Charcoal HQ

@balpha Sorry to bother you, but we were told that only you could move this room back to being under no site. badp moved us under MSO for I don't know what reason, and we can't move it back.

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badp

The room was hijacked for the MSO goodnight party. That is all

Seth

Well now we can't unhijack it so...

Annonomus Person

2:43 AM

We've asked other SO mods but they can't figure out how to do it.

Seth

Someone just give me SO mod powers for 1 minute!

Annonomus Person

@Seth See superping is better! :D

Seth

2:58 AM

Yay, first answer on the new meta.

and first post for that matter.

Undo

3:23 AM

Ah, the joy of owning a room that got in a transporter accident.

and may be about to get in another if balpha messes up :P

@Seth is that a superping?

Seth

@Undo yeh

balpha

3:38 AM

room parent site changed to default (no parent site)

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Seth

@balpha Thanks a lot!

and sorry to bother you, I know you're busy.

Undo

3:51 AM

@balpha You are awesome. Thank you so much. :D

hichris123

2:44 PM

@balpha yay! How did you do it? Thanks!

Annonomus Person

Lol my modal is loading another modal by accident :D

Annonomus Person

3:17 PM

@hichris Quick PHP question:

If I prepare this statement here:

SELECT * WHERE test = ? AND test2 = ?

Do I execute it like this?:

$statment_here->execute(array($test, $test2));

Or do I create two arrays?

hichris123

@AnnonomusPerson Yes.

@AnnonomusPerson No.

Annonomus Person

Okay then, my other code is bad... hmm...

Working now thanks @hichris... although the problem with my code was in the statement: a typo.

hichris123

rofl

That's... nice.

I hate it when that happens. :(

Doorknob

I spent five minutes debugging send_messsage. >:(

Annonomus Person

Ten for SQL

hichris123

3:26 PM

... I need a good PHP IDE/debugger. I just use sublime, put it on my test server, and see what borks. :P

Doorknob

That's exactly what I do :D

Annonomus Person

@hichris123 VS 2013 paid editions have plugins and there seems to be a great PHP one with debugging, but that's $200

I've been sending frowns to MS daily until they add PHP

hichris123

... yeah, a bit too much for me. :P

Annonomus Person

Me too :D

@hichris Never mind... starts at $1200 /year and the plugin isn't free D:

hichris123

Woah.

That's... way too expensive.

Annonomus Person

3:33 PM

Almost as bad as CC6

hichris123

Yup.

Annonomus Person

Ohh wait without MSDN subscription $500 flat

microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/…

hichris123

... still very expensive. :P

Annonomus Person

Wow on eBay it's only $19.95 with free shipping! :P

It has to be true if it's on the internet!!!

Frown sent

hichris123

:P

Annonomus Person

3:37 PM

@hichris I wasn't kidding :D ^

It's a real feature @hichris

hichris123

... where's the frowny face?

Look at the button

Oh, rofl.

There too

3:52 PM

I finally got around to putting my maze generator on my website :P keyboardfire.com/content/maze-generator

hichris123

6:52 PM

Oy @Undo.

Doorknob

oy

hichris123

needs to answer another Earth Science question

Doorknob

needs to post another Programming Puzzles & Code Golf challenge

hichris123

@Doorknob ... and then I'll answer it, right? :P

Doorknob

@hichris123 Perhaps. :P I have one right now about 80% done.

hichris123

7:03 PM

@Undo Is it usually 7 days in private beta, or 14?

Doorknob

7:20 PM

usually 7

Undo

7:43 PM

usually 7

14 if the team either (a) thinks the site needs more time, or (b) wants to annoy you.

hichris123

Ah, okay. :P

Undo

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Q: An odd request: can we have another week in private beta?

If the Community Managers team (henceforth CM) so decides, we're scheduled to start public beta in two days (Tuesday). I'm not sure we're ready. On most new beta sites, announcements from the CM team that the site will stay in private beta for another week are met with disappointment. I'd like t...

