@KyleCronin I try not to think of it relative to others, but set some personal goals for my own rep. I'd like to hit 10k this year. For no other reason than...it's a goal.
Generally, what are you guys using for external storage that's got redundancy? I'm goign to pass my frist gen Drobo on to my dad and was looking around and new storage options. I need about 3/4 TB. Fast enough for multi-tracking audio. @bmike you should get a kick out of me ditching the Drobo. :)
Things open at the time that could conceivably have had something to do with it: Flash in Chromium (idle), Bowtie (beta), Spotify (playing), iTunes (idle), and that's all I can think of.
@IanC When people know what they get - I'm happy they save $$ - it's just not something I end up recommending ever. But I'm not recommending to people that are light home users. I do get a kick out of anyone that learns about storage and has a good basic understanding of what and why
@TimothyMuellerHarder I like to wait a day before answering - when others answer - sometimes it's better to just let things lie - maybe edit it a day after you accept (assuming the answer was correct)
And I agree with @bmike about waiting a day or so. Don't assume you already have the best answer. (And don't assume that the first correct answer is going to be the best)
Another artifact of the contest (or maybe I'm just hyper-sensitized) is that a number of the folks piling on so-so questions are very quick to hit accept.
I hope everyone is down voting the so-so questions, commenting to get better ones, and editing them into shape if possible. I've done more down voting today than in a long time.
@jmlumpkin Theoretically, the point of that is to provide a useful information source rather than to gain reputation. Not to say it's always used that way, but still.
@bmike Im glad to hear that. I've seen a few people do it to game their points, just not for me. Though, I have very well answered my own question, from either thinking about it more, and then know it has helped others.
@jmlumpkin Answering one's own question and creating "Jepoardy questions" are both allowed and encouraged—but I think you always have to be open to accepting an answer that is better than your own.
@bmike Well for better or worse, I maxed out on votes yesterday. And also capped out on rep, though as I review the latter I ask myself why, Lord, oh why.
@jaberg Oh I know allowed, and I guess encouraged (ive never really read anything along those lines, but I can see that). What I guess I am trying to say, espc with points behind it (a score), and even right now here a 'prize', there are still plenty of people that would 'abuse' that
@jmlumpkin There were some links to meta or SO Blog posts about Jeopardy questions the day before yesterday. I don't have them on tap, but the transcript should reveal them.
@jaberg ill check it out at some point. I guess im sounding like an old man. The 'gaming' aspect that SE/SO has moved towards so hard recently annoys me. Its SO bad on Programers.se and SO.
Crimineys. 30 points for an "answer" that does no more than cite and link to Apple's official statement on iTunes Store billing. I sure hope it solved a real problem for someone.
"Dates: The contest lasts for 3 weeks, from Friday 3/16/2012 at 0:00 until Monday 4/2/2012 at 23:59 UTC. All questions and answers must be posted and shared within that time period in order to count."
@bmike I was pleased to learn that there were still people there. I'm assuming at least 5, though I wouldn't put it past one of my followers to link using multiple IPs. (I did not suggest it, but he's capable of doing so on his own.)
@bmike I was going to buy a current gen Drobo but now I'm not sure I want to spend that much money. :) I could get by with 2 RAID drives in R1 config. Plus: I think I want FW for the sustained throughput.
Suppose I want to back up my iPhoto library thusly:
I want to end up with an external drive that has all my photos in a single directory (no nested folders)
Those photos that have been modified, I want the modified version of the photo to end up in the backup.
Those photos that have not been mo...
Well, it's accurate, but I sort of thought it was implied. Probably helpful. Obviously I wouldn't have made it, since I didn't make when I edited the same post about 30-seconds earlier. But it does make the question clearer.
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The point is to jump in and edit if you're going to make a substantial improvement to a post. Too many trivial edits to a post and the poster can't get any reputation from it.
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You can get away with bumping your post by editing it a few times, but if you do it too much, it's like the TILT error in pinball. Game over, as far as reputation goes.
@stuffe All of a sudden, people are being really picky about whether questions pose problems to be solved. I've asked plenty of questions in the past like "what are the advantages and disadvantages to updating iOS via iTunes versus the Settings app,” and they've gotten upvotes and haven't been closed. Why is everyone saying now that they need to have problems in them?
Just a discussion point, the large number of new questions has raised the issue of what constitutes a question and the relative quality of questions is just a hot topic.
But don't take it too seriously, and certainly not personally. You'll see the ";)" I put after my comment, and I haven't voted it down either.
@TimothyMuellerHarder If I was being picky, to improve you question I would expand it's context to a wider scope. Not simply "how fast does it boot in your experience" but "what is it's startup/shutdown performance when compared against older iPads or other iOS devices" this should both answer your question as it stands, and also provide a breadth of useful knowledge to apply that answer against, so when the next question comes in "which is faster?" it's already there
I am sure you are aware of the phrase "monkey see monkey do"
When a new user (of which we are seeing a lot, at least anecdotally, be interesting to see a stat breakdown when the dust settles) sees a lot of fairly narrow questions like that, they are more likely to ask similar.
