Software Recommendations

Undo

00:34

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Q: Programming environment to teach kids about programming

I'm looking for an application that would assist in teaching basic programming concepts to 4th graders (9-10 years old). Either commercial or open source would be be acceptable, and ideally it would be great if the solution ran on Linux (Ubuntu or Fedora).

^ Too broad?

Journeyman Geek

00:46

IMO, not really, but I know the answer:)

Gilles

@JourneymanGeek Logo?

Seth

LOL.

I used Small Basic. It was good.

Not too easy, not too complex.

@JourneymanGeek What's your answer?

Journeyman Geek

01:24

Scratch

Braiam

02:06

@Seth Y U KEEP QUIET ABOUT THE TAVERN?

hichris123

@Braiam Wait, what now?

Braiam

@hichris123 now? nothing...

hichris123

@Braiam so confused

Seth

02:20

@Braiam yawns. Undo was there.

hichris123

Oh, that thingy.

Gotcha now.

Ovi Tisler

03:16

@Undo, thanks for the explanation on my answer. So, for my particular answer, is the biggest problem that there's not enough of a description of the software I'm recommending? It seems like I answered the question and addressed all the points he was wondering about. Am I supposed to give an in-depth review of the software for an acceptable answer?

Stack Exchange

03:30

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Q: What programming language tag to use if you don't really care

The library tag wiki suggest that this tag should always be paired with a language tag. But what if you don't care, like in this question where i would be happy with any of 5 languages? I can't put them all as tags as questions can only have at most 5 tags

support tags

Undo

04:22

@OviTisler not so much an in-depth review as a reason why you're recommending the software. Sort of like a review, but not exactly. You should have had some prior experience with it, so a section on what you liked and didn't like about it would be fantastic.

Stack Exchange

06:20

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Q: Elder friendly software

congrats on the site and good luck. I am wondering if "Elder Friendly" (for the lack of a better name) is an appropriate tag for this site? Generally, tagging questions (at the tag, and not just description level) level as needing to be simple enough for older people to use. So in short: How w...

discussion tags

Izzy

07:08

@JourneymanGeek oops – didn't notice that!

Stack Exchange

08:03

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Q: Should we request migrate on low quality questions, with low quality answers, (from other sites)

Occationally other SE sites in the past have had things slip through. Like this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19929267/portable-windows-mosh/20952213#20952213 We have set the bar for quality quiet high, and I wouldn't be very happy seeing its answers on this site. (even my answer to ...

discussion migration

Caleb

09:21

@Izzy re your auto-comment tweaks -- if you don't want to use github I'll do the ~~heavy~~ light lifting for you but I figured it would be better if you got the credit.

Stack Exchange

09:40

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Q: Are questions on webmail recommandations acceptable?

See title? Can I ask a question about recommendations for, say, Gmail alternatives? Can I ask for recommended websites? seems to deal with a similar issue, but it doesn't specifically discuss webmail.

discussion websites

Izzy

10:24

Quick question on Help Desk Software?: I pointed the OP to consider my answer to Free incident management tool for more than 50 users, and it indeed seems to come at least close to what he's after. Should I suggest him marking his question a duplicate in case the other question's answer turns out being a 100% match?

@Caleb Thanks! Currently, benjol takes a look at it and probably/hopefully merges it "to main", with the credits included. Not sure whether it's worth creating another fork, as I consider my part "mostly done" :)

Caleb

@Izzy I don't think those are quite dups, there are some non-overlapping parts and some answers wouldn't work for both.

@Izzy That's exactly why creating a gist fork is a GOOD idea. That's a perfect uses case scenario.

Izzy

@Caleb That's what made me hesitating. OK, I will not leave a comment now, let's see how it develops.

Madara Uchiha

@Caleb you are on too many rooms

Izzy

@Caleb I tried to get previous script versions from benjol's Gist before (as I initially started my work on v1.2.8), but could not figure out how... Anyway: There's a bunch of "redundant" stuff in which doesn't need to be merged (I e.g. edited the defaultComments to not lose my modifications, which had better been done via import/export). So I'd need to cleanup. Or not, as that also includes "new syntax extensions" (Site:). Grrr...

