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1:00 PM
This thing could easily fit into the Klingon citchen. :D
Hey @Simon
 
In Shutter-priority mode, so, the shutter set a 1/400, and there just was not enough aperture left to get the exposure, so, about 3 stops underexposed.
I only realized after the fact (like an hour later)
 
Ah okay. I rarely leave manual mode... Don't know. Feels like I get the most practise value out of it.
Only if I should hand the camera to my parents or whoever. I quickly switch to Automatic mode and turn AF on.
1/400 in not sunlights is hard. :p
 
I am not fast enougn in manual for either wildlife, or kids.
especially when the subject is walking, through shadows, sun, etc.
When I have more stationary objects, I am good in manual.
 
Okay, that's a point. Wildlife/people/snapshots... For these you either need a lot of experience or a priority mode. That's right. Or even auto.
That's a great shot. The stars are nice. And the colors. Nice.
Do you use a tripod when travelling?
 
Often, yes. (for stationary things).
I also have a big-size gorilla-pod.
(I can put the SLR with 70-200 lens on foot... on the gorillapod, and atach it to a pole
 
1:06 PM
Ah, interesting.
It really helps for stationary things I can imagine.
 
It is useful for many things, including door mounts in a car, etc.
 
Yep.
Lot of things to buy for me. ;)
But the next thing probably still is the 50mm f/1.8
 
The stars, by the way, were a failed attempt to get the northern lights.
 
Also a pol filter.
 
One day, I will get them
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A pol filter is useful, especially if you are doing still life.
 
1:10 PM
Considering where northern lights are in the atmosphere, they are really huge.
 
It would have helped a lot with that bollard/dock brom mallorca
I have never seen them, and, the one time I was convinced I ws going to see them, I discovered that I was really, really stupid instead.
 
Because?
 
For our honeymoon, my wife and I drove to inuvik
I figured that being so far in to the arctic circle, it would be our best bet.
 
Isn't it close enough?
 
We also thought that we could experience the midnight sun, and everything.
 
1:14 PM
I saw a .gif recently with the camera following the sun, which never went down. Amazing.
 
Of course, we were going there for many reasons, but, it never crossed my mind, until we were actually awake at 2-am with the sun still above the horizon, that you don't get to see the aurora when the sun is still up
and, since the sun is up 24hrs a day, well, you don't get the nortnern ligts in summer ;-)
 
!
Oh man, what a bummer.
Yet so obvious. :D
 
See, photographers will often tell you: Location, Location, Location.
But, you also have to have: Timing, Timing, and Timing
Good thing I was not really there to take photos.
 
hey @rolfl, could you share some basic thread safety tips?
 
I saw back in the transcript that you were worried about something ... sure
 
1:18 PM
And also nice things to have: Experience, Experience, Experience; Equipment, Equipment, Equipment.
Man, compared to Canada, Germany is like little bird poop.
 
Naah .... Photography is everywhere, and depends on the photographer, not the gear/scene/etc.
I am a too structured thinker to make a great photographer.
@skiwi - you goign to give me a pointer?
 
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Q: Android: Tile map movement by touch

SimonI am currently developing a game for android. One of the things I am working on is moving the map by touch. This is the code that handles getting speed, which is then added to the screens position and the next update draws the corresponding portion of the map. @Override public boolean onTouchEv...

 
@rolf I listed these things as the ones which are "nice to have". Not essential.
 
I was more responding to : Man, compared to Canada, Germany is like little bird poop.
 
@rolfl A pointer to... what? I more meant in general, when does thread safety get violated (I know I still need to read JCIP, but can't do it in one day :D)
 
1:28 PM
@kleinfreund -
Could be anywhere in europe.....
 
Ah, and I was just referring to the shere size of Canada on the map. ;)
 
Ohh....
yeah.
 
I don't feel like I'm limited too much here. :p
 
Canada is huge, and the normal map prokections make canada look much wider than tall....
but, Canada goes a long, long way north.
It is probably taller than it is wide.... hmmm ... I should find out
@skiwi Any time you have more than just the main thread, you have to be concerned for thread-safety and concurrency.
The most common place for thread-safety issues is in swing applications.
Apart from that, thread-safety issues are often the worst kind, because they are intermittent, and unpredictable.
They also change from architecture to architecture.... a machine with 2-cores will have different issues to a machine with 4.
(and folk on Android got a surprise when their android devices became multi-core....)
The best advice I can give, is to read JCIP... ;-)
I you need more of an intro than that, then, Learn about immutable classes, and why they are safe.
(and what makes a class immutable).
(which is not obvious)
Then, learn about your application, and where things are mutable, and from what contexts.
Then decide what your concurrency granularity should be, and decide what your locking system should be.
Don't use volatile, it is hard to spot, and hard to understand, and is normally slower than another better solution
 
So there is really no easy approach?
 
