ChrisF: one of the fondamental principle of sport is to arrive to the finish line. However if you are agressed during the match, I understand you stop running
@ChrisF The same can be achieved by not upvoting them, but then you're not cancelling out someone else's upvote. I'm not sure if there's really a good case for the downvotes, but I'm not familiar with the details of this voting system.
I believe that showing the post score for nomination posts during primaries is a bad idea.
When I loaded the primaries page during the election, the first thing I saw was a post voted -1. This immediately colored my impression of the post. Reading his post didn't indeed make me wish he was a mod...
I'll try to participate in meta.so posts that talk about election, I want to see how it goes before to see if there is something to improve or not. Maybe it's fine like it is.
I can see an argument for having the votes public - it allows for a consensus on who the top 10 candidates are to be achieved. In the same way that a consensus on what's a good answer is achieved.
I think that everyone should see the split totals.
Does anyone have enough rep to vote but less than 1K on SO?
@Anna: yes Rook's bad example. He is paying for his bad introduction, but I'm not sure every candidate did think that so much would have negative votes!
Actually a split vote is a bad thing too - you don't want your moderators being controversial - it could end up being the cause of problems rather than the solution.
I dislike that candidates can be downvoted. Why not follow the model of the well-known, well-understood and proven general election. I vote for the candidate that I want and that's that. The idea of being able to downvote the other candidates is absurd and divisive.
@AdamCrossland That's the case (well you have 3 votes - 1st, 2nd & 3rd preferences) in the final election stage. This stage is the primary phase where the top 10 who go through to the final stage are decided.
Add your comment and/or answer to the meta question I linked to above. If enough people make the case for not having it then things might change. The team do respond to feedback.
Hahaha. I sent a message via IM to Aardvark about the email address I used to sign up. They sent a message, to the address I used to sign up, telling me they couldn't give me that information. Win!
I observed the same effect with questions here. If the first vote on an answer is a downvote, the change to get another downvote is increased. Also ridiculously up voted answers are up voted by sheeps.
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I will post something on meta about the current users page too that should be improved because of the sheep effect behavior.
An early initial downvote on an answer or question can often lead to people mass upvoting it out of sympathy - negating the reason to cast down votes in the first place
I would support making downvotes more rep costly (-5) for the receiver and the issuer (-2)
I have this desire to use hadoop for something. But none of the "examples" (if you call them that) are any good. I'm trying to determine a real-world use for hadoop
It's more likely to survive on Programmers'. I won't close it as it could provoke some interesting answers. However, other users and mods might not agree.
@gms8994 @ChrisF How about something like "What problems is Hadoop suited for? What are the advantages of using it for those problems over other solutions?"
@JoshK apparently, you go to your profile page, click on the messages button, and then type their name. But it doesn't specifically say "direct message"
I've been trying to get up-to-speed on WPF for years, but there are so many new things to learn. I keep learning things that aren't as professionally lucrative.
I guess that I'd say it depends on why you are choosing the technology. Is it for a personal project that is open-ended and won't cause a disaster if it fails? Go with the cool new thing. OTOH, if it is something for work and it has to work...go with what you know. Everything else being equal.
For instance I'm very glad I chose silverlight over js/html even tho I had to get upto speed in a week and my code is so terrible I want to rewrite it. I'm just hapy because it would have been an absolute nightmare to do it in js!!
I swore I would NOT look at WPF (I get tempted quick) but now after trying to look up Model-View-Controller implementations in win forms and then UI frameworkks..
seems like its a little hard to write good maintainable/testable code in win forms. I experimented trying my own silly little MVC implementation... didn;t work at all! lol
but I'm not also sure whether I'm evaluating this correctly, am I worrying or over thinking too much... the project, is for a VERY big company and is very time bound... but compared to most Line of Business apps, its not all that complex.
A former client of mine proudly proclaimed how they'd implemented MVC in their WinForms application. When I actually opened it in VS and started looking around, it was all that I could do to suppress the urge to scream.
i was so proud of the idea in my head, but when I wrote the code... eye-eye-eye!!
I'm just started looking at MVVM, seems nice, but I wonder whether I should care about seperation of concerns at all so much, if the project grew like I imagined, I could quote a price and even re-write the UI code (since the code-base itself won't be all that big!)
(lol! its so annoying to work alone! =( =( )
@AdamCrossland do you think i would be trouble if I just used WPF with a very simple MVVM approach.. with most of the thing looking like it was win forms anyway..
would that make it easier to upgrade it later... or should I just stick to WinForms.. and worry about fancy updates later?
Hard to come up with a meaningful answer to a question like that, especially when it is client work. I would guess that you could get it done with WPF & MVVM and not incur too much risk. it's really not very difficult technology.
There's always a chance that everything will turn into a mess. That is where you come in. By being a smart and awesome consultant, you keep everything from turning into a mess.
I don't think that it makes sense that you have to unlearn WinForms, but you'd certainly want to approach learning WPF by putting aside the WinForms mentatily. They are completely different models.
well lets hope I make the right decision.. I always over-think everything and I'm usually deathly paranoid about getting it right.
(mostly because I'm self taught with no degree)
but what does that boil down to... Ive read bits about WPF... seems like defining UI is different and then comes the data binding? One thing I haven't got my head around is why isn't is simple to nest/inherit from controls?
like SuperButton : MyBaseButton but now the designer for SuperButton doesn't load up right? Seems like they didn't intend for you to inherit from controls!?
I've noticed this morning that once I hit 190, I stopped receiving rep.
I was on 9 votes (+9/-0) in this question: What's the name for a bug that suddenly breaks things but has always been present?
Since then the answer has went to (+12/-1) yet my rep has not changed.
I don't care about the re...
I've noticed this morning that once I hit 190, I stopped receiving rep.
I was on 9 votes (+9/-0) in this question: What's the name for a bug that suddenly breaks things but has always been present?
Since then the answer has went to (+12/-1) yet my rep has not changed.
I don't care about the re...
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