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Duncan

4:08 PM

@Joe Got a link to the question?

Joe

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Q: Why HAVING clause in PROC SQL doesn't turn blue?

I am creating an output that has duplicate values, but the HAVING clause doesn't turn 'blue'. The code does what it is supposed to do though. Could anybody explain why HAVING is not 'blue' and if this is a problem? Thank you!

It's not a terribly good question

but I didn't really think it was exactly off topic, either

so just answered it so it would go away from the unanswered questions :)

Duncan

@Joe I think it looks on topic and your answer is good.

Joe

K, thanks

rene

4:27 PM

I left a comment on that question to ask any downvoters to come forward

Joe

I didn't downvote it, but I sort of understand it

I don't think it's a very good question

but perhaps it's just because I expect the SAS IDE to not be very good at highlighting things :)

jadarnel27

Asking downvoters to explain their downvotes is sort of frowned upon. If people are going to explain their downvotes, they would have already.

Duncan

Occasionally it can be a subtle way to detract bandwagon-jumpers from piling onto a question when it doesn't really deserve it.

rene

I know but it might help to counter a few robo-downvoters

Duncan

Passing users go "Hmmm, maybe it's not so bad after all."

@rene snap!

rene

4:37 PM

@Duncan hehheh

jadarnel27

Haha, great minds think alike.

Duncan

Notice how you managed the same message with half the words.

jadarnel27

That's definitely a good point. And your comment was definitely more constructive than most I see demanding downvote explanations, @rene.

rene

@Duncan I'm a language genius!

It is all about tone of voice and sometimes that is hard to get right...

at least for non-native speakers...

jadarnel27

5:01 PM

One of my coworkers is on vacation this week. In his "out of office" reply, he put to contact me if anyone had pressing issues with his apps.

Now granted, I am his backup for most apps.

But normally one puts "contact the Help Desk, and have them put in a ticket to {our team}."

Joe

Sounds like your next OO message has just been written for you

"If you have any problems with my apps, or if you need a sandwich, please contact XXXXXXXXX"

jadarnel27

LOL

Well said, @Joe.

Jan Dvorak

5:39 PM

Is this unclear?

Joe

It's all sorts of things, but it sounds off topic to me

it's not about programming

Excel questions are only acceptable if they're about programming in excel

Jan Dvorak

Macros count as programming. He does mention he wants to do it with macros.

I hate it when I make a quick swipe on a Chrome notification but Windows interprets this as a click instead, triggering the click action.

Joe

That's not a macro question

he might say 'macro'

but I don't see that as programming

Jan Dvorak

as long as you cast a CV, w/e :-)

Joe

;

;)

It's certainly "do my homework"

jadarnel27

5:53 PM

Seriously. I would make out with whomever is responsible for the new top bar on the Meta Stack Overflow mobile theme.

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Joe

lol

jadarnel27

Tongue and everything.

Jan Dvorak

Luckily I'm not the author :-D

Bart

/me spins the wheel of blame to see who has to french kiss @jadarnel27

Come on down Nick!

jadarnel27

Not bad.

The wheel could have treated me worse, I suppose.

Bart

6:02 PM

C# would just have been weird

jadarnel27

True.

And C# and I have way too much history to do something like that.

I wouldn't want to make things weird.

Undo

6:43 PM

Ooh new mobile top bar!

animuson

7:28 PM

Woooo double XP weekend in Assassin's Creed 4. :D

Joe

lol

Gmail down for anyone else?

been down for me and a coworker (both working from home, so not a company issue) for half an hour

Bart

Yeah, it's having some hiccups every now and then

animuson

Not loading for me either.

Jan Dvorak

@Joe sir, negative sir

Bart

Ah, back for me now

Joe

7:30 PM

lol

of course I ask and it comes back

should've asked ten minutes ago!

animuson

7:49 PM

Should've had a V8.

animuson

8:01 PM

waits for the inevitable "holy crap, you wrote an SQL query"

Bart

holy crap, you wrote an SQL query

Joe

lol

jadarnel27

Wait, did someone write an SQL query?

Bart

Yeah, animuson did @jadarnel27. You know what my first response was?

jadarnel27

8:26 PM

What's that, @Bart?

Bart

holy crap

Mysticial

Any devs around?

This question is currently on reddit. But the view count only increased +5 over the last few hours.

I suspect it's because it's using the link, "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20977741/stdvector-performance-regression-w‌hen-enabling-c11?noredirect=1#20977741"

And it's not incrementing the view counter.

animuson

@Mysticial Hrm, are view counts not being counted over an HTTPS connection? I tried removing the crap from the end of the URL and still nothing, then I changed it to HTTP and the view counted.

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Mysticial

interesting...

Joe

How does it count views?

Is it sql-side or is it something in the page

If it's something in the page, perhaps it's chrome/etc. refusing to load non-secure bits

animuson

8:39 PM

It's definitely server-side. Though it's really weird that the connection would prevent it from counting.

Jan Dvorak

Als, it seems to count unique visitors only

animuson

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