@LightnessRacesinOrbit I put my rep where my mouth is, if you didn't notice. Now, go and "balance" it, you seem to love questions with multiple answers
@AaronHall That's why answers are sorted by score by default. This is the first time I've heard anyone complain about being able to have more than one answer per question, of all things. If that's what gnat is complaining about. I still can't actually tell.
This question seems to have about 10 answers that are duplicates of the accepted answer or of another answer, most of which are one line of code answers that don't add anything new:
How to convert byte[] to string?
Of course most of them were answered at the same time, so that explains why it h...
Duplicate answers don't fit well with the stated Stack Exchange mission "to make the Internet better". Site visitors have to waste time and effort trying to figure which one is more (?) correct and what is the purpose of repeating same answer over and over again. This leads to frustration and dis...
the thing with professors is that they think they know it all, although this is not always the case
last year I encountered a guy with three PhDs and numerous published C++ books, who taught at a higher education establishment..... who could not tell the difference between precedence and evaluation order and was getting an SO question very wrong accordingly.
@RobertHarvey I think it's just a different culture. Their audience and topics allow them do things that wouldn't end up well at a typical programming site. Think of Code Golf, their audience and topics allow them operate differently than "classical" SE sites. Same at Math.SE
I asked a question there once. I made it clear that I wasn't a student; that I needed an answer, and not just a hint. Needless to say, my suggestion wasn't favorably received.
@Martinn absolutely it is. Not the right site but in chat you can discuss anything - most folk here are professional coders in industry... not much activity usually outisde of 9-5 US
@LightnessRacesinOrbit some people make mistakes - and sometimes all the qualifications in the world don't stop it (read: The terribad answer Joel gave on VBA which he was one of the principal implementors of)
in any event, mass effect and a glass of Brandy. Tomorrow I have to fix a fence. Fuckin' ell
@AaronHall it may be that folks like you and me are an exception and that things are indeed okay. Consider Stack Exchange "food chain", askers => feed answerers => feed voters => feed googlers. You see, web search visitors are on top and they use default sort, by votes, which hides a lot of quality issues...
...If most voters use this sort too, it would mean our concerns are just our personal concerns. OTOH if most voters use active, it vould mean rating content for googlers is damaged and system has a problem indeed. That's why I asked for stats on this, I think it's important to know
that whole situation's a mess. the not-answer was "converted to a comment" ... but it's a tip/hint, so it shouldn't be in the comments either. and none of it suggests "getting it wrong" (it's just a lack of effort) so the whole "expert gets it wrong" thing is not there. disappointing.
I would have stopped contributing to SE altogether years ago if I didn't find other sites (CR then here) to migrate to. I just don't care to try and be quickly correct, it's not interesting..
@LightnessRacesinOrbit :P look at my answers and tell me the rep isn't deserved. (Also tell me the rep would have been earned on SO given the quick-fire nature ...)
> Autumn is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word autumnus, meaning "fall" or "autumn".
You ask me once in a while what I "have against Americans"
I have nothing against Americans - but I dislike obvious and absurd forced Americanisms like this
Why on earth would "fall" be listed first, there?
I tried to point out to the author that (a) Autumn and autumnus are obviously linguistically derived from "autumn", and its US synonym "fall" w.r.t. seasons of the year is by-the-by, and (b) Wikipedia has a global audience anyway. Wasn't having any of it because "the name Autumn is most popular in the US", which I find to be a rather odd defence of this bizarre position.
There, have £10 from me Jimmy (Wales).
fuck what
use the proceeds from the store to fund the site you silly gits.... then you wouldn't need my donation..............................
The content of the sentence doesn't really matter so much I suppose, but the fact that there exists a person out there who strongly believes that it must be rendered in that order ... that matters more to me! This individual must be fixed, and saved from his USisms!!
Meanwhile. I can list eight SE users to permaban and fix this chat problem once and for all, Shog :)
Pyth, 7 bytes
L!-Grb0
Explanation:
L lambda (implicit b:)
rb0 Convert b to lowercase
G Lowercase alphabet, "abcd...z"
- Set difference, all elts of first that aren't in second
! Logical NOT (The empty string is falsey)
Try the full-p...
good god
Don't golfing languages take the fun out of golfing? I think they're cheating.
@King Programmers is "drawing board" programming(e.g. What is the best way to implement a database?.). While stackoverflow is for questions like "Why doesn't this piece of code work?". — Luke Melaia10 hours ago
@LightnessRacesinOrbit They're both Too Broad. The "Why doesn't my code work" question is specifically off-topic on Stack Overflow unless it includes the expected behavior, actual behavior and an MVCE (shortest code sample that reproduces the problem).
And yet, so many Duga questions look just like that.
That's the problem with migration recommendations. So many people make such recommendations without considering whether or not it's a good question to begin with. Then their question just winds up getting closed on two sites, not one.
Before you choose a site...
First, make sure you're asking a good question. Some questions are off-topic everywhere, and there's no guarantee that a site exists that will take your question.
Good questions:
Are clear and understandable.
Have a specific problem statement
Don't ask for lists o...
That's misleading for Programmers ("but you said to explain the problem with my code!" - don't you keep closing these as off-topic and telling people to post it on SO instead?) and for Code Review (which doesn't accept code with problems at all)
This question seems to have about 10 answers that are duplicates of the accepted answer or of another answer, most of which are one line of code answers that don't add anything new:
How to convert byte[] to string?
Of course most of them were answered at the same time, so that explains why it h...
Pyth, 7 bytes
L!-Grb0
Explanation:
L lambda (implicit b:)
rb0 Convert b to lowercase
G Lowercase alphabet, "abcd...z"
- Set difference, all elts of first that aren't in second
! Logical NOT (The empty string is falsey)
Try the full-p...
Before you choose a site...
First, make sure you're asking a good question. Some questions are off-topic everywhere, and there's no guarantee that a site exists that will take your question.
Good questions:
Are clear and understandable.
Have a specific problem statement
Don't ask for lists o...
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