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01:51

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Q: Reverse Recommendations: If X is the answer what is the question?

I was considering today, if questions of the form: Reverse Requirements Form I am considering Fortran as a tool for numerical computation. If Fortran is a good tool for me, what are my desires? What are its use-cases? What requirements is it particularly good at furfilling? were on top...

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02:22

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Q: My instincts are all wrong

Anyone else finding that their instincts on what is a good question are wrong? Since questions that are off topic, on any other SE site are on topic here. Ie any software-rec. and questions that are there on topic cousin: What are criteria for X? are off topic (probably). I am finding it hard to...

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Seth

03:24

Anyone here with the ability to review edits?

Oh never mind.

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Q: We should not answer with "Anti-recommendations"

When I saw this question, I was tempted to answer with answer along the lines of Don't use GIMP, this would be the wrong tool for the job. No one mentioned GIMP but, I felt a urge to encourage people away from the tool (I like gimp but it wasn't the answer) However, I did not because that...

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Tim Post

04:50

Anyone know any good chat software?

allquixotic

@TimPost Hi, yeah, I'd like to recommend chat.stackexchange.com -- it has pretty robust features like starring interesting posts, removing posts so non-owners can't see them, editing posts, "oneboxing" of pictures and certain sites' content, etc.

its only limitation is that the people who maintain it seem not to like us using it too much... oh well... you can't have it all in one package, right?

still, it's my favorite chat software ever, and replaces IRC in that respect, because of all the neat features that you can't find anywhere else

ClosetGeek

05:24

recently made a Websocket service using Boost.Asio, but now I'm starting to like the way Java EE's Websocket API is sounding. Is this the right place to ask, and if so does anybody here have any experience or other info you might feel useful?

Also, how is Microsoft's C# websocket API?

allquixotic

06:00

@ClosetGeek based on what you just posted, unless you can make your question a lot more specific and less wishy-washy, I don't think it'd be a good fit for the softwarerecs main site. here, however, in chat... probably fine

ClosetGeek

06:13

thank you, that's what I was thinking.

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08:59

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Q: How should I accept answers?

The choice of the best software which fits my needs is quite subjective. So when I ask for a software recommendation the best answer for the asker (= my elected software) isn't necessarily the best one for the community (= the answer with the most up-votes). Is there a recommended guideline for...

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jokerdino

09:49

@TimPost that is ill defined. What do you mean by chat? Like IRC or a desktop client for Instant messaging?

Tim Post

10:01

I was being funny, but obviously not to the extent that I thought.

"What's a good ....." Do people say that because they assume without doing so, we're only going to recommend bad things?

Pops

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Q: Is it acceptable to use 'best' in a question?

Obviously, a question like "What is the best Linux distro" is just BAD in every way, but if it is a narrower question ( like "What is the best Linux distro for everyday use on my old G4 PowerBook" ), is it still OK? In other words, is the word 'best' bad in itself, because it causes opinion base...

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jokerdino

Interesting point. Whenever someone asks for a software-rec, I usually suggest a working app that doesn't crash a minimum 50% of the time and has minimal features.

If I think an app has potential and can feel the user's need, I'll probably tag the app as unstable but a promising one.

I think "good" software is implied and probably doesn't need mentioning.

Tim Post

that is the goodest best answer ever.

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10:25

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Q: Why is there no review link in the top-bar

I can cast close and reopen votes in the review queue. But there is no link to that queue in the top-bar. Can this be added?

feature-request review

Fractaliste

11:19

@TimPost It could be interesting to see the community reaction with a very pertinent question starting by : "What is the worst software ... "

Tim Post

Top voted answer: PHP

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12:08

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Q: Is the desktop tag meaningful?

A desktop tag showed up today, in this question. I don't think it contributes much (if at all). The linux tag, also on the question, tells us what we need to know. Anything that works on a linux desktop will work on a linux laptop. The possible exception that it might not be suitable for a linux...

