it's also disabled for all meta sites, since having [bug], [support], [feature-request], [discussion] prefixed on a bunch of stuff was not terribly useful
Very often you see different forms of "pseudo-tagging" in titles. For example:
c# - how to sniff packets in an app without relying on WinPCap?
JS / Jquery: Unable to access the properties of an object returned from an ajax call
C++: Using enum as template type argument
...
Some times these can ...
> To be clear, I think it is fine to duplicate the tags in the title, but only when they can be worked into the titles organically and conversationally.
-- Jeff Atwood, July 29, 2009
therefore, the "tag in title" code tries very hard to see if you already used the tags in the title organically, before it goes slapping them in there
it's tricky because we are asking users to do the same thing twice. 1) "tell us what your question is about (in the title)" 2) "tell us what your question is about (in the tags)"
this way we ensure the best of both worlds. either you already organically have the MOST IMPORTANT (as judged by tags) words in the title.. or we add them for you. Since we kinda have to, because "how do I format a string?" is a LOT less useful than "c# - how do I format a string?"
but yes in a perfect world people would write perfect titles like "how do I format a string in C#?" or Google would understand rel=tag or some other blessed tag microformat
it made sense; half the example Google query terms people sent me had "ruby on rails" in them, and almost none of our ruby questions have that in the title.
or substitute "iphone" or "objective-c" same difference
I'm REALLY glad we don't have to do this in the <h1> because that would totally suck
Oh, this is nice. Heard of the Wakemate? A wristband that tracks your sleep patterns to a webapp and communicates with your smartphone to sound your alarm clock at the optimal time.
It costs $50... but only $15 from appsumo for the next 2 days appsumo.com
@JeffAtwood Yeah, that really would be horrible. I don't actually read my tabs that much anyway, so it hasn't been a big issue for me so far, heh. But any changes that make it as low-impact as possible from the user perspective while cranking up the Google juice are welcome in my book. :)
Huh. I did not know that things like Wakemate or Fitbit exist. I think seeing some sort of report about my sleep patterns would do nothing more than scare me.
@JeffAtwood I've always wondered if some people feel a desperate need to include all five available tags. I've seen questions where there are language tags that make zero sense in the context of the question, heh.
I also just deleted the [problem] tag from Server Fault
so, to the extent that "forcing 1st tag in title" is bad, it's because there is a deeper problem with tags. Of course you always have the occasional clueless user but that's a constant
I watched a video today and the guy in the video just write this to understand whether a number is even or not:
number/2*2 == number ? true : false ;
i tried it when i got home and compared with
number % 2 == 0 ? true : false ;
The second one was faster then i changed the first one as:
n...
Screenshot / Code Snippet
$ python flack.py 126042
Before 'if' statement... Past 'if' statement. Floating point exception on my system. So, you should check whether e is a very popular way to access Word and Excel documents. There's a line inside an expression like that; the simplest wor...
That's my IRC bot which uses a Markovian style algorithm. It sits in hundreds of IRC channels learning everything it hears, then generates replies based on that. Some of the best quotes are randomised on the front page (refresh to see more). You can find more at:
http://quotes.kookybot.org/top
Everything there is generated from its knowledge - it is not simply repeating back sentences it has heard. The database is 4.6 GB, almost 70 million rows.
@JeffAtwood Originally I wasn't on board with your disdain for those [identify-this-game] questions on Gaming, thinking that the problem was relatively minor in comparison to some other issues...but they just keep coming...and they just keep getting worse. I've been successfully swayed. :P
In unrelated news, I went to figure out how to take care of the pull request and realized that I need to figure out what the equivalent hg commands are to mimic what their git instructions are, heh.
I guess that's where the position-aware selection would be nice. Although you could more simply examine the URL and make a decision not to select the question based on that, since it's a bit easier.
Yes, looking at the hash value is doable. But also if you're just viewing a question, and you've scrolled down, then hit f5 to see if there's a new answer posted. The browser will generally reload and keep your scroll position. Again though, userscript wins and scrolls to the top.
I'll be reducing the height of the logo from 60px to 48px. The logo will be smaller, but SF's logo will look a little better because it won't be upscaled
@RebeccaChernoff Hard. Maybe use a cookie or something to save the scrollTop?
