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7:49 AM
Congratulations to @RichardU on reaching the 50K milestone. This score is a testament to the high level of respect that users and the rest of us have for your answers. Not like the rest of us rep-whoring toss-bags.
 
8:16 AM
Morning everyone
Cookie
Big day, today we pack and make the product ready for shipment (if other don't break my things)
 
Good luck with that, Nofel.
 
8:43 AM
yep thanks. So far internal testing feedback is great.
though I want to add stuff to make it good but it is shame when a non-creative or anti-UX guy cannot see it through.
I been low since yesterday
donno why
 
9:04 AM
Try not to worry about it. Save the other changes for a following phase. Sometimes there's not enough time to get everything in.
 
yea that is the next roll out
Funny, when I come late (very rare) the TL is all saying "be on time" but when other peer come late, it is nothing
when I went out to make coffee they were talking and when I cam in, they stopped.
I use to thing keeping open ears help u get signs of layoff
bt I realised that even in a small face 2 face, IM services will do the job without letting u know.
 
 
1 hour later…
10:12 AM
It's usually best to ignore these things. Sometimes you can get yourself worked up into thinking that people are out to get you when that might not be the case at all. If you assume the worst, you end up believing it....
I am somewhat shamelessly reaching for the 'Necromancer' badge. Simply because it sounds cool.
 
10:49 AM
Someone over on Pets.SE decided that giving a cat a Xanax to quieten them down was a good idea. Then gets all surprised when the poor kitty reacts badly. I'm honestly a hairs breadth from not just violating "Be Nice" but shredding it into a million pieces and force-feeding it to the perpetrator.
 
@motosubatsu what is wrong with people
 
I commented on your answer. I didn't hold back much.
 
who thinks thats a good idea
some people shouldn't be responsible for other living things
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11:08 AM
@RhysW couldn't agree more
@SnarkShark thanks oh Snarky one.. appreciated :)
don't think I left much ambiguity in my edit either, hopefully still within Be Nice of course
your comment was especially pertinent given that the OP wasn't exactly up-front about the medication when they posted their initial question
which just smacks of them knowing they had done a Bad Thing(TM) and didn't want the flak for it
 
It's standard practice. If someone has taken something they shouldn't (medical, potion, shampoo, whatever), take the bottle with you to hospital. That way, the professionals can read what the active ingredients are in there and treat accordingly.
 
@SnarkShark precisely.. I actually edited a suggestion in to do just that ~ 10 mins ago
 
It might also be worth editing the question with the relevant information too ("I gave my cat a human sleeping pill without seeking the advice of a vet").
 
Hello everyone
 
11:24 AM
@SnarkShark yeah could be a good idea that.. I'll have a look at editing it in after lunch
in the meantime I'm going to go get some food and try and calm down, otherwise my edit will be "I poisoned my cat because I'm an idiot, how can I help find her a new home where she will be safe"
 
Which Q @motosubatsu
 
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Q: Cat is suddenly behaving in unusual fashion

SonevolUrgent help. My cat has gone mad. She can't recognize us anymore. She is continuously running from side to side up and down as if a ghost is chasing her. If I try to hold her she is struggling to get away. Her situation is like a fish taken out of water struggling to breath.

 
Holy shit...
 
@SnarkShark So, being a cat then?
 
I don't have the bandwidth to handle all of these sites......
morning @Draken
 
11:58 AM
@Draken read my answer for the "minor" details the OP left out of the original Q
 
Woah. Pretty slow today so far. I don't think I'll be reaching my quota somehow.
 
I've answered a couple of Qs but yeah it's pretty quiet today
 
HELLO
 
@MisterSortofPositive Morning
 
Rhys. There's a Rhys here walking.
 
12:04 PM
i thought id try to make it less quiet by shouting
it kinda worked
 
Hello rhys :)
 
@motosubatsu That is some minor details, basically the answer to the entire problem...
 
