What a bunch of pretentious nonsense. How about just socially suggesting to users that they upvote answers that have citations? Or, that we grant users the ability to close answers that aren't properly cited?
I didn't know Evan trolled on sites other than Meta.
Proposal: Beer
Proposal: Wine
Proposal: Whiskey
Would it make sense to merge the Beer, Wine, and Whiskey proposals and perhaps broaden it to include all other spirits and alcoholic beverages? This might impinge on Cooking, though ostensibly so would both the two current proposals, but in a very...
for a newbie like me to programming, i found no other site valuable and live other than SO for acquiring skills, so i just wanna ask can we if not anythoughts
For a newbie like me to programming, I found no other site valuable and live other than SO for acquiring skills, so i just wanna ask, can we, if not any thoughts.
I understand the value of ethical hacking and for the same reason I want to learn it.
I know that the philosophy of SO is to quest...
What you can't do:
Learn ethical hacking (too broad and vague)
Learn about ethics (off-topic)
Learn about hacking (too broad, probably controversial)
What you can do:
Ask questions about code you're using in your study of ethical hacking
If the question likely presents a controversial subje...
I'm a little concerned that some of the "usual suspects" on MSO and here in the Tavern are so active. When I was in Boston, they were online during the day. Now I'm in Manila, and they're online during the day...
I've rejected a couple of edits on MSO, and they don't appear on my reviews list or the user's suggestions list. An edit I approved after that appears on my reviews list, so this doesn't seem to be caching. Any ideas what's going on?
@Lix Thought about that for a second before posting the answer ;)
@jadarnel27 no, it's a facebook tracking link to his blog, so that facebook gets more data about your surfing habits, and Moshe still doesn't gain valuable insights into his own blog.
I'm also going to save you the trouble based on his last blog, he's getting quite proficient at telling everything he did in the day, and yet managing to miss the concept of recaps. So if you want to read a diary of Moshe (what this is so far) then it's a delightful read.
@Moshe I'm still confused why you had to ask for directions to Moscone. Don't you carry at least 3 iDevices with you at all times?
Which wouldn't be incredibly helpful. He's got links to his blog on his personal website, and on his profile here. So I'm sure it'd be nice to see where most of the traffic comes from.
I love Git more than most people. And by that I mean that I love Git more than most people do. But by that I also mean that I love Git more than I love most people.
I guess I'm just supposed to say "I'm working with X, Y, and Z to get all those super important things done, and clicking refresh on my inbox when I'm waiting for a response, because it would be a waste of my time to work on something less then desperately urgent."
"Hey, can I just come to the meetings where everyone's fully prepared beforehand, and we just talk about the practical problems that actual relate to what I'm supposed to be doing?"
receiving electrically transcoded audio waves,
which have been compressed by at least one mathematical process,
had tons of data shed off the original sound wave curvatures,
been transmitted over at least three different transmission media,
and by at least two different types of processor,
to finally be delivered to your ears with at most 60% of the original information,
and over short range non-cable transmission,
using yet another form of compression this time with encryption,
all to reproduce what to you, sounds exactly like someone playing in the room next to you? Yep, blows my mind too.
See http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/134710/178438
Oftentimes, MSO is cluttered with offtopic programming questions asked by those who want to circumvent a question ban. These posts are eyesores, and this script is an attempt to improve them for the duration of their short lifespans.
It auto...
I know people like to goof off some on Meta, but that's explicitly encouraging making pointless noise. And it comes across as kind of insulting to the OP.
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@jcolebrand He might not be using the user script, I don't know.
@Arjan: I've gotten one response from a cartoon. It was: "Ah, yeah, you're right, posted in the wrong place. Sorry about that." Most of these folks are question-banned on SO; they know very well what they are doing. They want us to migrate their off-topic question to Stack Overflow. — Robert HarveyJun 18 at 14:48
Can I ask the same question which was asked 3 years back? - Answers surely going to be different as technology has changed.
This a question in question:
Is there a modeling language for the functional programming paradigm?
That Calvin and Hobbes thing elicited a rude comment from the OP before it was finally deleted. That's what I'm talking about. It's negative and it only has the potential to lead to more negativity.
In your example, the OpenID control is actually on the Stack Exchange network, so Stack Exchange has control over it. They don't have any control over OpenSTV though, so any complaints against that software have to be directed to the creator; nothing can be done from the Stack Exchange perspective (making it off-topic).