1:37 PM
No, a short introduction will do as much harm, as good.
Anyway, the problem with concurrency is that you need to know Java's memory model.
Then, you need to know what classes/strategies are dependent on it.
Then you need to know which way to best solve your actual problem.
Finally you need to know which tools are available in Java to implement your strategy
Have a look at these two versions of a thread-safe class, and figure out why the second one is so much better.... and more complicated:
jDOM 1.x [getNamespace(...)](https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/blob/jdom-1.x/core/src/java/org/jdom/Namespace.java#L125)
JDOM 2.x [getNamespace(...)](https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/blob/master/core/src/java/org/jdom2/Namespace.java#L137)
 
checking now
the new version bars unreadable/ununderstandable for me just by the quick looks
 
The new one is much, much faster.
It only ever synchronizes a very small portion of the data....
The overall concurrency (i.e. threads that can run at the same time), is hundreds, even thousands of times better
 
that's pretty cool
It's now time for me to write unit tests for my EventBus and then put it up on CR ;)
 
Writing thread-safe code (in any language) is hard.... doing it efficiently, is very hard.
Java makes the hard parts managable.
 
1:52 PM
How I would I actually test thread safety?
 
It is very, very difficult
I built a number of unit test 'jigs' to test concurrency... but they can only test a subset of actual problems
(and they are not owned by me).
 
ok, so not easy at all
hmm, this is an issue, lambda instances are not equal to themselves
Resulting in that I can not remove any events after they've been added
 
Oh, that's interesting
 
atleast not by value
If you have an EventBus where you can add elements by loading an object similar to simon's approach, would you expect to be able to remove them aswell?
 
I never looked at @Simon's approach
 
2:04 PM
It's actually quite a neccessity I think
@rolfl You have written an answer to this review question though ;)
 
Why are you adding the lambda's though, and not the events?
@rob0t Master ... hi!
 
Because it seemed to be more useful to add them as lambdas
 
^^^ well, there's your problem/
Gotta go throw hoops.... saturday duty
 
Unfortunately if you manage to structurally change the object for which the event was registered (changing hashcode), then you cannot find it back anymore
 
morning
 
2:11 PM
morning
 
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Q: Project Euler 11 - Largest Product in a grid

Overly ExcessiveI have to say without sounding arrogant, because I am only a novice coder, yet after looking at other's solutions, my solution is definitely not the shortest and most lightweight one and probably not even close to one of the most optimized ones. But! I think I have made a very readable solution a...

 
2:42 PM
hi
 
hello @Christoph
 
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Q: PHP imgur.com fetcher

noneIm making a script that generates imgur.com URL's which contain only png images bigger than 256 & smaller than 1200. Problem: the script is slow as a snail. Any more then 1 image and it takes more than 10 seconds. What can I do to improve it, like code-wise? I want to make it faster also. Code: ...

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Q: math.h generating wrong output

mr.eightnoteightn=3;a=4;b=5; chambernoa=log2(a)+1; chambernob=log2(b)+1; oneina=chambernoa-log2(pow(2,chambernoa)-a); oneinb=chambernob-log2(pow(2,chambernob)-b); printf("%d %d\n", oneinb,oneina); I dont understand why it is giving output as "1 1" but the code has to give output as "2 1"

 
3:00 PM
If "wrong output" is in the subject line, it's almost certainly off-topic.
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the posted code does not even compile (at least not in C)
 
@Nobody it does. In ancient standards of C, undeclared variables would default to an int type. See ideone.com/iCytoR for running a version with explicit types.
 
@amon so ancient standards allow code outside functions?
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just imagine a main around the code
 
This is Code Review. We don't imagine.
If this were SO, I'd be fine imagining a context around the code--but it's not.
 