@Caleb Yuck and that requires me to create an account there. Another account. Hate that... Checking...

Gaaa. My login is already taken...

Izzy

10:57

@Caleb Done: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE (Izzy's fork)

Letz cleanup commentz :)

@Caleb you might wish to leave this comment in, however. Your easy instructions convinced me, and might convice others as well :)

kalina

11:15

@Izzy I've run out of flags for today already

in fact, I ran out at 1am

Izzy

@kalina I just have a few left (stopped counting)

kalina

I'm still the only deputy :(

Izzy

But my "letz cleanup commentz" was rather directed at Caleb – not flagging, but simply removing "our discussions", which meanwhile have been integrated into the corresponing answers :)

@kalina I'm closing up to 2k, then I can handle flags :)

kalina

@Izzy haha

there's nothing here I can answer really

Izzy

131 rep missing for that...

@Caleb your LDAP question, on a quick look, I thought to be duplicates :) I'm about pulling my AutoReviewTrigger on the first (How should I manage posix users in an LDAP directory without feeling the need to kick a cat?):

> Though your description holds several criteria required to recommend matching software, it suffers some formatting issues to make them clearly stand out. Please take a look at What is required for a question to contain "enough information"? Then please [edit] your question and see if you can incorporate some of these improvements. This will significantly improve your chances of good answers!

:)

Miss the bullet list :)

(And yes, I see how the two are no dupes: the first is for the admin, the second for the users. Though the same package might be able to deal with both.)

Caleb

11:30

@Izzy They are related issues but the solutions are bound to be different!

@Izzy Theoretically yes, but from what I've seen of the space here the best packages are almost certainly different. I would have made one question with requirements for both if I thought there was a prayer in the world of having a good solution that worked for both.

@Izzy I hate the bullet lists on most questions here. People just want us to make/review a feature matrix for them. I'm more interested in user-stories that have to be read and understood in order to make answers that are actually solution recommendations to a problem and not just a feature checklist.

@Izzy Thank you!

Looks like benjol is a little rusty on git too :(

Izzy

11:45

@Caleb I remember we somehow insisted on bullet lists. But that might be a mis-interpretation from my end:

> Feature requirements should be listed in order of importance
> Every question should contain a list of features...

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek recommend me or suggest me any game

kalina

@Utkarsh "for Windows 7"

strange requirement

@Utkarsh State of Decay

Utkarsh

okay now

@kalina 18+ game?

I cant play adult games. I'm just 13

kalina

solitaire

Utkarsh

but according to @JourneymanGeek , i can play adult games age he said to me

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, Dec 8 '13 at 9:11, by Journeyman Geek

Age dosen't matter

@kalina -_-

kalina

11:52

@Utkarsh you said "any game"

so far I have recommended you two and they've been outside of your requirements

request for clarity

Utkarsh

okay okay, games that i like are subway surfers, temple run, fruit ninja

@kalina clarity given

kalina

...

Utkarsh

what happened?

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: cricket!

Presumably with glow in the dark balls.

(honestly, I just pick up whatever's on sale, if it seems interesting)

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek :-) Wah! I totally forgot!

kalina

12:00

speaking of whatever is on sale

saints row 4 is on sale

Utkarsh

@kalina hurry!

Journeyman Geek

I already have it, and the season pack

the addons seem SLIGHTLY tempting

kalina

I purchased it as a result of it being recommended on here

Utkarsh

I'm waiting to get 18 year old

:P

@kalina then?

@JourneymanGeek for how much $?

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: can't remember

probably at least a quarter off retail though

Utkarsh

12:02

@JourneymanGeek I dont think that you have ever been to india

have you?

Journeyman Geek

I have, actually

Utkarsh

<---------never bought a computer game in WHOLE LIFE. because of DAD

Izzy

<------never bought a computer game in WHOLE LIFE. because of MAD

Utkarsh

lol

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: builds charecter.

