@nhinkle I have an "official" personal twitter account that I never use, and I don't care about it; and a fake account that I created out of boredom and in a day got 500+ followers and made me get invited for a (fake, humor-oriented) lecture in front of a lot of people in some big conference, and I made a lot of contacts in the work field I'm interested into. It works great for making contacts. The only problem is I'm quite junior junior level when compared to my contacts... =/
Hm, that makes me think, maybe I should rethink the act of putting my FB address on places like SE/SU, not for privacy reasons, but because what's the point anyway if I don't post in English.
Most of my contacts on FB are friends or acquaintances. If my goal is promoting myself, introducing myself or cool projects that I might get into in the future, maybe I should finally create that personal site that I always postpone.
open IE9 => start downloading Firefox => browse to Visual Studio Express download page => see download details for C# Express 2010 => Click Install Now => "microsoft.com is not responding" => "recover webpage" => IE9 is not responding => ... ... ... => process hosting MS website crashes => finish downloading, installing, Firefox => download VC# 2010 Express in Firefox with no problems
I hate IE.
also, new machine. i7-3770. 4 GB of RAM. now, why would you go for a high-end processor with so little RAM? especially on machines used for DB and Java development?!
@Paul Huh? I didn't talk about one word answers. You can't post anything that just contains one word. I meant: An edit doesn't have to be too minor if it changes one (e.g., misspelled) word in an otherwise perfect post.
@slhck Oops! My crappy typing. I meant "If a one word change doesn't count as too minor, then what does?". The note against it says "suggested edits should be substantial and address multiple issues".
@slhck So what is the guideline here? I would prefer to approve any suggested edit that makes the question better, but they often fall into the "minor change" category, and I want to do the right thing.
@Paul Well, just apply common sense. If the post has multiple issues and the edit only fixes one of these, it's too minor. If the post has only one issue that needs to be fixed, then it's not too minor :)
@slhck Yeah, of course, but the edits I am talking about are minor in that they don't address issues - they are just small tidy ups. But even small tidy ups have value, and I would prefer to approve them. But this leaves me without a reason to ever use the "too minor" reject.
Software configuration:
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional (Excel 2010)
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
Logged into the computer as a Standard User (not Administrator or Power User)
Problem:
Want to open every Excel workbook (typically accessed via hyperlink in Outlook or directly using Windows Ex...
@allquixotic I was surprised to see a number of people I know in the latest SO elections... @Sathya (I voted for him, of course) and @ChrisF, a fellow mod from TGO... interesting
@studiohack I'll upvote @Sathya in the primaries, but honestly, I think he's got too much on his plate already with a new bride and is a moderator of two sites already with a good amount of rep from answering questions
he might not make it into my 3 choices (unless the rest really suck) in the general election. I just can't see how he would have enough time to be a mod on 3 sites and actively contribute. and I think it makes more sense to have a few quality mods who put in a good amount of time, rather than a huge quantity of them. mods are exception handlers. there are plenty of "mini-mods" (10k+) who can handle most things, and it's good to have tons of those.
Back again, money is in the paypal, anybody still got those links to a cheap graphics card that could fit in a hp pavillion s5503 h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/…
I have lost many electronics that I keep unused for a long time before due to the near sea (high humidity area) area that I live in. I learned this the hard way, so in order to protect hard drives unused for long periods that I use as back up, I wrapped them using a cling film to be air tight and...
I think it technically could be if you remove the confusion between vacuum sealed and simply wrapping in plastic? But I am really curious if you can vacuum seal an HDD. =D
Oh, and did you ever find out what this "bum IP" business is? :P
No, but Telus did call back checking if things were working... I mentioned they seemed to be working this morning when I tested from off site, then 2 seconds after I hung up on Telus, the Cx called back saying it wasn't working
@Tanner I have opened HDDs that were enclosed in an antistatic bag that had clearly been vacuum sealed (the bag was tightly sealed against the HDD on all sides)
I have installed phpMyAdmin on a CentOS VM. It accepts my MySQL root password on the command line tool, but if I use the same user/password on the phpMyAdmin screen, it returns to the same screen without any error message. How can I solve this issue? Thanks!
