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12:38 AM

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This is what happens when people don't. Give. Up!!

@michaelb958 :D

Hi once again

Workaround: two-part conversation.

On mod messages, stubbornness, and Godwin's Law (part 1 of 2)

3 hours ago, 1 hour 13 minutes total – 400 messages, 18 users, 32 stars

Bookmarked 4 mins ago by michaelb958

On mod messages, stubbornness, and Godwin's Law (part 2 of 2)

2 hours ago, 35 minutes total – 124 messages, 11 users, 1 star

Bookmarked 3 mins ago by michaelb958

@3ventic Hi. There's been ...some drama.

I was here about an hour and a half ago.. What did I miss during that?

I just got my first gold badge on mso and so

@3ventic In the past hour and a half, ...I don't think much actually happened. It's been less than a big screenful since then, and half of that was those oneboxes up there.

Blue Ice

12:47 AM

@3ventic Congrats!

Im on mobile so I wont open too many links

Desktop version of the chat is so much better than the mobile one..

Blue Ice

Desktop version of everything is better than the mobile one :)

Mobile doesnt even send the msg when you use enter

It inserts a new line and hides what you typed before

CenturyLink sent us a letter saying that our current service would be ending next week, and if we wanted to continue using CenturyLink, we'd need to upgrade to their new Prism service. My dad went online to change, and it says that Prism is not available in our area.

Shog9

1:08 AM

@animuson wrong site. nsa.gov

1:35 AM

is this weird?

I mean... that's more than a year ago...

@Braiam The flags queue only shows when the first flag was cast. So someone cast a flag on Dec 1 '12, which got declined or dismissed or whatever. And then recently another person flagged it.

mm... sounds legit

2:06 AM

Oooo I got another gold badge on The Workplace.

feels good?

@michaelb958 what the heck is Godwin's Law and how it's related?

Anna Lear

Godwin's law

Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies) is an assertion made by American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990 In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inapprop...

@AnnaLear yeah, reading it now...

is just a sad day for Psychologists... someone used their research and theories as weapon to support a weak argument where the only rhetoric was "Y U NOT AGREE WITH ME"... but meh... moving on...

Ben Collins

@Braiam I thought it was particularly interesting that he rests his claims of expertise in psychology on having been a patient

not that I think real psychologists have tons of credibility anyway

@BenCollins I did not read that bit...

Ben Collins

2:18 AM

3 hours ago, by Sam

I was a patient for some years

@BenCollins well... but their analysis sounds logic to me...

@BenCollins oh god... in that case he should return...

2:32 AM

errg. I forgot to bounty then answer. facepalm.

ARRRGH

@Seth +1 for the suggestion. I'd really like that to be fixed...

@hichris123 Yeah, me too.

Aaaand bounty started.

Can you award a bounty to your own answer?

nope.

What I was betting... but can Community auto-award it to you?

2:38 AM

@AnnaLear That. Is. Interesting...

@hichris123 Nope.

\o @RaghavSood

Anna Lear

I'm very confused. Why are you starting a bounty if you just want to give it to yourself?

@AnnaLear because @Seth

:/

@AnnaLear I'm not, I just wanted my otherwise "bounty text" to stay around when the bounty was over.

I suppose I could have done it in the comments...

I'm really tired right now.

@AnnaLear If you want to convert it to a comment, go ahead.

Anna Lear

meh. it's meta, etc.

Q: How do I motivate my rabbit to eat more hay?

4

I'm well aware that hay is a fundamental part of a rabbit's diet. However, my rabbit has become very picky with its food, over time. He eats mostly fruit peels, some vegetables, carrots, and about half of the contents of pellet mix foods, leaving most of the hay untouched. That is, unless it is a...

Interesting question.

hey.. How did my meta name change? Errg. I'm pingable again!

2:51 AM

@Seth is so much easier to ping... :D

3:02 AM

holy crap....i didn't know there was a pets SE site

...

