@EKons - assuming you are you I think you are on twitter - its a linux joke. pwd = print working directory (passwd changes password). cd .. goes one level up.
Editing a question on Movies & TV.SE, which was tagged identify-this-movie (their equivalent of story-identification, I saw this awesome little reminder box pop up automatically, reminding OPs to include relevant information:
It asks for language, country of origin, and approximate year of rel...
What do you think about a "VIP" or "Premium" system (like US$7/mo for GitHub), offering useful but subtle privileges like increased length limit / history for "About Me" or more customizations (site appearance in particular)?
I was shocked upon first seeing Grammarly offering their premium service at US$30 a month, which even if reasonable, was unaffordable to an average user like me.
There's been a few suggestions from fellow users that we should consider having a paid tier on SE.
Now, SE's fundamentally against being behind a paywall of any sort. I also remember someone suggesting it be a way to get around early user restrictions or even buying reputation. I personally don'...
My roommate just said he would buy some if SO offers any "VIP" just for its content being helpful, despite his having an inactive profile with a sum of less than 50 rep across the network.
There's a lot of this I can't answer because I'd need to convey context surrounding departures from the company and that's, well, private. I also can't really speak about strategy when it comes to the business end of the company specifically enough to provide you a thorough answer to your questio...
I think more that just Teams is failing. To be, this is decision is more than a red flag, and more of a burning inferno of a signal fire. 18 months ago there was a 20% reduction in staff. A few months before that, Documentation was sunsetted. And a few months before that, shut down Blog Overflow. Teams hasn't appeared to pull in enough revenue, and Careers is apparently not enough to maintain. — Web HeadJun 20 at 14:53
@iBug Specifically - SE seems to be increasing technical headcount again, Documentation never worked as planned. Blogs are something SE never really 'got' and probably meant maintaining a separate set of servers for one thing
Careers... well, I'd be beating a dead horse. I've said what I've felt about it a lot of times
2) There's actually two things that interest me, but I've never felt good enough for one of them ;)
And I think all y'all know what one of those jobs is anyway. SRE seems fun too, but man, I'd need a year or two of actual real sysadmin work atop of what I know to feel confident in applying.
@iBug legit but I'll quit SE the day it happens. It's a business and I respect that, but if they go this way, they'll go without me. And likely many other old time users.
You also assume even we know what the channel topic is about.... Honestly we just have been altering what was there from as far back as I can remember — Journeyman Geek ♦9 hours ago
@JourneymanGeek Side note of this, I don't think Tim has it in him to just out and out lie to the community, so I'm willing to take his clear and unambigous statements at face value
it's important to leave the cat in the barn with the mistrust at some point. We can all gripe about how our priorities might not align with SE's and they're avoiding telling us that directly, but I don't know any SE staff member I've interacted with that would be actually dishonest
@Magisch Tim does not lie and always have good intentions. But when he says "Expect something awesome tomorrow/next week/at June 21!!1!!" then I learned that often it's just not true due to reasons not in his control. And what personally irritates me is that he never respond to "6 months later, any update?" comments. Ever.
@KolappanNathan Yes, product updates will be moved to the blog. The next update could be as soon as the 21st and will be on the blog. — Tim Post ♦Jun 19 at 12:57
@JourneymanGeek The Helpdesk (Contact Us link) always (including a couple of days ago) gives me an automated reply within a few minutes and then within an hour or two I get a second email saying that someone has reviewed my message and accepted it (and provides a Ticket Number). The slowest it's ever been is about three days.
@JourneymanGeek well... since you often talk about how you're in contact with SE staff, when you say "we" it's nearly impossible to guess if you refer to you and SE or not. :)
@Rob but did you always get an actual reply from human CM? I submitted about five tickets, all of them long ago... think that for one I didn't get any reply to this very day, and the fastest was a week.
hmm..... one of those wasn't "contact us" submission but rather a direct email to Pops who was a CM for a while and published his email in the profile. Is he still around in SE, somewhere?
@ShadowTheCurlyBracedWizard There's a lot about the RIF and people we don't know. And well - folks reacted very differently
and having had that happen to me
it is super awkward to discuss
So, I used to work for a VFX company that's not that famous. They merged with an indian company and lost their local subsidies due to changes in government policy. So... they RIFed hugely. And well, even when its a no-fault of yours situation, you're constantly second guessing yourself, and wondering if you messed up.
(They replaced us with 6 or so new sites in india. Which is a huge market for them and it probably made a ton of business sense).
But doing something like this is hard for everyone involved. My old boss was hung over when he gave me the bad news. My entire office was drunk for a week before the layoffs started...
But who'd I be mad at? The company that did actually lie to us (and told us there would be no job losses), the government which changed changed its policies and resulted in the RIFs, or ....
I do know its hard to talk about, and I'm sure there's also survivor's guilt
does this need extra care: meta.stackexchange.com/q/330030/158100 it needs one delete vote but I'm unsure what Robert redacted. Maybe it is spam and needs a spam flag instead?
@ShadowTheCurlyBracedWizard The first reply is automated, the second reply is form letter (someone read the contact link info and clicked a button to personally reply). At least that's how it appears. Depending on the reason for writing there probably are different directions that you mail is directed and differing times for a response.
@Magisch Even my mom wasn't sitting outside when I came home today. That means it really is too hot XD
I was the popular girl at work today. We had a day full of meetings/planning stuff and they gave us the hallway of the building, which is basically one big greenhouse. I brought my fan :P
Though I guess I may have been beaten at the end by the manager that let us go two hours early, and just sent us home with 'just put 8 hours on the meeting code today'
I've been following Google, and their growing pattern of content censorship and manipulation, for a while now. The recent expose by Project Veritas (more to the point, Youtube's/Google's decision to remove the video from their platform) has convinced me to hard-block all sites related to Google, ...
@JohnManko as long as companies are made up of people there will be politics, however the violation of terms of service by one particular organization that is not affiliated with stackexchange in any way shape or form does not provide reason to move. China blocking google... that's a much much bigger reason to consider alternatives. — Mgetz1 min ago
pretty much, it's not a bad request but politics aren't the reason to move when the politics aren't related to SE
@ArtOfCode I understand your decision to roll back the extra paragraph I added, but why also revert the tag change? As far as I can tell, there is no concrete feature request there ("will SE consider [x]" doesn't constitute one IMO).
@SonictheBracketedHedgehog mostly because there's no easy way to roll back a revision that isn't the most recent. I'm not entirely sure it's a [discussion] question either, but either way on that one