Unrelated: in the contest, it says shared posts need to be clicked X times to count. On my user page in the contest progress bars, does it only show which shared posts have been clicked X times, or clicked once, or what?
The FAQ and guidelines etc are all great, but the primary directive for a new user in their mind will be to "fit in" and ask questions similar to what is already in use.
2) People have a tendency to stop answering once an accept goes up. You may get more answers covering more devices if you leave the points "up for grabs"
You can go back ans reaccept later on the basis of the best answer at the time.
@TimothyMuellerHarder Be good to define "boot", as something similar to what Kyle had originally, "from first pressing the lock button to being able to swipe to unlock" or similar, to get consistent answers.
Nice. Should "iPad (2nd Generation)" be edited to "iPad 2"? For the other two iPads, they're both just technically called "iPad", but the 2nd gen is technically called "iPad 2”.
I took the opportunity to nerd out apple.stackexchange.com/a/44646/9495 on an answered question, mainly on the basis tht it was too long for the comment it started out as
(although if there were an edit needed - it would be better to reverse them - general for the real title - specific for the lede) but that's more a matter of taste and opinion - neither is wrong
@DanielL "So, to make this a valid answer, the benefit is to know accurately the size of the drive you bought, and not have it magically shrink when you use it."
@gentmatt Yeah, I make that point, they are the same, just different units of measurements, but most people don't know and shouldn't have to know, so having the size on the box match the size in Disk Utility is a nice thing which prevents angst and lowers cholesterol
Yeah, not possible, a non-jailbroken phone should within reason be identical on boot, as you cannot change the boot process with third party apps and kernel extentions and all that. No-one will have a stock OS practically, which makes measuring futile even before you consider the hardware spectrum
Depending on at which point the control is passed to the user (on the basis that assumed speed is a better measure than actual speed, and you can for example happily allow the user to enter his passcode and assume it;s booted when you are still firing up Wifi and Bluetooth in the background) there should be practically no way other than system settings for options like Wifi to affect the process
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@stuffe I think you should have posted that as a separate Jeopardy question, but points for the geeky answer anyhow. It'll be nice to have an easily linked reference.
@jaberg I think I will do one. There are a number of facets to it. File sizes of a word document being different on Mac/Windows etc, because the unit of measurement is different, and so on.
@stuffe Your GIMP answer has taken off since being accepted. Almost double that of my answer—which seems to to be doing well enough since I added the photo.
@stuffe That's generally what motivates any comment I make about voting or comparison. It's not that I begrudge anyone the votes, I'm just surprised by what works and what doesn't.
@stuffe I'm going with Brothers from different mothers.
My biggest scorers are pretty soft questions with nothing but a hand hold answer. My favourite answers typically are niche enough to attract minimal votes
Your DVD ripping explanation was very well done. Its an example of a question that I knew the answer to, but wasn't prepared to sit down and develop it into the excellent package that you did.
@stuffe Kind of trickery on the part of the GIMP folks. You'll barely notice that it has to run under X11 and that the menus will drive you insane as a result!
@gentmatt This is a meeting of the Great Minds. Or of the Very Very Great Minds. It depends on who you ask.
@jaberg It's just that the Air get's approx 90% of my time. Anything goes on the iMac, for now, until ML is released and I perform my annual audit and full rebuild.
That online Photoshop option was a real sleeper though. Unbelievably good for something that runs in a browser—though the thought of "uploading" my photos to work on them is something I'd want to consider and explore. (I tested with an archive photo someone sent me, not my own work.)
@stuffe I did an audit for Lion, I don't think I'll have to repeat for ML—but you should relax in your rigidity. ;)
Speaking of Great Minds, good morning @NathanGreenstein.
Yeah, that was a good one. To be honest, I know Sweet FA about image editing, and just pushed out a "Received Wisdom" answer, would have thought someone with genuine skills could have out-answered me with specific targetted answers about the OPs ore detailed requirements other than "free".
Suppose I want to back up my iPhoto library thusly:
I want to end up with an external drive that has all my photos in a single directory (no nested folders)
Those photos that have been modified, I want the modified version of the photo to end up in the backup.
Those photos that have not been mo...
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iOS device boot times (timed using a second hand):
iPad (3rd gen.) iOS5 32 seconds
iPad 2 (2nd gen.) No Results
iPad (1st gen.) iOS5 50 seconds
iPhone 4S iOS5 42 seconds
iPhone 4 iOS5 49 seconds
iPhone 4 (GSM) iOS5 46 seconds
iPhone 3GS...
You don't have to download Xcode with the same ID as the one used to submit applications to Apple. They are distinct IDs.
The Apple developer ID is in no way linked to the app store consumer ID (Apple ID). And you cannot use the Apple Developer ID on the App Store or the Apple ID on the Develop...
