Related question in SF before my last (also wo warning and visible reason) ban was left unanswered:
http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/739/moderators-abusing-rules-closed
I have no clue why?
There was neither warnings nor notifications
Before the last ban in SF, MSF, I even did not...
That might be, but some comments to some of his answers are also very biased towards "You're a difficult user, I don't like you", even though the specific question or whatnot he had written there wasn't difficult at all.
Good news! Today my project leader is coming back from a two week vacation and I was just hired two weeks ago and haven't done actual work in this time. My employer just game me three manuals and said; read em if you can.
So today I'll probably start actually working on code! :D
@balpha is that necesary? I mean we're just talking and if you move the channel not many people would be there. Since it's a monday morning and things are moving slow can't we just chill here?
I like the idea of using the chat for getting feedback on your page, but I'd use a seperated room for that -- nothing wrong with posting a message here to invite people there
this might be good for you as well:
you'll have all the feedback in one place
instead of scattered all of the place with the rest of the chit-chat here :)
@balpha , he has a point though, if he just created the room, no one would come. If he just posts a message no-one will go. Maybe the best way is just to start discussing then once the discussion has got momentum ask a mod to move it?
(pardon me, I just got woken up by a phone call which I excused myself from in what I hope was (but rather suspect wasn't) a reasonably polite manner, so as to wake up a bit before trying to hold a conversation. So in order to test of my mental status, you're gonna play my "conversational guinea pig")
@Popular, if you do learn, this is the site I used: gigliwood.com/abcd/lessons It is a super simple site, but it did the trick for me, and a few others I've shown it to.
@rchern I'm finding it hard to imagine the benefits outweighing the costs for this... but it does seem like a good thing to know, in a nebulous sort of way.
@Popular, I do find that it is easier to type. There are a lot of words you can type without having to more your fingers to reach as much (even though they're little reaches, they're still movement), and you alternate so that rather than finding 2 consecutive letters typed with the same finger, there's a lot more alternating between hands.
I know it doesn't sound like much, but eh, it works for me. (:
@rchern I kind of worry that, at this point, an increase in my typing speed will lead to a higher error rate, which will negate any time savings. Still, it's on my list, just... not at the top of the list.
You won't type as fast right away. You'll type slower when you first learn, which is expected and natural. The important thing is that when you're typing slowly, you'll be correcting typos. The natural progression is to fix the typos first, then pick up speed.
@rchern Well, yes, of course. I wonder what the upper bound on error-free -- or errors-only-within-acceptable-bounds -- typing is, though. There must be some limit imposed by the human brain and/or hands.
Doesn't that hold for anything though? You could type faster in QWERTY right now if you wanted. You'd make more mistakes though. So you don't. You type at a speed you find acceptable regarding speed vs accuracy.
@rchern If I typed at 30 WPM in QWERTY right now, I could work at it and improve my speed. Same goes for 40, 50... but at some point, I'd hit a biological barrier and be unable to type more quickly -- while still being effective -- no matter how much effort I put in or desire I had.
I don't think I've reached that point yet. But I'm just wondering where the point is.
I dunno. I've always maintained that I can type so quickly/accurately because I started playing the piano when I was quite young. Or maybe I can play the piano well because I can type well? Anyway, I think there's some correlation in there.
I got a music minor, so kept playing through college, but definitely play less now. I've got an electronic keyboard in my basement that I've had for 10 years...just not the same though.
I use the regular Dvorak. I saw DDvorak at first, but it wasn't a built-in layout, so I figured I'd do Dvorak first and see how it goes. Maybe one day I'll get around to creating a DDvorak layout.
I also fear I'm too stupid to learn how to type by instruction. I tried that when I was little and didn't see much improvement, so I just kept looking at my hands; a few years later, I found I just didn't need to look anymore. And then I just got faster. Not the best lesson about hard work for me, there. "Don't worry, just wait and things will get better by magic!"
@Fosco I know, but I couldn't expand "don't bother with hard work, just rely on muscle memory" to any given topic as well as I could expand "don't bother with hard work, just rely on magic."
@PopularDemand So silly... it's not 'dont bother'... muscle memory takes repetition and dedication, which is hard work... you just couldn't expand on 'keep doing it'.. You're like my girlfriend: Lazy!
Hm, moving that C# discussion -- for lack of a better term -- into its own room did pretty much kill it off. At least, if you confuse causation and correlation, which I'm happy to do here solely because it justifies my comment.
I have questions about frozen chat rooms, and if there's a way to unfreeze them. Quick searches on meta don't turn up any questions... should I ask in the chat feedback room?
