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user55340
2:47 AM
SO crap from history with the 'how did that get an up vote?'
 
user55340
0
Q: Unix indent command settings

Humble DebuggerAny recommendations of arguments to unix indent command settings for C/C++ files ?

c++ indent
 
user55340
0
Q: Who is the lead objective-c language designer

haroldcampbellI'm trying to find the lead language designer for Objective-C. Anyone has any contact information, etc?

objective-c language-design
 
user15026
O.o
 
user15026
Wow, people post the most random crap.
 
user55340
1
Q: invariant<=>coinvariant

hetHow to prove if invariant exists then coinvariant also exists and vice versa?

computation-theory
 
user55340
2:48 AM
What is the use case? — Robert Harvey ♦ Apr 6 '11 at 6:08
 
user55340
@RobertHarvey if you had down voted that... it would have been gone...
 
user55340
Then you find stuff like this:
 
user55340
0
Q: definition of Acme Developers for iPhone

iosdevnycI have heard the term acme developer of iPhone. I was just wondering, what it stands for? I think I know the meaning, it is when a developer goes to a client and present's his/her ideas for the app. Thanks for your info.

iphone
 
user55340
Definitely on topic for programmers.stackexchange.com as well. — Mihai Damian Apr 7 '11 at 14:24
 
user55340
-1
Q: definition of Acme Developers for iPhone

harekam_tajI have heard the term acme developer of iPhone. I was just wondering, what it stands for? I think I know the meaning, it is when a developer goes to a client and present's his/her ideas for the app. Thanks for your help.

iphone
 
user55340
2:50 AM
which lets me used delete votes!
 
user55340
0
Q: i want to build anti virus using c# & winforms

Dmitry Makovetskiydi am thinking of using the windows api. but i have no direction, and i dont know exactly what it involves can anyone give me a direction to build an anti virus in winforms?

c# winforms antivirus
 
user15026
Oy. People. Why.
 
user55340
1
Q: map not working in opera mobile?

selladuraiI can't zoom in and zoom out of google map in opera mobile browser in andriod phone?

android google-maps opera
 
user15026
I guess it is a lot of "see textbox, will type"
 
user55340
0
Q: Making animation by using C#

AidinHow can I make an animation by using C#?

c# animation
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
3:11 AM
@MetaFight: I know how hard it is for the community to spare some time to genuinely help for free. I believe the least we can do is invest effort into phrasing our questions, thus making things easier. Best regards :) — AlwaysLearningNewStuff 6 hours ago
What heresy is this?
 
 
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
5:30 AM
Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog: What's in store for the most widely used language by discerning hackers?
posted on September 17, 2014

Or, in other words, what's the future of Emacs Lisp (and unavoidable HN discussion). The original message contains some interesting tidbits. I am not sure how the discussion on emacs-devel will develop. But speculating about things such as Guile elisp is, of course, our bailiwick.

 
 
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ratchet freak
ratchet freak
8:09 AM
now code review is throwing crap overt he wall
0
Q: Naming of methods that perform some actions under some condition

Leonid SemyonovI often write such methods to avoid duplication in code and I give them name such as doSomethingIfSomeCondition(). For example: public class TaskDownloadFile { private boolean started; public TaskDownloadFile () { started = false; } public boolean isStarted() { ...

java naming
migrated by @Jamal
 
ratchet freak
ratchet freak
8:22 AM
 
 
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Ampt
Ampt
2:58 PM
Computer build is almost done! wooohoo
I mean.. that is unless I upgrade to one of those new, fancy-pants Haswell-E processors...
Looks at DDR4 RAM prices Nope. I'll definitely just run with this old Sandy-Bridge
 
user15026
3:13 PM
@Ampt Yay for almost done :)
 
Ampt
Ampt
Watch, it'll be like my desk: 4 months later and I'm still dragging my feet.
but everything is ordered, so at least I'll have everything.
....wait a minute
I forgot thermal paste
 
user15026
At least you can fix that relatively easily, no?
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
 
Ampt
Ampt
yeah. it's on amazon with prime. It'll probably get here before the rest of the stuff does
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Absolute poetry.
 