@Draken Why is my cat acting strange (Aside from the drugs i gave it) ?
Why doesn't my kettle work? (Aside from the milk i put in it)
 
Why don't I get a pay rise in recognition for the work I never do?
 
@SnarkShark Why does Bob get paid more than me? (Aside from him being more experienced and doing more work)
 
12:10 PM
@SnarkShark Thank you. Now, just one more rep-cap for legendayr
 
@RhysW it's clearly discrimination against people not called Bob
:D
 
Bob is what keeps the company afloat
 
@RhysW Very funny, I saw what you did there.
@RichardU You'll get there before you know it....
 
@SnarkShark hehe ;)
 
Poor Lommy just got his throat ripped out by a spear. Easy come, easy go....
 
12:14 PM
@SnarkShark I wonder how many more haters I'll collect
 
@RichardU depends, are you...*sorry?*
 
@motosubatsu i think i can answer this one for him
 
@motosubatsu Is said that in a "Father Jack" accent?
 
I don't think I want to put anyone in a dangerous situation by apologizing.
 
@SnarkShark That is an ecumenical matter
 
12:41 PM
Hey @RichardU
How was the birthday
and how r u
 
Morning @RichardU @Nofel
Got milk?
I went to the store and I have COOKIES
 
no, bt someone else do and it is NSFW
 
@MisterSortofPositive everyone knows this is just a rip off of "Hungry for Apples?"
 
I got one cookie left
 
Hungry for apples? WTAF is that LOL?
 
12:47 PM
just me making poor references to tv shows, dont worry about it :P
 
@SnarkShark DRINK!
 
@motosubatsu DRINK!
 
@SnarkShark FECK!
 
@motosubatsu DRRRRRRRRRENK!
 
This is cool thing bbc.co.uk/programmes/…
 
12:54 PM
Its not even 9am..... why are we drinking?
 
I wonder what my data will tell to my TL
 
@SnarkShark I love my brick!
 
@motosubatsu I love my pony
My beautiful pony.
 
@SnarkShark Running through the fields?
 
12:59 PM
@SnarkShark You mean your beautiful PINK pony.
 
@MisterSortofPositive well technically shouldn't it be "My lovely horse"?
 
@Nofel good, but far too brief
 
Hmmmm, good point.
I think I finally have a serial down-voter / stalker
 
@MisterSortofPositive congratulations! Our little boy is all grown up!
 
1:05 PM
 
and I provided 2 answers with out a header just for @SnarkShark
With a serial down voter, might take some extra time to get there.......
cookies.
 
I thank you. You can please me most by voting. I have a crapload of work to do, so I'm slipping on my headphones and getting stuck in.
After I make coffee.
 
cookies
 
LOL
work time....
check in shortly
 
I'm off today. Airline nightmares yesterday
 
1:08 PM
Ouch. I just read the title of the "What is Non-Circumvention?" question altogether too quickly.
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@SnarkShark I love that the OP has come back to that question.. four years later just to remove a couple of words from the title
 
@motosubatsu And he didn't even get his "Excavator" badge....
 
ahh I see what happened now, Dukeling commented about how it should be an English lang. Q so the OP removed the "plain english" bit from the title to counter
it's all still pretty bizzare since the Q already has a good answer (which the OP's comments suggest he failed to understand) and otherwise hasn't been touched in the intervening time.
 
note to self, forgetting to have dinner, followed by forgetting to have breakfast, followed by forgetting to go for lunch = bad idea
 
@RhysW That will hit you like a freight train.
 
1:23 PM
No folk in office today
and i am unable to eat my speghatti
shit
 
@RhysW yep that's gonna suck, BTDT too many time to count
@Nofel do you require an audience?
 
only left with 1 cookie
 
@MisterSortofPositive if i can muscle through 2 hours i can 'go home early' by taking lunch at the end of the day
 
no, just sharing
 
@motosubatsu this made me laugh loud enough to get a glance from my coworkers
 
1:24 PM
1 cookie. what the hell?
 
