insightful filenames on my desktop: Book2.xslx, untitled.png, random.png, wtf.png, new2.html, default.jpg, backup.sql, oh wow the list goes on. I'm so creative.
@drachenstern We call the syntax that it parses the "magic variable syntax", so I felt it was appropriate. ;) Heh, of course. Why use the convenient, purpose-made entry point that's already there when you can completely sidestep things and make a mess of it? :P
@TimStone I know right? I also put a simple control for assigning error messages to, so that I can display them formatted correctly on every page. They would rather randomly copy-n-paste a label from another random file and lblInfo.Text = "error message"; ... mine sensibly does ErrorControl.AddErrorMessage( "string", Exception); with overloads for each parameter to be absent and displays Exception.Message but does it in a consistent way and doesn't obliterate multiple messages...
I have almost got it on every page now :D so I can eventually reformat once to add a pretty red border and pink background when there are messages present
Those questions are good for the same reasons duplicates shouldn't be deleted, or even closed.
Use case: I have this awesome game in mind, but only recall a screenshot or some details of the game and Google isn't helping. I ask and get my answer.
The next person who is going to look for that ga...
What value does this question have to anyone else on the planet, other than the one person who asked? In other words, what internet user is going to be searching for and finding this information?
I'm sorry, but I am really, really struggling with this statement. Is not the entire point of a...
haha@
IT security Stack Exchange now in open beta: http://security.stackexchange.com P.S. hackers, plz don't hack the hand that feeds u!
I'm pretty sure the people who say to use 40 character passwords don't actually do so themselves. I'd get sick of typing my password really fast if it were 40 characters long
@Chacha102 Passphrases are more secure than passwords, yes.
Indeed, I'm going to chance all my passwords to "oh hi" right now.
> Welcome New User!
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so meta.security is the Q&A site about the Q&A site about Q&A site for application security professionals?
One click to start the download, the other to make sure I want to run this thing from the internet, another asking about the publisher, another to start the download.
http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/345/how-unsung-am-i?UserId=109749 is the one I started out on, but in the chat.meta.SO several people report that it's showing as broken for several id's and for several queries.
First query gives results, subsequent queries give nothing, nada, the...
Let's write our own help page for our use of MathJax. Here is a start. It is based on SO's own Markdown editing help, the FAQ for typing math on math.SE and Math Overflow, and "Using LaTeX" on ask NRICH.
Characters in bold italics indicate highlighting.
MathJax turns LaTeX markup into beautif...
@AdalArasan Are you kidding me? You post a couple of interview questions here and then flag them for moderator attention asking the moderators to answer them for you? I consider that abuse of the system -- a moderator flag is there to make moderators aware of problems, not to make them do your work. Don't do that again.
@PopularDemand In context that response is even more ridiculous
I wonder what world some of these people come from where they think this sort of thing is okay. I don't mean trolls who are just trying to get people angry, I mean people who genuinely think this is proper behavior.
so I'm confused. "Robert Page leaving totally messed the ..." ... "the userid was missing and the page could not cope with it" ... "anonymize the accounts of high-rep-users asking for deletion" ... why did he leave? ~ Now you've added "permanently ban"??? I'm so confused
@drachenstern He wanted to file a bug report. Apparently, pages can't cope with missing user IDs. But he figured people would say "link or it didn't happen," so....
@rchern ... we will have no downtime when I migrate this to Oregon .. and dump Azure. I will import into a temporary DB and then do a few DB renames to swap the data in
The <a>[tag:name]</a> generating bad html is mildly annoying, even if I don't really think its a valid use case. I've gone ahead and checked in a fix to dev (we just won't process the tag syntax if it appears in an anchor tag).
The [tag] [text] [index] is actually by design. Th...
I don't like seeing negative score as the value of a question. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but it just does not look good when a question has a -1
or -5 score.
This is especially annoying when someone adds a negative vote to your question. I even feel offended when my own question suddenly...
> @oracle - I like that idea so much I think you should be promoted to mod. Of course, I think mods should have no powers and the existing mods should be promoted to "site-magicians". – Jon B
> Chewing through a bag of black tea, the straight up dark stuff, the old one came to whisper sweet twilight in the left ear while eviscerating the right. Sunday, and it was time for another batch of the homebrew. One this time less flavoured with leaves and more with an exit strategy.
