Comments on: The odometer rolls over

The odometer rolls over

dw — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:35:13 -0800

AskMe had question #100,000 asked earlier today by jb. Congratulations!

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:39:13 -0800

YOU ARE A WINNER! click here for spyware

I just had to restrain myself from using the blink tag there.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:43:15 -0800

Oh, that's just great. Now who's going to sweep up all this fucking confetti?

Thanks a lot, jerk.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:01:43 -0800

We're already seeing increased server load thanks to the 20% increase in thread id length.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:08:57 -0800

Now AskMe should switch to synthetic oil.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:11:54 -0800

AskMe is the Monster that ate Metafilter.

By: justgary

justgary — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:20:59 -0800

USER jb.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:06:31 -0800

Are there actually 100,000 questions, or is this another example of wacky MeFi numbering?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:10:34 -0800

smackfu, check this url out.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:18:13 -0800

yeah it's a fakey number but it's close and it's round so hooray!

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:27:37 -0800

"The actual hard number is a little lower, probably by about four or five thousand when you account for the metatalk-coop origins," he told the 79,000 assembled users.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:29:37 -0800

he told the 79,000 assembled users.

Ohhhhhh double callback!!!! Zing!!!!

By: baphomet

baphomet — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:32:15 -0800

Go figure that question 100,000 was asked on another's behalf.

And since it was a question about eating meat on AskMe, might I suggest that the OP find some good recipes for bacon milkshakes.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:41:00 -0800

it's close and it's round so hooray!
I observe a lot of relationships are predicated on this very principle, leading, as a matter of fact, to subsequent, hopelessly muddled AskMetafilter questions.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:00:26 -0800

it's close and it's round so hooray!

Oooh! That describes me too!

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:21:47 -0800

Have there really only been thirty-two questions on AskMe? Well, unique ones, I guess.

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:59:14 -0800

Are there actually 100,000 questions, or is this another example of wacky MeFi numbering?

Good questions. I tried plugging in numbers in the tens and hundreds and came up with invalid articles. When do the actual articles start?

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:10:23 -0800

By proxy, and about eating pureed food. How appropriate.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:08:50 -0800

When I get to be 100,000, I'll be eating pureed food. At best.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:00:01 -0800

~~INFODUMP TO THE RESCUE.~~ No, wait, it's 4.5 months old.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:51:57 -0800

No, wait, it's 4.5 months old.

More like 4.5 minutes! (Yes, finally.) Silly permissions issue with our newer setup on stuff.mf means that I can't update the index file correctly at the moment, so it still says April, but the files are all fresh as of this morning.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:39:14 -0800

Man, I am full of fail. The zips aren't actually updated either, but the core files are. Whee! So it's up to date at the moment if you don't mind munging filenames manually and downloading larger files.

We'll get this figured out.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:04:49 -0800

Thread number 100,000 was actually the 94,824th asked question. And the rate of asking has accelerated at a fairly constant pace. At the current rate of 2600 questions per month, we should hit the 100,000th asked question about October 23.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:30:00 -0800

smackfu, check this url out.

>What exactly is Perl?

>>There's more than one way to answer that question.

I was all set to favourite that answer until I saw that it was mine.

I crack me up.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:11:44 -0800

Don't you love that? You're reading along in some dusty corner of the archives. Someone says something foolish and you're kind of ticked that the thread is closed. Then in the next comment or two is this awesome rebuttal, phrased it perfect terms and hitting all the points you would have hit. And you're getting all excited going "Ya man, that's exactly right" & "Go get'm". And then you make it to the byline to see who this tube of wonderfulness is all excited to add them to your contacts and, oh, it's you. And you're not sure whether to feel sad over having lost a potential friend or to bask in the glory that is your awesomeness.

I go with the basking thing.