Izzy

12:04

Guess my "whole life" is a little longer. At least by factor 3 :)

Journeyman Geek

I think I never really had a good gaming system till I was 20

Utkarsh

@Izzy you know, in india, we have a company called apollo munich

@JourneymanGeek after that?

Journeyman Geek

and this is the first system where I didn't have to make major compromises cause I didn't have the cash.

Izzy

Uh? We also have "Apollo Munich". They sell glasses (for the eyes)

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: Built a decent system, ran it for 7 years, built a great gaming system ;p

Utkarsh

12:06

@JourneymanGeek Awesome!

Journeyman Geek

And I tend to get games on humble sales

good way to get good games, a lot of them are age appropriate, and they're reasonably prices.

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek you know? i issue that portia had was, that

Izzy

Does anybody understand those requirements: Presentation software showing map of slides?

Utkarsh

her pc's cooling fan was not working properly

you were right! :P it was a overheating issue!

@JourneymanGeek for example?

Journeyman Geek

How would you know what problems portia had? ;p

humblebundle.com is the current sale

Utkarsh

12:08

@JourneymanGeek because I was that ****** (you know what i want to say)

Journeyman Geek

The optimal time to get HIBs is near the middle or end IMO, but.. 5 dollars? For a bunch of half decent games?

Utkarsh

utkarsh is an ASSHOLE

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chrome ubuntu

did i do something wrong with him?

Journeyman Geek

lol

kalina

@Utkarsh yes you did

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek for 15 dollars, i bought a new kingston 1 gb ram! now my ram is 1.5 gb

@kalina what?

kalina

12:11

@Utkarsh you fed the troll

Utkarsh

@kalina no, i didn't fed

kalina

you're feeding him right now by giving him attention

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek have you ever played GTA Sanandreas?

kalina

did you never see Gremlins?

Journeyman Geek

nope

Izzy

12:13

@JourneymanGeek, Mr. Mod :) Could you please take a look at Presentation software showing map of slides? and say whether it's just me not getting what the OP is after?

I was about throwing the "LQ" auto-answer, but am not 100% sure :)

Journeyman Geek

@Izzy: I'm kind of getting it, but more details would be nice

Izzy

OK, so I pull that gun :)

Thanks!

Utkarsh

@kalina okay, comments removed! :-)

Journeyman Geek

(I'm still a bit gunshy. Still trying to understand how best to use my powers ;p)

Izzy

Booom! :)

Journeyman Geek

12:16

OOH

kalina

@JourneymanGeek give me all the bounties, approve everything I do, etc etc

Journeyman Geek

;p

Caleb

10 messages deleted

6 messages deleted

Sathya

@Caleb thanks for that.

kalina

12:36

Drama occurred and it didn't involve me?

Journeyman Geek

Nope, no drama. ONLY ZUUUUL

kalina

No there was definitely drama

I see dead messages

they're everywhere

Braiam

13:14

oh drama...

what we would do without you?

Braiam

14:24

Right now your question could be read as "what's an alternative for X?" which is strongly discouraged here. Instead tell us what are the characteristics you are looking for instead in a easy to parse format (preferably bullet points) so anyone that doesn't know Project could answer. — Braiam 14 secs ago

I'm wrong?

btw, we may need an off topic reason for alternatives

Stack Exchange

15:29

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Q: Why was i suspended from chat?

My account was suspended from chat and I want to know why and which mod did it. They not even sent me any message! Please Help

discussion

Undo

16:50

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Q: Online / electronic Affinity map software

So, I've created a massive, two-axis affinity grid capturing a LOT of information. Before the sticky notes start falling off the wall, I'm trying to find a decent program to electronically replicate this for easy editing. My last resort is a spreadsheet, but I've got a massive love hate relatio...

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^ Migration from UX. What's everyone think?

Caleb

@Undo On topic. Needs more detail but that seems to be par for the course. It's not total junk.

Nice if they would ask in here first, but....

