Comments on Stack Exchange sites have always been a second class citizen as far as the overall goal of getting people the information that they want quickly. They are useful for asking for additional information, gently nudging someone into asking a better question or perhaps even a twist of humo...

Girls. You may think I am joking but I am not. Don't go mad or anything, you still need to learn the academic stuff. But you also need to spend some time learning about the people, from the people around you. That includes the half of humanity who have completely different interests and attitu...

This question is similar to Which SE site has the longest name? but regarding tag titles. Is there any quick way to determine the longest tag titles? Also, is there any length limit on tag titles? I'm designing a UI and this info would help me to eliminate some boundary cases...

When talking to another programmer I would refer to ( and ) as parentheses. I would refer to [ and ] as brackets. What do you refer to { and } as? I checked the wikipedia article and there were several names listed: curly brackets squiggly brackets definite brackets swirly brackets birdie brac...

Right now 10k users on any given site can see flags from chat. The idea here, is that the 10k'ers will see the flags and then add their own to make the offensive content go away. However, if a user views the flags and decides that they are not flag worthy, the notification stays in the chat win...

I haven't visited Meta Stack Overflow in quite some time. A while ago, I received new comments. So the banner announced this upon login. However, when I click the link there's nothing to show because updates older than 90 days are not shown.

I'm going to make an userscript for chat which replaces Flash sound notifications with HTML5 ones. Are there any better solutions, or I need to poll document.title every second or so?