Software Recommendations

Seth

00:02

meh, I'll just boot Windows.

Izzy

@Seth Then it might be a better fit for Super User ("How can I...?")

Seth

Yeah, good point.

Izzy

00:21

Just walking the review queue. Miss "doesn't meet our quality standard {link-to-meta}" as custom close reason...

Braiam

6

Q: Custom close reasons for software recommendations

Due to the unique nature of Software Recommendations in comparison to the rest of the Stack Exchange network, I feel some discussion needs to go into the creation of close reasons specific to this site. What is the point of this post? The issues I want to tackle with this discussion are as fol...

Gilles

@Izzy that's “too broad” or “unclear” plus a comment

We could make it a custom close reason, but the problem with them is that they're under “off-topic”, which makes no sense

Braiam

is this clear? softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/1302/226

the images lost me..

Izzy

@Gilles OK, that's exactly what I did :)

@Gilles Ah. I was afraid of that. So on the "main screen", we can't have custom reasons?

Journeyman Geek

@Seth or potentially security.se

Izzy

00:35

@Braiam Sorry, absolutely not my area of expertise... Must leave it for others to decide :)

Braiam

well, apparently I voted to close at some point and then it got reopened...

Izzy

LOL Can anybody explain to me what a "social network with native support" is?

Support for natives?

Or is there any "social OS" meanwhile, and I simply didn't notice?

Braiam

....... I better don't tell you...

Izzy

@Braiam Uh-oh...

OK, queue emptied, going to bed (wife gets nervous ;)

Good night all!

Gilles

@Seth That's called a debugger. But you're not going to find anything interesting if you don't have an idea of what you're looking for.

Reverse Engineering would be the best place to ask about this, but you'll need to provide a lot more information

Stack Exchange

01:37

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Q: Does asking for recommendations while building software fall into this site

So I do a lot of Software R&D work, a LOT. One issue I have consistently faced is getting honest, brutal feedback regarding software ideas and strategies. How to implement this or what to do with that. Is there a site on SE that might fit these needs better, not where it's a coding issue, but m...

discussion question-quality

Seth

02:55

@Gilles I'm looking for something that can particularly open the RAW file.

Seth

03:08

Someone serial upvoted me D:

Undo

Let's see if the serial voting thingy catches them.

Seth

It did. That's how I found out ;P

Undo

Oh

hichris123

@Seth 13 minutes between the serial upvoting and the reversal. It just happened to be so close to the time the script ran. ;)

Seth

wow.

hichris123

03:12

I wonder if someone here has been playing with buttons... :P

Seth

It's almost a pity since I put me 3 rep away from 1000.

Undo

@hichris123 whistles

I'm not good enough at pushing buttons to figure out any voting stuff :P

hichris123

presses button -> Serial upvotes user

Seth

Review audits are so easy.

hichris123

Heh.

Seth

03:15

Of course, they're supposed to be. But still.

hichris123

Anyone see this: google.com/atap/projecttango?

It's so cool.

Undo

Huh. While pushing buttons on @Seth's profile, I somehow found someone else's completely unrelated sockpuppet :P

hichris123

@Undo Okay... :P

Seth

@Undo I won't ask who :P

(I don't have one on this site)

Undo

I'm not sure if that means I'm good at pushing buttons or terrible at pushing buttons :P

hichris123

03:16

I want buttons now... :(

@Undo Or the button is messed up.

Undo

Yeah, maybe.

Seth

@hichris123 Go get 10k, that will give you buttons to press :P

And it's easier than a diamond. And less serious.

hichris123

@Seth But that's hard! (I am trying to get to 1k on Arduino).

@Seth Meh, diamond == more fun. :P

Seth

Or if you get 10k rep in chat you can handle offensive flags :D

hichris123

Yeah... a while off. I'm at 5k-ish network wide.

Seth

03:19

@hichris123 diamond should!= fun.

Undo

@hichris123 but diamond == more responsibility && more people yelling at you :P

and diamond == healthy fear of Shog

Seth

@hichris123 That will get you a glimpse at them.

hichris123

@Undo Mm... don't you like people yelling at you? Yelling == evil.

And mod == evil.

Undo

So... Mod == yelling?

hichris123

@Seth Depends.

@Undo Pretty much.

