[00:00:56] <DarTar>	 that’s because nobody cares about poor archive tables
[00:01:41] <DarTar>	 we need a social media campaign, adopt a deleted page
[00:02:58] <Ironholds>	 hmph
[00:03:03] <Ironholds>	 well, I thought this was cool
[00:03:13] <DarTar>	 it is :) 
[00:03:59] <DarTar>	 I wish we had a citable report to point people at
[00:04:09] <Ironholds>	 State of the Wiki?
[00:04:55] <DarTar>	 Vital Signs should be that place, eventually
[00:07:56] <Ironholds>	 does vital signs have the new PV numbers yet?
[00:09:03] <Ironholds>	 if not...ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι
[00:39:30] <Ironholds>	 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081740.html whelp
[01:46:43] <HaeB>	 Ironholds, halfak:  https://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcounter/ passed 2 billion last year already
[01:47:12] <Ironholds>	 what project list is that using? :/
[01:50:24] <HaeB>	 idk - back in the day people were pointing out it wasn't counting mediawiki.org, although emilio may have fixed that since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-04-19/News_and_notes#Briefly
[12:57:28] <Ironholds>	 so what python nerds are conscious?
[14:58:42] * halfak finally gets to read the backlog. 
[14:59:08] <halfak>	 Gotta wait for the west coast to wake up before I can confirm props for J-Mo's Capt_Swing handle. :) 
[15:02:53] <Ironholds>	 hah
[15:09:32] <Ironholds>	 halfak, want a fun Q?
[15:09:40] <halfak>	 yus
[15:09:47] <halfak>	 :) 
[15:12:30] <Ironholds>	 halfak, suppose you were interviewing python-based data analysts and you wanted to grok their skill level
[15:12:33] <Ironholds>	 (at python)
[15:12:48] <Ironholds>	 what questions would you ask to gauge, say, the depth of their curiosity about their tools or expertise in thinking interestingly?
[15:13:35] <halfak>	 I would talk to them about a problem that is troubling me at the moment and how they would think about solving it.  E.g. Ellery's task for FR stuff. 
[15:14:12] <halfak>	 It turns out I have a lot of those queued up in general :) 
[15:15:32] <halfak>	 I'd also ask them about their toolset and have them tell me why they choose to use it -- what problems it is good at and what problems they find awkward to work on (e.g. regression analysis in python is lackluster) 
[15:15:51] * Ironholds nods
[15:16:00] <Ironholds>	 I do not know enough about python to do that, I fear
[15:16:15] <halfak>	 One nice benefit about being in an "open" space is that I can ask people about their current projects. 
[15:16:50] <halfak>	 If they do have something they can get into detail on, I want to see them get excited while they tell me about it and interested in helping me think about it with them. 
[15:17:12] <halfak>	 Also, I'll ask them TSV or CSV. :P 
[15:19:24] <Ironholds>	 halfak, hahah
[15:19:28] <Ironholds>	 oh I am going to ask them that :D
[15:19:51] <halfak>	 Ironholds, language/env is just a thing.  If you're not familiar with theirs, make them explain it to you. :) 
[15:20:01] <Ironholds>	 makes sense!
[22:46:48] <Ironholds>	 guillom, what are you using four cores for on stat1002?
[22:47:41] <guillom>	 Ironholds: I'm about to leave the office, but: I'm extracting references from xml dumps. I'm using 'nice' as halfak told me. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
[22:47:59] <guillom>	 I can stop if needed
[22:48:01] <Ironholds>	 ahhh
[22:48:04] <Ironholds>	 no, it's totally cool
[22:48:07] <Ironholds>	 I was just wondering :D
[22:48:10] <guillom>	 ok :)
[22:48:21] <guillom>	 Ironholds: If you notice any issues let me know; I'm new at this stuff.
[22:48:27] <Ironholds>	 shall do!
[22:48:29] <Ironholds>	 it looks great :)
[22:48:33] <guillom>	 thanks :)
[22:48:42] <Ironholds>	 next question; madhuvishy, what's your big hadoop job?