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6:40 AM

@JimG., could you explain why you protected this question please? You protected it before it had any answers, or apparently before it had many votes either. As Shog explained, the removal of the 24 hour protection limit was removed on the condition we play nice, so we should be careful about protecting things just because we can.

jmac

7:12 AM

One more desired query: top 100 views/day starting one week after creation (to exclude the bump from hot listed questions, and focus more on people coming in via google or search). No idea how to even start creating that.

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jmac

8:59 AM

@gnat, you may enjoy this question (so may everyone else):

Q: The Anatomy of a Hot Question

Here is the traffic since The Workplace was created: These are the three questions that caused those huge spikes in traffic: Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision? How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife? What is a 'friendly' ...

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gnat

10:01 AM

Am I right to assume this problem can affect only sites in beta phase? — Shadow Wizard 23 mins ago

heh, this SO question (if it gets more upvotes) has good chance to demonstrate how it impacts even a large and mature site...

Q: Is "new String()" immutable as well?

I've been studying Java String for a while. The following questions are based on the below posts Java String is special Immutability of String in java Immutability: Now, going by the immutability, the String class has been designed so that the values in the common pool can be reused in ot...

java string immutability

10 answers in an hour, wow

like at Workplace, only less upvotes... so far

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gnat

11:35 AM

wow, Stack Overflow can be as hot as Workplace, here's a question that got whopping 9 answers in half an hour. They only lack some upvotes to bump closer to the top of hot list...

Q: Fastest way to search on a collection in C#

Problem: I have a text file of around 120k users (strings) which I would like to store in a collection and later to perform a search on that collection. The search method will occur every time the user change the text of a TextBox and the result should be the strings that contain the text in Te...

c# winforms linq collections

gnat

12:34 PM

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom crime drama film. It was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver. Voelker based the novel on a 1952 murder case in which he was the defense attorney. The film stars James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Grant, Brooks West (Arden's real-life husband), Orson Bean, and Murray Hamilton. The judge was played by Joseph N. Welch, a real-life ...