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Undo

15:12

Any CMs lurking?

Like the awesome @TimPost?

Tim Post

WHO HATH SUMMONED ME

Oh hey, what's up?

Undo

@TimPost Me has a question.

types

Tim Post

otay

Undo

@Tim I'm confused - all my recent tag wiki excerpt suggestions were rejected with the reason "Defining what [tag] is does not make for a good wiki excerpt. Excerpts should describe why and when a tag would be used. See bit.ly/hYcN";. But looking at the tag page, that's kinda what they all are (and what they are on every site I've been on so far).

3ventic

What's with the "New feed items" appearing in the corner?

Undo

15:14

Am I missing something painfully obvious?

@3ventic The alternative to having Stack Exchange post them all as real messages.

3ventic

It's annoying

Where can I turn it off?

Undo

@3ventic Ye can't.

jokerdino

It's called the ticker.

Undo

Mods and room owners can.

3ventic

._.

Undo

15:16

wonders where that name came from

3ventic

Why would you have a notification in the corner that you have to manually dismiss over messages that go away on their own after they've served their usefulness?

jokerdino

Bugggggy

3ventic

Tim Post

@Undo Give me a few minutes to get with Robert and find out, let me grab your history too. Hang tight.

Undo

@TimPost Ok, thanks!

3ventic

15:17

That looks very annoying in the corner of the eye when I'm trying to focus on playing games :(

Undo

Oooh, that does look hideous on a black background.

3ventic

I guess I need to add it to the stylesheet but meh

it's still annoying

It's like a new message indicator, you just have to stop whatever important you're doing and check it

Undo

Usually sites have a meta question feed as normal messages in their chatroom, but we found out pretty quickly that this site has a very active meta :P

jokerdino

If it is very bothersome, I can take it off. It was me who put it there.

Undo

I'm fine with it.

3ventic

15:22

I'm too used to the bridge's ways I guess

(all new questions, meta and main, are posted as messages)

Undo

Wow

We might be able to start doing that, but only after things calm down quite a bit.

3ventic

There aren't a lot of new questions tho

Undo

Maybe things have calmed down.

3ventic

42 questions a day on Arqade

Undo

wow

3ventic

15:24

a few questions a week on meta

jokerdino

much wow
such questions
so doge

3ventic

-doge

Robert Cartaino

15:45

@Undo This is a common problem and resolution (rejecting a lot of early tag wiki excerpts) on the opening days of a new site...

In the most general case, I would reject a tag excerpt that says something like "[Email] An electronic system used to send messages between users".

Unhelpful, right? That doesn't help explain when and why this tag should be used.

So on Software Recs, there are a lot of "specific products" that are used as tags. I thought about this a long time, but there wasn't really a good "when and why" explanation that would suit these very product-specific tags. Their use is basically self-evident.

But when it comes back to defining terminology (e.g. [html]) or even broader product categories (e.g. [windows]), we're back to the traditional means of writing tag excerpts. They there's no use in saying that [windows] is a proprietary operating system written by Microsoft in Cupertino California. They need to explain why the tag should be used.

Sorry about the confusion, rejections start going down fast as folks learn how to best write these things. But SoftwareRecs have added a few twists and new challenges.

Undo

@RobertCartaino Ok, so... would [Email] Questions about an electronic system used to send messages between users work?

Or does it need to be more in-depth?

3ventic

Excerpt usage seems very different from community to community

On Arqade, most excerpts are "A [Release Year] [Genre], developed by [Developer] for [Platforms]. [Short Description]."

Mostly because the use is usually self-evident

Gilles

sadly, it doesn't have a good text editor. They should make a vi plugin for it x) — MadTux 1 hour ago

sigh

why can't all communities be as mature as Unix & Linux? We had a Emacs vs Vim thread and it was all civilized and polite

jokerdino

I want to believe. That's virtually impossible in an emacs vs vim discussion.

