Allows one to use the tab key on StackOverflow, Codereview.SE, and Programmers.SE in the editbox.
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Hit tab in an edit box. Instead of defocusing, the literal ta will be in...
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I'm developing a web application using Facebook as an authentication service. Today, there was a service outage of the Facebook JavaScript SDK API.
The http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js script, which provides the API, couldn't be loaded by the client because the DNS entry for connect.face...
Yeah, like they're going to admit when they go down.
The thing is, for this particular incident I witnessed, their servers seemed to be OK but they screwed up the DNS so connect.facebook.com couldn't be reached.
@Potatoswatter What you're essentially asking for is a service level agreement from Facebook. I doubt they provide one. And nobody else can give you a reliable one for them.
@Potatoswatter That's almost like asking how often earthquakes happen, except we don't have thousands of Facebook-tologists toiling day and night for years trying to find out when the next Facebook outage will happen
The question is one step away from ending with the word, "Discuss." Which is often a clear indicator that the question isn't a good fit for Stack Exchange.
Or general articles about web development using such online platforms. There should be some literature on the subject!
@YiJiangsProble_ Anyone running a website that depends on facebook connect has server logs that tell them when facebook is down. And likely also takes notes on how many days out of the year it happens. So I have to disagree with that.
Again, I'm new to web development, but it's also useful data to me if no responsible person runs a website like that.
Which is why I think it's on-topic for Programmers. It comes down to "is this a responsible thing to do?"
I'm sure it would be useful information but someone's log files may not be conclusive. The log file would only contain errors when users attempted to perform actions, or everytime a cron job was executed...
@Potatoswatter In that case, the question could be re-asked perhaps on Webmasters (check the FAQ first), but would need to be re-worded. Right now the question distracts from the information you're looking for. Too much time is spent talking about the inconvenience of a recent outage. What you want to ask is much simpler... "Has any source online compiled statistics of the outages and downtimes of major web services? Facebook's downtime, for example?"
Web development is the domain of SO. I think, if it doesn't belong on Programmers, it belongs on SO proper. And I think I understand the SO domain pretty well.
Well, ironically asking in moderator chat provided a rather ideal answer: facebook.com/feeds/api_messages.php is a live feed of service outages, including the one I saw, going back a few months. It includes one other such disruption. So, it would appear that such things happen roughly once a month. The dearth of other information indicates that FB Connect isn't taken seriously as a mission-critical platform… so that's exactly I need, although it was also the justification for not migrating it. Please, mods, transparency! — Potatoswatter37 secs ago
I was under the impression that there's a chatroom where they congregate while moderating. But on second thought that might be invisible to us non-moderators.
Anyway there are at least a couple in this room now.
I just came across this question thanks to the posse room. According to its revisions page, it was locked by Community when it was closed, but there's no lock banner on the main question page. Bug, or normal behavior for a community lock? (I don't think I've ever seen a community lock before.)
status-completed... sort of.
It's now possible to reject a migration, but rather than making this some special mod-only thing or yet another privilege/task you have to familiarize yourself with, it's instead a function of closing/deleting.
If a migrated question is closed on the destination (mi...
I'm currently writing a small desktop application for a friend, but I'm doing it primarily as a learning experience for myself. In the spirit of getting educated and doing things The Right Way, I want to have version numbers for this app.
My research brought up these related results
What &quo...
I usually try to code the same way as existing code, but I can't bring myself to use .removeAttr('disabled') instead of .prop('disabled', false) just because it's shorter.
@jadarnel27 I find him 80% annoying and 20% hilarious.
It's supposed to be 90 degrees F high here today and I'm running a space heater because my feet are cold.
At any rate, the temperature is supposed to go up a lot today.
In Canada we call 80 "Holy crap it's hot." and 90 "I know it's only like this for one day a year, but we should drop several thousand dollars on central air anyway."
firefox-3 (85)
firefox-5 (36)
firefox-6 (1)
firefox-8 (2)
but
firefox2 (12)
firefox3 (1)
firefox3.5 (40)
firefox3.6 (111)
firefox4 (203)
firefox6 (21)
and so on!
I propose to use well-used dashed-form for versions.
Currently when you edit a question and change tags, the tags list to the right doesn't become synchronized. At least on SO using FF10.
So only page reload updates the list. Please fix that.
Original question asker posts comment saying answer produces error.
I downvote answer.
Answerer REVISES answer, with correct answer (since then, question has now been answered by the same correct answer that this person revised his to be.)
