Okay, I'm going to submit this paper with every possible standard URI field clearly specified in the bibliography, from scheme to port to everything else. We'll see what happens... :P
@hichris Well... I don't really want to say until the semester's over. This guy actually searches the internet for bad things said about him, and giving the name of the book would be... tipping him off. And he might be able to trace it back to me, which would be bad :P
@hichris I once pointed him to a question I'd asked on Phys.SE, and he got really mad because I pointed out an inaccuracy he had made in one of his lectures. I didn't name him or anything. He then started suggesting bogus edits to remove the content, which were all rejected by either me and my unilateral reject hammer or the community.
so he probably knows the connect between Undo <-> [my real name]
@Undo Ooh, nope. We do more general things, except for Math. Like Honors Language Arts, not Literature or anything else. Then at the high school they have that, but not here.
sigh.... another moderator mistake even with obsolete description:
0 Qt4 QLabel in QTabWidget answered 8 hours ago by Laszlo Papp The issue has been addressed in the answer. – Laszlo Papp 7 hours ago declined
Could someone please comment on how it potentially ended up in "declined" state? I am afraid to say it seems to be yet another careless moderator review. A valid issue has been raised, and it has also been fixed. Anyone can see that by checking the edit to the answer (content and time).
"Qt 4.8.5 configure.exe just shows the options answered Jan 9 at 15:43 by Laszlo Papp obsolete – Laszlo Papp Jan 9 at 16:40 declined"
this got declined, too, although I do not see the flagged content around anymore. Is it really important for these moderator actions to be quick rather than careful?
The second comment should not have be removed though since otherwise the person downvoting may forget to withdraw it without explicitly triggering an action from him.
there is some function checkValue() which returns value to be displayed in JProgressbar.
I want to check this value after each particular amount of time and display it in JProgressbar. And the colour of JProgressbar should change depending on the value eg. val > 85 green colour , val < 30 red etc...
In my mind, a lack of current code means it might be "too broad". Or "unclear", because we don't know how much of a piece of software is required to solve the problem.
The objective of this program is to take the two arrays x and y and then create and array list contain numbers that occur in both x and y and then to print out this array of matching numbers. When I go to compile it gives me the error class expected on line 19 and another error saying ";" expecte...
Well, I got questioned banned from Meta.... I've been with Meta for over 30 days. And I've only asked 5 questions. So about one a week. People didn't like some of my suggestions , like the SOA (stackoverflowawards). So my questions were clear, precise, no longer than they needed to be, yet I get a question ban. I was shocked I tell you, shocked!
Not that big of a deal, but I'm surprised it's so easy to get a question ban, especially when I didn't think I did anything wrong.
I'd suggest changing the algorithm for META if possible, since a lot more downvotes get applied there.
@rene I was going to send an email, but then I read the help topic on it, and decided not to. It's not that big of a deal now. But like if I can't work my way out of it in the next month or so, I'll bring it up again.
I agree you shouldn't be banned from asking, but when the ban is lifted please think twice before posting new questions. For example you made it looks like those who upload profile picture which is not their own face are frauds, which wasn't very welcome.
I suppose a ban might reflect the fact that a string of bad ideas that the community disapproves of is not what we really want. I'm sure Tim will discuss it adequately if you take up his offer.
@rene Tim Post is not really a moderator, he is Community Manager, Stack Exchange employee responsible for, well, manage the community. "the boss of the moderators" might be a fitting title. :)
@rene I was just shocked that I had a question ban, that's why I left a comment to Tim. But since the shock has wore down , and I'm not worried about it.
Tim has better things to do then waste his time on me
@AlienArrays not really, that's his job. He get paid for managing the community and calming down users and giving them a helping hand is one of his roles. (and Shog's as well, and he's right here :))
@JanDvorak: well, I can understand that the 4 downvoters will most likely never come back to withdraw their downvotes, so it is just as fair as their activity.
(provided, if they at all had voted you down for a good reason... if not, that is even nastier)
Not going to get banned for down voting an answer. But equally I assume you're only going to get an a-ban if your answer's are repeatedly low scoring. So I doubt anyone needs to watch out for a ban
@rene not necessarily an indication it's not going to happen. But it might be an indication that users disagree with it being deleted. I also see no reason to do so.
Every time I ask a PHP question on SO my faith in humanity drops by just a little bit.
