Also @JeffAtwood next time you shouldn't have that whole pesky work thing in the middle of the day ... dragging all the mods out of chat makes for a dull chat :p ... for the days when I'm not working ;)
there used to be a "You are the 512,823,435th visitor. Hello from Pennsylvania." message in the footer of the page... I took it off at some point when load was high
@JeffAtwood Again -- let users somehow mark items as reviewed (say if 5 people mark one as such, stop serving it), although that's probably going to need to be linked with a rep requirement
When we were doing the VC rounds, the company (rightly or not) that was on every VC's radar in the Q&A field was Quora.
Link to sign up: http://quora.com/hackernews
Quora is a question and answer site focused on getting really high quality, authoritative content on any topic that p...
the idea that you can have a selective newsfeed (I obviously +1 CNN and Headline) so you get the news that matters to you moreso than "look what brittney did"
I spent christmas with Evan Carroll and Rich B.. sitting around the fire drinking delicious hot cocoa and reminiscing about the good times.. sigh.. the good times
<sarcasm>I still like my scenario. PersonA starts writing an answer. Jon Skeet starts writing an answer a minute later and PersonA gets a notification: Jon Skeet has started writing an answer. Go! Type faster! Hurrrrrrrry! </sarcam>
NOTE: This has probably been asked already, but I am unable to find it. If such is the case, please post a link to that question in the comments. Here, I will try to explain how I think this problem should be combated.
A very useful feature that I think we need for Stack Overflow is automatic lo...
the "new answers posted" thing bugs me now because I'll check to see if anyone else got it right, see that they didn't, post, and then find that they edited in the good answer within the 5min window
@MaximZaslavsky because there are 600k daily visitors, and something on the order of 10k new messages every day. More than 1 per second. It would load WAY too fast
so usually when I see that someone else has answered, I'll just go do something else for a bit, and if they haven't fixed problems in the next 10-15 min go back to correcting them
@drachenstern that's true. but wouldn't having a box that says, "X more questions since you started browsing, click here to see them" or "Y more questions since you started searching, click here to see them" avoid that problem?
actually, i see what you're saying now. if the "box" thing were to check very often, you'd load the page and then in a few seconds it would appear and tell you to click on it to reload the page. so it wouldn't work.
@JeffAtwood per-tagset is actually a good idea! and like with searching... but not for the home page, except maybe like a reminder that pops up after 5 minutes to tell you to refresh for new content
@JeffAtwood my "minimal" tagset would net me ~483 questions a day. I don't want my screen autorefreshing on that, I want to see the trends on all of SO
> Show me a computer programmer who would rather give up Stack Overflow than Quora, and we'll officially start to worry. Until then, I think Quora is awesome at what it does, which is about 99% different than what Stack Overflow does. - Joel Spolsky on Quora
I see from the thread Which tools and technologies build the Stack Exchange Network? that the database specifications are:
Database SQL Server 2008 R2 running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64
While this does not necessarily mean that Oracle wont do this job, it does indi...
We generally make a habit of starring posts in the chat room when a dev announces a new feature, and I try to mention new things I've noticed specifically so other mods who might not have noticed are aware. In this case, this post of waffles' is starred:
I am adding convert to comment to the ...
@RebeccaChernoff well take your laptop to BWW near you, I'll take my phone to BWW near me, @Zypher can take his direct fiber helicopter system (idk) and we can laugh at @TimStone for not having BWW :p
Jan/Feb/Mar 2011
2011-01-07: Chat "whitelists" no longer allow specified users to talk regardless of their rep. Users with less than 20 rep now get only four hours of chat time before being locked out.
2011-01-07: Moderators can now convert answers into comments.
2011-01-07: The vote-to-close...
wow that's a huge amount of new and cool stuff. thanks!
While we're on the topic of IRC:
#SOMafia on irc.slashnet.org is NOT associated with Stack Overflow!
I've gotten several email complaints:
Yesterday, just out of curiosity, I joined #SOMafia on irc.shashnet.org and there was a JeffAtwood op there. If it wasn't you, then I'm sorry, please ig...
I think of all the people here that know what IRC is and have probably used a room more than once, that would be me and my boss. I imagine the senior DBA probably knows what it is and has never used it. The other devs are all "ehwut" ... I'm evangelizing them to SO as is ...
Spend 4 hours preparing install diskettes... install Slackware Linux... dial up AOL with a PPPOE client... BitchX into a DALnet channel... some other IRC user roots me and wipes my hard drive while I chat. Welcome to IRC in the 90s!
@RebeccaChernoff apparently we have a disconnect :p ... we're good at bullshitting, not at design. That's @Jin's world. But he can't be involved in the book. It's an impasse.
@drachenstern No. I understood perfectly. My implication was that you'd have to learn. Which would take awhile. Which is just more time you won't be working on the Book of rchern.
@RebeccaChernoff a) I didn't work on it, didn't read it, just saw the pretty colors of the revisions. b) I only pretend with design. c) is the horse dead yet?
I'm playing for the first time on my Mac and can't figure out how to change the difficulty. How do I do it? I haven't beaten the third mission yet (I read something that seemed to imply that difficulty needed to be unlocked).
> In GSB you put your ships together from modular components, arrange them into fleets, give your ships orders of engagement and then hope they emerge victorious from battle (or at least blow to bits in aesthetically pleasing ways).
Cool, they updated the flagged post interface for 10k tools! Yay! It now has colors OMG I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY!!!
> undefined is just a type, but there's also the variable called undefined which defaults to the value undefined, but whose value can be changed. All variables that have not been assigned any value, default to the valueundefined.
My problem is the part about 'variable whose value'
When we were doing the VC rounds, the company (rightly or not) that was on every VC's radar in the Q&A field was Quora.
Link to sign up: http://quora.com/hackernews
Quora is a question and answer site focused on getting really high quality, authoritative content on any topic that p...
I see from the thread Which tools and technologies build the Stack Exchange Network? that the database specifications are:
Database SQL Server 2008 R2 running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64
While this does not necessarily mean that Oracle wont do this job, it does indi...
We generally make a habit of starring posts in the chat room when a dev announces a new feature, and I try to mention new things I've noticed specifically so other mods who might not have noticed are aware. In this case, this post of waffles' is starred:
I am adding convert to comment to the ...
Jan/Feb/Mar 2011
2011-01-07: Chat "whitelists" no longer allow specified users to talk regardless of their rep. Users with less than 20 rep now get only four hours of chat time before being locked out.
2011-01-07: Moderators can now convert answers into comments.
2011-01-07: The vote-to-close...
I'm playing for the first time on my Mac and can't figure out how to change the difficulty. How do I do it? I haven't beaten the third mission yet (I read something that seemed to imply that difficulty needed to be unlocked).
