No, but it should support some sort of basic scripting, or be more like the Lego Robotics platform.
I just think it's like what Joel was talking about in one of the podcasts - that site that businesses wouldn't pay for it's developers to use, so they spent time churning out c**p to get free memberships.
Make college kids, some of whom are not technical majors, make garbage apps to fill your app store?
Sheesh, looks like a dumb idea, driven by numbers to please board members.
@mootinator - I don't know. Apple like touting numbers, and executive boards seem to operate on figures as well. Regardless, shoving two thousand (134*15) poorly written apps into the market seems silly.
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@RebeccaChernoff Can you add the badges to the JavaScript files on the SE server? The second line, add "Deputy" and "Marshal" to the array of default badges
Hang on a second... the badges.js file is still the old version
sigh Is there anything that can be done about the number of "How do I add placeholders to my input" questions on SO?
There are half a gazillion of them out there, and almost none of them are been closed as dupe because the descriptions all vary wildly, but in the end they're all asking the same thing
@YiJiangs独角兽 To be fair, there's a user named "Click upvote" who's almost at 10k (although that's due in part to old poll/discussion questions). Disregard that; now that I look more carefully, most of that rep is for stuff that would be closed today.
No, went near a question involving concurrency issues reading a row from a database and writing a value somewhere else based on it having four answers none of which had anything to do with transactions.
First, I apologize if this has been asked before - indeed I'm sure it has, but I can't find it/can't work out what to search for to find it.
I need to generate unique quick reference id's, based on a company name. So for example:
Company Name Reference
Smiths Joinery ...
@mootinator wouldn't that lock a 'new' row, but fail to stop a second 'new' row from getting the same calculation?
I like the top-voted answer for using a compound key with auto-increment, or just changing the design to not use stupid prefix codes like the OP wants.
@Fosco I do agree, just perplexed that a transaction didn't occur to anyone as the obvious solution to that problem.
@Fosco I don't know exactly how it works in MySQL but I think the FOR UPDATE causes another transaction to wait to read the row until the first transaction is committed (at which point the new row would be the correct result)
It would be considerably less cool if it did actually require a table lock.
Right, but the issue was two IDs being generated based on the same row, if you block reading that row after the first read, how would the subsequent rows go in at the same time?
It was about id's being generated based on the result of a query, not about a specific row. If there are 8 rows smit0001 through smit0008, and 2 new rows starting with 'smit' are inserted at the same time the query may return 9 for both of them.
@TimStone No, I'm going on the assumption it has to re-run the query, because the result has been invalidated by the prior transaction. Normally you would be updating the same row you selected in this scenario.
Hi all. I'm constantly struggling with the differences between down-voting, voting to close, and flagging a question. Should they be inclusive of each other? If I flag something, I assume it also warrants closing and a down vote. Is that always the case? If so, shouldn't all closed questions have a minimum of 5 downvotes?
A well asked question can be off-topic, not really deserving of a down-vote imho... A terribly asked question can be on-topic, and I'll down-vote it twice if I could.
On the topic of flag weight... if you have over 10k rep, flag weight farming is too easy. Just look through the flag list and find the "Not an answer" ones and jump on the flag-wagon.
The system won't let you actually use those flags that correspond to close reasons, if you have the ability to vote to close, so it's a bit of a non-issue.
This came to my mind after I learned the following from this question:
where T : struct
We, C# developers, all know the basics of C#. I mean declarations, conditionals, loops, operators, etc.
Some of us even mastered the stuff like Generics, anonymous types, lambdas, LINQ, ...
But what are t...
It's possibly a side-effect of knowing many other (similar) languages, but I find VB very annoying to work with because the syntax is just...argh. Of course, by the same token Objective-C irritates me, but less so.
I've merged them.
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HTML:
<input type="text" name="firstname" title="First Name" style="color:#888;"
value="First Name" onfocus="inputFocus(this)" onblur="inputBlur(this)" />
JavaScript:
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if(i.value==i.defaultValue){ i.value=""; i.style.color="#000"; }
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First, I apologize if this has been asked before - indeed I'm sure it has, but I can't find it/can't work out what to search for to find it.
I need to generate unique quick reference id's, based on a company name. So for example:
Company Name Reference
Smiths Joinery ...
This came to my mind after I learned the following from this question:
where T : struct
We, C# developers, all know the basics of C#. I mean declarations, conditionals, loops, operators, etc.
Some of us even mastered the stuff like Generics, anonymous types, lambdas, LINQ, ...
But what are t...