@Bart What? How could you have any other comment than, "Of course you're right jmac, all managers are paragons of virtue and good judgment. Any mistakes they make are clearly covering for the incompetent people around them." See also How do I deal with the fact that I'm awesome and everyone around me sucks?
Quick question: How do I view the stub of a migrated question without it redirecting me? I remember it appending something like "redirect=0" to the URL. But I don't remember exactly what it is.
@jadarnel27 Sometimes I think we need a faq that explains what the heck community standards are, and why they are better than having a whole bunch of rules for people to lawyer.
Whenever I pull down in the notifications area of the Android app, all the way to the bottom, and it hits the bottom of the area, it suddenly displays:
No notifications.
This is horrible UX, don't you actually want me to look at my notifications and be active on SE, Android app?
Steps to re...
Sigh... turns out there are those who aspire to make the revision history clean and readable
@ShadowWizard As I said, it would have made the revision history cleaner. Am I the only one who finds it annoying that the revision compare tool matches individual words from totally different sentences? “Anyway now you have all kinds of revisions.” Yes, but whose fault is that? — Scott15 mins ago
This is an excellent idea and it's implemented in the app as of version 0.1.90 coming out in the next few hours.
In implementing this I realized my old beloved text noise from the original version of Android called "Captain's Log" still exists, and I am insanely happy right now, so thanks :)
@hichris123 almost sure I saw status-completed applied after 20 seconds or so
Uhh I had not considered that, no, but that might be worth looking into. I'm really interested in making it easier to organize queries and find ones that aren't site-specific, so that people can be casual users easier.
It'd be pretty handy if there was a nice standard set of queries that mimicked the advanced search toggles like closed:true or hasaccepted:true or migrated:true or whatever else there is. Things like closed:true are the big stickler for me, because the ClosedDate field isn't exactly intuitive.
If it's null you know the question is open (I think), but it could have a closedDate and then a reopen date, so you can't just query for WHERE ClosedDate is null
For clueless SQL folk like me who don't understand the first thing about how all this stuff works, having a really basic intro to using the data explorer with a bunch of really simple queries would go a long way to letting people understand the basics of how to use it like a super-search, and then apply that knowledge to existing queries to suit their needs.
Basically, for beta sites especially, this is a tremendous tool to track things such as downvote vs. upvote ratio over time, number of active users, post volume over time, post volume by day of week, etc.
And I was so successful at driving volume there once @animuson helped by merging 3 related tags to get more eyes on the same set of questions, that I now have two experts who have taken over the answering of all those questions.
@hichris123 I give a lot of presentations, and a lot of those presentations use absolutely awful maps using raster graphics created in the 1990s or somesuch. They are all done by hand, and a pain to update, so I wanted to create vector versions that were easy to update.
Google Geocharts are a good way to do that, so I started reading through the documentation and asked a question or two about them to get started. When I got no answer, I realized that I was probably more knowledgeable than the people I was asking because I was trying to work out the problem myself, and answered a bunch of questions for others because I already knew the answers.
(the documentation is decent, but not tremendous, and it is targeted toward people who are programming-oriented, rather than folks like me who migrated over from Excel. So most of the questions in the tag were, "How do I do X?" which isn't specifically stated in the documentation)
Sales presentations mostly. I work for a manufacturer, so we need maps of where we have offices, or factories, or where we have sold products in that area, etc.
@hichris123 It's because of the industry (which I would rather not elaborate too much on). For certain industries, location of facilities is very important to the customers for various reasons. We also entertain customers at our factory quite frequently, and use maps to give them an outline of our business.
(we do business-to-business sales -- not business-to-customer. If you are buying a TV, you don't care where it was made since you never plan to have it serviced or anything. On the other hand, if you're buying, say, industrial machinery, you probably want to know where there are maintenance offices and how quickly they can respond if it breaks)
@hichris123 Yeah. Business-to-business is a very different beast. Consumers have a very different set of things they value than businesses do most of the time, and when you are selling to businesses you have to address points very differently depending on who you are talking to. If you're selling a cruise ship, for instance, you may want to sell different points to the management than to the maintenance team than to the commercial guys who need to appeal to the customers.
