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user19161

23:00

I have a feeling it is Russian.

z7sg Ѫ

No it is like my serial number.

user19161

Next time I will ask trg787 about his.

z7sg Ѫ

Ultimately, it doesn't really mean anything, so i shan't explain it! ;)

user19161

I am suspicious of all numbers.

z7sg Ѫ

Really? I am suspicious of palindromes.

user19161

23:02

As long as it is not your password you can use it.

Grace Note

z7sg is short for Zvensg!

user19161

@GraceNote That is a what?

Grace Note

@JasperLoy It's z7sg's nickname

user19161

@grace Good luck for taking the 44 to 100.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy Eh, it's not my choice.

user19161

23:04

@GraceNote Sorry, to 0 then if it is the other direction.

Billare

I suppose Alain isn't in.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy Not my choice, still

user19161

@GraceNote Sounds like Swensen''s.

user19161

@GraceNote OK, now I shan't guess what you are doing there.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy If I have understanding of your numeric choice correctly, you're referring to the attribute which is, by very definition, not mine to define.

Billare

23:06

@Alain Pannetier Are you in?

user19161

@GraceNote I am thinking of some physical procedure actually, looks like I misunderstood your statement.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy Oh. Wow. That's a huge extrapolation from my statement.

No, no, no. 44% only represents what popular opinion is. Not my actual state.

user19161

@GraceNote Well, not too huge, considering the "clues" you left.

z7sg Ѫ

@GraceNote 44% of what? hu? :)

Grace Note

@z7sgѪ 44% was a randomly pulled number to represent the proportion of people who have made a vocal statement on the matter and use the female pronoun to refer to me.

Because I was too lazy to say "I think it's less than half, but practically 50/50"

z7sg Ѫ

23:10

Well @Grace sounds like a girl's name and you have a feminine avatar so I'm surprised it's not more than 44%

user19161

@GraceNote I am sure you know what I was thinking of. Btw I think you are female.

Grace Note

@z7sgѪ Heh, thanks.

Cerberus

Hi @Billare!

Billare

@Cerberus Hey! Haven't talked to you in a good minute. How are you?

user19161

@Billare Handsome.

Cerberus

23:12

Good! And you? What do you need Alain for?

Billare

@Cerberus Oh, nothing, he's just my favorite StackExchanger.

Cerberus

Hehe.

Billare

@Cerberus I saw him "active".

user19161

@Billare What? Not me?

Cerberus

He was in not long ago, I believe.

Billare

23:13

@Cerberus @Jasper Loy Chat people are up there, obviously. ;)

user19161

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Q: Term for people who cause accidents just to look like a hero?

What's the term for people who cause accidents so that they can step in, save the day and look like a hero?

single-word-requests

user19161

Do they exist?

Grace Note

@JasperLoy The concept? It most certainly does

user19161

@GraceNote Well, the people. I have not met one.

Grace Note

Most people don't

Billare

23:17

21

Q: What does "information porn" mean?

On several occasions while browsing Meta Stack Overflow, I have encountered the phrase information porn, typically used by Jeff Atwood. What does it mean?

meaning idioms

Shocked to see no one made a joke at Atwood's expense for that question.

Disappointed, really.

user19161

@Billare We talked about this yesterday.

user19161

@Billare Just call him Jeff, no need for such formality here!

Billare

In some circles, calling people solely by their last names is a sign of informality. ;)

user19161

@Billare That does happen in the military.

z7sg Ѫ

@GraceNote Also you mentioned hot chocolate with marshmellows.

Billare

23:21

When is Diablo III coming out?

Q4?

Grace Note

@z7sgѪ Pffft

z7sg Ѫ

@GraceNote It's a dead giveaway. I'm sorry, is it that big a deal?

Grace Note

Hahahaha, no, not a big deal.

Billare

Is Kosmonaut gone for good, guys? @Cerberus @Jasper Loy

user19161

@z7sgѪ And being pulled aside to watch TV, and going for ice cream.

Grace Note

23:24

@Billare Most likely so

user19161

@Billare Yes, unless a miracle happens and he changes.

