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2:38 AM

It would be great to close this question:

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Q: Free C# Training Resources?

My boss (being completely unreasonable and wanting everything yesterday like most bosses) wants me to run a C# training session with our new recruits. Unfortunately he wants this done next week and with my current workload means I have little time to put together from scratch any slides or other...

Just had a spam edit to it get suggested.

Boom?

@animuson Heh.

On hold, them boom.

I just went through flags and deleted about 150 NAAs.

Good animuson.

Actually handled flags today.

3:00 AM

Reject please: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3786912#./…

Spam edit again.

Hey @ElfSlice.

@hichris123 Hello. =]

What's up?

@ElfSlice Nothing much right now. Did you ever post a Today's Listening that still works?

Today's listening: white noise.

Yeah, I posted a youtube mirror

Soundcloud is fucked today

It's not just that page

All of soundcloud

For your listening pleasure.

3:45 AM

I want beta sites in SEDE

4:04 AM

@Undo Nick is on vacation this week, but I'll ask him where things are with that when he's back.

4:22 AM

Another horrible editor stackoverflow.com/users/2795357/girish-k

Is it any use bringing them up here?

Why don't you guys just join the cool club and become horrible editors

What is the general workflow?

Then you won't have to worry about it!

@ElfSlice NEVA

any CM's about?

4:47 AM

@Pëkka You're right on that user, randomly bolding stuff:stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3787194

Michael Petrotta

I don't need another crap reviewer to watch.

I already have too many.

Thanks.

Too much crap is being approved, and some good stuff is getting rejected.

Michael Petrotta

I tried flagging one bad editor the other day. We'll see how that goes.

5:24 AM

Can people please downvote this answer down to 2 so that this user will lose the ill-gotten reputation when it's deleted: stackoverflow.com/a/1993510 - I can't believe 6 fools voted that up...

@animuson it's not even an answer! flagged.

@animuson They haven't been back since 2010, not like they would care

@random Good point. Meh.

oh.

wait, did it just get an extra upvote?

I'm pretty sure it didn't. Maybe someone voted down and retracted. shrugs

5:32 AM

so, it's deleted now?

As random said, he hasn't visited since 2010. So who cares about the reputation. It's even an Unregistered account. Will probably never return. Since the question was crap too, I just nuked it all.

Note to self: flagging a post that was pointed to me by a moderator is not neccesary :-)

Maybe it's a new campaign moderators are starting. "Hey look at this post! Free flags!"

user202362

6:30 AM

siriuslii, delete this already!

user202362

delete this;

@sudorm-rfTelkitty the account?

user202362

~_~

user202362

what would happen if a moderator delete his/her own account while logged in?

@sudorm-rfTelkitty Don't know if that is possible

Because there is a rep limit to the types of accounts we can delete without help from CMs

But when an account is deleted it automatically is logged out

1 hour later…

8:00 AM

@animuson while you're at it, useless comment from that user ;)

8:21 AM

Wow. Literal "astro"turfing

I'm stuck on 37,999 for long days now!

That's why I don't want to downvote anything now that I have 3363 rep on Codegolf

@JanDvorak lol

Also see this

user image

nice

he knows when to stop :-)

He didn't touch suggested edits for almost a year now :D

8:34 AM

He should start climbing towards 12345

On the other hand his last review was this so maybe it turned him down

That's a bad edit, maybe he just gave up seeing his correct decisions are overruled?

Speaking of suggested edits, I think I should round mine to 3500... done

7028 for me and still counting

4 hours later…

12:16 PM

hi, shall I mark any of the user's comments here under my answer? I personally feel it beyond the technical discussion, but perhaps it is OK. stackoverflow.com/questions/21066822/…

is it really someone from here downvoting the correct answer without explanation?

@LaszloPapp you somehow trigger the best attitude in people :-) and No, i'm not downvoting it.

I got 4 downvotes without any explanation by now.

I feel it started ok but at the end the user got very upset

and the answer is fully correct based on the module design and documentation.

Don't see the reason tjhough

And you kept nice and calm +1 for you!

12:25 PM

@rene: he got frustrated by not having a feature available, but how he explained it is not constructive.

Agree

I should probably look up the development discussion I and the maintainer had with the chief maintainer back then. I even reported an issue on the bugtracker to follow this as I think it is important, so we are not that bad hopefully. :D

I just cannot see how this post got 4 downvotes when the answer is coming from the doc and intended current state. My only suspicion is that I also downvote (really) bad answers, and some people may dislike me, but even then I leave an explanation and I retract the downvote if the answer is proven good, et al. Perhaps this is not the right habit on SO.

