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RegDwight

16:00

Just step back and look at its beauty.

@kiamlaluno: it's okay, you can say ShreevatsaR here.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight: The problem is that I didn't remember his nick. :-)

RegDwight

At least you now remember jussive!

We'll teach you ShreevatsaR in no time, too! :D

kiamlaluno

I must find a way to remember that: Sheeva Vatsa?

Oh yes! That is a way more important!

RegDwight

I just keep responding to his comments, it all comes naturally.

Robusto

ShreevatsaR is a statement? I didn't know that.

kiamlaluno

16:03

Add two r's and you get ShreevaVatsaR.

Kosmonaut

Usually, when I respond to one of his comments, I end up going back and forth for at least 10 turns.

By the end I've got it memorized.

kiamlaluno

(I wonder if my nick is easy to remember.)

RegDwight

Thank God I didn't pick my name as my handle.

Though people constantly write @Red.

And I keep telling them, there's no Redinald!

kiamlaluno

I thought it was a short for "Reginald Dwight".

RegDwight

Precisely.

Robusto

16:05

You might have tried "Tiny Dancer" ... I don't think you worked on your nick hard enough.

RegDwight

I was thinking about DontShootMeImOnlyThePianoPlayer for a while.

Robusto

I gave about .045 seconds' worth of thought into my nick.

Kosmonaut

I was thinking about using the name I1lII1l11l

I was concerned that people might mistype it...

kiamlaluno

Once I used Xenophaw. It was supposed to be the transliteration in English of the Greek words for "stranger light".

Kosmonaut

But I really like the way it sounds.

RegDwight

16:08

It sounds?

Robusto

American pronunciation or Greek?

Kosmonaut

I prefer the original Klingon pronunciation.

kiamlaluno

@Robusto: The Greek pronunciation.

Robusto

BTW that Groundhog Day clip is almost perfect ... but it should include Andie MacDowell's reaction shot at the end.

kiamlaluno

The problem was that I didn't know how to write the adjective that derives from "stranger" (and still I don't know it).

Kosmonaut

16:10

"strange"?

Robusto

Except "stranger" derives from "strange" instead of the other way around, right?

Kosmonaut

Right, but sometimes people don't know what they are looking for until they find it :)

RegDwight

I think he's talking about xenos.

Ah, no, I got it all wrong.

Help!

Kosmonaut

Foreign light

Xenolight

RegDwight

Xenonlicht

Xenonlicht bezeichnet bei Kraftfahrzeugen den Einsatz einer Gasentladungslampe im Abblendlicht beziehungsweise Fernlicht. Geschichte Am Anfang der Entwicklung stand die 1989 von Philips entwickelte D1-Lampe von Osram und Philips, die im Bosch- und Hella-Xenonsystem des BMW E32 und von Hella im Audi V8 verwendet wurde, heute aber nicht mehr produziert wird. Seit 1994 wird die D2-Lampe im Audi A8 und im BMW E38 verwendet, sie wird heute noch in leicht abgewandelter Form produziert. 1991 wurden in einem BMW der 7er-Reihe zum ersten Mal in einem Auto Gasentladungslampen (Bosch) als Xenon...

kiamlaluno

16:14

I meant: Take "foreign light", translated it in Greek, write the English word that would have the same sound.

Kosmonaut

Same sound?

So, something that is homophonous with Xenophaw?

RegDwight

So you were trying to pull a Lewis Carroll?

kiamlaluno

Google Translate reports that "foreign light" is "ξένο φως".

I took out the final sigma, and thought that "Xenophaw" would have a pronunciation close enough to the Greek words. :-)

RegDwight

I like Robusto's edit to the cheese-crust question.

Careful: one more user to edit, and it will be automatically CWed.

Robusto

CWed?

RegDwight

16:19

Community-wikied.

I think 5 is the threshold.

Might be 6.

Nope, 5:

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kiamlaluno

It's time for my daily chat in Calabrian. Good night all. :-)

Robusto

Ciao.

Kosmonaut

Tschau

RegDwight

Buona sera.

Robusto

16:33

Lol I just had an issue where something was working fine on my server but not on the dev server. I was sure I had made the changes, and I had. Can you guess what the problem was?

RegDwight

svn up?

Robusto

Worse.

Checked in to the wrong repository.

RegDwight

That... is worse.

You know something's going wrong when marketing starts printing out your server code on their flyers and coffee mugs.

Robusto

16:53

Ah, work ... see what happens when I spend too much time chatting with you bad influences?

That was clearly your fault, not mine. =P

RegDwight

Yeah, just noticed that I have some work, too. I'm shocked and dismayed.

Robusto

An entirely appropriate reaction.

RegDwight

I learned to react that way by browsing Reddit for five years in a row.

Robusto

That's the real Coding Horror ...

RegDwight

And I won't get anything done tomorrow, either, as I will spend the whole day eagerly awaiting the new data dump, clicking reload over and over and over again.

And now I have to go. Talk you later!

Robusto

17:05

Later.

Rhodri

17:35

I don't know, I wander in here to get my mind off coding issues and what do I find? :-)

JSBangs

don't worry, soon we'll get back to talking about agglutination again

Robusto

18:34

Look, it's already started ...

Rhodri

19:30

That's enough staring at code for one day, I'm off home.

Cheers, everyone.

kikio

19:46

Hello.

I've a urgent question::

We say "Powered by Microsoft", Can we say "Microsoft powered" instead of this?

the link:::

Q: "powered by" and "powered"

Hello. I've a urgent question:: We say "Powered by Microsoft", Can we say "Microsoft powered" instead of this? Thanks ..

usage

Robusto

I answered your question.

kikio

20:22

@Robusto Thanks ..

Kosmonaut

21:05

@kikio: Please don't write things like "this is an urgent question" in your questions. They aren't relevant and won't cause people to respond any faster or slower.

If you put that in the question, I have to clean up the question by deleting it.