3:10 PM
but we allow snippets of code. This question is only technically off topic. And as I've shown in a CW answer to that question, once we ignore the minor matter of integer math, the math is actually correct (and OP isn't)
 
@amon: I must admit that I believed the OP in that this code is wrong (which was my main cause to close vote and comment) and only afterwards added the compiling problem (also being confused about the variables).
 
The code is off-topic because it's not producing the desired results, regardless of whether or not we imagine a context for it. In the OP's own words, he wants A, he's getting B.
And that's off-topic.
 
… which is why cast the first close vote, and only posted an answer because of the wonderful MathJax here.
 
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Q: I'm probably doing this incorrectly. Is there a better way? (Interacting with GUI class and Main class)

user3053240So usually when I make mock-up programs (like this one) I look for things I can improve on in case the situation happens again. Today I thought I'd brush up on basic OOP (I understand the concept of OOP, just haven't messed around with it for a bit and wanted to freshen my memory). So I decided...

 
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Q: My EventBus system

skiwiI decided to roll out my own EventBus system which is intended to be thread-safe. Hence a review should focus extra on thread safety apart from all regular concerns. The EventBus can work in two ways: You can register events and listeners directly on the EventBus. You can the methods, of a sp...

 
3:15 PM
I thought that i could get some review's on how to eliminate inaccuracies, while writing the code — mr.eightnoteight 4 mins ago
 
I am not sure how to interpret this
 
^^ Is there a way to ask something like that without it being off-topic here?
Because it's a decent discussion to have.
And may be appropriate for CR, but would have to be asked differently in order for it to be on-topic.
Like for example, I use dictionaries with strings for keys all the time. If I use a string literal, I'm more likely to mistype the literal in one spot or another than I am if I have a file with some const string objects defined that will autocomplete for my keys.
 
good bye all, have a nice weekend
 
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Q: My EventBus system

skiwiI decided to roll out my own EventBus system which is intended to be thread-safe. Hence a review should focus extra on thread safety apart from all regular concerns. The EventBus can work in two ways: You can register events and listeners directly on the EventBus. You can the methods, of a sp...

 
3:48 PM
@SimonAndréForsberg What was your motivation for using your own EventBus system rather than an existing approach?
 
4:02 PM
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Q: Script that stores number, of search results for a person searched on Google, in a database

aviI am writing a python script which scrapes data from Google search results and stores in a database. I couldn't find any Google API for this, so I am just sending a HTTP get request on Google main site (and also Google News site), then using Beautiful Soup, I extract number of search results foun...

 
4:20 PM
My question gets no love :( only +1 view in half an hour
though CR seems to be sloooow atm
 
4:51 PM
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Q: Measuring execution time in c++

Nikos AthanasiouI had time measuring pretty much figured out when I ended up using this structure #include <iostream> #include <chrono> template<typename TimeT = std::chrono::milliseconds> struct measure { template<typename F> static typename TimeT::rep execution(F const &func) { auto start...

 
interesting, was looking at some project:
and someone has 944K lines added and 7439K lines deleted
I'm probably evil, but I had to laugh at this
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Q: Cycles in family tree software

Partick HöseI am the developer of some family tree software (written in C++ and Qt). I had no problems until one of my customers mailed me a bug report. The problem is that he has two children with his own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors. Those errors are the result of...

 
5:07 PM
Hello, my fellow reviewers!
 
hey @SimonAndréForsberg
 
Hi @skiwi
catching up
 
wow I learned something new
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Q: Why is Sony a good tag when Apple and Google aren't?

Wooblegoogle is blacklisted on Stack Overflow. apple's got a big "DO NOT USE THIS TAG" message on the wiki summary (which, of course, is completely ignored by the people who keep adding it to questions...). microsoft has a less forceful (and not in all caps) "This tag is too general to be useful on mos...

That's some prestige project gone horribly wrong there
 
@rolfl You never look at code you review?
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@skiwi My primary motivation was that I was not aware that Google's EventBus existed. And even if I would have used it, I would have had to written my own when working with GWT, as GWT is unable to detect annotations at runtime.
Some Java questions today, why haven't I been here to review them?
 
ah okay, that clarifies
I don't really know why I wrote my own... just for learning I guess?
 
5:26 PM
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Q: How to make a long running operation (Task) that reads from Excel

AymenDaoudiI want to read data from an Excel sheet, and I want to put it in a Task that I can run using Async/await. I tried this : Here's a method that returns the Task I need : private Task GeneratePagesList() { var generatePagesListTask = new T...

