I really want to see this happen now that we were featured on the SE podcast:
And now, this week’s Featured Site: The
Workplace. It’s still in beta,
and we don’t usually talk about betas in our featured site segment,
but this site is especially interesting because its answers are much
...
Just was digging through an Excel macro I made a couple years ago, and found this glorious statement in it: On Error GoTo Hell -- can't find a variable called goodIntentions though...
And this is a tremendous question/answer (mild-language warning):
I have a dictionary of swear words in the database, and the following works great
preg_match_all("/\b".$f."(?:ing|er|es|s)?\b/si",$t,$m,PREG_SET_ORDER);
$t is the input text and simply, $f = preg_quote("punk"); "punk" is from the database dictionary, so at this point in the loop the expression...
@UV-D sorry buddy, don't think I will have the time, I'm back at work at the moment, I will get round to answering, even if it is out of the bounty period though
@jmac I'll try to look it over when I get home, might be more difficult to focus on this at work :)
@RhysW I would love it to double my pay. Somehow I don't see this happening unless I change companies (which might very easily double my pay, actually, since I'm good at negotiating and interviewing.... HMMMMMM :)
That podcast was harsh. I couldn't tell who was who, but the "commiserating self-help group" certainly struck a nerve because it's close to the truth a lot of the time.
If I had 30 minutes, I'd transcribe the damned thing.
I recently changed contracts from educational to full-time at my company and colleague from accounting asked me if I had negotiated my pay yet. I said yes and was about to tell him, when he interrupted me: "... you don't have to tell me... although I would probably see it eventually anyway when h...
Programmers at my company have moaned that they don't get any training. I suggested to management at my company that all programmers sit down with a senior programmer to discuss their training needs. If any training was identified then the programmer would be given a couple of hours of work time ...
Here is the situation. One of the companies I applied for as a software developer asked for a complex and "thorough" test. I agreed to it, but I noticed that I was supposed to add a module to their in-production services that automated certain e-mail notification based on some filters. I'm certai...
We have a new colleague in our team and she's muslim. Technically she's my subordinate, so I want to avoid as many pitfalls as possible.
What are things one needs to know in this context? Prayer-related details, food/drink choices we should/shouldn't offer, even behaviour related things?
Please...
We have a client with whom we have a contract. The contract scope is very clear and well defined. One day, one of the guys in the client company called and said, "hey, it would be great if you could add feature X to the project!". Feature X was something completely new, imagined by the guys at th...
And so on, and so forth. Higher voted questions usually get what I'd call "sympathy upvotes" where people say, "Yeah, I hate that too!" or "Yeah, I suffer from that too!" and upvote the question even though it is a bad fit.
While those active in meta may downvote them, there are hoards of more casual users who drop their upvotes very differently, and that is why you, @Rhys, jmort, and the other regular users are so important to help control quality.
@enderland I think we have it under control now, but my concern is post-graduation when the question volume would (probably) increase.
That's why I think a blog is such a great idea -- get people involved in the community and to understand our concepts (or at least give us an easy reference to refer people to, and educate through close votes, downvotes, comments)
Disclaimer: taking into account Telastyn's comment, I'd like to point out that I do not wish to force anything upon my staff. I don't want to impose anything against their will. I would like them to see any health-related thing as another treat or perk of the job, like the Think Geek toys, Seinhe...
Joel says it’s a self-help group for commiserating.... Grrrrrrrr we are probably making him tons of money and he says something like that... ungreatful jerk.
You can use:
^(?:\d{9}|\d{14})$
Explanation:
^ - Start anchor
(?: - Start of non-capturing group
\d{9} - 9 digits
| - alternation
\d{14} - 14 digits
) - close of the group.
$ - End anchor
alternatively you can do:
^\d{9}(?:\d{5})?$
which matches 9 dig...
A recent podcast is a perfect illustration of a common problem.
Senior management (or CEO, in this case) is aware of a project or department several layers removed. Management may disagree with the value of the project or misunderstand some key details, which may trigger the former, but regardle...
Jay and the community team are really the people who will decide the site's fate, and Jay Hanlon (jaydles) seems pretty darn excited about what we're doing here. :D
We'll always have the threat of degrading into commiseration.stackexchange.com
but we're doing a great job of not letting that happen by putting questions on hold and then fixing them up so we'll have more success stories like @RhysW's.