@RebeccaChernoff Not a bad idea... but I'm not sure if I'd want to continue commenting on your use of oy! if your code will have direct connection to my brain
@RebeccaChernoff Well, you know which posts are in view, which makes that fairly easy if there's only one post...more than one becomes a pick and choose game.
Comments are for short clarifications to the question or answer. At the point where you "need" paragraphs, you should probably be composing an alternative, competing answer or asking a different question.
Newlines are not rendered, nor ever intended to be rendered, in comments.
If you find your...
> Save the above to disk as "enter-comments.user.js" -- or simply CLICK THIS LINK which is a direct download of the above file and skip to step #3.
While SOIS might not want to do it, we, as the user, can. And the script is absolutely ridiculously simple - so simple that I'm surprised nobody has posted it yet. Ah well, free Meta rep here I come:
// ==UserScript==
// @name StackExchange Title Tag Remover
// @namespace yijiang
/...
@RebeccaChernoff Yeah, I hate this. At least on Firefox you have the option of disabling GM, but I think it was Nick who filed a bug report complaining that there's no way to get around it on Chrome
I actually tried to modify GM so that it would behave better, but it seems that it's a limitation of the information Firefox provides at the time that GM hooks into the request.
I think it'd be awesome to have a single extension that you can use an options page to enable the scripts you want to run...but having to deal with Chrome and Firefox extensions rather than just a single userscript is meh.
I actually tried writing a GM script for Google Reader, but it seems like GReader has some sort of weird anti-DOM-manupilation checks in place to prevent other scripts from messing around with the DOM
Not sure about Firefox, but when I was testing with Chrome, if I installed the same script again, it seemed to install a second copy rather than uninstall the original copy and install the updated version.
It varies, and I haven't figured out how. Usually it updates the existing script, but then sometimes I'll discover the same script installed multiple times
This has been bugging me for some time.
I've got > 2,000 rep on Gaming and Web Apps yet I'm still seeing the "about" link in the header. I've just got 2,000 on UI and the link has disappeared from there, which is consistent with every other site I've got over 2K rep on - and expected behaviour (...
I've been asked to find the reference that shows the "about" link should disappear when you hit 2K rep. Anyone know where it's stated? I can't find anything.
@radp, the commentator also has the tools with > 2K on SO and MSO so it looks like there is a problem, but it's different for everyone
@YiJiang - the "about" link just disappeared for me on UI when I went from 1997 to 2007 which prompted the question. And all other sites where I have > 2K I don't have the link
I'm going to have to remember to pull from the repo to my local copy. I admit it's been nice just having code going one way and only doing pulls with pull requests. (;
Nonlinear is a buzzword used to cover anything that is not linear. Depending on what kind of nonlinearity is involved, and thus what kind of material, there could be one symmetry or another, or there could be no symmetry at all. For instance, in superconductors, gauge symmetry is broken and photo...
I made my green SE bar script apply to *.stackexchange.com, which has been having unintended effects on launched sites that don't have beta designs. I just went to math for the first time in a while; I'm a pretty big fan of this look:
A good title helps your question get the attention it deserves. What goes into a good title?
I watched a video today and the guy in the video just write this to understand whether a number is even or not:
number/2*2 == number ? true : false ;
i tried it when i got home and compared with
number % 2 == 0 ? true : false ;
The second one was faster then i changed the first one as:
n...
Screenshot / Code Snippet
$ python flack.py 126042
Before 'if' statement... Past 'if' statement. Floating point exception on my system. So, you should check whether e is a very popular way to access Word and Excel documents. There's a line inside an expression like that; the simplest wor...
Comments are for short clarifications to the question or answer. At the point where you "need" paragraphs, you should probably be composing an alternative, competing answer or asking a different question.
Newlines are not rendered, nor ever intended to be rendered, in comments.
If you find your...
While SOIS might not want to do it, we, as the user, can. And the script is absolutely ridiculously simple - so simple that I'm surprised nobody has posted it yet. Ah well, free Meta rep here I come:
// ==UserScript==
// @name StackExchange Title Tag Remover
// @namespace yijiang
/...
