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12:28 AM

Jon Quixote: College Confidential's costly theme

posted on March 25, 2020

To preface: I joined College Confidential in January. The company I work for took over management of the site in December and implemented a new registration system to begin integrating with our other products. Last April the previous owner of the site implemented a new theme. The new theme has had a lot of benefits. Chief among them: the site now works on phones. But I believe the cost of the c…

Jon Ericson

1:01 AM

No meta outlet for me right now. ;-)

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7:04 PM

Q: Time Machine converting .backupbundle files back to .sparsebundle for downgrading back from Catalina to Mohave

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Q: Reputation for editing deleted questions disappears into memory hole?

It appears that reputation earned from editing a question that is subsequently deleted is not subtracted in a reputation-decreasing event (e.g. a "-2: edited question was deleted") that shows up in a user's history, but disappears into a memory hole, seemingly never having existed in the first pl...

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10:10 PM

Q: An answer to an unposed question

I was very tempted to answer Suggestions for reducing the transmission rate? with the following. In fact I did, but I deleted it again, because I do realize that there is nothing mathematical in my answer, and it goes into a completely different direction than what was actually asked for in the ...