I just can't quite remember a short story about a person who wanted to eat their neighbor's apples, which were growing within the confines of their gated yard. I recall that the apples were described as being red and large, but having a terrible taste when the person finally gets to them. The st...
On some inactive sites, 1k might be considered high rep, whereas on SO it might be 50k+
Rough definition for high-rep user - someone who is accused of 'unfairly' closing a low rep user's 'good' question and 'harassing' them by saying it's off topic </joke>
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Development Team. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
PHP code may be embedded into HTML or HTML5 code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems and web frameworks. PHP code is usually processed by a PHP interpreter...
Most people around here are programmers, so expect lots of stuff about programming. @Ramanujan :)
And many SE employees who are not developers are programmers, or former programmers. Even Shog knows his stuff and create scripts etc. ;)
Active Server Pages (ASP), later known as Classic ASP or ASP Classic, is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages.
ASP.NET, first released in January 2002, has superseded ASP.
== History ==
Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack (ca. 1996), it is included as a free component of Windows Server (since the initial release of Windows 2000 Server). There have been three versions of ASP, each introduced with different versions of IIS:
ASP 1.0 was released on December 1996 as part of IIS 3.0
ASP 2...
@ShadowWizard but Facebook uses Hack which is intended to overcome the shortcomings of PHP. Erik Meijer (a Dutch former MS employee and great mind) contributed.
@Ramanujan I'd say there's no real lines -5k is a reasonable amount of reputation to hopefully understand the network. That said, on a younger site, the top users are at around 5k. It really depends on context.
@ShadowWizard pray tell, where's the data for the mobile app coming from?
@ShadowWizard if the Japanese language has taught me anything, then it's that there are a surprising amount of english words with u appended to it. So Squattu is my guess
Why do software vendors still insist on not having up front pricing. "Contact us to talk to a representative who then wants to have a talk with the manager, after which you'll have a meeting with ...". Fuck off.
@Bart because that way in the worst case they will still have your e-mail. Which they will then use to contact you for "future promotions"
That is why, if you are really dastardly nice, you should set up a e-mail alias that you will use for the info request. As soon as you are finished, delete the alias.
And I could understand it if it was some form of complex system with service contracts and the like. But we're talking a simple 6-seat install of an IDE plugin
It's so stupid. I am not the person taking any final decision. But I am the one who needs to make the case that it's worth it and cost effective. But I'm not going to spend days on setting up meetings and talking to representatives
We do as well. No problem. But we're at a point where some static analysis (better than what Analyze provides) wouldn't do any harm, and where some other tools would be useful as well.
Just the occasional "how can we improve?" research, so to say
@Shog9 I was thinking about comment flags for some reason. Just a random thought: I hypothesize that a lot of vaguely flagged comments are comments and arguments about whether or not a question is appropriate / should be closed. In your experience, is that the case, and if so, how would you feel about a "belongs on meta" flag reason?
@Bart I'm not entirely sure. But apparently there is value to having flag reasons be meaningful on the mod side. So from that end of things if the goal is to make comment flags easier to sort through, under the assumption that NC is a catch-all and therefore a mess, if "belongs on meta" is a significant reason and takes up a lot of the generic NC slack then the categorization of flagged comments improves, which was the purpose behind the whole comment flag rethinking discussion.
E.g. given the premise that flags are a mess, the assumption is the reason they are a mess is because the current flag reasons are flawed, and so users frequently pick the "wrong", or at least not-too-useful, reasons.
I say all this very cautiously and humbly. It's not an issue I have a good handle on, having never been on the mod / staff side. But the "belongs on meta" thing is a random thought that popped up.
More of a way to improve flag meaningfulness on the mod side, by providing a (possibly) more accurate reason to take some of the load off the generic overused NC/chatty flags. As for whether or not mods would be given different options for handling those flags... I have no horse in that race.
But I remember Shog was trying to think of ways to rethink / split up the reasons.
And also it's 7:30 AM and I haven't slept yet. So my brain is just thinking of random weird crap.
Dogs'll do. I grew up with no less than 3 beagles in my house at any given time. They had no qualms about waking up the whole house barking at random crap at 3AM.