This has been one f-ing awful week for me :-( It's Friday 5:30 PM and because of all the s...tuff that's happened, I am really far behind and will again probably have to work the entire weelend
The bitch on my back has been at it, legal threats and more. Which means that even when not dealing with that situation directly I am stressed out about it, making the times I am working sooo unproductive
The whole situation is just insane. And I've been perfect, never late, hardly ever complain, everything's in perfect condition... I don't deserve this crap! :-p
But we all get what we get, right? :-/ Just gotta deal with it and move on!
And bitch to random people on the internet about our misfortunes, of course.
And your state laws imply that you're supposed to receive written notice within 30 days of a property transfer to notify you of the new payment recipient, so until such a time when that happens, too bad for her, heh.
I remember a time where Firefox would decide that instead of loading the correct images from cache, it'd load whatever it felt like, and stick stuff where it didn't belong.
@TheUnhandledException it's caching my pageside javascript or something, because I make a change, say add alert('hi'); and it never shows up in the page
@TheUnhandledException Most states actually support that
Your state has a super-brief section on landlord-tenant laws though, not sure what's up with that. I couldn't find an answer to my real question, which was whether or not landlords are allowed entry to the property without prior notice.
Though I'm pretty sure if you have to bring a locksmith to break in....that doesn't really count anyway.
Yeah, I think the state law also says that there are only four reasonable grounds for eviction, so as long as you're paying rent to someone, you don't violate that, and the others don't apply to you.
@TimStone Thanks. Your support helps me feel better. Logically I know I'm probably pretty well covered, it's just the whole situation makes me emotionally stressed and upset, you know? I mean my life's really boring, even if she did break in, what's she going to do steal my sockpuppet ID? ;-)
Also, my bad, I should have thought to ask if you wanted me to quash my comments as well. I tried to be as non-specific as possible in either case, heh.
I up-voted an answer, and then someone left a comment proving that the answer was in fact incorrect, so I redacted my vote. I was actually a bit surprised that I was allowed to because it had been awhile, and we all know how nit-picky SO is about these things. Later I refreshed the page and notic...
He had said something to the tune of "Ah, this again? Good job Jeff, sticking to your guns. Gotta show 'em who's boss and keep insisting this isn't a bug when you know it is."
@TimStone Point taken, what would you have the system do, a message "You can't vote on this question because it's been edited, please refresh the page"?
Possibly, like the notification of concurrent edits on posts (and similarly for answers). I don't think that's a particularly robust solution, but for a once in a blue moon kind of event I don't think it's all that bad.
Now, whether or not I think it's actually worth doing that...
The solution is not a technical one, it's a behavioral one. Refresh the page on long posts before voting, to see if anything changed. I obsessively refresh anyways depending on what I'm reading, since anything can change drastically in 30 seconds on SO
any question that has more than three answers and that takes up three or more screens to ingest the whole conversation and that is less than five minutes old, I'm probably going to refresh four times before I leave the question
Those questions are good for the same reasons duplicates shouldn't be deleted, or even closed.
Use case: I have this awesome game in mind, but only recall a screenshot or some details of the game and Google isn't helping. I ask and get my answer.
The next person who is going to look for that ga...
What value does this question have to anyone else on the planet, other than the one person who asked? In other words, what internet user is going to be searching for and finding this information?
I'm sorry, but I am really, really struggling with this statement. Is not the entire point of a...
Klingon Folk Songs are even better. I've also used insults.
http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/345/how-unsung-am-i?UserId=109749 is the one I started out on, but in the chat.meta.SO several people report that it's showing as broken for several id's and for several queries.
First query gives results, subsequent queries give nothing, nada, the...
Let's write our own help page for our use of MathJax. Here is a start. It is based on SO's own Markdown editing help, the FAQ for typing math on math.SE and Math Overflow, and "Using LaTeX" on ask NRICH.
Characters in bold italics indicate highlighting.
MathJax turns LaTeX markup into beautif...
Its part done, should be finished in a few hours.
So many new sites in the dump, so much new data.
The <a>[tag:name]</a> generating bad html is mildly annoying, even if I don't really think its a valid use case. I've gone ahead and checked in a fix to dev (we just won't process the tag syntax if it appears in an anchor tag).
The [tag] [text] [index] is actually by design. Th...
