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10:01 PM
What's the current thinking on partnerships/subsites like the one with Facebook?
I want to post something on this, but I haven't kept up with the community much.
 
facebook started their own support forum, if that tells you anything: facebook.com/help/community
 
10:20 PM
I don't understand why the majority's stance on deleting questions with proprietary code. I feel that potential repercussions for the author should override the minor time savings of the community
 
Hello people who... never leave the chat room!
@hichris123 Can you reveal the seekret now?
 
@user60561 the "majority's"? how do you figure?
 
Those edit approvers are so annoying :(
 
@user60561 Because anyone could abuse this and say "hey, that question contains my proprietary code, delete it!"
Far better to let them go through a procedure like DMCA (which is also abuse-prone, but less so) than to have a policy like that
 
10:29 PM
@Manishearth Obviously there should be proper proof for that claim
 
@hichris123 Was I supposed to something like`?newreg=319043f8030e43f797b51123b642c594`?
 
Quick survey of the top answers on https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/221594/2014-so-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire/221848.
I haven't actually counted votes on each stance
 
I was hoping to have my question removed, because it has negative votes. However, it was answered with a positive answer. What should I do?
 
You flagged this question for closure Dec 18 '13 at 23:59
sigh But I wanna close it too!
 
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A: What should I do if a user posts sensitive information as part of a question or answer?

Oded Edit it out, if you have enough rep Yes, certainly as a first step. Minimize damage. Point out the issue in the edit comment, though not initially in a regular comment (as it will draw attention to the redacted information). Flag for moderator attention with "other" flag, explaining th...

 
10:33 PM
@BenCollins Um, that's unrelated, Ben. It's not sensitive information
 
@SouthpawHare sorry, wrong @
 
This should obviously be rolled back?
nvm, just rolled back
 
@SouthpawHare I think he was referring to me
 
@TimWolla Why don't reviewer's look at the code? sigh Yep, rollback seems the right option.
 
10:35 PM
@hichris123 I have no idea, but I already reverted the change.
 
@hichris123 Ansa meh
 
@BenCollins but what about sub-sites more generally?
 
@Indolering I don't think it's something we're too keen on. what did you have in mind?
 
Basically thinking of re-posting that as a new "question"
 
10:51 PM
I'm going to have to leave SE/chat/everything until Sunday morning (central time) because I'm going on a Boy Scout campout. :( bye everybody
 
Although, I will focus less on Facebook and move to subsites.
Err, focus on subsites.
 
@Doorknob Cya!
 
As someone whom contributes to multiple OSS projects, it would be really nice to use SO as a support backend.
 
You'll lose your consecutive days count :(
 
But it's hard to incorporate that elsewhere.
 
10:52 PM
@3ventic actually, by the magic of UTC time, I can still keep it going :P
 
:D
 
What is Happy Hour?
 
I must get going, bye.
(And no, I'm not trying to evade happy hour)
 
@Indolering I see where you're going, but it's hard to see what the benefit of such sites would be. GitHub? Easily served on webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/github
 
@BenCollins but what about Namecoin?
 
10:55 PM
The hour of happiness is upon us!
 
Or ... basically any other non-gigantic project.
 
@Indolering from the bitcoin.se faq: what topics can I ask about here?
> a cryptocurrency or technology derived directly from Bitcoin such as Namecoin
 
@TimWolla The issue isn't a barrage of abuse. It's implementing a policy with a major loophole.
 
Exactly, but we need some sort of portal for our users.
 
I think tags are what you really want for most things, not subsites
 
10:56 PM
But that's all a sub-site needs to be, the presentation of tagged questions.
It's just a sugaring of the UI.
 
go ahead and post on meta, if you're really curious. I'd be curious what the response would be.
 
@Indolering What seems to be easy may not always be
 
Did all my CV reviews for the day... now @Undo won't yell at me. :P
 
:D
I think I did mine today
 
@Indolering we ripped all that code out, I can tell you what the response would be ;)
 
11:05 PM
What's Happy hour?
 
