@FaheemMitha Yup, one of which I submitted today (yay!). But I've been procrastinating more than I should have. I'm not too interested in the damn things so it's been taking me way to long to finish.
No, the other one is the big one. The subject of my Post Doc but I don't find it that interesting. Others do, so it may well be decently received, it's just not a field I am particularly attracted to.
@FaheemMitha Well, one as a tool I developed in order to do the second. A lot of people seemed to be interested in it so I figured I may as well publish it. The real project was the one I had developed the tool for.
And no, not online, not really. I mean the tool is but that's just a database to query the probabilities of association of GO terms (Gene Ontology). Basically a way of deciding whether a particular protein's functions are similar to those of another.
@Braiam did you actually see the link I gave you? The one where the tag police himself added the tag?
I notice you haven't started an edit war over that one yet. How come?
Also, @Braiam, considering that 3 users (each of whom has more than three times your reputation here) consider the tag appropriate, don't you think you might want to get off your high horse?
Also see this nice meta post that clearly states that retagging based on answers is fine:
I tried to search for a similar question, but can't find one (yet).
Here's a scenario:
Someone asked about "How to build a SQL query to get count and blah blah blah..."
His only tag is mysql. I added the sql and count tags to it.
Someone else answered with a nice SQL statement that has a "gro...
To be on a high horse means to think you know better than everyone else. It is not particularly offensive and is certainly applicable to what you've been doing.
In any case, no offense was meant but you are really starting to piss me off with your tag approach. Especially since there seems to be no support for your position, it fails to pass the test of your own argument, it is unpopular based on the meta question here and is also not endorsed by the multiple similar meta.se posts I've found.
@Braiam @terdon http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127411/how-is-vi-aware-of-the-format-of-configuration-files is specifically about vi (actually about vim), so it warrants the vi tag and the vim tag, but not editors nor ubuntu
I'm not saying you're wrong on tags by definition, hell you are indeed more often right than wrong. I am talking about 1) the way you unilaterally enforce your opinions and 2) about those, many, cases where others disagreed with you It is only an argument when others have different opinions.
And this idea you have that you shouldn't retag baaed on answers is baseless as far as I can tell. It is also directly contradicted by various meta posts, including one written by an SE employee.
@Braiam Please. How many times have you had arguments with various people on AU chat about tags? You've even been banned about it for heaven's sake! Surely that should be an indication!
You think that less tags is better and that tags should not be added based on answers. That is where I disagree with you. Basically on those two points.
Oops. We had some security threats scanned by the nessus tool. So, all the servers that had Ubuntu had to be reinstalled with RHEL for security concerns.
I think ubuntu gets a lot of unwarranted mistrust as a server distro because it's popular for desktop use. Being good at one doesn't mean it's not at the other.
That being said, some stuff about ubuntu/debian drives me absolutely batshit freakin insane
For instance, we have satellite support for RHEL which fixes most of the security vulnerabilities and is reliable. However, with Ubuntu there is no guaranteed support like that.
@Patrick, I believe these are extremely useful in the real world. However, in the school environment, at least in our school, most of the professors still do not prefer virtualization.
And the security team in our school, have acquired RHEL support and insist us on using it for all the servers.
@Patrick, The servers are not that complicated in the school. And the security team insist us on using RHEL support since they have acquired the professional support.
@Patrick, let me take back what I told about Ubuntu. Actually, the servers that am currently working on have Ubuntu 8.10 setup. The way the NFS is setup in these machines is, all the 8 servers are setup as NFS client and NFS server.
However, if we use autofs the setup would be much more simpler.
I personally wouldn't want mod powers. I like the democracy, and requiring multiple people agreeing on something to perform an action. Just my viewpoint.
@FaheemMitha package management. I dislike their stance on several subjects. Like I hate that when you install a package, it immediately starts it up for you. And building a deb is a royal PITA. RPMs are easy to build.
@Patrick I disagree about the package management. I think it is pretty good. As far as starting up a package when it is installed, this is (possibly unfortunately) I think left to the maintainers discretion. Often the package will be disabled by default, or will ask you at installation time if you want it to be enabled.
@slm It's occasionally useful to have a diamond moderator around.
And it would be helpful if it was someone who hangs out here regularly. I wonder if @derobert would be interested. I'm guessing probably not.
You really need someone level-headed for the job. Otherwise it can cause problems.
