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7:00 PM
I wrote that message to avoid things like this:
2 mins ago, by rolfl
Hey, @JeroenVannevel - did you notice that @IsmaelMiguel is ignoring you so much he just spent hours not ignoring you....
 
@IsmaelMiguel Then ignore it.
 
Hey, how ironic, his most recent answer ;-)
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A: Putting everything in its place

Jeroen VannevelWhile reading my code for the bazillionth time, I noticed a logical error which would make it possible for very specific exotic scenarios to pop this up expectedly. At the very start of the analyzer there is a check to see whether or not we're dealing with a string.Format() call: // Verify we'r...

 
So, uh. How bout them yankees?
 
what about dem bears?
 
7:00 PM
This is beyond a circle argumentation. This is a traditional time-loop where he keeps going back in time to make the same argument
 
You don't have to be ignoring a user to ignore a message.
 
Meta, to the max.
 
who's driving fer da Bears? Mike Ditka Da Bears
 
You can read the message, determine you really have no purpose responding to it, and as such, not respond to it.
Then the whole problem is solved.
 
@JeroenVannevel - FWIW:
> I omitted the tests because it would put my post way over the limited amount of characters.
 
7:01 PM
I don't want any kind of interaction
 
The limit is now 64K.
 
Direct or indirect
 
@IsmaelMiguel Why don't you take this other user, seclude yourself in a separate chat room, and talk it out. That's the only way this is ever going to be fixed.
 
Ah good. I don't think the tests mattered much but that'll be helpful for future posts
I think I saw a message about it but figured it was only enabled for that particular post
 
@rolfl Didn't they do that specifically for Code Review?
 
7:02 PM
are we talking about that thing that happened last week in that one chat room?
 
@SirPython If the user will repeat his stuns, he will leave without any explanation
 
@EBrown Correct.
 
@IsmaelMiguel would a chat ban satisfy your need for non-interaction?
 
@rolfl It was last week, correct?
 
@Mat'sMug No
 
7:03 PM
@EBrown Great huh?
I think it was in response to Zak's first question.
 
@Mast Yeah, it means they actually take us seriously!
 
Since he had to split it up.
 
@IsmaelMiguel The only reason why this fight happened it because it started from an argument. If you start from nothing with this user (start from the beginning), then you will be less likely to fight.
 
That would be the total oposite of the reason why I wrote it
 
@IsmaelMiguel Life ain't fair.
 
@IsmaelMiguel then please, I ask you. drop it.
 
@Mat'sMug I'm trying. I'm not the one keeping it up.
 
you're the one calling other users names. luckily it went unflagged every time.
 
@rolfl I think that was my last star.
 
@rolfl Was there a specific request made for that in meta?
The new character limit.
 
7:05 PM
CJY came in the chat or a comments section, I believe
 
@SirPython No. I'll find you the original question.
 
@SirPython Not that I could see... I was not paying much attention to the site at the time... I just saw the activity.
It's a limit that the site hsa spoken about generally, and the mods have communicated specifically with the SE staff on occasion in chat too.
It is not something that was actively "in the works" when I stepped down, so you can blame that success on the current mods ;-) (well done, y'all).
(it may have something to do with a certain moderator having more flagged posts than any other user).
 
no. I'm blaming the monkey. for everything ;-)
 
I think it was for this question, but the comments on it showing the discussion are gone:
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Q: Automating the aggregation and filtering of an 8-worksheet spreadsheet

ZakEvery piece of business that gets written (E.G. an adviser's client puts an additional £10k payment into a pension plan) goes in a spreadsheet called the SubSheet. It's split into 8 worksheets for different kinds of business, each with lots and lots of columns. E.G. "Adviser" "First Name" "Invest...

One Chris Young made the changes and posted a comment there I think.
 
@Mast That question is 3 days newer than the limit changed.
 
7:08 PM
@rolfl Is it a merge of the two original questions by chance?
 
Look at his profile -> all actions and look at the recent comments
if it's not there, it was deleted
that, or look through this chatroom's history
 
This question states: Good Sign: It went from an order of magnitude over the character limit to under it :)
 
I just upped the MaxBodySize limit, so you should be able to have the whole code in the question body. For Code Review, I believe it's important to have all the code in one place. :-) — Chris Jester-Young ♦ Aug 15 at 15:41
 
@JeroenVannevel That one.
 
More seriously, the limit has been raised to 65536 from 30000. — Chris Jester-Young ♦ Aug 15 at 18:20
(same Q)
 
7:10 PM
Nice sleuthing.....
 
Looks like I was confused about which question triggered it.
 
Sucks that Ismael missed that, it was priceless.
 
@rolfl Missed what?
 
Oh, nothing.
Telemarketers are unlucky when they phone my house. My wife says I am mean to them.
 
lol
I ask them 21 (or more) questions
 
7:13 PM
When she describes my antics to others, she says things like: "those poor people.... they should learn that rolfl likes to play with his food before eating it...."
 
lol
you would think they would stop calling....
 
I always ignore those calls
I don't answer unknown numbers
 
you think they would put you on a list or something right, @rolfl?
 
