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drachenstern

12:00 AM

That would probably cause @RebeccaChernoff to show up and go >_<

Zypher

yes, how silly of me we shouldn't ping @RebeccaChernoff

pinging @RebeccaChernoff would ben wrong

drachenstern

I agree. Let's not ping @RebeccaChernoff right now.

Moshe

►

The Santa Monica SO meetup with le Atwood.

Rebecca Chernoff

good gawd you people!

Zypher

ahhh that explains the rockband ... @RebeccaChernoff should use this picuture

drachenstern

12:02 AM

@Zypher I don't think she liked us pinging her for no good reason ...

I'm lmaoing

Rebecca Chernoff

I was on a Skype call and all I heard were these frakking chat sounds.

Moshe

@RebeccaChernoff It wasn't me, but once you're here. Would this qualify for an open source ad?

drachenstern

Well see there's the problem. I have all my chat sounds turned off.

Rebecca Chernoff

does it fit with the criteria in the oss post on MSO?

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff you don't really expect @Moshe to have checked into it first and ... searched do you?

Zypher

12:03 AM

hides

drachenstern

@Zypher Yeah, I'm about to leave now too :p I've gotta go walk the dog and fix dinner so I can be back at 8 for a special sermon

Zypher

the people on the train are looking at me like i'm crazy

Moshe

@drachenstern :P I looked, but I dunno...

Rebecca Chernoff

@Zypher and you find this odd...why?

Moshe

@Zypher Well... Are they right?

Zypher

12:05 AM

@RebeccaChernoff sadly i don't ... @Moshe probably

Moshe

Anyone wanna be closer #5 on this one?

0

Q: Can developers access user identifiable information from their iPhone app downloads? How about Android phones?

When users download iPhone apps, can developers gain access to user identifiable information (e.g., full name, email address, iTunes account)? How about Android app downloads? We believe the answer is no, but just wanted to verify the privacy policies on the respective platforms. So developers...

Jacob

12:27 AM

hmm

Ugh I really wish I had some money about now

Adam Davis

Is it just me, or are more and more decisions being made within stack exchange inc without community participation than out in the open?

George Marian

@AdamDavis I for one welcome our now VC overlords... ;)

Adam Davis

Sure, it's a company, and some things need attention, and some things must be done outside the public eye, but it seems like a few big proposals and recent changes that received a lot of community flak has convinced SEI that it's better to simply do the work than sit down with the community and hash it out.

@GeorgeMarian Heh. It's a mixed blessing for any company.

Jacob

@AdamDavis Well lets see

Tim Stone

@AdamDavis I blame them hiring half of the community. But no, more seriously, I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

Jacob

12:40 AM

Lots of money vs no money

I call that a win

though I don't even know how SE is profitable

at all

Adam Davis

@TimStone For instance, Jeff's last comment on meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86165/…

Essentially says, "We're not following through with this proposal, we're no longer going to talk to the community about it, and we are implementing something that is going to perform a similar function."

Jacob

@AdamDavis I'm not even sure why they'd do that

Rebecca Chernoff

No. It means that internally, we're back to the drawing board.

George Marian

@AdamDavis Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness then permission. :)

Rebecca Chernoff

> We are reevaluating this based on community feedback. The new heuristic to prevent questions being asked will probably be based on a combination of question closes, question deletes, question flags, and lack of significant upvoting, even at very low levels (0.20 etc) -- scoped to new-ish users.

Adam Davis

12:43 AM

> This solution will be on a need to know basis now; unless you're getting blocked by it, you don't need to know about it.

Jacob

Bye bye community driven

Adam Davis

There's nothing particularly sensitive about it, so the only reason not to discuss it publicly is to avoid confrontation.

There is the problem that the community is not privy to the data that SEI has, so we can't possibly know enough to make the best choice, but that doesn't mean that the statistics that are driving the decisions can't be published and the resulting decisions discussed. Except it takes a lot of work, and the only thing SEI gets back from the community is flak about it.

So it just gives a very strong impression of a widening gulf. It's not a bad thing - it's just how things are going to have to operate in order for SEI to make significant progress in the direction they intend to go.

Mark Elliot

@AdamDavis I don't mean to enter this conversation; but isn't that data available via the dumps?

Adam Davis

I'm just yammering, feel free to butt in with anything.