 
@skiwi I have to admit: When I wrote the EventBus system, I learned a whole lot about how reflection works in Java.
I don't regret having written it. I just regret not having written it better from the start.
 
5:41 PM
btw 14k questions.
 
Hi @kleinfreund
You have written 14k questions? Impressive!
 
Nice, huh? :p
No, we did. CR did.
 
Reviewing this question is hard, don't think I can provide more than what I have:
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A: Android: Tile map movement by touch

Simon André ForsbergMy experience with Android and handling touch events is that it's very hard to look at the code and understand how it will work when you're running the application. It can even be a difference with different Android devices, so make sure that you test your app on an Android 2.3.5 device as well a...

And only 603 of those 14k questions are unanswered.
 
we were at 97% already.
 
Are we at 97% ??
No, we're at 96 :( You got my hopes up!
 
5:52 PM
no, 96%.
But we were at 97% a week or two ago. I saw it. Before I came back. :p
 
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Q: Making my image upload script better

Keni'm relatively new to PHP programming, so please bear with me. I wrote my first simple image upload script that allows users to add items to a database along with pictures of said item. My script takes the images uploaded via a form, processes and resizes them and finally saves them to a hard di...

 
6:08 PM
@SimonAndréForsberg It was also a learning experience for me, though I didn't have to figure everything out anymore
 
@kleinfreund That's good news. That means we're hopefully still close to 97
 
Is a possibility, yep.
 
@skiwi I noticed that your implementation might have been influenced by my code a bit :)
 
might
 
6:26 PM
@sim got my +1 :)
 
There you are, @Mat'sMug. I almost thought I had already won the race to 20K on walkover.
 
6:42 PM
Not really here, watching the game. Montreal 2 Boston 1 ;)
Woot!! 3-1!!
 
7:18 PM
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Q: Java Winning While Loop Connect 4

Lucian09474This is my first question I am not exactly familiar with the semantics of how the site works, but I have a very technical specific question. I wrote a single player Connect 4 game, I am missing a second player and (I assume a loop) to tell the player who won and a method to reset the game. Can...

 
@CaptainObvious offtopic
next offtopic
 
Got 'em both. The OP of the Java question may be posting his code.
 
ok
SO is slowly getting hopeless...
 
If the original questioneer comments to an answer "Now I'm completely rewriting my code", is that not a really, really good answer?
Extremely helpful as always! Thank you. Based on some of the recommendations here I am writing radically different code than I was before, which is awesome. — bazola 2 hours ago
 
7:35 PM
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Q: Improving speed of Animation

KyranstarThis is a class to hold an animation and be able to refer to different animations by titles, but it seems like calling draw(Graphics2D g) and update every frame, would, with this implementation, cause a big slowdown with all the list.get(Object obj) calls. Is this a big deal, and if so how should...

 
Random roomba picture I found: i.imgur.com/25nSGjI.jpg
Are those Roomba's ever goign to be efficient?
 
7:50 PM
So, is Luke the bad guy in the next Star Wars trilogy?
Also, are C++ programmers allergic to break; or something?
 
why do you think so?
 
To which question?
 
the latter
 
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Q: How to stop looping through array when index is empty?

user3598064If I have an array of size MAX_SIZE and only have 20 index occupied how do you make it so that it stops printing 0s after itemList[20]? (I am reading in from a text file) const int MAX_SIZE = 1000; item itemList[MAX_SIZE]; for(int i= 0; i<MAX_SIZE;i++) { itemList[i].Print(); //prints members in...

"it looks better because using of break is a bad pattern." & "You can use a while loop to avoid the need for break:"
In two separate answers.
 
I think in case the while-loop is actually more warranted as it enhances readability, however
actually a for-loop with the condition in there would even be better
I don't see what's inherently bad on break though
 
8:00 PM
I think breaks should be reserved for when you cannot concisely express the termination condition(s) in the loop structure. If you can reasonably and expressively fit it in the loop though, then that should always be preferred, in my opinion.
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tl;dr: nothing against them, though beginners do tend to overuse break.
 
@Corbin I was starting to write something but you've expressed what I was trying to say better than I was doing. Nicely done.
 
@JerryCoffin Thanks! :p
 
@skiwi Define "efficient".
 
They're probably more efficient if you don't waste time watching them work. At that point, you might as well do the cleaning yourself.
 