@hichris123 Someday.. I will fix that >:D

@Seth How do we know your "fix" wasn't just changing your name back? :P

3:24 AM

@Seth: OK, perhaps not clear as much as you think?

sigh Robo-reviewers... they don't even know the tag is misspelled: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4152061

hah, that guy has been retagging posts the last couple hours

all the same tfs-migration tag

3:52 AM

var w = new WebSocket("ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com/"); w.onmessage = function(e) { console.log(e) }; w.onopen = function() { w.send("155-questions-active") };

Surprisingly fun.

eh?

It's just giving me HTTP 500s.

/me is always surprised how much easier it is to get stuff deleted by 10K- users.

4:09 AM

@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen nah, you just want my mum account

Q: Building a webcam viewer for desktop

-1

I am working on a software whose basic functionality will include one of those of any other web cam viewer. That is to display live video feed. I am using qt for GUI. please suggest which library should I use to access webcam and display it's video feed.

linux qt webcam viewer

@LaszloPapp IMMA GOING TO KILL YOU!

Library suggestion is off-topic on SO. It is better to ask it on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com. — Laszlo Papp 6 mins ago

in Whining Room, 4 hours ago, by michaelb958

Software Recommendations is on the hotlist. Let the whining commence.

sends Gilles to hunt down @LaszloPapp

@michaelb958 wait, seriously?

/me has no idea what Braiam is talking about

4:13 AM

@Braiam Seriously what?

@Undo ^^

@michaelb958 SR in the ~~whining~~ hot list?

Q: Tool to check if a website is available

@Braiam It was then.

6

As we're a web software development company, we've got many applications running on different servers. Sometimes, we get notified about some of them being down by different issues. Is there any server/application/tool which checks the state of a given url (performing raw HTTP GET requests) sequ...

web-apps email http web-server

4:34 AM

HAMMERTIME!

@LaszloPapp SR mod here. Please, please link to the guidelines. We aren't big enough to handle a flood of low-quality questions from SO.

Then link to the guideline on the main page.

you not having enough man power should not put the burden on others; that is a bit selfish thinking. Just make the site intuitive.

I'm asking you to do a very simple thing. Just link to the guidelines.

@Braiam Of course I do. runs

@Undo: and I am asking you to reconsider your request.

Surely, making the site intuitive is more productive than putting the burden on many people's shoulder?!

4:36 AM

Can you explain why linking to the guidelines is so hard?

because I would need to look up the link?

Can you explain why linking to the guidelines from the main site is so hard?

@LaszloPapp ok, lets do this... don't tell OP about us ;)

Because mods can't do that.

yes, please don't link to the site without linking to the guidelines.

if mods cannot moderate the site, it is not worth by its definition. I am really sorry to think it this way, but I do not find it reasonable what you are writing.

Q: Please stop using Programmers.SE as your toilet bowl

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Stack Overflow users have been using the "off topic - belongs on Programmers.SE" close reason as an alternative to all the other close reasons. It'd be helpful if people actually read the FAQ and the guidelines for six subjective questions before voting to migrate questions like: What's your fa...

discussion off-topic programmers-se

4:38 AM

is it bad form to answer obvious homework questions?

I will link... because I wanna help people looking for answers.

make your site good, or blame yourself for the consequences.

Josh Caswell

@LaszloPapp, trying to redirect a low-quality question to another site, especially one that just entered public beta, is just plain rude. When someone pees in your gardenias, you don't tell him to pee in your neighbor's instead. You tell him not to pee on flowers.

4

question i'm talking about: stackoverflow.com/questions/22004521/…

do not blame ALL the other people who do not put extra effort into super minimal things that can be addressed with a little bit of effort from the site moderators, seriously.

@JoshCaswell: what is plain rude is having such a tone

@LaszloPapp meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=don%27t+migrate+crap

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4:39 AM

just because people have different opinions.

but anyway, I already lost my interest about SR, so please skip this discussion. It is yet another weirdly moderated site.

@LaszloPapp don't worry, we get 15 Q/day which is excellent for something that just entered public beta, traffic will follow given enough time

I think I requested to please skip the discussion?

and please stop discussing this on SO, as well.

if you wanna remain lazy and not put one damn link into the main site, go to meta and show your laziness in there.