Ampt
Ampt
3:23 PM
It's an honest mistake!
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Sure it is. But the whole thing is so zen-like.
Could describe my whole life.
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
@RobertHarvey I think so, though I doubt I'll be so lucky. I'll probably be stuck in an office "managing" if I'm employed in the industry at all
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
@JimmyHoffa It's similar to the "programming sucks" article.
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
Yeah, I've read a good hand full of his articles
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
But that article really expresses the woes of the industry in a way that I hadn't thought about before. I stumbled across his Forth article this morning, and was reminded how important minimalism can be.
As opposed to being swamped by libraries, frameworks and API's. I suppose not having to build everything from scratch is a good thing, but still...
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
3:39 PM
@RobertHarvey minimalism thy name is lambda calculus :P
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Eh, maybe typed lambda calculus. Scheme seems to be the sweet spot.
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
3:56 PM
> This is a classic argument often pulled out in a Language Pissing Match. The gist is that the High Level Language H may be slower than the Low Level Language L, but given a Sufficiently Smart Compiler this would not be the case. Moreover, this hypothetical compiler could use the high-level information available in language H to perform optimizing transformations which are simply not possible in L, thereby making an optimally-compiled H even faster than an optimally-compiled L.
In reality, there are a few such compilers, such as the Stalin compiler for Scheme Language (which was never inte…
 
user55340
1
Q: How Can Play Internet Radio in C# windows form?

MahmoudI want to play internet radio by using c# windows form.

c#
 
user55340
How did these get an up vote?
 
user55340
1
Q: How to create an Email Service?

bhuvaneshIf I want to create or build a website like gmail or hotmail, how do I proceed?

email gmail email-client hotmail mail-server
 
user55340
1
Q: How do you lay out your .m, .h, .xib and coredata files in a large, complex project (Xcode)

brucemWhat works for you: how do you choose to group them together in a way that helps convey the architecture of the app, as well as makes it easier to work with?

objective-c xcode
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
I've about decided that any post with a user card whose name ends in Rajeesh will get an upvote automatically, just because.
Did I say that out loud?
 
user55340
4:04 PM
What about Mike?
 
user55340
1
Q: How do you get transformation of object?

MikeI need to get the transformation of animated mesh. But HOW? I'm using this in my picking function. But i'm lost because i don't know where i can find that..

c++ directx
 
user55340
Or Sara?
 
user55340
1
Q: excel row to column conversion

SaraSuppose I am having 3 set of records like Actno Sufix Amount 000005 230 101000 000005 535 100000 000005 630 -500000 000009 230 222000 000009 535 120000 000009 635 220000 I need to display it as 000005 230 101000 535 100000 630 -500000 000009 230 222000 535 120000 635 220000

excel-2010
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Just sayin'.
 
user55340
I still think you could have just as much fun in this search as I do...
 
user55340
4:06 PM
closed:yes score:1..1 locked:no answers:0 duplicate:no hasaccepted:no - sort by newest, go to the end and start deleting or down voting all the crap.
 
user55340
A down vote of it is just as good as a delete.
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
4:27 PM
23
Q: Why won't the system allow me to ask questions for several days?

Tim PostI just tried to post a question, but it was rejected. The system told me that I can't ask another question for three days. Why am I getting this message and what can I do about it? I really need to ask more questions!

support rate-limiting faq-proposed se-quality-project
New q-ban.
 
user55340
4:44 PM
0
Q: Expand the roomba scripts to old one vote closed questions

MichaelTCurrently the roomba has a criteria that deletes quite a bit of open questions that are considered abandoned after a year: If the question is more than 365 days old, and ... has a score of 0 or a score of 1 with a deleted owner has no answers is not locked has a viewcount <= the...

feature-request deleted-questions unanswered-questions auto-delete
 
user55340
Ran that up the flag pole, lets see if anyone salutes.
 
user55340
@YannisRizos I'm a bit worried that we'll get more problems with people who now instead of... well... going away start throwing crap at us every few days instead.
 
psr
psr
@RobertHarvey By the way, according to statistics from about 2 years ago, the mean age of a software developer in the U.S. is 44 (median had dropped from 46 to 38). Though if you guessed purely on media articles you'd probably say the mean was maybe 28, if that.
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
21
Q: Why would clipping a wire cause a bomb to explode?

ominous onionThere are a lot of movies and video games that depict defusing bombs, most of which boils down to picking the right color wire. Something like this: Now, that's a part I don't understand. simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab I'm not very familiar with circuitry ...

wire
lolz
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@MichaelT afaik they'll test run it on SO before it goes live everywhere. at some point I'm hoping we'll get to see some stats on how the new system compares to the old one.
 
user55340
4:56 PM
Note: recently I've been out of close votes either by midnight, or an hour after waking up.
 
