This is a request for the SO chat system to have an XMPP interface.
The whole idea of a chat system is to bring people together, and a key way of doing that is to allow people to access the system using more than one method. Right now there's a web interface, but it's limited to being a web inte...
I don't even know what nonsense client we use here, I think it's called "spark", but our work chat supports XMPP so I didn't even try the official client
I try to be complete when I answer, and I don't ever leave out technical details because I think they might confuse some people, I just try to explain them all as best I can
You should generally avoid writing just for the person who asked the question; you need to remember that lots of other people will (hopefully) be searching for the same problem and come across your answer as well
Obviously you should try to help the OP, but that doesn't mean you leave out details just because you don't think they wouldn't understand them
Hard drives have a built-in partition table on the MBR. Due to the structure of that table the drive is limited to four partitions. These are called primary partitions.
You can have more partitions by creating virtual ( called logical ) partitions on one of the four primary partitions. There i...
Right now the front page Popular tab is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said in podcast #18, it is "a self-fulfilling prophecy." But this is not intentional, it's only because we haven't had time to improve it yet!
As I sit down to write a better algorithm, I tho...
Hard drives have a built-in partition table on the MBR. Due to the structure of that table the drive is limited to four partitions. These are called primary partitions.
You can have more partitions by creating virtual ( called logical ) partitions on one of the four primary partitions. There i...