@LaszloPapp Oh. So you're magically entitled to the last word? If @Braiam was hounding you on the subject a week later, you might have a right to be upset, but one final comment in response to something you said is hardly inappropriate.

@LaszloPapp Here's the bottom line: Software Recommendations is a new site, and they're expecting a lot of spam and other crap simply because of the site's topic. It's kind of the nature. They don't want people randomly being directed there just because they had a software request. If you don't want to link to their guidelines, fine, then don't link to their site at all.

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@LaszloPapp No. Go say that to the programmers.SE people, and see what happens. They have the people to handle incoming crap, but they are pissed off by people who don't know the site saying "try it on programmers.se". You're the one telling that user to go to SR.SE, it is your responsibility to be correct in that, or don't leave that comment.

3

4:44 AM

@animuson: I whole-heartedly disagree with that, and I will not follow it. You can suspend me for the disagreement.

If a site like Programmers gets annoyed when you do that, then I think @Undo is within his rights to ask you not to link to the site, for a fledgling beta.

what a nonsense discussion when a link could be put in a few seconds....

@LaszloPapp yes, by you

good luck to hunting many people, and put burden into their shoulders.

I will be unquestionably deleting any comments linking to Software Recommendations that don't explain what the site expects as well, and I will encourage other SO moderators to do the same.

5

4:45 AM

Undo was saying that you should do that in the future

@animuson: good luck, and nice time wasting.

I would have just asked you not to leave such comments, period, but Undo is patient enough to be OK with incoming crap.

@LaszloPapp In other words, you're planning to direct people to a site where their question will be off topic, because you couldn't be bothered to look up what's on topic there, and you're accusing other people of laziness?

3

@LaszloPapp You lost interest in SR? Then please don't fling crap at it.

6

G'night, peeps.

4:48 AM

Would you like it if I went around telling everyone "Party at Laszlo's house!", when there wasn't one? Same thing.

3

Is this a record for most starred messages in an hour? :P

I am not at all surprised this new site has already had several moderator issues.

@hichris123 apparently you haven't been in the Tavern for a while :p

a year ago this would be easy

Ben Collins

interesting day in the tavern today

we should get martini icons or something

@hichris123: on meta, they might get homogeneous minuses though. ;-)

4:52 AM

@Ben Heh, yeah. And it's all my doing :D

takes credit

@Undo DON'T YOU DARE!

D:

@LaszloPapp Yes, because there are guidelines written by the community, which the moderators have to enforce. It's hard enough for the mods, why do you have to armchair critic them? They're doing a volunteer job. Don't make it harder for them.

@Manishearth: THEY make it harder for us.

@Manish Nope, I think I started being in here around 100-ish days ago, when I first created a Meta account...

4:53 AM

@LaszloPapp The community makes policies that make it harder for you

Stop blaming the mods.

Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

216

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned responses), which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to thi...

script

but anyway, I will not waste more time on discussing this nonsense. If you wanna chase all the people, good, waste your own time instead of putting up a link. But this is my last comment to this topic.

And if you think linking people to a site that will reject their question is "helping" ... well, good luck on that

5:09 AM

\o

I don't think it is good practice to paste only the code in the answer

What you guys think ?

@LaszloPapp dat atittude :/

@Williams that it has been discussed on meta several times. You can look up the answers, the general sentiment agrees with what you just said.

@Williams i'm not a mod but i agree with that 99% of the time

let me dig that thread

Josh Caswell

5:25 AM

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/95470/… and others linked from that, @Williams

Q: I'm getting "Oops! Something Bad Happened!" when visiting Meta SO chat

5:57 AM

thanks all

8

I am seeing a very strange issue on the Meta Stackoverflow Chat. Stack Overflow's chat is working for me fine, this is just the Meta's chat that doesn't work. Does anybody know why this is happening?

support bug chat meta

Guys what I do for this

Now I am able to logged on meta chat well

It was weird thing that time

Just tried something on SR softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/1614/846

I also asked one in the meta: meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/654/…

@Williams: I usually leave a comment to ask for some explanation to be more educative, and it works fine in my experience.

@Undo is my SR question appropriate?

please use mSR for SR related issues.

