I cannot possibly imagine how else to answer that question. If the answer gets deleted that means, the question has to be closed, or the answer would need to be left around. Currently, I do not see any other reasonable way to go about it.
The only thing I know about Lua is that it is used to develop Ion (which is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.)
Since I'm on SO, I can see some question about Lua, about 80 question with this tag, so I was wondering if someone could tell me briefly what this lan...
@JasonC No, it's dynamically sized, but it needs to work for small sizes too. I suppose it doesn't have to be that small, but I just resized it to be tiny for a screenshot :P
@Doorknob It needs to go underneath or on the right. On top and on the left distract from the information. Underneath if taller than wider. On the right or underneath if wider than taller. Avoid right side if correct / incorrect is the only info you have to display and you don't have anything else to take up the negative space with.
Is it actually important that the user know # correct at all times? You could also make a swipe-y thing that hides it.
@JasonC Hm, I could definitely make space underneath. Although I might want to add a timer or something, but that would be good as a horizontal progress bar-ish thingy too. Thanks for the UI advice :P
^ what it looks like in a full window. I'm going to add ability to resize so that it's not so ridiculously big but too lazy for that right now and I have other stuff to do :P
(and by ridiculously big I mean RIDICULOUSLY BIG as you can see :D)
So, I'll put all the information about the current game on the bottom. Thanks ;) Now I need to become unconcious on top of a ball of fluff go to sleep.
Write a Python function that will test a function.
When the Old Gents Club members get together for a party, they like to smoke cigars. A Gents Party is successful when the number of cigars is between 40 and 60, inclusive. Unless it is a weekend, in which case there is no upper bund on the numb...
^ Wow. Triple party foul. Question as answer, plus homework dump, plus not even related to the original question.
It has been like that for a couple of days now again on Stack Overflow. Reading that this issue comes up very 2-3 months at least, why is it not fixed for "once and all". OK, bugs can always, but it is a bit too frequent IMHO. — Laszlo Papp6 secs ago
I am now on implementing Android applications in development team. My co-worker said that "Instantiation is not good at memory resource" and he maid so many static variables. I think that it is not good design model and said my opinion to him but, he did not listen me and I don't persuade him.
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When you have an answer, tell me how you will stop your users using a separate camera to take a photo of the screen. I'd like to know how that is done.
I understand that everything on SO is under CC. Still how ok is it to edit one's answer after other answers pop up adding something like: "As this answer states, you should be..."
Essentially incorporating parts from other answers into one's own answer.
But it doesn't sound too right, does it? I answer the question considering one approach. Later I see other answers. Subsequently, I edit my answer saying that you could also do such as mentioned in answer X or answer Y.
It's almost as if it'd take some additional privileges to be able to see the other answers.
@devnull it's not needed or beneficial to collect two different approaches to one answer. But if it's one multi-part solution, then go ahead, combine partial answers into one.
multi-part solution = each person had spotted a different bug (and yes, the question should be closed in that case, too).
If you don't add anything of your own, consider making your answer a CW
What was the point in editing an answer to include the information in one's own answer?
I've seen this happen often in various tags. Amusingly ones that do it often are the trusted ones. Is this expected of a trusted user or is it the requirement for being one?
> Boss: AJ, we have 3 dogs, 2 rabbits, a catapult, and a nun. We need to find a way to get all 7 (yes, the catapult too) over a 20-foot wall and into the lake on the other side without the dogs eating any rabbits, and without drowning the nun. How long will it take you to come up with the solution?
Because in local declaration
char Var=Var;
the right occurrence of Var refers to the local Var, not the upperone.
So your declaration does not initialize Var at all, i.e. Var contains garbage. In your particular case, that garbage happens to be 0.
BTW, having two homonyms Var in the same fu...
@devnull I think I understand your point but in the case you now use a reference I doubt that is the case. That user not only added the compile flag but also an extra hint on how to debug such cases which was not in the answer referenced
It's more like since I answered first (and I'm a high-rep user), I have the liberty to take anything from any answer, possibly modify it and include it my own.
Don't know -- this was a specific example but it's not uncommon. I've deleted my answers in the past when other users pretty much did the same (including the answer with or without attributing).
If this absorbing is so ok, then a question should have only one answer. More like a community wiki that folks can edit.
There is little point in having a number of answers since it's ok for one of the answers to pick up stuff from the rest and modify it later.
That is the point. The other answer has been made redundant by including relevant parts from it. How different would it be if there were only one answer to a question?
Or do people trust only the answer by a given user on SO? So it becomes morally binding on part of that user to provide them all information contained in other answers.
I must say that certain users here fill me with disgust.
@devnull It's perfectly fine to include another answer in your own, that's what the whole CC licensing thing is about. If it's a nice thing to do is another question.
Up now on Off-Topic Comments: a really bad typo in a comment on Super User.
Instead of terminating Explorer.exe via Task Manager, you can cleanly exit it by opening the Start Menu, hold CTRL+SHIT and right-click on an empty area (such as near the Power options). An option to Exit Explorer should appear in the context menu. Explorer can then be restarted using Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC). — NickMar 25 at 20:46
@ProgramFOX There are certain keywords (like "accept", for accept-rate reasons) that reduce the autodelete threshold to 1 flag. Expletives could be on the keyword list.