I'd almost go as far as to propose a scaling down of reputation awards on a per-site basis depending on how many people on the site are able to vote and how many questions have been asked
I mean it's not really fair that asking a question on a really fringe site might get you two upvotes if you've asked an outstanding question, whereas outstanding questions on SO get hundreds thousands of upvotes, and the best of SU get around 50 to 100 upvotes
SU's userbase is second only to SO, I think, but we're still a very distant second (10 - 25% of the number of users). AU, SF, and AD are reasonably sized communities too, but nobody stands up to the sheer volume of SO's userbase and questions (and answers, and comments, and the like).
most high voted questions are extremely common and pretty easy to answer (and if not then they should be a CW) and usually there's one answer that really just nails it
I hate that those questions have dozens of crap answers though, they should really be burninated or merged into the canonical answer
@allquixotic I've been thinking about such a system for months now. The whole thing doesn't scale. It's basically SO against all other sites. All they're implementing is scaled for SO, because that's where most of them live, I guess.
@slhck yeah -- I'm not sure whether I would take SO's current reputation rewards/detractions and scale them down, or if I'd take the non-SO sites' current reputation rewards/detractions and scale them up, but one way or another, a change would be good
which isn't to say that answering 5 questions on brandnewsite.stackexchange.com should yield trusted user status
but it should be slightly faster, with a maximum threshold amount of rep multiplier that basically cuts off the multiplication at the "fastest" possible rate that they would want someone to become trusted user
basically, if you take the rep reward and detraction points we have now, and the corresponding permission thresholds, I would personally apply a multiplier of 3.0 on a brand new site (so one upvote = 30 rep), a multiplier of 1.5 on SU and SF (15 rep), 1.8 on AU (18 rep), and 0.5 on SO (5 rep).
and most of the other fringe sites which are already established but have a low user base would have a multiplier of 2.0
the weightings could be manually applied and periodically re-evaluated, or a program could be put in place that calculates the level of activity (in terms of questions and users who've logged in) over a sliding window of a year, and algorithmically adjust the weights
@JourneymanGeek it wouldn't help internally with SO, though: there are a lot of users on SO with a ton of rep and privileges who may be abusing those privileges in ways other than migration
there are even very new users (a couple of months) with tens of thousands of rep from easy, googlable answers... and migration is just one possible thing they can get wrong once they become a trusted user
if I knew as much about certain kinds of coding (mostly web dev, since a lot of that is being asked about on SO) as I know about SU-type problems, I could probably have easily gained 30k rep in SO with the same time investment as getting close to 10k on sU
there just aren't enough people on SU looking at questions to upvote answers, even very good answers that solve the problem and the OP says they solved it and everybody is happy
but on SO you can max out your rep cap for the day if you do that
well I don't want to say there aren't enough on SU; maybe I should say there are too many on SO (for the amount of rep reward you get)
if you think of it in terms of money made from music sales, the non-SO sites get a level of "exposure" to an audience the size of a small indie label, whereas SO gets a level of exposure comparable to one of the major record labels like Universal
"Humble Bundle with Android" 5 is out. Games: Beat Hazard Ultra, Dynamite Jack, Solar 2, and NightSky HD; beat the average for Super Hexagon and Dungeon Defenders.
Being the only help desk guy, I sometimes get nervous when people leave me messages. They're always generic like, "Can you come see me?" or "I need to talk to you." So when the head of HR or the CEO leaves a message, all I can do is read the tone and wonder, "Is this IT related?"
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@allquixotic Four spaces? What you talking about? :P
I am working at a client where Lotus Notes is used. How do I synchronize the Notes calendar (Lotus Notes 7) with Google Calendar or directly with my iPhone 3GS?