Shahar
Shahar
abuse of power?
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@Shahar No, at least not compared to what I do on the site...
 
Shahar
Shahar
php
 
user55340
@Shahar at the beginning of the semester we get lots of crap questions. It hurts sometimes.
 
Shahar
Shahar
why is your name blue? Because you're a mod?
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
5:00 PM
Yes
 
user55340
Mods are blue (in all rooms), room owners are italics.
 
Shahar
Shahar
oh
Wait why on SO?
People taking programming classes?
 
user55340
I'm sure Math and Physics get it too.
 
Shahar
Shahar
oh yeah
But most of the time
it's just closed as "duplicate"
 
user55340
Most people don't ask fitness.stackexchange.com about their gym homework.
 
user55340
5:02 PM
@Shahar its still a close vote that is used... and we only get so many of them.
 
Shahar
Shahar
lol, gym homework
I haven't gone to the gym in months
 
user55340
We've gotten questions like this on P.SE:
 
Shahar
Shahar
Yeah but what I hate about the new users is how they never accept answers
 
user55340
Ok, that just hurts my eyes to see. Look at message history if you want to see it.
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
DUT PASSWORD
 
Shahar
Shahar
5:04 PM
but P.SE is sluggish compared to other SE websites
 
user41796
@Shahar Of all the things to hate... Not accepting answers is trivial...
 
user55340
For 10ks, the original post is at: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/254595/…
 
Shahar
Shahar
@GlenH7 It's kind of annoying when you put a ton of effort to help the guy, and then he just says "thanks" and leaves
 
user41796
@MichaelT Oh, hey! And that user hasn't been back since. I'm shocked.
 
user55340
A more recent one:
 
user55340
5:05 PM
-6
Q: Map Editing Software and procedures?

Nandhuneed a working map like google maps..if i point a location ,it must show me the nearest customs points to it. example: i get a location from user,and pint it on map. the nearest hospitals and ambulances must show in my map using GPS present in the vehicle or hospital.And the location of the perso...

map
 
Shahar
Shahar
sometimes even the "thanks" is missing
 
user41796
@Shahar You're targeting the wrong audience then.
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
how do people still type in all caps in 2014
what is wrong with people
 
user41796
@whatsisname Don't you have a caps lock key on your keyboard?!?
 
user41796
It's really trivial to type in all caps - just tap that once and you're good to go.
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
5:07 PM
yeah, but how can someone be such a complete idiot as to think doing so is ok
 
Shahar
Shahar
IDK about you
but it just bother's me when I type in all caps
 
user41796
@Shahar You could have at least provided attribution. Pro-tip: copy the link from the timestamp and just paste that in a chat box by itself.
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@Shahar The whole "accepted answer" concept is horribly flawed, at least for sites that deal with subjective(ish) questions. If I could, I'd completely remove it from Programmers.
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
a long time ago I wrote a script that would poll craigslist and would send mean messages to anyone placing an ad that was in all caps
 
Shahar
Shahar
Congratulations on hitting a new low for the site. Not only are you asking complete strangers on the internet to write code for you, but it's also for your semester project. Presumably you should already have the skills to write this yourself. And if not, it's time to stop begging for people to do your work and to do it yourself. — GlenH7 2 days ago
oh yeah it's rendered
 
user41796
5:08 PM
Now you got it...
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
I just caste the final delete vote on that one
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@Shahar Eeek!
 
user55340
@whatsisname doesn't it feel good?
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
lol
 
Shahar
Shahar
I would have upvoted that question
 
user55340
5:09 PM
Welcome to delete vote therapy.
 
user41796
@Shahar "too late"
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
33 secs ago, by Yannis Rizos
@Shahar Eeek!
 
