Today, the behavior of duplicate close votes was changed so that a question can only be a duplicate close vote target if it has an upvoted or accepted answer. I think that this change is not a good one and that it should be reversed, for the following reasons:
The purpose of being able to close...
@Obsessive: Hey, so if you ever get to the point where you start offering a bounty on active directory and stuff, ask me first. i will have lots of notes in about 5 days.
Today, the behavior of duplicate close votes was changed so that a question can only be a duplicate close vote target if it has an upvoted or accepted answer. I think that this change is not a good one and that it should be reversed, for the following reasons:
The purpose of being able to close...
As you may have noticed, Jarrod's been hacking away at some design changes to the "close as duplicate" UI. These are the first fruits of some discussions we've been having internally regarding the "close" UI as a whole, with the goal being a smoother, easier-to-understand experience for all invol...
This can not be more of a mistake than a solution. And I mean WHAT A MISTAKE!. If this feature is to exist at least it should be overwritten by high reputation users in a way that, a high rep user can mark as duplicate if it has or does not have an accepted answer
Sorry about this - the test was inadvertently negated, so it only let you close questions as duplicates of questions with no answers.
PSA: don't write production code when you're sick. It might catch something from you!
Exec. sum. :
I voted to leave open a question, then voted to close it. This worked, but only some of the information displayed reflected my actions.
The details:
I voted to leave open a question. This was accidental -- in fact, I agreed with those who wanted to close it as off-topic becaus...
I am loving the new Winter Bash, but I have too many hats! I can't decide which one to wear!
Eeeek! What do I do? How do I choose which hat to wear!?
I should mention to downvoters that Josh's Socks is my sockpuppet :-)
Scene: A Week Ago:
"I wonder how to frob a fribbet?"
Searches Stack Overflow.
Hits question 1, closed as duplicate of question 2.
Navigates to question 2. No answers! Closed as duplicate of question 3!
"What the heck? What kind of mind games are these jokers playing?"
Rinse and repeat.
"Grumble ...
@GeorgeEdison Pure HTML within a class is perfectly fine syntax-wise, but more often than not screws with visual structure of the code.
echo <<<END is a good compromise within classes, imho. Keeps the class intact while keeping echo calls low. But that's definitely personal preference. :)
@Seth Going through python a bit right now to free my mind ... And after a nice encounter about this on twitter recently, as well as the horrible mess that the JavaScript courses are ... It's just a little too often.
@AbrahamVanHelpsing Oh, the site is awesome. And pretty much all of the tracks are awesome. Except for the Weinstein courses, which seem to regularly have a code-breaking error somewhere.
fuck you, you are a piece of shit nigger, so stop fucking posting bull shit like this...have a piece of shit day, fuck off, sincerely yours: Cum Shot to the face.
@AbrahamVanHelpsing Oh, none right at this moment ... I just realized I've started sighing whenever I read the name, which usually isn't a good sign. But an example would be this one, which requires a specific syntax but gives no hints whatsoever.
Then there's this one which lacks hints again, and again: requires a specific syntax. (Well, apparently. Someone on twitter had massive problems with the second one on that)
And I also had one where the suggested condition needed to be flipped for it to work.
Just can't find it right now, thanks to there being no way of seeing what ratings I gave the courses ...
@Seth Yep. And with one of the recent builds they also started hiding the non-track list behind the track list. You now need to navigate through the track list, afaict.
hahaha, I received this comment on a answer I gave. Thanking and insulting me at the same time:
"Thank you! I downloaded compizconfig. My problem was document text that inexplicably went to light gray scale against white background and became unreadable. I found contrast settings in myunity but that changed desktop features as well. Incidentally I realize you Linux geeks are mostly unpaid volunteers and I don't want to appear as an ingrate. I do understand the cobbled nature of open-source, and the difficulty index is probably what keeps hackers at bay."
I've been a good Ubuntu user since 11.4 on my Dell laptop, and everytime installed with USB stick but this time, I can't install Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. I had this issue again but then the networking solution didn't work since 12.10, so everytime it happened I made an upgrade on my existing in...
