Welcome to Meta, Peter!
It's perfectly normal to have <100% accept rate. There are, to oversimplify a bit, two cases here: the first is you, based on this question and your SO profile; the second is the guy who asks dozens of questions — often low-quality — and maintains a 0% acc...
@Diago They gave you a throne !? I didn't even qualify for a t-shirt!
I guess I did get the stickers eventually, but not for Meta, which is the one I really deserve (insofar as you can apply the word deserve to anything Meta).
@DanielBingham Well, it is Wikipedia... perhaps he wrote that article, citations and all, and was showing off that it was considered good enough to be posted on Wikipedia!
This post is to document the week 1 winners of the Super User Super Contest, for the week ending Monday, August 30.
Congratulations to our winners this week!
Best rookie performance by KronoS
Highest reputation produced by digitxp
Best meta post:
Is there any point answering questions t...
StackOverflow (and only SO's) blog posts. For example:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-tag-info-pages/
Useful when talking about recently announced happenings.
@Josh I have no clue how I made the front page of Meta.... But I dropped off recently. As for SU, I haven't posted an answer or question in about 6 months to be honest. Moderators don't seem to get much votes.
@Josh They do. We are also human beings. Working hard to provide answers. Also, if I don't like your answers getting more votes then mine, what am I going to do, destroy your account or something?
Yes
You can use as first price: Windows 7 XP Mode. Alternatively you can look at running Windows XP in a virtual machine using software like Virtual PC, VMWare, or VirtualBox.
XP Mode is the nicest since it integrates straight into your desktop on Windows 7. However you need a fairly high spec ...
No
Because virtual machines requires software that simulates and interacts with the host machine, and for networking for example needs to install drivers on the host, a version that will run off a pen drive for example is a long way off still.
The biggest limitation is the integration into the ...
I recently discovered, or possibly rediscovered, that all deleted items are "forced-visible to all 10k users all the time." I never considered rep gain to be something with a downside before, especially because there's no way to directly message a non-diamond 10k user to ask for something to be ...
I did nothing to cause the issue and nothing was required to be done to fix the error.
Just after I posted this question, I tried rebooted the system again and this time it logged me in just fine.
I'm sorry, Googlers, I'm as stumped as you are.
A few times I've started to type a question in SO that was pure math or physics or statistics or finance, and then bailed out. I've seen a couple simple math questions get closed (or at least get close votes or complaints) for not being programming related.
Obviously, the relationship between ma...
> Now we can get the SO family behaving like real live tech support. Ask "I have a math problem I'm trying to code." on SO and get closed and referred to math. Ask it on math and get closed and referred to SO. Ask it on SO and get closed and referred to math. Ask it on math and get closed and referred to SO.Ask it on SO and get closed and referred to math. [...] Ask it on math and get closed and referred... – Jim Leonardo yesterday
@ArenB In small part; it's more that people post NSFW (not blatantly, but why deal with even borderline cases when you don't have to) images, oneboxed videos/XKCDs, &c.
I'm at work, and I work in one of those "open concept" offices. I'm the only IT person in here. I really don't want people to think I'm watching Flight of the Conchords when I'm just trying to edit a question a few times.
I plan on using a "base script" for my initial database version 1.0.0 but after that I will require change scripts which "upgrade" the database to newer versions. I'm not sure how to name these scripts in my repository.
I was envisioning something along the lines of:
Baseline-6.0.0.sql
Patch-6...
I am a bit new to the mod status, but here is my take:
I am fine with the way it is currently. I don't mind looking through flags and seeing what people are having problems with. Mods are there for the edge cases and usage issues. I will go in and read the comment trails and find out what the ...
The thing I hate about Itunes is that you have to use proprietary software. What website can you buy the same (mostly) commercial music, and just download mp3's or whatever through a web browser?
I thought iTunes was the necessary evil iOS-powered device owners more-or-less begrudgingly submitted themselves to, in the (long) wait for the OSS stacks to support those as well :P
@badp Thankfully, in my world everyone is allowed choice and opinions. The day my Apple devices stop working as advertise, is the day I would remotely consider using something else. :)
Closed. Yes, this is an interesting question, but there is now over 1200 answers (41 pages). In terms of data (since this is tagged as "research"), there is nothing to gain from having this question remain open (there should be more than any interesting metrics to be retrieved from this many answ...
@JoePhillips Don't get me started on recruiters. How most of them can keep their jobs is beyond me. Recently I spoke to one who made a statement about the "shell" being my preferred flavor of Linux.
@JoePhillips You get used to that. They want to speak to you directly and now show their cards. Not to mention that they send out lots of those emails, so keeping it short is probably a good idea.
@JoePhillips Yup. I was saying that I preferred working in a shell, to which he replied: "Oh, that's your favorite flavor of Linux?"
@Shog9 I've had a few from my area. It seems they all are working for industrial manufacturers of some sort though... I don't really feel like getting into that kind of work
He seemed like a nice guy. We even spoke a bit about one of the famous local concert venues. So, he was interested in finding out a bit more about me as a person. But, he fell short in my book on the aspect of tech recruiting.
@PopularDemand LOL I just bit my tongue. The only thing that came to mind in the moment was WTF?!?!? :D
What James said. The answers to my original question made it clear that there was definitely interest, but also there was definitely some impedance mismatch between GotW and SO.
One mismatch was that most GotWs consist of multiple questions that lead into each other, which is an effective tutori...
@PopularDemand I'm currently still using Windows XP, as I'm a gamer. That said, I have Ubuntu in a VM for webdev work and would like to switch to it for most of my computing needs, except for gaming.