The system must be able to accept trace data for a package as a series of tracking points
The system must allow the user to query the registered trace data based on package id and tracking point id
The query result on a package id must contain information on the tracking points visited
The quer...
For a few reasons, we are changing the guts of how search works on our sites. If you keep up, you've probably read somewhere that we are (or were, rather) using SQL Server Full Text Search. There are a few areas that utilize search:
Search itself (box in the upper right)
Related Questions (to...
but but but but ... we need a massively better search engine at work, so if that's Lucene and I need to learn about it ... I am too busy doing other things atm so tomorrow I will learn about it
So far so good @Jeff, I cannot break search and I think it is definitely faster, and I think the results are at least as relevant as before, if not moreso
I would love to try it on SO, I am not able to think of great examples to search for on meta at the moment
I do find myself using Google to search StackOverflow sometimes, maybe this will end that practice
@MichaelPetrotta now I see what you're talking about -- I suppose operationally I ctrl-f that problem away, but I understand the desire not to have to do that
@Moshe I'm not saying you hid anything, but when you were describing it to me you didn't mention the connection, but the way you described it reminded me of it.
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...
I knew I was in trouble when I met John Resig and I was like "I love Chrome but the text selection issues drive me crazy" and he had no idea what I meant
@drachenstern: For me, its: click in a section of text. Drag up, and to the left, to select to the beginning of a line. BUT DON'T DRAG OFF THE TEXTBOX, cause then your selection goes away, and isn't that what you wanted?
@MichaelPetrotta We used to have this problem with my company's product. Drove me crazy because it was a bug inherent to Adobe Flash which we're forced to use
@drachenstern If you want to select, for instance, a large chunk of text in a scrolling text box, then you can start your selection in the middle, but if you go outside the box (to force it to scroll during the selection) it figures you didn't actually want to select anything after all.
Uhh, so I type text in the textarea down here, I clicked at the end, and dragged up and to the left, and my text is still highlighted once my mouse exits the textarea. Same with the ask question text area...
Ah. I'm on 9.0.597.67 or similar, and it's reporting that there's an even newer version out. As far as I can tell the text selection problem I recall is fixed.
I'm not getting a problem on gmail with 9 either. Although I must admit it renders a bit funny during a selection scroll.
@MichaelPetrotta I don't know. I have it on here in the vain hopes that it'll fix the few remaining problems and I can switch. Unfortunately firefox is now touting better sandboxing so flash, pdf, and other content won't freeze FF now.
@Pollyanna: So, I'm starting from an edit page on SO. Say, stackoverflow.com/posts/4801456/edit. Place the mouse pointer just after the word "class". Press the mouse button down. Drag the mouse up, and to the left. While the pointer is still in the textbox, observe that the text is selected appropriately (extends to follow the pointer). Now, exit the textbox to the left (not above).
Observe (maybe) the text selection invert - that is, text is selected from the original selection point (after the word "class") to the end of the text in the textbox.
When you go to the left or right side of the text box, it doesn't select all the elements inbetween, it treats it as though you are merely at the left or right extremity of the box.
This makes it trivially easy to select whole lines of material.
Which is a lot of the type of editing I do. It's painful to try and select right at the beginning of a paragraph.
In practice, what tends to happen in the election is that high reputation users generally win over lower reputation users.
I'm not saying it's right, but it is what we have observed to happen, multiple times.
Some statistics from the Stack Overflow moderator election results
Just as I went...
bmargulies 1.69
Rook -6.05
Robert Harvey 4.14
Peter Lawrey -2.09
DeadMG -3.78
Chris Jester-Young 0.39
karim79 0.97
Lennart Regebro 0.33
Brad Larson 3.45
Lasse V. Karlsen 3.09
Martin York 0.34
Kev 5.59
Michael Mrozek 12.52
Joshua Nozzi -1.23
Jacob Relkin 1.18
Tim Post 13.03
The MYYN -0.25
George Stocker 5.68
Paul Dixon 1.87
codaddict 0.41
Gordon 0.30
ennuikiller -2.00
Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson 7.10
David Thomas -2.85
SLaks 2.00
casperOne 0.84
Mitchel Sellers -0.40
jAndy -0.62
Dave DeLong 2.01
Matt Ball -2.08
For a few reasons, we are changing the guts of how search works on our sites. If you keep up, you've probably read somewhere that we are (or were, rather) using SQL Server Full Text Search. There are a few areas that utilize search:
Search itself (box in the upper right)
Related Questions (to...
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...
In practice, what tends to happen in the election is that high reputation users generally win over lower reputation users.
I'm not saying it's right, but it is what we have observed to happen, multiple times.
Some statistics from the Stack Overflow moderator election results
Just as I went...