I assume some of the casual onlookers/reputation hunters start to vote down when the OP critics the answer without judging the answer correctly. And from my point of view that answer shows the problem the OP needs to address...

I'm not much of help due to my lack of knowledge of Qt and c++

sure, I appreciate your feedback regardless. I would not like to have more reputation, but I would like to avoid graying out a correct answer, and hence scaring off newcomers looking up the answer for this common issue.

good response

12:35 PM

thanks. :)

When I usually see so many downvotes for a question or answer, it always has some explanation at least from one person, but not rarity that from more than one. In this case, however, there was none, which made the situation a bit odd.

@rene: 2 downvotes, and at least someone explaining the issue for both: stackoverflow.com/questions/21074012/…

yes, so it seems possible to be constructive

OK, rehearse time. Thanks for the feedback. :)

1:32 PM

-1

Q: I can type, can't i?

Let me introduce You to the new version of being an idiot. That is me, an idiot. Wasting your time. I'm afraid this question is utterly pointless. And has no sense. Sorry. I really like fries. But my Windows computer doesn't. That's too bad, since Linux doesn't like fries either. How can I ma...

linux partitioning drivers vim tab-completion

is this spam, or VLQ?

It is vlq at best, no spam...

Definitely not a question.

That is true, or we should edit in a ?

still not a question after adding a ?

@JanDvorak That's 100% pure trolling.

Flagged it as "opinion based", lol

1:40 PM

0

A: I can type, can't i?

You can make Windows and Linux like fries if you call them "chips" instead.

LOL

(got to go; let's see how my flag resolves in the meantime)

Doorknob of Snow

Lol, I reached 20k at exactly 600 answers :D

66 to go :-)

Doorknob of Snow

@JanDvorak I have exactly 1337 suggested edit reviews and I shall never review another again! :P

@DoorknobofSnow start reviewing with sock puppet account.... ;)

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard Lol, I must get 2k rep on another account just for that reason :D

1:57 PM

@sudorm-rfTelkitty that's not his rep, it's the user ID and you probably refer to Mr. Community?

meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community

2:08 PM

@DoorknobofSnow and is that a problem? :P

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Q: Change color of popup that appears after flagging Area 51 proposal

When you flag an Area 51 propsal, you get a red popup "Thanks! We'll look at it! (click this box to dismiss)". The same when you vote to close a proposed question: you get a red popup. However, that red color does me think that there is something wrong with my flag/close vote. So I suggest to cha...

feature-request flags area51

Doorknob of Snow

0

Q: "0 more votes are needed to undelete this post"

I appear to have stumbled upon an odd question: Here is a link to the question (please don't vote to undelete it! keep it there so people can see it)

bug deleted-questions vote-to-undelete

2:24 PM

@DoorknobofSnow we can't undelete posts deleted by diamonds, I'm 99.999% sure that clicking undelete will result in such a message.

2:53 PM

I'm so good at nitpicking

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Q: Clicking the 'show more toggle' before loading finished reverses its intended behavior

In the 10k-tools close tab the content loading takes a while when you choose the 7, 14 or 30 days subtab. As I'm being bored quickly I click the 'greyish right pointing arrow' (I'll call it the expand button) while the loading animator is still visible. The pointer is now directed down. You wou...

bug user-interface 10k-tools

@rene yep, +1 from a fellow nitpicker :D

@ShadowWizard thanks for the edit :)

@rene my pleasure... love improving things :)

3:33 PM

sigh

From my chemistry teacher's "Best Paper of the Quarter" (which got 110%):

> “Electrical Conductivity in Metals—About .com”
> Document: http://metals.about.com
> Domain: /od/properties/a/Electrical-Conductivity-in-metals.htm

1. How hard is the concept of document and domain?

2. Why in the world is he seperating doc and dom?

My next paper's bibliography will look like this:

> "Bla bla bla"
> Domain: bla.foo.com
> Path: bar.xml
> Query String: ?
> Port: 80
> Scheme: http
> Username:
> Password:

If he wants to be all 1990's, we can do that :P

Actually, I should just run everything through a homemade URL shortener :P

4:27 PM

@Undo unless your domain name is short as well, you can't beat the commercial ones, though

4:39 PM

@Undo Heh, even better: put MySQL access creds and the query to run in there.

