@MartinJohnHadley I too have the feeling that this wasn't always this way. For me, moving or resizing triggers the evaluation of every, even the simplest Manipulate on Linux.
I am relatively new here. So first - a big thank you to all the posters on MMA SE I have learned from so far.
I added a question to Mathematica StackExchange in the hopes of starting a "best practices" page for complex GUI development. The question was put on hold. I inferred from this that t...
@Szabolcs I know, and unwanted HTML shows up in the description of posts edited after last week's update, and selecting only with examples + most popular doesn't work. I'm fixing all of it this weekend :)
@Pickett Bug: spaces should be stripped from the beginning and end of strings. I just added a package and was surprised to see that it's the first in alphabetical order even though it starts with an S. That's because I accidentally put a space at the beginning. I'm not going to remove the space so you can take a look.
@Pickett Idea: 1. have a dedicated SE chatroom for PackageData 2. have an RSS feed of newly added packages (but not edits) 3. the chatroom can be setup to automatically show new items from the RSS feed, generating more attention
@Pickett Ideally googling for "mathematica packages" should bring it up in the first search page
@Szabolcs Good ideas. I agree with you regarding Google but it's going to take a while to get there I think. I'm starting this week by adding descriptions to keyword filtered archives, replacing the image header with a text header and by writing examples for a few more packages. Another idea is to write a tutorial on how to make packages and perhaps blog post like material because right now the site doesn't have a whole lot of indexable content.
@Pickett Maybe it's not such a bad thing to spell out "Mathematica package" in descriptions sometimes, even though it's obvious that any package is going to be a Mathematica package.
@Szabolcs I avoid that too, and the days where keyword frequency was very important are gone, but to get it in there a few times more may not be a bad idea.
The big problem of course is that the importance of websites is determined by how many other sites that link to it, so it will be very hard to compete in the short term with MMA.SE and the wolfram.com in the search result.
We still have trouble with unanswered questions, as has been discussed previously. At the moment, the total is 3257 unanswered out of 27476 total questions, or nearly 12%. Regardless of what we do, this situation does not seem to have changed very much with time: always around 10% are unanswered....
I am in Manipulate[ Plot[f[x] and want to plot a second line. Actually I want to plot a line between two points that are on my original graph (the secant line). I have the points, I have the slope.
How can I do this?
Thank you for your assistance.
I am relatively new here. So first - a big thank you to all the posters on MMA SE I have learned from so far.
I added a question to Mathematica StackExchange in the hopes of starting a "best practices" page for complex GUI development. The question was put on hold. I inferred from this that t...
I am in Manipulate[ Plot[f[x] and want to plot a second line. Actually I want to plot a line between two points that are on my original graph (the secant line). I have the points, I have the slope.
How can I do this?
Thank you for your assistance.