Undo

Yeah, would be nice.

But I had the same feeling about it.

Izzy

@Undo Needs a tag.

Undo

hmmm

[web-apps] would be one

Izzy

Don't know. Too many foreign words for me: Windows, axis, MS StickySorter...

Caleb

17:01

@Undo It's not a webapp question per say. Its web or desktop.

Undo

oh, true

Izzy

@Undo Maybe not, as that's not a must.

Undo

Hmmmmm

I dunno

Izzy

Ugs... Caleb beat me to it :)

Undo

[sticky-notes]? :P

Caleb

17:02

@Undo see my edit suggestion

Izzy

Mapping, but not maps. Spreadsheet, but not necessarily.

@Caleb Makes sense: "A lot of information" => "Knowledge-base" :)

Undo

No idea.

@Caleb I'm not going to approve/reject it, I'll let the rest of the community decide.

... and they decided.

:D

Izzy

@Undo I did. A Wiki is a knowledge-base, too. And the "linking" stuff makes such a possible candidate.

Hm, another 101 rep, and I can "handle flags" :)

Undo

YAY!!!

Izzy

Mod tools :)

Fractaliste

17:05

@Undo I thought that migration here weren't possible until the site leave Beta

Nick Wilde

@Izzy cool :)

Izzy

@Fractaliste Possible yes, usual not necessarily :)

@Fractaliste Mods can migrate everywhere. Ask @Undo for "fancy tools" with a lot of Wooosh #D

@NickWilde Yeah! Looking forward to it. Tomorrow, maybe. This week, for sure :)

Nick Wilde

IMO that question is not clear what it is wanting - knowledge base is something close I think

Fractaliste

Ok I reformulate, I thought that migration weren't recommended

Izzy

@Fractaliste True that. But exceptions permitted.

Can anyone tell me what a "two-axis affinity grid" should be? Like a chess-board? Or "Get Four"?

Or a tool for Excelbitionists?

Braiam

17:09

@Izzy think in 2D

Izzy

@Braiam Yeah. 1D is unlikely, 3D too #D

Ah, maybe another word for "spreadsheet"?

Hm, "Online / electronic Affinity map software" sounds like a dating portal, somehow...

Caleb

19:05

First undisclosed self promotion?

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A: Chrome extension like Tamper Data

HTTPS Everywhere is google chrome extension that tampers http connections forcedly to https connections.... Check this one too... http://techiegenie.blogspot.in/2014/02/useful-extensions-for-google-chrome.html

Undo

19:43

Ahahahaha

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Q: Detailed Google Map Like Software

I need to find a close by pullup bar just the right size for introducing myself to the gymnastic bar pullover. What software that could be offline or online would allow me to see details of parks or wherever like playgreounds similiar to google maps / google earth ( preferably in 3D ) to see if ...

maps

Caleb

@Undo Why are you linking HTTPS? Did you follow the dumb suggestion from that spam answer?

Undo

rofl, I typed https:// in to see what it would do. And forgot about it :P

Gilles

@Caleb HTTPS everywhere put SE in its whitelist last month or so

which was rather premature

Caleb

@Gilles rather

No wonder this keep coming up.

Undo

So we established that we don't need to worry about our 70% answered rate, right?

Gilles

19:47

it mostly works on main sites, but fails on meta (because certificates, Thomas explained it on sec.se) and with mathjax (because SE doesn't have an HTTPS CDN)

@Undo at this stage, no. If it keeps up, yes

Undo

good

because that stat scares me a little

Caleb

@Undo Not if you ask me.

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A: Is the proportion of unanswered questions a concern?

In some ways yes, it is a cause for concern. In other ways it's actually a healthy sign. The main issue is that the topical range of this site is huge — covering many disparate professions. Having a software expert on hand for every category of question is simply not going to happen until we are...

@Gilles Ya I understand the fail cases, I just didn't catch why so many people were hitting this problem.