Shahar
Shahar
I don't know about you
but the guy who wrote the question probably looked at the -6
and now he's depressed about it
 
user41796
I suppose I should have capitalized "Internet" in that comment. I guess I was too focused on trying to keep it polite.
 
Shahar
Shahar
he may be crying
on top of a cliff, preparing to fall
 
psr
psr
5:10 PM
@Shahar Well, he's probably not coding.
4
 
user55340
It isn't our job to coddle students that don't want to do their own homework.
 
Shahar
Shahar
@psr lol
 
user55340
And whats more, when we do it ends up with posts about why people fail fizzbuzz here and how to find a jr programmer who isn't searching Stack Overflow for each line of their code.
 
user55340
27
Q: I failed FizzBuzz, would you hire me?

ja_programmerI'm a developer with a CS degree and have work experience doing development in a number of languages for almost 3 years. Today I had an interview, overall it went quite well, I prepared for most of the questions and felt ready for anything. At the end of the interview, they gave me ONE program...

interview
 
Shahar
Shahar
Well, it's a serious concern
 
user41796
5:13 PM
Furthermore, I'd argue that providing a potential career correction earlier in the process is a much kinder thing to do than to "help" someone along when they haven't yet found their aptitude for the profession.
 
Shahar
Shahar
-11
Q: How to get the average of an array?

Patrick WaynePlease correct the method "ave". public class methods{ public static void main (String[] args){ int[] a = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}; System.out.println("Sum is: " + sum(a)); System.out.println("Average is: " + ave(a)); System.out.println("Minimum is: " + min(a)); System.out.print...

java array methods
what prevents a question like that from being deleted?
 
user55340
@Shahar Nothing.
 
Shahar
Shahar
Actually never mind
 
ratchet freak
ratchet freak
check again
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@Shahar Nothing. Gone.
 
user55340
5:14 PM
(click it again)
 
Shahar
Shahar
it's deleted, but I can access it
 
ratchet freak
ratchet freak
soft deleted
only people with the link can find it
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
i remember that fizzbuzz question
 
Shahar
Shahar
ohh
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
I remember hating on a bunch of people
 
user41796
5:15 PM
@MichaelT Why didn't roomba kill that one?
 
Shahar
Shahar
wait let me try again
 
whatsisname
whatsisname
and I think I recall saying that I would never hire someone that didn't know what 2^8 was off the top of their head
 
Shahar
Shahar
on a different one
 
user55340
@GlenH7 it would have tonight.
 
Shahar
Shahar
-9
Q: Are version control systems a form of design pattern?

anonI'm having some trouble understanding what a design pattern is and isn't, particularly with respect to version control systems like CVS and Git. Is "push, pop, stack" a "design pattern"? If yes, is CVS the same design pattern? ...clients connect to the server in order to "check out" a compl...

design-patterns git version-control cvs
 
ratchet freak
ratchet freak
5:15 PM
@GlenH7 age of the question
 
user55340
The fastest script is 9 days. That was posted on the 8th. Today is the 17th.
 
Shahar
Shahar
yeah this one is not deleted
 
user41796
ok, I thought the script was 7 days for some reason
 
psr
psr
@MichaelT Nice job staying polite and potentially helpful on a pretty frustrating question.
 
user55340
@Shahar not closed... and I'm out of close votes to push it in that direction.
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
5:16 PM
@Shahar Why would it be? It's not closed.
 
Shahar
Shahar
oh
I thought -9 score is closed automatically
 
ratchet freak
ratchet freak
no it needs close votes from high rep people
or mod action
 
user55340
@psr I try to be kind... they are college students who are just trying to do the easiest thing. They're also horribly misguided in posting their homework and not even caring about reading the help documentation.
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@Shahar A question can be both on topic (open) and complete crap (-9). And of course, it can be off topic, but excellent.
 
user41796
@MichaelT Too broad or unclear what you're asking?
 
user55340
5:17 PM
However... lets see if I can find it... there's a response I got on SO awhile back.
 
