@belisarius I am the beneficiary of that, out of the five questions I've asked on Unix & Linux StackExchange I got the famous question badge for three of them. They have 7, 10 and 25 votes respectively :P
Their calculator for how many people I have "reached" tells me that through those five questions I've reached 109k people, whereas through my four hundred answers here I have only reached 175k.
Another answer to
What useful purpose does it serve that SetDelayed evaluates its first argument?
is that it's convenient with patterns and optional arguments.
Example with user-defined patterns:
acceptedSymbolsPattern = One|Two|Three;
f[acceptedSymbolsPattern] = True;
f[_] = False;
...
Is there a simple way to make the bars of the BarChart start from the bottom of the figure rather than from 0? Ultimately I just want a histogram of two quantities, put the bars side by side instead of on top of each other (regardless of that being considered bad practice), and have a logarithmic vertical axis (consider that the logarithm may be negative)
It's ending up being a lot of code. There has to be a simple way!
I have been using SE Tools to paste graphics into answers.
I would like to paste an open PopupMenu into an answer.
However I can't seem to do it using SE Uploader.
I see it in other people's answers.
I am looking for the instructions on how to paste an open PopupMenu into an answer.
@William if you are on Linux, the command line 'tail' can select n lines from the end. It can be accessed via Mathematica using the ReadList[... command. A quick google suggests there is a [Windows equivalent] (stackoverflow.com/questions/187587/…)
Wolfram Programming Cloud is now Wolfram Development Platform, see for example Wolfram Cloud. Who can add this synonym to the Wolfram Programming Cloud tag?
Is there a way to call a RunProcess[cmd] and pipe the command's output to a file within RunProcess? Something like RunProcess[{"date", " > out.dat"}] won't produce an output, no matter how I combine the arguments...
@YvesKlett Probably someone trying to work off some of the backlog of unanswered questions (meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/1673/8). Please flag or vote to delete any late answers you think are inappropriate/spam/etc
Another answer to
What useful purpose does it serve that SetDelayed evaluates its first argument?
is that it's convenient with patterns and optional arguments.
Example with user-defined patterns:
acceptedSymbolsPattern = One|Two|Three;
f[acceptedSymbolsPattern] = True;
f[_] = False;
...
I have been using SE Tools to paste graphics into answers.
I would like to paste an open PopupMenu into an answer.
However I can't seem to do it using SE Uploader.
I see it in other people's answers.
I am looking for the instructions on how to paste an open PopupMenu into an answer.
Wolfram Programming Cloud is now Wolfram Development Platform, see for example Wolfram Cloud. Who can add this synonym to the Wolfram Programming Cloud tag?