@JerryCoffin That's a very good question, I could start my Artificial Intelligence on it with a set of utlity rules
 
8:04 PM
I thought the efficiency of the roomba was that I could do something else rather than cleaning.
 
But I here meant vsual efficiency, that it looks like the Roomba is doing it's work in the fastest way as possible
 
Would you rather it do it in the way that looks fastest or the way that's actually fastest?
 
What if the roomba driving pattern is not most efficient for vacuuming area per time, but for producing entertaining gifs and videos also involving cats (or optionally other pets)?
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When looking at it, I'd like it to actually look fast
@amon What if the roomba is just a pet entertaining system?
 
So, you'd prefer it to look efficient even if this means it is in fact less efficient?
 
8:09 PM
What if Roomba is just a gimmicky product for people with too much money? :D
 
@skiwi there should be funding in research about this
 
@nhgrif No, it should only look efficient when I am actually looking at it, otherwise it should be really efficient
 
Hmm.
So this brings me back to the original point... the efficiency of the Roomba is that it is cleaning while you are doing something else with your time.
Without the Roomba, you are spending SOME time cleaning that floor. With the Roomba, you are spending NONE time cleaning that floor. NONE time is more efficient than SOME time.
 
Don't forget the $600 price tag when factoring in that NONE time. It's really a question of how much of your time does $600 buy and if that's less time than you vacuum.
 
How many hours of cleaning is the Roomba supposed to last for, and how many sqft/hr can it do?
 
8:22 PM
Here @SimonAndréForsberg, have a +1
 
That would highly depend on what type of surface(s) it's being used on, what kind of stuff it's picking up, how well you maintain it, etc, I would think.
 
@skiwi That was fast! I didn't even have time to rep-whore announce I had written an answer to a Java question.
 
You weren't even on chat :p
 
Strange feeling to get votes when not residing in chat, I must say...
 
I just arrived at the Concurrency Chapter of Effective Java...
 
8:25 PM
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Q: Simple tasks list

cachaitoI am still learning this amazing language. Recently I've written simple code for task list. I am searching for improvements and advice from more experienced users. Maybe in this code is something to improve, change or I used wrong pattern for this task? PS. I wanted to use pure JavaScript - no j...

 
Well, what a day.... concurrency FTW
 
@skiwi So now you have to start reading the book at two separate places at the same time.
Well, what a day.... monkeys FTW
 
When I get done with finals and have nothing else to do during the summer, I should start doing more things with C++11. My programs still look kinda basic, too.
 
indeed, monkeys FTW
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You know what day it is tomorrow, don't you @rolfl?
 
8:27 PM
Sunday?
 
Yes.... which means....
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Wish me good luck on that
Is sunday the day that all my questions are going to be answered?!
 
@SimonAndréForsberg I get to do laundry, and have a pizza movie night?
 
@rolfl Yeah, well, probably that too... but there's one more thing you're forgetting. Think CR...
 
1201 days in beta?
Bah, put me out of my misery... just woken up from a nap.
 
8:29 PM
Wait, today is 1200? We gotta celebrate! @Mat'sMug, where's the champagne?
Apr 27 at 0:13, by rolfl
Is it pathetic that I am looking forward to the SEDE data refresh?
 
Oh.... well, that happens today, for me.
 
@rolfl Maybe you're not as pathetic anymore.
Oh, right... you're behind a couple of hours :)
 
I'll normally get to go through just-one-more-vote before I get to bed.
OK, who's going to help with Badge:generalist?
I feel like editing a few poorly-tagged questions.
 
And a user answers yet another shitty SO question. Move along, nothing to see here.
 
27 edits, and people can get generalist.
 
8:33 PM
I'm in!
 
OK, there are three more tags needed at 200 questions.... and does not have enough....
 
@Jamal The worst part about it is that no one has commented.
 
(i.e. I have been through android, and there's not enough to make it to 200).
 
What do you need me to edit, @rolfl?
 
8:35 PM
Please don't encourage low-quality questions by giving them answers. — Jamal 24 secs ago
 
@Jamal Is the answer correct or not?
 
MSO has the Meta Effect, and we have the Chat Effect.
 
If it's correct, it deservers an upvote in my opinion. Regardless of the question quality.
 
@rolfl The awkward moment when your own question pops up on top...
 
8:37 PM
@SimonAndréForsberg There are arguments on MSO that suggest that one thing keeping the bad questions coming is answerers answering them anyway.
 