@Undo Remember the double delete votes?

Lol, it finally stopped at

Post Undeleted by Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦, Double AA♦

— Doorknob of Snow Aug 25 '13 at 14:20

And then this: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/191119/…

1 hour later…

5:51 PM

I just found the worst tag on SO: stackoverflow.com.

worse than homework?

Meh, that's blacklisted & burned so I don't count it. :P

Ug:

-5

Q: How to delete your Stack Overflow account

How does one delete their Stack Overflow account? I was going to make the request terse but it appears I must embellish in order for this to be posted. Suffice it to say that I have come to regret using this forum for help. And the -1 exemplifies my decision. Just provide me with instruction p...

stackoverflow.com

I can't flag that for migration.

Is the 'migration' flag option gone like the 'minimal understanding'?

@ProgramFOX It's greater than 60 days old. Those can't be migrated.

Not even by mods.

Jeroen Vannevel

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Q: Who put that "Stack Overflow" thing in my VS 2013 caption?

Just recently, somehow I found this to be my upper right caption in Visual Studio .NET 2013: I've got several Add-ins installed like: Visual Studio Commands (VSCommands) ReSharper VisualSVN and carefully searched all their settings but found none that is responsible for putting that thing ...

visual-studio visual-studio-2013 stackoverflow.com

This is actually a legitimate use of that tag

5:56 PM

Most others aren't, though.

I wanted to award a bounty to an answer that helped me a lot. I declared bounty yesterday. But today I mistakenly award this bounty to another answerer. This was a serious mistake. The answer I wanted to give bounty was really a good one. I wanted it to stand out. But the reverse happened. is it possible to award it to another person?

@Shiplu웃 Unfortunately, no. If you award a bounty, you can't un-award it.

@ProgramFOX Any way award another bounty (probably higher) to another answer?

6:13 PM

@Shiplu웃 yes, you can start a new bounty.

@Pëkka but I dont see any option!!!

Hmm one sec

@Shiplu웃 I think you can use the "start a bounty" link to start another bounty.

Okay. I found it!!!

@Shiplu웃 I see the link there; you should be seeing it, too?

6:15 PM

For some reason It was not showing. I refreshed and it appeared!

ah ok

6:51 PM

I just created the stackexchange-api tag in regards to the stackoverflow-api tag. It would be great to synomize stackoverflow-api to stackexchange-api

1 hour later…

7:53 PM

Hmm Anna Lear just migrated question back from mso to so that had the stackoverflow.com tag

@rene What question?

0

Q: Firefox error console shows errors from unrelated other site

Whenever I load my page into Firefox the Error Console shows: I'm not purposely loading anything from Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange and the text "stackexchange" doesn't show up anywhere in my source. Does anyone know what these errors are?

stackoverflow.com

I was cleaning out the last question with the stackoverflow.com tag

Today's Listening

And just when I finished Anna rejected migration

I will retag it but I can't ctv because I already did (I tried it)

@rene: another weird guy of those: stackoverflow.com/questions/21079170/…

I asked him to follow the tagwiki, and he has not done that.... I did it a few times, and then I even pasted the content with bold, and he still does not follow that. I cannot understand such people. :)

It seems that people become very defensive and upset for downvotes, especially low-rep users.

and now he argues with a 250k rep user.... :)

why do I find all these people around? :D

8:03 PM

New users don't yet understand the meaning of downvotes and they often take it as "You're not welcome here, go away"

@LaszloPapp You're just a honey pott for those types.

Perhaps, I should work out a strategy how to communicate the downvote.

This time I even wrote it would be a good suggestion in a comment to track the issue down. I am not sure what I can do more. Perhaps, I should start all the sentences with "Please do not take it as an offense, nor should you feel unwelcome, but ..."

You actually try to help some of these people. Which is good, but these types get defensive about it.

@DavidHeffernan, you can learn from me by what I said, learn that dependency walker will show you all needed dlls in most cases specially about QT. Listen and learn, this is how you learn. — M. C. 45 secs ago

telling it to a 250 k user, hmm.

It amazes me how those type of people think they rule the world, have seen everything, know every answer, not the slightest hint that they might be wrong...

8:07 PM

and of course, he still writes QT instead of Qt regardless the friendly request... :)

it might be harsh, but IMO, people are supposed to read the tagwiki when contributing to a tag.

