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gnat
gnat
07:55
This one is not an off topic!!! softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/90175/… — bjan 19 mins ago
^^^ no wonder they think so...
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A: Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!

gnatAs far as I can tell about 15 millions views at Stack Overflow are on inappropriate (historically locked) questions. (285 locked questions have views between 10K and 100K plus 158 questions with views between 100K and 1M plus 3 questions with views over 1M) Visual difference between historicall...

gnat
gnat
08:49
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Duga
Duga
09:44
In a "..." CSV field also line breaks may occur, maybe not CR-LF but LF. Check that there is a next field "bisexual". Check the data in a programmers editor (Notepad++ or such). — Joop Eggen 35 secs ago
 
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MetaFight
MetaFight
12:01
Can we institute a "no US politics" rule in this room?
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Telastyn
Telastyn
14:01
yes?
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
14:43
@MetaFight I don't see much (any?) political discussion here. We already have rules that protect from disruption. Let's only create new rules when there's multiple (or at least one) compelling (preferably not hypothetical) reasons.
If people want to talk politics and it's out of order, we can tell them to take it to agora or politics.SE.
If they're being disruptive, they can be kicked or put in a longer time-out by a mod.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
15:44
So. About that Hillary fellow...
MetaFight
MetaFight
hits ignore action
user114359
@RobertHarvey Iseewhatyoudidthere
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
16:01
Now now...
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
16:48
relevant to yesterday's convo:
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Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
17:01
Reference too obscure. Meesa no understanding.
@ThomasOwens: Can we get this question migrated to Stack Overflow?
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
@RobertHarvey Is there a reason why it's off topic here that I'm not seeing?
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Technically it's an "Explain this code" question.
I have no problem with it being here, but people are already downvoting it.
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
Oh, OK. I see now.
Yeah, I can migrate that.
I thought it was about design at first. One sec.
OK, I just sent it over to SO.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Sweet. Already has three upvotes.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
sigh
at least 2 before the migrate, only one down before the migrate too
I don't think we should be so anxious to migrate.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
17:06
I think it will get better exposure over there.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
that's possible, but they asked it here, and I don't think it was off-topic.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
A very well written, "Why doesn't this code work" question.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
We're supposed to be jealous of our questions. stackoverflow.blog/2012/03/…
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Well, you can blame the downvoter. The OP has a very good track record on Stack Overflow, and is probably not used to this kind of reception.
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
@AaronHall We explicitly say that explain this code is off-topic here in the Help Center.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
17:11
ok, but it kinda looked like a fundamentals of JS kind of question to me.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
It's entirely about that object prototype declaration; the OP was very specific about that, actually stating that it wasn't about FP.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
ok, I'll allow that you're right, I'm just concerned about our questions here, and I don't want to lose good ones.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
It was a good question. He's asked several good questions on Stack Overflow.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Here's some more spurious info: after accepting my answer and unaccepting an old (and poor) one, a question earned twice as many upvotes in the month after as it did the month prior.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Changing the accept must bump the question.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
17:22
it may have, it got 2 on the day of the change, versus 3 the month prior, and 5 more the rest of the month.
People vote on questions in the context of their answers.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
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So annoying.
Tom
Tom
butter up anything and it'll move fast and slick. doesn't mean its any good though.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I tried to click the x
would be nice if individual posts had a "hide post" option.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
I'm not responsible for latent senility. :P
Tom
Tom
With all the promotion of Edge MS is doing, I can't help but wonder if they're panicking over the market share numbers and not thinking clearly: computerworld.com/article/3137373/web-browsers/…
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
17:32
Firefox gains. Not surprising, given that Chrome is such a pig with memory and disk space.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
They're right to promote it, strategically.
That doesn't mean that I want to see it promoted.
I wonder how I'd do if I bought stock in RedHat and shorted Apple and Microsoft.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Short Samsung instead... Though it's probably too late for that now.
Video on the interwebz is still a terrible experience. 30 second commercials for 2 minute videos, multiple videos playing simultaneously.... Bleaugh.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
17:48
I love it when people post comments on my canonical answers, like, "this is the best answer" - which happened to me again today.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
+1 would upvote again
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Those little signals are very helpful when confused readers are wondering what they should upvote.
> One little thing can revive a guy
And that is a piece of rhubarb pie
Serve it up, nice and hot
Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought
 
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Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
19:57
trying to put my slides together for my panel discussion
Need to get them approved in advance. :(
5 pages or so
(slides)
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
20:26
I figure I'm at 40 points for the mod elections on Stack Overflow, if anyone wants to talk me out of it, they're running out of time. :)
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
20:48
I'm trying to read the history of Simula and Smalltalk at the same time. :/
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
21:15
kinda neat that they assumed a Fortran implementation of Simula, in spite of implementing it in Algol 60.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
21:30
although they wound up integrating it in the Algol compiler.
Tom
Tom
21:41
is it a bad thing that I have no idea what you're talking about?
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
Not if he's just making shit up.
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
22:10
From an project management perspective, it's very interesting how much they put on paper before actually starting to write the implementation.
Tom
Tom
Ok, I'm back after a break, and understand it now :)
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
They actually wrote it on the Univac.
Tom
Tom
22:27
hmm... univac... one hoover to rule them all?
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
UNIVAC
UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer. The BINAC, built by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, was the first general-purpose computer for commercial use. The descendants of the later UNIVAC 1107 continue today as products of the Unisys company. == Univac history and structure == J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built the ENIAC ...
Tom
Tom
yes, i know. i'm just tired
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I'm going home! Cheers!!
Tom
Tom
see ya

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