@BoltClocksaUnicorn @TimStone "nothing can be done from the Stack Exchange perspective" is not true. OpenSTV claim to accept feedback, I provided references in question - ie SE can pass them a bug report / feature request if (note: if) deemed necessary
is nothing can be done the only reason why it's considered off-topic?
Put it this way: the login system is a product of Stack Exchange (the devs implement an OpenID-based login system and it's up to them to decide how and which providers). OpenSTV is not a product of Stack Exchange, even though it's open source. We just happen to use it for calculating ballots.
Would you report a bug in WordPress to MSO because Stack Exchange uses WordPress for its blogs?
I noticed. :) I was reluctant to actually submit it like that out of fear the moderator wouldn't actually look at the question and just dismiss it as a joke.
I'm stuck deciding which to use as both seem to work.
Should I be placing links <a> inside of <h2> elements?
Or the other way around?
What is the correct standard?
@TimStone It's not Stack Exchange's place to act why? In case if SE community decides it's in their interest to feedback, what would stop SE from giving it. @BoltClocksaUnicorn What you say makes no sense to me sorry. anyone, SE included, can pass a feedback about any software product / service they use - as long as there's a channel provided for that. You seem to jump to conclusion that providing feedback = requiring someone to do change, this is not so.
whether to OpenSTV or Wordpress or whatever - as long as there's invitation "send us feedback" it's OK to do, simple as that
@TimStone SE has control on sending feedback to established channel that's it, simple really. SE may not have control on whether this feedback will be taken into account, so what?
@gnat Stack Exchange does not solicit feedback about software that it just so happens to use when that feedback has nothing to do with Stack Exchange's use of that software. Your feedback has nothing to do with Stack Exchange, it's solely about OpenSTV. The fact that Stack Exchange just so happens to use OpenSTV is largely tangential to the issue.
@Bart I think they felt a little attacked by the combination of your joke with the sarcastic, comic strip answer (and the comments underneath it). That's just a guess, though.
Your comment, by itself, would have been fine =) (I thought it was pretty funny, myself)
@jadarnel27 Yeah, that might have been. Just some harmless fun (at least that's how I meant it) but given the circumstances probably misinterpreted. Ah well, if that is the most offence I've caused here, I think I'll survive. ;)
I can't seem to log back in to stackoverflow.com now on my Mac (I'm still logged in on my PC). I'm getting the following error message (my OpenID provider is WordPress.com):
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
The following required parameters were missing from the DotNetOpenAuth...
"eliminating Moshe... slugster... Andrew Barber... Dennis... Sathya... awoodland..." reads to me about SO not OpenSTV. Anyway, I think blunt not OK to do closes that to me thanks for "explanation"
Usually, when you whisper to someone, every time you hit "enter" after that it replies to that person. They just changed that in the new patch (now you have to explicitly reply every time). I was just going to bitch about it to see if you thought it was as annoying as I do.
If a post is closed as discussion or something not for SO, is the post deleted? If not, should reputation for answering go away? (Not that it did, I'm just wondering if there is a way to discourage this type of interaction.)
What a bunch of pretentious nonsense. How about just socially suggesting to users that they upvote answers that have citations? Or, that we grant users the ability to close answers that aren't properly cited?
They used jQuery. to count the votes Duh.
jQuery.determineElectionResults(votes);
Docs: http://api.jquery.com/determineElectionResults/
For a newbie like me to programming, I found no other site valuable and live other than SO for acquiring skills, so i just wanna ask, can we, if not any thoughts.
I understand the value of ethical hacking and for the same reason I want to learn it.
I know that the philosophy of SO is to quest...
What you can't do:
Learn ethical hacking (too broad and vague)
Learn about ethics (off-topic)
Learn about hacking (too broad, probably controversial)
What you can do:
Ask questions about code you're using in your study of ethical hacking
If the question likely presents a controversial subje...
See http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/134710/178438
Oftentimes, MSO is cluttered with offtopic programming questions asked by those who want to circumvent a question ban. These posts are eyesores, and this script is an attempt to improve them for the duration of their short lifespans.
It auto...
Can I ask the same question which was asked 3 years back? - Answers surely going to be different as technology has changed.
This a question in question:
Is there a modeling language for the functional programming paradigm?
I'm stuck deciding which to use as both seem to work.
Should I be placing links <a> inside of <h2> elements?
Or the other way around?
What is the correct standard?
I can't seem to log back in to stackoverflow.com now on my Mac (I'm still logged in on my PC). I'm getting the following error message (my OpenID provider is WordPress.com):
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
The following required parameters were missing from the DotNetOpenAuth...
