Second this.
You do not "fix" Unicode.
You writes your code, then you prays for mercy, then you dies.
Your corpse decays. The world forgets you, moves on, grows cold.
But Unicode will still be there. Eternally laughing at your folly. https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/1106288647928635392
I noticed it a while back that one of our regular contributors (who used to go by a different moniker) was suspended early this year. I Am just wondering Why?
I understand if this is not the kind of thing that can be discussed openly in detail, but my curiousity is figuratively killing me!
They...
@SonictheWizardWerehog That pattern looks like it's already caught by Pattern-matching website in body and Pattern-matching website in answer; append -force if you really want to do that.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Its not ok to call out someone by their real name when they prefer not to disclose it
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ the policy on discussion of suspensions is very clear. We're (in terms of the folks who have access to that information) are not going discuss a user's suspension in public unless they choose to
You might find users who insist that all details of their suspension be disclosed publicly, in the hope that the community will think differently of it and rally for their unsuspension
@JourneymanGeek So, if a user says either to mods, CMs, or on some external platform, that they're OK with mods discussing their own suspension, in response to someone else asking about their suspension, will mods do so?
Theoretically a mod could refuse to disclose details about a suspension despite the user's consent, if they believe that doing so could get the community to start rallying for the user to be unsuspended.
Technically there are a lot of rough edges that are unexplored because SE does a fair job at selecting reasonable people to mod to the point where you don't need to lawyer out every aspect of their conduct in hard rules
Unrelated: say that a user violates a certain room's rules and gets suspended from chat. But the chat suspension ends up proving to be moot because they happen to be a moderator on some site (e.g. by participating in a new private beta site and being nominated as a mod there). Is that cause for having the user de-modded?
As a chat mod they have access to private moderator rooms and can thus end up disrupting discussion.
That reminds me of something else: does being suspended or having been suspended in the past year affect one's ability to get hired as a Stack Exchange employee?
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Still... it's bad manners to tell anyone anything something someone only told a select few people (or didn't even tell, but someone figured out anyways)
@JourneymanGeek You know... I came up with a theory. I now think someone in HR is afraid of dogs. You should change your profile picture before applying next time :P
But the question is, if your interview goes well, and the company offers you, but then they discover that you are suspended somewhere, would SE pull out?
In theory, one could apply for a job at SE instead of nominating in a mod election
SE isn't some ridig system that you can game to the detriment of its mission. It's staffed by discerning people all the way down, the chance to pull a fast one on the mod mechanics is nearing zero
The answer to any corner case is most likely going to be "what makes most sense, as decided by sensible individuals"
Hell, even being banned for 20 years doesn't stop you from getting it overturned and then becoming a mod on multiple sites given enough reflection and engagement
> There's something very broken with our UI, because this question comes up quite a bit. I mean a lot. Waaaay more often than it should. meta.stackexchange.com/a/325248
Programming questions come up on meta a lot, way more often than they should.
Does not necessarily mean the UI is broken. Maybe some people are like that.
Shog's recommendation is that answers that anyone considers annoying or obnoxious should be deleted. But I figured you knew what you were doing, so rather than pinging you I asked the community to delete-vote it instead.
In fact, I once took cat excrement from our cat and rubbed it on a piece of random writing and then presented it to the teacher as "The cat took a dump on it". The pungent odor precluded future investigations
take a random file of plausible length, change title and first sentences to something resembling your assignment, then open it in editor and add some random stuff. Now it won't open and you have plausible deniability to hand the actual project in the next time you see the teacher instead.
I used to go nuts on that game, just to get ahead of a friend at school. I found some kind of program that would click twice every millisecond, and then leave the laptop running for the night just to get ahead of her XD
@Tinkeringbell Heh, Microsoft pulled the download for the Office Compatibility Pack (which allows 2007+ format files to be opened in 2003 programs) in April 2018. I managed to download a copy before that; if anyone needs it, feel free to message me...
Plagiarizing code is also easy (not that I've done it): just change variable names, add/remove comments, change if statements to switch, for loops to while, etc.