Jacob

Eh

Adam Davis

12:48 AM

@MarkElliot The data on flags, closed questions, etc is not available.

Jacob

I still have to figure out how I can pay for this server

Mark Elliot

@AdamDavis is there a reason for that?

Adam Davis

And this particular issue requires knowledge of at least that information.

Jacob

but I have to get it because its like hell yeah in a 2U form factor

Adam Davis

Deleted questions are not part of the corpus, and some are deleted due to sensitive information. Therefore they are not released as part of the data dump.

There's a bunch of discussions on that on meta.

Mark Elliot

12:50 AM

@AdamDavis ok -- idle curiosity satisfied

Adam Davis

Obviously I'm turning into a grumpy old man.

Mark Elliot

I'm curious what kinds of things we can teach an ML algo to pick up from the SO data

Adam Davis

Then again, it's Spring again. Perhaps I just need to turn leechblock back on and come back in the fall like I did last year. If things are irritating me it means I've become too involved...

Jacob

@AdamDavis whaaaambulance dispatched.

Mark Elliot

but haven't had time to mess around with it

anyone played with the data dumps?

it'd be pretty neat if we could train something to automatically recognize tags

Jacob

12:53 AM

@MarkElliot nope

@MarkElliot as in?

Tim Stone

@MarkElliot I think people need to write coherent questions for that first. ;)

Mark Elliot

@TimStone actually, that'd be a key indicator

I'd be willing to be most people using PHP use a particular diction

and people using perl something quite different

Tim Stone

@AdamDavis Yeah, people seem to have an issue with actually discussing things lately, heh. A lot of bitching.

Mark Elliot

@TimStone humbug!

Adam Davis

@TimStone I suspect one part of the problem is that Meta, once a cozy hive of crazy, has grown along with stackoverflow, and so there are a lot more opinionated people. It's hard to have a good coherent discussion in a stadium packed with 5,000 slightly crazy users.

Jacob

12:56 AM

@AdamDavis and some system admins.../

Adam Davis

@MarkElliot I'd be surprised if people using a particular language could be discerned by diction. You should parse the data dump and find out!

Mark Elliot

@AdamDavis did you know you can tell news from non-news the same way?

authorship too

Adam Davis

@Jacob The really crazy sysadmins hang out in meta.serverfault.

Jacob

@AdamDavis We visit Meta.so...

Mark Elliot

@AdamDavis unfortunately I need two things to hack on the data dump: time and resources, eventually...

Jacob

12:58 AM

speaking of meta.so

you'll be able to use that in about 5 minutes

Tim Stone

@AdamDavis Definitely. Faced with that, I'd be inclined to just back away and handle things myself every now and then too.

Adam Davis

Anywho, I'm procrastinating a deadline. Good morning! And if I don't see you again, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

Tim Stone

Ah, happy working!

Adam Davis

@TimStone Yep. It's Stack Exchange Inc's own "eternal september" of sorts.

'night all.

Jacob

@AdamDavis night

Mark Elliot

1:02 AM

0

Q: Understanding Spring AOP

I am working with Spring 3.0 framework and still a novice. Can anyone explain me in layman terms what is AOP programming? (a short example will definitely help) How does Spring incorporate/enhance/support it?

java spring aop

I really want to point this guy to the manual, only because Spring's manuals are freakin' awesome

but I don't want to sound like I'm RTFMing

Jakub Hampl

ant2009

109 4 30 74

c c# pointers emacs c++ svn malloc

drachenstern

@AdamDavis be good

Jakub Hampl

How come this guy has a 40 upvote question and only 109 rep?

Mark Elliot

ok to say this?
> [Spring's manuals](http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/aop.html) are really awesome, and I'd encourage you to take a look.

drachenstern

@JakubHampl because he asked a good question?

Jakub Hampl

1:04 AM

But isn't 40 * 5 = 200?

Mark Elliot

@drachenstern 40 upvotes = 200 rep

Tim Stone

@JakubHampl Well, he's put up 6 500 rep bounties (along with some others)

drachenstern

@MarkElliot oh, well that's a silly question.

Mark Elliot

@JakubHampl something to do with his bounty? stackoverflow.com/users/70942/ant2009?tab=reputation

Jakub Hampl

@MarkElliot Oh missed that button, thanks.

