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You're welcome.

1:47 PM

@Matt wasn't exactly helpful with his comment, either :P

I mean, the "most prominent" part is only contained in the title. But nowhere else. In the body, he's asking for an equivalent of people "abandoning the ship". The part about "most prominent" is supplied, if at all, only by context. Well, you can do that in English, too.

In French we call this "abandoning the ship." What do you call it in English?
"Abandoning the ship."
No, that sounds too negative.

We even did them a favor and imported their verb!

Next time we'll just go with verlassen instead! shakes fist

Why isn't this g-deasley thing finding my function?

Because he's a G, duh.

Gs don't waste no time finding functions. If anything, they spend some quality time drive-by-shooting them. And you don't want that!

Monica

Oh, you first language is French?

I love French :)

1:55 PM

I don't think we have native French speakers here ATM.

Nope, not one that I can see.

I must have lost my mind. I did just lose the hearing in my left ear.

That can't be good.

Ouch. For real?

Like, for a couple seconds? I have that sometimes.

Yeah. It was preceded by a loud tone too.

Probably just a side effect of this cold.

I was just going to say that usually it's stress.

Seriously. Why can't I get this function to work? It's SQL. It's right there. Work, damn you!

1:57 PM

Nah, it happens sometimes. It's natural.

What? Sorry, you're on my deaf side.

Well I'm never having stress when it happens to me, that much's for sure.

Sometimes I get a momentary ringing in one ear or the other. It goes away. Other times it lasts for a few seconds, and during that time if I turn my head left or right it goes away, but comes back when I put my head back in the original position. But it always goes away. So far.

But on TV they always say it's stress. In fact if it doesn't happen to you, that's due to stress, too.

I suppose their superliminal message is, "everything is stress but TV".

Holy shit. I really did completely lose my mind.

At least figuring that out didn't take all damn day.

Monica

2:01 PM

I have to go

Take care

Bye

Bye!

Ahahahaha. Only to finally realize that I'm calling the wrong function.

stoopid foxen.

Why would you call the wrong function to begin with? I don't see a point. You should just always call the right function.

9 mins ago, by KitFox

What? Sorry, you're on my deaf side.

That's not true, actually. I have sneaked upon your undeaf side in the mean time.

Nöone expects the owlish inquisition!

You're chief weapon is surprise! Surprise and fluffiness.

2:10 PM

Mornin' y'all!

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Wow, now I'm really worried about not having stress. I'm really getting anxious about it.

Hullo aedia lambda. Or as I like to call you, my little lambda.

Don't sweat it. Stress is available in all good stores.

Hi @aedia!

licks rainbow mane

Oh. Sorry. I'm a little overstimulated today.

In business it's all about stresses
From cleaning up all of those messes
But just pop a pill
And you're certain to chill
While the problem you have deliquesces

deliquesces, i love it

> Conversion from string "10/7/2011 12:00:00 AM" to type 'Integer' is not valid.

Um, I'm pretty sure I didn't tell you to do that.

Oh, wait. Yes I did.

So-orry.

2:20 PM

@KitFox I think VB likes to interpret strings beginning with integers as integers for some reason.

user19161

@matt I am glad you have upgraded to the green goblin via my trickery. I have solved yet another meta puzzle. QED.

Well in this case, it thought I wanted an integer because I was trying to stuff it into an integer array.

laps at problem puddle

@KitFox Rookie move.

It happens. Especially when I am distracted with thinking about your hands.

Why? you might ask. I don't know, I would answer.

That's why it is distracting.

2:22 PM

No, I remember now. The VB issue was the other way around. If you tried to coerce number values into strings for lists it would ignore the value. Something like that. Ten years ago, VB6. Whatever.

VB6 was the first one I learned.

I wrote a whole database interface with csvs for tables as my final project.

I didn't realize how much frigging overkill that was for a class at a technical college.

Other projects included calculators with buttons!

giggles uncontrollably Sorry. Just imagining some poor kid implementing a calculator missing half its buttons and trying to pass it off as a game.

It was that level of competency. And we had weeks to write it.

user19161

Speaking of calculators the GNOME calculator is very good.

misses TI-89

2:28 PM

Well, I guess I had been actually programming for fifteen or so years prior to that, so I had a little advantage.

Plus, I have a brain in my head, and I don't breathe through my mouth.

user19161

@aediaλ That seems to be a graphing calculator. I hate those. I used a non-graphing one in high school.

Except when I have a cold.

I have a rogue tooltip on my screen that won't redraw.

Sneaky.

I hate those. I had one the other day too.

2:29 PM

Maybe it's trying to tell me that everything is OK. "I'm at 100%, dude. Ready to rock and roll."

@ClarkKent But you can program 'em!

It's 2012 and you still can't do that with CSS.

@KitFox If you breathe through your mouth your brains will leak out. QED.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 But CSS and jQuery? You can move the earth with that shit.

user19161

@aediaλ Yes, but it is sad that today's students do not know why the graph looks like that. They only know how to draw it with their calc.

I am happy with jQuery. The boss asked me to show my stuff at our tech meeting today.

He is really pleased with it.

feels warm and fuzzy

2:33 PM

@ClarkKent If I were a robot, I would be chasing you with lasers now. Affectionately, of course.

@Robusto I could build you one. I was responsible for sending that one after Matt.

@KitFox Feeling fuzzy without feeling warm is a whole 'nother ballgame.

@KitFox Do I need an invoice, or will Kitt Industries ship without that?

Huhuh, he said ball-gay, huhuh.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 You misspelled ball-gag.

Hey cool I just lost the hearing in my left ear for a second.

2:35 PM

Apr 25 at 19:18, by KitFox

grabs @Matt by the short and curlies and threatens to send an evil robot back in time to chase him

Although ball-gag was probably pronounced ball-gay in Old English.

See, it's not — I repeat: not — stress.

@Robusto gay times!

@Robusto I just need a PO from your—wait a minute! I'm not affiliated with Knight Industries!