@animuson Haha, though back in the days of punchcard programming it seems that you only got to write your code once. If there was a mistake during punching or a mistake in your code, that was it. No second chances (or if there were second chances, you have to do the whole process all over again).
@animuson Re your edit here, just FYI: intra-network referrals aren't counted, so having you referral ID attached to a link in an answer by Jeff won't give you an unfair advantage.
# Publicity badges are being awarded for links within the network
The referral links for the Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges [aren't supposed to credit you for links shared on Stack Exchange itself](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/114608/134300), only for visits that come from outside the network. However, I've recently been awarded two unexpected [Announcer badges on meta](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/74/announcer?userid=134300) and I suspect they came from intra-network sharing.
^ More stuff to read, including Shog saying my idea was good. ^_^ woo
How can one make a "disappearing comment" like the one in this answer (gray background)? I don't want to register on yet another site just to be able to press the edit button and see the markdown ...
Links are automatically expanded?
Advanced Syntax Ideas?
Advanced Syntax Ideas?
Advanced Syntax Ideas?
a tag tag.
a [user:user] tag?
a [user:Jeff M] tag/link?
a [user:150562] tag/link?
status-completed
spoiler test
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! spoiler test
! some sup and sub spoilers
! html bol...
@Szabolcs Normally you can see the source via "improve this answer". But, in this case, the post is locked--so even registered users can't see it.
@Szabolcs Use the 'link' button to find the post id, then go to site.stackexchange.com/posts/<postid>/revisions. Then use the view-source on the revision
Or, just ask around at The Tavern, which you did :)
Currently there are at least three independent instances of chat running on the SE network:
http://chat.stackoverflow.com
http://chat.stackexchange.com
http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com
On chat.SE I have a list of favourites rooms from the lower traffic sites I'm interested in. It's convenie...
This has been bothering me for a while now.
When you are in a chat-room for example in StackOverflow, you are also able to be in, at the same time, as many other rooms in the SO chat.
The same goes for meta, SuperUser, etcetera.
The problem is that for each different StackExchange site you nee...
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA I agree although judging from the comments/answers on yours it seems that the merge bit got lost in the "but there are only three"
Do you want to edit yours perhaps to make the "one chat to rule them all" bit clearer and I can bounty it? Or see what happens with the dupe close on mine?
@RebeccaChernoff's "with the exception of Stack Overflow (because it is so much larger) and Meta Stack Overflow (because the unicorns here are special and demanding)" doesn't quite cut it as an answer for me either way
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA if you close a migrated question under certain conditions it causes the migration to be rejected and returned to the original site
but I can never remember what those conditions are
Any guesses as to what this person is tacking .ToString() to the end of?
@mootinator - the table definition is definitely "BLOB" and I'm trying to access that column. I can access it by using .ToString() and it outputs System.Byte[] so I know most definitely that it is a byte[] and it is accessible, just confused as to why it won't let me access it as a byte[]. Is there maybe something wrong with the .GetBytes() method? — Chris Jones20 mins ago
status-completed... sort of.
It's now possible to reject a migration, but rather than making this some special mod-only thing or yet another privilege/task you have to familiarize yourself with, it's instead a function of closing/deleting.
If a migrated question is closed on the destination (mi...
Someday, we may actually have too many little specialized SE sites. On that day, I will be totally dismissive, because people have cried wolf about the issue so many dang times already. Same goes for "SO has failed," "SO has collapsed under the weight of all the newbies," "you can't get good answers on SO anymore" and "all the experts have fled the site."
Don't mind the link, I just wanted to make it easier for myself to find that comment later when I inevitably need to use it again.
Aw. I was going to vote for "crazy guy trying to escape the cops tearing up the wrong side of the highway, with numerous police vehicles in pursuit, also on the wrong side of the road."
I did see someone doing about 35 in reverse on the way home yesterday once things started to slow down.
Because obviously it's preferable to drive backwards up the highway to get off at the previous exit instead of just waiting a few minutes until you reach the next one.
@animuson Kind of seems like it. I'd shake my fist and say that they should just push it into the nearby river and be done with it, but I guess if someone was injured that'd make me a terrible person.
Wow. I've seen people dangerously cut across multiple lanes to make an exit, but never actual backing up. Although now that I put it that way, the backing up actually seems less bad, as long as it was on the shoulder and not a travel lane.
To get the list I searched for posts containing only a small amount of different characters, based on the assumption that random typing like "hgfghhgffhgfgh" usually contains the same characters over and over again. To measure this redundancy I basically calculated the entropy of all posts:
doub...
The system requires at least 15 reputations in order to vote. But I think it's too difficult to earn just 15 reputations.
Links are automatically expanded?
Advanced Syntax Ideas?
Advanced Syntax Ideas?
Advanced Syntax Ideas?
a tag tag.
a [user:user] tag?
a [user:Jeff M] tag/link?
a [user:150562] tag/link?
status-completed
spoiler test
snip
! spoiler test
! some sup and sub spoilers
! html bol...
This has been bothering me for a while now.
When you are in a chat-room for example in StackOverflow, you are also able to be in, at the same time, as many other rooms in the SO chat.
The same goes for meta, SuperUser, etcetera.
The problem is that for each different StackExchange site you nee...
Q and A format share:
Provided a fiddle for easy copy paste.
