I'm looking at several questions. Sometimes I can comment because there is a clear mechanism to do so, a big edit field similar to the one offered for an answer.
Other times, even on very recent issues, I cannot find how to submit a comment. The topic doesn't look closed in any way I can see and...
In compliance with massive requests I passed to write comments only
I cannot find anywhere the list of my comments made.
How can I see the list of my comments and order them by time?
I'm looking at several questions. Sometimes I can comment because there is a clear mechanism to do so, a big edit field similar to the one offered for an answer.
Other times, even on very recent issues, I cannot find how to submit a comment. The topic doesn't look closed in any way I can see and...
@NickCraver well, that's conflating functionality that doesn't necessarily belong together. Which did happen with locking (now also closes when applied to questions), but I'm not sure is justified with protections.
My gut feeling is that a question controversial enough to even be in danger of closing should probably also be locked: these tend to be the massive CW discussion-fests, and it'd be nice to encourage editing over answering once they hit that point.
The ashtray is off to the right, so it's mostly on the desk, the carpet and maybe some on the mouse. It's more about misjudging the ash. I keep forgetting that I ignored the cigar for too long due to typing, so of course it'll likely fall off.
Officially, CW posts are those that should be open to community editing.
It is not the official position of SO that CW should be used for subjective or non-technical questions, though a lot of users treat them that way. This is different than the official policy for the new SE 2.0 sites.
Even though I would hate it, it would make things easier if the Team would just officially adopt the position of the SE 2.0 sites, that CW is for subjective questions (roughly).
Then we could get rid of CW as is and have a new Wiki mode with the question and one single answer that everyone adds their thoughts to (for list of X questions).
If your question doesn't have a discrete, "This is the answer to this question for all time" then it's probably a subjective question looking for opinions.
@George, just read your comment fully. I would have no problem with that Wiki mode, though it might cut participation down without the incentive. I would like to reward those who give those good technical answers.
I'm not sure why so many people are hung up on giving rep to those who post good technical answers to list questions.
@lance Best practices are inherently subjective. Best to whom? I don't know about you, but I follow the Robert C. Martin school of OOP -- there are those that think that's evil.
@devinb Using Statements rock; and I wish people used them more, but some would argue they could do the same thing with try{} finally { this.Dispose();}
Unfortunately in my current code base the architects decided they should add the references to the objects to an array and then when the entire dataservice is torn down they should remove those objects from the array and dispose of them then.
I am hoping to make this question and the answers to it the definitive guide to dealing with daylight saving time, in particular for dealing with the actual change overs.
If you have anything to add, please do
Many systems are dependent on keeping accurate time, the problem is with changes to t...
Ew. There should be an answer that is marked CW; and all the 'answers' put in there. I'm not a fan of the 'answer in the question'. It makes it harder to navigate.
Speaking of CW, I just posted a lame answer to a question about cd vs chdir (that really should belong on superuser) and marked my answer CW. Then added to it to make it more serious and it got accepted...
I have three items.
Provided Example Question
Has the lack of Flash support on the iPad impacted your technology decision in a recent Rich Internet Application project? If so, how?
Who is an expert?
Consider these SO users. Which of them are experts, for the purposes of this question?
I...
This is representative of the comments in the code:
#region Shrimp Base Class /// <summary> /// The console is made up of little applications, each called a "Shrimp". /// /// Shrimps can be stateful, the Console creates Shrimps on loads and keeps /// them in memory. /// /// It was hard to mix the words "Console" and "-let" to make something /// akin to "applet", so I chose the word "Shrimp", which means little, to /// stand for my "Console-lets". /// </summary>
@GeorgeStocker I dealt with a situation where the user control relied on the what stylesheet was applied to an individual (hardcoded string) id of a particular div on a different user control which might be on the page.
I used the style on a different item (unknowningly) and the entire app blew up.
@HoLyVieR You mean because of the excellent quality and razor-sharp wit, right?
@Shog9 Edit it! PLEASE! I'm too much in love with my own writing. In my head, ALL the points are needed, I don't have the objectivity to tell which points are too nuanced to be distinct.
@GeorgeStocker Aren't there still quality of answers. Some best practices answers are great, and some suck. Don't you think that the community should rate these technical list answers, just like they rate other technical answers.
@Lance Roberts: I think they're bikeshed questions and get far more traffic and far more reputation than they're worth. I'd prefer something much closer to the wiki model for them - as a way to document 'best' practices. (although the term is very subjective and there really aren't any objective criteria to determine if something is a 'best practice').
@GeorgeStocker Yes, it is subjective, but that doesn't mean that there aren't good best practices. That's what voting is good for, to weed out the crappy ones, and elevate the good ones.
@GeorgeStocker Then you would downvote the answer that says that Datasets are a best practice.
Relative rep value is another issue. I wouldn't have a problem lowering rep on 'List' questions.
So I was reading the conversation around what mmyers said about trolls. Reminded me of davit-datuashvili (god I can't believe I can spell his name without copying or referring now). What directly led to his suspension?
I mean, he isn't a troll. But it just reminded me of him because of his crappy questions.
During a code review I performed today for my colleague, I noticed a function that was defined as returning a boolean value, but in practice it returned only true. In a case of failure, this function threw an exception. I pointed it out and advised to change the return value to void (the code is ...
Officially, CW posts are those that should be open to community editing.
It is not the official position of SO that CW should be used for subjective or non-technical questions, though a lot of users treat them that way. This is different than the official policy for the new SE 2.0 sites.
I have three items.
Provided Example Question
Has the lack of Flash support on the iPad impacted your technology decision in a recent Rich Internet Application project? If so, how?
Who is an expert?
Consider these SO users. Which of them are experts, for the purposes of this question?
I...