^ This is the only case I know of where any site did this.

I should make a Mod Menu for Mortals.

Except I don't know what one could put in it

hichris123

@Undo ... why?

Undo

I dunno

So that I feel more at home on other sites?

hichris123

... or you could just add to the Mod Menu for Mortals: Get a diamond on here already!

Undo

7:57 PM

And if you love us in the slightest, please make it a red freehand circle instead of just a highlight. — Servy yesterday

... wut?

Why so small?

hmm

there

@hichris123 ^ Like?

hichris123

Pretty good. :P

Hrm. My 30-second investigation suggests that the first vote (from toro2k) was cast on a different review task that was later invalidated. My guess is that that vote got wrongly counted in the end. Or it might just be a display issue. I'll have to dig deeper, although in the meantime this doesn't seem overly harmful. — Anna Lear ♦ 4 hours ago

Uh... wut? :P

Undo

rofl

It's easier to understand if you've seen the mod timeline

hichris123

@Undo plzsendmetehtoolz

Undo

But then they'll take them away from both of us.

hichris123

I... don't have any tools.

Undo

8:08 PM

You will soon ;)

or probably will

hichris123

Did they ever fix $threshold2?

Undo

looks

hichris123

@Undo Eeek! The horror of Undo's comment flags!

Undo

@hichris123 that block of text only shows up if there's comment flags in the queue

hichris123

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A: The expanded help text for comment flags shows a variable name instead of a value

Perhaps localization? Perhaps. We admit nothing. Anyways... this is fixed in the next build (rev 2014.2.24.1392, Meta rev 2014.2.24.1979)

Yup, fixed.

Undo

8:21 PM

These nasty AU people are ganging up on me :(

Doorknob

@Undo In what way? :O

Undo

They dare to downvote this, @Doorknob :(

hichris123

@Undo I do agree... it's not red! Fixy plz?

Doorknob

How dare they click the dreaded downwards pointing triangle?! :P

3ventic

8:44 PM

I want to click them both D:

hichris123

@Undo Have you ever mod-edited a comment?

Undo

uhmmm....

once on accident

hichris123

rofl

What did you do?

Undo

Clicked the wrong shiny button

then hit random keys trying to get out of this thing that somehow popped up.

and then hit enter.

bad. very bad.

hichris123

random gibberish?

:P

Undo

8:46 PM

uhhh... yeah :P

yay for comments not having revision history :P

hichris123

:(

3ventic

This is weird and I see no reason for it to happen..

Undo

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 7 secs ago, by Undo

status-norepro

here

3ventic

Yeah well, I can't even repro it on half of my browsers

hichris123

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 secs ago, by hichris123

status-repro

Chrome.

> Version 34.0.1847.116 m

3ventic

8:55 PM

> Version 34.0.1847.116 m

hichris123

@3ventic Dev channel, then.

Want me to test in Canary?

3ventic

Dev channel?

Seth

yeah

hichris123

@3ventic chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Wait, wat?

Why am I on stable? Eek!

3ventic

I'm on stable..

hichris123

8:58 PM

Okay, let's update to dev. :P

Undo

9:30 PM

0

A: Browser extension to increase the display density on SE meta (and any other SE having the new design)

I use Stylebot for things like this. It's awesome in that it lets you either modify the CSS itself (what I use), or use user-friendly buttons and knobs to configure things. It's free in the Chrome Web Store. Here's the script I use (from the awesome export function): a.youarehere { height: ...

Yay I actually got to answer an SR question :D

3ventic

I want to create my own stylesheet to use on all SE sites, but I can't be bothered :|

+ I'll probably end up forgetting which site I'm on after that

hichris123

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A: Is climate chaotic?

There's quite a bit of evidence to support that at least part of the climate system is chaotic. According to the IPCC: The climate system is particularly challenging since it is known that components in the system are inherently chaotic; there are feedbacks that could potentially switch ...