Robert Cartaino

@Undo No that wouldn't be instructive about why you would use this tag. You're just defining the "word", not how the tag would be used. Let's use a real tag like [windows].

Saying [windows] for questions about [windows] (isn't any more helpful that saying "for questions about the operating system written by microsoft"

User's aren't asking about "windows", the software. So Certainly there is a use case for having the tag. What is it?

For example... (I don't know this example to be accurate, so I am totally making this up)

[Windows] For software requests needing to be available on the Windows operating system specifically. For version-specific requirments, please specify the [windows-7] or [windows-xp] or [windows-vista] tags.

Undo

16:00

@RobertCartaino Ahh... so we want 'meta information' in the tag. That makes more sense now.

Gilles

Example: on Unix & Linux, the tag wiki excerpt for [windows] is

> Use this tag for interoperability with Windows (dual boot, virtual machines, mixed networks, porting software, …)

Undo

So lemme try one - would "[html] For software requests needing to input or output in the HyperText Markup Language." be right?

Robert Cartaino

Yes, essentially that's exactly what wiki excerpts are for. Meta for the tag. Not what the "word" means, but why and how it is being use here (the site).

jokerdino

Robert's type stats: 29 words / second.

Gilles

even Unix users know what Windows is. But we did have users who were surprised why there was a tag at all. And the excerpt also discretely reminds the user that this isn't the window tag (which is about manipulating X11 windows)

3ventic

16:04

I guess I'll be happy being ignorant of both emacs and vim...

Undo

@3ventic Learn vim.

jokerdino

I haven't gotten anywhere with emacs. I can do basic stuff using vim. :D

3ventic

I can't do anything with vim

and I haven't heard of emacs before now

Robert Cartaino

@3ventic When the terminology used in a tag is not obvious (obscure or not well-known) sometimes simply letting folks know what the tag or acronym means is pretty much all that is needed.

Gilles

for example, on SO, many tag excerpts say “a library for doing X in language Y”

Robert Cartaino

16:09

Yeah, the deeper, more specific the tag, the more self-evident why you would need it is. It's the broader concepts that trip up most of the excerpt writers.

Undo

Ok, methinks I get it now. Thanks @RobertCartaino!

3ventic

And sometimes excerpts don't work at all and you hate the people who named the software being tagged

looking at the developer of Glitch

Robert Cartaino

@Undo Great. Sorry about the confusion.

Undo

no problem

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16:43

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Q: What if a software recommendation exists but for a different platform?

For example, look at this question : iPad app for offline HTML/CSS/JavaScript tests What if I am looking for software with almost the same criteria, but for a different platform like perhaps Android? The concern here is that if I ask the same question with just platform changed, soon this site ...

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MadTux

@StackExchange Oooh, I was wondering that too . . .

Seth

we need to reopen this:

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Q: JS/PHP editor software

I am looking for a code editor. In my case mostly for JavaScript and PHP, it should have: Syntax highlighting Code hinting (like IntelliSense). Support FTP. Be cross platform.

cross-platform javascript editor ftp php

Gilles

17:07

@Seth why?

Seth

@Gilles Because it isn't too broad?

Gilles

@Seth <beeep> that would be a valid argument, but the premise is wrong

Seth

It is no more too broad than the python one:

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Q: Python IDE with rich features: code completion, debugging, etc

I'm looking for an good IDE for Python that should run on Windows 7 and higher. The program should ideally support the following features: Syntax highlighting Code Completion Debugger Support Support to run Shell side by side Support for CPython and IronPythin Navigation to Definition (As in Vi...

ide software-development python

The OP lists what he wants, and the answerers answered. I fail to see anything "Too broad" about it.

Undo

17:22

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A: Nominate temporary moderators for this site here

I'd like to nominate Gilles. He's been very active on Meta, and all his answers are quite well thought out. He's also quite experienced on the network, and already a moderator on several sites (which is quite important on a site like this)

@Gilles ^ ?