@RhysW better eat something though...otherwise the crash when you run out of energy will hit hard
@RhysW I'm here all week :)
 
i got a few chocolate biscuits here, and a can or two of drink
 
@RhysW should be enough to keep you going.. but beware the sugar crash, make sure that post-work you eat a "proper" meal with carbs and protein and all that good stuff or you'll crash like a jumbo jet with the wings removed
 
all my stuff here is sugar free, so uh, that might not help the sugar crash. I'm fairly sure im used to running on empty, i uh, accidentally do this pretty frequently
usually not three meals in a row though :L
 
1:54 PM
ah vending machine, how i love thee
 
I really wish it would tell me what user was removed when it takes away my rep.
 
@ChrisE Me too!!! lost 13 today...
 
Today is going to really suck. I have no earbuds or headphones with me (I apparently forgot to put them in my laptop case) and no way to get any.
 
@ChrisE look forward to a very unproductive day i guess
 
@ChrisE oh that does suck....
 
2:04 PM
I work in a conference room with 3 other people, so yeah. Suckville USA.
 
@ChrisE At least the pay is good. ( Ihope )
 
@MisterSortofPositive aren't all places open plan now? i've never not worked open plan :/
 
No
open office plans are horrible ideas for developers....just silly
 
maybe one day i'll be lucky enough to experience something other than open plan :P
 
@ChrisE I have spare headphones if you want some.
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2:09 PM
Sure, I'm at Lenox Park. :)
 
Sure, no problem. I'll put them in the internal mail.
 
woot!
 
In the meantime. you might want to shut your head in the laptop lid, or just wear it like a tri-corn hat.
Huh. So Lenox Park is a real thing. AT&T are there (well, a bit of them).
 
2:27 PM
did out nav bar just get an update??
 
@MisterSortofPositive looks like it
they were talking about rolling out the new SO one across the network so looks like it's our turn today
 
ahhhh i don't like change! send me back to my cave!
 
@RhysW you can come hide under this bridge with me if you want
 
@motosubatsu Can I join?
 
@MisterSortofPositive of course! There's no cookies though, some guy called Nofel came along and ate them all
 
2:37 PM
Damn damn damn......
 
oh ick
post a link if you see a meta post saying how much it sucks. I want to upvote it.
 
there's this?
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Q: New top bar is live

Joe FriendWe released the new top bar for all users across all communities. The only exceptions are stackexchange.com, Area51, and chat. They will be coming a little later. I wanted to take this time to respond to some of the key feedback we received from the initial post about the top bar coming to the n...

 
yeah, I was reading it. Doesn't give the "top bar is ass" vibe I'm looking for.
 
@motosubatsu will we be trolling under this bridge?
im dissapointed out symbols are diamonds, instead of paperclips
 
2:44 PM
ugh and they've reduced the font size too.
 
i wondered why i was struggling to read it!
 
@ChrisE although many of the "answer" posts on that thread seem to be very much along the lines of it being, as you put it - ass
god it sucks...
the review queue icon makes no sense - looks like an edit link
 
You'd think a site as old as this would get that you don't introduce something like this all at once. It's too radical a change.
 
The review link is awful
 
the se logo in the top left NOT being a site switcher is annoying - makes it completely inconsistent with the mobile version for a start
 
2:46 PM
@motosubatsu i just messed up twice already
 
you'd think given there is a whole SE dedicated to UX that they might have been able to find someone to make SE's UX NOT suck
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and making the site switcher icon a fricking speech bubble?!? common SE, picking icons isn't hard but you do need to put a bit more effort in then just throwing darts at a bunch of them
 
@motosubatsu good idea, we will change it to a dart icon
 
the icons hurt my eyes.
 
the rep and badge numbers hurt mine. They're too small and too heavy at the same time.
 
yes those hurt really bad..
 
