sure karlson put this link before: youtube.com/watch?v=cgps85scy1g

in a coffee shop at present, but will bookmark for later

@MarkMayo: ruby is a toy. it seems to work but as you get more serious there's brokenness and as you get deeper it gets more pervasive. it really sucked at unicode

@hippietrail depends what you use it for I guess. We used it with cucumber for BDD testing of databases, websites and other in Vancouver, and it was really fun

python is not a toy and still had some unicode issues i couldn't get past last time i looked at it but they took the bug seriously and had put work in on it last time i checked - not sure if its fully fixed

6:00 AM

and one of the largest software housese in Melbourne seems to use it (they're the one that gave me the 6 hour ruby test back in May)

but I imagine it would suck for time-critical stuff (network programming, games, graphics) - although I've not investigated yet

people said the same about python a few years back

one thing I do get annoyed about ruby is the gems tho

perl is serious but also seriosuly a mess. it does still have hands down the best unicode support in the world though, but it had the same unicode bug as python and unlike the python guys the perl guys have no intention of fixing it

try finding me the gem to connect to sql server with windows authentication

i want a language i can use for everything. when i run into something broken and have to look for another language, that pisses me off

when I looked last march, I tried like 30 - there's only one that actually did it, and I had to get an alpha build off the developer by tweeting him!

@hippietrail c# is the way :)

but you have MS complex.. and that's keeping you from giving it a shot..

6:03 AM

let's see you build a router OS in C# ;)

for me it was actually the same unicode bug but as i investigated i found more and more reports that there were nasty issues all over the place and it's not ready yet

it is not meant for that :)

C is still my favourite language, mainly because my favourite part of programming is optimising the hell out of things

and it's fun to do in that

@HaLaBi: when i try c# and it blows up on my tools you will blame my tools d-:

plus the mere mention of inline assembly seems to scare web devs off ;)

6:04 AM

asm { }

:D

for doing unicode cross platform on the command line javascript is the only thing that works. i was shocked!

wtf..

(shudders)

i don't know of any OS not programmed in C. i suppose ios might be in obj-c and windows has lots of bolted on stuff in c# but none of the core

yeah

6:06 AM

C# will be converted into IL..

well presumably some old ones are still in Fortram...

fortran.

yeah when all the stuff helping you make it easier is broken or incompatible with each other in subtle ways, you have to step back and understand all the problem areas. then the tool you want is C

optimizing is even more fun is assembly

but i haven't done assembly in years because intel syntax makes me feel ill

yep, was just going to point to an example of optimising in assembly, but the site is down

www.programming-challenges.com

if you are at all interested, there's a 3n+1 problem (it's like the first or second problem on the site)

first implementation was x seconds (say 8)

after optimising the hell out of it, and then using optimised inline assembly it was something like less than 0.1 of a second

apparently fortran is still the winner for mathy stuff. but my math level is not high enough

No way could I do that in Java or C#

6:08 AM

sometimes i run into problems with rounding or bignums or whatever so i can imagine real math jobs having problems in a systems language

although I've been told java competes well with C if you run it natively instead of inside the virtual machine

coding challenges can never hold my attention compared to real coding problems i'm facing

yeah i don't believe the guys who say that

yeah same - that one was just one a bunch of us at work a while back were playing with

wow, like 9 years ago

any of you visits code golf.SE on daily basis beside me?

but since others have pointed to projecteuler.net and others and they just aren't as appealing

nope

6:10 AM

c++ can compete but it's too hard to use, most peole do silly things with the advanced features to make it more bloated and slower

you should, it is really fun...

