Software Recommendations

Journeyman Geek

00:26

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Quizup now has an official android port Features is actually quizup Apparently it will crash horribly if you're running the ART runtime, but its in english, and should have the same features as the IOS version.

I think I'm going to get yelled for this in comments ;p

Undo

00:40

@JourneymanGeek Well I might yell at you for saying "IOS" :)

gparyani

01:03

@Undo Who should become the next mod pro tempore?

I wonder when questions are tweeted...

Nominate temporary moderators for this site here http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/67?atw=1

Tweeted by StackSoftRecs on February 27, 2014 at 10:27 PM

Braiam

01:16

do we need more mods?

Seth

@Braiam Why do you think that?

Braiam

@Seth read up ^

Seth

@gparyani What are you talking about? Are they getting another one?

Undo

01:49

@gparyani I honestly don't think we need any more right now.

We have an insanely low flag handling time, and we can fairly easily keep up with the flow.

I can't speak for the others, but I don't think we need any more.

Journeyman Geek

I don't think so either. In fact, if we become big enough to have more mods, I feel they ought to be elected properly

Seth

I wonder who would run...

btw mods: obsolete comments softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/2023/… and unclear: softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/2066/…

Undo

@Seth purged the first one

Journeyman Geek

>_>

@Undo: so did I

the second one, I'd leave for now I think

Undo

I closed the second one

Braiam

02:01

is possible to burn 3 isos in a DVD? I think you should uncompress them then burin it...

Journeyman Geek

hm. I have a rough idea on how to do it. If I could remember the name of the boot manager in question

Braiam

GRUB?

Journeyman Geek

naw, this had a wierd retro-sci-fi look

Undo

We'll need quite a bit more explanation to provide a solid recommendation - where are the ISOs coming from? What OS do you want the software to run on? What other features would be nice to have? How big are the ISOs? — Undo 40 secs ago

^ At the very least we need an OS

Journeyman Geek

plop

Braiam

02:03

yeah, burning 3 4.0GB isos in a single DVD is not possible...

Seth

Indeed.

Braiam

only BD

and it's raining, and then stopped raining, then started raining... sighs

Journeyman Geek

more like, say 2-3 ~700mb isos

Undo

@JourneymanGeek You know that post we both just purged? I got one of the comments and you got the other two :D

That's, like... you couldn't do that again if you tried.

Journeyman Geek

lol

;p

kalina

08:41

morning

kalina

10:51

@JourneymanGeek :(

don't delete the gaming posts yet

Journeyman Geek

@kalina: I'm basically deleting the really bad ones

I see some value in leaving some around, like heads on a pike.

kalina

that gaming one wasn't really "really" bad

I'm going to flag most of the gaming stuff for deletion after 2 months have passed anyway

Journeyman Geek

naw, the ones I deleted were really bad

kalina

you don't mind if I use question flags for stuff with a bunch of comments that need deleting, do you?

SQL on a customer's live system while this unmotivated to work is a bad idea

Journeyman Geek

11:07

naw, its devops

kalina

11:46

damn, still 6 short

Michel

12:13

Morning

@3ventic you REALLY are everywhere O.O" are you omnipresent?

3ventic

Yeah

Michel

Quick question: Is it wrong to be rushing to Electorate badge? Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions

Journeyman Geek

lol

not really

I need to vote more

Michel

I want to be the first one to get this one :P (Also rushing for Fanatic, but... I'm not sure if I can say "Rush" is appropriated ...)

I usually spend all my votes in the morning... So I don't forget to vote :P

it would be nice if there was a badge like the legendary, but for spend all your votes

:P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Michel

12:18

I think there isn't one person with more than 800 rep that I didn't voted for their questions and some answer :P

kalina

@Michel you won't beat me to electorate

Michel

I can't hold myself when I see a "9" question or answer ?:P

@kalina I'll !

Journeyman Geek

@Michel: not saying that its happened, but don't forget the risk of accidentally setting off the bulk upvoteing script ;p

kalina

@JourneymanGeek can you tell me what feed GTFO is reading from in the bridge?

Michel

@kalina fuuu I'll not T_T

kalina

12:20

For some reason I don't see GTFO in the feeds list

@Michel I'm already more than half way there...