Undo

03:21

To tell the truth, diamond tools == 10k tools plus like nine thousand.

Seth

I'm not saying deleting things isn't exactly fun.. but a moderator job is a very serious thing. That's all.

@Undo That doesn't compute.

hichris123

@Seth Yeah... deleting + handling flags is the funnest. :P I've never gotten to do either... so that probably explains it.

Seth

Don't assign 10k to tools :P

Undo

Yeah, accidental assignment.

Dumb chat, it should have given me real time warnings.

Seth

haha

@hichris123 Did you get my pings from last night? Showing all the buttons?

hichris123

03:25

@Seth Yeah. I want them even more now... :(

Never knew mods had such fun buttons/lists!

Seth

oh yeah.

Undo

Where?

the AU meta post with all the screenshots?

Seth

yeah that.

Undo

It's outdated :P

there are more buttons and lists now.

hichris123

Heh. stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/4135675 tells me it's possible spam... but it's really an audit that you should Reopen. :P

Undo

03:27

Rofl

Seth

This comment is really funny now that that user has a diamond.

Journeyman Geek

@Undo: not really used mine yet :/

Undo

@JourneymanGeek ;(

you should go find a low quality answer to nuke

Journeyman Geek

(of course, I'm the off hours mod, as always)

Undo

@JourneymanGeek Oooh, what UTC hours will you be active?

Journeyman Geek

03:31

@Undo: my waking hours are roughly 7.20 am - 11.30 pm GMT + 8 ;p

Undo

awesome

Journeyman Geek

though, naturally I'm not on all the time, but for quite a few of it.

Undo

yeah, that'll be great.

someone to handle the flags while I'm asleep so that I don't wake up to big numbers like today.

hichris123

@Undo What's big equal? I'm betting it's not going to be anywhere close to 20.. :P

Undo

@hichris Uhmm... five

hichris123

03:33

And you call that big?

Undo

Yes

Journeyman Geek

We're a new site ;p

hichris123

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 8 secs ago, by hichris123

@animuson ^ @Undo thinks that having five flags in the flag queue is a big number. Go give him a lecture on it. Please.

Undo

joins TL and waits for ping

Journeyman Geek

Just wait till we get all SEOfied, and found and all the spammers come camp out on our yard with their big beedy eyes and buck teeth.

Undo

03:35

rubs hands together

Journeyman Geek

(and eh, mentioning my waking hours is useful, people are convinced I don't sleep)

hichris123

@JourneymanGeek Wait... you go to sleep at 11:30 in the morning?

Journeyman Geek

@hichris123:>_>

BRB ABUSING MOD POWERS TO HIDE THE TRUTH.

hichris123

sigh You ninja editor mods...

Journeyman Geek

@hichris123: I almost said 12.00, but then decided 11.30 was more average.

And I get woken up at 7.20 cause its time for walkies.

hichris123

03:39

Wait... you cheated SR out of a half hour of mod time? How dare you! MOD ABUSE!!!11!!!

Journeyman Geek

04:03

;p

Seth

O....kay.

hichris123

@Seth ?

Seth

5 is big. On a site like this.

hichris123

Not really... think of how many experienced comment flaggers we have. :P

Seth

The point is there isn't a whole lot of content to flag.

Although SR has more than any other beta site I'm guessing.

hichris123

04:10

Yep. Way more participation and such than any other beta I've seen.

Seth

AU has an average of 25-30.

hichris123

We need more questions on Arduino... we're kinda running out. :P

Seth

like last time :-/

hichris123

I think we have like a 91% answered question rate.

@Seth Yeah... I'm hoping it doesn't go that way. :(

Maybe if/when we go into public we'll get more?

I think we have more people who are experts & know a lot about Arduino... and not so much people who ask questions...

Seth

maybe.

Undo

05:18

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Q: Does asking for recommendations while building software fall into this site

So I do a lot of Software R&D work, a LOT. One issue I have consistently faced is getting honest, brutal feedback regarding software ideas and strategies. How to implement this or what to do with that. Is there a site on SE that might fit these needs better, not where it's a coding issue, but m...

discussion question-quality

^ We need to be thinking about this.

