First law: Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force. This means that in the absence of a non-zero net force, the center of mass of a body either remains at rest, or moves at a constant speed in a straigh...
@tombull89 it happens to the best of us. So we use thumbdrives with "to go" versions of things like firefox and chrome. Hopefully tho you'll get to use IE9 before 2012
@Nyuszika7H no. How do you do backwards text, btw? @drachenstern look closely. It's a triangle alert symbol from system alerts (probably windows - Havent seen it on Mac)
@PopularDemand thats because programmers are a bunch of pretty *good/talented*guys / girls who love their jobs and they usually ask questions that have wide ranging answers
What was not fun was being the guy in charge of setting up a compute cluster for a school without dedicated facilities, for no reason other than because two profs wanted to and had a bit of grantmoney and a broom closet
These types of comment discussions are pretty common:
@AuthorX: In your post, I think you meant "you're", not "your". - user1234 35 mins ago
Oh, thanks. It's fixed now. - AuthorX 30 minutes ago
Once resolved, those comments are useless and noise.
As a user, I was always wary about ...
"Too long; didn't read" (abbreviated "TLDR", "tl;dr") is used as a reply to an excessively long written statement. The term indicates that the reader did not actually read the statement due to its undue length. This essay especially considers the term as used in Wikipedia discussions, and examines methods of fixing the problem when found in article content.
As a label, it is also effective as a tactic which thwarts the kinds of discussion which are essential in collaborative editing. is a shorthand observation very much like the complaint that Mozart's music has too many notes. Th...
@MichaelMrozek Ah, I knew it was a chess piece! I was briefly thinking that you and Rook should have made a chess piece mod cabal thing, but by then the primary was nearly over and there was no point.
This is a feature request to offer an alternative to moderators cleaning up comment noise as suggested by Robert in this question, which I'm not entirely comfortable with for these reasons.
Add a "recycling" symbol underneath each comment thread that exceeds two or three comments.
Like so:
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@TheRenamedException Wow, another Triangle person! Small world. :-P I wonder if we can grab a whole bunch of Triangle SO people and do some sort of meetup. :-P