Hmm, I was adding a [Comment Link] magic column to Data Explorer, but due to slug redirection that seems like fighting a losing battle for comments on answers, argh.
Ohh right, the global inbox uses a comment link that does the proper redirection for me.
While I was meandering about the Stack-o-sphere, I noticed this question hit the SuperCollider:
Are there any cases when it's necessary or useful to use a plain old Thread object instead of one of the newer constructs?
OK... So why does this question (as of this writing) get 38 upvotes, no ...
@jadarnel27 That is indeed a word that is not used enough in modern discourse. I applaud your efforts to more effectively and completely use the English language.
New users of a Stack Exchange site may not fully understand how the site works. For example, the user may not know how to vote, what reputation is, how to format a question or answer, or how to navigate the site. While the FAQ and privilege pages may offer enough information to teach new users ...
I agree with Shog in that 99% of people are just here for answers. SO is just a utility for them
and Jeff's point about "guided tours" being useful is very true. If games (especially mobile ones) have taught us anything, it's that the only way to "teach" people things is to step them through the "lessons" while they are completing the main task.
@awe Have there been changes to those links? It could be that they're deleting those answers as they implement the suggestions. Just a thought, I don't really know.
Neither do I, but I'm 'meh' about the whole issue. Is it really that big a deal to see which specific post it is? You know that unregistered users below 100 rep can also get automatically deleted. I'd say most deleted users with votes are of that variety
I would have to agree with @YiJiangsProble. While knowing what post was affected would be nice, I'm not sure how much utility it has. I think the same sort of "what has changed recently" could be reached with an "activity" sort of view that shows all changes, including votes, on questions.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA - You might get more question-lovin' if you indicated why you want to see what question was impacted. As it stands, that question doesn't (to me, at least) give any sort of compelling reason for changing the current behavior.
The query must not be returning any data. Run a profiler on the SQL database to see the physical query being executed and try to execute it manually against the database to see what the data looks like. You probably have to adjust the query (or the data) to get the results you're looking for.
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@jadarnel27 No, I don't see any changes on that. The only reason I could think of would be that Jin doesn't want to implement it, but I would prefer if he said it.
It's OK if he desides not to do it, but it would be good to know if that's the reason, and some background on why.
By the way, my answer go 15 up-votes, so I'm a bit surpriced it was just closed...
@jadarnel27 He did have gave some comments on why it was like it is, but I think he should also leave a comment on why he was closing the answer before closing it.
@jadarnel27 No. I just deletet my browser cache and did an explicit refresh, but still the same.
@jadarnel27 This one's a rather interesting one, but it's basically just breaking out the "select questions we care about" from the "do the rep calc on those questions" process.
Yeah, variable declarations tend to make most uninitiated SQL slingers go "nope, not gonna bother".
In that particular query, however, it could have all been done with one big query (ok, an outer and an inner one, but same thing). So breaking it out like that actually makes it much more comprehensible.
@jadarnel27 :) Imagine the actual data the SE team has at their disposal to play with! (including, i'm sure, real-time traffic stats and lots of other metrics)
@jadarnel27 If you really like data, and are implementing things that you might want to track data, you might be interested in the Statsd "library"
It makes tracking just about any metric almost trivial. It doesn't have quite the same mix-and-match capability that SQL-driven data does, but it's great for real-time and high-volume things
Essentially, it's an event-driven way to report counts and times to Graphite, which then graphs gobs of data, all in real-time at high volumes. Beyond that, there's not much else to it.
@cdeszaq It really is. I just love working with that stuff. I'd like to get better at SQL (especially the more complex topics). The only questions I've asked on SO were really simple SQL questions =P
@cdeszaq Thank you for that summary, that makes my life a lot easier =)
@jadarnel27 I swear, if I can find an "evangelism" sort of job where I can just explain awesome things to people, I would be in heaven. (Note: if you know of any jobs like that, drop me a line!)
@cdeszaq We do a good bit of that at my company, actually. Though we also have to back it up with being able to do it and deliver to clients, which is the harder part :)
@Moshe Almost sounds like a gang induction question... Are there a lot of l33t h4x0rz in your neighborhood?
@David Yeah, I've found (for better or for worse) that I'm much better at explaining things and selling ideas to people than I am at the implementation part of it. (For implementing things, I just need much more structure)
@David - But perhaps it's just that the actual doing of things really is that much harder and I just don't realize it?