Nah, I want to create content this year, not consume! ;)

i visited to see some of their popular trolling questions

some of the questions are nice, beside it teaches you a thing or two, you get to knoew new languages and stuff: i am sure you were chosing the wrong Unicode :)

(yes I realise coding golf is creating, but it's in response to others)

6:11 AM

i thought about posing a code challenge there but wasn't sure it was on topic. from a real problem i faced years ago

i don't know what content is. i just want to do stuff i like d-:

fair enough :)

but this year I want to work on my projects - the stuff I want to build

unicode never runs out of new challenges

or should i say multilingual aware programming, unicode or otherwise

@MarkMayo: is it open in the other window?

is what open?

sorry i alt-tabbed away to look at my awesome hobby project in vim

@MarkMayo: your awesome hobby project of course!

haha

mine's on my other laptop

this is just my netbook

6:15 AM

you don't need a netbook then - you need a tablet d-:

love my netbook :)

i love the netbook concept and i love having a netbook. but i most definitely do not love this piece of shit hp netbook

lol

am on my second Asus since 2008, this one is 3 years and 3 weeks old, screen is dodgy but it still goes so well

and I use it for hours most days

and i intensely hate the artificial limits microsoft forced onto nebooks via their windows compatible sticker mafia tactics

it's also been to about 25 countries, and been through soo much

that I bet a tablet couldn't have survived

6:17 AM

yeah one of my reasons for going to taiwan will be to buy an asus there

Lenovo is cheaper and not bad...

i loved my original asus eee pc with japanese keyboard. it survived all i could dish out around the world. it finally died to overheating on my desk at home

the 901?

that was my first

with SSd

that's the only downside of this one, no ssd

lenovo is not cheap in china and i really hate the way they sell tech stuff here

no the 701!

my 901 died in a power surge in Chile

6:18 AM

now get off my lawn you pesky kid!

I coaxed it back to live with a usd stick with ubuntu on it, but it wasn't the same

haha, I couldn't bring myself to go down to the 701, 901 was small enough :)

I found my old 901 yesterday in NZ, it looks soo small next to my 10"

yeah it was nice to get a bigger screen and bigger drive but i missed the lighter weight and superfast ssd

however, I think my 10" battery is about to finish for the day

it's only getting about 3 hours these days, used to do 6 but the battery is fading

but windows updates also bloat the drive. so it's fast when you get it but after a couple of years there's no space and you can't find things to delete

will have to get a new netbook/ultrabook before my next big trip

yeah, the updates are a pain

6:20 AM

the 901 wasn't invented when i got the 701 - the 701 wasn't even out in australia

i went through akihabara with a fine tooth comb to find a secondhand one when they'd only just come out

I frst saw what I think was a 701 in Moscow in 2008, and immediate reaction was "I must have one"

has changed how I use computers.

now my netbook goes everywhere with me

i'd happily go down to a screen that fit the 701 case with less chunky wasted boders and a finer pixel size. it gets plugged into a fat monitor when i'm at home anyway

ultrabooks take away the best thing about netbooks - the cheap price

yes, that was a downer about the 701 - the form factor was much bigger than the screen

my battery was getting a bit iffy early on this trip and threw in the towel completely i think in southern china

but that made it tough. this stupid hp is broken in several places despite always being treated like a precious baby

ultrabooks look too flimsy and in .au they're all about $1k

chromebooks look like the true successors to netbooks

chromebooks look like a hardware version of a browser...

6:26 AM

just install whatever OS you want once you get it

which is windows? :D

so, people use IE only to download Chrome, and people use Chromebook only to install windows... irony!

windows might be too bloated. i'm not sure how expandable hw is on a chromebook

i only need replaceable ram and storage

why doesnt' SE have some feature(s) specifically for answers and questions that get stale?

such as?

google still takes you to answers four years old. you could vote "this is stale"

then when four or five people agree with the vote, the current answers get a weight disadvantage and some incentive is offered to garner new answers or for old answerers to update

all the answerers would get a notification "your answer has been marked stale - why not make it up to date?"

there would be some rep and or badges available and a hat for the holidays

the only option right now is to put a bounty on, but sometimes you just find a stale question and want to report it but don't care enough about it to spend rep on a bounty

