> I can literally feel my IQ dropping just from watching this. All knowledge stored in my brain is now leaking out. There goes first grade... There goes my first semester of college... There goes potty training...
Pursuant to a chat conversation there's some clarification needed on what it means for a stackapp to be an app or a script. I'm posting this for the community and for future searchers and as a bit of a FAQ (sorta)
If you haven't heard about this, read Jeff's latest blog entry Stack Apps and Scri...
OK, well, I have a solution (I hope) for this nasty selection bug that my customer found. So now I will go off to find food. Somebody in here has been talking about soup and making me very hungry. I won't name any names or point fingers...
Fml, a whole 90 minutes of work left to be done and my wife is freaking out for me to be home and not working ... Dammit, now I'm gonna forget what I need to finish :(
Oh, that. Yeah, he kind of converted the post from a question about how tags work to a discussion about how you can get screwed out of Taxonomist
I had a worse one sometime recently, where somebody asked how something worked and I answered, and got downvoted because the person didn't like that that was how it worked
> Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human Jeopardy! player: It's very smart, very fast, speaks in an uneven monotone, and has never known the touch of a woman.
I didn't realize Daily Doubles are non-random. I assumed Watson was scanning Trebek's thoughts to help locate them
In most of Canada, Family Day is a statutory holiday occurring on the third Monday in February. In the provinces of Manitoba and Prince Edward Island, the statutory holiday on this date is instead termed Louis Riel Day and Islander Day, respectively. This corresponds with Presidents Day in the United States.
The third Monday in February is a regular working day in British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the territories. As Family Day is not currently recognized in the federal sphere, federal employees in all provinces (such as public servants and postal workers) still ...
> The manual says MySQL will clear the cached queries when their data changes, but is that true? Or should I reset the query cache manually all the time?
Are you really asking if the manual is lying? Gosh, I'm easily irritated.
I received a comment reply on this topic, since it was like this I though the comment was deleted or something like that, but then I noticed the topic title has html tags. These tags are being processed on the inbox resulting in:
comment on without ?
@BrunoLM: a slight grayish (#222) bol...
I've heard this tossed around few times, but never really a source. The wiki page says it was designed for home appliances, but never really references a toaster. Anyone have a source?
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Hi everyone!
By posting this, I feel like this will become one of those Facebook parties where the entire house gets trashed... Crossing my fingers that it will not be like that!
Just for the fun of it, a few of us are trying to hold a gaming night - So far it...
Proposed Q&A site for people who have questions regarding the correct use of the French language, whether spoken or written. It is not about translating.
Questions can be submitted in English or in French.
Currently in defintion.
although I really don't see the point in having a SE for each and every language known to mankind
I'd much rather have something with a wider scope.
...I mean, okay, fair enough, English.SE has the exact same problem.
The difference is that English is the de-facto lingua franca of the internets. Deal.
Would I mind asking in Italian? No. Would I reach an as wide audience? No. Would that help the internet become a better place? Not as much. Do non-English-mothertongue countries teach English anyway? Yeah.
@badp my 2 cents is it's not going to work. If you want German linguists to participate in such a site, the language needs to be German, and probably even the UI.
Same for French and essentially every other big language where speakers aren't forced to learn good english.
@badp yup, that's what I mean. And theoretically, those blog posts would have to be localized to some extent... Or you'd need a Jeff-like community evangelist for every language
I obviously came in at the last minute here, but from what I just read I think you're right @Pekka. SE "language" sites would probably have to be in the language they were about in order to get the best audiences as well as all the associated materials, and that's a lot of work
But I'm not sure about needing the blog localized. I think people who are that fond of SE could participate in the other SE sites, blog, mso etc, in English. IDK
Personally it was always finding StackOveflow in google searches and seeing the answers that made me want to join and hooked me. I didn't start reading the blog until maybe 6+ months after I joined
Proposed Q&A site for addicts favoring fun questions and discussions about programming and computing.
Recently I posted a "fun" question on Stack Overflow, but it was closed within 5 minutes of posting.
Please tell me which site I can use?
I think people are more frustrated by having problems they can't solve.
When the asker speaks Danish and the guy who could write the best answer to that question speaks Turk, everybody loses. Having everybody use English instead, even if it's poor English, is far better.
It's not a matter of te...
I'm using Safari 5.0.3 on Mac OS X v. 10.6.6. When I try to edit a chat post in English.SE to fix a typo, selecting text and hitting the backspace key (for delete) often for some strange reason will send me to the main page of the Stack Overflow site. I find this rather bizarre behavior prevents ...
@JoshsSocks that's indeed a higher frequency than that's made for -- you shouldn't currently run into issues with that (unless HAProxy intervenes), but I won't promise anything. What information exactly are you querying for?
@balpha looking for user_message for every user in the chat room
want to poll for updates so when it changes I can indicate visually, so if you change your user message, I can update the title of your gravatar in #present-users
but I was thinking since it can only get one user at a time (right?) if there's a large number of users in the room, if I do every 30 seconds that might take a while to update a given user
@TheRenamedException that has problems too. If your status is "Available: working, @The me to interrupt me" and you're therefore idle, if you then to AFK and change your status to "Away: At lunch" then someone might @ you thinking you're there when you're not