(also, give yourself an upvote on my behalf)

jokerdino

Not undermining Gilles' position (he is really insightful) but it might be a tad early to do nominations on temp-mod.

Undo

@joker Oh I agree, but they did feature it - I assume that means they want suggestions, right?

jokerdino

Oh they featured it.. Changes things, certainly.

Seth

yeah

aaaand I'm out of votes again. They should give people more votes on private beta sites. Or betas in general.

Undo

Yeah. More votes. Plz?

although it might lead to people just repcapping by even more, which wouldn't help much of anything except make posts have a higher average score.

Gilles

17:26

@Undo thanks

I can't say that was unexpected

given my activity in meta

Undo

;)

Gilles

I think I would make a good mod here (though I'm sure some would hate me for too heavy-handed moderation)

I'm not sure I'm prepared to expend the effort

I already spend a LOT of time on SE

This will depend on the direction the site goes

jokerdino

Rope in ChrisF and this site would have two experienced mods xD

3ventic

Most of my pinned tabs on Chrome are SE tabs lol

Gilles

I'm only willing to spend energy on this site if I think it has a chance to succeed

Undo

17:29

I'm sure ChrisF is looking for something to replace that mSO diamond he's about to lose, so we might have a chance :P

Gilles

and that means we must crack down on bad questions and bad answers

Undo

yes

jokerdino

There, Gilles taking the first stride.

I think it would help if we have a format for questions and answers..

Gilles

@jokerdino Rory, as well

@jokerdino we do

Questions:

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A: My instincts are all wrong

It's a pretty simple checklist to ask a good, narrowly-scoped recommendation question. I'll make a rough outline here, I'm currently revising this (which is based on the original ground rules that I posted pre-launch). 1. Straight to the point, succinct title Don't use words like 'best' or 'goo...

jokerdino

@Gilles Oh, him too.

Gilles

17:30

Answers:

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A: You're doing it all wrong!

I agree with the general sentiment, but not with all your recommendations. How does it meet the needs of the asker? Don't just say "it has these features" or "it meets all of your needs" - who cares? Describe the features in more detail. Yes, definitely. Why do you, personally, like the...

@jokerdino and Anna Lear, who was a mod on ProgSE, SO and Literature. But she's a dev now

Seth

Hmm.. Tagging is hard on this site.

@Gilles Now you're filling up all the slots with your friends and not giving Undo a chance!

Undo

I like those bullet-lists things in answers. Not sure why.

jokerdino

@Gilles That's a great start. I was thinking something like filling text into seperate columns or something.

Seth

@Undo Because they're awesome :D

Undo

Yeah, there's that :D

jokerdino

17:32

@Gilles Who else holds or held 3 diamonds?

Seth

Can we change this rooms name now? I don't want to wait 30 days for an automatic owner when we have to mods here now.

Undo

@Seth change it to what?

jokerdino

Software Wreck

Gilles

@jokerdino Alenanno, at least, IIRC (he speaks all the languages and moderates several)

Seth

I like "The Software Wreck"

Undo

17:34

:P

Sounds prophetic.

Gilles

I prefer “The Soft Wrecks” or “The Soft Wreck”

Seth

Sounds fine to me.

jokerdino

Soft reck - don't want to be too depressing

Undo

Heh

jokerdino

@Gilles let me look at the mod team

Seth

17:35

@jokerdino Can you convert this to a comment? askubuntu.com/a/417365/44179

Undo

There's a list of moderators somewhere.

jokerdino

@Gilles He speaks Chinese, Russian and English at the least. Connects very much every point.

@Undo stackexchange.com/about/moderators?by=users

Seth

oh cool.

jokerdino

I am thinking Skeptics mod know a thing or two about hands-on moderatorship.

@Seth Is that not an answer?

Seth

@jokerdino well, you could see it has an answer...

Undo

17:39

Ivo Flipse has three

Seth

leave it if you will.