Michel

@kalina I got votes back yesterday =(

kalina

@Michel awww

Michel

@kalina you broke my "heart" now Q_Q

Journeyman Geek

I don't see it either

Michel

sniff sniff >_<

kalina

12:22

@JourneymanGeek interesting

does the "Feeds" tab say 8 for you as well, with 6 items in the list below it?

Journeyman Geek

yup

MSO time?

kalina

who knows

GTFO is definitely a feed

I've seen it before

I just wanted to get to the page it feeds from because iirc it had options to customise what was shown in the feed and somebody is asking about a custom feed for codereview

Michel

12:51

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Software Recommendations – softwarerecs.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for people seeking specific software recommendations.

Currently in public beta.

The statistics are ugly >.<

Journeyman Geek

A little

Michel

68%
answered

That's a lot o.o

22% behind >.<

Journeyman Geek

big issue is really number of users.

Michel

119
avid users
1,340
total users

You mean, Avid users or total users

Journeyman Geek

both

total users will get us avid users.

Michel

12:57

Fact*

Journeyman Geek

unanswered questions, some are a bit niche. I like going through them for easier rep ;p

Michel

That moment when your gf says "6 month" and you ask what she mean, because the only thing in 6 months is our 1 yr anniversary ... I forget the 6 month one :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Michel

there is a way to do math calculation in html ?

without programming language

just value minus value

Journeyman Geek

I doubt it, you'd need JS at the least

Michel

13:03

I think only with js

~so lazy to do anything today ...

:P

3ventic

HTML5 forms do simple calculations

nvm, it still requires some JS

Michel

:P

Izzy

@JourneymanGeek can you please take care for this silly guy, and delete that answer? Have a nice woosh animation :)

Otherwise I'll have to fillup your flag queue #D (← black-mailing a mod, LOL)

Michel

@Izzy You are mean ... I like you :D

kalina

13:20

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN

2

Izzy

@Michel If it helps :) But it looks like our 4-legged friend is on a walk. And yeah, I was about reminding that fish as a long-time SO user he should also know about flags... Good point :)

@kalina Hiho, hiho!

Not enough drama to ping you, but welcome :)

kalina

@Izzy he's immune to any flag filling attempt you could throw at him

Izzy

@kalina Hm. You mean, I should try Undo or Gilles? ;)

kalina

no I mean that the moderators on SR are used to seeing the flag counter reach 50+

Izzy

/me goes flagging... #D

Michel

13:24

@kalina ROFL!

@Izzy ROFL²

kalina

@Izzy I challenge you

and this is a time limited challenge

Michel

@Izzy I double dare you!

kalina

how many flags have you got?

Izzy

@kalina On flag-numbers?

Oh.

kalina

how many flags can you cast and how many flags have you already had approved

Izzy

13:25

I don't count them, I rise them.

And process them in the review queue, of course.

kalina

!important

the reason I ask, is I have 477 flags approved and more than 23 left to cast today

so I challenge you to get to deputy before I get to marshall

Izzy

visibility:visible !important; font-weight:bold !important; height:very-high !important; ooops !important?

kalina

!important !important

Izzy

@kalina Unfortunately I lack the time. I try my best to stick around and help here, but I have some time-critical tasks up...

3ventic

colour: white !please;

kalina

13:27

me too!

my time critical task is to ensure I stay up until after midnight so I can cast more flags!

MOAR FLAGS

Michel

Holy cow @kalina ! you really are into SR SE

kalina

@Michel no, I do this on any site I use

Izzy

Mine is a little different, but not yet to be disclosed. In the end, it might prove helpful to at least 2 SE sites :)

kalina

@Izzy Android.SE and SoftRecs.SE?

:D

@Michel and even some sites I don't use

Michel

@kalina I don't remember, but you work with IT, support?

kalina

13:30

no

well, kinda

but no

Michel

...

o.o

I was going to put a DALEK saying "EXPLAIN..." but then I took an arrow in the knee and remember that you hate DW ... so, just one simple "Explain this sentence please" will do

kalina

oh right

well

basically my role is to investigate issues that our support team can't do because they're dumb phone answering pizza munching call center monkeys

and that development don't want to because they're busy coding and sitting around playing FIFA and whatever

Michel

@kalina Almost sure you're from London or other place in europe...