Mark Elliot

1:05 AM

@JakubHampl yeah, if you're interested in some amusing rep history look at Jon Skeet ;)

ughoavgfhw

@MarkElliot I think that would make a good comment, but it doesn't have enough substance for an answer

George Marian

Visualized: jousting on a Segway

Mark Elliot

@ughoavgfhw I'm trying not to write an RTFM comment

it never crossed my mind to post that as an answer

@GeorgeMarian yay darwinism!

ughoavgfhw

@MarkElliot Then you should be good. The "are really awesome" part pretty much makes it sound less RTFM.

George Marian

@MarkElliot LOL

Tim Stone

1:09 AM

@GeorgeMarian Ahahaha :D

George Marian

It's an ad for the WA lottery. Goes well with @drachenstern comment the other day about the well-off in human society spending their time trying to kill themselves.

Tim Stone

Hopefully they made sure there weren't any cliffs nearby.

George Marian

ROFL

Tim Stone

In other news, this description continues to amuse me:

> The padding problem is especially noticeable in certain applications. Rhythmbox, for example, looks like what you would get if the giant marshmallow man from the Ghostbusters movie wiped its fluffy white rear end on iTunes.

George Marian

nice

It's fairly accurate, though iTunes itself is also rather fluffy.

ughoavgfhw

1:12 AM

It looks like they're pretty safe from cliffs, but the umbrella in the background suggests they probably shouldn't be wearing metals suits. It would be interesting if they got rusted in.

Tim Stone

That reminds me, I used to have a suit of armour in my house.

I wasn't a winner of the Washington lottery though, so no Segway for jousting.

ughoavgfhw

@TimStone I think the proper way to do it without a Segway is to get on a skateboard and be pulled behind a car.

Of course, you also have to make sure the cars don't crash, or it won't be as fun

Tim Stone

Not to mention the chances of one of the cars running over you

George Marian

Meh, there's no need for cars.

ughoavgfhw

Plus it's even worse if there are cliffs around, because if your car goes over it pulls you with it.

George Marian

1:19 AM

Seeing who can build up more momentum would be part of the challenge.

Jacob

@drachenstern Are you here?

drachenstern

@Jacob most likely

Jacob

@drachenstern You should go in SF chat and help Wesley :)

really?

Wesley wanted to be banned not us

drachenstern

@Jacob The request was made.

Additionally:

Mark Elliot

is there a grepcode for the std C libraries?

drachenstern

1:32 AM

in The Comms Room on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 9 mins ago, by drachenstern

It sounds as though you all want to be banned from chat.SE so I'm considering just kickbanning all of you

in The Comms Room on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 10 mins ago, by drachenstern

Give me a compelling reason to not ban all of you for an hour?

Thems the problems with begging a mod to come over for kickbanning purposes

Jacob

@drachenstern Wesley said he needed a mod

but ok

mootinator

Where's your banhammer now @drachenstern?

drachenstern

@mootinator I've never claimed to be a mod here, but I can summon one myself ;)

mootinator

Bahaha.

drachenstern

@Shog9 can you step over here?

Jacob

1:42 AM

Hey everyone meta.so works

I'm setting up chat.meta.so now

@YOU want to update your question to say that it now works?

drachenstern

but not to meta.so/questions/86143/hey-so-wont-you-take-meta-so-domain ... you should totally fix that

Jacob

@drachenstern I set it to redirect, I'm not even sure how to do that on IIS

drachenstern

@Jacob you would need to use a server side script oriented approach ... a bit of programming, as it were.

Jacob

@drachenstern That gives me an idea

drachenstern

@Jacob That's what I do.

Greg Sansom

1:52 AM

Is anyone around who can spare an invite to careers.stackoverflow.com? I feel I should qualify for an account based on my SO contribution, but the automated system won't talk to me!

Alexandre Jasmin

@Jacob Have you tried this xoc.net/works/tips/domain.asp ? Haven't tyred it myself.

drachenstern

@GregSansom I'm thinking that you don't understand what the criteria are ...

How's this, can you give me a very compelling reason to give you an invite?

Greg Sansom

@drachenstern you're right - I've looked but it seems the criteria is not public...

