(Look at me, pretending to be all "in touch" with consumer electronics news. I only knew that because I went to Wikipedia to find out what names A-G were.)
Krispy Kreme has got to be a trademark. Kandy korn?
How do I get a bug to go from [status-norepro] back to open? I reported the bug about 6 months ago with detailed steps to reproduce, and it's still happening in all browsers...
On a recent post of mine I included a code block that was formatted correctly in the preview, but was rendered as regular text after I had to go through the human verification screen. Can this be fixed?
Here's the post where I saw it: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2950682/revisions
It's been m...
@NathanTaylor It doesn't matter; someone on the team needs to be able to repro it. If they can't see it, how can they track it down or know whether it's fixed?
@PopularDemand That's totally fine, but how do I get them to try it again? It has remained completely ignored ever since it was marked norepro. I tried downvoting Jeff Atwood's follow-up stating they couldn't create it in order to get his attention, but that went unnoticed.
Mmm I have enough privaledge to retag it, that may help too
@balpha because they do. As far as the markdown formatter is concerned, 4 spaces and tabs are interchangable. The problem is that the Human Verification wizard removes tabs from the request, but has no problem with 4 spaces.
@NathanTaylor You can't stop me now. I've started on my quest to find a relevant funny picture and even if I'm on a cellular network I shall bring it to you!
Just because something happens to work doesn't mean that it's the way you're supposed to do it or that it's supported. Stack Exchange Markdown is not 100% equivalent to "standard" Markdown.
@PopularDemand I get it, it says what to do and doesn't suggest that tabs are an alternative, but the point is that you can enter code with tabs, see it in the preview formatted as you expect it, then post and your formatting is gone.
@NathanTaylor If you want them to make the preview match up with the final version, I'm okay with that, but you'll have to get in line behind some existing similar bugs.
I think I may have even posted one of them myself.
Wait, where is the issue? If you do it and you don't get prompted for human verification then does it post formatted? In other words, is it only when the human verification step interrupts?
The error lies in the human verification step's handling of the request data. It does not respect the '\t' character and it converts it into a single space instead.
Reopening due to misinformation being presented.
Why are you randomly escaping the last paren and breaking the nesting? This works fine.
[the API](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer(javax.xml.transform.Source))
the API
You might b...
@balpha I believe that if the same text is processed in two different places in two different ways, that is the definition of inconsistency. A program should be consistent. Do I need to quote Hoare?
@balpha oh I know, I wanted the quote to be in reference, so used the reply-to function. wasn't intended to be a bash on you. more like a bash on the code and a potential argument for the SOIS team.
@TimStone Well it is hard to tell really. I mean, you didn't even get close to centering them and you've got this big object in the middle blocking half the picture.
We do work for a client who requires data from a vendor, and the data that their web service returns contains characters illegal for XML.
So the web service fails horribly, and it's hard to isolate what piece of data is responsible. The illegal characters come from people copying from Excel or something, and then pasting into the vendor's submission form.
So we complained to the vendor about it, and they told us that the users should go back and fix their mistakes.
Since, you know, it would be unreasonable for them not to print out an invalid response, and far more reasonable for us to go figure out which entry was responsible through process of elimination, then go have someone manually fix it.
We're hoping that with enough pressure someone will finally demand that they fix it, but it hasn't happened yet. Also, the web service is notorious for returning inconsistent results for the same queries.
Changing the sort order, for instance, will modify the number of total results returned.
Man I'm a pro. I did some code changes last night, reflected the changes to 8 additional branches, re-deployed 8 websites with the new code, and simultaneously introduced a bug in all of them
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@Tim You mean did Popular Demand get his funds. Not yet. There seems to be a problem with the barrister's daughter who is very sick. He is very embarrassed but he had to pay the doctor a lot of money, and now he can't afford the transfer fees (which can't be deducted from the actual money being wired for legal reasons).
He's now looking for how to get hold of those fees somehow. It's just a few hundred dollars. He may even turn to Popular Demand to see whether might help him out
@drachenstern I'm surprised, given who the client is.. Not so much that something's wrong, but that there's not more pressure to fix the mess ups to appease the particular group that we do work for, heh. Ah well. We got something that manages to take care of it well enough, so.
@Rejoicerejoicekbdisback Ah, yes, my mistake. Oh, that's rather tragic, I do hope she'll be alright.
Hello I triggered recalc using
http://stackoverflow.com/reputation?recalc=true
But after 5 min my reputation from 11928 became 11865 Why ?
How can I trace out the problem ?
It's been months. Many months. Asking some questions. Answering many more questions. Thanklessly editing hundreds, nay, thousands, of vague and poorly-formed posts. Proving to all, far and wide, that you are the expert. That you know all there is to know about your chosen field. And finall...
I'm now just over half way to 10K on SO...I really should answer some of these questions I still have open. I'm also pretty sure I said that the other day...hrm.
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Like say you want to annoy rchern, you make her mod on Gaming and then start complaining about ITG, GREC and chat owner abuse and all sorts of fun stuff!
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These are just thoughts, not promises, but possibly:
lmgtfy (subst for google)
bit.ly, tinyurl, etc; either replace with expanded link, or at least tell them where they are going
(process as nested, in case of a lmgtfy behind a bit.ly)
While editing a question/answer what client event triggers the syntax highlighter to add color to a code block? Initially, code blocks appear only as plain text and then color is at added to the preview after some event.
I noticed a strange formatting glitch in FireFox 3.6.12 when the preview for my answer contains code. Specifically, when the syntax highlighter kicks in on the preview, lines in a code block that exceed the width of the formatting container are increasing the formatting container's width and clip...
This is really an answer. This is a point of contention I have. I see people trying to call the __init__ function using super. Stop doing this!
When you do, you call the base class's __init__ function and that would recreate objects for your current class. I described super's use best on twitter...
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.
The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may w...
Explicit super means that not only can you override a method without regard for the base implementation, you may do the same for a constructor, which raises questions about what you're using inheritance for.
On a recent post of mine I included a code block that was formatted correctly in the preview, but was rendered as regular text after I had to go through the human verification screen. Can this be fixed?
Here's the post where I saw it: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2950682/revisions
It's been m...
I've just asked a question on stack-overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer.
What annoyed me was someone in the comments put a let me google that for you link. It got right up my nose.
I fin...
On a recent post of mine I included a code block that was formatted correctly in the preview, but was rendered as regular text after I had to go through the human verification screen. Can this be fixed?
Here's the post where I saw it: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2950682/revisions
It's been m...
Reopening due to misinformation being presented.
Why are you randomly escaping the last paren and breaking the nesting? This works fine.
[the API](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer(javax.xml.transform.Source))
the API
You might b...
Hello I triggered recalc using
http://stackoverflow.com/reputation?recalc=true
But after 5 min my reputation from 11928 became 11865 Why ?
How can I trace out the problem ?
It's been months. Many months. Asking some questions. Answering many more questions. Thanklessly editing hundreds, nay, thousands, of vague and poorly-formed posts. Proving to all, far and wide, that you are the expert. That you know all there is to know about your chosen field. And finall...
These are just thoughts, not promises, but possibly:
lmgtfy (subst for google)
bit.ly, tinyurl, etc; either replace with expanded link, or at least tell them where they are going
(process as nested, in case of a lmgtfy behind a bit.ly)