Wat? I did use meta.sr and I pinged a specific user in this room to ask for feedback about something I asked about.

6:12 AM

@Williams: I do not think there is much more you can do, unless it is a non-working code.

Oh okay

@Williams: it would be sad to remove working code regardless it has no explanation. Also, sometimes they do comment the code which is as good as the explanation.

@BenjaminGruenbaum: why would you need to ping? You have only asked this five minutes ago. Perhaps, you can be more patient and you will get feedback in there?

@LaszloPapp pings are used to notify a specific user. I was notifying undo because I wanted interested in his opinion specifically. This is all clarified in the chat FAQ I believe.

I do not think it is a good idea to turn this chat room into an SR room, and ping people around literaly a couple of minutes after questions.

The site has already had several dramas here, and I would personally appreciate to take it elsewhere, but this is just my opinion.

Ok, great. You are entitled to have that opinion, but stop patronizing me. I'm fully capable of making my own "chat usage" decisions. If I want to ping a specific user about their opinion on something that's perfectly within reasonable usage of this chat. I don't feel like you'd have that reaction if I pinged him about my car, or JavaScript.

A: How to make and deploy a self-signed ClickOnce manifest with Visual Studio 2012

6:20 AM

it is not "perfectly" reasonable. You could have a chat for the new SR site if you really want to make a fuss about it.

-1

I want to create self signed certificate. looks like this link is broken.. can you please guide me on this? thanks

Or, and just hear me out here, you can try to stop telling me what is acceptable conduct in SE when we're in a room full of CMs and mods that would have gladly told me if I was out of line when I pinged a user I know asking for their opinion.

CMs and mods are not your personal followers. They do not watch each step of yours, but really why do you need the impatience? I mean, you posted two posts within a very short while, and literally within a couple of minutes, a ping here. Do we really need that much buzz about SR in this room?

This has been ongoing since yesterday.

It's not like I'm a new chat user, I have 70K messages in chat - that's more than 10 messages for every one you have. I'm also a room owner of one of the more popular SO chat rooms. While I appreciate criticism, I would also appreciate passing it and then not arguing about it.

@LaszloPapp I posted a ping here because I wanted to notify a specific user I want their attention on that subject - I've already said that (and it's covered in the chat FAQ).

Please show me where it is covered in the FAQ that it is good to flood this channel with SR. As I said, this has been ongoing since yesterday, and frankly, I am not happy about the SR discussions that has happened in here the last couple of hours since yesterday. So far, it has been more demotivating than fruitful.

But I will leave this topic here.

You're always welcome to open your own room and decide on the etiquette as you please there (as long as it's on topic with mso as a whole).

@balpha I feel like your post on localStorage multithreading in your blog, while a good read is somewhat misleading.

6:29 AM

it's certainly not current anymore; I do plan a follow-up

what do you mean by misleading?

@balpha well, yesterday a user posted this: stackoverflow.com/a/22001288/1348195

...and?

The operations in LockableStorage itself are not atomic. It is possible that two tabs will acquire the lock at the same time.

_mutexTransaction is not a mutex transaction.

Anyway, I got to go, bus got to the bus stop :) Have a good day everyone.

(Also, you're throwing strings there :P)

@BenjaminGruenbaum well, that's the point of the Lamport algorithm. How do you see it failing?

user202362

for some bizarre reasons, javascript reminds me of bananas

user202362

6:39 AM

Also what's the topic for this chat?

user202362

You can't be off-topic on a chat that has no topic

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@BenjaminGruenbaum your answer's main is point is correct though; you should use the storage event. That's what I want to follow up on. When I wrote that post, the event wasn't stable yet across current browsers, but these days it pretty much is.

@balpha: hmm, just read the post out of curiosity; interesting reading.

@balpha I'm on mobile now (off my bus) but I'll try to create an isolated example later. I'd love to read that follow up :)

As for your look at Chrome, yes, they fixed it in the meantime. Try it in IE, it's still broken there.

6:44 AM

@balpha: even in the new IE?

I actually abuse IPC between IE BHOs through storage events in IE. Quite a messy hack :D

@LaszloPapp I recently tested in IE11

A: How to fix the nullpointerexception that comes up in Eclipse when trying to open an Android XML file?

