empty room... XP

Quite!

@Jez The meaning is quite different.

@DavidWallace: Hi mate, how're you

Hello Sankar.

How're you

I'm very well, but a little tired. How about yourself?

I m fine nowdays

I'm glad to hear it. Have you been keeping yourself busy?

yes mate , i went to my native , and i met my school friends in the last weekend

@SankarGanesh So it sounds like you had a good time.

@DavidWallace yes mate, Thanks your Advice, when i felt bad,:)

No worries.

hi @DavidWallace

What comes after the "with"?

or is that the end of the sentence?

it's the end

Then it's not just redundant, it's ungrammatical.

I was wrong

it doesn't end there

I have to go, Meysam, sorry.

I'll be back in about 90 minutes.

bye

ok

@Meysam: Hi mate

@SankarGanesh Hi

@Meysam how're you and what you do for living, i m working as Android Developer

@SankarGanesh I am fine. I do c++ programming.

@SankarGanesh Hey, how are you?

@NinjaTurtle I m fine, what about you?

good afternoon, y'all

good afternoon to you!

The questions don't seem too bad today, unless Reg is stealthily nixing the bad ones

so many times I don't even look at them

Well, the top half maybe. the bottom half seems to devolve somewhat

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I've been reviewing today, but it's the first time in a week or so

don't you hate it when something that should be in the db is actually in the code?

like a stored procedure?

or a view.

I've left DBs behind for the moment - I burned out on SQL at my last job.

no, what I mean, is, some configuration data is included in the codebase instead of being stored in the db like it should be.

granted, there's a valid reason for that, but grrr

oh, right, well that's a style choice.

it means that in order to update the configuration I have to release a new build

user prefs are probably better off in a DB, but app configuration needs to be out of the DB at some point

@MrShinyandNew安宇 well, yeah, that's wrong

config files shouldn't require a new build to be released

the thing is, the library we are using insists on loading the config from the disk. it handles that all itself so there's no room for us to change it. So instead of having zillions of copies of this data on every machine out there, with no easy way of knowing what state it's in, we put this data into the deployable package, and so that way we know what version of the config is out there.

I wish I knew.

I agree, as well as the stuff that gets shoved in the registry in Windows.

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@JasperLoy There are two answers to this question.

1. Some people consider it a feature that if you re-install an app, it remembers your past preferences. Just now, between my last chat msg and this one, I had to re-install Firefox in order to get it to restart properly; I'm glad it remembered my open tabs, for example.

2. Even if it makes sense to remove every trace of a program upon uninstall, not all programs do it because not all programmers take care of all the little details.

There is no way for Windows to know what is safe to remove so it just leaves it.

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why do you expect more people to delete their accounts?

@JasperLoy I don't think many people find that

I generally wouldn't bother closing an account unless I had to, such as if I need to close it in order to stop getting email.

Moin.

I realized yesterday that my "Here you go" sounds like "He go."

Plus

Congrats

It kind of hurts my brain.

@KitFox depends on the accent I guess :)

In my head, see, I picture my words as "Here you go." I don't usually read my own incoming words. Too much interference that way.

But it slipped through yesterday, and now it is niggling in my brain.

So @Kit my son has figured out that if you ask him a "why" question, he should answer with "because". He doesn't always know what goes after that, but he gives it a good try. "J--- why is there milk on the floor?" "be coz... be coz... M-- hurt me"

interesting. I don't picture the words. I guess that's why I make spelling mistakes when I'm looking down at the keys

Well, it's not really picturing the words. It's like how your inner voice talks to you.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Hahaha.

yeah, although my inner voice is sexy and suave. Nothing like my outer voice

Yeah, see? You get it.

No imagine that you actually for a second heard your real voice. It would stick in your head and bother you, wouldn't it?

Yeah

Like that guest with poor social skills who doesn't understand that "I hope you enjoyed dinner" means "It is time for you to go now."

:D

@KitFox my former manager used to throw parties, and then when he was tired of people being there, he'd just announce "Alright. Get the fuck out of my house."

Haha.

I actually tell people to leave sometimes.

"I have really enjoyed this visit, but I have to go to bed, so you'll have to go."

well, why not? sometimes you need to cut things short, or they've been there too long anyway.

I have managed to get laid that way a few times though.

@KitFox Interesting strategy

"Get the fuck out of my house. Or fuck me. Either way. But do it now!"

Pretty much.

You'd be surprised how many people are put off by "So, do you want to engage in some sporting sexual relations?"

One day, my kids are going to discover this chat room, and find the starred messages that I wrote, and read them all out of context, and they won't know whether to laugh or cry.

@KitFox I wouldn't be that surprised, actually.