Thanks, though I think it's less my business knowledge, and more my experience as an outsider in a totally different culture for a decade. I'm sure they each impact each other, but generally speaking, I think that when you see the same thing from two different angles you get a much better idea of what you're really looking at.
For anyone who is interested in patent trolls and the burden they create, the Supreme Court just ruled on Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC, saying that the burden of proof of patent infringement is on the patent holder.
That means that patent trolls are not given an unfair advantage in court any longer, and the burden of proof isn't on the non-troll to show that their product doesn't infringe. Pretty cool stuff.
What is even better is that it was a 9-0 unanimous decision on the part of the Supreme Court, which could suggest that they see a serious issue in the current state of patent law.
> ...who bears the burden of proof, or, to be more precise, the burden of persuasion? Must the patentee prove infringement or must the licensee prove noninfringement? In our view, the burden of persuasion is with the patentee, just as it would be had the patentee brought an infringement suit.
and find such amazingly convoluted rationales for their decisions
most of which have no basis in logic, reason, fact, or law..
"Oh, so declaratory judgements are normally the same as regular judgements? But here, the folks who could sue (and we're being asked to rule on what would happen if they did sue) are enjoined from suing, so clearly they shouldn't have the burden of proof, even though the declaratory judgement is all about what would happen if they did sue..."
how do i stop the first piece of code from running directly after the second one runs? I know it is because my 'work-title' class is inside my 'work-entry' div. How do I stop the .slideDown() function from happening after clicking the .work-title? The slideDown works fine, but the slideDown fu...
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I've never noticed before, but watching The Big Bang Theory in HD, you can totally tell they took a Vitamin Water bottle and used white-out to cover up the "Vit" part of the word...
@JanDvorak I think it's better to use an existing close reason, rather than invent your own where possible. I voted to close as "too broad". And down-voted.
@JanDvorak Ok, perhaps something else fits then? Currently your approach has been to create a close reason based on your (understandable) frustration that this is merely a statement of requirements with no effort.
However, one of the outcomes of the recent close votes debate has been the realisation that lack of effort is not a close reason.
@JanDvorak That's really up to you. If you think the question can be answered in a simple, straight-forward fashion, then perhaps.
@JanDvorak I think it's a rude, lazy question. I'm not 100% sure it's on topic either, as it's about theoretical computer science issues rather than a concrete programming task.
My main observation is that we probably ought not abuse the custom close reason as a way of making a statement about a particular question.
FWIW I went with "This question appears to be off-topic because it lacks sufficient information to diagnose the problem. Describe your problem in more detail or include a minimal example in the question itself." @Duncan.
@Bart Because I deliberately set aside my emotions at the wording of the original question and asked myself - do I really know enough about this subject area to comment whether this is enough information to answer the question. And the answer to that is no.
I'm still somewhat on the fence on the whole issue. But when I step back and realise the purpose of SE sites, which is a repository of clear questions and answers, I start to agree that the "lack of effort" thing is not necessarily a game killer.
But on the flip-side, boy do I hate these lazy fuckers..
These are not "problems people face" though. "I don't know how to do this" is not an acceptable statement if you have not at least tried to educate yourself.
The problem with Shog's posts is not the post. He has a point that some go overboard in the "be worthy of my time" department. However, that same community then imho goes overboard in saying "Shog doesn't require anything from a post other than that it's answerable. So anything goes".
@JanDvorak I see several possibilities for that question we just looked at. Firstly, if there is not enough information in there to solve the issue, then either "unclear" or "This question appears to be off-topic because it lacks sufficient information to diagnose the problem". If the effort involved in solving this problem is large, then it should be "too broad".
If it fails neither of those tests, then I suppose it's up to you. Some people prefer not to answer such questions and that's their right. The question will go unanswered and probably attract down-votes. Automatic deletion is not far away.
@JanDvorak Most lazy-ass regex questions can be closed as "unclear". I've never found one of those lazy idiots able to express what they want clearly enough without ambiguity.
To be clear, my view-point is: stick the knife in whenever possible. But stick an authorized knife in. Don't just beat them with the custom stick.
@Duncan There is no question. The OP is not asking us anything about the problem he's trying to solve. Hence it's crap because there is no question to begin with.