Gilles

Oh, F'x used to be a triple mod (then he resigned from French)

Undo

PearsonArtPhoto is

jokerdino

I'll be honest here. I don't expect this site to be really successful.

Seth

gillesB

143 5

linux ide java desktop dev distribution git

O_o

@jokerdino Thanks for the encouragement :D

Undo

17:41

@Seth Yeah, saw that :P

@jokerdino <quote src='timpost'> If anyone's going to be able to launch it, this community can

jokerdino

But, but, the level of activity is a little puzzling. It's almost the exact opposite of what I expected.

Seth

@Gilles Really, I thought you'd pick a better name for your sock puppet :P /joking

Undo

@jokerdino As in better than you expected?

Huh, Rory Alsop has five diamonds.

Never knew that.

jokerdino

@Undo Yep. But this is just day 2. So I have hope :D

Undo

I think that if we can make it out of private beta, we have a shot at it.

Angelo Neuschitzer

17:45

@jokerdino why do you not think this site will work?

jokerdino

Let's see. Software-rec questions are some of the most hated questions across the network.

Undo

... and (some) mSO people are the most hated people throughout the network.

Sooooo....

Seth

Like who?

jokerdino

They are big lists type with anything goes as answers for them.

Seth

Never mind, bad question.

Undo

17:47

@Seth Meh, we tend to make enemies whenever we stomp on a programming question or downvote a proposal to oblivion :P

jokerdino

So, if you put all the bad questions together and try to make a site out of it.. you get the point.

Undo

Yeah, we need to be extremely strict.

Seth

@Undo Funny.. I don't think I have any enemies. I hope.

@Undo this

Angelo Neuschitzer

And its totally understandable that you don't want to have SW-Rec on regular sites here as you would need to establish consistent rules for them all the time. But still, on every (tech) page they pop up so there seems to be lots of interest into them.

jokerdino

i also generally brand SW-rec as lazy questions.

Undo

17:49

Just thinking out loud... I wonder what would have happened if we had launched meta.SR first, then SR itself two or three hours later.

Implementation nightmare, I know. But it's a neat thought experiment.

Angelo Neuschitzer

And there are even users (like Ira Baxter) who explicitly say that they want to provide tool-answers but complain that they cant. So, there is a usergroup that will answer such questions.

But software is all about being lazy. Our intend is to make machines do work for us.

So, basically, I disagree. SW-rec is going to rock. I'm certain :)

jokerdino

Touche.

Seth

Good points @AngeloNeuschitzer

How do people manage to participate in more than one site at a time?

jokerdino

I wouldn't be sad if this site succeeds. I would actually be happy because I can then quickly figure a particular app for my specific need.

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Undo one or two days later would have been cool. So the "whats on" and "whats off" questions could already have been answered. But I guess it doesn't matter in the end as the beta runs for (iirc) three weeks (?)

Undo

17:53

@AngeloNeuschitzer Private betas should run for a week. But sometimes they're extended.

jokerdino

private beta is given at least a 7 day run.

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Undo ONE week only? Oh dear!

jokerdino

public beta runs as long as it is deemed necessary

Angelo Neuschitzer

@jokerdino and as much as you wouldn't be sad, a lot of people will :)

Undo

@AngeloNeuschitzer We have 'as long as it takes' to graduate.

Angelo Neuschitzer

17:55

whew thats good.

'cause I think it will take some discussion about whats proper (and whats not)

I came to chat to ask what you think about the Website / Webapp question on meta meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/191/…

jokerdino

i think it is ontopic on webapps.SE anyway

I wouldn't mind such questions here but I am not the authority.

Seth

I say asking for "website" recommendations is off-topic, but you can ask about web apps.

Gilles

@jokerdino I disagree with that: recommendations and lists are very different. But a lot of people (on both sides of allowing/forbidding) don't recognize that. This site can only work if we recognize the difference.