@LaszloPapp Heh. You'd think a person would realize that they don't know everything.

Admittedly, I do not do that all the time either, but I am happy to be pointed out if I should read it for some reason.

How to get your question deleted: Ping both of the users who voted to close it with a useless comment.

@animuson Text for us non 10Kers?

I am 600 rep away from seeing that, so yeah, animuson, can you summarize it for us?

8:13 PM

@hichris123 Here you go: i.stack.imgur.com/7vJYM.png (note I hid all the other comments because it made the screenshot too long)

Heh, that is funny. Why would you ping someone with off topic? :P

/me agrees with Shog9

@Rene: heh, two downvotes without explanation. I wonder why it is always me not getting feedback, and I always give. Perhaps, I have some dislikers. :-)

The Movie Code Quiz

Haha. I got 2/10

@LaszloPapp you're famous, notoriously

user image

8:22 PM

@rene: hmm, I do not think that I provide bad answers, personally. If I did, I would probably be pointed out, but never being pointed out looks suspicious, and feels like an "un-fan" club for some reason beyond the technical boundaries (which is kinda against the fundamental operation of the site).

@LaszloPapp I don't think you provide bad answers; completly to the contrary. Some people just feel that you're a little rude and unkind.

@hichris123: Actually, I agree with that here, and I am trying to improve that here.

but I do not think that is the case for SO, albeit I certainly do such mistakes. Even then, downvotes are not for personal issues, but for the validity of answers.

On the scale of rudeness I'm king.

not sure if anyone here had used Gerrit, but that also has a -1 (even -2) button when reviewing code. That does not mean you are unwelcome. It is a technical feedback for the better QA of the project.

Remember that claiming something is not good is easy.

8:27 PM

@LaszloPapp I agree completly. I can't speak for other users and for the validity of your answers (as I have no clue about the languages you answer questions for) but I don't see any reason why they should be downvoted.

Explaining with facts the correct answer is hard, very hard sometimes.

In an ideal world (like on Gerrit, etc), I am happy to be downvoted for good since that means I can learn something new.

There are many people downvoting on SO for good... juan (C++ area), LightOrbit, etc.

and usually fix their concerns, and feel thankful about them. They also remove their downvotes once the issue is fixed. I think I have the same mentality.

I downvote way more on questions than answers.

Actually, I vote way more on questions than answers.

I do not differentiate them. :) /me is an evil really: 666 flags raised.

I would recommend having a paragraph in the introduction about downvotes and -1s that they do not exist for personal offense, but I am guessing people would not read that carefully and/or in the right mood... :/

@LaszloPapp You don't know my secret about flags, then. :P 1300 helpful flags (ish).

8:35 PM

@hichris123: you have some way to go until you get it to 6666.

oh wait, you are close to the haxor magic number, 1337!

Heh. I almost kept my rep for a while on 1512 for the 512 part.

:-)

8:55 PM

@ElfSlice I'm done listening...

@rene Need more?

This was good so...

Let's have some more...

Hrm. Just a sec.

@rene Try this

Tnx, listening now...

Shall I flag a post where the OP is asking about a programmatic way of doing something, but the answerer replied from user point of view? E.g.

-2

A: Qt Android: Pressing "Done" does not hide the keyboard

Press back if it doesn't work. Some keyboards tend not to work with some apps or just the whole os itself.

or for that matter, the other answer giving a Java solution for a C++ question.

9:15 PM

Only downvote the answer and upvote that comment

That is what I just did

yeah, I already downvoted both.

I forgot to upvote the OP's post, thanks for reminding.

@rene: how about the other answer: stackoverflow.com/a/21074378/2682142

I can't judge but if that is java then a downvote the answer and upvote the comment

yeah, I did both already. I thought you may downvote that, too.

I followed you...

:-)

perhaps they can both get a badge now with the deletion. :D

9:20 PM

@LaszloPapp Just curious: why do you code in C++/qt? Why did you end up using those two as your main languages?

@hichris123: I will be frank, initially money as I had a lot of financial trouble for the time.

then I met KDE, and the whole concept in my mind turned into pleasure, and the financial part got completely dropped.

Ah. You know, I'd wonder what the responses would be if you asked all the users of SO Why do you use the language you use.

then I became a KDE developer, then I became a Qt developer, etc.

What do you mean by KDE dev?

I worked on moving the KDE project forward.... well, I strived for. :)

9:22 PM

Huh. Interesting.