I have two cats. Cats definitely don't keep people awake, lol.
user202362
not even in the morning when they want to wake up their human slave for breakfast?
Well, yeah, I'll give them that, they do serve as a pretty precise 10AM alarm clock. But they have snooze buttons on top of their heads. If I press it they'll just sit there and stare at me until I wake up.
Actually I thought about an automatic feeder but it'd have to be a custom addition to my current feeders, which only open for their RFID tags, so it's not like I can just pop an autofeeder on top of a bowl.
Yeah. An auto feeder + a tag-activated feeder is what I need. But I haven't found a combo yet, and it'd be difficult to build because of the electronic lids.
Also my cats are on very precise diets so every meal involves a scale and math.
@ShadowWizard Amusingly I didn't actually read those comments or look at the edit history until after I made the edit. Then I read them. Then I mentally prepared myself to fight for it (tactfully). So we shall see.
@JasonC well, next roll back we can just vote to close. After all, it's an old question and IMO the OP got the right to decide the scope of their question.
They do have that right. If they rollback I will try to be gently convincing, then give up. Try not to start a comment battle there, you'll cramp my style, lol.
@ShadowWizard nothing to be thrilled about really. This question is now at #95 meaning it will likely drop off the list in several hours. 8-9 days in the HNQ happen quite regularly, you can find it yourself since snapshots of HNQ pares are recoded daily at webarchive.org. Real thriller happened at Workplace where they found that group of sock puppets exploited HNQ for trolling :)
wonder how many of deleted troll questions went HNQ. This probably can be relatively easy discovered by 10K users with Passant's trick ("when you google the question for an exact phrase of the question title then you'll see hits at physics.stackexchange.com, serverfault.com, unix.stackexchange.com, stats.stackexchange.com and tex.stackexchange.com...") — gnatMar 17 at 15:54
Probably all of them. But the real cost here is in the time, mental energy, and goodwill to the folks who took the time to edit and answer assuming good faith. — Shog9 ♦Mar 17 at 16:00
I left a comment on the question when I deleted it, but I'll elaborate here...
The moderators caught wind of a group of sockpuppets operating on the site, and asked me to investigate. It quickly became apparent that several questions asked within the past few weeks had all been created by the sa...
Random YouTube comment-of-the-day from my notification stream. Let's see, you guys ready?
Oh here we go, perfect:
> No, hungry predators don't 'need help' you fucking tree hugging moron... They evolved specifically to take what they need... Giving that type of organism 'help' over generations merely leads to a disintegration of the organism's genome until it's LESS capable of meeting its own needs and dies without the continued support of something else (something else that takes what it needs for itself AND extra to feed the pet that it's hurting in the long run.) ...
> ... Stop sitting around and smoking pot staring at your belly button and learn some fucking science. Your brand of idiocy will do nothing other than weaken the society that your a part of until the point where someone else wipes it out.
Thanks, YouTube.
This, btw, is the evolution of that thread debating whether gravity exists or not. Obviously.
@Mithrandir Can you check the IP history on literature.stackexchange.com/users/900 again? It says I upvoted an answer about an hour ago. I definitely did not.
The other day I got an alert in the middle of the night that someone logged in to my Twitter account from the town where I work. Given that I log in using various accounts there, I changed everything immediately. Verified what the heck was going on ... turns out the notification email was just delayed from when I logged in myself 2 days before ...
Quick overview of what I checked, @JasonC: Past names - Nothing. Changed avatar - March 1st. Edited about me - Mar 3rd. IP - hasn't changed; no other users with that one; same one as on SO; no recent changes on SO. The user whos answer you upvoted has an IP nothing close to yours. A StackAuth credential was added to your account on Mar 1st.
@Mithrandir I don't really know what the StackAuth thing signifies. The only app I've authorized to act on my behalf is Metasmoke, which happened at least 24 days ago, prior to this.
@Mithrandir Nothing out of place there, that matches my browser history. I have viewed a couple questions since the first (but not taken any actions, and also never viewed that question that has the upvote).