[ ] right [ ]wrong [ ] almost

kalina

I'm from Earth

no specific region

Michel

Place of work (more specific)

kalina

13:35

a building with walls, windows and doors

Michel

I made a mistake in my sentence ... damn >.<

roof ?

kalina

it has a roof, yes

Michel

Well you are safe from snow and rain and direct sun light (since you have windows, you are not a vampire (shame on you))

kalina

no I'm not a vampire, I'm an angel

DanteTheEgregore

softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/posts/2078/revisions

Any chance someone could roll back Fischer's edit?

Izzy

13:42

@kalina Good guess :)

@kalina dumb phone answering pizza munching call center monkeys Mega-LOL!

Michel

@kalina hard to believe ... unless is like the angels from Supernatural

@DanteTheEgregore not enough rep here, sorry

DanteTheEgregore

I dropped a comment. He made a really bad edit and changed the entire meaning of the question. Someone else approved it. =.=

Izzy

@DanteTheEgregore Ooops.

Someone else here #/

But I don't see where the meaning was changed; basically, that edit is just a few spelling corrections and removing parts of the intro.

DanteTheEgregore

Oh noes. D:

Well the one answer it dragged in is about website building.

Pika offers website and dekstop app building services.

He changed the link name from software builder to website buider.

OP wants to build desktop apps, not a website.

Izzy

Gosh, I should remember switching to markup mode when checking edits #/

DanteTheEgregore

13:51

Though the one answer on it is also by Fischer. >.>

Izzy

Read it. He blames someone having edited the question so his answer got invalidated.

=> Troll?

Shall we sumup a mod to get done with that answer at least? As @JourneymanGeek didn't turn up: looks like @Gilles is logged in as well.

DanteTheEgregore

Or one terribly confused individual.

kalina

@DanteTheEgregore I don't actually see anything wrong with his edit

DanteTheEgregore

Either way, Pika does offer a software building service

Izzy

Fixed.

DanteTheEgregore

13:55

Awesome. :O

Izzy

I replaced the "website builder" with "software builder" again (as it originally was), and also added back parts of the original user-story.

Luckily my 2k+ made the edit immediate :)

Now we still need a mod to get rid of that Q. @kalina + @DanteTheEgregore have you flagged it NAA?

kalina

obviously

Izzy

@Michel ^^

Enough flags should make the "delete" button turn up.

I could hit that then :)

Oh, @Braiam, going to help us?

Call to arms, call to cleanup & purge this with fire by first flagging it NAA, and then hit the "Delete" button as soon as it turns up?

All together now... :)

Braiam

@Izzy VLQ flag push it to the queue where users can delete it...

kalina

@Izzy there aren't enough "10k+" class users to delete vote in this manner

Izzy

14:00

on beta, it only needs 2k+

Oh. So it's only me...

Braiam

you need 3 users

Michel

on beta it's "easier"

Izzy

Yuck

kalina

you haven't negated what I just said

Braiam

with VLQ flag you need more users but less rep

Izzy

14:01

@kalina who is "you"?

Michel

I also flagged it a while ago (when you first posted the link @Izzy )

kalina

@Izzy you

what do you mean we don't have a moderator available in the middle of the day?

Izzy

@kalina OK, you're wrong. What didn't I never not negate?

Journeyman Geek

@Izzy whawhere?

kalina

2 mins ago, by kalina

@Izzy there aren't enough "10k+" class users to delete vote in this manner

1 min ago, by Izzy

on beta, it only needs 2k+

Izzy

14:02

Hi! We need a Wooosh!

kalina

WHAT DO WE NEED? CHEMICAL WARFARE!
WHEN DO WE NEED IT? NOW!

Izzy

@JourneymanGeek Can you please purge this with a bit Wooooosh?

@kalina Browsers.

Journeyman Geek

sigh

All the comments?

or just the flagged ones?

Izzy

@kalina Ah. So you play on the "class". OK, nevermind – everybody did know what it was about :)

kalina

ALL THE COMMENTS

@JourneymanGeek on the thing izzy just linked, he wants the ANSWER deleting

Izzy

14:04

@JourneymanGeek The so-called "answer". See flag-queue :)

kalina

I told you @JourneymanGeek was getting bored of deleting comments

Braiam

Is so sad that only @kalina is present in the star wall... SAY SOMETHING INTERESTING PEOPLE!