The problem with that question is imho the following: I've no idea what the direction is the OP needs the answer to go. I've no CFG background at all but I just read-up on wikipedia to get some idea how a question and/or answer should look like. Unclear, not enough info are a perfect fit, too broad could be but that questions seems to be entry level CFG theory.
If there would have been one line in it saying: i started with S --> a I would leave it open....
I agree, close away if you think the question isn't answerable. I'm just suggesting that a comment may help steer the OP towards improving the question in a manner you think is appropriate.
Anyway, I'm spending way too much time on this. Time for some focused work-related writing here. And I'll most likely end up with a Meta post about this in the next few days, because it annoys me terribly. :)
Ha, no worries. It's an interesting topic. I just feel we're taking it all off the right path lately, in a direction that will end up harming the site to an extent.
@JanDvorak It is a subject I'm still toying with. My arguments were what I think, but perhaps occasionally taken a little far. Or I probed your arguments a little deeper than was maybe fair.
The project Iam currently working on requires audio in ulaw format to be converted to mp4 format. Is g711/ulaw audio codec supported in mp4 container format? I tried converting an audio file with codec as mpeg to g711 mp4 file using ffmpeg. But was unsuccessful.
@hichris Grace Note is a Community Manager (not a dev). I was (maybe too subtly) implying that the devs wouldn't listen to Grace's bug report until there was a real problem.
So Grace posts on Meta, so people will try it, and cause problems.
Obviously, I don't really think that is Grace's motivation.
Ooh, @TimStone got mentioned in the most recent Stack Exchange blog post.
Sometime one feels the need to become a community mod only for the pleasure of nuking spammers no mater what site they spam on... I am not an user on magento, still I would love to contribute deathnoting that genius.
naaaah. When I created my user I was going for "Archaeologist" because working with SP is an endless search for the Rosetta Stone of bad documentation.
then I remembered that M$ had the idea to start most of the names of SharePoint related classes with "SP"
SPWeb, SPContext, SPRequest ....
Considering that we have a mod called "SPDoctor", I wasn't the only one making that conclusion.
@rene - actually, we are pretty sure that SharePoint was written by Abdul Alhazred. Some years later, Uncle Bill must have found the original source code while exploring a pyramid somewhere in Egypt, along with the millennium eye
Haha, I'll see what I can do this weekend. @Shog9 ;)
But just for the heck of it @Shog9, do you consider this to be a sufficiently good/clear/appropriate question to remain open? stackoverflow.com/questions/21289225/…
So my chem teacher shows us his best paper (which was pretty good), and in the bibliography they put the scheme in the domain. So I put this in the comments:
> Note: Scheme really doesn't belong in the domain. Just a small thing ;)
And I get berated. "LET ME DECIDE THAT!" says the chemistry teacher :P
"KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF!"
...
I refrained from telling him that he doesn't get to change URI protocol whenever he wants :P
@Bart Could I borrow your smiting stick for a minute or two? It works over http, right?
Okay. Then I think we're on a somewhat similar page @Shog9. Though I fear some of what you've said is interpreted in an "anything goes as long as it's answerable" manner. Anyway, that's for later. Thanks so far. ;)
I have my good moments @Duncan. Not often, but sometimes.
Would a question about syntax highlighting - ie, "this good code isn't highlighted correctly in the IDE but seems like it works, is it okay?" - be on topic?
It feels off topic to me, but I can't articulate why
Whenever I pull down in the notifications area of the Android app, all the way to the bottom, and it hits the bottom of the area, it suddenly displays:
No notifications.
This is horrible UX, don't you actually want me to look at my notifications and be active on SE, Android app?
Steps to re...
This is an excellent idea and it's implemented in the app as of version 0.1.90 coming out in the next few hours.
In implementing this I realized my old beloved text noise from the original version of Android called "Captain's Log" still exists, and I am insanely happy right now, so thanks :)
how do i stop the first piece of code from running directly after the second one runs? I know it is because my 'work-title' class is inside my 'work-entry' div. How do I stop the .slideDown() function from happening after clicking the .work-title? The slideDown works fine, but the slideDown fu...
The project Iam currently working on requires audio in ulaw format to be converted to mp4 format. Is g711/ulaw audio codec supported in mp4 container format? I tried converting an audio file with codec as mpeg to g711 mp4 file using ffmpeg. But was unsuccessful.