Woops, I had my own Curl class that I wasn't importing. No accept, though, because of your arrogance. Fix that, and you can have a checkmark. — Undo24 secs ago
Here is a way of swapping a and b without a need for a third variable. I understand what XOR means in a truth table with "true" or "false" but what is it doing here exactly? How does XOR work when we're dealing with numbers not booleans?
int a = 5; int b = 10;
a = a ^ b;
b = a ^ b;
a = a ^ b;
I could commute, but it would be painful. Particularly anything on the south side of the river. But moving equates to leaving a bunch of family (read: babysitters) behind.
Train into Kings Cross is 45 mins. But then there's tube commute the other side and getting to the station my end. So probably 1hr30 is realistic for a lot of places.
hi, what is the record for the number of questions without any answers for a user? I have just found one user with 38 questions and zero accepted answer.
hmm, I think there is some misunderstanding.... I did not mean to express that the user has not received answers... just that, he has not selected one for any of his questions, the number of which is 38 in the aforementioned case.
@JanDvorak: no, it is not a big achievement to have X non-selected answers if you have many questions. It should either have some ratio into the calculation, or just purely look for an OP with only non-selected answers for all the questions.
in this case, the OP had 38 questions with most of them answered, but zero selected. I wonder if anyone can exceed that.
@Laszlo Before you started participating on SO, there was a metric called "accept rate", that displayed the info you're talking about on every question a user asked. You can read about it on Meta.
It was removed because people were constantly badgering users to improve their accept rate.
And oftentimes people would avoid answering questions asked by people with a "low accept rate."
My feature request (or anti-feature-request perhaps) is the following:
Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate.
For those of you who know "Fawlty Towers", the whole issue of a visible accept rate and our behavior towards it starts to feel like "Don't mention the war!".
We generally seem to ...
I guess the idea was to simply show users they could accept answers, and how successful their questions turned out to be. But the side-effects were rather terrible
Alternate request:
Show the accept-rate to the owner of the question only, and only on question user-cards. That way they get a gentle reminder that they're rewarded for ticking the box, and nobody else has to see it.
And move that public metric to their profile
As pointed out below by bluef...
showing it only to the user would have solved that concern.
For my application I am using a combination of Python+Qt(PySide). I need to read from and write to XML. Currently I have implemented some part of functionality using Python's standard ElementTree module. But it has its drawbacks - for example I cannot do pretty printing of tabbed XML elemens but ...
is the OP right in here that it is a good question to avoid the closure?
I tried to avoid to be broad or opiniated, but apparently, that is what he wishes. Perhaps, it is just me thinking so, but I have seen many such questions closed.
I need to choose a 3D engine for some kind of augmented reality application. I want to use Python (Version 2.7) for coding, so I need Python bindings. Currently I use pyqt for the GUI with some widgets in which I display OpenCV images.
For the first steps I only need to overlay the video with so...
So for example you have this string "ffdjsfdjsbd" and this array ["fdjs","djsb","jsbd]
how would you be able to find the number of matches of each array index. i.e for fdjs, the result should be 2 and for djsb, 1.
Heh, there are a bunch of duplicates of this but they're all closed as duplicates of each other in a circle (a few of which are deleted). Since none of them really mention Unicornfiy and don't really have useful information, I'll just delete the odd circle of duplicates and this can stay. — animuson32 mins ago
If you mean the new "recover" one, it doesn't really give people the opportunity to have the answer (which is that they have to take a snapshot or save image) that the other chain of posts gave.
Note, I don't really care about unicorns, just hate to see memes vaporize.
I know a lot of female programmers, and I know there are a good number of them out there.
But I don't recall ever having one of my questions answered by, nor have I ever answered a question by a female programmer here at Stack Overflow.
Now I mostly deal in the Delphi tag, and that may make a d...
Here is a way of swapping a and b without a need for a third variable. I understand what XOR means in a truth table with "true" or "false" but what is it doing here exactly? How does XOR work when we're dealing with numbers not booleans?
int a = 5; int b = 10;
a = a ^ b;
b = a ^ b;
a = a ^ b;
screw it, I'm just passing strings now. a set of strings for each column works fine
Alternate request:
Show the accept-rate to the owner of the question only, and only on question user-cards. That way they get a gentle reminder that they're rewarded for ticking the box, and nobody else has to see it.
And move that public metric to their profile
As pointed out below by bluef...
So for example you have this string "ffdjsfdjsbd" and this array ["fdjs","djsb","jsbd]
how would you be able to find the number of matches of each array index. i.e for fdjs, the result should be 2 and for djsb, 1.
