For the XMPP interface for the Stack Overflow chat I am parsing the JSON feed from chat and generating Ruby objects for every chat events, such as messages sent, edits sent, users logging in or out, etc. I also generate events for "slash-commands" sent to the XMPP server, like "/help" or "/auth" ...

This is actually a fairly time consuming change (lots of little CSS tweaks to test in a bunch of browsers), and other issues* are taking up my time right now. Will probably get around to this sometime shortly after Thanksgiving. *And that mythical beast, "time off" is coming up as well.

My account here, on meta, never got the 100 reputation from associating with existing accounts. According to the FAQ, it should. According to the accounts tab, my profile here is associated with my profiles on Stack Overflow, ServerFault and Area51. I don't remember what my reputation on any of ...

Before any new site would get +100 rep so I could use the core features. Now I have to link them, then disassociate them and relink them to get the +100 rep Is this intended site behavior?

A vast majority of database design questions I see are either I'm building a comment database about --------. I'm rebuilding Facebook I'm building a favorites database about --------. Homework I more than a little certain from the topics and how the questions are phrased that these are new pr...

I have read multiple posts related to reputation points, how much reputation one should lose upon a downvote, others about loss of reputation points for no apparent reasons, then I have hit the reputation recalculation topic where one can ask for it. How to ask for a reputation recalculation? M...

First one is PC, circa EGA/386 era (early 90s). 4 small, square looking heroes that all follow in the footsteps of the leader, 2 shoot projectiles in mad spam mode, 2 are useless. They take missions/quests which are 2d side scrolling, platforming levels. They only level up once in the game, and w...

According to language benchmarks, JavaScript V8 is faster than other programming languages at regex-dna program. So, why node.js applications (i.e. http server) isn't faster than C applications (i.e. Nginx, Lighttpd)?

That's what it says on the tin, although chances are spoilers are to be expected throughout the website really. This can make for a useful inbuilt spoiler warning: Alternatively, the spoiler tag could come in a different colour (say, dark yellow), although that could create problems with tag ...

Use cases: Programming puzzles. This way the answer can be posted the same time as the question, eliminating doubt that no answer is possible for hard questions and proving that the question is not a homework exercise (since the author already has the answer) The socratic method. In your answer...

Please consider implementing the request for some sort of a spoiler markdown using the following syntax: why did we trust <spoiler>rchern</spoiler> ? WHY OH GOD WHY? <spoiler> The cake is a lie. </spoiler> I propose <spoiler> over the modified blockquote syntax &...

I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with CommandShift3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with CommandShift4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? Where does CommandShift number originate from?

Since kbd is disabled here, the pathological sample that triggered this is hosted on meta.gaming for your inspector/firebug/etc. pleasure. View the pathological example Perfectly innocent source Current answer after some <br/><br/> love (it still doesn't look great)

I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with Command+Shift+3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with Command+Shift+4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? Where does Command+Shift number originate from?

For the XMPP interface for the Stack Overflow chat I am parsing the JSON feed from chat and generating Ruby objects for every chat events, such as messages sent, edits sent, users logging in or out, etc. I also generate events for "slash-commands" sent to the XMPP server, like "/help" or "/auth" ...