Also of note, for those who haven't seen it already. Surprised no one thought of that before, heh.
@PopularDemand In an interesting coincidence, it seems that Hugo Chavez is attempting to boost his popularity with the sci-fi/skeptics crowd by creating a cancer-ray conspiracy.
I hope you found those to be as fascinating as I did...
In addition to being a game developer, Noel Llopis is quite a prolific blogger, author (he's contributed to Game Developer Magazine and Game Programming Gems), and speaker at conferences
@ALL Moderator I have seen one room in StackOverflow chat that is unproductive and some user over there are chatting mannerless so please close that room chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/6137
@TimStone "Based on [company] (Information Technology Acceptable Use policy), access to this web site ( projecteuler.com ) has been blocked because the web category 'Uncategorized URLs' is not allowed." (I suppose I didn't have to @ you, but it's tradition now.)
@Moshe I thought about it some more and realized I might be getting confused with a proposal to add generic drawing features, to which someone replied to use things like what you were suggesting
@RebeccaChernoff Good! I just need to do a little more testing when I get home to make sure that everything is in working order and then I'll push it out.
I haven't gotten quite that far yet, so I don't have a good answer other than I'm going to try and figure something out.
@GraceNote also wanted some control over sound notifications, so that you could selectively turn off sounds for certain rooms, I think...wonder if that's doable. Sounds like both of these things would involve local preferences, which would potentially be problematic, but we already rely on localStorage for some things anyway, so meh.
Why do you have users who run around answering questions just for the sake of answering questions, with incorrect answers? The more incorrect answers a person posts should directly affect his reputation. Instead they are rewarded for simply answering the questions.
I have participated in quite a few new beta sites and find that many sites have the same arguments each time.
Already with the new Chinese site I have been having an extended discussion about why software setup questions shouldn't be on topic (the main argument being that the Chinese site is the...
When I see a question like Is English required on Stack Overflow?, I wonder how any person who really wants to know the answer is going to make use of it. In this case, I see three barriers to utility:
The Chinese text is cute, but not constructive in presenting the issue under discussion to so...
Why do you have users who run around answering questions just for the sake of answering questions, with incorrect answers? The more incorrect answers a person posts should directly affect his reputation. Instead they are rewarded for simply answering the questions.
When I see a question like Is English required on Stack Overflow?, I wonder how any person who really wants to know the answer is going to make use of it. In this case, I see three barriers to utility:
The Chinese text is cute, but not constructive in presenting the issue under discussion to so...