@PrincessLuna I believe the one that SE investigated was about full storage that affected the whole SO.chat, SE.chat, and SF .chat , not a single user getting logged out...
@JourneymanGeek My one gripe with deleting link only answers, is that from a google seo perspective, you are deleting pure search engine gold.
I mean, search engines love that type of connectivity.
Human created content that shows a link between human grammar, and a web site.
It pains me sometimes to see them deleted for the sole reason that there isn't a preview. Honestly, if there were one boxing for link only answers, it would solve the whole problem.
@TravisJ I think the main problem is that links tend to not precisely answer a question. Often, when I encounter a link-only answer it is of the form "This 15 page document answers your question, somewhere". This simply isn't specific and makes it hard to evaluate the quality. If there is a short answer in the document, then write it out. If there isn't, the link isn't really a good fit as an answer.
@Discretelizard It's true, the links are often not the best answer to a question. In fact, I would wager they are rarely the best answer and even less frequently accepted. However, that isn't to say they are useless.
@TravisJ They can be useful, yes. But they simply aren't a good fit for this platform, I think. Similar to the case with questions: there are useful questions that aren't a good fit for the platform either.
@TravisJ Whether something is useful is mostly about the content. 'link-only' is a case of poor form that we usually don't tolerate, just like a post in French. Of course, it is the best to improve the form of the post if the content is useful. Unfortunately, the poor form makes it hard to check whether the content is useful.
If the content isn't useful, downvote it. I still don't see why the link would be removed unless it is completely unrelated to the topic. If the topic is simply generating a large amount of link only answers, then more than likely it is off topic.
must sleep, thanks for the thoughts @Discretelizard
Apparently the Stack Exchange terms changed two weeks ago. According to this the change went live on the second of May, and e-mails should have been sent "in the days ahead".
Well, it's now two weeks later. The only e-mail I received from Stack Exchange recently is the one advertising Stack Over...
> You’ll get one of those annoying emails about it in the days ahead, but we wanted to give you a heads-up about it here now. -- 5 May, Original ToS meta post
won't comment on the joke/stress outburst there, sadly I'm not in the position to give that any brain cpu cycles now.
I'll still stand my original statement. I understand they are now surfing a sea of pain and tears trying to sort this out.... but perhaps it would have been worth to complete the journey before enforcing the new ToS?
Never though the day would come I'd say this here... but for once I am indeed the one not understanding what is so funny about the current handling the new ToS implementation is receiving.
@user5389107 Yeah. I understand that. There's a reason that the saying exists "we are our own harshest critics"... take your time. I don't think you've done anything at this point that can't be undone and goodwill can be rebuilt with time and work. You've done a lot of really positive things for the network. You aren't perfect. That's OK. What's important is learning and growing. Next time, take time and think before acting.
@Derpy Well, it seems SE staff is at least aware that these issues need answering, even though they appeared to have been ignored so far. See the section "Thank you for your input regarding the new arbitration clause, though there’s still some confusion." in stackmod.blog/2018/05/…
@user5389107 I went to a shrink and they told me after one session that I have bipolar/mood disorder. Though, I think they're basing that on my mom (who is definitely on meds for bipolar)... I also was in anger management as a kid... Based on what you've said recently about me, you'd probably be surprised to hear that... but I'm also 36... so I think I've had some time to come to grips with it.
But I work at it... and I find places to vent. Andy hears more complaints about a site he doesn't use than is probably fair... and I talk privately with other people off site... it relieves the pressure and helps me stay level-headed... mostly.
@rene Are there well known big differences for MariaDB and MySQL? I am asking because we're still in evaluation phase of our target RDBMS for the ADS migration.
@Mgetz Sure, that's why MariaDB could be an escape from that license. Of course what I'm evaluating in 1st place is PostgreSQL right now.
We could do a lot with their schema concept already. ADS free tables with information hidden in directory structures. Whatta mess (30 yrs old software, once migrated from Paradox to ADS).
@πάνταῥεῖ MySQL is more performance-focused; if you have a large dataset you want MySQL rather than MariaDB. On the other hand, if you want good regex search capabilities, you want MariaDB - it supports PCRE rather than MySQL's basic regexes.
I do hope the order by was added intentionally so it can be rolled back. If SQL Server all of a sudden picked that order due to a better query plan this might take more then 6 to 8 weeks to repair.
So I wrote a card game in Java/JavaFX but I don't particularly like this solution and I was wondering if you guys have any better solutions:
public static CardNode get(Card card, double nodeWidth, double nodeHeight, double imageWidth, double imageHeight) {
if (card.isMonster()) {
Mon...
I already had such case once at the German Language site. Is there anything we can do beyond making the OP aware? Flagging for site mods, doesn't help a lot, though they could escalate the dupe user account to the CMs.
@ShadowWizard there is some thing in place to prevent cookie theft (CSRF stuff). So I copied not enough, causing the server-side invalidation of my cookie when I used in curl (copied from chrome). Netscape has a cookie-file format spec ...
Once you get to the pre-hiring paperwork you'll be ushered into a conference room with at least 20 employees in it and they'll all start to produce sharp sticks
@ArtOfCode People (apparently) don't like pings in general (I'm more lenient with them, but there are users with even more lenient standards, e.g. @PrincessLuna)
You've missed the point of what people have asked you there. People have asked you not to ping them about things that are irrelevant to them. Pinging people about current situations that they're involved in - like this - is fine.
(Enter is super easy to press on my desktop computer here at home)
@user1114 Too many problems with anti-adblock warnings?
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It is just a single simple CSS expression, so a content blocker or user styles thing like Sylus would work, yeah. But those all carry their own security risks, and may be outright banned at work.
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(Because those extensions typically require access on all domains, including confidential content, and extensions get hacked some times.)
@user1114 Doesn't sideloading extensions help avoid that?
I remember the WOT extension; the authors were exposed by a German newspaper as selling people's browsing history
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That could, but this is probably more convenient for me. It's easy and quick to bundle it as a Chrome extension, and now it's synced onto my work and personal Chrome profiles everywhere.
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@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog No. Kind-of on principle. If a site is awful with ads, I'll either pay to get rid of them, or I'll probably visiting it.
(The German newspaper set up a fake domain and browsed to it with the extension on. Then, they set up a fake marketing firm through which they bought some marketing data from WOT, and then saw visits to that fake domain at the same time and pinpointing the user who browsed there.)
@user1114 I use Nano Adblocker with Nano Defender. The two extensions work together to not only remove ads, but also remove anti-adblock prompts.
(Nano Defender is the extension that does the latter; it was originally written as a helper for uBlock Origin, but to use it with that requires complicated configuration, so the author made a pre-built fork with the configuration already done)