we all hate rep whores. Now I'm the opposite. I don't like accumulating too much rep, and yesterday gave away 1,500 (one thousand five hundred reps) to 3 people. What would you call me? A rep philanthropist? Saint? or just plain idiot???
Calling all @Tim - the holidays are soon upon us, which presents a bit of a namespace issue. You see, I'm about to become Tiny Tim, but we all can't do that. So should it be Tim(whatever)Tiny, or Tiny(whatever)Tim, or TinyTim(whatever)?
Ah, see. I was confused when you said we couldn't all be Tiny Tim, because I was pretty sure the system supported that. Now I see that you meant you would mercilessly harass and/or ban any other user choosing that name.
Stupid question: I just noticed my answer on this question was unaccepted. I'm not entirely sure what happened there, but am I right in saying that user deletion might have had that result? Is that normal behavior? Couldn't find any clear answer.
jco has been away, and Tim has been lax in his guard duties, so I was able to sneak past him out of the tavern's backroom and join the real party in here!
I am the senior developer on a Software-as-a-Service application used by many different customers. Our software runs on a cluster of Apache / PHP application servers, powered by a MySQL backend. On one particular instance of the software, the PHP code to query the list of category names is timing...
ARRGGGH! Of course, right as I am testing this issue, the CEO interrupts me and asks me stupid questions, and then when he's done, I can't reproduce the issue anymore to troubleshoot it!. >_>
So @RebeccaChernoff wins this round ):
Ah ha, there we go, got it to happen again
I've assigned a UUID to almost every SQL query I run, and I am logging those UUIDs before and after running them so I can correlate when the system crashes with the tcpdump
query UUID ea9c6af7-a12e-4626-953b-27188044bda8 just hung. Time to fire up wireshark!
A universally unique identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
The intent of UUIDs is to enable distributed systems to uniquely identify information without significant central coordination. In this context the word unique should be taken to mean "practically unique" rather than "guaranteed unique". Since the identifiers have a finite size it is possible for two differing items to share the same identifier. The identifier size and generation process...
> In other words, only after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for the next 100 years, the probability of creating just one duplicate would be about 50%.
I suggest two new badges:
Greedo - first bounty earned (bronze)
Boba Fett - earned 2000 rep through bounty (silver)
Imported from Uservoice ticket, "Bounty hunter badges", originally posted by Jon Skeet.
I would suggest that rather than closing these questions, we set up a migration path to Yahoo Answers. To prevent it from being abused, it would only be available when the system finds:
"please" in proximity to the phrase "don't close" or "do not close"
Well, no. I added mysql_close()to my code, and the problem is still happening. In fact, I now have an example where it's happening in the middle of my PHP code
@TheUnhandledException Seems like that would involve a lot of 1) guessing how your code is structured and 2) reading the room transcript.... Oh well, maybe #2 will solve #1.
The point was that I was recently told that the pictured item was called a "buggy" and was wondering if that was just one weird person or a common name that was new only to me (since I'm not from NC).
@TimYiJiang You must have been really confused the first time you heard about carriage returns.
> Originally, the term "carriage return" referred to a mechanism or lever on a typewriter. It was used after typing a line of text and caused the assembly holding the paper (the carriage) to return to the right so that the machine was ready to type again on the left-hand side of the paper. -Wikipedia
Apparently if you're getting married it gives you permission for you and all your friends to drive into the neighbourhood, horns blazing at 7.30 am in the morning