2:57 PM
@ChrisE yep.. rep in particular is painful to look at, the combination of the small font size / high font weight and the high contrast color combo to display a multi-digit number is really hard on the Mk1 eyeball, this is just basic UX stuff.
by comparison the icons actually aren't that straining on the eye - it's just that the review and particularly the site switcher bear little to no relation to what they do. I know icons aren't easy but they are an established area of UX and design research and have been for decades and while it's hard to come up with the "right" one first time it's very easy to eliminate the "wrong" ones with simple straw polls
at least the sticky-top-bar infection hasn't progressed to us (yet)
 
what do you mean?
in other news, today is the 10th anniversary of the release of The Orange Box by Valve
 
@ChrisE yay - cake for everyone!
 
Cookies....not cake. ;-}
 
The cake is ... a lie?
 
yep
as are the cookies I hear....
 
3:09 PM
Oh maaan!
 
I've put in over 1100 hours in TF2 alone. Over 50 in Portal
 
I have put in far more hours in portal and p2 than tf2
@MisterSortofPositive Team fortress 2
 
I enjoy community developed rooms in p1 and p2
 
3:10 PM
 
^ the Red Team theme
 
@RoryAlsop never played any. TF2 was my game. I spent so many hours in 2fort just sniping people.
 
@motosubatsu Wait, what? You think those know-it-alls at SE actually visit any of the SE sites? :o
 
Two of the upsides of my kids growing older - they play games so I can't get on the pc/consoles as much, and they are much better than me
So I watch them rocking at it
 
closed the tab and couldn't figure out how to get back here at first :L
 
3:17 PM
Oh cool, Stack Exchange now provides email! Wow!
Oh wait, that's just the review queue. Damn. :(
 
lol
 
@ChrisE it's rough and ready but if you want to pick an icon for something you just show your candidate to a few people without telling them what it's for and if a good majority of the people you show it to come up with something approximating the answer you're on to a winner
 
NSFW coming up, but it seems appropriate here ...
 
@ChrisE damn that makes me feel old
 
9 minutes to go
almost made it
 
3:25 PM
@motosubatsu Good point. To me, the other icons look fine. Inbox, rewards and obviously the SE logo. The other one makes me think "Ooh, we can send instant messages now" or something similar.
 
@ChrisE yeah it's only really review and site switcher that are off the mark
 
The tooltip for site switcher doesn't help. I thought at first it would actually take me to a page with "A list of all 171 Stack Exchange sites" not a site switcher.
There's really no reason to move from the old site switcher in my opinion. Having a link there now is just dumb.
 
@ChrisE agreed!
 
"CP" is rude. Who'd have thought that....
 
most people don't like canned peas....
 
3:33 PM
@ChrisE likewise..and the response to the feedback of "why move it to the right" was "you'll get used to it"
they seem oddly intent on having it move to the right despite multiple feedback requests asking for it not to
 
I always thought "CP" stood for "c?ck pocket", personally. Not rude at all.
 
:-|
oh boy do I have a stalker....
 
Really? Do tell? Can we join in too?
 
sure...I need more pain...
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Q: Recommendation letters in the workplace?

Jack BauerThis is not a duplicate because I already said in initial draft (Note: Not reference letters.) Here is my understanding: In academia, say, in PhD applications: I draft for my recommendation letter writer. The recommendation letter writer submits by deadline. In the workplace Recommen...

 
@JoeStrazzere, I purged the comment thread on your answer here. Don't forget that you can also flag it yourself if people are using comments to bicker or disagree rather than to improve or criticise constructively.
 
3:37 PM
ok...here we go.....
@Lilienthal I sure regret my answer on that question....
 
@Lilienthal I think you're being too judgy. People wouldn't use comments that way. :)
 
I have no idea what he's trying to ask. Kind of looks more like he's trying to make a point more than ask a question.
 
@SnarkShark So not worth it.
 
@SnarkShark which is why I cast the 4th close vote with "unclear" as the reason.
 
If I don't get a question within two attempts of reading it, I'll usually stab the "unclear what you're asking" button.
 