Jacob

@GregSansom Don't answer, he'll ban you.

mootinator

@GregSansom If you can't give @drachenstern a very good reason, I accept bribes.

drachenstern

1:56 AM

@Jacob I don't have banhammer powers on this server

Jacob

@drachenstern You'd find a way

Greg Sansom

well I'm not going to suck anything out of a hose in a dark alley if that's what you mean

3

drachenstern

@GregSansom lmao, that's not what I mean.

Jacob

@drachenstern you should give him one for that

mootinator

@GregSansom Is that considered a bribe.

drachenstern

1:58 AM

@Jacob I don't think that would be a good encouragement

mootinator

Incidentally I do happen to know where I can get an HO scale model train.

drachenstern

@mootinator but do you have any frozen seafood?

Greg Sansom

@drachenstern check my profile - stackoverflow.com/users/503969/greg-sansom. It's not brilliant but I think it shows I'm not a bot and confirms I'm providing value to the community.

drachenstern

@GregSansom yeah. That's not really a compelling reason to want a careers.SO profee tho ...

I'm only asking you to put a little effort into it. You're gonna need to when you goto set it up anyways.

mootinator

@drachenstern says... "dance"

Greg Sansom

2:02 AM

@mootinator: lol that's what it seems like

drachenstern

@mootinator lol, shush you :p

Jacob

@drachenstern well, he could just import from linked in

drachenstern

@Jacob that's not even close to enough. I can see you don't have a profile there either

@TylerChacha !!

Tyler Chacha

Decided to add my entire shares feed to the home page of my blog..

chacha102.com

@drachenstern What?

drachenstern

@TylerChacha nothin

just hey

Jacob

2:04 AM

@drachenstern on careers?

drachenstern

You don't know Cheers huh?

Tyler Chacha

I've heard of it

drachenstern

@Jacob well if you did you would know that doing that doesn't give a lot of benefit

You still have to go back and add tags and descriptions and edit everything for markdown

Jacob

@drachenstern I do... I don't use linked in though

Tyler Chacha

@drachenstern Refresh your page

mootinator

2:05 AM

Ima send my wife a careers invite. She's an IT tech with no formal training who doesn't use SF or SU.

YOU

@Jacob, I think adding "I've now redirecting meta.so to meta.stackoverflow.com" in your answer isn't better?

mootinator

Just to be annoying.

Tyler Chacha

@drachenstern And don't make me regret giving you italics..

drachenstern

@TylerChacha ah, that would be why then ...

Finally! I can unstar crap! Now to use this ability responsibly

It sucks having it on chat.SE and not on chat.MSO

Tyler Chacha

I'm feeling nice today. I wish it would stop.

Jacob

2:10 AM

@drachenstern I have the strangest feeling I'll be banned...

drachenstern

hahahaha, can I do that now? :\

Jacob

@drachenstern I think so

Tyler Chacha

@Jacob If there was a ban ability, you'd have been banned like a month ago..

drachenstern

noop

Jacob

@drachenstern You'll just extend it on chat.SE

drachenstern

2:12 AM

@Jacob noop

Tyler Chacha

I need food

Jacob

@drachenstern cool

drachenstern

@TylerChacha well, unless you like fermented wheat ... this is not the place for food

Jacob

@drachenstern I see what you did there.

Tyler Chacha

@Jacob We all saw what he did there...

Jacob

2:14 AM

@TylerChacha LIES!

Tyler Chacha

chacha102.com/thanks

I

I've been cleaning up my resume, careers.stackoverflow.com/chacha102, along with my Github account, github.com/chacha

I'm still thrilled that I got to github.com/chacha before the weird people over at chacha.com..

not that they really contribute anything to open source... or the world..

drachenstern

@TylerChacha looking good

Tyler Chacha

0

A: New badge idea: Victor

How about No?

Jacob

@TylerChacha solid diplomacy there +1 Good sir

Alexandre Jasmin

2:30 AM

@Jacob Any luck with the redirect thing?

George Edison

@TylerChacha: You get the dancing unicorns!

Jacob

@AlexandreJasmin It works, but only to the homepage

Tyler Chacha

I love Meta :)

Alexandre Jasmin

I love unicorns

George Edison

You can see them every time you upvote / downvote a question if you install my script!

6

Q: Unicorn Voting - Bringing the Joy of April 1 All Year 'Round!