user55340
Hmm... not sure if the question was eventually closed / deleted on SO or not. I pointed the OP of the question to how to be a programmer and the eclipse tutorial and they were very happy when they found they were able to solve their next problem without asking it on SO they came back and thanked me in the comments.
 
user41796
@MichaelT I think you dropped that comment in here as well
 
user41796
A couple of months back IIRC
 
user55340
Yep. I was rather surprised about it.
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
@MichaelT xs:sequence <-- the child node's repeated, not the child nodes have a required fixed order, right?
(how can I not remember what xs:sequence means? pfleh.)
 
user55340
5:24 PM
Found it... (kind of misremembered it...)
 
user55340
@NeverWalkAlone Each question is a separate question - please don't change the question you are asking to ask about a new problem -- ask a new question instead. Please also remember that StackOverflow is a very poor way to getting a walkthrough of debugging (please look into learning how to use your IDE's debugger - it is a valuable skill (How to be a Programmer: Learn to Debug) — MichaelT Mar 22 at 2:50
 
user55340
@MichaelT Sorry about yesterday, I was stressed and I'm still unfamiliar with this website! Thanks for the links you sent, they really helped me out with my debugging process. Cheers! — NeverWalkAlone Mar 22 at 21:32
 
user55340
I am surprised and glad to see an apology. Thank you very much for such. Learning how to debug will ultimately put you head and shoulders above your peers when working in an academic setting and when looking for a job. Its great to be able to pick the right solution and code it bug free from the start, but for any code of worthwhile complexity that ability to pick the right solution from the start rapidly fails and debugging becomes very important. Keep at it. I've heard it said that programming is the art of debugging an empty file. — MichaelT Mar 22 at 21:41
 
user55340
Yeah, that is about as true as it gets! I try to plan them out beforehand and work out the debugs before I even type in the code, but like you said sometimes you don't always pick the right solution and that's where you found me stressing out like it was the apocalypse! But that link you sent about splitting the problem space really helped me in my analytic process for debugging my programs so thanks again! — NeverWalkAlone Mar 31 at 20:00
 
user55340
(there's also some other bits in there too)
 
user55340
5:27 PM
I wish I had known how to use gdb back in the day better... ghads... I could have fixed so many problems much faster.
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
5:37 PM
@GlenH7 That's what Simon Cowell does, so it must be right. "You should find another career besides singing, since you're obviously terrible at it and have no talent for it."
 
user55340
Engineering problem:
 
user55340
 
user41796
@RobertHarvey See, I left out that whole "terrible" bit. Clearly I'm a nicer person.
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
@Shahar If I made my participation contingent on people accepting my answers, I would have quit a long time ago.
 
user41796
Although I don't think that Simon raises the bar too high for "niceness"
 
Shahar
Shahar
5:43 PM
lol it's all an act
he's a millionaire who's now married with a kid on his way
what can possibly cause him to be an asshole
 
user41796
@MichaelT The commentary... (in the video)
 
Shahar
Shahar
my php is acting funny
 
user55340
@Shahar So as expected then?
2
 
Shahar
Shahar
LOL...
no but funnier than usual
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
phphuni
 
Shahar
Shahar
5:51 PM
oh nvm
null variable
this App Store update thing is annoying... I don't want to be reminded to update my stuff "tonight," "in an hour," or "tomorrow," I don't want to hear about it.
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
It's worse than that. Every software package nowadays has an update service, one more unnecessary piece of software that runs on your computer all the time, even though it's only needed about 0.1 percent of the time.
 
Shahar
Shahar
I know right^^
How often do they normally check for updates? I'm assuming once per day but still a waste
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
It depends on the software. Why Microsoft didn't just provide a single service that software vendors could register on to check for updates is beyond me... probably for reasons of potential abuse.
 
Shahar
Shahar
Yeah kind of like push notifications on iPhone
(..right?)
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Probably.
 
Shahar
Shahar
6:06 PM
but that's because all apps are checked with apple
it would be abused however on windows
viruses and stuff
 
gnat
gnat
6:46 PM
'I really, really want this to be the SE "black sheep"...' (How can we avoid Programmers.SE from becoming the SE black sheep?) Although this was written 4 years ago, it seems to match well the current attitude, '...Guess what: if your site is full of crappy questions, your site sucks' (What is the Goal of “Hot Network Questions”?) — gnat 6 hours ago
-12
Q: Where to ask for a name suggestion for my C++ class?