Now, those queries are just hints
Only edit in the tags, where they make sense.
 
@Jamal There are arguments in my mind that suggest that bad questions will keep coming anyway, regardless of if they are answered or not.
 
Another hint..... Editing tags only does not count to editing badges
So, if you find title problems, or grammatical problems, or mathjax opportunities, etc... then do that too.
 
I agree Simon.
Most (not all, but most) bad questions are asked by users who are making their very first post on SO.
 
Exactly, @nhgrif. And in my opinion, such users needs to be educated with proper comments rather than down-voted into oblivion.
 
8:42 PM
They're not asking the question because they see tons of other questions that they know are bad being asked & answered.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg That is true as well, but anything to combat that could help.
 
@Jamal Comments, comments, comments.
 
All that not answering does is give the rep you could have had to someone else.
I don't agree with not downvoting.
Bad questions should be downvoted for numerous reasons.
But helpful comments should be included with that downvote.
 
Sure they should, but it's more important to leave ****comments**** <--- can't emphasize that enough (really, can't. Markdown won't let me)
 
There are also way too many new questions and new users on SO to individually help those who don't do so well their first time. And even if they get their post improved, it may get pushed down by the newer questions.
That said, I'm concerned when the time comes where CR will attract a lot more activity, meaning more low-quality posts. I'm doing everything in my power to help CR stay nice and clean.
 
8:47 PM
Where's the line between low-quality and off-topic for CR?
 
I think that there are enough experienced SO users to help the new SO users, the problem is that most of the experienced SO users have gotten discouraged by the entire site (mentality, bad quality, etc.) that they just don't care anymore (I don't blame them).
 
Low-quality mainly depends on the clarity and (roughly) the amount of effort put into the post. It could still be off-topic but still look nice for the correct site.
 
On SO, low-quality includes stuff that's asked a million times but not a clear duplicate, code that's not well-formatted, but both of these count as on topic.
 
@Jamal I honestly don't think that you're commenting enough when closing off-topic questions on CR.
 
But with CR, you don't necessarily know what's wrong with your code and you may not have any concerns that necessarily stick out, just want someone to give your code a once-over.
 
8:49 PM
@nhgrif The only CR low-quality-and-yet-on-topic I can think of is a whole bunch of code dropped without any explanation about what the code does. Usually gets closed as "unclear what you're asking".
 
@SimonAndréForsberg I still do in some situations. The off-topic reasons would still reiterate what I would have to say anyway.
 
@Jamal The problem is though: Users don't get notified when their question is closed.
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Q: Use inbox notification for close/open related activities

Kate GregoryWhen you get a comment on your question or answer, or when a comment @-mentions you, a red notification appears on the multi collider. When you get an answer to your question, a red notification appears as well. When someone edits your question or answer, you get a silver notification. When a que...

 
Is it not possible to internally measure time spent on the post? And do something useful with that statistic to enhance the site?
 
Wait... users don't get notified when their question is closed? That's insane. I thought they got notified for just a close vote, much less an actual closing :/.
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@SimonAndréForsberg Then the SE folks should implement it... perhaps with some extra moderator attention
 
8:55 PM
@Corbin From what I have read on MSE, they don't. Luckily(?) I haven't found it out "the hard way". I still think it's very important that they do get notified though. That's just another reason for my mantra: Comment, comment, comment.
 
55 SO upvotes away from 10k.
 
@skiwi Absolutely, they should. Really not sure why they haven't already...
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Yeah, definitely add yet another strong reason for comments.
 
@Corbin Feel free to ask an off-topic question if you want to see it with your own eyes (I'm a bit tempted myself, I have to say)
 
Hah. "Will I get notified if the community closes this?" on CR :p
 
8:57 PM
It leaves me to wonder though... A new user should notice a closed question eventually... right? He would be expecting to get an answer on that question I suppose?
 
Sometimes a question is closed after an answer is marked as accepted.
And if not then, it can still happen after an answer has been posted. The user read the answer, then went off never to return.
 
In that case I wholeheartedly agree that the user then just continues posting new similar questions without seeing what is wrong
 
@skiwi Eventually, yes. But who knows how long that can take?
 
I don't really agree on that we, as individuals, should comment when closing such questions. On large sites we have so small impact that it is a hopeless attempt and better put more effort into convincing the SE team that something needs to be changed.
 

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