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user55340

12:55 AM

Write a software that prints on stdout the number of answers and the number of comments(visible and collapsed of question and answers) of this question/page. Your script must run with this page closed when it starts. Expected example output: A12C40 Where A stands for Answers and C for Commen...

code-golf

user55340

This is a rather amusing code golf one... because people are injecting poorly formatted data into their own comments and answers to mess up other people.

user55340

123456 more pickles. rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" rcell" — Blender 16 hours ago

user55340

damn you, ok will fix it ._. — Fez Vrasta 16 hours ago

Stack Exchange

5:30 PM

Ars Technica » Stack Exchange: How do you face a programming task that you’ve never done before?

posted on February 08, 2014 by Stack Exchange

If you're starting at a loss, evaluate your options.

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gnat

8:17 PM

just a thought about significantly smaller number of people are clicking through... maybe it's time to to decide whether number on clicks is so much more important than the kind of promoted content. After all, if SE team is so much into the racket of clicks, most natural direction would be to shift to porn/sex and dump the idea of attracting experts in sites topics; it's hardly a coincidence that recent sticky top-hot question had sex in the title, otherwise being pretty mediocre — gnat 32 mins ago

Q: What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?

There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list. Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site: 'But we want to encourage people to post, that's the whole point of the HQ list!' I hear you cry. I disagree. We want to encourage people to th...

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@MichaelT I think you might enjoy this...

A: Do metaphors make the best answers?

One day a young dragon came to the monastery of Master Ji-Li and said: “I am greatly puzzled, for I see that some prefer metaphoric answers, yet surely clear, easy-to-understand answers are better. Master, tell me: do metaphors make the best answers”? The Master kept silent, but pointed to the tr...