@Malachi Some of them even call back if you hang up on them.
 
@Malachi Yeah, I am surprised they have not voluntarily put me on a do-not-call list ;-)
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7:14 PM
@rolfl Nice cover for him. ;)
@rolfl I used to answer telemarketers and just leave the phone line open, with the sound of deep breathing in the background.
 
Are you watching me, lee?
 
@rolfl No, but I did see you cover for the part of the conversation that was missed by a specific user.
 
@EBrown That's nightmare material.
 
On a lighter note: phone-interview-like-interview tonight.
 
@EBrown You don't ignore unknown numbers?
 
7:16 PM
(Rather excited, though I don't think I want this job, still good to practice my skills.)
@rolfl And miss out on all those opportunities?
 
Good luck.
 
what's the job about?
 
@IsmaelMiguel I currently ignore all incoming calls. My battery died and I lost my charger during the last clean-up.
 
@JeroenVannevel programming.
@rolfl Thank you. :)
 
A little general but I'd take it
 
7:17 PM
@Mast Sounds like the first verse of a modern country song....
 
good luck with the interview
 
@Mast If that happens, I love my mirror, brick, watch and alarm clock. Which is a disaster
 
@JeroenVannevel Well, it's for a company that does strategic loyalty monitoring and such.
 
Ohhh.... spammers ;-)
 
Basically, they gather data regarding customer viewpoints and such regarding products by other companies.
 
7:18 PM
@rolfl Only a red-neck would do that.
 
@Mast Yeah, but an about-to-be-rich redneck.
 
They track customer and employee data for companies, from what I can gather.
 
@rolfl Does your wife have the ambition to become rich? Feel free to run with it.
 
@Mast She has me, she's rich already ;-) !!!
 
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7:20 PM
@CaptainObvious Set Trogdor on it.
 
@rolfl Good point.
@CaptainObvious Hammertime!
 
@rolfl I said that to a woman I was dating once, and that was the last moment I was dating her.
 
2 more.
 
@EBrown Hence the smiley ;0
 
@EBrown next time, save it for after the wedding
 
7:21 PM
@Mat'sMug I can't say I'm disappointed it ended, though.
It was headed south, very quickly.
(There was nothing wrong with her, mind you. We just didn't see eye-to-eye about...anything.)
 
To the tune of "Hey Jude":
Hey you, I tried to tweet,
but the wi-fi - was kind of busy.
The cell-phone was showing zero-bars,
so relenting, I used pen and paper.
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Send royalties to @rolfl.
 
@rolfl That last line is off.
 
rofl
 
@EBrown OK, I release it under creative commons share-alike with attribution - go wild, and fix it ;-)
 
You could put it on GitHub to make it official.
 
7:26 PM
I put it here... which does the same ;-)
 
I got it!
 
@rolfl It reads like a dialect of Shakespeare with a bunch of if-statements.
 
"So relenting, I wrote you a card."
That totally brings the rhythm back in.
 
I am a short-term focus type of persone... I have moved one already ;-)
 
:(
 
7:28 PM
shouldn't it be "the cell phone was showing all zero bars"?
 
@Mat'sMug Yes!
 
@Morwenn would be able to put it to heavy-metal celtic with russian dubstep sub-tones.... and then make a fortune on the goth market.
 
> on the goth market
 
and then "so relenting, (I) used pen and paper"
 
@rolfl If only :/
 
7:29 PM
Phrancis would then mix and edit it in to a sensational multi-track autotuned monstrosity ;-)
 
@Mat'sMug Yeah, but that doesn't bring the rhymes back in.
 
@Morwenn Sounds interesting enough to try.
 
Then on Wednesdays we could bombard the youtube vodeo to the chat room.
And the final strains would be "Nahh, nah, nah na-na-na-na, na-na-na-nahhhh: You Tube!"
 
@Mast I'm not talented enough to compose that kind of things. I might be able if it was possible to record what plays in my head.
 
In the original "Hey Jude", the rhymes were A/B/C/B.
And ours is A/B/C/D.
Which is wrong.
 
7:31 PM
#OverthinkingIt
 
@Mat'sMug This is Code Review, damnit! WE HAVE TO OVERTHINK IT!
 
And no Germans involved.
 
#ObligatoryPedanticComments
 
@Mast Hans free?
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@rolfl Ja
 
7:32 PM
Danke
 
Gah, now "Hey Jude" is stuck in my head.
 
Where's @Vogel612 anyway?
 
@EBrown ould be worse, it could be "Dah-dah-dah.... uh-huh".
 
@rolfl What?
I never said it was a bad thing.
 
lol!
 
7:33 PM
Paul McCartney has a wonderfully soft voice.
I'll gladly roll with it for a while.
Then, I'll listen to Stevie Wonder and life will be grand.
 
@rolfl Disgusting.
 
2 mins ago, by rolfl
@EBrown ould be worse, it could be "Dah-dah-dah.... uh-huh".
 
@rolfl I'm regretting I asked for clarification now.
 
7:36 PM
1982 was fun like that
 
I would post the "Friday" song the radio station I listen to uses, but it contains profane language in it.
 