3:43 PM
I hope you all will join me in cleaning out the garbage....
 
Sounds like an Eminem song.
 
it might be...
 
It almost seems as though he had the same response on academia.
 
Now I'm craving mom's spaghetti. :)
 
Not that I'd bothered to look. Academia is too academic for me.
 
3:45 PM
Morning people
seems that the new status bar came to TWP today
 
please CAST some delete votes....make my day....punks
 
Oh look, it's the late one. Glad you could join us.
 
the "reference letter" Q could have been a good question.. unfortunately the OP was being a bit, erm, odd about the whole thing
@GrayCygnus yes, and we hate it
 
I just wish it were static so you didn't have to scroll up to use it
 
@MisterSortofPositive Not enough people have upvoted my answers for me to stab the delete button, sorry mate.
 
3:46 PM
otherwise you have to go all the way up to respond a message, reviews etc
 
@SnarkShark I will work on that...
 
LOL
 
You, Sir, continue to be a valued and trusted friend...
 
CP is Child Pornography according to certain places
 
YES!!!! one more to go!
 
3:47 PM
Chocolate Pancakes
Cold Protons
Cool Pachycephalous
etc. etc.
 
@GrayCygnus Here in the UK, the CPS is a well known thing, which certainly isn't the Child Pornography Services....
 
@GrayCygnus If I had an employee who immediately thought of "child pornography" at those letters, I'd start monitoring his web activity.
 
I didn't knew that until some days ago
when a friend of mine told me he "accidentally" entered a Link called Cold Protons on R3dit
I doubt it as why would he want to know about Cold Protons when he studies literature?
 
@GrayCygnus is that like when of my former coworkers at a previous job "accidentally" visited a site about big bus tycoons?
(remove the spaces, put your mind in the gutter and roll around a bit)
 
But yes, if that is the first thing to come to mind is something possibly disturbing, the OP could well have not noticed that at all and it would have been the same
overlooked that meaning possibly
 
3:53 PM
Racoons?
 
@Lilienthal Thanks. I've flagged many similar comment threads in the past.
 
OK the new top bar sucks... give me my drop down back in the upper left corner
 
@ChrisE oh dear.. it's already garnered one undelete vote, that Q is rapidly becoming a steaming turd of similar proportions to the new top bar
 
4:07 PM
One drawback is that now we are going to start experiencing some inconsistencies between the review page and the topbar dropdown for reviews. This is really common in SO, sometimes the dropdown shows no reviews but the complete page does, or sometimes it shows phantom reviews.
what did you deleted guys? (still cant see it though)
 
So I am not alone with my utter hatred for the new top bar that has monoplized the dev cycle for 6 months?
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What I want is that it became Sticky, just like SO's so you don't have to scroll up to use it
 
How voted to undelete.....OMG.....having a melt down now.......
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings no, it's a pile of crap
 
But seems that what I want is
 
4:10 PM
@motosubatsu They wanted more people to look at their rubbish documentation and mediocre jobs, that is more or less, the essence of why they made the change on SO. What is not clear though is why they had to shove it down the throats of other sites ... Oh wait, Stack Exchange, right, got it, let's move on.
 
@GrayCygnus and they basically shrugged and said that fixing those inconsistencies was too hard
@MaskedMan and in the process made it ugly, hard to use, downright misleading and overall a great example of crappy, ill thought out UX
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yeah, I don't know you guys but in Software Dev usually one starts replicating a product one it has been thoroughly reviewed and fixed.
 
@GrayCygnus Don't get me wrong.. I've seen bigger omnishambles than that put live, but for a site network that is supposedly by devs for devs and is a massive international site it's pretty poor
@MisterSortofPositive I saw that (it wasn't me!), I also spotted his edit immediately after deletion where he persisted with the approach of proof by assertion as to why it's not a dupe
 
@motosubatsu some folks have too much time their hands...
 