Niccolo M.I have two classes in my application for which I need good short names. Should I ask my question on "Programmers"? or on "Code Review"?

support site-recommendation
 
user41796
@gnat Shouldn't the correct answer be "The Lounge"?
 
gnat
gnat
7:02 PM
@GlenH7 I guess Loungers gonna lynch the one who will recommend this
 
user41796
That's what makes it soooooo tempting
 
user55340
{underwear type=asbestos}How about asking in The Lounge?{/underwear} — MichaelT 9 secs ago
 
user55340
See, you can do things like close that tag when you're unemployed.
 
user15026
@MichaelT Very nice.
 
user15026
:P
 
Shahar
Shahar
7:41 PM
:P
 
Shahar
Shahar
7:53 PM
{php?}
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Should PHP always be pronounced with your tongue sticking out?
(and other profound questions)
 
Shahar
Shahar
Post it as a question
I'll upvote it
 
user41796
@RobertHarvey Helps with spitting the letters out
 
user55340
hmm... lets see if this works
 
user55340
license
Noun: Wikipedia
  1. license (countable and uncountable, plural licenses)
  2. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
  3. An academic degree, the holder of which is called a licentiate, ranking slightly below doctorate, awarded by certain European and Latin-American universities.
Verb: license (third-person singular simple present licenses, present participle licensing, simple past and past participle licensed)
  1. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
  2. It was decided to license Wikipedia under the GFDL.
  3. Authorize officially.
 
user55340
8:04 PM
Yep... funky one boxing though. Its 'define:word' rather than link.
 
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Something wrong there in the verb definitions. Item 2 is example of use in sentence?
 
Shahar
Shahar
1
Q: Should I calculate hotness of a post on request or pre-calculate it?

CnktHere is the Reddit's hot algorithm: cpdef double _hot(long ups, long downs, double date): """The hot formula. Should match the equivalent function in postgres.""" s = score(ups, downs) order = log10(max(abs(s), 1)) if s > 0: sign = 1 elif s < 0: sign = -1 ...

algorithms mysql sorting
can someone give me a concrete answer to this question?
 
user55340
Its in part an issue of scale. Reddit has different problems than other sites in that respect.
 
Shahar
Shahar
what do other sites do?
 
user55340
SE takes candidate posts from a particular range, computes the hotness, and then caches it for a period of time.
 
Shahar
Shahar
8:13 PM
Yeah but that's why the hotness system on SE is terrible
what about stuff like Twitter
 
user55340
If you've only got a few hundred posts total to work with, it might not be too hard to calculate all the hotness of all the posts as a function in the database (write the function) and then cache it for a period of time.
 
user55340
SE's hotness problem isn't related to its cache, but rather that the algorithm is skewed.
 
Shahar
Shahar
But it's also not real-time
 
user55340
So?
 
user55340
Change your cache period.
 
Shahar
Shahar
8:15 PM
But then if I make it lower
 
gnat
gnat
11
A: In “network hot” questions formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that these are not good data points

David FullertonSorry, marking this as status-declined. We love seeing people contributing in concrete ways (especially backed up by research!) but in this case, not knowing the implementation details makes it almost impossible for you guys to solve this one. The hotness formula that's used for the network ho...

^^^ on top of this, add 7 hours of madness - first 7 hours hotness score ignores aging factor
 
Shahar
Shahar
it becomes the same
 
user55340
You've got a range of options form 'recompute every time someone asks for site.com/hot' to 'store and serve that data'
 
Shahar
Shahar
can't decide
I'm just about to post that as a question on P.SE
hand the answer over and I'll drop the knife
 
user55340
You'll need to include information about how many posts you are dealing with and the frequency of people hitting the page.
 
user55340
8:25 PM
If its a small set of posts, don't bother - write a database side function ( postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/xfunc.html ) and select that for all the posts you are interested in.
 
Shahar
Shahar
not small
 
user55340
then you're going to need to cache it somewhere.
 
user55340
How often and what posts you cache then becomes a question of requirements.
 

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