In the "activity" tab of the profile, did they just implement a dynamic show/hide feature for answers you've posted, or is that something I got for 10k?
And almost everyone on meta is a member of at least one of the individual communities. But some people start to feel a better use of their time is guiding the community instead of answering individual questions on any site
You can look at meta as an SE site whose focus is SE itself. People that are active on the sites tend to get pretty good at them, and clearly they like answering questions, so it's a perfect combination. They know the answers to questions about the engine, and they like answering
rather than making the obvious switch to meta.stackexchange.com
It's not at all an "obvious" switch until every single SE 1.0 site is decommissioned forever.
meta.stackexchange.com is the official support site for all SE 1.0 sites.
Once that's resolved, then perhaps.
Since I use the *nix command screen all day, and I couldn't find anyone starting this question, I figured it should be started. You know the drill: community wiki, one answer per features so we all can vote.
I'm working on a program that displays a bunch of thumbnails on the bottom of the screen and I'm using the mouse's position to slide the images from side to side.
The center of the screen is 0 on an x coordinate plane. Every frame, the mouse's X position is either added or subtracted from the x...
@TheUnhandledException - I posted on math, because I want a purely mathematical answer. I'm not interested in edge case checking and whatnot - I'm curious how the Math people will take it.
take the X position of the cursor. Subtract from that the X position of the left edge of the slideshow. Subtract from that half the width of the slideshow. Devide that by half the slideshow's width, and multiply by 100. This is the percentage of the width of the slideshow where the mouse is
[-100% 0% 100%]
I set the speed thusly @Moshe: this.speed = perc*this.maxSpeed/100;