Well, I was a linux kernel developer, but the wage was (much) lower than for the C++ roles back then in my country, and I had no real preference for the time as a fresh engineer, so I decided to continue with what pays more without compromising the fun factor. :) Also, C++ is probably closer to an Electrical Engineer than Java, PHP, etc since it is still about embedded board programming, etc.

Interesting. Never thought about that; that C++ is used more in boards vs. any other language.

I'd agree: just got an Arduino and you code it in C++/C

you usually need performance on embedded.... and I do not mean phones and tablets by embedded, but real embedded, with a few megabyte flash, memory, etc.

although C++ was not so mature back compared to more modern languages such as Java or C#. This is nicely fixed with C++11/14 though.

@rene, lol just posted an answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/21080464/qt4-qlabel-in-qtabwidget/…

got a -1 within a few seconds.

I really have some dislikers. :D

But that answer is the same as Jeffrey and he was quicker...

Or am I mistaken?

Ah, there is another answer.

Seems we posted simultaneously.

but still, I do not think that deserves a -1.

9:35 PM

I don't see any -1... maybe the user retracted it?

+1 @hichris123

yes, it was retracted.

You're ninja editing

I pointed out a typo in the jeffrey's answer

:-)

I almost never fix code, only leave a comment, specially on fresh content

9:38 PM

I only fix code if it's really blatant and an obvious mispelling.

I've had my code fixed twice or so. I must say I like it.

oh, rene, if you knew that how much swearing I got from newbies for leaving a comment about a mistake... "You should not play the smart guy for such things... You can just edit it instead of being negative".

and things like that, although someone may have different opinion and experience about the other side, admittedly.

Strange world...

@rene: either way, good catch.

I've been called a JS noob about an hour ago. I guess there's no point in arguing, pointing out my rep, or my Javascript badge.

9:42 PM

If I can't catch that kind of errors I better retire...

:-)

everybody is a js noob unless you're douglas crockford

@JanDvorak: ok, so I am not alone being called n00b by OPs about a project (which I even developed myself a bit). :-)

Maybe it was the same guy?

I do not know. The guy also claimed he has 300 enum values, and when I sent a link about Single Responbility, then he claimed it is single responsibility what he does. From that point on, I did not take it too seriously. :D

9:45 PM

His name matches /l\w{3}sz\d{4}/

I dislike regex personally, but that is not a discussion for today. :)

Regex is a powerful weapon; but you can't cut a steak with a lightsaber

most people try to use it to tear down buildings.

@JanDvorak Minitech is at that js answer

I had an awesome picture about regex... I will try to find it for you, Jan.

Gone...minitech strikes again

9:50 PM

> I think you meant “at its lowest” – minitech♦

:-D

Hmm, I cannot find it right now...

Answer deleted

There's an XKCD about Lisp, however

@rene: my reaction for a downvote and a corresponding comment, stackoverflow.com/questions/21080464/qt4-qlabel-in-qtabwidget/…

I am pretty sad I lost that regex picture... I even showed it to my boss back then...

user image

@LaszloPapp wat?

regexs are as stable as that well-constructed wooden tent. :P Try to pull a stick out... :) Oh, and try to understand how that wooden tent is put together. :D

Michael Petrotta

10:05 PM

regular expressions are beautiful poetry. Just don't go trying to write a reference manual with it.

@LaszloPapp only if you add assumptions about the input just so you can use a regex

instead of, you know, an HTML parser

I always write alternative parsers instead. I explicitly ban regexs in projects I maintain, fwiw, but I know others may ban the other way around, so it is all fine.

Would you ban hammers because people use it to open tin cans?

I do not consider that a fair comparison personally. :)

as for me, an explicit logic in a daily language is more sustainable.

@LaszloPapp task. Find the number in /questions/123456/ (any value, any number of digits, "questions" is a constant) in Javascript

With regex, it's /\/questions\/(\d+)\//

or just /(\d+)/ if you're really brave

10:16 PM

it would be a small C/C++ function, especially with Qt.

so the difference is that the logic is explicit in a daily language you use for living.

It's a one-liner. And very readable.

to you because you use it daily.

so do so too

if I wrote regular expressions on a daily basis for living, I would not mind having yet another regex for sure since it would not put further maintenance burden on my shoulder.

