For some reason (yet to be determined) the clock on the database server was ~20 minutes off. Since the sorting of the starred messages is based on the hacker news hotness algorithm, which as a factor includes the message age raised to a fractional power, to be precise:
(age in minutes + 2) ^ 1.5...
Rate limiting on SE sites is annoying. How do you expect me to get rep without spamming the place with questions?
And another thing... If I have 14K network-wide, including 6K on SO, why in the name of [Object] must I be subject to the anti-troll measures? Let me freaking see the vote count on my own answer! Why make me work for two hundred rep on a site which won't let me post more than two questions at a time?
@Moshe: agree. I think once you hit 10k or 20k across all networks, all non-moderating features should be unlocked everywhere (except things like CV, DV, Perhaps editing, etc)
Getting logged out of live.xbox.com when I restart Chrome = [status-bydesign]. Getting a "Your session has expired. Please try again." when I log in again, forcing me to log in twice = [status-wtf].
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Added a table of examples under Electorate, since that seems to keep coming up.
The proposal is quite simple: Unlock "10k tools" for a user once they have earned 15k across the SE network on all sites.
Obviously there is some question about joining enough sites to cause this to occur just from a random vantage point of "let me log in to every single site and get lots of rep...
@drachenstern Hmm, it's interesting that Moshe's answer is +3 while the question is -2. I guess people are content with just killing the original suggestion. :P
@drachenstern I have an account, but I haven't used it in years. Literally, years. I don't even have the software installed on my current computer or its predecessor.
Is it normal for unanswered questions to be sorted with the Newest on the bottom? I'm not sure if I did something, but I can't get them sorted in descending order again with the newest on top. Its been like this for a few days now.
@PopularDemand I'm using the first version. It also tell me "Modified yesterday" instead of "Asked yesteday" even though if I click on the question itself there are no modification
@Rachel In that case it's just treating "this was posted" as a modification. But if a post has been edited, it should be using the edit date/time rather than the post date/time.
Is that not what you're seeing? Did you want the sort to be by post date/time?
Honestly, the "Last Modified" field is not consistent in the sorting, although I have 50 questions per page and ones from yesterday are at the top and ones from the last few minutes are at the bottom
@Rachel, I noticed yesterday that /unanswered's newest tab wasn't sorted, but I haven't looked at it yet. The unanswered page got some love recently as I recall, so something may have happened. Without looking into it I figured I was crazy, so nice to see someone else mention it (;
@RebeccaChernoff The sorting isn't exactly correct either. For example, the link you posted has the top post 19h ago and the next 4 set to Last Modified: yesterday
@drachenstern I was using Rebecca's link above (meta.stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=newest) with 50 results per page, and the answers are being sorted in ascending order by date of original post. It should be descending and I'd rather it showed the date it was sorting by
@drachenstern The sort is (incorrectly) correct. The 1st about Production Data Lost was posted 16min ago and at the top and the 2nd about qt-something was posted 13min ago and in the middle
@Rachel yeah, I was looking at that, I swear before the sort had some newer ones at the bottom. perhaps I switched tabs to much in "testing" and wasn't methodical enough
Argh, damn. I was thinking about going to pick up sushi (if only they delivered, like in Philly...), but I forgot that they randomly close in the middle of the day.
@RebeccaChernoff why is that funny? I would almost certainly prefer to have a laptop with Windows and Office on it when I had to deal with hotels and conference centers for giving presentations. For work at the office I would expect huge workstations with massive monitors and lots of desk space running Linux and Chrome, but for hotels ...
@drachenstern um, because it is still configuring updates/rebooting and is a waste of time during a presentation being streamed live to lots of people?
I've always preferred when the guy doing the talk has a VM all lined up, goes to use it, and it bluescreens (or whatever) so he does the presentation on his actual box since he can't use the prefabricated VM ... seen that now twice
There are a couple of categories of the self-answered question that to me, seems like noise. Personally, I think the first category should be deleted, and I'm in the air on the second category - although if I'm looking for some solution via google and land here, I'm going to look to the accepted...
@balpha So we can identify Rails developers and avoid them?
But yeah, someone apparently thought that the snowman was a universal symbol for snowy weather, since the snowman is classified as a "Weather and astrological symbol"
@ircmaxell I clicked with the intent of copying the "would you like to write the tag wiki?" message into chat, but I guess that doesn't show up for unused tags.
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Why should we refresh the page to know if somebody answers, replies or whatever?
Why it doesn't show up by itself?
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Guys,
I know it is clearly indicated that this type of questions are not allowed here but I'm gonna give it a shot anyway. So support me on this topic and I know you will:)
Everybody knows that Jon Skeet Facts has been discuses long time ago and there were Chuck Norris Facts style answers.
I'm...