@MisterSortofPositive yep, and the way he kept repeatedly posting that link to the horrible ad-filled page talking about how important reference letters were had alarm bells ringing for me
 
4:20 PM
@motosubatsu This stinks of someone high up having their pet project be this, and even when their pet project sucks ass they think it smells like roses
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings quite possibly.. we've all seen that sort of thing play out dozens of times
 
@GrayCygnus god no
you dont recreate something that someone else already perfected. You just make use of that product.
if you create a new product its because the products out there do not meet your needs.
@MisterSortofPositive no actually they are streched thin but this has been their priority project for at least 6 months. Why some other things never got touched
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings then why was such a problem applying those changes to all the sites, if it were a single product shouldn't it be just, like you say, deployable?
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings LOL I was referring to my stalker.
And Joes too I suppose. ;-)
 
@GrayCygnus You are setting yourself up for a huge disappointment if you think that the supergenius know-it-alls of Stack Exchange follow the logic of common people like you and me.
 
4:24 PM
@GrayCygnus because they reinvented the wheel instead of just making a new accessory that leveraged the existing wheel designs.
The complaits about the top bar were never its design, it was the function 100%
They decided to address the functionality problems with a new design... Which i am sure provides some new functionality potential but fails with a userbase that already was used to the old design.
 
Uhm, I just discovered some new magic ... if you click on the search bar on top, a magnifying glass kind of thing appears to the right ... but if you click on that thing, it disappears!
 
@MaskedMan it seems to work for me.. click it and the search is carried out
 
@motosubatsu Yeah, the search works for me too, but what's with that hide-and-seek magnifying class? What purpose does it serve?
 
@MaskedMan I suspect it is supposed to be a user accessiblity feature that is not fully/correctly implemented.
 
@MaskedMan other than to make the UX of the new top bar even more confusing? none that I can see
 
4:34 PM
I can imagine some middle-level manager at Stack Exchange telling the developers, "Hey guys, let's put a search bar on top and label it as a search bar, but surely that will confuse our users, so let's put a search icon to the right ... but that's no fun, let's make that icon visible when the user clicks on it, because you know, what if someone clicks the search bar and doesn't know what it is? That icon will tell them."
 
@MaskedMan yep or a PHB having read something about only showing controls when they are needed making for good ux and Comically Missing the Point
 
iPhone Stack Exchange. Practically Magic.
 
its because you have not typed anything
 
argh... despite the fact that we have been talking about it for about the last hour I still got caught out by the site switcher move
FFS
 
@GrayCygnus The same magic happens even when you type something.
Hey look everyone, here's some more magic. ...
 
4:50 PM
yep, also see that magic here
too early for a Meta SE post? @MaskedMan
 
lol
I will give it a shot. :P
 
just give a read to this post meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301845/…
maybe answers some of your questions
 
I am going to write it in a way that ruffles some feathers #troll :P
I have 669 useless reputation there, I can absorb a few hundred downvotes. :P
 
remember to post the link here so we can join the pary
 
Heh, of course!
 
5:02 PM
well I'm going to drive home... don't have too much fun while I'm gone :)
 
don't count on that
 
<pout />
 
Alright, guys, this is probably going to be my last post on Stack Exchange. I love you all. I am going to get network-banned after this post I am about to make on Meta.SE. I will always cherish the fun moments and the controversies that I have had here with all of you. Oh, by the way, my downvote stalker, you will now have to find someone else to stalk. So long everyone!
 
lol
 
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Q: With the so-called improved top bar thing, reputation slipping downwards from the site name

Masked ManSeeing is believing, so here you go. Admire this engineering marvel from the great programmers of Stack Exchange. Warning: Not for the faint of heart or those with breathing problems. You might just forget to breathe while cherishing this masterpiece. Note: Some users are spreading rumours tha...