Undo

I think we're getting a new question flood

Caleb

@Undo I think because of the topic (and the fact that some questions just aren't going to good have answers) we are always going to have some. With a broad enough range of expertise it should go down, but I don't expect this to ever rival some sites that hover at just below 100%

@Undo I've been alll out of votes since my morning coffee was gone.

Undo

Aww. That makes me sad

Gilles

19:54

@Undo have we been mentioned on HN or Reddit?

Undo

@Gilles I don't frequent either

Caleb

@Undo I lied, something must have gotten deleted 'cause I have a couple again.

Undo

Yay!

I went on a delete-binge a few hours ago, that was probably it

Thumped a bunch of answers

@Seth is now blue!

Seth

Not quite yet.

Undo

@Seth I have my finger on the chat profile refresh button for you ;)

Seth

20:02

lol. I don't have the diamon quite yet.

Undo

I am refreshing your profile page on AU too :D

Seth

Not gonna work until the CM team adds the diamond ;)

Why are we talking about this in the Software Recommendations room?

Undo

I dunno :P

Caleb

Does this Q make sense to anyone? I'm not sure if it's java or this guys English that is going over my head.

Seth

Who won on SO?

Caleb

20:08

I don't want to VtC if he just used industry terms I don't know, but it just doesn't add up to me.

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Q: UML to Java and Hibernate

I see Java to UML generator on Linux but I look for otherwise. I want to desing my UML diagrams in the program, and program generated Java classes and Hibernate Mapping. Features Essentially drawing a class diagram and the program should generate the classes in java language Support UML 1.x o...

windows linux software-development java

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Q: February 2014 Stack Overflow Community Moderator Election RESULTS

Stack Overflow's February 2014 moderator election has come to a close, sacrifices have been made at the altar of STV, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn...

discussion featured election

Seth

yep. Well one person I voted for got elected anyway.

Benjol

@Caleb Back briefly, before SWMBO catches me ;) I kept a parallel repository locally. The only way I can see of fixing things is for me to upload that to github, but that would be rather a waste of your effort. I guess I could accept your transfer, clone and then do a rebase -i, but would I then have sufficient rights to also put all the other branches straight?

Seth

lol @Caleb new meta question already.

Undo

@Seth Y U NO IN TL?!? D:<

I even superpinged you!

Seth

I am.

Undo

20:14

oh

Caleb

@Benjol Yes you would actually. You would be the owner of the whole pile of everything I did today and could certainly rebase master.

Benjol

@Caleb ok. I'll do that (though not all this evening)

Thanks again.

Caleb

@Benjol Can you at least accept the transfer right away so I can fork and keep hacking without everything breaking when the URL changes to your account?

Benjol

@Caleb, just tried, it says it's expired

weird

Might be because I reset my password (couldn't remember the old one...)

Caleb

@Benjol Let me abort and resubmit the request then.

@Benjol Just re-submitted.

@Undo There are 10 mods in this room as it is, who needs the TL?

Undo

20:20

Meh, true

Benjol

@Caleb. OK you're a free man :)

Undo

On April Fools day we should make all the users blue and all the mods black.

Caleb

@Benjol Very good sir.

Izzy

@Benjol @Caleb Good job! Thanks to both of you!

Caleb

@Benjol If you care you can now delete the alerque branch. I've forked the project and have that branch in my repo so there isn't much point in keeping it in yours. (or you can list me as a callaborator under the project settings and I'll clean up after myself)

Benjol

20:23

@Izzy @Caleb, I'll try and do some work on it tomorrow. Now I'll be able to stop using StackApps as an Issues board...

@Caleb, like that?

Caleb

@Benjol Yes it SE answers kind of suck at issue tracking!

@Benjol Yup, like that. Poof, gone.

