Executive Summary
Jon Ericson asked, Does the tag synonym suggestion system work?
The answer, unfortunately, is no.
Tag Synonyms were introduced in August 2010:
It’s been clear for a very long time now that we needed some kind of tag synonym system, one that the community itself could main...
I ran this query to gather data on all Stack Overflow users with over 1000 reputation.
That got a total of 4,711 unique locations for 48,924 users. Of those 48,924 users, 13,138 did not list a location. Of the remaining 35,786 users, I manually inputted the country for 28,490 (almost 80%), which...
(I work in a company that doesn't believe in databases. They use Excel as if it were graph paper, and use color to indicate status rather than anything that can be read by a computer. I am very very good at gathering data by hand)
The issue is that the Japanese never liked Word. They used the first (?) graphical word processor called 'Ichitaro' until MS took over the world, and then they all used Excel because it has the tables drawn already and Japanese is fixed-font by default (making it easier to use Excel as a word processor)
(I have hourly data for 4 years in a dozen categories with all sorts of lookups, etc. The beast takes about 2 minutes to load and calculate -- that is too big)
Why are so many wikipedia images licensed under CC-BY-SA? Makes me sad. I wish they'd just release the thing with no licenses. It's a bloody photo of a lightbulb...
at least in germany... imagine you go to a photographer to have some standard portrait photos taken. nothing fancy, maybe even just the stuff you use on job applications, id cards, etc.
you MUST check what you are allowed to do with the photos - even if you paid for them you might not be allowed to put them on your website for example
Maybe it's just people? (The Japanese wikipedia lacks images everywhere
@AnnaLear Japan has it worse. Photos, personal profiles, all personal details, and needs to be hand-written.
@AnnaLear At my interview for my current company, I was asked, "Are you Jewish? My group does business with the Middle East, and it would be hard to use you if you're Jewish." and "In my experience, Americans are stubborn and never do what they're told. I cannot trust Americans. Are you willing to fight to earn my trust by doing what I say for a minimum of 6 months?"
I'm not entirely convinced this sort of thing doesn't exist here... I bet in some companies a lot of people just get very creative with how they discriminate.
Yeah, you can get rejected for just about anything. As a foreigner applying for jobs, recruiters often blank out personal details so that the employer can't contact you directly and skirt their fee. My favorite was showing up for an interview where nobody had told them I wasn't Japanese
That was a straight up, "You aren't Japanese. Only Japanese can do this job."
Foreigners in Japan are refused housing (the agent will mention to the landlord that you are foreign, though I encourage them to point out that I am European-American foreign, not Asian-foreign, which is assuring to many landlords), refused loans (barring marriage to a Japanese national), etc.
@AnnaLear I'm just kidding -- it is a lack of community-building experience I'm sure (and I really didn't think I had much of a chance for that reason)
Completely agreed. Working remotely would have been awesome. Rent a villa in Ubud, Bali, move back to the US sometime in the future, would have been fun.
Question: I just downloaded the data dump (really big), and I now have like 15 .7z files. How do I turn them into one file? Do I need to do some voodoo magic?
There's no count on the page that shows all of your posts that were flagged and I can't be bothered to count. Or look it up otherwise. Let's go with "a lot"? :)
We have 'high speed' but there's only one provider out where I love and it ranges anywhere from the occasional 700KB/S (usually at like 2 AM) to less than 10
@UndotheSnowman Neat! We have three folks working on our official iOS app ATM but since we don't really do "deadlines" the alpha testing should start in 6-8 units.
Thanks. The images are just big, and they don't provide value to me, so while others may appreciate said links, I want to be able to hide them so others can enjoy oneboxing as it was intended
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@Shog9 Yeah, nobody's answered it, so I figure I'll keep bringing it up at opportune times and pray for enlightenment from on high. Or from @balpha when I catch him.
@Shog9 You just said the same word three times! Bayesian = Arcane = Magic. Haven't you seen the power of the Let's Make a Deal question to explode people's otherwise useful brains?
Random thought - Am I the only one who cringes every time I @ someone who's using a holiday username at the thought of all those "Who in the world is '(random holiday username)'" thoughts after the holidays are over?
I believe I've got a possible change for that that wouldn't involve any additional DB queries (which I believe was the major problem with the last proposal about that that I saw), just checking what's on the rest of the page, but I'm wondering whether I should even go to the trouble of writing it up (because I think another reason was that comments are second-class citizens).
@Dukeling I sometimes worry about that too. That's why my standard username is a prefix of my Meta holiday username - when the dust settles, onlookers will have some clue who the sleigh was. (Also, it allows those involved to blissfully ignore the holiday suffix if they so choose.)
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