About They're back! Although they were created for April 1st, you can now enjoy them throughout the whole year! Simply install this UserScript and commence upvoting and downvoting. License The Unicorn Software License Download This script is available as a UserScript: http://files.qui...

script voting unicorn

Alexandre Jasmin

2:34 AM

@GeorgeEdison Yes I saw them on April 1st. Thanks

George Edison

...and you don't want to see them again!?!?

Alexandre Jasmin

Sure I do ;-)

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison AWEEEEEEEEEYEEEEEEEE

@GeorgeEdison why do you come up with such awesome scripts?

George Edison

@Jacob That one didn't take much work.

Shog9

2:50 AM

@drachenstern WHAAAT?

mootinator

@TylerChacha How about a badge for a meta post which has a decent positive score which promptly goes negative after Jeff Atwood criticizes it. We could call it "Trampled by Sheep"

drachenstern

@Shog9 oh sure, now you show up. I wanted you to assist in a kickban earlier, but now it's no fun ...

Shog9

@drachenstern Ah. I was down by the river, cooking hotdogs, and reading The Chat Cast.

...mostly cooking hotdogs.

drachenstern

lol

Shog9

But hey, I can still kickban you, if you're in a masochistic mood.

mootinator

2:52 AM

He is.

drachenstern

I always am. I wasn't the one that wanted kickbanning (they all did over in comms room) but I hear Jacob is

Shog9

That was distinctly less impressive than I expected it to be.

mootinator

Needs moar avatar explody or squishy effect.

Fake joebloggs99

GWAAAR!

Hum.

Shog9

BLARGH!

'k, 'nuff playing around.

Why the hell does Feeds show up when something gets flag-deleted?

YOU

3:03 AM

Nice name @Feeds

mootinator

FEEDS HUNGRY

Jacob

@drachenstern Feel free to ban me again, I'm off to do stuff

:)

drachenstern

See, that's no fun

Jacob

@drachenstern I know

Tyler Chacha

Well, I'm glad I got my new badge :)

Jacob

3:15 AM

@TylerChacha new badge?

Tyler Chacha

@Jacob I got a 10-point badge for the answer

George Marian

Mmmm....Facebook open source computer porn

George Edison

4:22 AM

@Jacob: Are you around?

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison yep

whats up?

George Edison

I have a new version of the FHC script.

I just have to make a couple quick adjustments.

mootinator

^_^

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison ok

what might the changes be?

George Edison

Support for other SE sites.

Jacob

4:26 AM

@GeorgeEdison AWESOME

George Edison

pastebin.com/8sDXyE7y

^---- There they are.

That just replaces the old process.php

On top of everything, it's backwards compatible with the old script.

mootinator

Sweet.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison Server Side is green

George Edison

Okay... I just checked.

It's working on SuperUser.

I'll try a few other sites to make sure it's working on them.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison Can we get the new script please?

:)

George Edison

4:28 AM

Thanks again.

Jacob

I'll beta it :)

@GeorgeEdison Not a Problem

George Edison

I'll get it out to you as soon as possible.

Tyler Chacha

I've watched so many TED talks in the past few hours..

Jacob

If you need hosting for anything else, let me know

George Edison

Still need to patch a couple of things.

Tyler Chacha

4:29 AM

Really is a cool group of people

mootinator

Wow.

The satellite is acting up again.

Tyler Chacha

mootinator

I'm sure glad the tech is coming back on the 20th to do the job he was supposed to yesterday.</sarc>

George Edison

@Jacob Seems to be working alright on everything but Ask Ubuntu.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison thats ok :) I don't visit ask Ubuntu

George Edison

4:43 AM

@Jacob It's not really that it even doesn't work there.

...it just has some weird CSS that's messing up the brush.

I think I'll release it now.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison ah, cool

George Edison

files.quickmediasolutions.com/userscripts/circles.user.js

^--- The new version.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison awesome

Moshe

Can anyone confirm that this music video is footage from lord of the rings?

►

@GeorgeEdison what does your script do?

Oh actually, I see.

(is on iOS)

Jacob

good here

George Edison

4:46 AM

@Moshe It allows inline image annotations on any SE site.

In other words, you can edit images from your browser.

mootinator

@Moshe Yes.

Two towers even I think

Moshe

Oh cool.

@Jacob it's in German you might enjoy/learn from it.

