@belisarius Re: your comment, I agree, but we'd have to go about it in a systematic way. For instance, Waldo is not coming here for sure (Heike would probably be embarrassed to have it here next to all her stellar answers :P), but there are other very useful Q&A that I would love to have here
In the past, I've been unsuccessful in arguing with Mr.Wizard that some important ones be migrated. For instance, Yaroslav's answer to that strange Sin[x] plot. He does have a point though that the 45 votes it received is not reflective of our community and it accrued that in 2yrs.
I use Mma mainly to solve relatively small problems.
I want to start using it also to prepare my presentations and docs, but I am having troubles to learn how to do it from the embedded help, and I guess some good resources may be available elsewhere.
Do you know any useful pointers (books,...
@belisarius Oh, I agree. It is something Mr.Wizard and I are talking about... another problem is that of preferential bias. For instance, each one remembers their own questions better and we don't want a case where everyone goes to flag their own question (or one where they have a good answer) for migration here.
@belisarius No, not saying it's bad, but just that if everyone did it themselves, it would be unorganized and biased, so a community list would be good. Then we can just take the top 20 or so and ask the SO mods to migrate them.
Szabolcs tried to start a list here, but I suggest that you open a new question
No toolbag. I know you're fond of it, but unless its survival on SO is threatened, it should be left there...
WReach's traceView is another excellent question that would have a good home here.
@belisarius I'm fairly confident that the community is mature enough to not do that... allow downvoting too (not just up). Worst case, you can add an escape clause saying that mods can veto ridiculous suggestions...
Preface
Since the Mathematica support for google-code-prettify was mainly developed for the new Mathematica.Stackexchange site, please see also the discussion here.
Introduction
I have no deep knowledge of all of this, but there were times when I wrote a cweb plugin for Idea to have my code hi...
@belisarius No, I meant the format to be like make suggestions, vote for 2-3 weeks and then we lock the votes and give the SO mods the top 25. Vetoing takes place before that.
Maybe you can post it over the weekend... will give us some time to chat it over with the other mods and users who hang out here
@belisarius The 25 or any arbitrary, but reasonable cap is only so that we have time to take it in and curate it. Those questions aren't going to magically fit in. They probably have lots of old crap comments from 2yrs ago which need culling, or links to other questions which could be replaced with better questions here, nicer titles, appropriate tags, etc., all of which need cleanup. This takes time, so we need to limit what comes in. We can do this every 3 months or so,...
I'm interested in how consistent the code blocks look on different systems and with different browsers. What I try to find out is whether or not our site has a fixed width for the code block.
After the nice working Image Uploader for our site, a consistent Code Formatter Palette could be a next ...
This is some kind of followup for a series of questions already in this meta site. The most relevant of them are (please note the dates, and remember some of them were posted while we were a mere beta siteling):
Will mathematica questions on stackoverflow be migrated to this beta
(and if so, wh...
@Mr.Wizard I'm not able to describe how hard was for me to learn how to be patient with thoughts I know I don't agree. I did it anyway, and I'm proud of that
I decided to post another answer for several reasons:
I made up a full working contraption by using another approach
The previous answer could be useful for others, so I prefer to leave
it there
Both answers are quite long, and having both in one post will clutter
it
That said, the plan is ...
For the purpose of understanding what other users see, and to provide a record of the current SE Beta formatting, I would like to conduct a survey of the line width of the code boxes that users see.
Please use a "ruler" like this one to determine how many characters your system displays before t...
I use Mma mainly to solve relatively small problems.
I want to start using it also to prepare my presentations and docs, but I am having troubles to learn how to do it from the embedded help, and I guess some good resources may be available elsewhere.
Do you know any useful pointers (books,...