@TheWobbuffet The time when we're happy, of course! :P
 
In which we cease to be sad and become happy
 
Just Google it.
 
@NickCraver Ugh, that sucks.
 
Happy hour is a marketing term for a period of time in which a public venue, such as a restaurant, bar, bowling alley, stadium, or state/county fair, offers discounts on alcoholic drinks, such as beer, wine, and cocktails. Origin One possible origin of the term is from the United States Navy. In the 1920s, "Happy Hour" was for a scheduled entertainment period on board a ship during which boxing (or fisticuffs) and wrestling bouts took place; this was a valuable opportunity for sailors to relieve the stress accumulated during the long periods at sea. The idea of drinking before dinne...
 
11:06 PM
@hichris123 You can, then, tell me how you got into dev.SO?
@hichris123 I know that
 
I was thinking more of sugaring the UX, so the backend wouldn't need much changing.
 
@Indolering it's not an easy thing to implement, it costs complexity and often performance - think about all the things you have to scope: users, question lists, badges?, pretty much any list of anything anywhere has to be scoped to a tag list which becomes insane to get performing decently, much less well
 
@Indolering it sounds real easy when you say it fast like that :-)
 
@NickCraver fuck.
 
I know exactly what it takes, because I have a giant commit removing it :)
 
11:08 PM
@NickCraver badges. umph. they're bad enough as it is
 
you have to maintain a fork in the tag engine for it, then subtle things like the rep this week on /users means you need the rep this week from questions in those tags, which goes from a column property to insanity
 
@NickCraver I thought it could be abstracted akin to a map/reduce setup.
 
you retag a question and it disappears because it no longer matches the site, that's a thing...
 
@Indolering now it's not just sugaring the UX, see?
 
Right, you have to keep everything normalized
 
11:11 PM
@Indolering you're dealing with a sliding list of things, since tags on questions change by the second, you can't really denormalize most of these things
 
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Q: Why do sketches take up so much space and memory?

hichris123When I compile this sketch for the Yún: int led = 7; void setup() { pinMode(led, OUTPUT); } void loop() { digitalWrite(led, HIGH); } I get: Sketch uses 5,098 bytes (17%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28,672 bytes. Global variables use 153 bytes (5%...

^ Never knew Arduino compiled so many standard libraries with a sketch!
 
@hichris123 Stop dodging my one and only question :P
 
Couldn't you maintain a different database that would just track changes? You could then add hidden attributes to that external DB.
And keep the load off of the main site.
 
> Warning: this site is currently in private beta for at least a few more days. :(
 
@TimWolla It gives you that? :(
 
11:14 PM
Also: How to post questions like that? My links always result in plain links
 
@Indolering it would have to be kept in sync, and things added and removed...even then lists and rep have to be calculated on the fly so where's the win?
 
@hichris123 Yeah, I did not commit to it. While I worked with Arduino already I don't think I'd be able to answer any question.
 
anyway, we've been down this road, it's very painful in many ways. We're very happy all that code has been removed - including all the parts of managing a different site type I didn't mention :)
 
Okay
 
Charcoal is In Review :D
Sometimes this takes 5 minutes, sometimes it takes days... I have no idea why...
 
11:21 PM
I'm in a car
 
@Indolering to give you an idea:
 
@NickCraver I thought all of this was implimenting using the REST API?
implemented*
 
the subsites?
 
@NickCraver Just curious about the VCS: What are you using? git?
 
hg currently, headed for git most likely
 
11:27 PM
And don't you fear us reverse engineering the diff using the displayed hash and building our own Stack Overflow bit for bit? :D
 
nope, community makes SO, not the code
 
Stop stealing clever remarks out of Shog's head.
 
@NickCraver That's an answer I expected :)
 
meh, everyone that works here knows that, especially those of us with access to the code =P
 
@NickCraver But the community wouldn't exist without the code!
There would be no community.
 
11:40 PM
@hichris123
WTF... Charcoal's still In Review!
 
11:58 PM
area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/38732/expatriates I wonder how long it's gonna take for the last one
 

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