Is this anyone else's relationship with their dog? https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1106548206203215873
@Tinkeringbell This stuff rarely makes the news anywhere besides here. For instance:
A terrorist from Gaza breached Israel’s border fence carrying an IED and a knife. Our troops stopped him before he could reach families living minutes away. This is why our soldiers are stationed along the Gaza border, to defend those families.
I just thought of a genius solution to end Stack Overflow's quality problems.
Step 1: Question ban everybody.
Step 2: Use stackroboflow.com to generate questions at a manageable rate.
Step 3: Because we don't have to worry about angering OP and the quantity of questions can be greatly diminished, we have the time to be thorough with each question and edit it into something useful.
In this article North Korean dictator Kim Jon Un claims (according to NBC) that:
"The entire mainland of the U.S. is within the range of our nuclear
weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office".
Donald Trump facetiously responded with a tweet saying:
North Korea...
It's real, not all heroes wear cape, some wear a smile to serve the community. I just read this today and left me in awe to know that someone out there really cared this much for the other devs. On behalf of students, starting professionals and hobbyist. Thank you for everything.
Best of luck b...
Well yeah, Mr. Incredible, for one
Wonder woman doesn't wear capes either
And neither do . . . hmm . . . all of the existing MCU characters
The login form used to have an intuitive behaviour up to a few days ago: pressing the tab key would switch from the email field to the password field, just like pretty much any such login form under the sun. For some reason it was changed recently and pressing the tab key from the email field swi...
@Shog9 Basically i just wanted to know if SO is the right place to ask questions related to software that might be coupled to a specific version of it
My question is about Kubernetes tooling to be precise and i can't figure out whether it's a but on a package i'm trying to install or if i'm missing something. I asked on freenode irc but no response there whithin an hour
s/but/bug
And now as a good SO citizen i don't want to clutter it with questions that are against the rules (and potentially loose rep :D)
@Shog9 currently not in production. But i want to familiarize myself with it by fiddling arround with it using minikube so i can make an educated decision
I'm trying to install stable/sentry using helm but if i put the same values i provide using --set using a yaml file the hooks/jobs don't get deployed and don't run
and now i'm trying to figure out whether there's something to be aware of when loading values using -f flag or if this is some sort of a but in the chart.
It's usually not very likely, but... one of the most popular questions on SO last week was something about apple breaking their provisioning system and locking everyone out
There's an old joke / truism about programming questions. Everyone thinks they've found a compiler bug sooner or later - some trivial bit of code just doesn't do what it should. And compilers are software, written by humans - surely they do have bugs!
The thing is, there are compiler bugs, even compiler bugs that have been documented on Stack Overflow. And of course there are lots of library / tooling bugs asked about and documented on SO.
But... You should always ask your question with the implicit assumption that it's not a bug, because if you can't find the behavior documented anywhere and the software has more than a few dozen users... Chances are you're just using it wrong somehow, and as soon as you say "it must be a bug" someone's gonna come crawling out of the woodwork to set you straight on that. OTOH, if it actually is a bug... Well, now the next person to encounter it won't have their search come up empty.
It's a matter of psychology. Especially new programmers seem to have a hard time accepting that it's their fault if code is buggy and not the compiler / interpreter / runtime.
ah, those days when you spend all afternoon hunting for a bug, and do indeed find several and fix them along the way but still have the erroneous behavior you started with... And it turns out you mistyped a name somewhere.
or you had variable shadowing, or where missing this keyword or you tried adding two numbers but it turned out the first one was a string in javascript... so many simple options to fail with :)
StackExchange content being licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0, and there being no officially recognized compatible licenses, that means that if I want to use code posted on SE in my project then my project must be licensed exactly CC-BY-SA 3.0?
How can a platform decide about the license of the content that I as a user post anyway? Asked myself that question a couple of times now. After all it's my own interlectual property
@Anticom you grant them license to redistribute under that license by posting. it's not only in the ToS, it's linked at the bottom of every page on the site
@Sparr okay but let's say i posted a snipped from my own code that is licensed using another license that would only mean that others could use that snippet under CC-BY_SA 3.0 however that wouldn't affect my own code base would it?
User content on SE is available at minimum under BY-SA - that doesn't preclude it from also being made available under other licenses. I license all the code I post here under MIT as well.