@cdeszaq The structure is definitely important, and we are always trying to improve our own delivery structure for clients. (My current project is sort of an experiment in that sense, including team dynamics that aren't particularly common.) But ya, in the end, all the client wants is the project they paid the consultants for.
@Moshe Ruby also wouldn't be bad, or Groovy if one wants to pick up Java and work with other JVM languages (perhaps JRuby?) The benefit is that those languages dn't restrict (at all) to OO, or procedural, or functional programming, and can be written in an interpreter (which can be a big help when learning)
I've never done much python myself (I could probably recognize python code, but that's about it), so I may be off-base, but those are my thoughts :)
Anyone else having issues with their Flagging Summary page?
Steps to reproduce:
Step One:
Find a suggested edit
Step Two:
Click Reject:
Step Three:
Click on the custom radio:
Step Four:
Click on some other radio:
Conclusion:
CANNOT click on the reject Button. It is greyed out and unclickable (unless I put some text in the custom ...
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA I can't repro it exactly, but I get a bunch of other strange behaviors with the button activating/deactivating when I click on various things. But nothing seems to be reproable
They make the post four pages long. You could've written "When rejecting a suggested edit, if you click the 'custom' option and then switch to some other option (e.g. 'radical change'), the Reject button stays disabled, waiting for input in custom's textarea even though custom is no longer selected" and been equally clear
As you see from the Google Cache of that user.
That user made a new account recently. The one that google has is an older version.
It might have something to do with accounts merging or unmerging due to sock puppets.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA I don't see how that really answers the question in any useful way. It would make a good comment...like alot of the answers you post.
Although I've seen a couple good ones from you recently.
@jadarnel27 The thing that gets me is that there are high-ish rep users that still insist on answering and don't quite get the whole "answerable questions only" thing
@cdeszaq You laugh, but public libraries really are kind of terrible at keeping up with tech books, in my experience. Of course, in their defense, history and physics don't change as much as programming, but still.
@PopularDemand I know. I'm a big fan of pub. libs. I was more poking fun at those that look their first, especially if the person in question is a "developer" in any way, since they should turn to Google before a library out of instinct
@PopularDemand I flagged as other and dropped the message about getting around the restrictions. If more people catch on to that, the comment filter will need to get much smarter and resolve links to filter them
@cdeszaq Yeah, that is a bit annoying. But, alot of the high rep users don't really pay attention to the quality / site maintenance aspects of SO. They just like to answer questions and be helpful.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA No, that's not true. "davar" is "thing", but in hebrew it's spelled like "dahbaire" which is "speak". על לא דבר actually sounds pretty idiomatic to me.
Closer. I also would have accepted: 1. Profanity 2. Strawmen 3. CAPS-LOCK 4. Lack of punctuation (or excessive punctuation, either one works). 5. Poor spelling, out of disrespect (as opposed to ignorance).
Or all of the above.
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These are all good ways to express malice to your internet peers.
Gareth is a Super User user who made hundreds of edits that just consisted of uploading existing images to Stack imgur during the SU second anniversary contest last year.
@mootinator I'm cool with any syntax-oriented multi-paradigm language. OO, functional, procedural... all have their place. But dictating indentation, etc. ... no thanks.
@mootinator And by the way, you can't ignore me that way. I'm classier than "yall" ;-)
Or perhaps you just make the program a bit smarter? As long as the values from that problematic column don't really matter, you could just store any non-numbers you get and give them (and any later records that match) a new number
Sort of along the lines of surrogate IDs instead of natural IDs
While I was meandering about the Stack-o-sphere, I noticed this question hit the SuperCollider:
Are there any cases when it's necessary or useful to use a plain old Thread object instead of one of the newer constructs?
OK... So why does this question (as of this writing) get 38 upvotes, no ...
The query must not be returning any data. Run a profiler on the SQL database to see the physical query being executed and try to execute it manually against the database to see what the data looks like. You probably have to adjust the query (or the data) to get the results you're looking for.
...
Does anyone know the name of the dog from this ad:
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Steps to reproduce:
Step One:
Find a suggested edit
Step Two:
Click Reject:
Step Three:
Click on the custom radio:
Step Four:
Click on some other radio:
Conclusion:
CANNOT click on the reject Button. It is greyed out and unclickable (unless I put some text in the custom ...