Journeyman Geek

@Undo: as he says it, it sounds almost OT for us. I think asking about libraries may be borderline, but if he's trying to bounce off ideas and stratergies, it may be something better for chat.

Undo

Same thoughts here

Journeyman Geek

Actually, thats something I never thought about. Are asking for recommendations for libraries on topic? I'm not enough of a coder to have a clue on that ;p

Also, would 2) be on topic for SO?

ahh, I see.

Undo

05:36

@JourneymanGeek I think so, yes.

I think we went over that on Meta at some point.

Journeyman Geek

yeah, linking it in my answer ;p

metaed.

Seth

@JourneymanGeek Asking for libraries was one of the main reasons this site was started.

Utkarsh

someone recommend me software for newly installed windows 7

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: all the things

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek all?

Journeyman Geek

05:41

However, when I get a new windows system, I tend to start with ninite ;p

ALL

Utkarsh

let me see

ninite

Journeyman Geek

If you could be more specific, I'll have some suggestions

Seth

Hey! Ninite has come a long way. Maybe I'll actually start using it now

Journeyman Geek

ninite is a nice way to install free applications, and stuff like java automagically, and it dosen't install the toolbars on the stuff that does.

2

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek but.....viruses......

Journeyman Geek

05:42

Its a nice way to get a system up and running with things like firefox, an antivirus and stuff.

Utkarsh

ninite contains viruses?

Seth

My new favorite apps for windows are autoruns and zoomit.

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: It'll install an AV for you

Seth

@Utkarsh Use Linux :P

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: Do I look like a ~~cat~~ evil person who'd recommend crap to you?

ninite is quite literally the first thing that I run on my windows systems

Seth

05:44

You look like a dog.

;P

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: Precisely.

Utkarsh

@Seth see my profile; why i hate linux

Seth

I already did, I was teasing you ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: I usually use ninite to get a browser, AV, 7zip, stuff like flash and so on installed. They don't have my preferred PDF reader so thats seperate.

(sumatra is my second choice, but I've used pdf xchange viewer mostly)

Utkarsh

@Seth autoruns is awesome!!!!

@JourneymanGeek no you are the most trustworthy person

:p

@Seth :P

@JourneymanGeek sumatra is indian

Journeyman Geek

05:48

@Utkarsh: if you're that worried, download your AV first, install that, and run ninite later

no, Sumatra is indonesian ;p

Sumatra

Sumatra (), is an island in western Indonesia, to the west of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island that is entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a current population of almost 50 million (53 million administratively, as Riau Islands and Bangka–Belitung Islands are included). Its biggest city is Medan with over 4 million in the greater urban area. Sumatra is an elongated landmass spanning a diagonal northwest-southeast axis. The Indian O...

Seth

lol

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek no, i already have avast

I got a private beta for softtware recs

:P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Utkarsh

now its public

Journeyman Geek

I was in the private beta too

Utkarsh

05:51

@JourneymanGeek how much rep. is required to be a mod?

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: Mod-ship isn't dependant on reputation, more on Reputation

;p

(besides, post beta, they'll elect mods I think)

Seth

ooh la la. Sysinternals is a treasure trove.

Wish I had heard of them before.

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: that and nirsoft are the first places I look for tools to solve odder issues

Seth

@Utkarsh 300 usually.

Utkarsh

yay! i have 500

Journeyman Geek

05:53

@Seth: thats for elected mods though

Seth

@JourneymanGeek I was gonna say, you use ninite to solve weird issues?

Journeyman Geek

mildly distracted ;p

I need to get a haircut. I'm getting complaints I'm getting a bit shaggy.

trying to find my wallet and such

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek me too :P but i will get haircut after one week, till my exams get over :P

Seth

@Utkarsh You want to be a mod on AU? When you don't even use Ubuntu and don't want to? o_O

Utkarsh

@Seth hehe! i was just joking

Seth

05:56

@JourneymanGeek Nirsoft looks awesome too.