6:58 AM

ok

/me has just submitted the 500th answer.

-1

I solve the problem the same @Marek Walasek (by closing all the open files in the eclipse and reopen the eclipse)

-4

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3 spam posts, registered today....

an account that has to go...

I wonder if the spam filter can be improved.

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A: Arduino and QtSerialPort opening always false

Try this: main.cpp #include <QtSerialPort/QtSerialPort> #include <iostream> int main() { QSerialPort serialPort; serialPort.setPortName("yourportpath"); // Hard code it for a test if (!serialPort.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) { std::cout << "Error: " << serialPort.error() << s...

editd by community? Funky.

ManishBot

7:20 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: D:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20131030\sdk\tools\lib\find_java.exe is not an internal or external command in android on stackoverflow.com

Someone's been going around casting a lot of primarily-opinion-based votes on things...

that is fine.

Things on Meta, that is.

@LaszloPapp actually, three accounts as of now

7:35 AM

@JanDvorak: hmm?

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Maximum scale dependent visibility changes from 1:0 to -2147483648:1 on gis.stackexchange.com

nuked one post, two answers left with -7 score on SO

yes, but what three accounts?

academia, travel, SO

ok, I do not follow the formers.

wow, 24227 rep in nine months

7:38 AM

of the guy you linked his answer to

not that bad.

user2357112

24.2k 2 12 37

python numpy python-2.7 list java python-3.x arrays

8:12 AM

(SPAM) drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/104638/…

(cc @Manishearth)

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: D:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20131030\sdk\tools\lib\find_java.exe is not an internal or external command while from command promt on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: JAVA WEB APPLICATION HTTP STATUS 500 on stackoverflow.com

Just a reminder, to turn the bot off ping Undo or hichris and ask them to run !!/stappit in the HQ

8:49 AM

(SPAM) drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/104642/…

(SPAM) english.stackexchange.com/questions/153921/…

(SPAM/offensive/???) meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/222898/…

what should I flag this^ as?

Ehm, if there is a mod here, I guess we have a candidate for an account nuke. meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/222898/… The question itself is ...

But the profile pick is ..... shudder

On a positive note, they did get the informed badge ...

9:06 AM

Hi guys

Can I draw your attention for just one minute?

Have a look at this question: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/222681/…

The guy who opened it is saying he opened an interesting question

(65 upvotes for the question and 48 upvotes for the accepted answer, 18 for the second answer etc)

jmort253 edited it to remove some of the "trigger words" that make folks want to cast close votes.

the question was deleted so if you think now it worths to be reopened just vote to do it

Deleted by ...

user202362

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@Bart I don't know

I can't see it

You are a mod?

Nope

A curiosity.. I've discovered that the traffic on StackOverflow is 170x the traffic on meta!

9:35 AM

(SPAM) gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/157653/…

That was gone before I could flag

good morning btw

10:49 AM

interesting picture. :)

11:21 AM

@Undo Today I'm trying to contribute to SE meta in a better way. I hope you will appreciate my effort.. meta.stackoverflow.com/users/247814/sam

I gave up on suggested edit reviewing

Same here @rene.

I tried gaming the system by entering a non existing suggested edit and then wait for it to appear. Then I get one, decide to reject....fail...already approved...

11:50 AM

@rene what you mean "non existing suggested edit"?

Take note of the last number http://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4156392 add say 100, http://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4156492 that will give a 404 until a suggested edit is generated.

You hit F5 often enough to be the first, but slow enough to prevent being throttled

@rene lol... it's not really gaming the system you can also use this to wait for new questions, other review items etc. But yeah, it's amazing how quickly edits tend to get approved or rejected. (usually approved even if total crap)

I dropped from constant 20 per day to "once in a while", still didn't give up completely.

I did 20 yesterday only because of requests for reject votes in this room

we need review bot

robo crap rejector

should I attempt to build one? For starters, I could look around how to build a turbo-refresh

12:04 PM

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4156571 I'm so done with this...

step #2: training. Step #3: supervised rejection (without a chance of successful rejects. Step #4: let it roam wild and kill some innocent edits in the process.

