ARGH!!!! On 2009-04-22 I posted a SO question about an issue I was having... On 2009-05-09 I posted a comment to that question stating I had solved that issue. The issue has since returned, but I can't find the changes I made between those dates in my svn repo! Very, very frustrating
Time for a contest. It's a well-known fact that all the best taverns follow a specific naming convention. "The Brass Lantern," "The Prancing Pony," "The Drunken Clam," "The Mended Drum,"... they're all "The [Descriptor] [Noun]." Unfortunately, the tavern we're in isn't so blessed. I hereby challenge you to name it!
I am trying to learn jQuery & front-end technologies in general. Right now my point of focus is jQuery. The framework has some really awesome plugins. But at what point does one consider the need for considering a plugin an abuse (of the framework)?
For example I understand that trying to g...
I would have expected it to not re-fire since the previous revision already produced a beep. But I can see where that would be useful if someone edits in a "not" or something. Also I guess it would take more code to keep track of that.
@Shog9 I said "Go on..." because my brain took a while to process what I'd read properly. It soon caught up :-) I agree with you, but I've voted to close with the link I mentioned in my comment, purely so there are two dupes in the list if it gets closed.
Anyone else getting a couple of "Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance" pages every now and then. A refresh is fixing it, it's happened twice now though.
What are some good furniture offerings for those of us that sit around all day every day? I'm interested in chairs, desks, etc... Bonus points for posting images.
P.S. Is the GeekDesk really as great as Stack Overflow would have us believe? That's a lot of cheddar for an adjustable table.
I'm looking at the questions proposed during the Area 51 process:
My supervisor thinks that all If statements should include else statements. Do you agree?
What are common mistakes in Software Development?
Tabs vs. Spaces: What is the one proper indentation character for everything, in every si...
@rchern Go figure, that tool isn't available in that area. (I'm still accepting your answer as I didn't specify where the problem was and since I don't really care too much about it -- if I did I would be working on OpenStreetMap.)
Today at work I had a discussion with my co-workers and my boss about stateless/stateful beans (we just finished a project using JSF, it was the first time anyone at this company did something JSF related) and my boss said that he doesn't really like Session scoped beans (or even conversation/Kee...
@Fosco What's the harm in posting any bad question? Stealing attention from "real" questions, making the site look -- ever so slightly -- worse to outsiders who are considering participating here, tying up community members' time and effort in dealing with your question instead of helping with "real" questions.
ok then I'll just post it here so my time wasn't completely wasted.
In the vein of <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/99681/why-wont-tcl-die">this past question</a>:
I've been forced to look at and edit Java code more times than I'd like, and just can't wrap my head around why anyone uses this language.
I view the paradigm of "write once, run everywhere" as a failed utopia. It is always actualized as "write once, runs terribly everywhere." There's little reason in my book to accept a lesser performing product on your chosen platform, so that others are able to use their own platforms. Those other people are not my concern, and if the product i…
On the whole SE network, I've only once gained more than 200 rep in a day -- when balpha awarded me a +500 bounty on a question of mine where the only "serious" answer was mine
that's more appropriate on SO than on Chat. Here, you're supposed to leave wrong information available, so it can be properly mocked^H^H^H^H^H^Hcorrected
Ok now I know that the Stack Overflow system is designed well enough that you can have read only access even in Lynx. But what are the official browsers that the team supports that can use every feature of the site? Surely they have to draw the browser support line somewhere in the sand.
Anyone knows if it will be possible to buy StackOverflow T-Shirts at some point? I got one as part of the one-for-top-100-users thingy you guys did, but it will start to wear in time :P
Would be cool if the T-Shirt had an auto-updated screen where it showed your reputation. And it would sync your reputation every time you have WIFI available
btw, quick question how long does mortarboard takes to be given ?
So the greeter asks me what my shirt says and I explain it's C code... and all the tellers start talking about how they took C++ and how much they hated it
Which I don't understand, but whatever :-)
And the manager comes over and she's like, "Ohhh, that's baaad! They taught us to never use the do-while loop!"
...
It's not a do-while loop, it doesn't have a do!!
Then they look at the check which I printed on my computer and are all amazed that you can print a check off your home PC
The teller's like, "Wow, you can print your checks? It's amazing what technology can do!!!"
I started to do a side-job for this guy in NY, and he asked for my bank account and routing number to send me some motivation money. I politely declined.
The #2 work-around on that page (urlencoding the parens) works in comments. Firefox will do it for you if you copy the URL directly from the address bar.
Note that certain sites actually work better if you just strip the parenthetical portions out before posting anyway...
@Josh huh...I'd assume this has to do with the scale of things - after all, sending money account-to-account internationally is pretty expensive in Europe; but locally (I'd guess that would be "within a state" in the US context) it's cheap.
let me once again quote this chat's JavaScript code:
if ($.browser.msie)
// IE fires the onstorage event without giving the event handler access to the
// data, neither through the event object nor by updating the localStorage *before*
// calling the handler. Quoting MSDN:
// "Internet Explorer fires events when data in a storage area is updated, so
// that information can synchronized between multiple instances of the browser or tabs."
// Yeah, right.
window.setInterval(function() {
@balpha I've done that a few times. It's cheaper than Western Union, but not by a whole lot... and it's horribly inconvenient. It's actually faster to set up a PayPal account in some cases...
@Shog9 if you give someone the permission to draw money from your account, and they do, you have 6 weeks to object to that withdrawal -- in which case they have to prove
@balpha I'm just curious - I've never played with that event, so hadn't run into the bug... but it sounds like the sort of thing that shows up in a number of Windows APIs; someone put the callback too soon, and tested it by setting a flag or something. The sort of thing that makes WinINET hell.
I am trying to learn jQuery & front-end technologies in general. Right now my point of focus is jQuery. The framework has some really awesome plugins. But at what point does one consider the need for considering a plugin an abuse (of the framework)?
For example I understand that trying to g...
What are some good furniture offerings for those of us that sit around all day every day? I'm interested in chairs, desks, etc... Bonus points for posting images.
P.S. Is the GeekDesk really as great as Stack Overflow would have us believe? That's a lot of cheddar for an adjustable table.
I'm looking at the questions proposed during the Area 51 process:
My supervisor thinks that all If statements should include else statements. Do you agree?
What are common mistakes in Software Development?
Tabs vs. Spaces: What is the one proper indentation character for everything, in every si...
Ok now I know that the Stack Overflow system is designed well enough that you can have read only access even in Lynx. But what are the official browsers that the team supports that can use every feature of the site? Surely they have to draw the browser support line somewhere in the sand.
The #2 work-around on that page (urlencoding the parens) works in comments. Firefox will do it for you if you copy the URL directly from the address bar.
Note that certain sites actually work better if you just strip the parenthetical portions out before posting anyway...