I don't need to synchronize the emails, the calendar entries and tasks are sufficient.
I googled for solutions but couldn't find any p...
Here's the VBA approach. Assuming Excel 2007 or later; first few steps will differ if you're using a pre-Ribbon version of Excel.
Enable the Developer Tab
Click on "Visual Basic" on the Developer Tab on the Ribbon
Right-click on "VBAProject (whatever-your-sheet-is-named.xls*)" and do Insert -> ...
Basically, I'm writing my thesis. I have two sections "Methodology" and "Implementation" but, I don't know whether to put the flow-charts, equations etc.. inside the methodology or inside the implementation..
If for example, I place such content inside the methodology then I will have very little to talk about in the implementation, or, I will be repeating myself
I know, for example, that the methodology should contain the algorithms that I'm going to research and use for the project, and, the implementation is a discussion of how I implemented such algorithms (obviously not in 1st person)
I would like to work with a codec in a proyect for the university. I'm interested in the VoIP telephone service. The idea is to implement the codec in a DSP and then characterize it. My question is which codec should I choose? In terms of computing resources, there are no limits and neither for b...
Here is a list of factors that can be used to objectively (sometimes semi-subjectively) compare the attributes of two codecs:
Lossiness: Is the codec lossy or lossless? That is, does it preserve bit-exact fidelity of the digital input data or not?
Implementation complexity: how hard is it to wr...
@Phorce as to your actual question, the real "answer" will depend on the opinions of your professor; I've been marked down before for putting things in what the professor thought were the "wrong" sections, even though the sectioning/dividing up of a paper is basically arbitrary
any structure or layout of an essay or paper is technically defensible on subjective grounds no matter what; but many professors will say that you are "wrong" (as in, objectively wrong) if you don't do what they think is the absolute only way to do it because they've been doing it that way for 30 years
Yep! The problem is, the lecturer speaks very little english and I cannot understand his hand-writing, our university has also a "i'll only concentrate on my research and not care about any students" so it's difficult to ask another academic
somebody who reads a paper will have certain expectations about where things should be, based on where they put things and where other impressive papers they've read have put things, and if they don't have the clarity of mind to realize that it's subjective and not dock you points, you might get docked, it's just life
if you can't get ahold of the professor to get an answer, you might escalate your concern to someone above the professor's head, like a councilor or the Dean or Associate Dean
the professor is responsible for telling you anything that may impact how your work is graded, so if they won't give you an answer that you can understand, or won't give you an answer at all, it is a valid concern to escalate
on the other hand, it might be that the professor simply does not care at all about the structure of your paper and will not dock points either way, in which case he doesn't have to give you a particular way of doing it
I could try this approach, thanks! I read other papers that have been released, both undergraduates and MSc's and all just write a methodology and not an implementation section..
And ha! I wish, I got docked for my proposal because I didn't structure it right
@Phorce it also heavily depends on the topic of the paper because some subject branches will have more formulaic ways of writing papers that take into account practices or study methodologies in that field
hahah! BUT I cannot find any reference to where it says "Undergraduates cannot post in this forum" or anything to do with thesis questions.. If you can find anything, let me know ;-)
Software configuration:
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional (Excel 2010)
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
Logged into the computer as a Standard User (not Administrator or Power User)
Problem:
Want to open every Excel workbook (typically accessed via hyperlink in Outlook or directly using Windows Ex...
I have installed phpMyAdmin on a CentOS VM. It accepts my MySQL root password on the command line tool, but if I use the same user/password on the phpMyAdmin screen, it returns to the same screen without any error message. How can I solve this issue? Thanks!
I am working at a client where Lotus Notes is used. How do I synchronize the Notes calendar (Lotus Notes 7) with Google Calendar or directly with my iPhone 3GS?
I don't need to synchronize the emails, the calendar entries and tasks are sufficient.
I googled for solutions but couldn't find any p...
