Recently there has been a large heated discussion about the appropiateness of the question File I/O in Every Programming Language. With (as of this post) 127 upvotes and 116 favorites, the community seems to like this question. However the small amount of 10k's keep opening and reopening it, and ...
One of my extensions breaks the chat, so I run the chat tab in "incognito mode", a side-effect of which is the beeping mode resets every time I close the tab :(. And then I forget to change it back
i guess the publicity around the chats even for the beta want not that big and the fact meta from SO does not work alike the others community meta might affect it aswell
for example the meta from game dev reflects your actual amount of points but the meta from SO does not
@PiersMyers there have been more users on at one time... I think Hanselman & Friends showed up one day. Balpha could tell you what the peak is I'm sure.
hehe, i have a friend who happens to be very gullible and I can always get her to fall for it. She never realizes that obviously I saw it if I respond to it, lol.
At least on my machine, it's still showing up as 3873, even though my actual rep is now 3893. But if you mouseover, it brings up 3893. So there's no crazy real-time polling or anything going on.
@balpha Good call. I don't think they can spend a lot of time looking at the proxy logs though, otherwise the amount of time I spend reading engadget and other sites might have come up already :)
@Ikke, I use imaer to automatically upload an image in my clipboard and get the url, so on SE, all I generally did was ctrl+g > ctrl+v > enter and bam!
@balpha I can't see any URL that ends with .com (after a slash, of course). So I can't use downforeveryoneorjustme, or Alexa, or things like that. The filter thinks I'm trying to download prohibited .com files.
@balpha Actually, sorry, it isn't the filter that gets that URL. It's the fact that DFEOJM (is that their shorthand version?) redirects to the .com page.
Fog Creek is a US company. It has (as far as I'm aware) no plans to expand overseas. hell, Joel doesn't even like people workout outside of their NYC office. I appreciate your joke, but Fog Creek isn't the kind of company you'd get if you put the top 500 SO users together.
btw. I haven't actually checked, but I'm probably not in the top 500 myself anyway. It's just an idea
I guarantee such companies exist. The only thing standing between you and a job with one of them is persistence and determination. Ironically, these are the exact traits that these companies seek.
I've only read one job advert in the last 4 years (since I started where I'm working now) that's made me think "that's a place I'd really like to work". But I didn't apply because I'm not really qualified for it, at least at the moment.
@U62, I think it would be a waste of their talents if all they did was consultancy. They should work on solving the biggest problems in CS, develop new programming paradigms, etc.
Being able to work on something that isn't insanely dull and pointless scores points in my book. Sadly that wipes out most business software development :)
@Ami It's a fair point. I'm just thinking of a way that talented developers could earn a living and not be managed by empty suits that feel coming up with restrictive internet policies is somehow contributing.
@PopularDemand you mean they hacked it in after the fact based on horrible work-arounds for missing functionality devised and implemented by their rabid userbase?
@ErickRobertson You can beat them to the punch with a superior feature, actually: select the message to which you wish to reply by pressing <kbd>Up arrow</kbd>.
@ErickRobertson It's constructive blue-sky thinking! And if it was bitching, what makes you think that putting more effort into my job would make it better. How do you know that my job isn't a complete dead-end?
@U62, oppressive managemerial restrictions reflect a fundamental disconnect that exists between programmers and non-programmers. People who aren't involved in programming have a notion that programming is some elaborate form of data-entry...very sad.
@Shog9 I just saw that when trying to enter a new room. But the first time it happened, the source code of the offline page was appended to my message.
@PopularDemand Screenshotted. I guess it's not a real bug though.
@shog9 I thought about that before and I can't remember why I disliked it. I'd just have it go up one message per keypress, though; maybe somehow highlight the one you're on. If it's your own, it'll allow edit; if not, it'll be a reply.
@BoltClock A close/reopen war within your own mind, for that matter
@BoltClock That was fixed ages ago, before I even started on SO I think
Unfortunately, it doesn't work if you get upvoted when you're at the cap and then get downvoted. So if you're going to post something stupid, do it early in the day
Someone went through my profile once and upvoted two or three answers that were at 9 votes so I got a bunch of Nice Answer badges. I felt kind of bad about that
The URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is the entire string. Also note that URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and URI are not the same; URL is a subset of URI. See Wikipedia's article for information.
In your example, /me/friends is known as the path.
According to the tape -- okay, your SO user profile -- you have 12 Nice Answer badges and 12 answers currently at 10 or greater. So, you're not going to get another badge.
You must have hit 10 with a previous answer that got downvoted, or that was attached to a question which got deleted.
The system lets you keep your badge(s) in cases like this but doesn't give you any more until you "make up" for the one(s) you "lost."
That actually brings up something I wonder about every once in a while: do people tend to cast their votes in a vacuum, or do they think "this deserves a score of 12, and right now it's at 7 so I'll upvote it, but if it were at 15 I wouldn't"?
Probably belongs in the Meta room and not The Tavern, though.
This is an idea I just had and I would like to know what you guys think about it. How about showing votes and order the answers ONLY after a vote has been casted. Sometimes answers that come late are not voted up, because they are simply not as visible or people just bother to read the really hig...
Regarding #2, what if you hide votes for the 10 minutes or so?
By "hide", I mean: people can vote, but answers will appear to have 0 score (and time-based sort order) until the 10 minutes are up.
You could even hide timestamps and randomize display order for the initial window, though I'm not s...
I rather suspect it's shown up a few times in a similar fashion: folks looking for a "solution" to the FGITW "problem" and ignoring everything else
To be perfectly honest, I absolutely agree with #3. A bit of formatting
Makes the post more readable
proves that the user put a bit of effort into it
prevents the "Wall of Text crits you" effect
stands out
allows me to spot important points more easily
puts some structure into the posting
And...
To Whom this may concern,
I, Chacha, would like to ask the community of StackOverflow to acknowledge the following bunny as the official StackOverflow bunny. This bunny has been responsible for many funny threads, and has been involved in countless efforts to bring laughter to the programming wo...
Apologies for the inconvenience, this was indeed a bug on our end.
Fix should now be deployed.
The URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is the entire string. Also note that URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and URI are not the same; URL is a subset of URI. See Wikipedia's article for information.
In your example, /me/friends is known as the path.
Regarding #2, what if you hide votes for the 10 minutes or so?
By "hide", I mean: people can vote, but answers will appear to have 0 score (and time-based sort order) until the 10 minutes are up.
You could even hide timestamps and randomize display order for the initial window, though I'm not s...
To be perfectly honest, I absolutely agree with #3. A bit of formatting
Makes the post more readable
proves that the user put a bit of effort into it
prevents the "Wall of Text crits you" effect
stands out
allows me to spot important points more easily
puts some structure into the posting
And...
Does anyone know what Jeff Atwood really looks like? Never seen any photos or anything...Wondering if he is just a waffle or maybe a unicorn? :P