Michael Mrozek

I think it's all three, but I'm not sure

Moshe

Why is the GreasePocket project invisible? Seems dead and gone to me...

Looks like they were trying to add a full featured userscript API.

Thanks folks. Have a good night.

George Edison

51

Q: StackExchange™ SuperCollider Freehand Circle™ Editor - [Now supported on EVERY StackExchange site!]

Important: All SE sites (with one exception - see below) are now supported. Please upgrade to the latest version to enjoy this wonderful new feaure! A special thank you to Jacob Jernigan for donating space and bandwidth to host the images generated by this script. Please...

script meta fun

2

Moshe

5:01 AM

@GeorgeEdison how does one invoke the toolbox?

George Edison

@Moshe Just hover over an image and a link should popup asking if you want to edit it.

^----- Example.

Moshe

I want tap support please just so I can play with it on iOS.

George Edison

@Moshe: Can you install UserScripts on iOS?

Moshe

@georgeEdison no. But I'm working on it.

:-)

George Edison

You're working on what?

Moshe

5:08 AM

Http://github.com/mosheberman/fahrii

George Edison

Whoa! That's pretty neat.

Moshe

But. @GeorgeEdison I tested your script:

Totally not finished but I got the tool box to show. Hehe.

George Edison

0

Q: Unnecessary CSS property causing all manner of problems for UserScripts

The CSS for both Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu Meta contains a useless CSS value. (When I say useless, I mean that it doesn't affect the page at all if removed.) As you can see, the .container for the page contains the CSS style position: relative; and I have no idea why because none of the other ...

bug css

Moshe

@GeorgeEdison use JS to overwrite it. I did the same for my minimaloverflow script.

I actually had an HTML element modified once for a script. Hang on.

@GeorgeEdison:

5

Q: Minimalist Style shouldn't include " - Stack Exchange" in the title.

On the SE sites, there have always been fancy logos that fit the theme. However, the new mobile theme hides them and shows alternate text. The text has contained the site name and then " - StackExchange". I assume that this is for SEO purposes but on sites like "English Language & Usage", thi...

feature-request status-completed title mobile-design

Well not an entire element.

But yea. You just have to ask.

mootinator

Heh. Just had the best poker hand ever.

drachenstern

5:17 AM

heh. why am I still up? time to rememdy that

mootinator

It's like they all just handed me chips.

I need to get out of this game & sleep also

Night folks.

Night

Night everyone

6:53 AM

@Jin woah a bacon fragrance

Jin

@Reno yeah seen it

Yi Jiang

7:06 AM

Oooo... look, Singapore is second on that visits per country population list. Quickly, lets kill off some people so that we can be first!

Fosco

7:34 AM

Yi Jiang

0

Q: Why tasks in Microsoft Project turned red?

Hi, I noticed that tasks in my MS Project in Gantt view turned red, out of my control. Can you help to explain what might happen? Chris

microsoft project tasks

SU material?

Also, what's 'Gantt view'?

balpha

Gantt chart

A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project. Some Gantt charts also show the dependency (i.e., precedence network) relationships between activities. Gantt charts can be used to show current schedule status using percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line as shown here. Although now regarded as a common charting technique, Gantt charts were consi...

Yi Jiang

8:03 AM

Weird, how did the 'possible duplicate' comment not get autodeleted here?

-1

Q: How big is an Object? Why is there no sizeof?

Possible Duplicates: In Java, what is the best way to determine the size of an object? sizeof java object C has a sizeof operator, and it needs to have one, because the user has to manage calls to malloc, and because the size of primitive types (like long) is not standardized. But in...

java interview-questions

YOU

8:19 AM

because there is no "possible"?

Yi Jiang

9:41 AM

@YOU No, any comment containing the link to the dupe will be automatically removed AFAIK

YOU

10:20 AM

1

A: Auto "possible duplicate of" comment not deleted after question got closed.

Hmm. Does look like a bug, but I can't reproduce it locally. When I tag a question with a duplicate, then close it as duplicate, the comments are always deleted. A few things to be aware of, for auto-deletion of these comments to work: question must be closed with final close reason of [exact ...

- question must be closed with final close reason of [exact duplicate]
- comments must start with "possible duplicate of", exactly
- comments must not have been edited

I don't know if those rules are changed though @YiJiang