Izzy

@JourneymanGeek we lack a few more "10k+ class" users :)

Journeyman Geek

Done.

@Izzy: can't help there ;p

kalina

@Braiam I'm sorry that I am so awesome

Journeyman Geek

14:05

deleted the answer though

Izzy

@JourneymanGeek Yay!

kalina

@JourneymanGeek you could stop deleting my highly voted content and give me some more upvotes

that would get another 2k+ user :p

Journeyman Geek

I sorta think the question is quite horrid.

kalina

the question isn't great

DanteTheEgregore

It isn't. .-.

kalina

14:05

but the question doesn't go "I don't care, deal with it"

DanteTheEgregore

At least the answer's gone. :D

Izzy

@JourneymanGeek Nah. Maybe that "serial guy" (or girl) was about that, but hit the wrong track completely :)

kalina

Journeyman Geek

And most of the comments with that.

I don't mind comment flags, just... whoa...

Izzy

@kalina Well, but much better than that answer was!

DanteTheEgregore

14:08

I think the idea of drag and drop software development hurts me somewhere deep inside. Or maybe it's just the typos on the main page of their website. e.e

Journeyman Geek

@DanteTheEgregore: there's a few cases where people do it well

granted, I'm thinking of MIT

DanteTheEgregore

No coding requied

kalina

@JourneymanGeek sorry

after today I will stick to flagging comments with comment flags

but today I'm so close

I can almost taste it

I'm not flagging more until my current ones are cleared though otherwise they'll just cause a backlog

Journeyman Geek

@kalina: the point of flags isn't badges ;p

kalina

@JourneymanGeek no but the flags are all valid, so... dual purpose

Journeyman Geek

14:11

I don't mind clearing up the flags but as a prudent mod, I need to read through all the comments and make a decision

kalina

@JourneymanGeek hence why I use question flags much much slower

Journeyman Geek

so, they will be cleared, but I have something like 100 comments to go through just from you

DanteTheEgregore

@JourneymanGeek But badges are our lifeblood.

kalina

since all my comment flags tell you why I believe they should be removed

and I cater for that fact when flagging questions

I could have easily flagged 40 questions with "this has obsolete comments on it"

but that would have been a bit harsh imo

Journeyman Geek

@DanteTheEgregore: I have a few hundred badges on SU ;p

and I didn't actively try to get any of them

other than maybe the fanatic one

kalina

14:14

you see, this is an important thing

people assume I'm actively trying to get them all the time

while in this particular situation I am kinda actively trying to get marshall

if I was "actively" trying to get copy editor and electorate my output would be significantly higher

the deal with flags is we're actually getting questions faster than I'm flagging the comments on them

I get enthusiast tomorrow

Journeyman Geek

and If I'm like "meh, I don't know which ones to delete" but it has merit, I'll leave it for another mod

kalina

@JourneymanGeek yeah totally

there are some that I flag (questions/answers this is, rather than comments) where I'm 99% sure you guys would want them deleting but I'm just not sure

Journeyman Geek

Question flags/answer flags are easier.

kalina

easier than comment flags?

Journeyman Geek

Easier than multi-comment flags

kalina

14:17

oh right, so 1 flag on the question saying "delete all these comments" is easier than 6 flags on the comments?

Undo

In some ways. In some ways not.

Journeyman Geek

no. The other way around is easier.

Undo

I generally end up expanding the whole thread anyway, so a post flag tends to be easier for me.

kalina

I wonder why certain sites reject comment flags then

DanteTheEgregore

@JourneymanGeek I got to 94 days on SU and then it reset because my power was out all day. :c

Journeyman Geek

14:18

different sites have different policies.

kalina

@Undo well good news! I have outstanding post flags because I ran out of comment flags!

Undo

:P

Journeyman Geek

@DanteTheEgregore: I think I got up to something like 300 days ;p

kalina

@JourneymanGeek different sites smell, it's not fair to drag you into this discussion so lets move on

@JourneymanGeek I had 499 consecutive days on my arqade account on the day I deleted it

Journeyman Geek

@kalina: we're mostly ok with comment cleanups.

