So I've been messing around with the SE API today, and one thing I noticed is that the key that's used when running a query (here for example) is exposed when using firebug or chrome debugger or similar. I guess that isn't that big of deal then considering restrictions are based on IPs and not keys, right?
If you're curious, the key I'm seeing starts with U4DMV...
Is there a reason that I'm seeing @Rebecca's icon instead of my own small gravatar?
1 hour later…
Anonymous
4:14 AM
@MarvinPinto Copying somebody else's public/client key would just result in you sharing a request limit, which seems pointless/not dangerous. The key used for authorizing apps is distinct and secret; exposing that would be a bad idea.
Anonymous
5:33 AM
Comment permalinks now available on meta, check it out.
balpha's suggestion from a while back is the least error-prone given the lack of trustworthy state the userscript has, but it requires the person updating the script to follow a convention, which seems problematic.
I also enjoy crackers with my cheese and whine, if you've got any.
D:\U\T\Personal\D\s-e\stack-scripts\prod> get merge mine/master
'get' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
lawlz
Hmm, clearly I need to think of new features to add before there's nothing left in the script. |:
But first I need to...you know, finish everything else I've been trying to finish.
Hmm, now to remember what I was doing before this...
Hahah @Cleanupcareerdevelopment :P
The face on Newt Gingrich in that banner is great.
Anonymous
6:49 AM
@TimStone Yeah, I saw it on YouTube and thought it was hilarious.
Anonymous
I was considering using it in a bounty message instead (probably on meta, I'm not sure I'd have dared on SO), but thought that it was more likely to be interpreted as me actually trying to advertise than if I used the memeified Jimbo banner.
The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to link to a comment directly. I'd imagine something as simple as making the date / time stamp an a...
Long Term Solution
I wish I could fix that problem as well but it isn't that easy.
There are three major problems that contribute to the situation:
Android is a relatively new and hyped technology, which means that it attracts a lot of attention from all kinds of developer levels.
The languag...
My gravatar seems to have been replaced by Rebecca's, but only on the mobile site. Is there an "I am Rebecca" app? Did I install it?
Oh, I'm running iOS 5.0.1 on an iPhone 4.
@TheUnicornWhisperer Btw, the API is brilliant for what we need to do. The criteria we can drill down to (when choosing questions to deal with) is quite impressive.
When I run a sample query using the SE API browser (is that right term?), say against /questions for example (here), I'll always see something to the effect of:
...
"quota_remaining": 9424,
"quota_max": 10000,
"has_more": true
}
Which tells me it's using a key and is not restricted by th...
You know the funny thing, for a while there I thought it was imgur automatically doing that for me, but it turns out that happens when you take a screenshot on the mac
Easy fix; changing it to 0 or removing it completely (setting it to auto) resolves the issue.
Well, wouldn't it be great if everything was so easy. But the z-index actually has a purpose, believe it or not.
And there's not really a nice way to make the time stamp not catch the hovering, sin...
The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to link to a comment directly. I'd imagine something as simple as making the date / time stamp an a...
@balpha Now you're taking away features from the chat script too?! Have you no shame? ;)
@balpha I think we've been doing something a bit different there for a while, so it looks OK (is the change deployed yet?). Thanks for the heads-up, though!
hmm the second year undergrads are doing their "group project" this week - I walked past the workstation room booked for it and about 40% of the monitors had Stack Overflow showing
@awoodland Reminds me of my computer science class I just had.. everyone who was doing Visual Basic and C# spent a lot of time on Stack Overflow too :p
Was always funny when they'd go on Super User and I could see my name or avatar from across the room
It's the Monty Python Knight and Gandalf having a none shall pass standoff.
This prof supposedly had an over 50% failure rate he was quite proud of.
Although it should have been an "If you've been faking your way through compsci I won't let you pass this class." speech, since it was really quite easy to anyone who wasn't.
@TimStone Ah, thanks! I just got the "Pundit" badge on SO, but the API is only showing me 9 comments with a score of 5 or more. One of my comments must be on a deleted question then.
Which I guess makes me wonder...is it intentional that comments on deleted questions count towards the Pundit badge? Hmmm...
@jadarnel27 @jadarnel27 It's more likely that you were awarded the badge and then the question in question got deleted. Once a badge is given, it isn't taken away.
@jadarnel27: I think for the purposes of calculating badges it doesn't matter if the question is later deleted. Badges are never revoked, for example. So the mere action of having a comment be upvoted a fifth time counts it toward the badge progress, regardless of what happens to that content after that fact.
I may be wrong, but I think the counts toward a badge are independent of the content itself. So the act of hitting that 5th up-vote has to happen 10 times, as opposed to needing 10 5-voted comments at a given moment.
This also is in reference to confusion that's come up for badges like Epic. One can hit the rep cap a couple times on really good content, then later the content is migrated, then later a re-calc brings the rep back down, and then still later the user qualifies for Epic not because they currently have 50 days in their history where the graph is at or above 200, but because they physically hit the 200 mark 50 times.
@mootinator The most important part is that ops is only missing a tire and a knot and they'd have what the customer wanted. Moral of the story: LISTEN TO YOUR OPERATIONS PEOPLE!
Hmm my current bounty has so far succeeded in gathering more upvotes for the answer I that made me want more details and attracted one new answer that tells me less than the existing answers managed
Long Term Solution
I wish I could fix that problem as well but it isn't that easy.
There are three major problems that contribute to the situation:
Android is a relatively new and hyped technology, which means that it attracts a lot of attention from all kinds of developer levels.
The languag...
My gravatar seems to have been replaced by Rebecca's, but only on the mobile site. Is there an "I am Rebecca" app? Did I install it?
Oh, I'm running iOS 5.0.1 on an iPhone 4.
When I run a sample query using the SE API browser (is that right term?), say against /questions for example (here), I'll always see something to the effect of:
...
"quota_remaining": 9424,
"quota_max": 10000,
"has_more": true
}
Which tells me it's using a key and is not restricted by th...
Easy fix; changing it to 0 or removing it completely (setting it to auto) resolves the issue.
Well, wouldn't it be great if everything was so easy. But the z-index actually has a purpose, believe it or not.
And there's not really a nice way to make the time stamp not catch the hovering, sin...