@AngeloNeuschitzer Ira Baxter is an experienced spammer. Not a good reference point

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Gilles Is he? I didn't notice.

Gilles

18:10

@AngeloNeuschitzer he's had a lot of answers deleted. I don't have data but I'd expect him to be the user with the most posts deleted with a spam penalty

Check his usenet history

Enjabain

@AngeloNeuschitzer thanks for the invite but I should be back to work now. I am afraid this discussion will last into the night : )

Angelo Neuschitzer

I'll have a look

@Enjabain Not a problem, I'm quite commited to this so drop me a mail when you are here again.

([email protected])

ClosetGeek

18:31

@TimPos - I'm not sure if PHP could be considered the "worst software" as much as it tends to have the worst developers (present company excluded). Your starting to see some pretty lame examples of software pop up in the android market, although Java is a much safer language for a noob to screw up with.

Undo

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Q: Fast online OCR tool

One of my co-workers just posted a draft of something he's writing... As an image! This is annoying. I can't do my usual "keep track of what I'm reading by selecting bits of text" thing. How can I quickly convert this to actual text without installing anything or registering or waiting around ...

web-application ocr

^ Good, bad, or ugly?

is trying to calibrate bad-question-sensor

ClosetGeek

Anybody have any experience using Java EE's Websocket API? Also, how is Glassfish in regards to overhead (such as with a large client load on a single machine doing nothing more than echo or time service).

@Seth like your avatar!

Angelo Neuschitzer

@ClosetGeek I have minor experience with the API. (I don't use glassfish, though)

Seth

18:47

@ClosetGeek :D

ClosetGeek

19:00

How would you rate it? I've been writing a Websocket service from scratch using Boost.Asio but it's becoming a pain and I have always been more of a Java fan.

Stack Exchange

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Q: How to become an expert

What do we need here to make this site work? Experts giving great answers. It is especially important that questions get good answers. Othwewise the site is useless. Currently I can't really give so much good answers since I did not use most tools the questions are about. So... I know how to be...

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Angelo Neuschitzer

I get notification here if something happens on the main SW-Rec site, can I also get this notifications for meta somehow?

oops. nevermind

Stack Exchange

19:47

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Q: Are questions about browser plugins acceptable?

I feel the answer is YES, asking for confidence and Meta completeness.

discussion scope

Bullwinkle

@Undo 'tis a heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Seth

Yo @Undo around?

Anyone else running Mac OSX?

Stack Exchange

20:12

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Q: should we add language tags

As a non native English speaker I sometimes will have the requirement for software to be in my native language (German). Now there are many languages and for most of us (techs) its okay if the language is English and most likely the English speakers are the largest community here. So, should we ...

discussion tags

3ventic

Win8.1 here

Seth

@3ventic Cool. Off-topic, but do you like it?

3ventic

Yeah

I get better performance in most games and I like the improvements made to task manager and desktop UI

Metro is, well, still pretty bad for a desktop PC, but it doesn't bother me as someone who doesn't use start menu at all

and I like windows+S for search a lot

Seth

Yes, I like it overall too. Metro is.. a bit weird, but MS needed to make some big changes somewhere.

I personally liked Windows 8's search better than 8.1's but oh well.

3ventic

I think the idea behind metro is great, the problem is the current app selection.

The apps tend to take a mobile approach even when targeting desktop PCs, which is bad, and they tend to run pretty badly as developers aren't experienced with RT yet

Seth

20:19

I agree with that. The apps aren't terribly great. They aren't exactly hard to use on a desktop, but it isn't exactly "easier" either.

3ventic

@Seth What was the difference? I didn't notice anything when I upgraded.

Undo

@Seth I am now. What's up?

Seth

@Undo Just thought of you when I saw this: softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/167/…

Low hanging fruit :D

Undo

hmmm

Seth

raamdev.com/2008/howto-install-md5sum-sha1sum-on-mac-os-x

Undo

20:21

@Seth Yeah, I thought MD5 as soon as I saw that too. But then thought about how one would need to store the MD5s somewhere.