Grace Note

There doesn't seem to be any indication that he'll return, unfortunately.

z7sg Ѫ

@JasperLoy It's weird how women watch TV! And eat ice cream, yuck!

Billare

@Jasper Loy Is there a chat transcript so I can understand what happened? I missed the developments.

user19161

@z7sgѪ Well, we do that too, but it is the tone and the context you see.

Billare

23:25

Or someone can bring me up to speed...

z7sg Ѫ

@Billare How long do you have?

Billare

Some time.

user19161

@Billare They are all over the place. There isn't much to this one really.

simchona

@Grace When is your blog going up?

Grace Note

The blog article was supposed to go up today.

Billare

23:28

@Jasper Loy Could you like me to a "canonical" one? I really don't understand what occurred at all.

Some new moderators seem to be elected.

And people have strange Greek characters after their names now too.

z7sg Ѫ

Hmm Jeff closed some questions unilaterally, there was disagreement and he was dismissive towards Kosmonaut. He is an expert and naturally was offended by this behaviour.

simchona

@Billare You're so, so far behind

user19161

@Billare I thought you were talking about sth else. This one, I am not too sure myself. Sorry!

Billare

@Simchona It seems so.

user19161

@simchona considering he doesn't come to chat often.

user19161

23:30

@Billare to celebrate EL&U birthday

simchona

@Billare The psis (we call 'em pitchforks) are SE employees who were editing posts for a while

user19161

@Billare kosmo left after some bad exchanges with Jeff to summarise.

Billare

@Jasper Loy I see...what sort of questions were closed? Prurient ones, I suppose?

user19161

@GraceNote what blog, gaming?

user19161

@Billare jokes

Grace Note

23:31

@JasperLoy No, the official Stack Exchange blog article announcing my employment and what it is exactly that I do.

@Billare Jokes that, at a first glance, didn't look all that substantial.

user19161

@Billare you can omit the second word when you ping me, dispense with formality

user19161

@GraceNote jumping left and right, we know.

Billare

@Jasper Loy I think Atwood and others were worried that so many "frivolous" looking questions keep shooting up the Multicollider. But the problem is, they kept attacking EL&U, instead of doing what I think is the simple thing: Changing the MultiColider's algorithm.

Why not just dock EL&U 1/2 the hotness ranking or something?

user19161

@Billare or just dispense with the ads altogether.

Billare

Ah, that would hurt us I think.

The ads on StackExchange do attract eyes.

user19161

23:37

@Billare How? And where are the real ads from other companies?

user19161

@Billare the wrong ones

Alain Pannetier

@Billare, just in now.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy Those don't come for a looong time

Unless you host your own Community Ads, of course. You can advert external stuff with that.

Billare

@Alain Pannetier Hey! How you've been?

Alain Pannetier

@Billare where have you been!!!

Billare

23:39

Sorry, I've been swamped with work the past couple of weeks.

I have a week and half right now though. @Alain

user19161

@Billare Finally you omitted the second word in the name.

Alain Pannetier

I'm pretty busy as well. Can't keep up with the chat. Fiddling with iPhones and Android and that stuff. Very time consuming!!!!

Billare

@Alain Pannetier You are programming, or typing on iPhones/Android.

simchona

@Alain You know a lot about linguistics. Can you shed any light on my Cavendish question?

Billare

@Jasper Loy Not out laziness, mind you. I have names i keep in my mental compartment....you are Jasper Loy, and Alain is Alain, at least since a couple of months ago.

Alain Pannetier

23:42

Programming. Really fun. It's like a Beethoven concerto. You always find something new to marvel at.

user19161

@AlainPannetier four exclamations a bit too much !!!!!

Billare

@Alain Pannetier Very cool. Mind telling me the kind of app you are working on?

Alain Pannetier

@JasperLoy, I count 5 in your phrase ;-)

user19161

@Billare Why? One is just the first name, the other is just the last name or the surname or the family name or whatever.

Billare

@Alain Pannetier I am in deep love with my IPad 2...

@Alain Pannetier And have thusly become an app whore.

Alain Pannetier

23:43

@Billare my department promotion and interactive portal support.

user19161

@Billare I hate ipad, ipod, iphone. I am very primitive.

user19161

@Billare is there "thusly"?