@terdon "You think that less tags is better and that tags should not be added based on answers. That is where I disagree with you. Basically on those two points" and here is were you get my entire position wrong: irrelevant tags should go and you shouldn't tag a question based solely in the possible answers
@FaheemMitha No, having an election when somebody steps down is normal. Not sure why we're going to 4 instead of 3, it's probably just the default with elections
It may or may not be crazy depending on how many people nominate
@MichaelMrozek "the default with elections"? Don't follow. If one person steps down, the usual expected thing would be an election for one person, surely.
@terdon read deroberts "rant" in his answer, specifically last part, if you already know that the solution is tail as the tag made people think, why would you ask the question in first place?
@FaheemMitha I meant that it's probably the default with new elections to be two people, unless SE sets it to something else. It might change, there's a week before the election even opens. I would expect it to be one-to-one too, but I'm not sure what'll happen
Well, sometimes having a diamond mod is useful. It doesn't matter terribly who as long as (a) he is around a lot of the time (b) he's not going to lose and get drunk with his power or something. :-)
I think in pratice such a person should probably be operating via community concensus anyway.
@MichaelMrozek Hmm. Well if we elect two people, and one of them leaves, then we elect two more people, making 5? I see an arithmetic progression here. :-)
I think cron is a case of there is really only one answer. There are other ways, but they're pretty much for when you can't/won't use cron for some reason.
@MichaelMrozek No, there've been elections for 1 mod. We're going up to 4 either because the powers that be believe that you're overloaded, or because they decided to do it based on traffic alone
@derobert yes, but you can do all of those things with a beer in the other hand :) As for the vacuuming and dusting, that nails the moderator role pretty good.
@Braiam ok, I just skimmed through chat. I haven't followed your conversation with terdon. And I don't want to know.
@MichaelMrozek All sites normally have at least 3 mods regardless of workload, so that it isn't a single person lording over it all and that two people don't get into a conflict with no available third voice
@Braiam Actually, I think the best general rule is that you and I avoid discussing tags altogether. I don't think we've ever managed to have a constructive discussion on the subject. Let's keep to other subjects where we are likelier to agree with each other and let our votes do the talking on this one.
And I know that I am often the one that starts it, I'm not blaming you or anything.
@kapa: I'm pretty certain that new questions about programming will be invented as soon as we're finished, so "all" we need to do is: (1) answer all the good questions that exist in the universe; (2) delete everything else from the site; (3) continue answering all new good questions as they're invented. Not necessarily in that order. Mission accomplished. — Steve Jessopyesterday
@slm, the grep +i is supposed to return all the files have this flag set right? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132795/how-to-search-for-files-with-immutable-attribute-set/132796#comment214661_132796
@slm I do a fair amount of editing too. It is good practice in proofreading, but otherwise of little interest. I've been editing the academia site a fair amount. There is actually more scope there - most of the questions/answers are of essay type.
c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex3.html "External Research": "For this exercise I want you to go online and find out all of the printf escape codes and format sequences. Escape codes are \n or \t that let you print a newline or tab (respectively). Format sequences are the %s or %d that let you print a string or a integer. Find all of the ones available, how you can modify them, and what kind of "precisions" and widths you can do."
HAHAHAHAHA, this guy is evil.
@Braiam though, for true evil, need Learn C++ the Hard Way
@Braiam step 1, find your copy of the the STL. step 2, attempt to read the source.
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which seems to also make a full reinstall of Chromium (as all my plugins were removed).
Now, trying to access https://extensions.gnome.org/ to enable Gnome Shell extensions, but the message:
We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts...
Chrome 35 also broke the compose key. Now when I type Compose, -, -, - I do not get an em-dash. Instead, I get a reminder to use a working browser, like Firefox.
(there is supposedly a fix in the VCS tree, hopefully in the next Chrom[ium])
@strugee Which "monday". When a month goes by, is the answer still "Monday"? Also that's just the nominations, election is another couple weeks. unix.stackexchange.com/election/2
I tried to search for a similar question, but can't find one (yet).
Here's a scenario:
Someone asked about "How to build a SQL query to get count and blah blah blah..."
His only tag is mysql. I added the sql and count tags to it.
Someone else answered with a nice SQL statement that has a "gro...
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which seems to also make a full reinstall of Chromium (as all my plugins were removed).
Now, trying to access https://extensions.gnome.org/ to enable Gnome Shell extensions, but the message:
We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts...
There will be one on Monday.
