When you decide you want to rent an apartment, are you going to
1. learn local zoning laws
2. become a building inspector and inspect an apartment building
3. become a general contractor and build an apartment building
4. become a mechanical engineer and design an oven, an A/C, a garbage disposal
5. become a structural engineer and design a staircase and a hurricane/tornado proof building
6. become a concrete engineer and pour a foundation.
@MichaelMrozek presumably not. But he does seem to design his apps in that order, so I wonder...
@Moshe remember that as much as we give you shit, we are on your side and we do like you, but sometimes you ask some really silly questions. "how do I make a lightbox" when reading the source for one will do just fine. There's no rule against reverse engineering to understand something. I do it all the time. But you notice me and Tim and Rebecca and Josh and Michael (^3?) all seem to have the same advice to you regularly: google it, think about it, stop before asking.
@drachenstern - You only see the negative here, sheesh. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't ask here. Although honestly, SE has become somewhat of a crutch.
@drachenstern True, I need to shut up and code, only asking questions once I'm done researching.
@Moshe that's exactly it. We don't rely on SE as our crutches. We all recognize that you're young, and we all were just as curious when we were your age, but we didn't have SE to go run to and ask questions of.
@drachenstern Yeah, Mrozek and Myers are the main two. Petrotta shows up occasionally. Pryor, once in a blue moon. I think we may have even seen Stum and Kniskern once or twice.
Also 122k users tend to be right more often than wrong (altho I've noticed that particular username being wrong more often than not, so I'm not entirely surprised)
@PopularDemand say "except for a reference to the message in which it is to reply"
edit: we DO provide feedback on migrations to people answering via topbar notification
The unsubmitted answer would still be saved as a draft, since we auto-save drafts for questions and answers every 45 seconds.
However, I'm not 100% sure the draft would be visible when you came back to that...
@Richardakacyberkiwi Well according to your browser the question is open and accepting answers. I suspect it's an edge case that's not worth fixing for the number of times it happens - though with the volume of traffic on SO it happens quite often.
I wasn't writing code at any rate (contemplating my next three projects simultaneously while wondering why my office is so brightly lit and downloading digitalblasphemy freebies) so ... there you go. ;)
@drachenstern It can. It's used when someone meets the requirements for auto-award but the bounty offerer doesn't want that answer to get any of the bounty rep. The offerer doesn't get the rep back, of course.
DDR is excellent for weight loss - as long as you apply the OTHER aspects of losing weight. For example, don't play DDR for two hours and then go and down a gallon of ice cream, or a bag of Doritos, or a Mountain Dew. You have to balance both your workout routine AS WELL AS your diet.
There are ...
@ircmaxell if only there were a SE site that catered to dba's and offered some help in return for posting a really interesting question (where really interesting were defined as more than "it's slow, why?")
Beta Q&A site for physical fitness professionals, athletes, trainers, and those providing health-related needs. Topics include exercise and training, nutrition and diets, wellness, and activities related to strength, endurance, agility, and cardiovascular fitness.
Currently in private beta.
Looks like a non-starter given current stats and <1 day to go
turns out Windows was paging out parts of the kernel. But when it tried to page it back in, VMWare was out of memory, so it swapped it out internally. So no matter what windows did, it couldn't get itself into physical ram (although it thought it was)...
@TimStone Suffice to say, piddling around in private betas has made me realize the value of having a core of people at least vaguely familiar with the goals of an SE site.
@jjnguy With your super-fast work internet connection, I can only assume that you get everything done at lightening speed and then have hours to think about nonsensical things like that
I'm surprised at those speeds it's only 86-87th percentile.. you would have thought the states were in the backwaters when it comes to internet speeds, given.. well, what I read about them
Well, I know that I could pay more to move up a few tiers, so I suppose there's enough people with faster connections to offset the...mess that is a majority of connections in the rest of the U.S.
I found an answer to which it appears a bounty was awarded to, however, the value stated is 0 and does not show who awarded it. I'm guessing this is due to the bounty giver's account being removed?
@badpssockpuppet Well, under the assumption that the most common user deletion reason is sockpuppetry, it probably makes sense...but I'd argue that it could be an optional process.
@badpssockpuppet Well, why would a deleted user's votes get deleted? :P I was just making sure. If that's the case, then I don't see any particularly good reason for it, no.
Also downvote those answers, they'll get deleted anyway so you'll get your reps back, but in the meantime you can let Trusted Users™ kill them with fire without mod intervention.
@badpssockpuppet Hmm, I hadn't considered that. The posts were spread out pretty far apart (the question is fairly old), so hopefully it's not a huge issue.
I mean, if the mod clicks through one of the links he'll probably see the situation and also protect, but you don't need to click through the flag to delete the post.
...and deleting the post from the question page doesn't automatically dismiss flags as valid, while deleting the post from the mod flags page does (which makes the process slightly less annoying).
@badpssockpuppet Yeah, you're right. Without knowing what the tools look like, it's hard to appreciate how things look from the other side. I'll keep that in mind for next time.
@TimStone You get the title, the first few lines, a small user card, the list of flags (mod flags aren't anonymous, the rest is) and a list of actions moderators took on the user/post
edit: we DO provide feedback on migrations to people answering via topbar notification
The unsubmitted answer would still be saved as a draft, since we auto-save drafts for questions and answers every 45 seconds.
However, I'm not 100% sure the draft would be visible when you came back to that...
Writers.SE is passed it's 90 days in beta. So what happens now? It doesn't look like we're quite up to par yet, but we've got 2 Excellents out of 5.
I found an answer to which it appears a bounty was awarded to, however, the value stated is 0 and does not show who awarded it. I'm guessing this is due to the bounty giver's account being removed?