 
5:11 PM
LOL
oded Owned you
 
There's a sarcasm tag on meta.SE. :P
 
More correctly, he Dupe Hammered your a*S
 
This is one of those few times when I am literally lol'ing.
And by literally, I literally mean literally, not figuratively.
 
xD
they edited your title away lol
 
@GrayCygnus I rolled it back now. :P
and posted a comment too calling out the Stack Exchange employee for censoring criticism of their oh-so-shiny new feature.
I am totally going to get that network ban.
 
5:20 PM
:0
im starting to believe it
as a fellow networker I would recommend you to not actually attempt that, at least don't go that far
 
I am done for the day, going to bed now. If I am not banned by tomorrow, I will see you guys tomorrow.
 
or we'll see a new user called Unmasked Man
 
These Stack Exchange employees are no fun.
 
already got 2 UV your comment :D
 
I'll reserve my opinion on SE employees because I like it here, in spite of them.
 
5:23 PM
@ChrisE The fact that you use "inspite" rather than "because of" tells a story. ;)
 
Yes, but not an actionable one. :)
 
When Technology and Art meet
 
deep dreams? They're filters. We've had them for 30 years. They came with Photoshop.
 
They are like filters, but these deep dream were conceived as a tool for visualizing Neural Nets during training, but has evolved to more abstract and artistic uses
But yeah I guess Photoshop has some filters that give similar results with some tweeking
 
As for "art meets technology" it did that back in the 90's with Fractal Design Painter. Seriously cool program.
Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative tool. == Arts Media == The application offers a wide range of traditional artists' materials and tools. With the aid of a graphics tablet or computer mouse, the user is able to reproduce the effect of physical painting and drawing media such as watercolor, oil, chalk, charcoal and color pencil. There...
 
5:34 PM
fractal design is awesome!
 
seriously, they're just filters but different ones. Example:
 
cool thing you did that :)
 
Hey guys, do you think this would be a good fit on Workplace.SE: "My employer has released a new feature, that has been universally criticized and lampooned by the users. Privately, I agree with the criticism, but my employer has asked us to sing its praises in all customer interactions, because this feature draws attention to some obscure features and will supposedly bring more revenue. How should I negotiate this situation?"
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it's called "search google and click on the image tab"
well, image ink
 
This has definitely nothing to do with the top bar introduced by Stack Exchange.
 
5:36 PM
@MaskedMan thinking of the top bar?
xD
 
be careful about superlatives like "universally" because they rarely ever apply and create a point of criticism.
 
Well, the meta post where they introduced this feature does suggest so. Although strictly speaking, nothing is universal because there will be always be an oddball somewhere out there.
 
exactly. and because of that, critics of your question will use that as a distraction from your real point so it's best not to provide them with ammo.
 
Oh good point.
However, in this case, the intention is to ruffle their feathers and draw them out from their high thrones, so the ammo serves as a bait
 
trolls love baits
 
5:43 PM
I would think it would be preferable to not give them something to just ignore it with. "almost universally" would achieve that I would think.
 
@MaskedMan Please ask that question
 
Yeah, I don't think this whole thing is going to end well.
 
@ChrisE We would need to flag that question with our new post notice :p
 
@ChrisE I have given up on them doing anything useful long ago. They are going to ignore complaints anyway and do whatever they want anyway. Might as well derive some entertainment out of it. If I had even 0.1% evidence to believe that they would take users' concerns seriously, I would have taken a much more constructive approach.
 
5:49 PM
Which btw they have been to busy coding the top bar to bother taking the 10 min it would take to implement.
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Yeah, seems they have scheduling problems
that Post Notice would really serve in this case
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings I will, if I am not banned by tomorrow. No, I am not in my troll role now, I will be constructive here ... Or at least I will try to be, because I love you guys.
 
6:51 PM
whoa @MaskedMan they removed your question
I still was able to see that you linked to the Protected question I asked, and where we were somewhat insulted
 
@GrayCygnus it was -10 and argumentative. of course they did
 
I stopped seeing at -6
 
7:06 PM
@GrayCygnus what question?
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings the one Masked Man posted on SE regarding the missaligned rep from the new to pbar
 
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