@jmort253 Thats the thing that gets me we are actually helping people. And most of the questions that would fall into the rant get closed pretty quickly now
I know "Hot" questions are based on some sort of views/velocity criteria but does anyone know the actual algorithm used?
I was considering a feature suggestion about the "Hot" tab, but I don't have enough information to speak intelligently about it.
@RhysW How many just quit answers do we have? and we have a user that basically answers every question with an anecdote that half the time I have difficulty figuring out how it relates to the question at all... let alone answering it
@Chad I do think there are areas where we can improve, and there are answers that definitely make me raise an eyebrow, but my suggestion is for us to take that 8 minute soundbyte and then take a good look at what we are doing well and what we can improve on.
@jmort253 There are some crappy answers here. But people here are active and there are very few questions that have crappy answers that do not also have good answers that can help. This site is definately not a give me the codez site which is exactly what SO seems to have become
@enderland That's one thing too, with new users, sometimes it takes them awhile to really "get it", which is why I try not to be too hard on folks and just offer commentary instead of just outright deleting stuff.
In other words, when we look back at all of our earlier posts, they may not quite be as good as our posts today.
and it's really the big picture that matters most.
@enderland I'm not singling anyone out, just in general, we see some people who are part of our core community today who now post better answers than they did on day 1.
I guess I just prefer the users who post quality answers about things they know for sure rather than just sharing their opinion on everything. Beth, Monica, Jmac, Jmort (even though half the time I disagree)
Jmort looks at things differently than I do and I usually disagree with his approach, but the answer is quality and it provides a prospective that is useful in solving issues. I upvote most of your answers just for that
@RhysW You and enderland are in there too but I assumed you guys knew that
Disclaimer: taking into account Telastyn's comment, I'd like to point out that I do not wish to force anything upon my staff. I don't want to impose anything against their will. I would like them to see any health-related thing as another treat or perk of the job, like the Think Geek toys, Seinhe...
@Chad If you're talking about the podcast, it might not be a bad idea, because the subject probably warrants more discussion than what the main Q&A site can reasonably support.
A recent StackExchange podcast is a perfect illustration of a common problem.
Senior management (or CEO, in this case, hi Joel!) is aware of a project or department several layers removed. Management may disagree with the value of the project or misunderstand some key details, which may trigger ...
I've made this point in other forums, but I'll repeat it here:
bls.gov shows that, by their count, there are essentially 1.3 million programmers in the US. Certain reality checks indicate this is too low, a more realistic number is 2 million. BLS only counts people with degrees, but a lot of d...
this answer is awesome and terrible at the same time!
@Chad I am in a giant multi-national that has nothing to do with software or startups and face the same issue. I definitely do think this is a workplace issue and is on-topic in many ways (it may be better phrased though).
@enderland I wish all the numbers were referenced at least -- all I see it saying is, "There are lots of unemployed developers in a specific city in Florida", which isn't really an answer, it's saying, "Go places where there isn't competition" rather than "this is how you get high-quality hires in a competitive environment"
I really want to see this happen now that we were featured on the SE podcast:
And now, this week’s Featured Site: The
Workplace. It’s still in beta,
and we don’t usually talk about betas in our featured site segment,
but this site is especially interesting because its answers are much
...
I have a dictionary of swear words in the database, and the following works great
preg_match_all("/\b".$f."(?:ing|er|es|s)?\b/si",$t,$m,PREG_SET_ORDER);
$t is the input text and simply, $f = preg_quote("punk"); "punk" is from the database dictionary, so at this point in the loop the expression...
You can use:
^(?:\d{9}|\d{14})$
Explanation:
^ - Start anchor
(?: - Start of non-capturing group
\d{9} - 9 digits
| - alternation
\d{14} - 14 digits
) - close of the group.
$ - End anchor
alternatively you can do:
^\d{9}(?:\d{5})?$
which matches 9 dig...
I know "Hot" questions are based on some sort of views/velocity criteria but does anyone know the actual algorithm used?
I was considering a feature suggestion about the "Hot" tab, but I don't have enough information to speak intelligently about it.
I've made this point in other forums, but I'll repeat it here:
bls.gov shows that, by their count, there are essentially 1.3 million programmers in the US. Certain reality checks indicate this is too low, a more realistic number is 2 million. BLS only counts people with degrees, but a lot of d...
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