Basically Jeff says (quite correctly) that if we spend all our time here on meta talking about what we should do on Stack Overflow then we wont have any time left to actually contribute to Stack Overflow...
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@David Yeah, I enjoyed it too actually. For me, it was always the fact that we traveled on Sundays. So it made the weekend feel short, and sort of threw off my rhythm.
Hmmm. I think this user unintentionally made this post worse (revisions). He deleted the error message from the original post, which was the only thing that even kind of indicated what was wrong. At least I hope it was unintentional.
@Timjadarnel27 I had a Monday-Thursday trip to Colorado and then a Tuesday-Sunday trip to Florida, so my feel for what day of the week it is was completely shot.
Hi @balpha ! A couple of days ago you said that the Mathematica.SE syntax highlighter fix will be added to the next build I was wondering how long it usually takes until changes like this become active. Is it usually around a day's time, or a week? (I.e. is it active already?)
@Szabolcs I saw your comment, I'll let you know :) It's not built out yet (we rarely build the sites on weekends unless there are important fixes to go out)
Pops-Perturbing Pedantic Problem of the Day: "Thanks for registering for WorkRelatedWebsite.com! Your username is [username] and your password is [password, IN PLAINTEXT]!" e-mails.
I could just change my password, but they'd probably send me a confirmation e-mail displaying it again.
I'm sure it does. It's actually rather confusing, because someone creates your account, it sends you an activation link, and then clicking on the activation link gives you a username and password instead of it just asking you for one on the activation screen.
I wonder if there's an existing question on Programmers or IT Security like "How would you explain to a non-technical manager why it's bad to send passwords in plaintext e-mails?"
@PopularDemand "How would you explain" or "How should you explain"? Because my preferred method of explaining that might involve hitting him with a wiffle bat full of quarters.
Getting people to do something because they believe in it is generally better than getting people to do something because they believe in not getting hit with the quarter bat again.
@PopularDemand Agreed, this is all in jest. If I had that many quarters they'd be in a vending machine, not a wiffle bat.
It's actually a question that's come up on SO and Programmers many times... "I know that X is right, and I like to think I understand why it's right. But how can I explain it to those who don't understand it?"
The industry in general doesn't seem to have such canonical references of "the right way" vs. "the wrong way" though. Mostly, I think, because it's often very subjective. But also because sometimes "the wrong way" is seen as "good enough" by the product owner for varying reasons.
@Timjadarnel27 - i've been quite happy with my Sure EC3's & SE115m+. There pretty durable, are easy on the ear canal when using them for 3-8 hour stretches, and decent for running too.
the EC3's were replaced by the SE315's (i believe)
The left half of my cheap gas station headphones went out, so I'm missing alot of stuff when I listen to stereo mixed music (guitar solos and whatnot are often panned all the way right).
@karlphillip I think it's a great idea, +1 from me.
@karlphillip - I would be totally against that in particular, not showing the sum somewhere else though
the number up top should not change between filters, etc...but the summation as indicated/related to the graph is certainly feasible, just give us a decent mockup of where to put it that makes sense
@Timjadarnel27 "Q: What should I look for to get good headphones? A: The Sennheiser logo." Can't remember where I saw that originally, and I know it was a joke, but it's worked out pretty well for me. I'm no expert, though.
@PopularDemand It's more niche, definitely. A friend of mine did it this year and had a blast. He's not big into zombies either, but enough so that the gimmick wasn't lost on him.
I wonder if it would be worth breaking the no pseudotags in titles rule for FAQ entries on meta sites. It would make those links seem more authoritative and worth clicking on for confused newbies, but it could also encourage them to use their own pseudotags elsewhere.
Also, even though it's possibly a sign you've gone crazy, I appreciate your trust in me. :P
I had originally tried some tricky lookahead solutions to avoid throwing a third regex into the mix, but if I recall correctly, Prettify divides up the whole input into tokens using some mega-regex it builds from all of the options, then wraps them by iterating through the set and trying to match on the specific patterns...which of course fails with lookaheads, since the token doesn't have the piece you need to lookahead on any longer.
Hmm, good question. The final podcast with Jeff suggested that they wouldn't be doing any more, but I believe Jeff said then that he didn't feel like it had to end completely. Afterward, there was the other podcast related to policy with good ol' @Shog9 here, and I thought there was some talk that there'd be more like that...but again, nothing definite.
That's weird... While I was typing an answer to a question, the page moved down and left a blank white space at the top where orange slidey used to be, rather than displaying the new "there is a new answer" grey box...
@TimStone Yeah, that might happen more in the future, but - not to put too fine a point on it, but - I'm not Jeff. There was a certain dynamic there that's hard to really maintain.
You're a disembodied head, though. The visual we all get when you're talking is more than enough to keep things interesting. But, and in no way a criticism against you, I know what you mean.
When a question is deleted and you have an answer which qualifies to keep reputation, do you also keep the +15 for accepted answer? As far as I'm aware, deleting the question unaccepts the answer, so it would make sense they'd lose the +15 no matter what?
I don't know how to tell if an answer was accepted once it's deleted. I know some of these had accepted answers (going through my flagging history) but none of them are listed as having accepted answers anymore.
It seems that when an answer is implicitly deleted along with the parent question, it loses its checkmark. This, coupled with the fact that the timeline view is broken for deleted questions, makes it impossible to tell what the accepted answer to a deleted question used to be.
If, on the other h...
Ok, good to know. Through investigation on one meta question of mine that was deleted, I have determined that they do lose the +15 if their answer didn't qualify for the keep-the-rep criteria.
I am using display tag in my web application. I need to group column headers in the display tag.
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After users have registered on a website, should that website send both username and password in their registration confirmation email ?