Benjol

@Caleb, ok, gotta go. I've learnt me some new stuff today (including the fact that the SR site even existed!)...

danijelc

@izzy

Izzy

@Benjol Great! Thanks, and have a nice evening (or whatever time it is for you know :)

@danijelc yepp, that's me :)

danijelc

i post you a comment but thing is i really can recall if trimming was available

I mostly used it to batch rename everything as i wanted and sinc eim not on Windows can't rechek

but maybe pointing someone in right direction

Izzy

20:33

OK, so the same boat like me. Will remove my comment then, to avoid... whatever confusion :)

Done. @danijelc your turn :)

danijelc

@Izzy done... yes kinda see i know its possible to do it by renaming and setting no spaces... but probably someone will know better

@Caleb

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A: Why was i suspended from chat?

I suspended you from chat for the day. It is unnecessary for me to explain to you why I did so since you know full well what reasons there are. For the benefit of the rest of folk reading this meta, here is the brief situation: You were being disruptive to the conversations that were happening...

this was brilliant answer

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A: Software to trim every ID3 fields of my mp3

You should be able to do this with Mp3tag. Mp3tag has a replace with regular expression action that will allow you to remove spaces in any tag field you want. Your requirements: With some knowledge of regular expressions, you can trim spaces from the beginning and end of any ID3 field you wan...

as I told ya :)

Undo

20:49

@Caleb around?

Caleb

@Undo evet

er, yes

Undo

??? is not a question. What are you trying to accomplish? What sort of app(s) are you going to be developing? What are your developer systems? "deployable apks" is about as generic a criteria as you can get for an Android build tool. — Caleb 50 mins ago

^ The ??? was a placeholder for him to edit in more ;)

Not the best idea, I know

Check the edit history

Caleb

@danijelc That comes of not actually saying what came to mind to say ;-)

@Undo Oh. Um. Ok.

Can you edit my comment and delete just that bit then?

danijelc

@Caleb yap brilliant as i said

Undo

@Caleb yup, done

Caleb

20:54

@Undo Thanks, that was too sarcastic a remark anyway, but the rest might help him think about what to add.

Undo

;)

Caleb

Also, who is dropping a VtO on everything we close?

Even when the question is still '???'.

hichris123

@Caleb People do strange things...

Undo

I know, but I don't think I'm supposed to tell :P

Gilles

I have a guess, but I haven't looked yet

Caleb

20:58

@Undo I didn't know mods could see who pending VtO's are from. (and I have had two diamonds for years now).

Undo

@Caleb It's in the mod timeline

Gilles

we can check the review queues (which is 10k information for the list, and 3k for individual items if you can locate them, the only advantage mods have is a direct link from the post to the review item)

Caleb

@Undo So it is.

Gilles

@Undo OH

Caleb

@Gilles I know about that but the review queue is not always where they come from.

But @Undo is right, it's right there in the new timeline.

I'm still used to the old timeline data.

Izzy

21:04

@danijelc Now I remember the name of what I have used: EasyTag. But that was on Linux, so it doesn't really fit (especially since I also don't remember whether it could auto-trim :)

danijelc

@Izzy yes Easytag is on linux and puddletag too trimming well see i mostly just rename all as i have some kind of my own pattern and never had issues with empty spaces

Izzy

@danijelc I mostly have my MP3s organized as Artist/Album/01-Song.mp3. And that's what Easytag picked up for ID3 tags :)

danijelc

similar to mine pattern , I add year too and going number-song-artist-album-year just easier for me

Izzy

22:20

We just had that question. Didn't it get closed?

Seth

@Izzy Ever seen this before? (I'm assuming as a good Android user you use Cyanogenmod :P)

Izzy

@Seth Sure I use CM. But nothing with Android versions higher than 4.1

too restrictive, too much Google bloat.

Seth

You don't like Jelly Bean? That's sad because there have been a lot of improvments.. but I'm kinda partial to Gingerbread myself anyway :P

hichris123

I love Jelly Bean & KitKat.

Izzy

@Seth That's the live updater. No such thing before... um. CM10 = 4.2?

hichris123

22:22

@Seth Gingerbread? Stone ages...

Izzy

@Seth CM 7.2 = 2.3.6 on my Milestone², yeah!

@hichris123 I love Jellybeans from Haribo and Kitkat from Nestle :)

Caleb

@Seth That's not an android or Ubuntu thing, that's a nested third party repo error of some sort.