When making pasta, I often use small amounts of pasta water as an addition to sautes or to lengthen sauces. I have thought of saving more of the pasta water to refrigerate and use within 2 or 3 days, for say, a soup base or maybe as a light broth for cooking rice or bulgar wheat.
I'm wondering i...
What are these new categories of expressions?
The FCD (n3092) has an excellent description:
— An lvalue (so called, historically, because lvalues could appear on the
left-hand side of an assignment
expression) designates a function or
an object. [ Example: If E is an
expression o...
There are 112 questions on MSO tagged [faq], but only about half of them are listed on the main FAQ page. Is there any opposition to me doing some construction work on said main FAQ page?
I have serious reservations about a lot of those FAQ questions.
They are often confusing. Many of them have wildly splintered answers that are each upvoted.
Calling those an "answer" is arguably more unhelpful than no answer at all, because it makes it more clear that no matter what you do, you'll be wrong, according to some.
I've looked through them all once or twice. Contemplated adding one of my tragically long winded answers, and realized that I don't have the unanimous support that some of my colleagues here do. It shouldn't be me, I'm too divisive.
Someone post the meta question "why aren't you all argumentative enough?". With luck, everyone will disagree and we'll get in a big fight about who's the most argumentative
well, you learned something valuable then - not only does it make rolling back and editing easier, it allows you to leave revision comments on a rollback
There are two separate, distinct and very important pieces that have been intermingled here.
Are Usability Bugs Actually Bugs?
Is The Meta Community Receptive?
I'll handle them separately because they are wildly divergent. Although the second is actually an example of the first.
Are Usabili...
holy socks and trousers, this guy needs to be stopped!
I just had an occasion where someone reformatted the code in my question, not because it was ill-formatted, but to match his preferred style. I would have liked to be able to type a reason for rolling back the edits when I did so - could the ability to do that be added?
I originally posted this as an answer to The Great Tagging Reorg, but it was suggested I post it as it's own question.
With all the great work being done on sorting out the tags, we'll need to make the reasons (well reason) behind these changes clear so that people using the "old" format of tag ...
Hmm. Is there a thing where the accepted answer isn't shown at the top of the list if it's downvoted far enough? The OP accepted his own answer on that one but it's at -6, and it shows at the bottom of the list
I am not sure the [subjective] tag deserves to exist:
unlike [java] or [c#] or [ruby] it is a bit of a meta-tag, describing the tone of the question rather than the question itself.
it's possible to earn a gold or silver tag badge for [subjective] which feels entirely wrong
it counts toward the...
When we started Stack Overflow, we wanted to make sure that downvotes were more of a visual and psychological motivator than a punitive action. That's why
upvotes are +10
downvotes are -2, and cost the casting voter -1
However, recently, I've seen Marc Gravell and Jon Skeet both say similar ...
Stack Overflow has been wildly successful. And maybe in some ways too successful.
I am concerned that Stack Overflow is being inundated by a stream of low-quality questions from users who are accidentally poisoning our well -- by turning off and turning away the core answerers who do all the rea...
The [sql-server] tag info page isn't like the others: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server
I guess they're done by hand? You have to click the about link in order to get access to the stats/etc using the previous style navigation.
Put Lizards and Chameleons in your computer cabinet it will eat all of the spiders..
Pros :
1) No more spiders
2) No need to spend money on insect killer
3) No need to feed the Lizards and chameloens
Cons :
1) Now you have Lizards and Chameleons in your Cabinet that leaves behind poop
Considering this is from him. I doubt it was even serious
How much time till the question is closed and deleted ?
Related question in SF before my last (also wo warning and visible reason) ban was left unanswered:
http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/739/moderators-abusing-rules-closed
I have no clue why?
There was neither warnings nor notifications
Before the last ban in SF, MSF, I even did not...
What are these new categories of expressions?
The FCD (n3092) has an excellent description:
— An lvalue (so called, historically, because lvalues could appear on the
left-hand side of an assignment
expression) designates a function or
an object. [ Example: If E is an
expression o...
how to participate in the Stack overflow Testing team ?
There are two separate, distinct and very important pieces that have been intermingled here.
Are Usability Bugs Actually Bugs?
Is The Meta Community Receptive?
I'll handle them separately because they are wildly divergent. Although the second is actually an example of the first.
Are Usabili...
I just had an occasion where someone reformatted the code in my question, not because it was ill-formatted, but to match his preferred style. I would have liked to be able to type a reason for rolling back the edits when I did so - could the ability to do that be added?
The [sql-server] tag info page isn't like the others: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server
I guess they're done by hand? You have to click the about link in order to get access to the stats/etc using the previous style navigation.
Why do we need File names . What is the purpose of file names ??