@Utkarsh ah ok.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek googledrive, dropbox or skydrive, which one do you prefer? for pdf, excel files

i just want to send them to my laptpo

*laptop

Seth

onedrive or ubuntu one

Nick Wilde

Woot! Hit the 1000 rep so I can edit with no review again

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: I use either pushbullet or bitorrent sync

Nick Wilde

05:58

and can deal with the suggested edit queue

Seth

@NickWilde yippee! Now I need too :D

Nick Wilde

@Seth yeah you do... just surpassed your rep by a few today muahaha

Journeyman Geek

(Seriously, if you have an android phone, and a PC, and need to send small files to it, or notes, its really worth it)

@NickWilde: I think I hit it yesterday, had a flurry of upvotes

I actually prefer to run anything I can myself

that way if anything breaks, I know its me ;p

Utkarsh

hmmm softwarerecs seems interesting

Seth

I was actually serially upvoted today.

Nick Wilde

06:01

@JourneymanGeek yeah I see that - congrats

Utkarsh

@Seth lol

Nick Wilde

@Seth here's a few more for some answer I never got around to voting on

Utkarsh

2

Q: What sketching software exists that has minimal memory requirements?

I want a software that can make sketches on lubuntu and also has ability to save it. The program must work in 512 mb or less RAM and thus I cannot use a heavy-weight - memory intensive - solution

software-recommendation

Seth

oh cool. thanks.

Utkarsh

this question fits in software recs?

Seth

06:03

@Utkarsh try more specific.

Utkarsh

okay'

earning 300rep. in 1 month is hard?

Seth

no, not if you try.

Utkarsh

lol, won 3 bounties in 3 days :P

Nick Wilde

@Utkarsh add details of the feature requirements and I'd say it would be fine

:wave: see y'all later

Utkarsh

@NickWilde okay :)

@Seth so you will get

Seth

06:10

don't you serial upvote me now.

Utkarsh

no, not serial, i am upvoting what i find useful, (i am exploring this site for the first time :P)

@Seth oho :) 1002

Seth

hmm.. well a fine line ;)

Utkarsh

06:29

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Q: any time scheduling software for my exams

exams are coming, i need to make a time table in which i can see, what subject to revise and when. please tell me if there is aany software for this. Also, I need it for my Windows 7, 1500mb ram

windows

is it on topic?

okay bye

Good Afternoon

Seth

Good night.

@Utkarsh on-topic yeah, but waay to broad.

Journeyman Geek

07:49

@Utkarsh: If you have an android phone (especially a more recent one), you could probably just use google calender - and use that to send reminders.

Stack Exchange

09:16

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Q: Is the proportion of unanswered questions a concern?

Of the almost 500 questions, well over 100 questions are unanswered - that seems like a worrying statistic - is it of concern?

discussion unanswered-questions

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: "Online type thing" that "Runs on windows" ?

I think we need to work on your skills at explication

(Yes, its an actual word. I looked it up)

Utkarsh

lol

@JourneymanGeek edit that in whatever way you want, but i found it!! its google drive, as you said

2 hours ago, by Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: If you have an android phone (especially a more recent one), you could probably just use google calender - and use that to send reminders.

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: so, you want a online webapp, where you can download the calender...

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek yes!!

Journeyman Geek

let me fix up your question (feel free to rollback if its incorrect) and answer it.

Utkarsh

09:24

@JourneymanGeek no..you gave the answer, so YOU must answer it

lol

Journeyman Geek

edited, take a look

no no

I mean, see if my edits to your question match what you want

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek thanks :D

Journeyman Geek

I want to do one more edit. Pay attention! This would probably result in your questions not being closed

Utkarsh

okay

Journeyman Geek

do you not want reminders, or is it just not a core requirement?

Utkarsh

09:28

yes

how much ram required? and is it free? softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/969/…

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: wouldn't be an issue with a webapp

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek no, i was just asking

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: its a webapp. Wouldn't be an issue ;p

Utkarsh

ok

@JourneymanGeek sainsrow game is not for 14 year olds?

nonsense! i cant enter the site as i am 14???? i cant play saints row and sleeping dogs!!! then what should i play???

Journeyman Geek

Cricket.

Utkarsh

09:33

O.o

okay, i am going to play out

thanks for reminding me! you know? i have bought a new bat? and a new season ball. okay leave it and bye!

good afternoon!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Izzy

12:39

@StackExchange "And if it is, should our mods delete some of them?" Ooops...