Q: An auto 'obsolete answer' notes for selected tags

6:42 AM

i am sure i have suggested something regarding this somewhere in the meta..

people didn't like it

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I was chatting with Martin and after some brain storming we come up with this idea. So many answers in Travel.SE are valid for short period only, such as questions about transportation where schedules change every month or so, same for prices and routes. Another type of questions that are valid ...

not really similar..

those guys don't like anything

but sometimes you can fight them off

most of the answers are fine, at least for the coming million years...

for example your famous toilet questions..

it's best if you have an abstract idea for an improvement that can be implemented in any way the devs see fit. but you still have to battle it. this one of mine got downvoted and closed and generally hated upon, before being accepted ...

will always be good, unless humans evolution found a way to make new humans do not need to shit..

Q: Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites

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I've been a StackExchange contributor for a couple of years now, currently most active on travel.SE. One thing that keeps coming up is questions that would appeal to audiences on two different StackExchange sites but there are almost no features taking advantage of these questions. On travel.SE ...

discussion feature-request stackexchange

heheh which reminds me i've done this again!!

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Q: I have discovered that the hotel room toilet is blocked, but too late :/

Ok, I have used the toilet after holding myself for too long because of a long haul flight and I am not comfortable using the airplane's lavatory. The problem is, after releasing all the damn load, I have discovered that the bloody toilet is blocked, flushing makes things float! The hotel is a 5 ...

hotels hygiene toilet-usage

6:46 AM

lol

i'm trying the "hot water then come back and re flush from time to time" method

now?

it still needs more work!

is metacafe.com allowed in china?

7:23 AM

i don't know. but i'm clean now.

Q: Internet cafe with Wi-Fi in Hohhot, China?

7:34 AM

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This is my second time in Hohhot/Huhhot/Huhehaote, the capital of Inner Mongolia, China. I've been here one week this time. But despite many scouting missions I seem to be unable to find what I think of as a regular Internet cafe or cafe with free Wi-Fi. A place that provides somewhere to sit, ...

china internet power wifi hohhot

7:46 AM

@hippietrail did you check this: lonelyplanet.com/china/inner-mongolia/hohhot/general/other/…

and this: mojostreet.com/explore/hohhot/nei-mongol/category/…

9:15 AM

@HaLaBi: that's the muslim themed street of hohhot i mentioned the other day

yes i saw the LP link. it's obviously talking about a big internet bar with ie6 and no wifi just that it's near the train station. it offers no details.

i didn't see the mojostreet page before. so far it looks like those are all 网吧's though

9:31 AM

whats 网吧?

10:24 AM

Netcafe.

also, what's with the "Wi-Fi"? Does anybody actually use the Official(tm) spelling, and why would we care?

@jpatokal what happened?

@hippietrail made a series of edits changing "wifi" to "Wi-Fi". Which seems a bit Point-Less to me.

it seems pointless to me as well.. but it isn't really..

one: Wi-Fi is the correct way..

dumb search engines will work better with a consistent spelling and the best consistent spelling is the proper spelling and in this case since it's a legal trademark there is a proper spelling

two: there are badges for such things, making things perfect is not harmful by anymean..

10:28 AM

i keep meaning to ask to get the tag renamed but that would be too much energy for a pointless task d-:

i think i got the editing badges long ago so i'm not after them

google seems pretty good at finding words spelled using variants or misspellings or sometimes even synonyms, but other search engines are anyone's guess

Dirty-flow

I also made a lot of useless edits: removing "thanks" and "hi" and so on

yeah sometimes i even come in to the useless chatroom and say useless things like "yowza!"

uhh, nobody searches for wifi by typing in "Wi-Fi"...

really? what's your sample size for this amazing statistic?

you may have forgotten that i work at google ;)