Izzy

ICS on my main device, and that's fine.

hichris123

@Izzy lol. Okay, Android Jelly Bean & KitKat.

Izzy

@Caleb Close to my guess, yes.

Seth

22:24

@Caleb I know it isn't about Ubuntu, I was just curious if there was somewhere I could point him.

If possible. (I am not thinking about migrating that, just fyi)

Izzy

A bit too specific for ASE. Though he could try. But think of SO: Not that way (dumping a log plus a "What now?" doesn't work)

hichris123

@Seth I like seeing a diamond next to your name now. :P Congrats!

Izzy

@Seth You would have surprised me by that :)

Seth

Good, I hope I don't sound like a migrate junk kind of person ;P

Izzy

What? 4 days over? And I told you: you must win, you had my (sticky) vote! Congrats, @Seth!

hichris123

22:26

I need a site on SE to post my I'm having problems downloading the Android source code question...

Seth

@Izzy Thanks, the election just ended today though ;)

Izzy

@Seth Definitely not! You always ask first.

And that makes you a nice guy: Even if you know you cannot migrate something, you try to pull in help for the asker.

Second time now we two met this way. And I see my vote went to the absolutely right person :)

@Caleb in your comments, you might wish to replace the trailing /185 with /$MYUSERID$ – though I don't mind getting badges if you don't do so :)

Seth

lol.

It just last week dawned on me why me userID was in every share link I got.

Izzy

Yeah. That's a feature I introduced to that AutoReview script: people giving helpful links should be rewarded for that. I'm feeling honored for those "extra rewards" Caleb grants me :)

@Caleb I've updated that in Meta accordingly already.

Caleb

22:47

@Izzy Re this:

softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/posts/1659/revisions

I'm going to argue that those need to be requirements not preferences or the question is too broad.

> has a GUI if possible

This guy wants a gui. It's possible so that should be the question. There are more command line utilities that you can shake a stick at that would fix this so that's a dumb question.

Izzy

@Caleb That part is fine IMHO. But from the context, you're right: he wants a GUI. And I'd even bet it should be for Windows. OK, shall I roll back my edit?

Caleb

Similar reasoning for the platform, there are just too many and it will turn into a "my favorite way to manage music" bog and completely loose sight of solving the guy's problem and moving on.

Izzy

@Caleb for the platform I agree to 100%. Just was thinking about a nice way to tell him that :)

WTF... I cannot rollback? Hm, that must be Caleb's fault #D

Caleb

@danijelc @benmiller See above chat messages^^^

@Izzy I didn't touch it!

Izzy

No, I just refreshed, you're right. I thought you might already have rolled-back. So what is it?

Can you rollback?

If not, I just create another version :)

Caleb

22:56

@Izzy I'm still below 1000 rep :(

Izzy

@Caleb rev 8 created.

Caleb

@Izzy I don't think you can roll back to suggested edits if they were improved as part of the review process. Could be wrong on that though.

Izzy

I just edited it one more time. No idea why it shows me a rollback link, and then just gives me a popup telling me "cannot rollback"...

@Caleb You should be able to rollback your own edits. If I remember correctly, I did that already before.

And it shouldn't give you a "rollback" link if you're not supposed to use it – thought that could be a bug ;)

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Q: Do I have to ask one question per OS?

I use different OS, namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Therefore, when I'm looking for an application, I'm interested in applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS (with generally a preference for Windows as I use it most of the time). Do I have to ask one question per OS, or can I say that I woul...

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A: Do I have to ask one question per OS?

It depends. If you give us a user story that paints a specific problem and give enough criteria to reduce the field to a reasonable number of possible answers that can be judged according to their suitability for your purpose, then you can certainly leave off the OS as a requirement and just li...

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Q: What shall we do with answer recommending the same application than a previous answer?

I saw that this answer (since deleted, screenshot below) is recommending the same application than a previous answer. Should I flag answers recommending the same product as another answer?

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