Billare

@Jasper Loy Really? I find them as ultra-expandable Swiss army knives.

Alain Pannetier

@simchona, I probably don't deserve your esteem, I'll have a look at that question.

Billare

@Alain Pannetier So an enterprise application that's being kept "in house"?

Alain Pannetier

23:44

@Billare, it'll go public next month.

@Billare don't you mean appvore ;-) ?

Billare

@Alain Is it meant to be used by the general public, or by your colleagues at your employer?

user19161

@billare You are like simchona who doesn't use the right arrow to reply but prefer to type. I guess you are on a small laptop?

user19161

But simchona has changed.

simchona

@JasperLoy I saw the light!

user19161

@simchona I showed you the light. Of course the advantage is you know which you are replying to.

Billare

23:46

@Jasper Loy Hm, nope, at my IMac in my apartment...it does have a wireless keyboard though.

@Jasper Loy Does that make a difference?

Alain Pannetier

@Billare it's more B2B.

user19161

@Billare Yes, you know which you are replying to if you use the arrow.

user19161

@Billare I purposely change wireless mouse and keyboard to wired ones. I am very primitive.

Alain Pannetier

@JasperLoy OK, I'll use the arrow as well then!

Billare

I don't see how this works?

Hmm...

How do you get the arrow up?

user19161

23:48

@AlainPannetier Of course I don't use the arrow if I am starting sth new, but sometimes I use it out of laziness in this case!

user19161

@Billare Hover over with mouse. Arrow on right to reply, arrow on left to refer back.

Alain Pannetier

It's just that they should implement a keyboard shortcut that would allow you to browse up in the transcript and select the chat input you want to answer to.

Billare

Sorry to be annoying, but then what is "promotion" and "interactive portal support"? @Alain Wouldn't employees, and not businesses, want to use such capabilities/

user19161

@trg787 Hello! No more bras and cigarettes!

Alain Pannetier

@Billare It's promotion because it details what kind of activity we are in. And it accesses the portal because we also allow internal staff to communicate with our infrastructure through their iPhone/Android/Blackberry.

Billare

23:52

And this will be hosted on the App Store?

user19161

@trg787 What does trg787 mean?

Alain Pannetier

For this last bit, since there is some authentication and authorization involved, it can only go through our SSO and then portal.

z7sg Ѫ

@trg787 ez now

that's a bit rude

Alain Pannetier

@Billare For iPhone yes, unless we jailbreak all iPhones in the company that is ;-)

user19161

@z7sgѪ I just realised, not a bit, extremely.

Billare

23:54

@Alain Pannetier No, I'm supposing you wouldn't do that...I would think that Apple would have enabled some sort of an enterprise technology to allow vendors to push private apps over their networks for a fee...

simchona

@z7sgѪ I just translated that. I shouldn't have.

user19161

@simchona Let this be the last time then.

z7sg Ѫ

it sounds even worse in Russian believe me

trg787

Not rude at all..... It's swearing but not rude in fact

simchona

@z7sgѪ Oh. Goody.

@trg787 No swearing then.

user19161

23:55

@trg787 I suggest you delete it if possible.

Alain Pannetier

@Billare Billare, you might very well be right. I'll investigate this point.

z7sg Ѫ

Jul 28 at 22:47, by RegDwight

Без мата, плиз.

@trg787 it's pretty offensive subject matter though you cannot deny that

even if it wasn't directed at anyone

uh oh

I sense a disturbance in the force.

simchona

Nothing to see now @yoda. The swearing was removed

Grace Note

What happened?

user19161

@z7sgѪ I curse people too, but I realised I should insult them and not their mother or father.

simchona

23:57

@GraceNote trg swore. He cursed someone's mother.

user19161

@yoda I sense a force...

Grace Note

Oh. That's not a very nice thing to do.

But I s'pose that it's already been taken care of.

simchona

Yup. All gone.

user19161

The force is still here...

z7sg Ѫ

@JasperLoy i don't curse people as a rule. mostly dangerous people on the road. or if i drop something on my toe i curse that object.

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