I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

Why do I need (arbitrarily chosen) 50 rep to even comment? Is the SO universe that draconian? Why? To what end? And 15 to up-vote??? That's insane. A word to "the wise": Assuming, in the first place, my critical question is published, don't bother with the predictable "if we didn't the system w...

Why do I need (arbitrarily chosen) 50 rep to even comment? Is the SO universe that draconian? Why? To what end? And 15 to up-vote??? That's insane. A word to "the wise": Assuming, in the first place, my critical question is published, don't bother with the predictable "if we didn't the system w...

aug 19 - tex.se is under attack. Yes, this is a call to arms. Keep flagging the spam posts while you can, anywhere they go. As this seems much heavier than the initial attack, I will try to notify the tex mods as well. I have written a userscript for the network-wide real-time feed - just copy/p...

Something sort of magic happened a short time ago, sometimes a graph is worth a thousand flags: That's right, around March 28, the spam protection layer blocked about 20,000 spam attempts, mostly in the form of suggested edits, while users didn't see much of an increase in what they had to fl...

Are there any ports to WPF of Silverlight's MultiScaleImage (aka DeepZoom)? Have Microsoft road-mapped this at all for WPF? I want to move from WinForms to WPF and require something like DeepZoom, using Silverlight isn't an option.