How should we handle an user that keeps posting variation of the same question again and again? I notice an user on SharePoint that must be stuck on a project and keeps asking micro-questions for each possible aspect of the project.
To be clearer (not the actual questions but should help understanding what I mean): first he ask how to create a feature in VS, then how to scope the feature, then how to add a module to the feature, then how to limit the feature to the root site etc etc etc.
I have noticed a couple of times OPs who ask a series of questions, each one of which may have (albeit dubious) merit, but which overall are an attempt to develop software by asking a question for every tiny step of the process. How can this best be dealt with?
Nope. We ride mine carts in roller coaster like caves, escape from giant rolling rocks and sometime we also jump down from an airplane in a inflatable rubber boat.
Hmm... the top answer to the question I found says that mods can only undelete comments deleted by a mod, and not self-deleted comments. Perhaps they also cannot undelete comments that are removed by flags.
@demongolem That case you brought up in chat yesterday, I've flagged it. Hopefully a mod will take care of it. (And hopefully, you'll get this message....)
@mehow if it's because of this getting many downvotes it's a shame as it's a simple misunderstanding. Anyway, guess you made up your mind so bye and all the best!
@mehow It's completely up to you of course, but it'd be a waste if those downvotes make you leave. I'm sure after 232 days you've learned that Meta suffers from bipolar disorder ;)
I must say I haven't yet experienced such things, luckily. You could try changing your username and avatar. Or if it's consistently the same people, talk to a CM.
@ShadowWizard We did some testing on this in Minecraft, the community team will be walking 'round the place holding wheat in our hands and the unicorns will follow us. — Tim Post ♦2 mins ago
I noticed that sometimes my code gets highlighted in different colors when rendered.
What is syntax highlighting?
How does it work?
What if my code isn't highlighted correctly?
How do I report a bug or request a new language?
What languages are currently available on Stack Exchange?
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I think that what happened is that if we use html as tag (what you tried to do) then the JavaScript tag in the question itself overrides it, so we must override the language itself.
Not all of them mind you, just Meta Stack Overflow into Meta Stack Exchange.
I'll have you know, factually, that we really did believe this would take place in six-to-eight weeks when it was originally announced, but we've finally got a tentative date established.
If things go according to plan...
@mehow Nope. MSO just gets renamed to MSE (so you keep your existing rep, modulo migrations), and a new MSO is created (on which you have your SO rep).
The description for the Proofreader badge is: "Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits." Does that mean that the "Edit" action does not count towards this badge?
@3ventic eh? If you mean this account of yours it's four bounies. You can have three together, wait two days to grant one and start another. Within 48 hours, you can have less than 10k again. :D
I've always managed to fix my git messes but I've had a few times where I wished I've had on the screen in big bold letters YOU'RE IN THE WRONG BRANCH YOU MORON!!!! before I committed.
I want to develop an API similar to google places API. Can anyone please tell me how to develop API. Which language and tool is most suitable to develop API? If possible give me some example ASAP.....
@Flexo Should stackoverflow.com/a/22967210/616460 have been deleted? I'm not disputing, just wondering if that type of answer is generally invalid (OP summarized answer from question comments in his own answer and posted that, and it was the only answer).
@JanDvorak Yeah, that's why I tried to pre-emptively prevent it's deletion with a comment and an invalid flag. It happens to start with "thank you" (so gut reaction is naa) but it's actually an answer otherwise. Kind of an odd case, I suppose.
Yes. Answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
I've seen so many "This is probably off topic, but I'm asking it here because of the amount of traffic StackOverflow gets!" questions I've lost count. And people still love getting book recommendations as much as peo...
Why is it that Stack Overflow Careers says "Employer Views: 2" under "Your profile" on the home page, but it says "Views: 0" on my actual Careers profile page?
@rene It really had not much to do with the question, and the question never asked What database should I use instead, it just asked something like what are the differences, etc.
When you have an answer, tell me how you will stop your users using a separate camera to take a photo of the screen. I'd like to know how that is done.
Because in local declaration
char Var=Var;
the right occurrence of Var refers to the local Var, not the upperone.
So your declaration does not initialize Var at all, i.e. Var contains garbage. In your particular case, that garbage happens to be 0.
BTW, having two homonyms Var in the same fu...
I have noticed a couple of times OPs who ask a series of questions, each one of which may have (albeit dubious) merit, but which overall are an attempt to develop software by asking a question for every tiny step of the process. How can this best be dealt with?
I noticed that sometimes my code gets highlighted in different colors when rendered.
What is syntax highlighting?
How does it work?
What if my code isn't highlighted correctly?
How do I report a bug or request a new language?
What languages are currently available on Stack Exchange?
Return to...
I want to develop an API similar to google places API. Can anyone please tell me how to develop API. Which language and tool is most suitable to develop API? If possible give me some example ASAP.....
Yes. Answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
I've seen so many "This is probably off topic, but I'm asking it here because of the amount of traffic StackOverflow gets!" questions I've lost count. And people still love getting book recommendations as much as peo...