I love solving regex crosswords

10:19 PM

the last one year, regex came up about 4-5 times, or maybe 3-4 in my life, and the alternative was usually a simple parser, but when I need to maintain that snippet, it is so much easier because it is written in a language I have expertise with.

you should learn regex instead, and make it a one-liner

I learned regex... actually, I have even helped people with regex on IRC, SO, etc.

I can write them, but I do not want to re-learn, or revise all the time when I rarely need it.

Task: split a text into subsequences of at most 80 characters, but do not split anywhere except at a whitespace, and always split at a newline

if (lineString.at(80).isWhitespace()) split();

@LaszloPapp but that only handles the case where the text fits perfectly into 80 characters

and doesn't handle any second break at all

10:24 PM

What do you mean?

The purpose is to word-wrap a long paragraph before displaying it to the console

sure, so what? :)

you can get the above iterating in a mutator loop.

It's a one-liner with regex.

yep, that is the problem with it, IMHO. :-)

@LaszloPapp the point is, if the 80th character is not whitespace, check the 79th one, if it's not whitespace, check the 78th...

10:26 PM

you write a short function once, and the call will be one-liner anywhere else.

Noted. I'll find a much worse task, don't worry :-)

but, instead of a nested loop, I can just match /\b\S.{,78}\S\b/ and be done with it :-)

if ((index == lineString.left(80).reverseIndexOf(whitespace))) { qDebug() << lineString.left(index); lineString = lineString.right(lineString.size()-index); }

@LaszloPapp ... in a loop

I guess the regex is faster because you don't generate an extra string per match :-)

that could be easily fixed by a pointer.

also, regex is order of magnitudes slower than native parsing.

@LaszloPapp ... no.

I may need precompilation, but that's done once

then it's just a DFSM crawler.

Remember that memory allocation takes time. You can use bounded indexOf, but then you need to handle the last line specifically

10:35 PM

Check some benchmarks out there.

and branching takes time.

@LaszloPapp Point me

regexs are usually 100-1000 times slower (literally).

10:48 PM

Hey everyone!

quick question: i noticed that the "You must post an attempt to solve your problem" question close reason is gone. Does that mean that it is not a requirement anymore for people asking simple questions to also post their attempts at solving the problems?

@Tibos "too broad" replaces that option.

Sad this almost got migrated: stackoverflow.com/questions/21078751/…

Michael Petrotta

@animuson, I was one of those who voted to migrate. Where would you draw the line? SO pushes frequently - what if there had been a breaking change?

@JanDvorak It doesn't seem like they refer to the same thing though. "There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs." There is nothing about the poster posting his attempted solutions, just reducing the scope of the question.

Michael Petrotta

There appears to be a new bug that prevents retracting close votes from an iPad. I haven't filed it yet. Should it not be migrated, if I had mistakenly filed it on SO, because most folks don't run into it?

10:56 PM

Unless they push a change to explicitly disallow copying things (which they never would), I can't imagine anything that would break that functionality.

@Tibos If the question is too broad even after they show their attempt, close it.

@Tibos If the question is a zero-effort regex question, post it in the Javascript room and we'll multi-downvote it. (JK)

@Tibos meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/215596/…

@rene i see, so the resolution for a question that demonstrates no effort from the asker is a downvote. That sounds fair i suppose.

Thanks for pointing me to that thread btw, i don't know how i missed it :-s

Well there are bunch of questions with regard to the new close reasons

It is not the first question asked nor the final verdict :-)

11:11 PM

@LaszloPapp Please review my code. I've only got a twofold increase of speed by using a parser (I've also dumbed down the regex to get the same behavior as for the parser, but that's beside the point): jsperf.com/regex-vs-parser-split-by-80

sec...

(still impressed by the factor of two)

@PavelStrakhov Btw, can you retract that close vote? It is possible to do it. — sashoalm 4 hours ago

Is it?

@LaszloPapp it is

how?

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Q: Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?

Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could. With the new Duplicate close changes and the review queues, it's even more important to be able to remove accidental or erroneous...

feature-request status-completed edits vote-to-close retracted-close-votes

oh.

11:54 PM

Hey, can anyone dig up a computer related problem closed question from today/yesturday?

Nevermind, found one.

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Q: Access the mysql database build by php by Qt

I am a novice of mysql and php(studying), I may ask something stupid or do not explain my question clean and concise, please tell me what kind of informations you need for solving this problem. db = new QSqlDatabase(); db->addDatabase("QMYSQL"); db->setHostName("147.134.94.130"); ...

@LaszloPapp Thanks for the other example.

yw

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