@AmithKK Hahaha. Well, I was having a problem beforehand and Gertvdjk (I can't spell it XD) helped me, but I was too lazy and distracted. So, I got around to it today and I think I have a massive kernel problem.
:7939629 Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
virtualbox-dkms
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 67 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,899 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 157554 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-dkms ...
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 4.1.18
completely from the DKMS tree.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-.5.0-21-generic
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-.5.0-21-generic'
@EliahKagan: I didn't edit anything.. See the image (this is what it looked like when I saved the edit earlier)
Wait for sometime - reapplying the edit should solve the issue... Similar problem happened a couple of days earlier with another post - reapplying the edit after an hour or so solved the issue
@Aditya The bug is that the editor's preview looks different from the actual post. It will look good as you are editing it. The actual post will still be wrong.
Update:
This script was previously called "Insert APT Link" but has now been renamed. As such, you need to uninstall any previous versions before installing the new one.
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
This UserScript adds some buttons to the editing toolbar that allow the follo...
Use cat with output redirection. Syntax: cat file [file] [[file] ...] > joined-file.
Demo:
$ echo "some text in a file" > file1
$ echo "another file with some text" > file2
$ cat file1 file2 > mergedfiles
$ cat mergedfiles
some text in a file
another file with some text
In case yo...
I don't get it. Are people rolling back edits of mine? I keep losing rep points the last couple of days 2 at a time. I wish I knew what post this was on.
hmm. That is good to know. I thought that someone was disagreeing with an comment, edit, or wiki-tag change I made.
It still would be nice to get notified.
About a week ago, I lost 20 rep due to answers being merged/ folded in to a duplicate rep and thought that I had royally screwed up some answer at first. :-/
Enterprise was a netbook, Enterprise-A was a reinstall of the netbook, Enterprise-B was some VM I ran somewhere, and the C was built but vanished in a hard drive failure before it saw action.
I am a newbie with ubuntu, or any Linux flavor for that matter. I am trying to install a language called rebol3 from this page, and do not know what to do with it next.
I tried double clicking and it did not work, saying additional packages were needed. When I clicked for these additional packages, a gui came up saying these packages were unsafe, or unsecure, something like it.
I then installed gdebi using apt-get, and tried opening the file with gdebi, and it said that either it could not open it, or there was a problem with the file's permissions.
So in summary, how do I go about changing the permissions for the file, or should I try something else?
... I am using Ubuntu 12.04 via wubi on windows 7.
Inspired by the question, "Markdown syntax for <kbd>foo</kbd>", this script adds both a button and a keyboard shortcut to each post's <textarea> (when editing posts).
Press the button or press AltK on the keyboard and <kbd></kbd> will be inserted at the cursor.
If t...
Exec. sum. :
I voted to leave open a question, then voted to close it. This worked, but only some of the information displayed reflected my actions.
The details:
I voted to leave open a question. This was accidental -- in fact, I agreed with those who wanted to close it as off-topic becaus...
I am loving the new Winter Bash, but I have too many hats! I can't decide which one to wear!
Eeeek! What do I do? How do I choose which hat to wear!?
I should mention to downvoters that Josh's Socks is my sockpuppet :-)
fuck you, you are a piece of shit nigger, so stop fucking posting bull shit like this...have a piece of shit day, fuck off, sincerely yours: Cum Shot to the face.
Update:
This script was previously called "Insert APT Link" but has now been renamed. As such, you need to uninstall any previous versions before installing the new one.
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
This UserScript adds some buttons to the editing toolbar that allow the follo...
Use cat with output redirection. Syntax: cat file [file] [[file] ...] > joined-file.
Demo:
$ echo "some text in a file" > file1
$ echo "another file with some text" > file2
$ cat file1 file2 > mergedfiles
$ cat mergedfiles
some text in a file
another file with some text
In case yo...
Inspired by the question, "Markdown syntax for <kbd>foo</kbd>", this script adds both a button and a keyboard shortcut to each post's <textarea> (when editing posts).
Press the button or press AltK on the keyboard and <kbd></kbd> will be inserted at the cursor.
If t...
