If I post something as a comment, it's because I want it to be a comment. Either I haven't tested it, don't want to put the effort into fleshing it out, or can't be certain enough about what the asker wants to do more than speculate.
Right! If you want to take that and make something out of it, you're more than welcome to. In fact, if you want to take an actual answer and post a better one based on it, you're welcome to that as well.
SO is all about improvement. The bastards who would rather stifle it to keep rep or attribution consistent with some definition of "fair" aren't doing anyone any favors.
Well, the flip side of this is editing existing answers rather than posting new ones. I'm quite fond of this... but some people are rather protective of their stuff. So sadly, you've gotta just hold back at times.
A week ago or so, I edited a 'english as a third language' post to make sense... the changes got rolled back by the author. That can be pretty frustrating.
@Fosco Especially when it's one of those really, really long messes that has something reasonable buried deep inside, and you gotta spend serious time digging to find it.
@Fosco I don't know why I do, but apparently I do :-)
So would you guys think, in this scenario, it would be appropriate to post the comment as CW to the original author could then edit it, or would just as @Shog9 suggested, post it normally and delete it if the original author posted his?
I just thought of something else that'll make me torch my answer to that, but wanted to confirm. Does Google index comments? I seem to remember a post at some point saying it doesn't.
@The Unhandled Yeah, his comment made me laugh. Then all of a sudden I had 6 downvotes within about 2 minutes (not that I give a rip...). Still makes me laugh though.
@devinb, well when I left here last, it was called the tavern, and was about to be named the Foo Bar (by democratic process), now it's called the Tavern of Insanity (strangely appropriate given the present company...)
Not really a bug. It's still the Enthusiast badge. It's just that the image of the badge itself has been sponsored by the woot!
They may have the face, but they haven't got the bones.
> Anything that confuses a user is a bug. Either in the UI or in the user.
It deals with the transformation of an information system --> decision based system. We have a database full of information and numbers. We put that info in a meaningful form (graphs/charts), add some statistics (control charts, limits, etc.), and whammy, we have a much more meaningful data set that we have statistical information on, which we can make much more informed decisions based on the statistical trends and conditions. It uses part of Statistical Process Control (SPC).
@devinb: Yah, it more of a thesis/project so to say. You have an option on which way you would like to go. My project is with a private company and my paper uses that project as a basis and explanation of its usefulness and significance.
If I understand correctly, there will soon be a chat.stackoverflow.com... It's just because it's only just now leaving beta... From the blog post where chat was announced:
This is a permanent public beta,
meaning chat is now live on one site
in our network … forever. We plan to
roll out...
@devinb Yah, I would be doing that if it was a pure research thesis. Haha. I do some comparisons with other papers and styles of information. Looking forward to just being done with all and getting my defense over with.
@devinb Thank you for the generous offer. However, you tend to find a lot of those kinds of people in higher education programs. So, I think I am covered.
@PiersMyers I have seen both use over a gb before. Right now, safari in os x is sitting at ~380mb with about 17 tabs open. I have not been using it that long though.
@JoePhillips: opera in particular lets me navigate with right-click+scroll (showing list of titles + thumbnail), I have a plugin for chrome that similarly gives a handy title list
Well, I have my SE window: SO+MSO+(4 betas * 2)+ 2 chat + blog + area51. Then I have my general browser window which has 10 tabs. Then I've got about 5 tabs in my "Financial" window...App shortcuts count too: Facebook, gmail, Work's outlook exchange, etc, etc, etc. I have TooManyTabs extension and gleeBox is an absolute dream aside from tab management.
@Troggy They keep teasing us with "Win7 some time this fall, and only a 64-bit image". I try to get some test machines to test our apps against and all I get is crickets...
@Gnome, I am a keyboard shortcut fanatic (ask @balpha and @marc, I was constantly asking for shortcuts...and still they'd be nice) and just discovered it a couple weeks ago.
Pretty much my only issue with it is the tab manager is current window only. TooManyTabs is any tab in any window. I am hoping gleeBox adds my suggestion of making that an option.
Not really a bug. It's still the Enthusiast badge. It's just that the image of the badge itself has been sponsored by the woot!
They may have the face, but they haven't got the bones.
How about
myVar = !myVar
?
If I understand correctly, there will soon be a chat.stackoverflow.com... It's just because it's only just now leaving beta... From the blog post where chat was announced:
This is a permanent public beta,
meaning chat is now live on one site
in our network … forever. We plan to
roll out...
