I still think that including them in the data dump would be innocuous enough...
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I mostly-agree.
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I worry that there are probably some soft-deleted posts that should have been hard-deleted (private info, etc.), but that's my only reservation.
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I tried to do such a diff myself, but hit the problem that my main computer is a laptop, which I don't leave on for the days at a time it would take to run this and I don't have any server large enough to handle the dumps beyond the first few months. (I just use a cheap VPS for personal stuff.)
@JeremyBanksʬʬʬ There's that and the fact that somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of content posted to Stack Overflow has been deleted...so under the assumption that the bulk of that deleted content has no lasting value anyway, trimming the fat off the data dump seems sensible.
Likewise for the data loaded into Data Explorer; making people go to more effort to exclude content that's generally worthless seems like a bad idea.
Given that deleted content is licensed CC just as the regular content is, it exists in the current SO database, and it is accessible to over 400 (10k+ rep) users, it should also be exported as part of the regular data dump.
Further, it would give us someplace to send those annoyed with content d...
My CIS class' webpages seem to be using the shorthand HTML4 Doctype (as in, not with the full W3C URL) and improperly formed HTML. I'm having trouble seeing the pages although several professors seems to see it just fine. Is there a way to force my browser to render more leniently?
I have access...
As I see the review functionality in SO:
we can review questions to rate or improve the content, but I see one small thing missing: can we include a feature where we can toggle the review option, i.e when you click review button, it will show the question to review, and there is no way to minim...
Can't be that complicated. Note: This is what I always say and then end up eating pain killers like crazy just because it actually is complicated.
Ok, so I have to navigate all the way down to the last TD in the Table inside of the DIV that contains the answer (class answer) and add another anchor tag that'll added the answer-summary and question-summary class again.
Mhmm.
Oh boy.
At least I have something useful to do this evening.
@cdeszaq Kinda sounds like Joel @spolsky's definition of elegance - Lots of set up beforehand to get to one that one line of code at the end. (Somewhere in that video.)
In other words, a lot of seemingly nothing, just to get somewhere.
glares back at @mootinator from behind the one-way jsfiddle
@cdeszaq Hahahaha. Thank you for that. I'm always living the dream (in general, because I'm so awesome). I'll admit. This pixel-perfect garbage is not part of the dream =)
IMO (note: not IMHO), if a designer doesn't understand that the web isn't pixel-perfect because you can't control the user and can't either a) make a design that doesn't require pixel-perfection, or b) can't live with minor deviations from the design, then that designer should stick to either print media, or desktop-app UI.
@jadarnel27 Out of curiosity, what browsers are you using that to do specific CSS targeting with? In my experience, it's mostly just flavors of IE that have issues that require some sort of browser targeting to get looking correct.
You can do .mac .safari or .win .safari to target browser and platform.
@cdeszaq Normally, I am opposed to that too. These people just would not move forward without "pixel-perfection", so the big-wigs told me to do what I had to do.
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...
@PopularDemand Not a matter of awesomeness...more a matter of lack of time. Being a 1-man-band on a quartet of projects that should have a small team each that is rather behind schedule doesn't leave much time for the finer things in life...like burninating close votes
"Yeah, about that: Stop making sock puppet accounts, @Peeyush. – mmyers♦ 1 hour ago" And the response: "@mmyers :-). yes i will :D – Peeyush 13 mins ago". Seriously?
I think the smiley is a bit much there, considering he was being reprimanded.
@Chris Great, great article. One of my favorite lines: There’s no single design that suits all target platforms (not even on the web, without some degree of adaption and flexibility).
I could see Tim working in a mall. Sitting at one of those kiosks in the middle of a ground-floor walkway, yelling out "Sir! I see you have an Android phone! Do you need any apps written? I can finish by the time you leave Nordstrom!"
Well, obviously you'd be working on building up enough cash and getting enough seniority to move into the old KB Toys location on the second floor near Sears.
@TimStone At one point in the past 48 hours, I had three active games, and in each one I was waiting for one specific tile so I could put down a >125-pt word. In all three games, the spot I needed was blocked before I got the tile, leaving me dozens of points behind. The moral of the story is: you're still going to beat me, so quiet yer whinin'.