I have this statement:
Select p_name, p_size
from Part
ORDER by p_size
So, now I want display only the 6 biggest values.
How can I do This with the IBM DB2?
thx
@LynnCrumbling If the answer has genuinely been improved, go ahead and remove the downvote. The votes should reflect the current state of the answer (in an ideal world).
Note also that you are always within your rights to vote as you see fit. And you are never required to respond to a "Downvoter???" comment if you don't want to.
I find it hard to believe that two people would come up with that identical answer (down to the capitalization) separately. The answer provides minimal additional value, and the Wikipedia link could easily be added to the other answer as a comment.
@TimStone There was a third answer on there, that SHOULD have been a comment.
@TimStone The user has since deleted it, since all it did was ask what DB the user was asking about (Despite the fact that it was tagged as db2 and said it in the question).
But I think the real answer here is "it's one mediocre-at-best answer to an SO question that hardly anyone will ever look at again, so spend your time more productively."
@PopularDemand I agree. That said, unless the answer is going to be deleted (which it won't be), I suppose I'd agree with @David's suggestion of having the votes reflect the current state of the answer.
I certainly don't agree with the blatant copy+paste, but obviously voting against the user's behaviour isn't good, so I think the no-vote solution is probably the best, yeah.
@PopularDemand I've read those articles on Daghlian and Slotin before. Pretty crazy, as well as the one on tickling the dragon. If you haven't, go check them out.
@TimStone I have mixed feels about that question. I have yet to use it in a comment, but I have seen some places where it is spot on. But does the original poster follow and read it? (rhetorically asking that, of course.)
If I had to guess, it's because it's tagged as [status-bydesign] I guess if we could all build things that suck and say we meant to do it and then never had to fix it, we'd all be better off. — RSolberg1 hour ago
That's a great way to draw attention to your feature request: a rant-y edit and a derisive comment.
@TimStone Do you have a problem with the idea of asking the question, or the idea that it should be applied to SO Questions as an alternative to typing out a comment?
@LynnCrumbling I think my feelings hinge on your earlier rhetorical question, really. Assuming that most people don't bother to read the question, it seems (to me) to largely be a collection of things people were interested in complaining about (even though they're true).
@TimStone I guess if you could get users to follow the link, I could get behind it. If the system could have that question ID hardcoded in, and preview the first few lines of the corresponding answer, it might entice the user to read more. But as it stands now, it's just a hyperlink, and in many cases, there is no further information (btw, I find it somewhat lazy WHENEVER someone ONLY posts a hyperlink in a response/comment (not just on SO... on any messaging system.))
@LynnCrumbling Yeah, I'm kind of interested in how many times the link's been used so far, but I'll have to wait for the next Data Explorer update to know.
Hmm, which reminds me...probably should have added some seed script or something so @jadarnel27's feature would actually work when it was deployed (which it hasn't been, yet)
Hey @TimStone, how tough would it be to have some kind of version date on Data.SE like there is on the main sites? Down at the bottom where the CC-Wiki logo is.
Data Explorer should have a visible version number somewhere, like SO has right corner of the footer (revision: 2010.6.8.1).
This way we'll know when version change and can refer to specific versions in bug reports etc.
RE: feature request, I'm not entirely sure the process by which Sam builds the Data Explorer in production, but I think adding something to the footer shouldn't be a big deal. It's on my to-do list (which at the moment is a collection of relevant Meta tabs open in my Chrome instance at home)
@jadarnel27 No, Chrome dev has a recently new bug on Windows that makes the hover thingadongdong not appear for some reason, unless I then hover over something else
Your e-mail address isn't in your MSO profile, so I'm guessing it's not in any of your SE profiles, so I doubt that post is responsible... did you ask about your problem anywhere else around the same time?
Allows one to use the tab key on StackOverflow, Codereview.SE, and Programmers.SE in the editbox.
Installation
Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter requires Greasemonkey).
Source
Usage
Hit tab in an edit box. Instead of defocusing, the literal ta will be in...
I'm currently writing a small desktop application for a friend, but I'm doing it primarily as a learning experience for myself. In the spirit of getting educated and doing things The Right Way, I want to have version numbers for this app.
My research brought up these related results
What &quo...
I have this statement:
Select p_name, p_size
from Part
ORDER by p_size
So, now I want display only the 6 biggest values.
How can I do This with the IBM DB2?
thx
Data Explorer should have a visible version number somewhere, like SO has right corner of the footer (revision: 2010.6.8.1).
This way we'll know when version change and can refer to specific versions in bug reports etc.
