Anyone else been visited by the self-appointed link police?
Some clowns turned up and put comments in a question regarding books stating that the Amazon links in the question were affiliate links.
Pity they didn't look closer, or know what an affiliate link looks like. Those of us hitting amazo...
There needs to be a tag for questions on MSO about official lighthearted stuff, like the photo of the keyboard waffle iron or CAPTCHA robot image. [official-humor]?
Please remove the moderator ability described in this chat message. I just don't think it should be available, as it could easily be abused.
Shog9:
Mods can also come into your house at night and leave your milk out. Some mod abilities aren't talked about much.
@rchern How had you been doing it? I had to create a flickr account just for SE images, and maybe I just don't know the fancy shortcuts but it took me forever to get the URL of the raw image I could plug in to the old image dialog thing.
Most of the images I post on the SE sites are screenshots. I'd do winkey > snip > enter to open up Snipping > drag the mouse around the area I want > ctrl+c to toss the image into clipboard > imaer uploads the image in my clipboard to imgur. On SE, ctrl+g > ctrl+v = done.
@Popular, anyway, ctrl+g now brings up the imgur dialog, so I have to click to switch to url mode, then click to give the input field focus. Paste in my url...
but wait! SO takes the imgur url I gave it...
and reuploads it to imgur.
On Vista and Windows 7 it is a screen capture tool
There are currently a few year tags that should be removed (unless the year or number itself is an issue), probably added because of versioning.
Years:
[2005]
[2007]
[2009]
[2010]
Dangling version:
[3.5]
Many of these are just [product]-[year] without the hyphen or [product][year]. I...
It's nice to be aware of the current trends in our industry, and I would like to know what books have been released this year that are worth reading.
I'm especially interested in books about languages, but I'd like to hear about other kinds of programming books as well.
For example, JVM languag...
Heh, nice. The Chrome dev tools updates the dom tree automatically. Discovered this because the quickswitch and quickleave are generated (and removed) on hover, not just a visibility toggle.
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It would be nice if diamond mods could have the ability to prevent edits on a question/answer.
For example, the famous Regex match open tags answer has been (in the not recent past) defaced by a user who decided it was ...
Meta Stack Overflow seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
Individual questions answered below:
What do votes mean on Meta? Why was my well-written post downvoted?
When should posts on Meta be set to community wiki?
Why ...
I'm wondering what the motivation is to have the quickleave and quickswitch icons hidden by default and only visible when you hover over the area.
With the icons hidden until you hover above them, this means that if you are moving your mouse there with the intent to switch rooms, it feels li...
@rchern You may. I no longer wished to be in that room. I suppose you could argue that I didn't really need to leave, but it gets the mini-notification-thing out of the current window, and it's... "semantically correct."
@Popular, I mainly wondered if you were doing it at the end of the day for each room and was going to point out the always visible everywhere leave all link.
I'm not saying nobody ever leaves rooms...just seems much less frequent that it doesn't warrant an immediately available option. All of this is just my humble opinion of course.
i have a pretty map of the US:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg
i would like to implement a tooltip with multiline functionality such as here over the red square:
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/gui/tooltips/
please help me get started on this...
I submit to you the following quartet of indisputable facts:
Stack Overflow is for people who are bored at work.
Having animations and video games are more exciting (and therefore less boring) than not having animations and video games.
Chrono Trigger is the best video game ever made.
Downvotin...
I was a bit bummed the unit testing help room has already been frozen from lack of activity since it was the closest room I could find on TDD. I'm failing miserably at getting myself started on projects with TDD.
I generally just can't get started when I try and use it on a project that's bigger in scope than a class. I get some sort of irrational tendency to just freeze up before I've even begun.
> "Troll" is a term often used to describe holders of patents who use their intellectual property primarily as fodder for filing infringement lawsuits.
Well not brilliantly, it's a personal project of mine at the moment. A small simple build server that accepts url ping's from github for a project, pulls the latest source down, builds it and emails me the results.
right, so I should have a good go at writing the requirements out, since writing solidifies ideas best, then go over it and see if I can see a good place to start.
Right. You don't necessarily need to have bullet proof requirements (that usually leads to paralysis-by-analysis), but you do need them to be reasonably sketched out.
From there, each requirement should lead to at least one test case of some sort. (That doesn't mean every test case will be easy, or even possible, to express as a unit test.)
The other thing to keep in mind, though you do want to express as many test cases in code, it doesn't necessarily have to be so. Though, you do want to document them somehow.
I see. So like a testing document that details tests that need to be done if they couldn't be automated for some reason. So I can go over those after the automated ones have passed.
right well thanks for the pointers :) Time for me to disappear into the ether.
Well, maybe. But I was texting to let her know that I got a phishing chat message on Facebook from her. And a minute after I sent it she posted on FB saying not to click the link if she sends it because she clicked it and it was sending it to everyone.
Anyone else been visited by the self-appointed link police?
Some clowns turned up and put comments in a question regarding books stating that the Amazon links in the question were affiliate links.
Pity they didn't look closer, or know what an affiliate link looks like. Those of us hitting amazo...
Please remove the moderator ability described in this chat message. I just don't think it should be available, as it could easily be abused.
Shog9:
Mods can also come into your house at night and leave your milk out. Some mod abilities aren't talked about much.
There are currently a few year tags that should be removed (unless the year or number itself is an issue), probably added because of versioning.
Years:
[2005]
[2007]
[2009]
[2010]
Dangling version:
[3.5]
Many of these are just [product]-[year] without the hyphen or [product][year]. I...
It's nice to be aware of the current trends in our industry, and I would like to know what books have been released this year that are worth reading.
I'm especially interested in books about languages, but I'd like to hear about other kinds of programming books as well.
For example, JVM languag...
This should not be tagged [status-completed]. I just reproed on SO, though I was doing a retag, not an edit (<2k user).
(Similar to Give Diamond Moderators the Ability to Partially Lock a Post)
It would be nice if diamond mods could have the ability to prevent edits on a question/answer.
For example, the famous Regex match open tags answer has been (in the not recent past) defaced by a user who decided it was ...
I'm wondering what the motivation is to have the quickleave and quickswitch icons hidden by default and only visible when you hover over the area.
With the icons hidden until you hover above them, this means that if you are moving your mouse there with the intent to switch rooms, it feels li...
i have a pretty map of the US:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg
i would like to implement a tooltip with multiline functionality such as here over the red square:
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/gui/tooltips/
please help me get started on this...
Some sites are integrated to chat . What additional sites should the chat support?
One suggestion per answer.