10:37 AM

when i clickselect on something and right click to google search it, i don't first change the spellings d-:

hehe i can't forget something i never knew d-:

google.com.au/trends/explore#q=wifi%2C%20wi-fi&cmpt=q

Dirty-flow

some tag-synonyms-suggestions are pending - problably you can cast a vote travel.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms

as of jan 2014, wifi is beating wi-fi by approx 20:1.

man the GFoW is really messing with me

@jpatokal: what about i vs I

because i've capitalized a lot of those too along with all kinds of "pointless" spelling fixes

jptocal: i can't see the google trend because google forces me to log in via youtube, which china has deemed somewhat naughty

'i' is a spelling mistake. 'wifi' is a genericized trademark, like. escalator, aspirin, videotape...

Q: Did a recent Windows Update significantly reduce usable RAM on low-end devices?

10:52 AM

finally seeing if anybody else has this out of ram problem i've been having since windows update a couple of months ago

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I've been running Windows 7 Starter on a HP netbook with the maximum amount of RAM Microsoft allowed netbook manufacturers to have and still be eligible to ship with OEM Windows (2 gigabytes). This has worked fine for me over the last couple of years. I do light programming, edit photos, and oft...

windows-7 windows-update netbook internet-explorer-11 out-of-memory

jaypaddocell: witch deterministic critera did you use too differentiate the to?

i'm pretty sure apple hasn't managed to trademark 'i' yet, although i'm sure they've got lawyers working on it ;)

in my experience on various wikis and SEs you get a mishmash of wifi and wi-fi so when i wanted to correct them i went to check which was more correct by some measure, and it turned out niether of them were but Wi-Fi was. so when i'm off copyediting i change them all to Wi-Fi now

i think they had sum caught cases over IT! (-;

when i'm lazing typing like here in a chat room i use wifi, but i probably use wi-fi just as much. When I'm capitalizing all my "I"s I'm also careful about my "Wi-Fi"s.

since i cand't google trend, could you give us the rates for all three of wifi, wi-fi, and Wi-Fi (and maybe even Wifi and Wi-fi for good measure)?

trends shows relative graphs, not actual numbers. case is ignored, so 'wi-fi' includes Wi-Fi.

but for jan 2014 to date, "wifi" is 100 and "wi-fi" is 6. dec 2013, 93:6. nov, 89:5. you get the picture.

ah. i can run it over vpn but due to the problem i posted on SU i don't have enough ram to run the vpn now \-:

the most important thing is, searching Wi-Fi or wifi will make no difference.. almost same results are out..

11:02 AM

@HaLaBi: on google

yes

google is not the most popular everywhere. especially here in china where they block it or parts of it. but also in korea and i bet russia too

at least bing and baidu are turds compared to google

@hippietrail try this: support.microsoft.com/kb/947246

@HaLaBi: yes it seems that since that update win7 uses up the heap much quicker which much less stuff open - at least for me - i want to know if others have it too

try the auto fix...

11:07 AM

if it turns out to be ie11 bloat i'll look for ways to remove it or part of it or roll it back to an earlier version

those things don't do anything! d-: it will probably run out of memory when i try it!

it does man, just try it..

wow they actctually explain what it will change... trying it...

creating a restore point. this will take an hour...

I would do the manual steps.. to save myself from creating restore points...

and then having to delete them... both things will take time..

@HaLaBi: you should mention this thing in a comment or answer to my SU question and i'll provide feedback there

11:56 AM

@hippietrail did the restore point finish?

yes and i've restarted. now running the same tabs and windows live photo gallery or whatever they call it. i haven't started my text editor yet though

12:56 PM

Hi

@halabi are you An expert on halal food?

@andra don't know, from what aspect exactly?

if you wanna know if a specific food is halal or not, I guess I can answer..

How can vegetarian Gouda cheese be halal?

what is gouda chese?

Common dutch cheese

all cheese are halal, except it has any product from pork...

oil or so..

Dirty-flow

12:59 PM

gouda + edammer = pizza cheese!