My kids will find this chat room and make fun of me mercilessly for being such an old fogey.

"Holy shit, Mom, you used emoticons. Dork."

@KitFox heh. I'd want to say yes, but feel all embarrassed

Good morning.

@KitFox well, that will probably go without saying.

hello @Mahnax :D

We have no hot water, our hot water tank blew.

@MattЭллен yeah, cuz what if it was a joke? Then you'd be all like "sure" and then she'd be "Psyche! As if!"

@Mahnax :(

@MattЭллен Right. I know. Boys are kind of dumb like that.

Girls too, but not as much.

@MattЭллен Quite. My shower this morning consisted of me washing my hair in the sink.

@Mahnax blew? or just stopped?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Blew. It made a mess.

But change the question to "I have to go to bed, so you'll have to leave or come to bed with me" and suddenly the success rate goes up.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 my subconscious would be all like "This doesn't happen to me. Why is this happening now? This is a trap."

@Mahnax boo! that is even more annoying than my freezer, which required emergency defrosting yesterday.

@MattЭллен EXACTLY! That is exactly how I would feel.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ack. Appliances, eh?

Um, duh. It would be happening at that moment because it's me, and I'm awesome like that.

@Mahnax yeah. and my A/C compressor is busted or something too. But I'd rather have no A/C and damp freezer than a blown hot water tank.

I hate social negotiations.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I would take the damp freezer as well.

@KitFox yeah but apparently Matt and I never had the pleasure of visiting your house until bedtime.

@KitFox yes, for some reason not asking a question makes it better.

We're hoping that we can get someone out here to replace it today.

I can't think of clever, "cunning" ways of enticing people. I tend toward the direct approach.

We're also hoping that it's still covered under warranty.

@Mahnax fingers crossed

"Why don't you stay and lay down here on the rug for a minute?"

@MattЭллен Yep.

"I can't think of a clever reason why that might make a good ruse, so can we just skip that part and get to the fun stuff?"

@KitFox I bet when you sing that song "Baby it's cold outside" you do the man's part, don't you? Or at least cheer him on.

No, because see he's good at it.

"Oh, you'll catch a cold, honey."

"Have just one more drink."

"Pick another record, eh?"

I'm much more along the lines of "Uh, my shirt is chafing me."

Or the 'accidental' spill.

@KitFox oh, damn, now my pants are chafing me

Exactly.

So not really seduction.

My husband says I flirt like a frat boy.

I used to say that to my wife. But I kept forgetting that she never watched "The Simpsons" so she didn't see that episode where Bart falls in love with the babysitter played by the girl from Roseanne.

lol

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Hahahahahaha

points and laughs HA ha

you know the one, right?

That was to what I was referring, yes.

excellent :)

Now, what was I doing today?

My son totally conned me this morning, by the way.

He knows my weak spots.

Hehe.

just behind your knees?

I should go.

Bye!

CU!

@Mahnax bye. have fun in school

He comes into the bathroom while I'm showering and says "Mommy, is morning a time when we watch superheroes?"

@Mahnax Later!

Because, you see, we don't watch superhero shows in the morning.

As well he knows.

intriguing

Through the curtain, I say "No, morning is not a time when we watch superheroes. But Mommy will let you watch something educational since you have asked so nicely."

heheh

"Is Voltron educational?"

lol

I wish my kids had enough time to watch TV in the morning

"No, honey. You can watch WordGirl or Cyberchase or Super Why or something like that."

There is a long pause, then "I really wanted to watch something on Netflix."

"WordGirl is on Netflix."

"I wanted to do the thing where you press the triangle and write the letters...S-P-I-D-E-R..."

"SpiderMan? ...Um, well, let me think about that a minute..."

About five minutes later, he busts into my bedroom. "Mommy! I know! How about Phineas and Ferb!?"

(Mommy's weakness)

Mommy sighs. "I think that's a great idea, honey. Go ahead."

So I was two hours late to work this morning.

ouch!

heheh he's got you well trained :)

I should probably not let him watch a show that encourages creative building.

I even offered that he could play Lego Star Wars this morning, if he wanted.

Oh, and hey! On Friday, I deployed a rough draft of the data cube I've been working on for the last two years!

woohoo!

smiles proudly

also wonders if two years doesn't seem like a very long time to work on a data cube

sounds about right to me

I never did find out if my database expert friend ever got her cube working

She was at it for a year while I was at the same company

Well, then I will be even smugger, since building the cube itself only took a couple of working days.

feels smug

Was she cute? Maybe I could help her deploy hers...

heh. Sort of. not really my type. Kept herself in good shape.

Would you describe her as willowy?

Is she a brunette?

Yeah, brunnette

Hello.