Why does nodejs have to be so annoying and create a > 260 parent directory structure
 
Seriously. Who thought that was a good idea
 
@JeroenVannevel makes for an easy-to-isolate large-scale deployment.
 
7:38 PM
@JeroenVannevel Never seen it do that before.
 
It createds one directory with all the imported modules, but afar from that...
 
@Mast I've used nodejs twice or thrice and each time it did that
try to copy the node_modules directory to somewhere else
 
Yea, but that's the only directory it creates. It's nice and organized, everything is in there.
 
@rolfl I don't know how that relates to this. NuGet, Maven or Gradle don't do this
@Mast until you want to copy it, of course..
 
7:40 PM
Don't copy it.... run npm-install in the next location.
 
@JeroenVannevel I've never had trouble copying the whole thing IIRC.
 
I'll have to re-generate the nodejs file thing in the other directory because moving it is not possible
 
But, you can also do it in a docker container, and then just image that ;-)
then deploy it on thusands of instances ;-).... easy.
 
Damn, I really want to share this song with you all, but I fear it'll be flagged.
 
I'm already learning VS Code, NodeJS, AngularJS and lots of other webdev stuff. This is no time for Docker as well
But I'll keep it in mind
just npm-install, you say?
 
7:41 PM
@EBrown So?
 
@JeroenVannevel AngularJS is very fun.
 
@EBrown If it's on you tube, just post the link. You tube is an abstraction layer.
 
@Mast So I don't want someone to flag me.
 
@EBrown It's only a problem if it's against the rules. If it isn't, don't worry about flags.
 
@rolfl Alright, but I'm doing it with your permission.
(I can un-box it if preferred)
They play this every Friday morning on the radio station I listen to.
 
7:42 PM
Can I just remove the node_modules folder and then call npm-install, or is there more to it?
 
@JeroenVannevel if the module dependencies were doing things right, then you can alwyas remove the node_modules and go from there.
 
@Mat'sMug Told you. ;)
 
I take it that means yes
btw: Windows 10? I love the command prompt
it feels so fluent
and that just by removing two borders. Very Mac-style-ish
 
@JeroenVannevel The Command Prompt? Really?
 
@EBrown A friend of mine used to play this (almost) every Friday
 
7:44 PM
hey that's from Dumbo!
 
@Mat'sMug The music is from Die Vogel
IIRC
 
the bird?
 
@JeroenVannevel - if you use --save when you 'install' a module, then it updates the dependencies in package.json.
 
Maybe south african, like Die Antwoord
 
7:45 PM
if you have the package.json then you can always just run node install
 
#DieVögel
 
@rolfl I do recall using --save!
 
Have a look at your package.json file, rename your node_modules, run node install, and see if it works.
 
where is this package.json supposed to exist?
 
in th top-directory of your project.
also, when I say "node install" I really mean "npm install" @Jeroen.
 
7:47 PM
Yeah I figured
though I don't have a package.json
 
do you have any dependencies?
 
gulp and gulp-open
 
I really need to get an SSD in this laptop.
It's been opening Visual Studio for 10 minutes now.
 
@EBrown Has nothing to do with SSD
VS2013 boots in a minute here.
 
it does have a at least a little bit to do with it
 
7:53 PM
If I post a question mostly regarding the structure of my JavaScript, do I need to/is it recommended that I include my HTML? Cuz this code is complete crap.
 
After they replaced my HD in this Machine with a SSD, Windows booted up so fast.
 
@rolfl: do I have to create the package.json myself?
 
@Malachi If it took 10 minutes originally, your HD is not likely to be your bottleneck.
 
I see the npm init command here
 
@IntensifierDescriptorMan if it shows how your javascript works, it is probably a good idea
 
7:53 PM
Replacing something else than the bottleneck is not going to fix your problem IMO.
 
how do you know it isn't the bottleneck?
 
The HDD is definitely the bottleneck.
The Task Manager is showing HDD usage at 100%.
For minutes now.
 
@Malachi Okay, I'll just add it then. Thanks.
 
Hmmm.... the default file name for npm is "package.json"....
 
@IntensifierDescriptorMan you're welcome
 
7:55 PM
@EBrown And how many % of that is caused by loading the process? I suspect it's all background processes hogging your resources.
Perhaps a scanner.
 
I never actually configured npm myself. This is a fresh installation
 
Some "Windows Modules Installer" process is using all of it.
 
nodejs came with Visual Studio and now I just did npm install gulp & gulp-open
 
@EBrown What's that, the new update manager?
 
@JeroenVannevel OK, now do: npm install --save gulp
 
7:57 PM
@EBrown Oh, perhaps you're booting VS for the first time?
 
@Mast No idea, it started with the Visual Studio installer.
 
In that case it's still installing.
 
@Mast Yeah.
 
Don't worry, that will only happen once.
 
@rolfl with or without npm init?
 
7:57 PM
npm init woul have created package.json
rolf@rolfl:~/git/tmp$ npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sane defaults.

See `npm help json` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.
 
yeah, so I'll do that first
I never did that before
 
OMG... when did I become the expert on this stuff......
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