I'm still not sure why he deletes MSO posts at all, it seems like by and large they should stay around. Naturally lots of them are no longer relevant if they refer to things that are no longer true, but that's like deleting bugs from bugzilla after you've marked them closed
I don't know about the comments, right now I'm trying to catch up on the NTI debate.
The deletions I was referring to were just standard Jeff deleting posts that he though were no longer relevant, instead of letting the community delete them (or not).
actually, I discover that my openid provider has been blocked here, so I can't log into sites that I haven't previously logged into from here... don't expect any new votes for the time being :)
@radp, hang on. So if I'm successfully logged into SO on this machine, it should automatically log me in to programmers, even if I've never logged into it from here before?
Surely there should be an ORM framework which automagically maps to the proper greeting based on the current context. A consultant would be able to implement it in a couple of months, give or take a year.
@JohntheSeagull upper management decided to replace jQuery with vapor.js, their marketing department was impressed with just how small and fast that library is
Green tea is full of catechins, as this study shows, a type of flavinoid that goes directly from the bloodstream to the eyeball, where it fights oxidative stress, keeping the eyes young. I have been drinking loads of high-quality green tea since I learned about this, and definitely noticed a chan...
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What I haven't mentioned yet is what the resource "perlscript" is for. In fact, this is a very useful feature in Jabber because you can have multiple resources for one account. If you sent a message to both gpoul@jabber.org/office and gpoul@jabber.org/home, you would reach two completely different clients. If you just send the message to gpoul@jabber.org, the message will be routed according to the user's preferences. The neat thing about this is that if the user is not at home or at the office, they would be able to get their message to gpoul@jabber.org/cell or something like gpoul@jabber.…
@Fosco I was hoping we wouldn't need to either, but, it looks like we might
ok.. if you're still reading.. based on that article why doesnt it work?.. should be fosco@smart-safe-secure.com/Webuser_34157 instead
@rchern I basically pulled off that challenge.. less than a days development effort, functioning 2 way server-based XMPP client. not without issues, though.
Man, that NTI thing didn't get nearly as much attention as I expected. I guess it's because they did the White House thing and announced it on Friday night when everyone was getting ready for the weekend.
@PopularDemand I'm just disappointed that the main argument when all is said and done seems to be that Jeff just doesn't like the name. There was talk about strengthening the Stack Exchange brand and how that carries over from site to site, but that was followed up by saying that 90% of traffic comes from Google...and at that point doesn't it matter more whether or not you're in the top spot? Or are people really analyzing the URL to see if it looks familiar to them?
@Tim If anything, they're analyzing the logo. Every time I look at it, I feel more like I'm on the web app subsite of whatever site has the cloud + power icon logo.
@PopularDemand Wow, you're right. It definitely blends in more there than on the other sites.
I personally feel that if you've experienced enough to trust the network, then you know enough about the network to identify its sites...but maybe I'm off base.
@PopularDemand Maybe I should ask my coworkers. I promote SO every chance I can, yet no one's ever heard of it or if they have, choose not to participate.
@Shog9 Right, I had meant that I judge each site based on its individual merits, not come in with a blind assumption that it's the definitive word simply because it's a Stack Exchange site.
Yes, at which point the name as an identifier of content becomes fairly irrelevant. For example, I'm still on the fence about committing to the Healthcare IT proposal because I'm not convinced that their view of "healthcare IT" includes the kinds of things that I work with. That ambiguity would exist whether the site ended up being heathcareit.stackexchange.com or <whatever>.com.
(and as an outsider I'd only know for sure after looking at the questions/FQ/what have you)
@JohntheSeagull how's this bikeshedding? from the very beginning we were told that graduating out of beta will include the own domain name. How many times were we encouraged to get the site identity and the name? Then out of the blue w/o a word everything is changing?
@JohntheSeagull And what does SO do? Post recommendation on how to post a question, ffs like!
Apparently, the SE team is doing a complete 180° turn and going from this:
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@JohntheSeagull ah, uhm, hello. this is my point. There is no "info" as in blog post explaining reasons, asking for people's opinions, etc. They're just "doing stuff".
I just had a random thought; what if you append "[closed]" to the end of a question title. Is it filtered out, or in some way disallowed?
If you are seeing this, it isn't. It could potentially be used for some trickery, right? Or maybe not. I don't know, that's why you're here: discuss!
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@Shog9 @PopularDemand Look at the title and comments of this question: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66568/… That is the type of slightly helpful but not really nonsense I'm aiming for
You could edit answers to provide far too much detail. "Well, as @someone said, you need to put in another curly brace on line 15. You can do this by moving your mouse until the little pointy thing is at the end of the line on the screen, and then pressing down on the mouse's left-most button. At that point, you should move your hands to the keyboard.
Using your left hand, press and hold either of the keys labeled 'Shift.' Then, while still holding that key, press the key with a '}' symbol on top of a ']' symbol. Don't forget to release the 'Shift' key when you're done!"
@SilentGhost yeah, that's the problem. It's not like Team SO or anyone else commenting really has any idea how this is gonna play out - so arguing that one naming scheme or another is "better" is just guesswork. But because we were told for months that picking a name and identity was Of The Utmost Importance, this semi-silent reversal just comes across as capricious.
@Shog9 I would even disagree with a "semi-silent" description. Just to copy my comment here: "i don't think it's a policy per se, but rather manner in which it was done. The policy that arrives on the hills of decision is not a policy at all, but rather a fixing-a-mess measure."
@JohntheSeagull I think taking an offence is the best position to be: you don't need to address a real question. Does it matter whether it's done for money or not? It's a wrong decision! Like all the over-engineering that Jeff is not willing to admit.
@JohntheSeagull I'm tempted. But I'd have to email him for his number first, and that just sounds like entirely too much work just to harass a woman I've never met.
@SilentGhost Meh. Most sites, that's how I'd expect it to work.
@Tim I caved and installed TortoiseSVN. Downloaded everything into C:\testOfTortoiseSVN or something and it went smoothly. Then I just had to copy/paste in after nuking the existing folder from orbit (for the second time).
Asking the boss if he has any ideas, but honestly I've lost so much time to this that I may have to just accept that it's mostly working and forge ahead.
It is the way it wS done. When the initial question was posed to mods it seemed like nti was goi g o be grandfathered in. Then it was posted to be discussed. Then the site went down without warning and came back up as wa
> Multiple resources for someone on the contact list are handled, but not shown in the user interface. The resource to send to can also not be selected (like in Psi).
Why not just do x++; Why assign it back to x ?
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I see no error. No matter what site you are looking at, it is factually true that no every question on Stack Overflow gets answered.
I just had a random thought; what if you append "[closed]" to the end of a question title. Is it filtered out, or in some way disallowed?
If you are seeing this, it isn't. It could potentially be used for some trickery, right? Or maybe not. I don't know, that's why you're here: discuss!
EDIT: J...
