I'm sure everyone has noticed Google's relatively recent "remove from search results" feature, which allows you to hide results from useless domains.
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I wonder if it would be useful to have a similar feature, either to remove a single question from all search results, or to remove all qu...
Since we're nearing the end of the month and I need to fill up my pedantic bug quota, I noticed while taking a look at someone's reputation history that the tooltip for suggested edit approval reputation bonuses was coming at the event from the wrong end:
The user didn't receive reputation bec...
This idea shows some promise but is ultimately useless in SE's model, I think.
I'm under the impression (and this is my personal belief, as well) that all questions deserve equal attention only until after they've been determined to be duplicates or unfit per SE's standards and common practices....
I think you should do this in a couple phases. One phase should be questions which have no answers yet, one phase only questions which have no accepted answer, and one that mixes them all in
The same day, before suggesting the edits, I had noticed that I had been serial upvoted on 16 of my questions, giving me 80 reputation which, by confirming in the chat room, I knew would be removed whenever the serial cycle ran through.
I continued to suggest an edit to the body and excerpt of t...
Stack Overflow and Meta's footer seems to be identical, except that the colors of the separators seem to be different. This is obviously a huge oversight that should be corrected immediately, even worse than the Venn diagram bug and the giant 'S' Jeff-comes-to-your-house-and-bash-you-over-the-hea...
What are badge name's requirements?
Why didn't I get badge name?
Which badges can I earn multiple times?
Jump to:
Regular badges A-L and M-Z
Tag badges
Badge families
Area 51 badges
Note: Some badges are awarded based on score. The term score means the total number of upvotes minus the t...
Someone's going through adding <!-- language: lang-lisp --> to a bunch of questions, but I'm not really seeing any difference in the text that's display with and without it...
Nevermind, SO was just taking forever to load the preview -.-
There are no pending suggested edits to review! - Mwuahahaha
When did this paid programming crap start? Get off my TV!!!
Argh, I can't figure out how to word this answer. I'm basically trying to explain to someone that digital photographs are made up of tiny blocks of uniform color.
Compare to the real world, where you can have things that are, you know, curved.
@am - what was in the meta meta meta meta post that I commented on from that deleted post? :P Only now I realize that I didn't see the content at all :P
I just saw this answer here:
We are testing web sockets on meta
I know that SE has prided themselves on just using polling techniques for chat:
Why is the Stack Exchange chat room using simple polling instead of other Comet techniques?
Why the sudden change?
Since Gource is by default for commit logs, I ran Gource on the SO log, but even with playing around with the options, I can't get it to give me something decently short. Rather than do the entire commit history, here's a 2-minute clip of the last month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7ItrdXb...
(sorry, it took a while to find because I couldn't remember where it was)
See my answer here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/123638/155556
(now only 10K+ viewable (since the OP was deleted))
I was able to make my answer "" (yes that was on purpose)
In the end you can read the edits to the answer and get the point, but why should I be able to do that?
I assume statu...
I definitely agree that it shouldn't be allowed. Maybe edit the question to be a little less emotional/confrontational and present a cogent argument on why it shouldn't be allowed? (Being able to get around the quality filter is a good one.)
The text of the "not constructive" close reason reads:
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.
But d...
This answer used an HTML comment to subvert the "Your answer is too short" error.
Should HTML comments not be counted as part of the length of an answer? (Similar to how spaces aren't counted.)
@Martin Conversely, I hate the new Twitter. When I click the link to load new posts, it's not particularly evident where "old" and "new" separate. When there are dozens of new tweets, I just have to kind of guess where I left off.
@Martin Otherwise it's a fairly clean design and I enjoy it. It took a little time to get used to the left-right swap of content and "widget boxes" but that's no longer noticeable. But dropping that one useful feature hurts the whole user experience for me.
@Martin Interesting, I hadn't noticed. What kind of link? An external link from within a tweet, a username, etc.?
The external links open fine in a new tab for me, no changes noticeable there. But now that you mention it, there is a bit of an ajax delay between clicking on an internal link (a user name for example) and when the content gets displayed.
@Martin You're right. I can see where that would be annoying when navigating within Twitter (which I almost never do anyway). Some kind of indication that content is loading would be nice.
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A fully featured client is planned, see the roadmap below for the next immediate features.
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Ughhh that feeling of getting sooooo irritated that your program isn't working only to find out that it's not updating because it's the wrong file. facepalm
Why are "Hi1" and "Hi3" displayed twice by the following code?
static int a=1;
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (a==2) { System.out.println(args[0]); a = 3;}
if (a==1) { main(); }
System.out.println("Hi1");
System.out.println(new PlayingWithMain().m...
I'm sure everyone has noticed Google's relatively recent "remove from search results" feature, which allows you to hide results from useless domains.
.
I wonder if it would be useful to have a similar feature, either to remove a single question from all search results, or to remove all qu...
Since we're nearing the end of the month and I need to fill up my pedantic bug quota, I noticed while taking a look at someone's reputation history that the tooltip for suggested edit approval reputation bonuses was coming at the event from the wrong end:
The user didn't receive reputation bec...
What are badge name's requirements?
Why didn't I get badge name?
Which badges can I earn multiple times?
Jump to:
Regular badges A-L and M-Z
Tag badges
Badge families
Area 51 badges
Note: Some badges are awarded based on score. The term score means the total number of upvotes minus the t...
Since Gource is by default for commit logs, I ran Gource on the SO log, but even with playing around with the options, I can't get it to give me something decently short. Rather than do the entire commit history, here's a 2-minute clip of the last month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7ItrdXb...
The text of the "not constructive" close reason reads:
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.
But d...
This answer used an HTML comment to subvert the "Your answer is too short" error.
Should HTML comments not be counted as part of the length of an answer? (Similar to how spaces aren't counted.)
Screenshots
About
Touch Stack is a basic smartphone optimised Stack Exchange client, which currently supports the browsing of questions & users.
A fully featured client is planned, see the roadmap below for the next immediate features.
License
MIT license, go crazy
Access
htt...
Why are "Hi1" and "Hi3" displayed twice by the following code?
static int a=1;
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (a==2) { System.out.println(args[0]); a = 3;}
if (a==1) { main(); }
System.out.println("Hi1");
System.out.println(new PlayingWithMain().m...