Traditionally that is made from cow milk and cow stummach acid

they put halal in vegetable products to ensure people that there is no pork products mixed with it, no alcohol is mixed with it..

Ah okay

same with fish products..

all fish are halal, they put the sign for the same reason as well..

Thans for xplainin

1:02 PM

anytime dear

@halabi cause of you I can't enjoy Discovery channel ;)

@andra why is that?

All of their shows now see' staged

the duct tape island thing?

I swear I felt the same few days ago

Q: How to get to Mythbusters' duct tape island

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After watching the Duct tape island episode of the MythBusters show I was totally in love with that uninhabited island. They say it is in Hawaii but no more details. Whats the name of that island? if it has one! Is there a way to actually get to it and spend a night or two there?

islands identify-this hawaii

I am now watching moonshining

Can't be true that all these Guys are doing illegal stuff without masks

1:07 PM

never watched moonshining

Guys making illegal booze in the woods

Any one know why I got this secret Chuck yeager hat?

Karlson

1:54 PM

Morning

4:27 PM

I got a secret hat!

@hippietrail need your help with japanese

is that an assertion or a question?

assertion

if you need my help with japanese you must have a problem! d-:

the question is: do you know any online resources (preferably free) where I can find how a kanji is composed (if it is) by multiple kanji? For example akeru and shimeru all derive from the kanji of gate but there's a part which is different and I don't know if that alone means something. This would help me remembering the kanji better

4:37 PM

no i don't. people have added this info to quite a few characters in wiktionary, but not all of them. unicode has some special "characters" for showing how cjkv characters are composed

can you type or paste them here?

開ける akeru

oh yeah there's a bunch of characters with different things inside the gate

you should not assume that a character derives from its surrounding part

閉る shimeru

most characters have a meaning part and a sound part, but not all of them. some have two meaning parts, some are pretty arbitrary, and many characters have changed since the time their picture made sense. japan simplified a bunch of characters right after the war

since akeru means to open and shimeru to close and they both have a gate as a root I thought there must be some meaning in that thing inside

@hippietrail yeah I know, but it would be nice to have an online resources that could tell me something about it :-)

4:44 PM

the bits inside could be phonetic, to show how to pronounce the character, back in classical chinese, before it got to japanese with an altered sound

@jpatokal @uncovery maybe you guys could help :-)

閉 : ⿵門才

開 : ⿵門开

門 (“door”) + 开 – a pair of hands opening a door: the door is open.

I cannot see some of your characters :-(

才 : talent, ability ; just, only, merely

probably the ideographic composition characters, they're not "real" characters

@hippietrail I don't think that's the correct kanji inside shimeru. It's this one: オ

@hippietrail no I can see the gate of kanji of door but not the one after the + sign, for example

4:48 PM

开 : open ; initiate, begin, start

welcome to the wonderful world of variants and simplifications and han unification!

:D

开 : Ideogrammic compound (會意): 干 + 干 (“trunk”)

what os/version are you on?

debian

did you past it as images?

オ is katakana, not kanji. 才 is kanji

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%89%8D

cause I'm behind some kind of proxy right now and I cant even see images

4:52 PM

and people keep asking me why i keep persevering with windows despite all its bullshit d-:

nope no images

install some more fonts. if you are into cjk you can never have too many fonts. you should install some chinese ones too for the rare characters. japanese fonts are sometimes much smaller

installing

nope, failed to fetch, damn proxy

cjk is pretty simple from a font/rendering POV

I'm in a library

your computer or library's computer?

my computer

lemme try to bypass this shit

4:58 PM

only seven more hours to enjoy our hats!

why isn't everybody here basking in the glory of my new secret hat while they have the chance?

people are insensitive

i'll show them! wait till i get my next hat - the machinegun hat!

6:22 PM

@hippietrail fonts installed, now it works

6:44 PM

@Geeo: leave the money on the fridge (-;