Well, in real life it's useless because nobody's ever heard of it, but if there were actually a universally known word amongst only tech people it would be highly efficient
It doesn't "skip the queue", it skips having the language un-techified for you. They don't want that
@Fosco The maddening thing about this is that sometimes (well, it only happened once, actually) I'll reconnect my equipment twice, and then when I give up and call them, they tell me to do the exact same thing, and it works.
@Fosco There's a huge problem with people not getting the warnings that it's been stated they would receive. I have no problem with suspending people, but there should be a process that is followed.
@LanceRoberts 2 things 2 be aware of. 1. You guys often get the tail end of the story, and 2. there is a process followed, and almost every case where someone complained, it was followed
A recent kerfuffle has made it clear that perhaps there is not enough clarity on why users are being boxed.
I know that the guideline is "Don't Be A Jerk" but that still doesn't help because there are so many different... jerk-thresholds.
Would it be possible for all the moderators, Jeff, and J...
For the record I am not saying the mods are always right. But in most cases, we have done a lot of work beforehand. Suspensions aren't handed out easily.
I just noticed that on Jeff's parameters there is only one warning. I think there should be detailed warnings before each suspension so that the user can change behavior.
The general process:
stage 1
email warning about specifics of unacceptable behavior1
stage 2
1-7 day suspension2
stage 3
30 day suspension
stage 4
120+ day suspension or account now eligible for deletion2
You advance from stage to stage by continuing to engage in the unacceptable behaviors ...
This sort of thing has happened a few times now...
"Hey, did you see? User X was boxed!"
"User X? Why?"
"I donno... Maybe he... " (wild speculation ensues. waffles are blamed.)
It's generally quite easy to notice when a user gets thrown in The Penalty Box. You see the tell-tale 1 when...
I've seen at least one case of a user being suspended that imho absolutely didn't deserve it, so I tend to side with the "suspensions should be accompanied with a public reason" people now
@PopularDemand Well, I didn't upvote it because devin downvoted it, if that makes you feel better; I'd already upvoted it before I switched back to the chat and saw his message
I noticed that when I went to the Programmers Beta that I couldn't even see the FAQ, it kept wanting me to login. How do I know I want to get involved with the site (if not coming from Area51) if I can't see the FAQ to see what the site's about.
@LanceRoberts Kop apparently thinks it's serious, I absolutely do not, and yet one of my proposed questions was in the top 5 and has already been asked by someone else on the site... So I rather doubt we're anywhere close to nailing down the real boundaries for the site yet.
FWIW: What kind of questions should I not ask here?
Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!
guess what sort of questions have been asked so far...
And in future news, a troll has been suspended for having multiple sockpuppets across several SE sites. Before being suspended, he protested that he was invited to maintain multiple accounts by the sites' login pages themselves. Film at 11. Back to you in the studio, @Shog9.
@Shog9 "BADGE-REQUST: "Multiuser] badge for many accts; could have bronze for two accts, silver for four accts and gold level seven accts. to encorage mor votng & particip'n!!!"
WOO HOO, local (to me) restaurant has $2.50 Spaten Lager and Optimator All Weekend, plus the best German Food in town. I know where I'm eating this weekend!
Here's an example of what I mean:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630614/xpath-php-query
Googling "XPath Query" returns a plethora of resources. What's the best way to respond to this question? Everything I can think of is flippant.
> [01:14] <@tommost> Pandora doesn't care about genres. All it cares about is the difference between the current song and Coldplay. It seeks to reduce this difference until you finally are listening to Coldplay. Then you kill yourself.
Given a Mac OS X application called PandoraJam, I'm able to block ads, skip songs, and switch stations enough to keep music I enjoy flowing. Plus it can record to an mp3 any song I like
but I have to say, I just switched to slacker and I may stick here :-)
People that use scripts to get Fanatic confuse me; I would think that would just be depressing to look at every time you're on your profile. "Oh look, I cheated to get Fanatic"
Well, I'm sure we all know the stereotype: as a programmer, you sit near-motionless at a desk for 23 hours a day, covered in cheetos dust and bed sores, until exhaustion overtakes you and you fall to the floor and briefly sleep (wherein "sleep" consists of convulsing while sweating out Mountain D...
@MichaelMrozek I did actually have to do something -- I wrote an AppleScript! :-)
I'll never get it otherwise I'm afraid. Well actually recently I could have, I've been working so much. But I am really hoping to have my life back soon, and take a vacation. It's been way, way, way too long since I've had time off
and I would cry if I had like 5 days left and went out of town :-)
A coworker of mine believes that there any use of in-code comments (ie, not javadoc style method or class comments) is a code smell. What do you think?
So, I'm writing this thing, a big one, and I want to load crapload of images, files, text, etc. from already existing cache, I believe its zipped .dat container.
Lets say I have filestoregifs.dat and I wanted to write a new file to it (already contains around 14000 files) how would that go? The ...
@MichaelMrozek oh, how I wish I'd caught that question before it was closed... There are so many people I'd like killed, and I have the perfect C++ answer for him.
@Shog9 *Movin' to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches... Movin' to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches... Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown... if I had my little way, I'd eat peaches every day, sun soaken bulges in the shade... *
The general process:
stage 1
email warning about specifics of unacceptable behavior1
stage 2
1-7 day suspension2
stage 3
30 day suspension
stage 4
120+ day suspension or account now eligible for deletion2
You advance from stage to stage by continuing to engage in the unacceptable behaviors ...
I noticed that when I went to the Programmers Beta that I couldn't even see the FAQ, it kept wanting me to login. How do I know I want to get involved with the site (if not coming from Area51) if I can't see the FAQ to see what the site's about.
A coworker of mine believes that there any use of in-code comments (ie, not javadoc style method or class comments) is a code smell. What do you think?
Which is the currently most used programming language? In new and existing projects.
