@whuber: Specifying deadlines ("I need this by tomorrow night!") is pretty off putting for me but this probably relates closely to #8. For number #4: Big chunks of code (that I am expected to read) are pretty standard for a close. If it asks for debugging their code I usually contemplate down-voting too.
I've found a statistically significant relationship between my age and the calendar year (p < 0.05). The relationship is robust to the choice of calendar.
@leo11 is that an entry for the list, or did you mean to ask something? Note that if it's a question that's suitable for the main site you are probably going to do better if you post it.
If it's a question that's not quite suitable as a question for the main site don't wait on someone being here when you are, just say what you want to say.
@gung I noticed that you have been using "GLiM" to refer to generalized linear models in some of your answers. I have never seen this abbreviation and am used only to GLM (without "i"). Is your abbreviation standard? I got confused by it and spent some trying to understand what's the difference between GLM and GLiM but it seems there is none (?)
@amoeba I've seen it quite a number of times ("It's an older code but it checks out"). I tend to avoid it because of the package GLIM (which was used to fit generalized linear models way back in the day) -- even though it was called that because of ... well, GLiMs.
@amoeba, it isn't standard, AFAIK. The problem is that "GLM" is used to stand for General Linear Model, and Generalized Linear Model. So I sometimes use "GLiM" to be more distinct. Not being perfectly consistent no doubt makes this even more confusing for you.
@gung Hmm, okay, so it does helps to disambiguate if one knows what stands for what, but the abbreviations themselves do not contain any disambiguative information.
@GeneralAbrial Heh, I'm sure it would have fit in a lot of different SEs! It doesn't surprise me it's on Economics tho. Economics degrees often spend quite a lot of time on Kuhn Tucker.
(There's a lot of space devoted to it in e.g. Dixit's Optimization in Economic Theory and in Sydsaeter, Hammond, Seierstad and Strom Further Mathematics for Economic Analysis)
In quite a few of the other books on my shelf too, come to think of it