Indeed. 1. Allow different questions to have different default sorts. 2. Allow a user to have several different sort preferences in place rather than every sort change affecting every question at once.
While this would be a handy feature, is it really necessary? Non-"regular" users won't know about this option and will see it default-sorted anyway. Regulars know how to change the sort and it literally takes one click.
@Geobits I think the big one is the 5 rep barrier, then the sandbox defaulting to active to encourage feedback. The fine level control of personal sort order would be nice but isn't really relevant to this particular problem (making the sandbox more useful).
I'm sure it would be possible to write a userscript that automatically switches to "sort by active" when you visit the sandbox, and "sort by votes" when you navigate away.
@Doorknob if someone is going to do that would it be much extra work to make it revert to previous setting when navigating away, rather than reverting to default?
I don't care about the people in this room (including myself) in terms of adding features to make sorting more convenient. It's just that it seems that most new people need to be told that sorting the sandbox by activity makes more sense. That's why a default makes sense.
I didn't manage to explain well enough so I'm attempting to rewrite on here first based on someone's suggestion, feedback would be appreciated
Generate Forks of a Line in a 3D Grid
Objective:
Overview:
Write a program, that given the two inputs number of forks and fork length, will produce a p...
@MartinBüttner The thing is, if someone is going to the sandbox to post something, it doesn't matter the sort. If someone's going to review things, it does. My guess is that less experienced users do more posting there than reviewing.
Yes. New users looking at the sandbox should see work in progress that they can learn from, not just all the upvoted questions that have already been posted
@Geobits a) Exactly, it doesn't matter to those who are posting, but it matters to those who are reviewing, so that's not a counter argument. b) Everyone who is reviewing has to start at some point (even if he isn't a new user in general any more)... and at that point many people need to be pointed towards using active sorting, I think.
Even if most people do need to be told and can't figure it out themselves, that doesn't translate to "make it default" to me. If anything, I think it would be more confusing to new users if a single question was sorted differently than all others for some unknown reason.
Mentioning it (probably in bold) in the post should be done either way. If it's not made default, to hint to users that it's helpful. If it is made default, to explain why these answers show up differently.
@EricTressler Maybe so, but English is either the language of the Angles (and there aren't many of them left) or the language of England, so in as much as there's a language currently living which can claim the name, it's found East of the Atlantic.
It's one of my favorite books. I haven't read The Sword in the Stone by him, but The Once and Future King is a fairly long book that covers Arthur's whole life
my bookcase has 2 shelves with books I'm proud to like, and another 10 shelves of textbooks and trash fiction
@EricTressler, Decius is a common enough name Latin given name, and Cato is a well-known cognomen, but Viriatus is the name the Romans gave to one of their enemies in what would now be Portugal, and I've never heard it used in another context.
@Rainbolt I was thinking the other day that it would be nice to be able to highlight the few words you like, so that words that more people have highlighted shine brighter
It would be a nice alternative to the "What the OP says wins in the event of a dispute" current way of doing things. Not that it has come up for me (in the last month at least)
'a', as in about [əˈbaʊt]
'e', as in taken [ˈtʰeɪkən]
'i', as in pencil [ˈpʰɛnsəl]
'o', as in eloquent [ˈɛləkʰwənt]
'u', as in supply [səˈpʰlaɪ]
'y', as in sibyl [ˈsɪbəl]
@githubphagocyte Most people I know pronounce "bar" like a pirate. With a schwa sound, it would be like "buhrr" which is hard to even say in one syllable (it's not the same as the burr in burrow)
@Geobits German does that, too. But we still have two ways to pronounce most vowels (which people aren't even aware of... they just think one is short and one is long, but there's more to it).
oh, except I have a special case to take care of percentile = 100
so that I don't access outside of the array; it just returns the greatest element
Maintaining the weightList as sorted means that when I write to it, it's O(n), and I also have the duplicated data in memory, between the idList (map) and weightList (vector)
But even 2 days later, I can't think of a better solution
I didn't manage to explain well enough so I'm attempting to rewrite on here first based on someone's suggestion, feedback would be appreciated
Generate Forks of a Line in a 3D Grid
Objective:
Overview:
Write a program, that given the two inputs number of forks and fork length, will produce a p...