But we have different levels of enthusiasm about it

kalina

14:19

@JourneymanGeek "we" = SR, SE, or some other particular site you're thinking of

Journeyman Geek

the mods in general

on SU I rarely flag obsolete comments

a good chunk of my flags are NAA, suspecious users and spam

kalina

it all comes down to: do you want a nice clean site or not?

@JourneymanGeek the bulk of my flags on other sites are NAA, on here, we're a bit too young to have a bunch of NAAs though

so my ratio is like 1:10 with the 10 being comments

Journeyman Geek

course, I'm a mod here

so no flags for me

kalina

there are way more comments to clear up around here

in order to meet the requirements that everybody agreed to

Undo

yup ;)

kalina

14:22

would you say stuff like this is worth keeping?

real sysadmins use cat (sorry. I couldn't resist.) — MadTux Feb 19 at 18:45

normally I flag things like that and they get declined

Undo

meh

Journeyman Geek

Personally yes

kalina

I need to cast 8 more flags

Undo

I do wonder what happens if I flag an SR comment...

kalina

delete this comment, I feel dirty flagging a post for a single comment

DanteTheEgregore

14:32

Has there been any more conversation on which, if any, web hosting/web services/web apps are on topic in the past few days?

9

Q: Are hosting recommendation requests on-topic?

I just saw this question: Looking for hosting for Laravel It's asking for a hosting recommendation. Are these on topic here?

Because I feel like this never really got a definite answer from the community.

Journeyman Geek

most of the top answers say no

kalina

@DanteTheEgregore @Izzy's answer

basically: questions about the hardware infrastructure are off topic, questions about the software are on topic

so... asking for a provider to do X is off topic, asking for software that can do X is on topic

DanteTheEgregore

True. It'd be nice to have a close reason for these types of questions already.

kalina

they'll happen

in time

there is a meta post where you can suggest a reason

DanteTheEgregore

I saw. :o

kalina

14:45

work it make it do it makes us harder better faster stronger more than hour our never ever after work is over

DanteTheEgregore

15:17

Any news about Meta Stack Exchange lately? :o

FEichinger

two weeks™

3ventic

Still 6 to 8

kalina

"Soon™"

DanteTheEgregore

15:38

@FEichinger Two if we're counting weeks on Venus. :p

FEichinger

I find the term "week" horribly wrong on a planet with no satellite.

Braiam

ponders what @FEichinger would not find horribly wrong

kalina

@Braiam his own face

which is ironic

since his face is horribly wrong as well

Braiam

:O

FEichinger

Love you too, sweetheart.

kalina

15:43

my heart is not sweet, it's black as coal and would burn through your entire existence if you touched it

FEichinger

That does sound about right, yes.

kalina

I'm still an angel

FEichinger

Of course you are.

kalina

yep

FEichinger

I would never disagree with that.

kalina

15:57

33 minutes

DanteTheEgregore

<.>

kalina

29 minutes

20 minutes

DanteTheEgregore

1

Q: "End user friendly" database tool (e.g., for curating a personal collection)

I’m looking for a graphical tool that allows me to create, populate and browse/search databases. Primary use case: Curate a personal collection (e.g., for movies, postage stamps, quotes, …). There are often specialized databases (e.g., Griffith for media) for such cases, but I’m looking for a g...

linux open-source database

He keeps using the dental aid acronym. xP

kalina

dental aid acronym?

FLOSS?

DanteTheEgregore

I don't like FLOSS. It's silly.

Izzy

16:14

If I read that as German, it's a "raft". So it probably goes down the river.

DanteTheEgregore

softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/search?q=floss

Izzy

16:25

@DanteTheEgregore OK. Let's rename that to "flossu" (floss-unor) #D

DanteTheEgregore

-1

Q: virtual reality applications

I need to develop an interactive 3d online shopping mall, where customers visiting the store will choose a character, walk around from section to section in the store, picking products in shelves. A software that can do such should be a simulation software, I thought of unity3d and blender, but ...

software-development simulation

I think someone needs to tell this guy that what he's looking for isn't really what he's looking for.

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