Journeyman Geek

@Izzy: or answer some of them ;p

Izzy

@JourneymanGeek I take that as a volunteer-ship (you're one of our mods now ;)

Journeyman Geek

13:20

Already trawling through them

Journeyman Geek

13:59

hm, thats not good. softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/1551/… I fixed this up, presumably but its getting reclosed

Utkarsh

14:20

had avery bad experience at software recs

Fractaliste

@Utkarsh Your question is very broad, you should explain why a basic calendar software doesn't cover your needs

Nick Wilde

15:11

@Utkarsh Just built into other software and ignoring offline webapps I have at least 3 different calendaring applications that would do what you listed.

Utkarsh

@NickWilde thenw hy are you not answering??

Nick Wilde

@Utkarsh because that implies that it is way to broad - I'll could say every mail program on my computer but that sounds lame Also I don't really like any of them because they don't do exactly what I want them to (although they match your minimal listed reqs). I don't want to recommend something I don't use

Fractaliste

@Utkarsh Software recommendation scope is about precise recommendations...

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Nick Wilde

@JourneymanGeek congratulations and thanks for stepping up to the plate :D

Undo

@NickWilde he handled all the flags while I was asleep, too :D

Nick Wilde

15:20

@Fractaliste Can I copy that to my signature/profile - that is just such a perfect minimum words maximum meaning mission statement

Utkarsh

@Fractaliste yes you are right

Braiam

@Utkarsh please read meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/336/…

Utkarsh

-3

Q: Time scheduling software for my exams

Exams are coming, I need to make a time table in which I can see what subject to revise and when. Needs to be a web application which I can use offline - much like google drive I need to be able to use this in windows I need to be able to view my schedule at any time - not just be reminded of ...

windows web-apps calendar

jouneymangeek, not told me about backup

Fractaliste

@NickWilde Of course, but it's not really my sentence, I read it many time on meta

Nick Wilde

oh I haven't seen that specific sentence - lots of variations but usually with half a dozen more words

Utkarsh

15:33

@Braiam okay :0

Undo

15:44

Is this VLQ?

I suppose it's multiple recs in one answer

Utkarsh

both of them are incorrect

Fractaliste

@Undo He says that all these soft have downside, but he doesn't explain them while it that which interest us. It's not VLQ but to be improved

Utkarsh

and @JourneymanGeek ninite is awesome!! and safe too! i was amazed, that it can install apps automatically!!! you are my Hero!!

Braiam

@Undo for my POV seems more like "I used this and that, but I have no idea if you will like them", also it doesn't list what characteristics fits OP needs

and fails at least two

(but I'm OP, so, I may be biased)

Undo

another similar one here

Braiam

15:56

@Undo I blame OP

Undo

yeah

Another less-than-optimal answer right below it - I think I might nuke that one.

Izzy

@Undo Opened my can, left out a message :)

Undo

;)

I need to get that script set up on my machine :P

Izzy

Btw, this one is even worse. Going to flag it NAA.

Urgs. No NAA?

Undo

^ That's going to be hard :P

When you don't refresh the page after someone deletes something and you try to flag it, it only gives you custom for a reason

Izzy

16:00

Ugh... Where do I click now to flag it? #D

@Undo Ah. So our paths crossed :)

Undo

yup :D

Braiam

@Undo heh, you will see that you suddenly have emails asking why you deleted their answer/question instead of reading all the comments...

Izzy

@Undo you should do that!

Undo

@Braiam uh-oh, what did I do now?

Izzy

@Braiam LOL

Undo

16:02

hides

Utkarsh

.

Undo

I've got to go now, be back in ~3 hours. Cya folks!

Utkarsh

@Undo bye

Stack Exchange

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Q: How can I answer my own recommendation?

As all SE sites, Software Recommendations encourage people to share knowledge in the way of selfanswering questions, which is nice and all, but... how do I objectively answer my own question? I mean, I'm the one that puts the constrains for the recommendations, how can I answer myself without bei...

discussion answer-quality

Izzy

16:32

OK, and since @Undo deleted the "bad one", I've added an answer as it should look like (oh, hopefully :)

Stack Exchange

17:54

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Q: Two meanings of [task-management]

People use task-managment in two very different ways: first very similar to project-management, second for questions related to OS-level task management. I think the first case should be forbidden (with a comment in tag description), only project-management used for such questions. BTW there is...

discussion feature-request tags

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