Step #5: let it flag bad reviewers on my behalf (i've never been flag-banned :-)

sounds like a solid design

Actually, just rejecting everything will let me avoid review audits and achieve a better accuracy than most humans.

@JanDvorak sad, but so true

@Rahul only editing in backticks is NOT Proper formatting is done — rene 36 secs ago

12:11 PM

@rene lost cause, for him it's totally valid. I fear only edit ban will stop him.

otherwise they never learn

@ShadowWizard it won't, thanks to our bots

12:28 PM

I need advice you guys

Is it a good thing to mix romance and business?

Because I got this E-Mail

@Pëkka always a bad thing

@ShadowWizard you're probably right.

But she wants to send me pics and a business proposal

Oh, Juliet... you must give this a chance

That's a relief! I will write to her post haste.

yup

also give her your credit card number and bank account and send her your home keys with a messenger

she will be SO happy!

12:31 PM

But that's only for when we've established mutual trust.

Anyway, the robo reviewers problem is deeper than we thought

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4142630

i.e. after 2 or 3 E-Mails.

Stack Exchange developer has approved a horrible edit

@ShadowWizard O_o

@ShadowWizard EEEEEEK

Yep. Six E's

12:33 PM

Heh.

You can ping any diamond in here, right?

Well, he stands behind his decision

@ShadowWizard because "As per i know" is not proper English - new revision was clearer. I am going to delete these comments in 15 minutes. If you want to continue more, email me a yellis @ (the domain of this website). — Yaakov Ellis 1 min ago

I intend to email him soon, unless somebody else want the honor?

> Yaakov Ellis has approved 368 edit suggestions and rejected 33 review audits

Let him focus on fixing bugs

or add new cool features

Let the reviewing be done by the pro's

:-)

Jeroen Vannevel

@ShadowWizard: I stink at tagging on meta. I thought I had found a few good tags this time :(

12:39 PM

@JeroenVannevel no harm done, all good! :)

1:15 PM

which is the highest voted answer on SO?

@JanDvorak O.o

@ShadowWizard: what is wrong about stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4142630 ?

Looks like a legit and useful grammar fix.

@LaszloPapp It's still wrong as it has "i" instead of "I" and it removed the code formatting.

It's actually a rollback to revision 1

@ShadowWizard: I do not see that a big problem since it is a short post, and the original grammar reads awkward.

@LaszloPapp not big, just a drop in the ocean of bad edits

but annoying drop

1:26 PM

In fact, for such short posts, I would also remove the code formatting, and I would use ` ... ` at best.

I find it useful rather than annoying.

the existing grammar was wrong, even for me as a non-native speaker.

A: Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

10825

You are the victim of branch prediction fail. What is Branch Prediction? Consider a railroad junction: Image by Mecanismo, from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entroncamento_do_Transpraia.JPG Now for the sake of argument, suppose this is back in the 1800s - before...

How to find: stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3aanswer

Somehow Jon Skeet is only third, way beyond the most upvoted answer

heh, and this answer is not even from the old times.

Q: Why is deleting a comment called a "comment vote"?

Nope, and it keeps getting upvotes on a daily basis stackoverflow.com/posts/11227809/timeline

This is a proof Stack Overflow is alive and kicking for all those who claim SO is dead and hostile

Think this one should be reopened

-1

EDIT: Let me break it down to something even simpler. I understand that this is a status-by-design bug. I also understand that the deletion of a comment is implemented as a vote for deletion. The only thing I cannot get my head around is: Why can we not change the text that is displayed? Is it...

discussion comments

@ShadowWizard can we crank it up an extra digit so that it overflows into the body rather than just killing the margin?

1:38 PM

oh. :-(

lol

They're too smart for us

JW Lim

Hello. Can anyone explain to me why this suggested edit was rejected? I thought of posting a question on meta, but figured I'd try chat first. stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4153466

not exactly. The margin does reduce

@ShadowWizard that's because he used an easy to understand example to make his answer readable even for people that know next to nothing...

JW Lim

I just want to know so future mistakes can be avoided