And soon got overwhelmed with all the things that would need to be done.

Seth

@3ventic It used to look like this: ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/windows-8-search.jpg now it looks like this: cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/…

3ventic

Ah

Seth

i.e. only the sidebar searches now

and you have to press <down arrow> to access the top result D:

3ventic

I like the newer one because it allows me to search without opening metro, directly from the desktop

@Seth status-norepro

Seth

@Undo Simple bash script.. OSX does use bash right?

Undo

20:23

@Seth Yes... it's built on Unix.

Seth

@3ventic ah, but I am just searching from start, now Super+S

3ventic

I can still type my search and press enter to launch the first app found

Seth

That might make a difference.

Undo

Yeah, I suppose one could do that.

3ventic

It might, true.

Seth

20:23

@Undo for i in `ls`

Undo

But that fruit keeps getting higher the more I think about how to grab it.

isn't a bash master

hehe

3ventic

I need to go now, Finnish finals part 1 tomorrow so I need to be awake in the morning

Undo

@3ventic Yay for finals!

have fun ;)

Seth

@3ventic See ya!

Hmm. When does FIFA start?

ah, June.

Undo

@Seth Have any idea how I could better tag this?

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Q: App to use remote Windows 8 machine on an iPad?

I've been playing around with Windows 8 (for all it's faults, it kinda looks cool). I have access to a few Windows Server 2012 machines, and I'd like to be able to VNC into them from my iPad. Must: Support touch, of course. Be relatively not-slow to use Work with computers running Server 2012 ...

windows ios

Seth

20:29

@Undo check notifications

Undo

@Seth checks

@Seth Me likes.

Seth

cool :)

Working on that script for you.

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Gilles @Giles I now took some time to stroll through his activities on SO and while he obviously is a tool - recommender and not the friendliest person on earth I can't seem to understand why Ira Baxter has a reputation of spamming. (I have not yet read his usenet history, though)

Undo

@AngeloNeuschitzer Two l's ;)

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Undo come again?

Undo

20:32

@AngeloNeuschitzer Gilles. Not Giles ;)

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Undo Ah! Thanks.

Undo

no problem

Gilles

@AngeloNeuschitzer he's had a lot of spam deleted, so you can't see it. Check his MSO activity

Angelo Neuschitzer

@Enjabain You there?

Robert Harvey

@AngeloNeuschitzer He has a reputation for spamming because his answers are relentlessly product-oriented.

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Q: Limits for self-promotion in answers

It's been covered before that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for Ira Baxter's recent posts, presumably because they all link to his website. Initially I disagreed because his answers seem for the most part relevant to...

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Q: Limits for self promotion, round II

We have a moderator, casperOne, that has decided to start deleting my responses. I thought this topic had been beaten to death, and that I was operating within the limits of established policy: Limits for self-promotion in answers Here's a list of answers casperOne just deleted: http://stacko...

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Q: Limits for self promotion, round III

The chat has come across a case where one user does something similar to Ira. From the few of his recent answers I looked at, it seems he hasn't done it as badly as Ira Baxter did. But then he goes out and actively searches old questions (new ones, too) and plugs his products. Yes, he adds a di...

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Angelo Neuschitzer

20:37

Ah, now I see. Just found his post on meta where he complained, have to read it.

Robert Harvey

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Q: Limits for self-promotion, round IV

Playing with the new SE app, I came across an old meta answer of mine, and getting curious I looked at the guy's latest answers. Of the 30 latest answers on his SO page (as of now all from the last three weeks), one third of the answers either mention his business' products or link to them or lin...

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Undo

wow. just wow :P

Angelo Neuschitzer

@RobertHarvey Thank you!

Seth

20:56

@Undo I think you're right, it would be too complicated a script. It can be done and I'm doing it, but too complicated for an answer I'm afraid.

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